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Who is listening to your customer?

This is a guest post from Jeanne Bliss — customer experience expert and author of “I Love You More Than My Dog.” See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on her blog. Often when a company talks about “listening” to customers, that notion is immediately collapsed into a “voice of the…

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3 examples of remarkable corporate responsibility

[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.] The businesses with raving fans are usually nice businesses — ones that use their success to give back to their community. But you can…

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WOM Tip #388: Go where people aren’t expecting to see you

Chips, candy, and soft drinks usually dominate vending machines. They fit the bill for the impulsive decisions you can make with a few dollars. But if you’re in Chicago, you might see something different popping up next to the junk food: Healthy vending machines. Farmer’s Fridge is a startup creating vending machines that dispense fresh…

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Download the first chapter of Simon Sinek’s “Leaders Eat Last”

Great leaders are great empathizers according to Simon Sinek, TEDx speaker and author of Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. In this first chapter from his new book, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t, Simon tells the story of a heroic pilot who saved the…

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How likely are you to recommend us to a friend?

This is a guest post from Andy Sernovitz — CEO of WordofMouth.org and SocialMedia.org and New York Times bestselling author of “Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking.” That question may be the most important question you can ask — and the business innovation of the decade. It comes from Fred Reichheld‘s…

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Embracing fans of a service company

This is a guest post from Spike Jones — SVP, Managing Director SW Region at Edelman Digital and co-author of the book Brains on Fire: Igniting Powerful, Sustainable Word of Mouth Movements. See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on his blog. I’ve had the honor of doing a webinar…

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9 Things to Share That Start Conversations

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Create a complete word of mouth marketing plan using this worksheet’s eight simple steps.

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