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Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

Word-of-Mouth Marketing – “Effective” versus “Cheap”

April 8th, 2008 · Comments

Many marketers are interested in leveraging word-of-mouth, viral, and social media marketing because they view it simply as being “cheaper” than other marketing channels.
This is the wrong attitude. The expectation is small spend, huge results (often in a short amount of time). With traditional marketing channels, there is a linear relationship between spend and return [...]

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