Today’s lesson will talk about how word of mouth messages are delivered and how you can influence those messages. There are essentially 3 methods of word of mouth: Expert to Expert Expert to Peer Peer to Peer When experts are talking about your products or service you will usually receive an amazing rush of sales and new customers, so obviously this is one of the best things that can happen. You can also help to facilitate this by offering free products to experts for them to review. Expert opinion can also bring about new ideas that help to fuel new

Today we’ll cover the idea of shortening your customers’ decision making process with positive word of mouth. There are essentially 5 stages in the decision making process. They are: Give the product a chance and transitions from a “no” to a “maybe”. Check out the options and investigate the different products available. Observe the product to check for potential benefits, features and operations to see if there is a fit with their needs. Become a customer and purchase their first item. They will be discriminate with their first product as they form their opinion of you. Purchases again and starts

Today we’re going to talk about how to harness the power of word of mouth. Including the six step process to success and the 30 (that’s right, I said 30) ways to harass the power of WOM. So, let’s get started! There are six steps to harassing word of mouth: Understand your customers’ values and priorities, this will help you understand why they would buy your products. Understand the different adopter types: innovators, early adopters, middle majority, late adopters and laggards. Identify which decision stages are needed for your product to be adopted. Use the information from steps 2 &