Author Archives: Nick Westergaard

Is your brand social? Are you creating shareable content? Is your brand influential? For all of these questions we ask ourselves about important adjectives that our brands should be, we often miss one of the simplest yet biggest ones of … Read More →

Brands no longer have a choice on whether or not to ‘get social.’ The cold, hard truth is that all brands are now social as conversations are already taking place whether or not you chose to engage. The first frontier on … Read More →

In the ’90s there was a Saturday Night Live sketch starring the late, great Phil Hartman as an avant garde acting teacher. Throughout his instruction he would weave in attention-getting broad generalizations such as “I don’t like women. They don’t … Read More →

Recently my friend John Morgan, author of Brand Against the Machine, received a direct message calling him a diva on Twitter for not following someone back. When John talked about this on Google+, I noted that I have a similar … Read More →

It’s true. We can learn lessons from children all the time. However, did you know that we can also learn a lot from their cartoons as well? Case in point, recently while tapping out some work on the iPad as … Read More →

When you take a moment and think about the word ‘touch point’ it’s hard not to be left with a very personal, human feeling. With the rise of new media, marketers are discovering new variations on our brand touchpoints that … Read More →

Fun fact about me: I actually have a little bit of background in improvisational comedy. There was even a time when I was part of a group that would perform improv in bars in the Iowa City area for little … Read More →

When talking about new media marketing, our focus is often social media, which quickly gravitates to what’s newest such as Pinterest, Instagram, and Google+. While social media use is indeed on the rise, there are other, older siblings of social … Read More →

Gary Vaynerchuk is nuts. Nuts in a good way that makes you feel both envious and lazy at the same time. With insurmountable reserves of passion and purpose, his very being embodies what this social media thing is and how … Read More →

Whoa. What Happened? Like many, I was shocked last week when I logged into Google+ and found that the search giant had quietly rolled out a massive revision to their social platform — both in terms of appearance and features. … Read More →