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 […]


What is the Reach of An Influencer?

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright If you’ve been paying attention, you not only know who influencers are, you know what motivates them to share stories and how to encourage them to support your message. But what is the word of an Influencer really worth? A single influencer, according to Procter & Gamble, is worth one million brand-specific […]


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. […]


So, About Folk Art and Word of Mouth Marketing Influencers

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright Normally my day consists of Word of Mouth Marketing, or as I explained to my friend, on his podcast “getting people in North America to talk to their friends about things they think are cool.” Kristian Bush has an interesting podcast theme, invite people he knows to come on and share about […]


Inquiring minds want to know: What is My Brand’s Story?

By Ted Wright

  By Ted Wright A question I get asked often is “What is my brand’s story?” Let’s talk about that. When I look at most brand stories that companies are putting out there, I feel they often look more like mission statements than stories. We  once had a client whose brand story ran almost 1,300 […]


Influencer Marketing Disappointing You? Try Using Actual Influencers

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright If you’ve read any of my stuff, you know I have a specific, grounded-in-data point of view on why someone is an Influencer and how they act. Influencer marketing (IM) is all the rage – and there’s a reason for it. When done correctly, it works. But in order for IM to […]


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 […]


ReFuel with Chocolate milk wins national WOMMIE

By Ted Wright

CATAGORY: MOMENTUM – Word of mouth program to juice existing products/services. TITLE: REFUEL WITH CHOCOLATE MILK WINNER – BRONZE WOMMIE The American Dairy Association (ADA) of Ohio wanted to sell more milk. AcrossAmerica, milk consumption had dropped by half since the 1970s and Ohio was no exception. Milk simply had become less and less a […]


Beer Business Daily interview with Ted Wright on WOMM and beer

By Ted Wright

From Beer Business Daily. January 27, 2009  IS WOMM and beer THE NEW KILLER BEER APP?   Last week we caught up with Ted Wright, who is the managing partner at Atlanta-based Fizz, a word of mouth marketing firm.  Ted has worked on brands from Pabst Blue Ribbon to chocolate milk, and has based his firm on […]