This year I’m trying to get a little more personal on this blog and peel back the curtain on some things going on in my business and life that might be relevant to you. A few weeks ago, I talked about the biggest success of my career. Today I’ll balance…

Over time, I have been able to attain broad appeal by being bold in my opinions without crossing a line into politics and other divisive topics. So I’m a bit anxious about creating a post hinting at gender and creativity, but I think what I have to say today will…

I received a message from a reader in the U.K. wondering if social media marketing still matters. She had read my book The Tao of Twitter (which is really about social media strategy) and wondered if the book’s main ideas were still relevant in a world where it is so…

We recently had a lively discussion in the RISE community about the advantage of spending time in the corporate world before taking an entrepreneurial leap. Several people in my community have experience with large companies, and we all had the same conclusion: the advantage of having a job before doing…

In the earliest days of this blog, I wrote a post called “10 Benefits of Blogging Even if Nobody is Reading It.” This was a significant article for me because back in 2009, blogging was all creators had to work with. It still took equipment and effort to produce videos…

For more than a decade, I’ve been teaching about the power of curated content, and it occurred to me that I’ve never written about it on this blog. If you’re trying to find a powerful new way to stand out in this very noisy world, this might be an exceptional…

Like me, you’re probably ChatGPT-weary right now, but many of the articles I’ve seen for marketers are either too basic, too technical (I’m not doing any coding!), or too focused on content marketing (duh). …

I’ve had the most amazing career. For example, I’ve … Published ten books that people love. Graduated with two master’s degrees Earned seven patents Worked with amazing companies like Dell, Johnson & Johnson, and Adidas. Been a speaker on some of the world’s biggest stages. But the very best achievement…

I don’t believe anyone can truly be an expert any more. Any hope of expertise has been overrun by the malignant complexity of our world. There is no single human who understands the internet or the economy or teenagers. I recently read an article about a new scientific discipline devoted…