[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.] Creating remarkable experiences is one of the best (and most important) parts of a word of mouth marketer’s job. But instead of inventing new ways…
Word of Mouth Tip #39: Be different
A core component of word of mouth is the element of being fundamentally, astonishingly, remarkably different. Seth Godin described it best when laying out his Purple Cow manifesto for Fast Company: While driving through France a few years ago, my family and I were enchanted by the hundreds of storybook cows grazing in lovely pastures…
Word of Mouth Tip #34: Make it outrageously big, strange, rare, or stretchy
People love to talk about the unique and the bizarre. These are the topics that make news headlines, that bloggers repost, and that people share with friends. It’s the goofy event you host, your creation of the world’s biggest whatever, or your world record-breaking thing-a-ma-jig. Even if your outrageously big, strange, rare, or stretchy thing doesn’t…