800-CEO-READ, a leading direct supplier of book-based resources compiles a monthly list of best-selling business books based on purchases by its corporate customers nationwide. On the list for one year straight, Brian Solis’ What’s the Future of Business: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences, continues to stand the test of time…in a real-time world. Here are the best sellers for February 2014…. What Corporate America is Reading: Top 20 1. “Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less”…
What’s the Future of Business? An Interview with Brian Solis
Murray Newlands (@murraynewlands), Deputy Editor of Search Engine Journal (SEJ), caught up with Brian Solis in San Francisco to talk about what the future holds for businesses and why it is so difficult for executives to do something about it. Despite all of the wonders of technology and the loads of cash that brands are sinking into it, there seems to be a disconnect between the advertisers’ practices and consumers’ online purchase behavior. This is a growing problem in today’s…
The 100 Most-Wanted Speakers at Tech Conferences
Bizzabo, a leading networking platform for event organizers and attendees, released its list of the 100 Most Wanted Speakers at Tech Conferences. The Bizzabo team searched its database of more than 3,000 conferences, compared the company’s speaker popularity metrics with social media insights and search engine results (number of followers, number of appearances in search results), and also asked event organizers for their “dream team” of speakers. The list includes some of the industry’s most renown leaders including Apple’s Tim…
Meet Brian Solis at SXSW 2014
SXSW Interactive 2014 takes place in Austin from March 7-11. Brian will be in town and hopes to meet with you at one of the following locations or events…. Thursday, March 6th 8:30 – ?: Annual Calm Before the Storm Party, Gingerman Friday, March 7th ALL DAY: Techset/Paypal Social Media Lounge, Austin Convention Center, 4th Floor – Rooms 19 A & B (NOTE: Happy Hour is at 4:30) A great place to connect with other digital influencers throughout the show….
This is the End of Business as Usual
Bryan Elliott wrote a provocative post on the future of business at Huffington Post that features points from Brian’s book, The End of Business as Usual to make the case. Excerpt… We can probably all agree that things are changing fast but there are certain signs that signal, as author Brian Solis has written, that 2014 is The End of Business as Usual. What are these signs? They are all around us from the collapse of big box retailers like…
4 Steps To An Unbelievable Client Experience
by Jeff Bennett 360 presented a webinar hosted by author/analyst Brian Solis and myself which featured content from Brian’s latest book #WTF? What’s The Future Of Business? Brian has done mountains of research around the great sea changes taking place in the modern business landscape and makes a really compelling argument for businesses to focus more on customer experience. In fact, during the presentation, I was struck in particular by the great utility of his 6 Qualities That Define Engagement…
USAToday: Shh! Whisper adds celebrity gossip to confessions
Whisper co-founder Michael Heyward and editor in chief Neetzan Zimmerman at the company basketball court.(Photo11: Jefferson Graham) USAToday’s Jefferson Graham asked Brian Solis for his thoughts on Whisper’s evolution from anonymous social network to…? “Whisper has morphed from an anonymous network into a hybrid gossip, confessional, and allegation media network,” says Brian Solis, an analyst with the Altimeter Group. Read the full article over at USAToday.
Los Angeles Times Quotes Brian Solis on IMGUR’s popularity
Humorist Andy Herald of Pasadena created the “banana sdded for scale” meme that has been hugely popular on the photo-sharing service Imgur. (Luis Sinco, Los Angeles Times / February 12, 2014) Imgur pictures itself as YouTube for viral images Online image-sharing service Imgur figured out early on how to cash in on its fast-growing popularity. The company says it is profitable and has 130 million people visiting the site each month. And that is why Imgur has become such a…
Digital prophet Brian Solis on what post-digital people want
by Mark Cameron, BRW I spoke to Brian last week to get his views on how and why social media is having such a dramatic impact on the way that businesses are evolving. Our discussion centred around how businesses are dealing with managing the changes in communication that social media has brought, and the economics of relationships at scale – a fundamental issue in today’s environment. This is not a technology issue. To quote Brian, it revolves instead around the…
4 claves para conectar con la Generación C
via @ticbeat, Marcos Merino Brian Solis (analista digital de Altimeter Group, conferenciante y autor de best-sellers) redactó recientemente un informe para IBM titulado “The Connected Consumer and the New Decision-Making Cycle” (El Consumidor Conectado y el Nuevo Ciclo de Toma de Decisiones). Según la compañía, el objetivo del informe era enseñar a ir más allá de segmentos y datos demográficos para comprender la dinámica de la participación en las redes y poder así transformar la relación de las compañías con…
