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Smokey Bones BBQ asks employees to engage fans in social media

Smokey Bones – a 68-unit franchise concentrated in Florida – has given several of its employees second jobs as social media marketers charged with engaging fans online. Each location selects a web host — someone familiar with social media tools — to run localized web, Facebook, and Myspace pages to communicate with each location’s fans, known as…

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KFC asks fans to create their own commercials

KFC is asking fans to submit homemade commercials showing off the chain’s new grilled style of chicken. The videos are shared on KFC’s MySpace page, where other fans are encouraged to vote for their favorites – with the ultimate winner getting the chance to star in an upcoming television ad campaign as well as receiving a lifetime supply of…

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Word of mouth research: How Etsy is an international word of mouth phenomenon

Etsy – the online marketplace where people set up shops to sell handmade goods – is a global word of mouth phenomenon according to the company’s 2009 International Seller Survey results and highlighted by Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb. When international sellers were asked how they first heard about Etsy, an overwhelming 57% cited word of mouth and blogs. In…

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Social media case study from Adam Brown of Coca-Cola

Come to BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media on June 23 in San Francisco to hear Dell, Wells Fargo, Kaiser Permanente, SAP, Pepsi, Cisco, and Intuit 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 one afternoon, for…

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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…

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