The Effective Marketer

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How Viral Marketing Can Kill You

The Effective Marketer

Viral Marketing, or the spread of ideas (also called Word of Mouth Marketing) is usually thought of as a good thing. tells in his book a personal account of how a viral marketing campaign went wrong. It is the best example I’ve seen so far of a)someone owning to his mistakes , and b)a marketing idea backfiring really bad.

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How Great Content Can Solve Problems

The Effective Marketer

Via email, via Twitter, Facebook, and word-of-mouth. If you had gotten content related to your issue but that doesn’t solve it (“Why use WordPress for your website” for example), it won’t get shared, commented, and more importantly, acted on. we have been getting more and more of it every single day. The problem?