Gary Stein
SVP, Strategy and Planning
iCrossing
Gary Stein is SVP, strategy and planning in iCrossing's San Francisco office. He has been working in marketing for more than a decade. Gary lives in San Francisco with his family. Follow him on Twitter: @garyst3in. The opinions expressed in Gary's columns are his alone.
RECENT ARTICLES BY GARY STEIN
May 31, 2013 -
We will always have "ads" as we have come to know and love them, but we are also seeing the opportunity to talk to consumers in longer and more meaningful...
May 17, 2013 -
How marketers can use Reddit to discuss topics, ask questions, keep up with news, and participate in the community that surrounds us.
May 3, 2013 -
We need to get consumers to tell us their stories. And we have to do something interesting with that data.
Apr 19, 2013 -
Facebook: please give us a much better management interface for community management and the chance to do rich media.
Apr 5, 2013 -
Three more things that you need to make sure you have in place to be the 21st century marketing powerhouse that you know you can be. Part two in a two...
Mar 22, 2013 -
You can create amusements, interactions, engagements, utility, and functionality, but only if you have already covered your core needs. Part one in...
Mar 8, 2013 -
Busting five of the myths that seem to be floating around the marketing industry.
Feb 22, 2013 -
It's time to consider different types of influencers differently and address them uniquely. Here are the three primary types of influencers and how...
Feb 8, 2013 -
Clearly Twitter gets it: TV is here to stay. Part two in a two-part series.
Jan 25, 2013 -
Broadcasters are clinging to an expiring era and advertisers may need to forge into the new world first.
Jan 11, 2013 -
How the Twitter/AP mashup will further blur the lines of advertising and editorial.
Dec 14, 2012 -
The question isn't the shape of the path that consumers take, but rather the time they take and the motivations that they need to move forward.
Nov 30, 2012 -
While brands still need to provide real value, that value can come through content…and content should never be living on a remote island.
Nov 16, 2012 -
How to use broadcast mediums as sparks of conversation and social, digital, and interactive mediums to fan that spark into the flame of action.
Nov 2, 2012 -
Finding a way to serve the consumer and the brand in a way that takes advantage of the ability to quickly gather a collection and present it in a way...
Oct 18, 2012 -
No matter what you're doing for a brand, you have to put it into a larger framework that understands and incorporates the non-linear way people engage...
Oct 5, 2012 -
The biggest benefit for advertisers in this revolution is for the newspaper industry to see itself as creating relationships that keep people informed...
Sep 21, 2012 -
Apple changes the world (on a fairly regular basis, actually) both by what it does and what it doesn't do.
Aug 24, 2012 -
Has Facebook simply created the next generation of the walled garden, with a promise that everything you need is inside Facebook?
Aug 10, 2012 -
Rather than thinking of advertising as presenting a message, we need to think about it as a method of building bonds between people and brands.
Jul 27, 2012 -
The next generation of interactive experiences will come from the ability to dynamically access and blend two or more of these data types together.