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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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 […]

By Ted Wright

By Ted Wright Unlike other forms of marketing, Word of mouth marketing works slowly. It has to go slowly if it’s going to work at all. It may not increase your sales this quarter or even the next one, and if you’re accustomed to seeing a sales spike after investing in TV commercials or print ads, […]

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  By Danielle Nesmith Have you ever met a little creature that is just so adorable and full of love he can put a smile on anyone’s face? Well, that’s my dog Ziggy, or Ziglet as we like to call him. When I started thinking about getting a furry friend, I excitedly talked to other […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

By Judi Friedman

By Judi Friedman Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) is a self-supporting organization that helps members become and remain sober. From a word of mouth marketing perspective, A.A. is a pretty amazing organization. Founded in 1935 with two members, growing to 100 members in 1939, and then 100,000 in 1950, there are now over two million members in […]

By Fizz

Originally posted on WOMMA’s All Things WOMM blog, this post was written by Jeff Morrissey, Brand Specialist – Marketing and Innovation at BISSELL. — The carpet sweeper was invented in 1876 and really hasn’t changed much because it still works just like it’s supposed to… But, by 2011, BISSELL sweeper sales had become flat (for several […]

By Ted Wright

Fizz attended CES this year in support of several clients. We were there for three days and walked the entire show at least once. Here are a couple of 30,000 ft observations we had. TV is coming back. As a talkable experience, the act of watching television is coming back with the commercial application of […]

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By Ted Wright

Everything communicates! Yesterday I was a Bissell’s HQ in Grand Rapids Michigan for a day of meetings and to give a talk on WOMM to their marketing staff. As you can tell from the picture below, yesterday was not my first rodeo. What struck me enough to write about my experience was how well thought […]

By Ted Wright

In November of 2009, Fizz was honored to win the Humanitarian/Environmental WOMMIE. Fizz would like thank the good folks at PepsiCo for their support of this vital area as well as their embracing of WOMM as the most effective means of commercial communication. Fizz would also like to thank Jef Wallace, CEO of PureRay, and […]

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 […]

By Ted Wright

Should Pepsi Pull Its Amp App? Experts split on significance of the energy drink’s online marketing stunt Oct 14, 2009 – Kenneth Hein NEW YORK PepsiCo has found itself at a crossroads regarding its now infamous “Amp Up Before You Score” iPhone app. The NC-17 rated application offers pick-up lines, strategies for picking up married […]

By Ted Wright

Beer Business Daily September 1, 2009 A Sane Lone Voice Amongst the Chaos Dear Client:  In a sea of over-the-top articles last week bemoaning the brewers’ routine and modest Fall price increase, some with a pinch of demagoguery added, it was good to see that at least one in the mainstream press took the BBD view that […]

By Ted Wright

Some folks at Deutsche Bank say that premiumization in the liquor business is dead. What’s next, finance tips from someone’s Creative Director?  All joking aside we don’t see the era of anything being over. In tough times the stupid and ridiculous get weeded out. Ed McMahon’s premium vodka and silly flavored rums are probably not a […]

By Ted Wright

Great WOMM-U event. Thanks to everyone for attending and asking such interesting design questions. Many e-mails have come in asking for a one pager on Focus, Design, Delivery and Report.  Fizz appreciates your interest in our work. We invite you to kick around our blog and website then call Ted Wright directly at 404-638-1066 to arrange a […]

By Ted Wright

“Perhaps the other big news to come from the meeting was the creation of TV spots for Blue Moon.”  The quote above is from the reporting by our good friends at Beer Business Daily. We have gotten several e-mails from other friends in the beer industry asking about what we thought about this new move […]

By Ted Wright

This blog post was written by Neal Stewart and first appeared on his blog You Can’t Buy That. It is re-published with permission – ed. Seth’s blog post got me thinking about this today… When I worked on PBR, we focused most of our efforts on word of mouth or “buzz marketing.”  Mostly because we […]

By Ted Wright

We’ve found that the key to a strong brand ambassadors program is extensive training of both the brand ambassadors and the client. Yes, you read that right – the brand ambassadors AND the client. Great brand ambassador programs start with staffing. Brand ambassadors must have three qualities in order to be great at their task: ·         […]

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 […]

By Ted Wright

Last weekend some of us at Fizz were having dinner with some people who control about 10 figures of annual global market spend. They commented to us that their company was still involved with broadcast because at a certain and very large level of SOV, the marginal value of each additional marketing dollar spent increases. […]

By Ted Wright

  So you want to hire some influencers to build some buzz and word of mouth for your brand, huh?  At Fizz, we’ve done this a time or two and have perfected a process that finds the right people, the first time around.  Here are a few tips to keep in mind as you head […]