...potential to be the most successful way to create a 'buzz'. According to the article The Buzz on Buzz, written by Renee Dye, there are five common myths that companies can accept as facts that can result in them being unable to generate word-of-mouth promotion. The first myth stated by Dye is that in order to generate a 'buzz', a specific product must be unusual or risky. However, there are many different products on the market that have created the majority of their promotion through word-of-mouth that are ordinary. When companies use strategic marketing they have the ability to turn those normal, everyday products into extraordinary ones. For example, theChive, a webpage and application dedicated to giving to charities and providing its users(Chivers and Chivettes) with daily, categorized photo albums featuring everything from cats to people doing kind things for others anonymously, was not really the first of it's kind on the market. However, theChive, cultivated it's own brand and did not participate in advertising other than through its loyal followers. The next myth that companies could fall victim too is that 'buzz' just happens. theChive grew the majority of it's 'buzz' through carefully designed products and originally targeted a market that was made up of young men, which later broadened into marketing to women. One of the most influential elements that allowed theChive to generate such a contagious 'buzz' is the fact that the website mainly features pictures...
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...Chapter 8: Use What You’ve Learned 1. Have you seen the new Smart car? If you have, you are probably part of the buzz that has been heard recently about this new concept car that has made it to the streets. The car seats two, is available in three different models, and costs between about $12,500 and $17,000. The most significant fact about the Smart car is that it gets about forty-five miles per gallon. That fact alone has become central to Smart car’s initial introduction to the driving public. Has “small” finally become better than “large, extralarge, and supersize”? The manufacturer of the Smart car is betting on it. Investigate the Smart car. Once this is done, construct a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis for the Smart car. Evaluate the car’s likelihood of success. Strengths: The Smart car has many • Economically priced, beginning at just $12,500 • Small enough to park anywhere • Up to 45 mpg- good for the environment and your wallet • Customizable • 2. Is there a Chick-fil-A in your neighborhood? If there is, you’ve probably eaten at one of the fastest-growing food franchises in the southern United States (seehttp://www.chickfila.com). Chick-fil-A has a unique approach to running their business. Using the company’s Web site and search engines, your task is to investigate the Chick-fil-A organization in order to conduct a situation analysis. During your investigation be sure to comment on the perceived competitive situation...
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...n her own world with no space, she thought, “Who is she to say such things? She, my own mother doesn’t even know me well. She doesn’t know I have no friends. She doesn’t know who I am or how I act in school. She only assumes and thinks that her assumptions are always right.” For a daughter, her mother should and must not be questioned, therefore, everything was kept to herself. There was no one who she can share her feelings with. Slowly, everything she kept build up and became something she can’t avoid- hatred. She need not be compared to her all-rounder brother. She need not be someone worthy only of her father’s love. Yet, it happened. Life was unfair but she still accepted it with an open mind with doubts if she should do so. When she reached the tuition centre situated on the third floor, she straight away went to the back of the building instead into her class. She could not face her friends. Ever so many times, she thought of running away. All sorts of feeling she experienced and then, she thought of SUICIDE. After all, she was standing at a high-rise building where she could see a part of the city she lived in for the past four years. Confused, she was. Yet, it was already decided. She climbed over the bars. She braced herself and gathered all the courage she had. She let go of the bars a finger at a time and let herself fall with her eyes shut. The wind caressed her pale face, running through her hair. “Thump!” and that was all that was heard. Perhaps someone...
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...Words Sitting alone on a West Midlands train, I buried my face in my hands wondering what on earth I should do. “I can’t do this,” I told myself. I’d just spent the day calling international schools in Europe trying to sell them an education package for a friend’s business. I think telesales is one of the most soul sucking activities in the entire business world! “I can’t make money for other people for the rest of my life,” I said. “I won’t.” It was the summer of 2005, and it was my seventh day back on British soil after serving an 18-month mission for the LDS church in the US. I graduated with a degree in international business management before my mission, but now the prospect of pushing paper for a career, like all the other business minions, was not appealing. Like the sunny countryside whizzing by, my own train of though was working its way through hills and valleys of possibility. By the time I stepped of that train in my hometown, I had decided to go back to school and leave the country. Speech-language pathology was my ticket out of town. Five months later I had a confirmation of my choice. Without ever asking for it, I received a brochure in the mail from a college in Boston about my chosen program. As I pored over the booklet, one sentence, one word reverberated from the page: “Emerson college desires compassionate students.” Compassion. One word, seven sounds, was reason enough for me to pack up my life, sell everything that didn’t fit in my black...
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...1. The lids of the tumblers I used before cannot perfectly fit the cup. Thus, water can be leaked little by little when I put the tumblers in my handbag. The things in my handbag even get wet. 2. The metal fixtures in some binders are not quite smooth and do not function well. The metal can scratch my fingers and nails when I insert or take out paper from binders. 3. The pigment of highlighters cannot become dry quickly on my textbook paper. My hands and sleeve cuff will be colored then. 4. When I call customer service for my bank account and phone bill, I cannot reach the operator or customer representatives directly. I have to go through several steps to finally reach the operator choice. Sometimes, the instruction of the automated voice is unclear. It is not unusual for me to wrongly go back to the initial menu and to restart different options to reach the customer representatives. 5. In many restaurants, tables are assigned with specific waiters and waitresses. I had the experiences that my friends and I kept looking around to look for my waiters to get ordered, to get silver, or to pay bill, which can seriously affect my mood to enjoy food. 6. The Siri function of iPhone somewhat bothers me. When I move my backpack or lean on it, other things in my backpack can push the home button and activate Siri. Then, the Siri voice function said that “what can I help you?” when I was in class. This also happened to other students as well, which was embarrassing...
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...As a child, his dream was to become a professional football player, but one day he witnessed a play rehearsal from Vocacional No.1 and he liked it. He asked for an opportunity and they gave it to him. At first he saw it as a possibility to make more money, but little by little he liked it more and more and decided to go to Televisa for a greater opportunity. Producer Ernesto Alonso saw his potential and gave him his first role in the soap opera "Quiereme Mucho". Yáñez played the role of "Carlos" alongside the actress Victoria Ruffo. His natural style and strong physical appearance won the hearts of the audience. Yáñez married his first wife, Norma Adriana Garcia, in 1987. They had a son named Eduardo Yáñez Jr. They were divorced three years later. In 1991, Yáñez moved to the United States where he worked on two soap operas for Capital Vision, "Marielena" and "Guadalupe". Later he worked in Hollywood, on movies such as Striptease, Wild Things, and Megiddo. His most recent American movie was The Punisher. He has also worked in television series such as Savannah and Soldier of Fortune. He most recently worked in Sleeper Cell and Cold Case. In 1996, Yáñez married Francesca Cruz, a Cuban-American, he met in Miami. They lived between Los Angeles and Miami. In January 2003 they filed for divorce. In 2005, after a long absence, Yáñez returned to Mexico and appeared in a soap opera named "La Verdad Oculta". In 2008, he starred in Fuego En La Sangre, a new version of the Colombian...
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...CASE STUDY Kayem Foods, Inc. al fresco BzzCampaign Brand Evangelists Drive Trial, Sales of Growing Brand BzzAgent Copyright © 2004 BzzAgent Inc. 273 Summer Street 4th Floor Boston, MA 02210 Ph 617.451.2280 Fx 617.451.9922 1 CASE STUDY New Brand Enjoys “Ripple Effects” of Targeted Word-of-Mouth K ayem Foods, Inc., the New England company founded in 1909, offers eight leading brands of hot dogs and sausages. In response to healthconscious consumers who were looking for high quality alternatives to traditional sausage products, Kayem created the al fresco brand of chicken sausages to “provide people with delicious foods that are healthy and convenient, meeting today's active lifestyles,” offering flavors such as roasted garlic, sweet apple, sundried tomato and basil, spicy jalapeno, teriyaki ginger, and sweet Italian. The award-winning sausage is prepared without artificial flavors, preservatives or nitrates and contains less fat and sodium than pork sausage. Kayem engaged BzzAgent, Inc. to conduct a word-of-mouth marketing campaign resulting in exponential trial and increased sales of al fresco in target markets. access to a BzzCampaign online homepage with these features: • A communication guide about the lifestyle benefits of al fresco • Instructions about where to find al fresco in local markets • A printable request form to encourage stores to carry the brand • A basic profile of likely consumers i.e. BzzTargets • A list of nine suggested BzzActivities...
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...Supplier Selection / Event Presentations / Best Practice / Template Files / Trends & Innovation Online Reputation and Buzz Monitoring Buyer's Guide 2010 Online Reputation and Buzz Monitoring Buyer's Guide 2010 Published April 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Copyright © Econsultancy.com Ltd 2010 Econsultancy 4th Floor, The Corner 91-93 Farringdon Road London EC1M 3LN United Kingdom Econsultancy New York 41 East 11th St., 11th Floor New York, NY 10003 United States Telephone: +1 212 699 3626 http://econsultancy.com help@econsultancy.com Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7269 1450 Contents 1. Introduction ..................................................................... 1 1.1. About Econsultancy ..................................................................... 1 2. Executive Summary ......................................................... 2 3. Market trends .................................................................. 4 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. Market set for strong growth as rise of social media increases importance of online reputation ................................. 4 Buzz monitoring becomes a hygiene factor for businesses seeking to manage risk ...............................................
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...Buzz Aldrin 5th Period ! On January 20, 1930 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Buzz Aldrin was born. He graduated from Montclair High School in 1946 then went to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point. His first name was actually not originally Buzz, it was Edwin Eugene. When he was a kid, the youngest of his two big sisters said “Buzzer” instead of “brother”. The name stuck and was later shortened to Buzz, which he legally made his first name in 1979. Buzz became a mechanical engineer and a United States Air Force pilot then of course he became an astronaut. ! Buzz graduated third in his class from West Point with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. The U. S. Air Force commissioned him as a Second Lieutenant where he served as a jet fighter pilot in the Korean War, supposedly flying 66 combat missions. He went on to do many more things in the military before he earned his Doctor of Science in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked in the Gemini Target Office before he got selected as an astronaut. ! Buzz was selected to be the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11. Apollo 11 was the first ever manned lunar landing and on July 20, 1969, Buzz was the second human to ever set foot on the moon right behind Neil Armstrong. A few minutes after landing on the moon, Aldrin decided that the most appropriate thing to do was to take communion. NASA allowed the astronauts to bring a small bag of personal items with them and Buzz brought...
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...Talk to Your Customers! §Promotion: The coordination of marketing communication efforts to influence attitudes or behavior §Marketing communications purpose: –Inform –Remind –Persuade –Build relationships §Integrated marketing communication (IMC): Process that marketers use to plan, develop, execute, and evaluate coordinated, measurable, persuasive brand communication programs over time to targeted audiences –Consumers see the variety of messages from a firm as a whole The Communication Model §Elements of the model: –Source:Firm or person sending a message –Encoding:Transmitting an idea into a form of communication that conveys meaning –Message:Communication in physical form that goes from a sender to a receiver –Medium:Communication vehicle through which a message is transmitted ––Receiver:Individual or organization that intercepts and interprets the message –Decoding:Process whereby a receiver assigns meaning to a message –Noise:Anything that interferes with effective communication –Feedback:Receiver’s reactions to the message Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) §With IMC, marketers plan and execute communication programs that create and maintain long-term relationships with customers by satisfying needs –IMC unifies all marketing communication tools to send a consistent, persuasive message –IMC is becoming increasingly important §Characteristics of IMC Marketers must understand that IMC: –Begins with the customer –Creates a single unified...
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...VYSOKÁ ŠKOLA EKONOMICKÁ V PRAZE FAKULTA MEZINÁRODNÍCH VZTAHŮ Obor: Mezinárodní obchod BUZZ MARKETING A JEHO VYUŽITÍ V PRAXI (bakalářská práce) Autor: Vojtěch Khodl Vedoucí práce: Ing. Jiří Zeman, Ph.D. P r o hl á š e n í: Prohlašuji, že jsem bakalářskou práci na téma „Buzz marketing a jeho využití v praxi“ vypracoval samostatně a vyznačil všechny citace z pramenů. V Praze dne ………… ………………… podpis studenta Poděkování: Na tomto místě bych rád poděkoval panu Ing. Jiřímu Zemanovi, PhD. za veškerou pomoc při psaní bakalářské práce. Obsah Úvod......................................................................................................................................... - 1 1 Marketing ......................................................................................................................... - 3 1.1 1.2 Marketingové nástroje............................................................................................... - 4 - 1.3 Marketingový mix ...................................................................................................... - 5 - 1.4 2 Marketing-historie a definice ..................................................................................... - 3 - Marketingová komunikace......................................................................................... - 7 - Buzz marketing ............................................................................................
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...The Buzz is Back The Charlotte Bobcats: (Re) Launching a New (Old) NBA Franchise Article Analysis by Rosbie Mutcherson Jr. Business 505 Creating Consumer Value March 4, 2015 After reading Charlotte Bobcats: (Re) Launching a New (Old) NBA Franchise, I think of the Charlotte Hornets like a bad junior high breakup. We have all been there I am sure. Plenty of infatuation, fighting, scandal, embarrassment, pouting, and happiness are a few things that come to my mind. “The Charlotte Bobcats: (Re) Launching a New (Old) NBA Franchise written by D. Branch Jr. looked in the Charlotte NBA franchise from its inception to now. The city of Charlotte for years backed their basketball team through the bad and certainly the good times. The team enjoyed an NBA record for attendance for ten plus years at a time. Fans continued to buy tickets despite not always producing competitive teams. It seemed to not matter whether the Hornets were winning fans would still pack the arena. After years of success there came a point when the organization reached a crossroads. Trades, ownership issues, and scandal all played parts in Charlotte’s fall from the top of the league in fan support to the very bottom. A once vibrant city with a new NBA franchise quickly turned into a black hole for an potential NBA owners. Hornet ownership would eventually flee to New Orleans. Within a few years change it all its glory was revealed. Robert Johnson brought a new face, arena, and name change to the city of Charlotte...
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...Disney Movies are more than entertainment; they are a piece of pop culture that generations of children will remember forever. It all started in 1937 when Disney released its first feature length film, Snow White. To date, Disney has released more than 300 films. Each generation will have its own memory of their favorite Disney movies. For instance, any child born in the last 15 years will remember Toy Story. It was released in 1995 and followed by Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3. Disney really made an impact on kids with Toy Story. It was a wonderful story about a boy and the friendship between his two toys, a lovable, stuffed cowboy named Woody (voice by Tom Hanks), and an astronaut toy named Buzz Light-year (voice by Tim Allen). Today, Toy Story and the characters are a big part of Disneyland Amusement Parks. There are Toy Story rides that excite kids of all ages. It seems with every Disney movie launch there are mass toy sales and fast food restaurants selling “Happy Meals’ with Disney movie character toys. It is almost impossible to avoid the media and advertising explosion after a Disney movie release. What is nice about Disney movies is that parents can feel good about their kids watching them because Disney represents “wholesome.” A parent can be assured that the content of the movie will be age appropriate for their child. Disney movies are an icon in American pop culture. What Disney movie do you remember the...
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...concerned about the height of their hair. To look cute with this hairstyle, you should comb your hair backwards without letting your hair to spread over the undercut shaved sides. Another option for an undercut shaved side is the soft down hairstyle. This type of haircut follows angled bands. However, it does not fir men who like their hair slick and spiked. The undercut also fits men who like their hair spiky. To make the look hair spiky, all you need to do is to apply the product of your choice over your hair when it is completely dry. The choice of your hair product will depend on its thickness. Once you apply your hair product, comb the hair upwards concentrating it towards the center of your head. The undercut is also applicable with the buzz cut. This style fits men who like keeping their hair short. The pro of this style is that it requires no products. Additionally, it does not require styling. It just requires you to wash your hair and leave it to dry....
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