Buzz-Marketing and Articles

Now that YouTube is more popular than all the sites of the TV networks combined, you may wonder whether broadcast TV’s days are numbered. It may well become more important for your brand or company to be on YouTube than to be advertised on TV. Undoubtedly for some that day has already arrived. With Google having acquired YouTube, certainly it has a heck of a lot more resources at its disposal. You can bet that YouTube will be one of the major players in consumer-generated media for years to come.

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Can SERPs predict the outcome of Super Bowl XLI? Lead Strategist with Netconcepts, PJ Fusco keeps score as three major search engines tell all.

Looking only at indexation, back-links, result snippets, on-page content references, and engine popularity, MSN, Yahoo and Google are put to the ultimate Nostradamus Super Bowl test. Will Yahoo and Google level the playing field or will MSN come up with a flea-flicker at the last second?

Who will emerge triumphant in this battle of the Super Bowl SERPs? Click here to see PJ’s results.

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With tens of millions of users (but probably not the purported 100 million), MySpace.com is a force to be reckoned with. Especially when you consider that MySpace apparently drives more traffic to online retailers than MSN Search, according to some recent Hitwise data.

But MySpace is hard for many of us adults to get our heads around. It just doesn’t seem logical: How does it hold the interest of so many young people with short attention spans, despite the fact that the design/usability is so atrocious, the Web page creation platform is so frustratingly restrictive, and it’s chock full of so many profiles that are obviously fake, spam, duplicated, or abandoned?

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P J Fusco’s unscientific survey shows marketers are still missing the boat on PPC. Selecting only jingles and buzzwords that didn’t include brand names, she decided to see if the big names were putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to the Web. And the results were surprising, says Netconcepts’ PJ Fusco in this article for ClickZ.

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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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