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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

Teaching Brand Marketers about WOM Marketing

March 16th, 2008 ·

With consumer brands increasingly moving from monitoring conversations to executing word of mouth marketing programs there is a growing need for clarification of the various options available to a brand marketer when executing a WOMM initiative.
Most everyone we talk to understands the need and importance for word of mouth but since it’s still a relatively […]

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Word of Mouth Theories and Metrics Coming Under Fire

March 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Two recent articles have caught my attention that attempt to challenge some of the fundamentals of word of mouth marketing theory and metrics:
The first, Is the Tipping Point Toast, discusses challenges being made to the “influencer” model made famous in WOM101 books The Tipping Point and The Influentials. In it, Duncan Watts, a researcher at […]

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