About this Site

This is the personal weblog of Björn Ognibeni. I am a consultant for Digital Marketing Communications & Co-Founder of BuzzRank, living in Hamburg, Germany. At this site, I write about my work, recent trends & developments and other interesting things that come across my desk...

Events I'll attend

 

LIFT12, 22.-24.02.2012 in Geneva.


W&V Seminar: Social Media leicht gemacht! 27./28.02.2012 in Hamburg.

 

ADC Young Masters Social Media, 29./30.03.2012 in Berlin

 

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Entries in WOM (4)

Mittwoch
Jul022008

Mundpropaganda-Marketing eingängig erklärt 

Hatten Sie nicht auch schon mal das Gefühl, dass beim 360 Grad Marketing irgendwas fehlt? Dass TV, Print, Radio, Briefe schreiben und Plakate aufhängen irgendwie schon ganz gut funktionieren, aber, dass es noch einen anderen Weg geben müsste, um den Leuten da draussen von diesem neuen tollen Produkt aus dem eigenen Hause zu erzählen?

Dann hätte mein trnd-Kollege Rob eine Idee, was da fehlen könnte...

Montag
Feb252008

Kurz mal zwischendurch...

Trndlogo...eine kleine Notiz in eigener Sache: wie der eine oder andere sicher letzte Woche schon mitbekommen hat, bin ich ab sofort bei den Kollegen von trnd mit an Bord und baue ein neues trnd Büro auf. Wo? Na, in der schönsten Stadt Deutschlands, wo trnd bisher vielleicht noch etwas unterrepräsentiert war... ;-)

Ähnlich wie für Goviral werde ich hier in Hamburg der lokale Ansprechpartner für trnd sein. Aber darüber hinaus wird es auch meine Aufgabe sein einen neuen Bereich aufzubauen: trnd Consulting. Erste Infos dazu stehen schon in der Pressemitteilung. Sobald wir mehr sagen können, gibt es natürlich auch hier weitere Details dazu...
Montag
Mai222006

Numbers on the Nature and Tone of Word of Mouth

Jackie Huba from the Church of the Customer Blog found some interesting numbers on word of mouth in a recent study (PDF) done by the Keller Fay Group:
  • 56: The average number of times an American discusses brands in ordinary conversations every week.

  • 92%: Percentage of word of mouth conversations that occur offline; 71% of those occur face-to-face, and 21% occur by phone.

  • 72%: The percentage of brand-related opinions delivered from a person to a family member or personal friend;

  • 13% are delivered to co-workers and 7% are delivered by a professional or expert on the topic. (I suppose that puts us marketing bloggers in the distinct minority.)

  • 41%: Number of conversations about brands that reference an item seen or heard in the media or in marketing material;

  • 15% refer to an ad, 8% refer to a form of editorial or entertainment content,

  • 5% refer to a point of purchase item, and 4% refer to the lowly coupon or other promotion.

  • 62%: Percentage of marketing-related discussions described as "mostly positive."

  • 9%: Percentage of marketing-related discussions described as "mostly negative."
Especially the last 2 numbers are a little bit surprising to me. The overwhelming majority of marketing-related discussions are positive ? I would have assumed it's the other way around. Since the study has been done in the US only, I am not sure if the numbers are valid for Germany, too. My gut feeling is, they are not...
Dienstag
Sep132005

Cartoon of the Week: The Power of "Word of Mouth"

Just stumbled across a great cartoon from Tom Fishburne. It illustrates perfectly what word of mouth is about in todays "over-advertised" world...



...and it fits nicely into any presentation on buzz marketing basics.

(via Church of the Customer)
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