Digital The Small Business and Entrepreneur Playbook for Digital-First Marketing is your comprehensive guide to mastering digital marketing in today's fast-evolving landscape. Whether you’re an entrepreneur building your brand from the ground up or a small business owner eager to scale, this book offers practical, step-by-step strategies that will transform your marketing approach and help you achieve measurable results.
Written by renowned Fractional CMO, keynote speaker, and university educator Neal Schaffer, Digital Threads distills over a decade of experience into actionable insights tailored for businesses of all sizes. Neal breaks down complex marketing tactics used by large brands and adapts them for small budgets, helping you compete and grow in the digital-first economy.
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Neal Schaffer is a leading authority on helping businesses through their digital transformation of sales and marketing through consulting, training, and helping enterprises large and small develop and execute on social media marketing strategy, influencer marketing, and social selling initiatives.
President of the social media agency PDCA Social, Neal also teaches digital media to executives at Rutgers University, the Irish Management Institute (Ireland), and the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland).
Fluent in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, Neal is a popular keynote speaker and has been invited to speak about digital media on four continents in a dozen countries.
He is also the author of 4 books on social media, including Maximize Your Social (Wiley), and his latest book, The Age of Influence (HarperCollins Leadership), published on March 19, 2020 on educating the market on the why and how every business should leverage the potential of influencer marketing.
Neal resides in Irvine, California but also frequently travels to Japan.