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The Perfect Storm in Customer Service

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In my last post we discussed the 4 reasons why using Social Media pays to provide Support : Customers prefer a good customer experiences to low prices, helps aid in spreading WOM, makes customer less likely to defect and results in high profitability for the company. Share it on StumbleUpon. Send this page to Print Friendly.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. Eat 10 sandwiches, get the 11th free. Here’s 6 ways to find the gossips in your midst: 1.

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Customer Service is the New Marketing

Buzz Marketing for Technology

It’s that WOW or should I say WOM that enhanced the value of their marketing and attracted a player like Amazon. The downside of poor customer service has been well documented on the web because social media acts as the accelerant to negative WOM (think Dell Hell, Motrin Moms, and most recently Nestle). Email this to a friend?

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What Is Earned Media? Definition, Attribution, Best Practices with Examples

Martech Advisor

.” So, what do word of mouth (WoM) and going viral mean in this context? This is the gist of earned media, or as Forrester puts it, “ When customers become the channel.” ” Often described using terms such as WoM, buzz, viral, or publicity, earned media is achieved exclusively through organic activities.

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Top 40 Posts and Hot Topics of Inbound Marketing and Social Media

B2B Marketing Zone Posts

Here’s a great example of an effective infographic that illustrates social media behavior by age group, based on a Forrester Research study. CK’s B2B Blog , June 8, 2010 I recently ran across a positively terrific article on WOM penned by McKinsey’s Jacques Bughin, Jonathan Doogan and Ole Jørgen Vetvik.