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Tag Archives: word of mouth

Why does the hotel give you a shoeshine cloth?

It’s not something most people use, and it’s not something most people ask for. It’s so you don’t polish your shoes with the nice towels. This little cloth replaces an unwanted behavior with a better one. And it works a lot better than a mean sign demanding that you don’t polish your shoes with the [...]

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Rogers Communications’ case study: Haters can be lovers

Join us at SocialMedia.org‘s BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media conference on July 18 in Chicago for 8 great case studies from MillerCoors, FedEx, U.S. Cellular, 3M, Kraft Foods, American Family Insurance, Reebok, and Aetna. Our BlogWell series is an amazing opportunity for social media leaders at big brands to get practical, how-to advice [...]

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This is how you make advertising

Possibly the best Craigslist ad ever. And a lesson for anyone who creates advertising: Ads have to be worth reading or they don’t work. They don’t need to be silly, they can be informative, entertaining, educational, sentimental — anything works. As long as the advertisement gives you a genuine reason to pay attention. (Click for [...]

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How to turn a bad review into a better review

We all get bad reviews. No matter how hard you try, you’re going to screw up a job every so often. So what do you do? Respond to the review. Don’t just let the bad review sit there. Most review sites now let you comment on the review. Stay cool. Just explain what happened and [...]

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Are you missing your easiest advertising opportunity?

Your email signature is an incredible way to tell people about what you’re promoting — without being too promotional. It’s an unobtrusive way to feature a message that is specifically targeted at people that you’re already communicating with. Add up how many emails you send each day. Think about how many emails your entire team [...]

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Are you a social object?

“Social Object” is a term coined by Hugh MacLeod to describe the subject of a word of mouth conversation. (It’s the parallel to my term WOM Topic.) You need to give people a social object, or they’re not going to talk about you. Just being there, or just delivering a good product, doesn’t cause a [...]

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The 3 kinds of negative comments and reviews

When someone writes a bad review about you, they have very different motivations. 1. Malicious people. These are people who are out to get you. They want to pick a fight to promote themselves. They have a political agenda. They work for a competitor. They’re just nasty, mean, and like to fight. They may have a [...]

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You put the Word of Mouth Marketing book on the bestseller list

My book, Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking, had a big week last week: #6 New York Times Bestseller #1 Amazon Business Bestseller #1 USA TODAY Money Bestseller #1 B&N.com Bestseller Thank you, thank you, thank you. It’s a nice compliment for the book, but it says something bigger about the [...]

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A name with a bug, part 2

Last week we had an amazing conference called the Word of Mouth Crash Course. It was a fantastic day, the third in a series. But it wasn’t as big as we expected, and we discovered a critical reason why: We changed the name of the event — it used to be called Word of Mouth Supergenius [...]

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