Brian Basilico is an internationally recognized speaker, author, trainer, and adjunct professor. He brings over 35 years of marketing experience to his award-winning internet marketing company, B2b Interactive Marketing, Inc. Brian is a syndicated podcaster and blogger, who has been featured as a guest expert in Entrepreneur and Inc. magazines, as well as various news articles, radio shows, and podcasts.

Analog vs. Digital Relationships

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Have you ever watched the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show? There was a scene where Yanko, the weatherman, was getting drunk in a bar and blurted out to strangers about why they call a weather pattern “El Niño”. “El Niño” originated in Peru and Ecuador, where it was used to refer to a warm…

Looking Into the Future… By LISTENING the Past

Buyer's Journey, C-Suite Topics, Content Marketing, Futurecasting, Generating Sales, Human-To-Human, Marketing Tips and Tools, Questions, Relationship Marketing, Social Media, Strategy, Technology, World News, Writing ContentLeave a comment

Over the last weekend, we watched a little TV. When you speak, teach, and pontificate for a living, it’s nice to have a little downtime and just LISTEN! Sometimes we choose sports, sitcoms, or gameshows, but this time we chose a documentary and a news magazine. The first story we watched was about the Webb…

Is it Time to Get New Business Cards?

Business Systems, C-Suite Topics, Client Expectations, Customer Relationship Manager, LinkedIn, Networking, Referrals, Relationship Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, Strategy, Technology, Thought Leadership, Websites1 Comment

It’s hard to believe that close to three and a half years ago almost all business came to a screeching halt. In-person work, meetings, and business were severely affected. No matter how you feel about viruses, masks, and the shutdowns, it was a time of uncertainty, panic, and disruption. One part of building and maintaining…

Who is More Useful to Your Business? A CMO or a CRO?

Advertising, Branding, C-Suite Topics, Communication, Content Marketing, Data Mining, Human-To-Human, Relationship Marketing, Strategy, Success, Systems, Writing ContentLeave a comment

I think I can safely say that you don’t go into business to lose money… unless you intentionally do so for a tax write-off. Yet making money is not as easy as it’s often characterized. It takes a great idea mixed with execution. It takes hard work mixed with luck. And, it takes money mixed…

What Does BACON Have To Do with POOP?

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I was excited and honored to be the keynote speaker at a national conference where the words… CRAP, SH!T, and POOP are in every presenter’s speech and are spoken openly and frequently in almost every conversation had with attendees. It was the 2023 APAWS National Conference in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. APAWS is the Association…

Look Over There? How to Turn Distraction into Disruption

Artificial Intelligence, C-Suite Topics, Change Management, Content Marketing, Disruption, General Marketing, Human-To-Human, Managing Change, Questions, Strategy, Targeted Messaging, Thought LeadershipLeave a comment

I have had multiple people ask me about using AI in marketing. They had this perception that I would show them how it works so they could replace my services with this marketing Golden Ticket that has a psychological or hypnotical effect to magically convert the internet to an ATM. I would be happy to…

Seconds… Chance Interactions

Accountability, Advertising, Business Systems, Buyer's Journey, Consistency, Content Marketing, Google AdWords, Google Analytics, Human-To-Human, Social Media, Strategy, Targeted Messaging, WebsitesLeave a comment

If you manage your own or other business websites, I imagine you are using Google Analytics or another data manager to explore the traffic to your website. The beauty of using Google Analytics is that you have a baseline to judge your traffic against other similar websites. I know this because I manage over 100…

Could You Improve a Customer’s Journey with Artificial Intelligence Marketing?

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Last week, I made a mistake. I grabbed a soda out of a cooler, and it was a Diet Pepsi. I’m living in Pepsi Country. Pepsi was founded in nearby New Bern, North Carolina. But I gave up diet drinks a while ago because I don’t like the taste of artificial sweeteners. Artificial is generally…

Is Your Marketing an Investment or an Expense? Good Questions!

Accountability, Business Tools, C-Suite Topics, Cold-Calling, Generating Sales, Questions, Relationship Marketing, Sales, Search Engine Marketing, Systems, TechnologyLeave a comment

It’s been an interesting week. We are in the dog days of summer. People are vacationing, getting their kids back to school, or just soaking up (or avoiding) the sunny days and warm weather. Speaking of dogs. Our dog Layla picked up a case of the dog flu from doggie daycare. The daycare was incredibly…

Making An Argument For Better Marketing

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Is your marketing working for or against you? In any case, you are the judge. I recently took a college course on The Art of Debate. It was with a Wake Forest professor named Dr. Jarrod Atchinson. It contains over 24 half-hour lectures and digs deep into the history, purpose, and strategy of debate. In…