Mind Your Own Business!

The concept of minding your own business implies that while you are grinding away at your day job you need to be investing and working towards your future financial independence. Pretty soon you’ll be able to walk away from your day job and mind your own business full time.  The best way to do this […]

Get Out of the Rat Race

We’ve all had jobs we despised. We were underpaid, underappreciated, and bored out of our minds. We either quit these jobs or were fired for poor performance because we just checked out. Instead of falling into that trap, you need to consider every job an opportunity to learn something new that you will apply down […]

Prepare for Lift Off!

Last time I gave you a laundry list of tips and tricks you can use to make your Word of Mouth (WOM) program work for you. Hopefully you’ve had some time to reflect and identified the ones that are the best fit for your company, products, services and target customers, so you can put them […]

Put it to Work!

In the last post we explained how to conduct Word of Mouth (WOM) research and then put that research into action. Today we’re going to provide you with some proven ways to use WOM when building and executing your campaign. The list below are some proven ways to use WOM that have been offered by […]

Search & Implement

People tend to only remember the extraordinary. You need to ensure your ideas and marketing reflect the extraordinary. This doesn’t mean you have to have a product or service that is completely out of the norm, in fact, this could easily drive customers away. Rather, your product or service must be high quality and easily […]

Science of the Memes

Today we will explore the science of the memes and how spreading ideas through society is ingrained in humans. Memes Memes refers to types of ideas that spread the quickest through society, why they spread so fast, and how that affects consumerism. You can use this same concept to create a lasting positive impression about […]

Decoding WOM Messages

Today’s lesson will focus on how Word of Mouth (WOM) messages are delivered and what you can do to influence those messages. There are essentially 3 methods of WOM: Expert to Expert Expert to Peer Peer to Peer   When experts are discussing your products and/or services you will most likely receive a noticeable increase […]

WOM Meets Customers Head-On

Today we’ll cover the idea of shortening your customers’ decision-making process with positive word of mouth (WOM). There are essentially 5 stages in the decision-making process. They are: Give the product a chance and transition from a “no” to a “maybe”; Check out the options and investigate different products available; Observe the product to check […]

Harness the Power of Word of Mouth

Today we’re going to discuss how to harness the power of Word of Mouth (WOM). This will include the six-step process to success and the 30+ (that’s right, I said 30) ways to harness the power of WOM. So now that I have your attention, let’s get started! There are six steps to harnessing WOM: […]

Word of Mouth Tactics – Part 2

In the last post we started our series on word of mouth and explored how to make your customers’ purchasing experience a short, easy one. We are going to continue along that thread a bit today as we will be discussing the power of word of mouth and how to shape it to your advantage. […]