Prepare for Lift Off!
Last time I gave you a laundry list of tips and tricks you can use to make your word-of-mouth program work for you. Hopefully, you’ve taken a look and decided which ones are the best fit for your company, products, services, and target customers, so you can put them to work in your word-of-mouth campaign. We are going to wrap up this series on word of mouth where we give you the specific steps to create a word-of-mouth campaign. Now, let’s take a look at those steps: Seed the market. Find some way to get the product into the hands
Put it to Work!
In the last post, we talked about how to conduct word-of-mouth research and then put that research to work. Today we’re going to give you some great tried and true ways to use word of mouth when building and executing your campaign. We’ve done it in a list form, so you can go through and highlight the ones you want to put into action. These are offered by George Silverman which you can find in his amazing book The Secrets of Word of Mouth Marketing. Here they are: Give them something worth talking about Cater to your initial customers shamelessly
Search & Implement
People only remember the extraordinary, strange, wild, surprising, and unusual. You need to make sure your ideas and marketing reflect these reactions. This doesn’t mean you have to have a product or service that is completely out of the norm, in fact, this could easily drive customers away. You need to have a product or service that is high quality and easily marketable, then you need to market it as extraordinary and new. As you research word of mouth, there are some questions you need to ask along the way: What are the users willing to tell the non-users? Exactly
Science of the Memes
Today I’d like to discuss the science of memes and how spreading ideas around and through society is ingrained in humans. Memes This refers to the types of ideas that spread the fastest through society, why they spread fast and how that affects consumerism. You can use this same information to create a lasting positive impression about your company, products, and services. People are more likely to try a new product or service when they feel protected and reassured by the masses. It’s been determined that spreading ideas is essential to the survival of a society. There are 5 main
DECODING WOM MESSAGES
Today’s lesson will talk about how word-of-mouth messages are delivered and how you can influence those messages. There are essentially 3 methods of word of mouth: Expert to Expert Expert to Peer Peer to Peer When experts are talking about your products or service you will usually receive an amazing rush of sales and new customers, so obviously this is one of the best things that can happen. You can also help to facilitate this by offering free products to experts for them to review. Expert opinion can also bring about new ideas that help to fuel new products, services,
