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6 Pro Tips to Create Bigger Buzz for Your Business

Cision

According to one expert, word-of-mouth marketing isn’t a meritocracy (not entirely, anyhow). What I want to do in this piece is to use Berger’s word-of-mouth framework to highlight five businesses that have had success leveraging word-of-mouth marketing. Practical value. Want to build word-of-mouth?

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How to Spy on Your Competition and Steal Their Secrets

Beyond PR

This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. The global digital economy has produced an avalanche of content and the battle for mind and market share is no longer local. See how they market online. Are calls to action part of their marketing tactics?

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A critical review of Excellence Theory in an era of digital communication

Stephen Waddington

The first model is publicity or press agent, the second is public relations information model, the third asymmetric persuasion, and the final one — the two-way symmetrical model — has become accepted as a formal definition of best practice for communication in Western markets between an organisation and its audiences.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

So far, we've seen the development of targeted advertising, big data collection, analytics, and other digital tracking methods for more efficient marketing and information dissemination (called Big Data), all of which have potentially sinister as well as positive uses. There are potentially sinister reasons for doing this.

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