“What happens when millions armed with cameras, cell phones, and laptops share their lives on Facebook, blogs, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube? People have more opportunities to observe and listen to each other… A big part of word of mouth is small-talk buzz- conversations about products that are simply part of our everyday interactions.” (Emanuel Rosen, Buzz)   Read More

Recently, we at Adaptive have been spending a lot of time considering our work and team culture. Last Friday, our "tribe leader" Markus kicked off our end-of-week brainstorming session by showing us Simon Sinek's Ted Talk "How Great Leaders Inspire Action" http://bit.ly/peoplebuythewhy  Sinek argues that leaders stimulate action because they BELIEVE in what they do. He says that everyone knows WHAT they do, most know HOW they do it, but very few people know WHY. Read More

In 2004 Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine, Chris Anderson, popularised the long tail theory in an article called The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. In retail terms, the long tail describes a niche strategy of selling a large number of unique items in relatively small quantities. Read More

There's no better way to start an autumn Wednesday morning then drinking a Lemsip and reading an essay on poor link building http://bit.ly/watchyourlinks.The author, Dærick Gröss, outlines the risks of hiring an outside company to do certain components of your SEO- I am referring specifically to organic link building via blog post comments. Read More

I just came across a fabulous article that I had to share with you. It's 30 Content Marketing Truths that I suggest everyone live by. The most important message that the article's author delivers is that content is at the essance of all branding and cutomer relationships. Content is a company's point of differentiation. It is made up of your thoughts, ideas, and personality, and all of those things are irreplaceable. Read More