On November 6 & 7, the Ypulse Youth Marketing Mashup East will be “where today’s top brand, corporate and social marketers, media professionals, educators and others gather to share successful strategies on marketing to youth with technology.”  The conference is put on by my friend Anastasia Goodstein and should be a great event that I highly recommend.  Hard Knox Life

One of the first posts I ever wrote on Hard Knox Life was about a talk I was giving at the 2008 IEG Sponsorship Conference on “Youth isn’t a demographic, it’s a mindset.“  Well it turns out that IEG took that talk and turned into a cover story for their 8/25 issue of the IEG Sponsorship Report.  You can check

Recently the guys over at Mr Youth, sent me a paper they wrote on Consumer 2.0 and the 5 Rules to Engage a New Breed of Consumer.  Accordingly to them, the following 5 rules dictate how brands should interact with a new breed of “connected” consumers. Authenticity Trumps Celebrity – Consumer 2.0 responds to honest, relevant messaging from peers over marketing

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ll be at the IEG Sponsorship Conference in Chicago next Monday giving a presentation on Youth Marketing.  Entitled “Youth Marketing is no longer a demographic…it’s a mindset”, the presentation looks at how brands need to leverage the youth market to learn how to market in new, meaningful ways.  It’s a collection of insights I gathered during