Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

Welcome to Social Media Playground, a place to discuss all things related to word of mouth (WOM) and social media marketing. Brought to you by Affinitive, a word of mouth and social media marketing, technology and strategic solutions firm located in New York City and San Francisco.

Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

Growing Advocacy Through Connectivity

October 1st, 2007 · View Comments

While in the process of pitching a prospective client I stumbled across a new trigger for word of mouth – validation. Imagine the scenario where you have some organic advocacy brewing around a new product you’ve released and you are receiving anecdotal stories about how people “love your product.” So what should you do? The [...]

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Online WOM + Offline WOM = Most Effective Tactic for Marketers

July 11th, 2007 · View Comments

The online social media explosion continues with daily news coverage highlighting companies and advertisers wishing to harness the power of WOM by tapping into online communities. Solely engaging and activating the invaluable and trusted “influencers” at their online spaces, however, has left one critical WOM strategy neglected and underutilized… OFFLINE Word of Mouth Marketing tactics. [...]

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