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Feed SubscriptionBeyond The One-Time Click: 6 Social Media Rules For Creating Brand Evangelists
There’s a vast expanse between the transactional moment when a consumer likes, friends, or follows a site and the instant that same consumer becomes a brand evangelist, entering into a state of emotional commitment. The former isn’t difficult to achieve; observe how many sites have hundreds of thousands of friends, very few of whom feel any real passion for the brand, or would go out of their way to recommend it to somehow (least of all defend it in a the social-media equivalent of a barroom brawl.) The latter is the bell-ringing marketing challenge of today. It’s not surprising that there isn’t more deep-down devotion among the millions of superficial friends and followers.
Read More »How to Sell: Improve Your Pitch
The first few minutes of a pitch meeting are crucial. So how are you spending them? And how is the other person reacting?
Read More »Amazon Retail Store In Seattle?, HTC Reports Rough Quarter, Facebook To Introduce Mobile Ads
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. Amazon Retail Store In Seattle? Amazon is rumored to be building a retail store near home base Seattle.
Read More »5 Tech Rules Entrepreneurs Should Live By
How you use technology not only reflects on you personally, but also on your company and its reputation. We now have the possibility to be connected continually: text messages, emails, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn… all of which can be accessed from our smartphones, our iPads, our computers.
Read More »5 Tech Rules Entrepreneurs Should Live By
How you use technology not only reflects on you personally, but also on your company and its reputation. We now have the possibility to be connected continually: text messages, emails, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn… all of which can be accessed from our smartphones, our iPads, our computers
Read More »Could an Infection Cause Tourette’s-Like Symptoms in Teenage Girls?
Over the weekend Erin Brockovich made the news yet again as she and her nonprofit team descended on the village of Le Roy, N.Y., determined to test for environmental toxins that might be giving the town's teenagers symptoms of Tourette's syndrome. She has reportedly been stonewalled thus far by local officials, who have already ruled out toxins as the cause of last October's sudden outbreak of tics and involuntary movements in 12 girls who attend Le Roy Junior–Senior High School. An environmental testing company surveyed the air and water and found nothing amiss, and a local neurologist concluded upon examining the girls that they had "conversion disorder," a catchall moniker for physical symptoms that originate in the mind because of stress, trauma or even mass hysteria
Read More »The Pride and Peril of The Iron Lady
Determination to succeed was vital to Margaret Thatcher's drive, but left unchecked it led to her undoing. Meryl Streep personifies this leadership lesson in her latest movie.
Read More »How to Pitch a Banker
There's one simple thing entrepreneurs need to do to get a banker on their side.
Read More »How to Pitch a Banker
There's one simple thing entrepreneurs need to do to get a banker on their side.
Read More »What a Yawn Says about Your Relationship
You can tell a lot about a person from their body. And I don’t just mean how many hours they spend at the gym, or how easy it is for them to sweet-talk their way out of speeding tickets. For the past several decades researchers have been studying the ways in which the body reveals properties of the mind
Read More »How Heroes Inspire You To Be Your Best
When you study the lives of great leaders--their actions, thoughts, choices, struggles, failures, and triumphs--it unconsciously motivates you to be your best self every day. The second article in a four-part series
Read More »Jot Once, Remember Anywhere: The Best Tools For Universal Note-Taking
Your notes to yourself are a precious thing. These tools let you write quick and find ideas later, wherever you are.
Read More »The Key to Productivity: Better Verbs
The author of a new book offers a solution to those who can't stop stressing about their to-do lists: swap big verbs such as "implement" and "plan" for more manageable ones. In many ways all-pervasive tech helps us be more productive
Read More »Hallucinogenic Chemical Found in Magic Mushrooms Subdues Brain Activity
By Mo Costandi of Nature magazine Far from expanding your mind, the hallucinogenic chemical found in magic mushrooms induces widespread decreases in brain activity, researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Psilocybin has been revered for centuries for its ability to induce mystical experiences, and has potential therapeutic value for various psychiatric conditions. [More]
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