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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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
“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 — […]
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, […]
By Ted Wright
By Ted Wright If “1” is the loneliest number than “10” is the importantist number, at least when it comes to Word of Mouth Marketing. From all of the previous research published on WOMM we know that right at 10% of any population set you can to carve out is made up of Influencers. We […]
By Ted Wright
I was recently interviewed by AdWeek magazine and commented on a new advertising medium that takes advantage of an under-utilized space. Armpits. The reporter, Doug Zanger, tells us that Wakino Ad Company (“Waki” is Japanese for “armpit”) is relatively new and it’s unclear how well stickers placed on armpits will be received or even revealed in […]
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 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 […]
By Fizz
By Tracey Gold WOMMFest 2013, was an action packed event hosted by our very own CEO and WOMMA Board Member, Ted Wright. Keynote speakers in anchor cities included Grammy award winning country music star, Kristian Bush in Atlanta, acclaimed author C.C. Chapman in Seattle and cartoonist Hugh MacLeod in Chicago. WOMMA provides an excellent recap of the event here. My inspiration of the day came […]
By Tanya Fraser
Thank you to Todd Wilms, Sr. Director of Social Media Audience Marketing at SAP for his excellent piece in Forbes AdVoice, Social Media: 3 Steps from 3 Great Companies. Todd gives three marketing authorities the lead, taking us through a few of the big recurring themes from this week’s iStrategy conference in Atlanta, GA. Here’s a quick […]
By Tanya Fraser
If you’ve been paying attention, you not only now know who the Influentials 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? Ted Wright backed up by some marketing R&D heavy-hitters puts a number on it. […]
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
Recently there was some hating on Guy Kawasaki’s re: his tweets. The angst was over questions of ownership of content and value of retweeting mass amounts of info. I’m a busy guy with employees, clients and responsibilities at home so I don’t have time to wtirie about hypothetical ‘net ethics. I’ll leave that to the […]