Chris Koch

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How Jimmy Fallon Redefined the Celebrity Biography

Chris Koch

English: Jimmy Fallon CES 2009 in Las Vegas, NV (Photo credit: Wikipedia). What’s interesting about the video is that it captures the most important historical event in Fallon’s career while also offering insight into who Fallon is as a person. Look, I don’t mean that as an insult. A New Kind of Online Bio.

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The five stages of social media grief—have you passed through them yet?

Chris Koch

Image via Wikipedia. We’ll make the events more targeted to the C-level. Social media (along with skimpy marketing budgets) are causing a transformation in marketing to a degree that we haven’t seen for a lifetime. But in our rush to embrace the new, we haven’t taken adequate time to honor the painful transition we are experiencing.

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Have you created a waking dream for your customers?

Chris Koch

Image via Wikipedia. From marketing event to marketing retreat. It’s an attempt to take a typical high-level executive event and transform it into something resembling a retreat. Through our events, white papers, videos, whatever, we must prepare our audience to experience that waking dream. One example stands out for me.

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How to build emotional engagement in B2B marketing

Chris Koch

Image via Wikipedia. It’s why those expensive private events work so well. This company understands my pain. I may need to keep an eye on these guys in case they say something else that moves me. These guys are smart. But for all of these things to hit, customers need to be able to connect them to people. Twitter , LinkedIn, etc.

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There is no social media strategy, only marketing strategy

Chris Koch

Image via Wikipedia. The only way we can do that is by providing a range of different content—thought leadership, news, education, training, support—in a range of different channels—events, white papers, communities, private meetings—at all phases of the buying cycle. I resisted treating it as a standalone in the survey.

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How much do you “charge” for your content?

Chris Koch

Image via Wikipedia. The price is the forms we make people fill out to download white papers or sign up for events. The price is the forms we make people fill out to download white papers or sign up for events. Yet while generally we can’t put a price tag on our content, we do charge for it. That has to change. Relationship.

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How much do you “charge” for your content?

Chris Koch

Image via Wikipedia. The price is the forms we make people fill out to download white papers or sign up for events. The price is the forms we make people fill out to download white papers or sign up for events. Yet while generally we can’t put a price tag on our content, we do charge for it. That has to change. Relationship.