"Here’s what they’re going to get: Tweets, retweets, hashtags, status updates, Flickr streams, blog posts, wall posts, Tumblr reblogs, YouTube videos, #FollowFridays, and maybe even some attention from the MSM. Smart. Very, very smart."

Marketing is not a religious experience.

“Viral marketing” always makes me think of venereal diseases. Stoppit.

"Summering in the Hamptons, I went for the stroll down the beach one night and came across a bonfire crawling with sporting students from Princeton. One of the young gentlemen stopped me and asked me if I was in Kappa Delta Rho; he thought I was a student! “Bonfire."

"So the company will run an edited version, the racier cut will be an online smash, the new perfume gets a ton of free media, and Eva Mendes can raise her asking price for her next film ever so slightly. It’s all quite repetitive, isn’t it?"

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3. Select online properties crucial to developing your brand and make yourself known to them.

Reach out to the actual human beings behind these properties, using a strategy I call “F&S” —friendship and stunts.

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