socialmedian: LESSON: How to start word of mouth in 3 minutes

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LESSON: How to start word of mouth in 3 minutes

Submitted by Jorgebarba from blog

Nov 04, 2009

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Imagine that by the end of this post you would have learned a valuable lesson in starting successful word of mouth, that would really make you happy wouldn’t it? Before I give you the secret, first make sure you read our social media optimization 101 guideline. Got it? Good!

THE big secret to starting word of mouth in 3 minutes is…

Ask people to spread your message

That’s it. Easy!

So you’ve created some great content and you want it to spread like wildfire. Help it spread by asking your customers to share it because oftentimes even your best customers don’t know how important word of mouth is to you. Simply asking them if they would mind sharing your stuff with a few of their friends is enough for them to do it.

Reminding your customers to share your stuff actually takes less than 3 minutes to do but then again you already knew that.

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