[Welcome back to the You Can Be a Word of Mouth Marketing Supergenius! newsletter. This is text of the great issue all of our email subscribers just received. Sign yourself up using the handy form on the right.] Service companies have just as many fans and word of mouth potential as anyone else. Help them…
From the book: New word of mouth case study on Dell
One of the biggest additions to the new edition of the best-selling book, Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking, is the five new case studies of brilliant word of mouth marketing from Dell, Potbelly, FreshBooks, Microsoft, and Levenger. We’re highlighting a different case study each day this week, starting with Dell:…
Put your coupons online
When you create a coupon, the goal is for it to get redeemed. A printed coupon can only go so far and reach so many people, but an online coupon (especially one on a social networking site like Facebook) can be forwarded, shared, and talked about. A recent article in DMNews highlighted a growing trend…
How Bacon Salt achieved great word of mouth with no money
In one year, using $5,000 in prize money from America's Funniest Home Videos, Dave Lefkow and Justin Esch have grown Bacon Salt–the stuff that makes everything taste like bacon–into one of the hottest selling condiments. They did it largely through the power of word of mouth. Here's how: 1> Dave and Justin went online and…