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5 Crucial Keys To Word Of Mouth Marketing Success

Monday, July 26th, 2010

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Here are five crucial reasons why building by purposeful word-of-mouth marketing is one of the smartest ways in which you can go.

1. Personal recommendation is one of the cheapest methods to get new clients.

You can get referrals without spending any money! Get the mind-set right and you’ll all of a sudden see all of the opportunities for referrals just around in your business and your current buyers. It is worth acting upon.

2. Studies have found that referred clients come back more regularly and spend more than clients brought in by any other selling method.

A customer coming from recommendation by friends can be worth much more so don’t just measure the quantity. Check the life-time value of your referred clients and compare that to any other system you use. Almost always you’ll find a valuable difference.

3. Personal recommendation clients tend to complain less, pay on time more frequently, and are generally more enjoyable to work with.

Certainly referred clients are pre-selected for your service, and your way of conducting business.

Even better though, they are far more open to you right from the start. This is basically because word of mouth transfers not just technical data about your product or service, it also transfers trust.

4. A systematic personal recommendation technique can double the scale of your business in under a year!

Of course, if every one of your clients refer, normally only 1 person annually, then you’ll double your customer base every year! You can create referral opportunities, and also prepare to be right there in an individual’s mind when someone they know has need of you.

Lastly, and best of all…

5. A client who comes by referral is much more sure to send you more referrals.

There’s a virtuous cycle. A referred client already understands you accept referrals, they have experienced how you’ll treat somebody they refer, and they are already proven to chat to others about what they needed when they came to you.

With all theses advantages of personal recommendation selling, don’t leave this strong strategy to chance. Set aside time, a budget and have a plan, like you would any other advertising or lead generation system.

Deliberate attention to personal recommendation will reward you with more buyers, higher profits, and a more enjoyable business life as well!

Author Martin Russell covers word of mouth referrals here.

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Why is Viral Marketing Important?

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

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Viral Marketing is the method that markets a product by word of mouth, that spreads on a grass roots level rather than by marketing through advertising as the main medium. This strategy grows at an exponential rate as people tell their friends and those friends spread it on too and so on and so on until hundreds of thousands of people know the message and very little has been spent.

The products, ideas, or concepts that spread in a viral way do so because they have intrinsic built in value to our market. With this built in value you don’t need to do a ton of traditional marketing to get the word out. All you do is give the idea, product or concept away for free to a select few who will then carry the message to those they know and so forth.

There are two types of viral marketing according to Seth Godin. One type where the product or idea is spread in the suport of a cause and the other where the marketing actually is the product too. (Youtube, Hotmail).

However just because something is worthwhile does not mean it is going to go viral and on the same token just because something goes viral does not mean it is worthwhile.

The hardest part of this whole idea isn’t getting getting something to go viral, its making the viral element actually valuable to the market and not just something cheesy and entertaining.

Its so easy to want to get a product marketed virally that we often just rush through product creation and in the end our product becomes something cheap and boring.Effective viral marketing must start from the beginning. You must plan for a valuable viral element rather than rush something catchy off the press or create a worthwhile product and then stat thinking about how to market it.

Again, viral marketing works best only when you plan for it in your product creation.

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