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.
This is the time of the year when we tend to reflect back and look forward. We reflect on the past year, what we enjoyed and what went wrong. And then we hope for the future. To get ready for the new year, everybody’s going to be buying gym memberships to get in shape. I…
Heart Of The Artist Over the weekend we sat down and watched a documentary about an artist. His name is J.R., and he takes photographs and makes them larger than life. He did a mural on the U.S.-Mexico border, he did a mural inside of a prison, and he did a mural in Brazil, in…
Make It STOP! I was sitting down watching some TV with my wife and she pulled out her cellphone and said, “Can you help me?” And I said, “Sure.” She opened up her email and said, “Why am I getting all these?” When I started looking at what she meant by these, it was a…
Old & New Dogs… Tips & Tricks A while back, I had a client who asked me to come in and teach their sales team about using LinkedIn for sales success. I showed them all of the basic things they needed to know, why they should use it, how to set up their profile, how…
It’s that time of year again. It’s almost the end of the year and the beginning of a new one. And people tend to slow down and kind of chillax a little bit. But it’s also the time of year where everybody’s sending out messages of thanks, gratitude, and holiday gifts to their clients…
Have you ever heard the phrase, “Your network is your net worth?” Well, that is more true today than ever before. Keep in mind, it wasn’t too long ago when everything was face-to-face. And since the last few years have happened, we’ve gotten more into meeting people online, via Zoom or whatever you use, and…
Do you remember the good old days of getting in your car and going from store to store to store to find what you wanted to purchase? I do. I remember needing computer parts and I would go to Best Buy and then TigerDirect and then Circuit City to find the best deal. Sure you…
Auto – Correct? When I’m walking my dog, she picks up sticks and I take a picture. Then, instead of sitting there trying to type, while I’m walking a dog, I hit voice prompts and I record my voice and it transcribes it into text. When I get home and look at what the autocorrect…
The Lunchbox When I was a kid, one of the proudest days of any school year was showing up with that new lunchbox. It was a little metal box that mom would pack a sandwich and maybe put an apple in, and maybe some chips wrapped up in tinfoil. And then you’d have a thermos,…
Today, I’d like to talk about a trend I’ve observed. It’s a trend that’s turning into an engagement epidemic in social media. It uses polls and questions to try to create more attention, thinking that will create more sales. Some of these polls will get a thousand people to check one of the boxes, but…