The most important aspect of buzz marketing is being able to create a story that consumers as well as the media will find interesting and relevant. That story can be simple—but it must be visual. It can start with a product, but it must have a contagious element added in. The reason that people talked about the Palm Pilot, for example, was its “wow” effect—and it was visible. Some may say this is not part of marketing. Our panel disagrees.
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Your brand, products and services all benefit when people are talking about you in positive terms. Word-of-mouth can be a wonderful tool to add to your marketing arsenal. Of course, it’s not new, so how has word-of-mouth marketing—also known as buzz marketing—evolved into the 21st century? How does it differ from viral marketing or customer evangelism? And how do marketers use buzz marketing strategically?
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Spam filters tend to be the bane of the email marketer’s existence. Getting past them is a serious challenge, and it is becoming increasingly harder. How can an email marketer consistently bypass those spam filters?
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In this teleseminar, Netconcepts’ founder Stephan Spencer talks with buzz marketing experts Dave Balter, Luanne Calvert, Ben McConnell, Jackie Huba, Jim Nail, Jerry Needel and Emmanuel Rosen.
Learn what buzz marketing is, how to implement an effective buzz marketing campaign and why word-of-mouth can be a wonderful tool to add to your marketing arsenal.
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Left to its own devices, email marketing is unlikely to survive. However, if email marketers take responsibility for developing great strategy and execution, we are likely to bring on its evolution.
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The major search engines - Google, in particular - seem to love blogs, which are the personal or professional diaries that number in the millions online. Search engines favor blogs because …
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Recreational Equipment Inc., a multichannel retailer of outdoors gear and clothing with more than 70 retail stores and revenue of nearly $1 billion a year, recognized the importance of search engine optimization early on.
Executives understood that they could gain significant traffic to the site at www.rei.com and sales from natural search if product pages were more visible and ranked better in search engines.
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In real estate, it’s “location, location, location”. In web marketing, it’s “content, content, content”. Your web content is the single most important factor for your website’s success
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Google’s new Google Sitemaps service, a free inclusion service, is a step in the right direction, but there are two quite major problems with Google’s approach.
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Blogging is one of the hottest trends on the web. A new blog is created every 5.8 seconds but, curiously, catalogers and retailers are notably absent from the “blogosphere” — the online blogging world. By lagging behind on this new trend, they’re missing a key opportunity to actively participate in the global online conversation that’s now happening without them.
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