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3-Minute WOM Lesson: What makes a great talker

[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.] Anytime someone is willing to recommend you to a friend, you’re doing something right. But when creating…

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3-Minute WOM Lesson: 3 talkers you may be overlooking

[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.] Great word of mouth begins with a focus on the people who will be doing the talking….

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3-Minute WOM Lesson: 3 questions all word of mouth marketers should ask

[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.] Great word of mouth marketers try lots of topics, test lots of ideas, and ask a lot…

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3-Minute WOM Lesson: 3 simple conversation starters

[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.] You can have amazing word of mouth — and you can do it on the smallest of…

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Word of Mouth Tip #15: Talk to the people who talk to your customers

Your best talkers aren’t always your customers — rather, it’s often the people who talk to those customers. When looking for your next group of talkers, think teachers, doctors, industry analysts, journalists, neighbors, barbers — anyone who has regular contact with your customers. How a word of mouth supergenius does it: Each month during the…

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3-Minute WOM Lesson: How to create your word of mouth marketing plan

[Welcome back to the Word of Mouth Marketing 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.] In this issue, our Social Media Business Council Chief Evangelist, Bob Pearson, shares his tips for creating your word of mouth marketing…

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Issue #147: Overcoming the 3 common barriers to word of mouth

[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.] There are certain products, issues, and groups of talkers that have natural word of mouth barriers. Here…

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Gap finds their talkers on the trading floor

When brainstorming groups of talkers, it’s important to think beyond the people who buy your stuff. Ferrari’s biggest talkers, for example, aren’t expensive car buyers, they’re the 15-year-old kids with posters on the wall. Your best talkers may be local cab drivers, waiters at area restaurants, or bellhops. Gap got it right when they reached out to NYSE…

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