[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.] Holding an event can be an exciting (and sometimes stressful) way to raise more awareness for your business and to help people get to…
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Word of Mouth Tip #63: Offer something crazy for the crazy fans
Support your fanatical, crazy, and passionate fans. They’re rare, and they deserve extra support and encouragement. Tough Mudder events are extreme, long-distance obstacle races that attract some serious (some might say “crazy”) athletes. And as part of these races, they have a lot of fun side competitions like costume and mullet contests. But they also…
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How Airborne Mobile got an entire conference talking about them for $1
A couple of years ago, I wrote a book—a really great one, I must admit immodestly—about the power of the element of Surprise. In it, I praised the uber-effectiveness and efficiency of Word of Mouth Marketing, and the ying-yang relationship it has with Surprise. “Despite its influence,” I wrote, “WOM is not self-starter. It needs a…
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How Hershey’s engaged bloggers at BlogHer with their S’mores Snacktivity Suite — live from BlogWell
Come to BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media on February 2 in Austin to hear Toyota, REI, Texas Instruments, Kellogg’s, Dell, Sabre Holdings, Coldwell Banker, and InterContinental Hotels Group share case studies in corporate social media. You’ll learn how to get started, get past roadblocks, and make your social media program phenomenal — in…
Don’t let them leave your booth without something to show off (and 7 other WOM tips for trade show exhibitors)
Trade shows can be boring, stuffy, loud places in which visitors meet hundreds of vendors — most of which they never remember. But smart word of mouth marketers know it doesn’t have to be that way: They’re the ones giving away something fun, doing something weird, or handing out something brilliant and useful. In the “something…
