The question has come up more than once, “What if we put in a rewards program for referrals or word-of-mouth to our audience, does it still carry the power of WOM?” Great question and deserves some exploration… Social media has completely changed the game in so many ways, but no more than in the world…
While I can’t profess to know the internal workings or conversations inside Google, I can tell you something that I know they are afraid of and it isn’t rocket science and it isn’t Bing either. Can you guess what this might be? I can tell you they are afraid of the same thing everyone else…
This week I was in a discussion with a new client about their business strategy and how we were going to help them integrate social media to help them build more word-of-mouth and sales – a conversation I have all the time – but this time it hit me and reminded me of something that…
I wrote a blog post on one of my other blogs called, “Have you “THANKED” your ADVOCATES today?” because I am so passionate about Advocacy. Then it struck me, this would be worth talking about on our WOM10 site as well. Because at the end of the day, the greatest Word-of-Mouth you can get is…
We all know the story… The Tortoise and the Hare…where the Tortoise starts out slowly but just keeps putting one foot in front of the other heading towards his goal, the finish line. Nothing too flashy or exciting, just one after another, after another, after another. Then there is the Hare, running forward, backwards, side…
In the world today, you are either “Pimping” yourself, your company, or your products OR you are focused on “Helping” others so they can be more successful. Be honest with yourself and take a good look at what you do as a business or an individual. With the introduction of Social Media in the world,…
One of the blogs I regularly follow is Seth Godin. Why Seth? He has a very no-nonsense way of putting things in plain english for all of us to understand about marketing, customers and a host of other interesting topics. I was thinking the other day about a particular topic to talk about – how…
OK, I know there will be lots of people jumping on this one but someone had to say it. Social media in my world is helping companies get “more of the right people talking more about them – proactively” – this is true Word-of-Mouth. Social media takes this concept and puts it on steroids –…
On average, I agree with 90%+ of what Seth Godin talks about on his blog, writes in his books, or speaks about in his speeches. However, today I have to disagree with Seth. Seth wrote a blog post, “Dissatisfaction Guaranteed,” where he closed with a line, “Satisfied means done, finished, I don’t need any more.” …
In the “old world” (before social media) loyal customers were also your biggest advocates. They told people about you based on some type of experience they had with your company. It wasn’t easy to do this and it happened one-on-one in most cases. It would be rare that a non-customer would go out of their…