My Dad lives on something I like to affectionately call the “E-mail Web”, which is an online universe populated by older folks who essentially “chain e-mail” each other. It’s an interesting blend of old and new – still essentially “mail”, but delivered to a screen. There’s an interesting and amazing …more
Original Article Published on October 13, 2013, by Tim Moran, Editor In Chief, CMO.com: Link “How do we market to people who have Internet devices in their clothes, even in their bodies?” So asked Grad Conn, U.S. M&O CMO Lead at Microsoft, in the final keynote to last week’s Internet Marketing Association …more
Original Article Published: December 10, 2007 on StoneTemple.com: Link As senior director, product marketing, Grad Conn is responsible for both the enterprise and consumer sides of the Health Solutions Group (HSG) at Microsoft Corp., including market mapping and segmentation, brand and communication strategy, and all marketing communication and sales enablement …more
I just read a cool story about Marshawn Lynch’s Mom, who used Skittles “power pellets” as a treat to motivate her shy son and get him pumped up for his games when he was playing Pop Warner football. I did the same thing with my oldest daughter, but it was …more
The Super Bowl has turned into a Super Social event as well, and last year’s black-out incident made stars out of the Oreo social team, who were generally credited with “winning the Super Bowl”: Link More recently, Arby’s “won the Grammys” with this tweet: A great story on what Arby’s …more
I found this article from Yahoo! Small Business Advisor quite interesting: Link. In the article, they talk about 5 trends in content marketing for 2014: The job market for content creation is set to explode; The area is going to grow massively next year; In some sectors, content will become more …more
Shaun White, arguably the greatest snowboarder in the history of the sport, is on his way to the Winter Olympics in Sochi. The two-time reigning Olympic halfpipe champion, has been preparing for the Sochi Olympics on a private halfpipe built for him by GoPro, in Perisher, Australia. “I need a …more
Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman is deaf, but you’d never know it on the football field. He’s embraced the challenge and perfected the art of lip-reading to succeed in the sport he loves. Coleman (Seattle Seahawks #40) is the first person in the entire history of the NFL, to play …more
Last year I had the privilege of speaking at the Internet Marketing Association’s IMPACT13 Conference in Las Vegas, where the theme was Innovators and Innovations. I joined a group of business leaders including: Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, and Guy Yalif, Head of Global Product Marketing, Twitter, envisioning the future …more
By Nancy Wong Bryan, The Web as a Door-to-Door Salesman articles (I, II, III) were from an interview I did a decade ago. Although some of the examples are now extinct, a lot of this is still super relevant today … in some ways more than ever. Grad Conn, vice president and …more
By Nancy Wong Bryan, Originally posted on April 05, 2004 The Web as a Door-to-Door Salesman articles (I, II, III) were from an …more
By Nancy Wong Bryan, Originally posted on April 01, 2004 The Web as a Door-to-Door Salesman articles (I, II, III) were from an …more
In a stunning example of interactive storytelling that pulls the reader in and engages them with sights and sounds, The New York …more
I thought this post from George Takei managed to nicely capture the tradition of the holiday and marry it with the gestalt …more
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Thanksgiving is actually a relatively modern holiday – and only an “official” holiday since 1941. In fact, although U.S. Presidents had declared …more
Article written by Mitchell Osak and published on the Financial Post: Link Mark Twain was foreshadowing when he said, “the past does …more
I have a couple of passages in “American Icon” that are particularly compelling — here’s one. It is from a speech that …more
I recently did a talk for the Microsoft U.S. marketing team entitled “The 7 Habits of a Highly Successful Marriage OR … …more
It was a big week in the mobile app world – Facebook launched “Facebook Home”, which is not so much a “Facebook …more
I got a chance to finish the book “American Icon” by Bryce G. Hoffman (Alan Mulally and the fight to save Ford …more
