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What you’re not getting about creating a community

This is a guest post from Gary Vaynerchuk — well-known entrepreneur, social media innovator, and author of “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook.” See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on his blog. Everybody just thinks they’re just going to start a show, or start a blog, and they’re magically going…

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Video: How REI earns advocates with user-generated content

Some companies are afraid of asking their customers to share content with them: What about the legal requirements for using their photos in marketing? What if no one wants to participate? Or worse, what if it’s just no good? According to Lulu Gephart, REI’s Manager of Social and Earned Media, user-generated content is nothing to…

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Video: How Lowe’s practices restraint when joining in on social media conversations

You’ve heard it before: You have to go where your customers are to start word of mouth conversations. But maybe you haven’t heard this before: You don’t have to follow your customers everywhere. At SocialMedia.org’s Brands-Only Summit, Brad Walters’ presentation title, “OMG Look! An Emerging Social Media Platform! Hurry, Let’s Jump on It!” explains where…

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WOM Tip #145: Make the most of amazing stories

When one woman finally convinced her father, a former border guard in West Berlin, to return to visit the united city decades after the wall had come down, she booked a room in East Berlin through Airbnb. To her surprise, their Airbnb host was also a former border guard, but on the opposite side of…

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WOM Tip #152: Ask people to help you tell your story

Austin Pets Alive! doesn’t have any spare cash to pay people to write bios and blog posts, take photos, and make videos featuring their adoptable animals. But the more content they have to tell their story, the more people they reach. That means more interest in adopting stray cats and dogs and more donations to…

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They’ll buy when they trust

This is a guest post from Drew McLellan, CEO and Top Dog at McLellan Marketing Group. See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on his blog. Here’s an equation that every business owner needs to understand. Know + Like + Trust = Buy. Whether you sell toothbrushes or multi-million dollar medical…

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8 word of mouth topics to write about

[Welcome back to our Word of Mouth Marketing Lessons newsletter. This is text from the great issue all of our email subscribers just received. Sign yourself up using this handy form.] Blogs, newsletters, and other types of content are fundamental word of mouth tools. The problem: What the heck do you write about? It’s an…

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The New Topics Worksheet

All word of mouth starts with a topic of conversation — a simple, portable, repeatable idea that gets people talking.

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