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New GE Study: Word-of-Mouth Referrals Improve Traditional Marketing Efforts

josephlamountain wrote 9 months ago: Marketers have long assumed content shared by friends or other influencers carries more weight than … more →

Tags: Ad Age, advertising, Advertising Age, Buzzfeed, Case Study, General Electric, Grassroots, Jack Neff, joseph lamountain

Opinion Leaders: Past, Present and Future

Joseph LaMountain wrote 2 years ago: Last week in class, we discussed a number of historical grassroots movements.  From Christianity, an … more →

Tags: Grassroots, Advocacy, Marketing, Digital, Communications & Marketing, mimi carter, joe lamountain, joseph lamountain, Christianity

Good Customer Service + Responsiveness = Happy Client 1 comment

Joseph LaMountain wrote 2 years ago: This was me trying to get the Home Depot Manager last Thursday morning. I know that when I have a cl … more →

Tags: Marketing, Digital, Communications & Marketing, mimi carter, Social Media, Public Relations, AT&T, J.Crew, home depot

Look for the Secret Gold Box1 comment

Joseph LaMountain wrote 3 years ago: Do you ever feel like information goes in one ear, and out the other?  How about all the time.  That … more →

Tags: Grassroots, Marketing, Malcolm Gladwell, the tipping point, sticky messages, advertising, columbia house record and tape clun, maketing and communications, sticky messaging

Are You a Connector? Daniel Poneman Is!

Joseph LaMountain wrote 3 years ago: Last week I got the following message: “You all don’t have to believe me on this, but I just p … more →

Tags: Grassroots, Marketing, Word of Mouth Marketing, WOM, Malcolm Gladwell, the tipping point, joseph lamountain, sparklight communications, Connectors

Are You a Connector?3 comments

Joseph LaMountain wrote 3 years ago: Connectors are people specialists, those with a large circle and network of friends. Malcolm Gladwel … more →

Tags: Marketing, Word of Mouth Marketing, WOM, Malcolm Gladwell, the tipping point, joseph lamountain, sparklight communications, Connectors, The New Yorker

Heather Locklear: Grassroots Visionary

Joseph LaMountain wrote 3 years ago: Want to know the real power of grassroots communications?  I read this in my daughter’s Ripley … more →

Tags: Grassroots, Advocacy, Marketing, word of mouth, Public Relations, joseph lamountain, sparklight communications, Heather Locklear, television commercial

When Things Break Down, Grassroots Survives1 comment

Joseph LaMountain wrote 3 years ago: Grassroots and word-of-mouth communications are the oldest form of communications.  That’s bec … more →

Tags: Grassroots, Word of Mouth Marketing, Haiti, radio soliel, Haitian Relief Efforts, ricot dupuy, Voice of America, Brooklyn, radio

RESOLVE and SparkLight Join Forces

Joseph LaMountain wrote 3 years ago: SparkLight Communications  announced today that it has been hired by RESOLVE: The National Infertili … more →

Tags: Grassroots, Advocacy, National-Health-Council, joseph lamountain, sparklight communications, resolve, infertility, Health Care, Strategic Planning

This Kind of Ink Gets you Noticed5 comments

Joseph LaMountain wrote 3 years ago: “For years I tried to get people interested in Huntington’s Disease,” said Kelly C … more →

Tags: Advocacy, Grassroots, Health Care, Marketing, alicia hogue, Body Art, Huntington's Disease, Huntington's Disease Society of America, joe lamountain

Clean energy's grassroots problem

henryfawell wrote 3 years ago: (Image credit: Triple Pundit) We’ve blogged before about the grassroots opposition clean energ … more →

Tags: Clean Energy, wind energy, Solar Power, Public Opinion, cape wind

Three Books I'm Reading

Joseph LaMountain wrote 3 years ago: The  semester begins January 13, so I’ve been thinking about my course.  Fourteen classes, two … more →

Tags: Seth Godin, Frank Luntz, Malcolm Gladwell, the tipping point, richard wunderli, georgetown, Georgetown University, Linda Kaplan Thaler, Robin Koval

Sales Tips from...The Nutcracker

Joseph LaMountain wrote 3 years ago: Last night, with several thousand others, I attended The Washington Ballet’s performance of th … more →

Tags: Grassroots, Marketing, Washington Post, The Washington Ballet, warner theater, washington dc, Septime Webre, WOM, Ballet

Facebook = Media Coverage

Joseph LaMountain wrote 3 years ago: Looking for a way to generate media coverage about your cause, your candidate or your business?  Don … more →

Tags: Grassroots, Advocacy, Marketing, word of mouth, Alexandria, Alexandria Gazette, Michael Pope, mimi carter, alexandria city public schools

Annual Reports: Why Bother?3 comments

deetsne wrote 4 years ago: I’m in the thick of creating a 2008-2009 annual report, and the question I pose to other nonpr … more →

Tags: Articles, dmm, fundraising, Strategic Communications, Managing Projects, Nonprofit Communications, nonprofit fundraising, nonprofit donors

So, It's "In" to Be Black1 comment

deetsne wrote 4 years ago: So, Larry King and company have proclaimed, “It’s in to be Black.”  He explained, … more →

Tags: Articles, Questions, dmm, media, communications, Strategic Communications, Nonprofit Communications, nonprofit survival, progressive communicators

The Obama Brand: Lessons for the Nonprofit Sector2 comments

deetsne wrote 4 years ago: A Respected Brand Can Get You Through Tough Times When friends, coworkers and even family members fi … more →

Tags: Articles, dmm, communications, Strategic Communications, Managing Projects, Nonprofit Communications, nonprofit fundraising, nonprofit donors, Social Media

Third Annual Be the Media Mini-Conference

tsne wrote 4 years ago: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of New Media for Grassroots Organizations The annual Be the … more →

Tags: PSA, media, Strategic Communications, nonprofit media, Social Media, New Media, media conference

Word-of-Mouth is Most Trusted Media Source

josephlamountain wrote 1 year ago: There’s a new restaurant in town.  What will convince you to try it: A newspaper ad or a frien … more →

Tags: amputee coalition, Case Study, Global Trust in Advertising and Brand Messages, joe lamountain, joseph lamountain, mimi carter, Nielsen, Report, sparklight communications


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