I recently had the pleasure of giving my talk as a part of Google’s Author Talks program. An old college friend, Peyton Dobbs introduced me to speak. We had an informative, fun and engaging conversation how to grow your influence through collaboration. I am thrilled to share my Google Author Talk on: The Influencer Economy:
We all have ideas. Everyone of us has big ideas that we want to execute on. But the internet is a noisy place. There are billions of social media posts, YouTube videos, and blogs. In the new economy, it’s very difficult to get our ideas heard. If you truly want your ideas to standout,
Dan Ariely is the James B Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He’s also a best-selling New York Times author. Dan spends his time researching behavioral economics and “tries to describe it in plain language.”
Dan gave a world-famous TED Talk in October 20 called “What Makes Us Feel Good About Our Work?”
Kevin Kelly is a blogger, author, editor, student of technology and future systems, and self-proclaimed “packager of ideas”. He is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and has written for the New York Times, Economist, Science, Time, the Wall Street Journal, and other national and international publications. This week our guest Kevin Kelly on
Seth Godin is a marketer, entrepreneur, and best-selling author. He’s one of my favorite public speakers and an inspiring figure in the marketing world. Early in his career, Seth was founder and CEO of Yoyodyne, an interactive direct marketing company. Yoyodyne eventually was acquired by Yahoo! in 1998. Seth then worked as VP Direct Marketing at Yahoo
Hank Green is one half the YouTube creators The Vlog Brothers, who he co-creates with his brother John Green. Hank is the entrepreneurial brother who has the leadership role on many of their co-ventures and has launched several of his own innovative charitable and education-based projects. But going back to 2006, when Hank and
Rand Fishkin was depressed and anxious for around a year. He had trouble sleeping and got trapped in the loop of “regretting decisions from the past.” He felt sunk and felt that nothing useful was coming from his business, Moz. Meanwhile the company was a $20 Million revenue business at the time, and has grown
Derek Sivers is writer, entrepreneur, programmer, musician, and student. He lived in NYC as a musician before creating and founding CD Baby in 1998. CD Baby eventually went onto be a leading seller of independent music online and he sold the company ten years later, in 2008 for $22 Million. And what did he
Brad Feld is an author, blogger and he invests in early stage technology companies. In fact he has invested in over 1,000 companies between his Techstars accelerator, his Foundry Ground investment firm, and his own deals. He is our guest on Stories from Influencer Economy podcast this week.
Imagine a world where the only media
This week I talk to Brendan McDonald, producer of WTF with Marc Maron. We chatted about the finer points of producing a world-class podcast, including booking the President of the United States, Barack Obama on their show.
Brendan is the yin and Maron is the yang in making WTF get made. Brendan explains in details of the
