If Google Stops Working, Will Your Business Keep Running?
The shoemaker’s kids don’t have shoes. I’ve been known to apply that old saw to lots of situations. Friends get angry at me when I do it, clients pay me to teach them about making sure they have shoes...
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Whack-A-Mole Marketing, Chris Brogan, Twitter, & Dan Barber
There’s an old saying: the only bad press is no press. I hope Chris Brogan believes in that because as much as I like the guy personally and think the focus behind his work is solid I’ve found myself...
View ArticleSocial Media: The Decline
Yesterday I picked on my buddy Chris Brogan. Again. A genuine social media guru and one of the great successes in the field, Chris, like wine guy Gary Vaynerchuk, has become so much a victim of his own...
View ArticlePerception IS Reality. So Who Is Chris Brogan?
I’m a nice guy. I swear, it’s true. But I take the contrarian view on lots of issues, and that can make dealing with me quite a challenge. I know this about myself. And I lay it right out and accept...
View ArticlePerception is Reality Part Two: Saying LESS Can Be MORE
Two of my favorite marketing guys are Chris Brogan and Seth Godin. Both occupy space in my personal Rolodex, and both are brilliant. I’ve picked on Chris a few times lately, while Seth’s been largely...
View ArticleChris Brogan and the Social Crash Theory
Chris Brogan has spoken: the social crash is upon us. And “Ambient Connectivity” is the solution. I can’t argue the first half of that, and I don’t; I’ve been telling you for quite some time that even...
View ArticleTruth: Over Robbins, Brogan, & Rutkowski, Julien Smith ROCKS
Julien Smith Rocks. I’m not prone to gushing that way. I think Anthony Robbins is a fraud, I believe Chris Brogan, smart as he is, to have very little of any real importance to say, and in my eyes Ken...
View ArticleGary Vaynerchuk is Smarter Than Chris Brogan. Here’s Why:
I walk this funny line between believing in stuff like “The Power of Positive Thinking” self-help ideals and thinking it’s pure bunk. I could go on and on about how that hits me and what it means for...
View ArticleJulien Smith ROCKS, Redux (Happy Birthday To Me)
Julien Smith Rocks. I’ve said it before: The writing partner of how-come-he-gets-all-the-credit Chris Brogan has a knack for telling a story in just the right way, and somehow this just-31-years-old...
View ArticleIf You Call Yourself “Authentic”, Can You BE Authentic?
A few months ago I wrote a piece accusing Chris Brogan of being less smart than Gary Vaynerchuk. Chris didn’t like it, and he said so. Because it’s my nature to care about the impact I have on people,...
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Chris Brogan, Steve Jobs, and “Until” Business Change
When Steve Jobs announced his resignation as CEO at Apple two night ago, the business press all but stopped talking about anything else. And Steve Jobs has had so great an impact on the way what I’ll...
View ArticleIn Praise of Chris Brogan and Video Production Values
I’ve mentioned Chris Brogan here quite a few times. Sometimes, I praise him. More often, I call Mr. Brogan out for being disingenuous, or inauthentic. Once, I suggested Chris wasn’t very smart, which...
View ArticleContext, Authenticity, Social Networking
Why is is so hard, the more we communicate, to actually say anything? Even more: if you do manage to say something why does social networking make it so easy for people to apply the wrong context to...
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Owning Your Cloud: What Does That Mean?
This week I was discussing a new tool called “OwnCloud” with a client and Answer Guy Central working partner. He’s one of the smartest people I know, and our conversation started with me telling him I...
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Influency, Chris Brogan, eBooks, Superheroes and Tights
How does this book factor into a discussion on Influency? If you’re looking for a quick read/impossible-(for most people)-roadmap-to-Influency, use this link or click the picture at the top of this...
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It’s-All-Positive Marketing Guru Chris Brogan Goes Negative
When Chris Brogan Goes Negative It Looks Like This When Chris Brogan goes negative, it looks like this. We should all be so lucky. Other than being jealous of mystified by his success, I have no...
View ArticleThe Internet and Social Networking Are Making Us Stupid
Reality: Social Networking Matters. Twitter is important. It’s an old story by now, and one that I tell over and over. This morning, I read this in my Twitter stream: Wow. I’m like the only one who...
View ArticleIf Google Stops Working, Will Your Business Keep Running?
The shoemaker’s kids don’t have shoes. I’ve been known to apply that old saw to lots of situations. Friends get angry at me when I do it, clients pay me to teach them about making sure they have shoes...
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