Why Word of Mouth Marketing Is A Timeless Strategy

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright Like the Roman colosseum, a good Word of Mouth Marketing strategy will stand the test of time. Word of Mouth Marketing may not always be as glamorous, but it’s solid and unbreakable. Defining Word of Mouth Marketing Word of Mouth Marketing has come to mean something broad for many people, so I […]


Are Influencer Marketing and Word of Mouth Marketing The Same Thing?

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright The short answer is… no. But you can’t have one without the other. Influencers like to share things and Word of Mouth Marketing is about sharing stories. Can see why they’re so closely connected? Everybody wants to compare Influencer Marketing vs Word of Mouth Marketing But you need to truly understand both in […]


Build Your Own Word of Mouth Marketing Strategy

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright At its core, Word of Mouth marketing is about people organically sharing stories. So how do we encourage people to share your brand story in a real, natural way? Create a story worth talking about. A good brand story is at the core of building a Word of Mouth Marketing strategy This […]


Why Word of Mouth Marketing Is The Best Form of Advertisement

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright I’ve never met a business leader who told me they had too much money for marketing. Luckily, smart leaders using Word of Mouth Marketing can depend on influencers to cost-effectively carry their story. Word of Mouth Marketing is all about sparking conversations, and most companies already have marketing materials that point to […]


How To Get Started With a Word of Mouth Marketing Process

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright If your company has been following a traditional marketing path for awhile, getting started with a Word of Mouth Marketing process may take an adjustment of your mindset. There is no such thing as a grassroots change of a company culture. Most companies like sticking with the playbook they’re used to, because, […]


How does purchase price influence word or mouth marketing impact?

By Ted Wright

In this short video, Ted Wright discusses the efficacy of word of mouth marketing as a strategy on low-value items versus high value items. How would word of mouth marketing impact the purchase of a bottle of water? Of a college education? An interesting view of purchase price as a factor in the word of […]


How To Get Started With a Word of Mouth Marketing Process

By Ted Wright

If your company has been following a traditional marketing path for awhile, getting started with a Word of Mouth Marketing process may take an adjustment of your mindset. There is no such thing as a grassroots change of a company culture. Most companies like sticking with the playbook they’re used to, because, let’s face it, […]


Why Should Marketers Care About Word of Mouth Marketing?

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright While trust in companies and advertising is on the decline, trust in friends, experts, and entrepreneurs is up. People trust people. If Word of Mouth Marketing has always worked so well, why aren’t more business professionals using it? Simple because Word of Mouth Marketing is hard work. More time. More effort. It’s also […]


How Word of Mouth Marketing Helps Grow Your Business

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright As times change, company strategies should too. Many have adopted social media marketing in recent years, but Word of Mouth Marketing, when done right, is one strategy every company has access to, and should experiment with. If you’re looking for a guaranteed overnight spike in business, you may want to find another […]


Marketing Strategy or Halloween Costume?

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright It’s official, Influencer Marketing is dead. When Urban Outfitters makes fun of the marketing strategy you sold just six months ago as “The NEW New Thing,” you have problems. Debate me in the comments if you’d like, but I don’t want to be the person on stage when the SVP of Marketing […]


How Do You Encourage Word of Mouth Marketing?

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright As you’ve heard me say many times before, Word of Mouth Marketing at it’s core is all about sharing stories. The more people share your story, the larger the impact it can make. Also at its core, Word of Mouth marketing is about people organically sharing stories. So, without being pushy, how […]


The clue to word of mouth marketing was in Cluetrain Manifesto

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright In 1999, a few friends were chatting online about the inevitable destiny of business and the internet. They believed that companies would have to humble themselves and show a more human face to the world to survive in this new space driven by human conversations. The friendly conversation turned into a blog […]


Word of Mouth Marketing: What Makes Your Brand Talkable?

By Ted Wright

Appreciating Word of Mouth Marketing may take a re-set of your view of how business works. I love sharing this example of what Word of Mouth Marketing looks like “in the wild.” Earlier this year, I was at a break in a meeting when a friend turned to me and asked me if I had […]


Are You Sharing Your Brand Story With the Right People?

By Ted Wright

If you’ve been paying attention, you not only know who influencers are, and why they’re so essential to Word of Mouth Marketing, but you know what motivates them to share stories and how to encourage them to support your message. Since Word of Mouth Marketing is all about sharing stories, it’s important to find the […]


Word of Mouth Marketing: Sharing Is Not Salesmanship

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright If you’ve been reading previous posts, you should know that Word of Mouth Marketing is all about sharing stories. Word of Mouth Marketing is about trying to get your story out to people who are really going to care about it and do it in such a way that they’ll organically come […]


This Is What Effective Word of Mouth Marketing Looks Like

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright If Word of Mouth Marketing has always worked so well, why aren’t more business professionals using it? Because it’s hard work. More time. More effort. It’s also not as flashy as a Super Bowl commercial, or as glamorous as being on the set with a celebrity. It’s easy to pay for an […]


Word of Mouth Marketing: Campaign vs Movement

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright At Fizz, when we talk about influencers, we always say, the more passionate, the better. There are lots of brands that we’ve worked with where we’ve discovered people love the brands so much that they want to be part of their story and their movement. Some have even gotten tattoos. I’m not […]


Influencers vs Influencer Marketing: What’s The Difference?

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright Word of Mouth Marketing is all about sharing stories. “Influencers” are great at sharing stories. “Influencer marketing” is one of the hottest terms around today. The idea seems to be everywhere, and business leaders are all trying to figure out how to get in on the action. When I say “influencer,” you […]


How Do You Begin A Word of Mouth Marketing Strategy?

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright All good marketing begins with research and every good Word of Mouth Marketing strategy starts with insight. In many ways, marketing has strayed away from the basics of this important principle. We’ve become reliant on social media dashboards, we may be overwhelmed by big data, or we may simply not have the […]


How to Get Your Boss On Board with Word of Mouth Marketing

By Ted Wright

          By Ted Wright Many companies have been using the same marketing playbook for years. As times change, company strategies should too. Many have adopted social media marketing in recent years, but Word of Mouth Marketing, when done right, is one strategy every company has access to, and should experiment with. […]


Broadcast vs Word of Mouth Marketing: How Do They Stack Up?

By Ted Wright

In the landscape of marketing, where do Broadcast and Word of Mouth Marketing fit in? Broadcast had a strong 35 year run where it was effective, but it’s decayed over time. Effectiveness is referring to the fact that it was a successful tool for selling more stuff to more people more often for more money. […]


What is the Definition of Word of Mouth Marketing?

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright Many popular marketing terms are easy to define. When someone talks about email marketing, content marketing, A/B testing, paid advertising, and so on, we all pretty much know what they mean. Word of Mouth Marketing has come to mean something broad for many people, so I often get asked to define the term. […]


If these walls could talk: Keys to Fizz innovation hidden in plain sight

By Ted Wright

“Watch this!” Fizz founder Ted Wright exclaimed as he turned off the lights. He then switched on a miner’s light on his head that glowed with the signature purple radiance of a blacklight. As he turned the light toward the wall, decorative words magically appeared on his office wall, exposing colorful and hilarious sayings — […]


Word of mouth marketing creating conversations … over water

By Ted Wright

In this video, Fizz marketing leader Lenny Ross talks about the strategy that went into an unusual vehicle designed to spur conversations about the dangers hiding in your drinking water. Here is a transcript of the video: Hey everyone. We’re with Lenny Ross of Fizz. He’s going to take us on a tour of, what […]


Six Marketing Lessons You Can Learn From #SaveSweetBriar

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright The mission of Sweet Briar College is to empower and educate young women to build and reshape their world wherever their passions lead them. If you’re unfamiliar with the most current chapter of their story, here it is. On March 3, 2015 the board of directors of Sweet Briar College, an all […]


Word-of-Mouth Marketing Should Be Like a Jockey—Short, Agile and Human

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright Every vital brand has a story to tell, and the most effective way to spread your story—even in today’s digital age—is through word-of-mouth conversations. The key to word of mouth is having a great story to share, and the best stories are like jockeys: short, agile and human. Short. In our experience, […]


3 Powerful Ways to Improve Your Word of Mouth Marketing

By Fizz

Originally posted on Inc’s marketing blog, this post was written by Peter Economy, columnist at Inc. Anyone in business knows that marketing is a key ingredient in selling the products you make and the services you deliver. If people never hear about the things you sell then, chances are, they won’t buy them. But what kind of marketing […]


Why Decatur GA is the center of the word of mouth universe

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright So, Jeff Bezos is moving 30,000 employees into a part of Seattle (pop. 680,000) that no one has really ever heard of and few think of working there. Similarly, but on a much smaller scale, last year Fizz moved our entire company into the City of Decatur, a part of Atlanta that […]


Fizz and BISSELL take home Gold!

By Tanya Fraser

Fizz and BISSELL Homecare Inc., were awarded the prestigious Gold WOMMY in the competitive Momentum category from the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA). The Momentum award recognizes the best word of mouth communication program that grew or reenergized an existing product or service. Fizz and BISSELL were honored at the annual WOMMA Summit Awards […]


Judi Friedman, Marketing Maven, Joins Fizz, The Word of Mouth Marketing Agency

By Tanya Fraser

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Fizz welcomes Judi Friedman to the team as our Chief Strategy Officer. One of the most dynamic women in marketing today, Judi has worked with companies from HBO and IBM tostart- ups. As the former VP of One- to- One Marketing at Three and COO of All Points, she hasyears of experience […]