Is Jack Trout at Forbes.com All He’s Cracked Up To Be?

Is Word Of Mouth All It's Cracked Up To Be? – Forbes.com With more than 40 years of advertising and marketing experience, Jack Trout still doesn't appear to get it. He states in his recent article, I certainly would never tell a CEO, "B.J., I just put a big chunk of our budget into word-of-mouth." […]

Word of Mouth Marketing – A Strategy

Word of Mouth (WOM) marketing is a term used to describe activities that companies undertake to generate favorable publicity. People are inclined to believe word of mouth promotion because the source is preceived as credible and likely someone you know. WOM is highly valued by marketers and it has become a managed marketing strategy with […]

State-of-the-Art Endurance Center Grand Opening Today – Feb. 25

Endorphin Fitness hired us to help market their Grand Opening event. Given a very limited marketing budget, we recommended and ran a sensible Word of Mouth (WOM) marketing campaign for the event. The campaign included: Writing and distributing press releases to local media, publishers, key contacts (or connectors), associations, and sponsors Regular website updates to […]

Million Dollar Homepage – Believe it or not

The Million Dollar Homepage This guy made a million off of this home page? Hard to believe advertisers are that stupid. Or are they? Give a lot of credit to the guy that came up with the idea for this page and did very well. Several others tried to copy the idea without much success. […]