Featuring enlightening case studies and examples, as well as an updated version of the author’s innovative Decision Matrix for identifying potential buyers and deter mining and crafting the right kind of message, The Secrets of Word-of-Mouth Marketing simplifies the process of choosing the delivery method, harnessing the power of influencers, and measuring results. From how to navigate the latest digital media to what Malcolm Gladwell got wrong, this is still the last word on word of mouth.
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GEORGE SILVERMAN, an acknowledged expert in word-of-mouth marketing, has been designing successful campaigns since 1971. He is founder and CEO of Market Navigation, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in simplifying customers’ decision steps through word of mouth.
C O N T E N T S
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: The Calf-Path xiii
Introduction 1
Why Th is Book—and Word-of-Mouth Marketing Today—Is Diff erent •
Secrets • “Let’s Go Up a Level of Abstraction” • Stupid Questions •
Customer = Prospect unless Customer ≠ Prospect • “Buy” = “Buy into”
= “Adopt” = “Believe,” Also, “Sell” = “Convince” = “Persuade” • Product
= Service = Idea = Methodology • Word-of-Mouth Marketing Is NOT
Word-of-Mouth Advertising
CHAPTER 1 The Systematic Approach to Word of Mouth 7
Th e Digital-Information-Knowledge-Transportation-Communications-
Internet-Marketing-Word-of-Mouth Revolutions • Th e Dot-Com Super
Bowl • Th e New Media • Th e New Challenges of Marketing • Th is
Book Has a New Purpose—Our Goals Have Changed • A Trip into a
New Way of Th inking
CHAPTER 2 Dominating Your Market by Easifying the Customer
Decision Cycle 27
Th e Function of Word of Mouth • What Is Marketing? • Decision Speed
• Your Decision Easifi cation System • How to Do It • Cut Decision
Time in Half
CHAPTER 3 How to Use Word of Mouth to Easify the Decision Process 51
Property 1. Word of Mouth’s Megapower • Property 2. Th e Speed of
Word of Mouth • Property 3. Independent Credibility • Property 4.
Th e Hidden Advantage of Word of Mouth: Experience Delivery • Property
5. Word of Mouth Is More Relevant and Complete • Property 6.
Word of Mouth Feeds on Itself • Property 7. Word of Mouth Itself
Becomes One of the Product’s Attributes
CHAPTER 4 The Decision Process 79
Th e Decision Process—Overview • Th e Adopter Types: How Word of
Mouth Works for Diff erent Types of Decision Makers • Decision
Styles—Putting Together the Adopter Types With the Decision Stages •
Th e Decision Matrix
CHAPTER 5 Six Ms to Live By 105
Th e Six Ms • Give Th em Something to Talk About • So, the Form Is
Stories. What’s the Content?
CHAPTER 6 The 2nd M: The Mavens 123
Delivering the Message • Th e Controversy: Infl uencers Versus Peers •
Sources of Word of Mouth • Expert-to-Expert Word of Mouth •
Expert-to-Peer and Peer-to-Peer Word of Mouth • Th e Catch-22 of
Marketing • Delivery of Word of Mouth • Th e Care and Feeding of
Champions
CHAPTER 7 The 3rd M: Motivation 141
Beware of a Trap: Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Word of Mouth • Th e
Secret Exception • Another Trap
CHAPTER 8 The 4th M: Means or Media 145
Additional Ideas • Search Engine Optimization • Getting Involved
CHAPTER 9 The 5th M: Measurement 155
Th e Problem • Th e Diff erence Between Measurement and Research •
How to Research Word of Mouth • Other Research Designs
CHAPTER 10 The 6th M: Multiplication 161
What Is Trust? • Further Secrets of Trust
CHAPTER 11 (Almost) Everything I Learned About Marketing,
I Learned in My Father’s Drugstore. Let Me Share It With You. 165
Key Secrets from My Father’s Example • More Secrets from My Father’s
Example
CHAPTER 12 Constructing the Ultimate Word-of-Mouth Campaign 173
Th e First Word-of-Mouth Programs • How I First Harnessed Word of
Mouth • Success Stories of Word-of-Mouth Sessions • Making Word
of Mouth More Valuable • Situations Th at Benefi t from Word-of-Mouth
Programs, Events, and Sites • Products With Which You Should Avoid
Word-of-Mouth Events
CHAPTER 13 Six Steps to Harnessing Word of Mouth 189
Constructing Your Word-of-Mouth Campaign • An Example of the
Six-Step Process • Th e Process in Detail • Product Seeding • Very
Expensive Products • Internal Word of Mouth • Word-of-Mouth
Campaigns With High-Ticket, Professional Products
CHAPTER 14 Which Methods Work Best for What?
A Word-of-Mouth Checklist 207
Sources and Delivery Mechanisms • Word-of-Mouth Checklist
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CHAPTER 15 Word-of-Mouth Marketing for Specifi c Audiences
and Circumstances 213
How to Develop a WOMworthy Diff erentiation in a Practice or Profession
• Secrets of Word-of-Mouth Marketing for Specifi c, Special, or Narrower
Circumstances • Additional Tips, Techniques, and Suggestions
CHAPTER 16 Tips, Techniques, and Suggestions That Will Make
It Easier 231
Who Can Help You Construct Word-of-Mouth Campaigns? • Wordof-
Mouth Fraud and Other Shady Practices
Epilogue: Let’s Talk 235
Bibliography 237
Recommended Reading 239
Appendix 243
Index 251
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