I've been thinking about word of mouth, or peer to peer marketing to give it its proper name, and how it relates to blogging. Its something that was raised by Ian McKee of Vocanic in an email he sent from Singapore. He asked:
I focus on peer to peer marketing. Now I have had a few discussions as to where PR fits in this context. Separately? Or should word of mouth be considered in the fields of PR? What do you think?
In a previous posting I quoted the Intelliseek report, Consumer Generated Media, which talks about online word-of-mouth vehicles, including but not limited to: consumer-to-consumer email, postings on public Internet discussion boards and forums, consumer ratings web sites or forums, blogs (short for weblogs, or digital diaries), moblogs (sites where users post digital images/photos/movies), social networking web sites and individual web sites.
In their still to be published book, Shel Israel and Robert Scoble are planning a chapter on Word of Mouth, in which they discuss the power and efficiency of word-of-mouth marketing through examples that include ICQ, Skype, Firefox.Explains the connection between blogging and word-of-mouth.
Ian's response:
Is Word of Mouth part of PR, is PR part of word of mouth.Should it be managed by a separate team or be part of CRM or even brand.This whole area got huge debate at the WOMMA Conference.
My take the answer is different for each customer, and the strategy they are taking.IF you are a brand like Nudie or Red Bull, then marketing clearly own WOM and PR.If you are Head and Shoulders shampoo clearly things are different.The one thing that is true is that the people who run this stuff need to communicate to make sure that it is integrated and consistent.
It is this kind of communication which motivates publics to move from being aware to being active. In the corporate landscape it would makes sense that PR professionals manage this relationship. Thats where Id say word of mouth marketing and PR fit together.
Matt
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