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Make Your Marketing Message Contagious

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Make Your Marketing Message Contagious

Jonah Berger first caught my attention in this Fast Company article (“Fifty Percent of ‘The Tipping Point’ is Wrong”). The article positions him as the new Malcolm Gladwell and challenges some accepted theory of The Tipping Point.

Berger is a Marketing Professor at the Wharton School of Business. At Stanford, he was a student of Chip Heath, author of the marketing classic Made to Stick. Made to Stick describes why messages stick with audiences. Berger has taken this concept a step further in his bestselling book Contagious: Why Things Catch On. Berger examines why certain products get more word-of-mouth marketing and why some online content goes viral...

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Starting a Movement

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Starting a Movement

One of the things as PR pros we can do is for the audience is let them know when it's safe to whoop, holler or applaud.

This is what our clients always want us to do.  It’s kind of like how to start a movement.

Often, we hesitate to spread the word and recommend something because it doesn't feel safe to do so. It's better to say nothing than it is to feel stupid.

Joining in on the standing ovation at the end of a Broadway play isn't some sort of callow sellout. It's actually a tradition that offers solace for the timid or uninitiated.

The trick in PR is to get to the tipping point.

The tipping point is when a lone weirdo has attracted so much of a following that it would just feel stupid NOT to join him.  Am I thinking Steve Jobs?

We like to learn from the shirtless dancer… if you have not seen his video then here’s a 3-minute version that can spice your day up…

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