Letting your fans serve as your evangelists always carries more weight than bragging on yourself. So how do you find those people? At SOBCon09, Geoff Livingston was asked this question. “How do you identify the people who are going to be your fans and evangelists?” His answer: They self-identify. They’ll tell you. I want to […]
Archives for June 2009
Overheard at the 140 Character Conference
People from all over the world, from a huge variety of industries, came together in New York with only a common language and common tool: Twitter. That’s bizarre. But that’s the 140 Characters Conference, created by Jeff Pulver (@jeffpulver). Aliza Sherman did a terrific job of capturing a flavor of the conference in her summary […]
Brag Basket is back from NYC
Each Friday, I open the Brag Basket for the weekend. Today, finally home from New York City, we jump right into the Brag Basket. This is designed as a fun place for you to share your projects and accomplishments. But you can also cheer for other people, give shout outs, congratulate, and even give someone […]
How to sell more tickets to events
You might be selling tickets to a community event or to you own business event. Either way, selling event tickets in a small town can feel like a real fight. Here’s a trick I picked up from Cody Heitschmidt, of Hutchinson Kansas: Limit the number of tickets and publicize that limit. This simple act turns […]