Inbound Marketing Summit

iYogi, a company that provides remote tech support directly to consumers and small businesses, has raised a Series C round to the tune of $15 million.

As someone who's been workshifting for more than 15 years, and also as someone during that time has managed workshifters for a number of organizations, I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to successfully supporting remote employees.

With the opening of Icecrown Citadel in the latest edition of World of Warcraft, the challenges facing guilds and players of all levels of skill have increased. During a recent run in the Forge of Souls (facing the evil alter ego of the late James Brown, no less), I noticed that our usual team's play style had to adjust to the new challenges.

Last night I was chatting with a blogger who was feeling completely overwhelmed with their goal of making a living from blogging.

I asked them how much they wanted to make from blogging.

They responded that they wanted to be a full time blogger.

I'm a sucker for documentaries that show the 'rise and fall' of military empires, businesses and the like. I love seeing the plan that made these giants possible, then what changed that led to the inevitable decline.

In talking with Jess Krywosa yesterday, I realized that I hadn’t explained much about my take on how I get traction on social media projects in companies. The way we do it at New Marketing Labs more often than not is with what I call the middle-down, middle-up approach. Okay, that might take a [...]

An important question to start asking yourself is, “how does this share?” The way these tools work best is when we can share easily. Is what you’re doing something easy to share? Have you given your ideas handles so that others can easily move it down the line? Are you equipping your information for [...]

Friday Funnies: The recent FDA ruling has many bloggers concerned that their readership will all be scared off. The FDA has mandated that bloggers must disclose all potential side effects from reading or prolonged exposure to their blogs. As the video below shows, our ConstructingSocial lab is hard at work to determine the correct protective [...]

I am curious on what you think the impact will be on blogs? Are sponsorships a thing of the past or will bloggers fight back? Please enter your vote and add a comment as you see fit!Thanks,/Colin

At the Inbound Marketing Summit, I was able to get some time from Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer, Aaron Strout of Powered, Inc, and Michael Schneider of Allen & Gerritsen. Some very good and interesting opinions in the video below:For your information I am providing a few resources below. First, here is [...]

Colin Bower and Robert Collins Join Fast Growing Digital Marketing and Social Communications Agency

New Marketing Labs Announces Inbound Marketing Summit Expert Speaker Line-up
Program in October packed with experts including Chris Brogan, Brian Solis,
Scott Kirsner, Gary Vaynerchuk, Jason Falls

Canton, MA (September 24 , 2009) - New Marketing Labs LLC (www.newmarketinglabs.com), creators and producers of the Inbound Marketing Summit (Twitter tag #IMS09) , are now previewing the agenda for the Boston edition of the Inbound Marketing Summit 2009 conference line-up, including 'best in class' speakers from across the new marketing world.

Chris Brogan, President of New Marketing Labs, was named as one of the "2009 Influential Leaders" at the 2009 CRM Market Awards.

Program to document and celebrate innovation through America's heartland

Canton, MA (March 10, 2009) - New Marketing Labs LLC (www.newmarketinglabs.com), creators and producers of the Inbound Marketing Summit, today launched the American Innovator's Road Trip. The Innovators' Road Trip is designed to document innovations both historic and contemporary created by individuals and organizations throughout the Heartland of America. The road trip team will be conducting interviews with innovative leaders at organizations such as Ford Motor Company, Rosetta, Maker's Mark, Nationwide Insurance, Gannett, MomsLikeMe.com, Doe Anderson, Louisville Slugger, and many others as they drive from Dearborn, MI to Austin, TX on their way to the SXSW Interactive Festival.

Combined Conference to leverage both events as Inbound Marketing Summit

Canton, MA (February 17, 2009) - New Marketing Labs, LLC (www.newmarketinglabs.com), creators and producers of the New Marketing Summit, today announced the acquisition of the Inbound Marketing Summit conference. The combination of these two market-leading programs will bring the best in thought leadership together for three events throughout the US in 2009 - San Francisco, April 28- 29; Dallas, May 27 - 28 and Boston, September 30 - October 1. The new combined program will be renamed as the Inbound Marketing Summit.