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What you have in your hands right now is a book that will teach you how to keep up with the pace of change, keep your customer at the center of your decision processes, and inspire the people inside your organization to lead from wherever they are with more honed Digital Sense.

Soon after the Chiefs incident in 2012, Travis and Chris were speaking on the same panel at the 2013 Denver Startup Week festival in Colorado. Chris, a serial entrepreneur, was on a personal sabbatical in Colorado, mired in ethnographic research around the Fourth Industrial Revolution and customer experience, following a venture exit. Chris and Travis immediately hit it off.

In Summer 2015, they reconnected and the concept of this book was born. Chris was back in build mode with Ethology (a customer experience performance media agency) and Travis had become one of the most sought after thought leaders in marketing technology. Travis was working on building his agency, CCP Digital, was a paid columnist at Inc. magazine, and had a new podcast on VentureBeat, called VB Engage, with the incomparable Stewart Rogers. We had originally decided to write the book and self-publish it, when serendipitously a few weeks later, Lia Ottaviano, from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in Hoboken, NJ, reached out, and a deal for Digital Sense was born with the country's oldest and most prolific business book publisher.

In this book, you will learn how to blend customer experience, social business strategy, and marketing technologies using the Experience Marketing Framework.™ This book will teach you how to amplify that content correctly, and give you some different hacks and tricks on how to look at digital. It will help teach your organization how to be more digitally savvy at an individual and collective level.

We want digital sense to permeate your whole organization and the world at large.

With over 3 billion more humans coming into the commercial cycle globally in the coming years, as mobile web and smartphone access proliferates in the Third World, we no longer live in the information age, instead residing firmly in the age of opportunity.

You have an unprecedented chance to capitalize and thrive (not just survive) through what Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, has called the Fourth Industrial Revolution.10

Having a model to cultivate a continually increasing digital sense will be an imperative. In the coming decade, the road ahead will not merely be a prolongation of the Third Industrial Revolution, which used electronics and information technology to automate production. It will be a complete and distinctly different revolution wherein everything exists as bits centered around velocity, scope, and impact as humanity enters a time of scale where technology has no historical precedent.

Our hope with this book is to share some of the wisdom we have picked up during our collective 40-plus years of marketing and technology startup experience. We have unified our sharp tongues and quick wits into one voice for the narrative to make your reading experience fluid.

You've heard the quote from Wayne Gretzky that says, “I skate to where the puck is headed, not where it is.” That's been one of the guiding lights and principles of Travis's whole existence. Chris's personal tagline for those who have seen him speak, mentor, or invest, is “The real risk is doing nothing.” Strap yourself in and let's begin.