Dan Heath, co-author of Made to Stick, on getting noticed in a noisy marketplace. Check out his blog at Fast Company.

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Are you a parenting coach? Octomom, Nadya Suleman, mother of 14, appeared on The View yesterday, defending her sanity to Whoopi and Barbara Walters. What a great piggyback publicity opportunity if you’re a parenting coach, psychologist, psychiatrist or any related profession. I have a client who was one of 16 kids growing up (not a [...]

Yup, it’s another season of American Idol. Ellen’s in. Simon’s on board for his last season (Miss you already Simon) and the lessons for entrepreneurs abound.
Just a singing contest. Hardly. Just like it’s not a “Who’s the best accountant?” contest when your prospects are looking for a new money man. It’s about personal branding. Standing [...]

It’s great to have David back with another guest post! The Second Edition of David Meerman Scott’s now classic book, The New Rules of Marketing and PR, a BusinessWeek bestseller published in 24 languages (WOW!) is released this month. (We’ll be giving away 3 copies of David’s book later this month so watch for that [...]

There’s a saying: “Any publicity is good publicity”. “As long as they’re talking about you” people say. Ain’t Necessarily So.
Want publicity? Careful what you wish for.
Just ask Toyota. Tylenol. Audi. Nurse Susan Nelles. Maple Leaf Foods. Domino’s Pizza.
Every company should have a “sh-t hits the fan plan” ’cause if and when it [...]

Reading an old Dan Kennedy book (purchased for 50 cents from my local library. Short story long? It was falling apart so I asked them to tape it. They said they’re going to chuck it when I returned it, so I gave coughed up 50 big ones (little ones), they stamped it “Discarded” and now [...]

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Consider this my penance.

Years ago, I was in a European cinema commercial, me and about 12 other actresses. 3 days of shooting for 60 seconds. I was really excited. But my then 8 year old daughter felt otherwise. In fact, she left me long voice mail message reprimanding me for appearing in a cigarette [...]

This is a photo of the side of my 20 year old Inglis fridge.
The fridge is so old that when a national lifestyle magazine wanted to feature me in a “What’s in Your Fridge” series that would have given my book some great publicity, I started thinking of friends who would let me [...]

Remember the old song? “You’re nobody till somebody loves you.”
Forget that! In marketing, you’re nobody till somebody hates you.
Easy to say. Hard to accept, especially when the market beats you up. But you know you’re on the right track when you simultaneously get really negative feedback and hurrahs.
Alex Mandossian was the first one I ever [...]