Jack Trout Discusses Buzz Marketing With Evangelists

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Errol Smith tells us, “In response to all the chatter about Jack Trout’s comments on word-of-mouth marketing, Jack Trout invited a group of “buzz evangelist” to face off with him on his radio program. Steve Rubel and Rick Murray of Edelman, Emanuel Rosen of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, Seth Godin, Joseph Jaffe and Errol Smith (me….producer of Trout Radio) sat down to deconstruct the buzz around word-of-mouth.” Listen here.

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