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How to Leverage User-Generated Content in Your Marketing Strategy

Hubspot

Simply put, this refers to the media exposure earned by your brand through word-of-mouth. Think about the power of sites like Wikipedia , whose moderators are crowdsourced users that help make the site better because they care about being part of an active community. Be honest and transparent with members.

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Tribes Rule the Hyper-Social Organization

Paul Gillin

The popularity of social networks and collaborative projects like Wikipedia attests to these instincts. The good news is that customers can be remarkably tolerant of mistakes as long as businesses seek their input and are transparent and earnest about their motives. In a business context, however, tribes have barely been a factor.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Word of Mouth. transparency. Interviews & Speeches. online communities. Social Media. Uncategorized. Voice of Customer. and corporate HR. Why Community Matters. What others are reading. Influencer Marketing: An Oxymoron? advertising. blogcouncil. bookmarking. clearspace. consultant. crowdsourcing. culturechange. influencers.

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Social Media Lawsuits Protect Yourself From Them | Guest Posts.

Convince & Convert

Plus it provides the opportunity to clearly state your transparency policies around actions like employees posting on discussion boards for clients, endorsements and objectionable content. Wikipedia has a good explanation of it ( [link] ).

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I was a teenage Russian troll OG

Biznology

What we did was called word of mouth marketing. While I was always a proponent of transparently pitching bloggers and message board and forum owners on behalf of our very cool clients, that was never the company core, though we did create many a blog and website posing as superfans. If there was even a hint of “ Witch!

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105 Ideas to Add to Your Editorial Calendar

Convince & Convert

These are their own words—a form of word of mouth—that you use to inspire interest in your company, products, or services. Transparency. Buffer’s Open blog is an example of transparency. Think of Wikipedia—a massive website written by its users, dedicated to collaborative editing and content creation.

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105 Types of Content to Fill Up Your Editorial Calendar

Convince & Convert

These are their own words—a form of word of mouth—that you use to inspire interest in your company, products, or services. Transparency. Buffer’s Open blog is an example of transparency. Think of Wikipedia—a massive website written by its users, dedicated to collaborative editing and content creation.