Entries in 'Word-of-mouth marketing'

My wife’s balloons

November 13th, 2007 by Leo Ryan · 4 Comments

Emma’s company Gail’s has an annual Garden Party, to celebrate the end of Summer and get the word out about their bakery and bread shop up in Hampstead. One of the things they do to promote the Garden Party is to produce a mountain of Gail’s branded helium ballons. Working on a stall on the [...]

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Weird…

October 26th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · No Comments

So, it’s about ten to seven in the evening of the 26th October 2007 here in the USA and the “most emailed” story at the BBC is the three-and-a-half-year-old news that Coca Cola’s Dasani is really just purified tap water.
So, where’s that suddenly come from again, eh?
Maybe it’s the brand equivalent of the goat [...]

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If Chillies Were a Brand…

October 3rd, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 2 Comments

… then they would have had a really, really odd day in terms of their online buzz.
First of all this morning the noxious fumes from a burning pot of Nam Prik Pao, the fiery Thai chilli dip, caused the evacuation of several streets in Soho, London. Disaster! The Chilli brand is now associated with nefarious [...]

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The art of conversation

August 14th, 2007 by Leo Ryan · No Comments

We’ve been thinking recently about what we do as relating to conversations. Nothing new there really. The ‘interactive’ in interactive media should give us a clue as to the back and forth or dialogue nature of digital. So I was having a shuftie around the Net to see what there was around the idea of [...]

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links for 2007-04-13

April 13th, 2007 by Mat Morrison · No Comments

Blogs and Bulletin Boards: Differences, Similarities and Uses (HealthCareVox)
Health-focussed, but otherwise broadly-applicable summary of the respective strengths and weaknesses of the two channels.
(tags: health blogs forum community)

The Pass-Along Effect: Investigating Word-of-Mouth Effects on Online Survey Procedures
Contains a v. useful two-stage model of factors leading to the forwarding of a communication
(tags: wom model)

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