Buzzmarketing: Get People to Talk About Your Stuff
 

Buzzmarketing: Get People to Talk About Your Stuff

by Mark Hughes

As VP of marketing at online retailer Half.com, Mark Hughes didn?t have a huge budget for advertising. Yet he helped drive the number of Half.com users from zero to eight million in just three years. His secret? Making the company a magnet for media attention and word-of-mouth, by any means necessary. Most notoriously, he persuaded the town of Halfway, Oregon, to rename itself Half.com?called... (read more)

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Buzzmarketing: Get People to Talk About Your Stuff” By Mark Hughes is a quick dive into how some well known brands (and some not so well known ones) used word of mouth to create successful campaigns and gain market share. The premise of the book is that traditional marketing methods yield traditional and average results. Word of mouth can be 10 times more effective than TV or print.

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