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Buzzmarketing: Get People to Talk About Your Stuff [Kindle Edition]

Mark Hughes
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?There?s fake corporate marketing and then there?s real marketing. This is the real stuff for real people.?
?Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry?s Ice Cream


These days consumers are paying less and less attention to advertising. A majority already zap commercials, and new technology keeps making it easier to tune out marketing messages.

Mark Hughes has written a breakthrough guide to the art of successful buzzmarketing?which many people talk about but few truly understand. He draws on his own real-world experience as an executive and consultant, as well as untold stories of some of the great buzz generators of our time, including American Idol, tie-dye shirts, and the birth of Lite beer.


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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 488 KB
  • Print Length: 260 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1591842131
  • Publisher: Portfolio; 1 edition (7 July 2005)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B000OVLIOW
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #493,272 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Donald Mitchell HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
Everyone knows that good word-of-mouth advertising can make a product, and bad word-of-mouth comments can kill a product. Many books exhort you to create such good "buzz" and give you lots of examples.

Mark Hughes does that same thing, but he backs up his advice with a six-step process broken into detailed subcategories of how to implement that make creating "buzz" as simple to understand as baking a chocolate cake with a packaged mix.

The book is spare. Mr. Hughes doesn't waste a word. The examples are just enough to get the point across . . . and not belabor it.

Get this book now before you competitors do!

I was very impressed to see the many small company examples in here that someone can use to market on a tiny budget. The big company examples are revealing too, even if small companies may not be able to directly emulate them.

If you enjoyed Purple Cow, you will like this book more . . . and find it easier to apply.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I often enjoy reading exciting stories about how a business came from nowhere to become a big success, and from the reviews I thought this might be an interesting case study.

Unfortunately it was kind of a one trick pony (based on a one-off publicity stunt, and not one that was really associated with the product they were selling)... and therefore the ideas the book promotes are not groundbreaking, and really quite poor.

It also tells a few anecdotes about how some other companies adopted a similar buzzmarketing approach to raising the profile of a product or brand, but none very relevant to small businesses who this book is targeting.

It's really about publicity stunts, which is nothing new.

Saying that, the first few paragraphs were good.

Thanks. Hope this helps. But I would recommend reading something like Purple Cow by Seth Godin.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Rolf Dobelli TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
Buzz happens when your customers start to talk to other people about the benefits of your product or service. A powerful story gets this process started. So, it's no wonder that author Mark Hughes has the ability to tell an entertaining story. He sets the stage for his interesting tales with his personal account of how he convinced a small town in Oregon to rename itself after his Internet start-up company. The book is full of great anecdotes about brands that reaped huge rewards by pursuing a buzzmarketing strategy, and it flows naturally from story to story. Hughes intertwines his key points throughout. The book is certainly not heavy reading, but it may rejuvenate creative marketing minds. We strongly suggest it to marketers withering under the strain of expensive budgets while achieving poor sales results. Who knows, maybe a little buzz could help.
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THE SIX BUTTONS OF BUZZ  The taboo (sex, lies, bathroom humor)  The unusual  The outrageous  The hilarious  The remarkable  The secrets (both kept and revealed) &quote;
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The entire crux of word-of-mouth marketing is giving people a great story to tell. &quote;
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But the buzzmarketing models sole purpose is to make your brand their brand. The sole purpose of buzzmarketing is to make your message so compelling, so entertaining, so fascinating, so newsworthythat they want to tell more peopledoing the marketing for you. &quote;
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