Remove aging

Chris Koch

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What Pisses off the Man Who is the Face of 3D Printing

Chris Koch

They retained the information better when they watched the videos than they did when I taught in person,” he recalls. An obsessive, energetic tinkerer from an early age, Pettis couldn’t resist the offer. Viral How-Tos. Not that Pettis was a bad teacher. My skill is that I know how to gather people to do wonderful things,” he said. “I

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How to establish a voice of authority in a blog

Chris Koch

Show your age. If your SME is a person who loves to collect information, then becoming an aggregator is a route to trust. People know that they can count on this person to provide or link to the most insightful information in the topic area—no matter where it first appeared. Pick a subject that few others have staked out.

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The crisis of buyer information in B2B and how to fix it

Chris Koch

Rather than trading information for value or simply stealing it through invisible cookies, what if we actually did it the way people do in real life: through a personal relationship? Marketers who let their subject matter experts get more personal with buyers will win in the end. Are you making plans for a post-buyer information age?

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The crisis of buyer information in B2B and how to fix it

Chris Koch

Rather than trading information for value or simply stealing it through invisible cookies, what if we actually did it the way people do in real life: through a personal relationship? Marketers who let their subject matter experts get more personal with buyers will win in the end. Are you making plans for a post-buyer information age?

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Why Twitter is for old people

Chris Koch

To someone her age, the concept of following immediately conjures up the issue of personal relationships—who you hate and who you like—and status—who is popular and who isn’t. It’s the first step to creating a personal social media platform. More about that next time. Have you tried Twitter yet?

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6 lessons on how NOT to market to customers

Chris Koch

But this guy still isn’t the surgeon.

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The Robot I’d Have a Beer with – After He Takes My Job

Chris Koch

And he lets humans invade his personal space whenever they want to manipulate his arms to teach him new things to do. This is a big issue that MIT researchers Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee tackle head on in their fascinating book The Second Machine Age. And he just lets them do it! What a wimp. Victor Has Got Some CPUs on Him.

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