How many of you find that positive word of mouth directly results in new members to your group?
Are you doing anything specific to generate that word of mouth beyond running a fabulous group? Are there specific tactics that you use with the intent to get new members to your group?
I had the privilege
I’d like to challenge all of you to share with us what Word of Mouth (WOM) tactics you’ve used to successfully recruit new members to your group. To entice you to share, I have five copies of Andy’s book Word of Mouth Marketing that I will give to 5 randomly selected contributers who share their WOM tactics by commenting below (to be announced next Wednesday).
I look forward to learning hearing your ideas!
Best,
Jami
Groups Community Manager
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legally and tax free income by tension free work. .? (If u follow the system)
Its a international company who working in 226 countries in this world based on Nano-Technology. its Working with FIFA, International Olympics Commitee, United Nation & World 2nd largest MINT “MAYERMINT” (Germany)
just mail me at sunitajee777@gmail.com
write “MONEY” in subject line, and yes dont forget send ur contact no,timing to make call 4 u and Personnel email id there. (which one u check regularly.), for PRIVACY pls don’t scrab at orcut only email me,
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I find that posting in related Yahoo Groups has brought the most members by far.
1st be visible & make available all the information they need about your group, then present one common interesting topic as a come in tactic, tickle their imagination, and finally involve them -exactly like what you did in this word of mouth thing.
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I would like to know where to find the seniors group listed in these blogs i am a senior and like the sound of how that moderator handles the group.. please notify me by email ..
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THERE ARE THREE WAYS WE CAN MAKE NEW MEMBERS INTERESTED IN JOINING THE GROUP:–
WORD-TO-WORD
WORD-TO-MOUTH
MOUTH-TO-MOUTH
MY HAVE-A-HEART GROUP BEING A CREATIVE , INFORMATIVE AND ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, ALL I NEED TO DO AS AN OWNER/MODERATOR IS TO FILTER-IN THE BEST MAILS (WORD-TO-WORD), TELL OLD MEMBERS TO TELL TO A NEW FRIEND ( WORD-TO-MOUTH ) AND THEN THESE NEW MEMBERS TELL OTHER NEW FRIENDS ( MOUTH-TO-MOUTH ).
THIS IS MOST APEALING FOR A NEW MMBER TO JOIN THE GROUP.
—CYRUS—
( OWNER/MODERATOR )
HAVE-A-HEART
one of the way to introduce and promote your group would be registration in very specific directories, not just ”all you could grab” ventures. for example some folks i know from new start-up, recently did a interesting work – they located thousands of internet groups and organized them by main topics (which they called “ardors” – interests or passions) and publish in theirs semantic directory – ardorado.com. the point here is that each group get not only deep link to their pages, not “just“ a description under one category , but a semantic profile, with detailed ( as much as possible) fields and listing under unlimited number of categories – ardors . I believe the semantic web, or web 3.0 is the next big thing as we all are going to there, the sooner the better. The question is who will start this semantic transformation job, who is going to be the first?
Myself I found that good deeds really do help with spreading the word. This past year my step father past away and my mother gave me 2 storage units of new and used toys she no longer wanted to hold onto to collect. I used the freecycle group to find needy children in need of christmas gift baskets. The gift baskets were the size of a 30 dozen egg box. We gave away 192 gift baskets from 8 pickup truck loads of toys. For my good deeds and a few helpers we were nominated and won the angels among us award from cbs 21 news. On live tv I talked about using the freecycle group to find the children that were in need. I had also had 2 interviews prior to that with the local newspaper about the freecycle group. All 3 media events caused a big increase of membership requests directly afterwards. Also 2 of the 4 moderators go to people homes and do free yardwork or any type of work thats needed. The work in not requested very often and the generousity of the volunteers has not been taken advantage of. The good deeds are the reward itself but it has benefited the group very much.
Aside from having my groups listed publicly in the Yahoo group directory, I have added links to my groups in my signature line. If allowed, I will post my groups in the links section of any groups I am a member of. I have them listed on my yahoo profile. I have created business cards for my special needs group and hand out to businesses, to local agencies that cater to special needs populations, post on cork boards at local libraries, leave in bathrooms, tables at conferences I attend. I have posted my group links on Craigslist. Also, I have left business cards on tables of doctors’ offices that my son is a patient. When talking to other parents at the doctors office, store, whenever I have a chance to talk to other parents of children with special needs.
I am not currently a moderator of any group, but I am active in several groups, and have been for many years.
I try to promote new members to my various groups because of the valuable contributions they can make to the various subjects discussed there.
Yesterday, I was at a yard sale, and there were a number of pieces of antique glass on display. I asked the woman having the sale if she knew the pattern name of a particular piece, and she said, “No, I don’t know the names of any of them. If I did, I’d probably be selling them on eBay instead of here, and for more money.” I told her about two different glass collectors groups to which I belong, and told her that if she joined, she could send in photos, and the members would be delighted to help her put names to her glassware patterns. She was excited, and the groups will be, too–it’s always fun to consider a new challenge in identification, AND to get a chance to look at more pretty glass.
When I am talking with other medical transcriptionists, I mention the Yahoo group of MTs in which I am active, because “many hands {actually, brains here] make light work” of the problems that newbies to the field present in order to receive help, and medical transcription is a field in which one never fails to learn something new every day. By helping those new to this calling, we more experienced MTs learn new terms, medications, etc., ourselves.
As you can tell, I am sold on Yahoo groups, and try to promote them by word of mouth (and “word of e-mail”) everywhere I go.
One way in which I promote my groups–and especially those that deal with collectible items–is to mention them in my eBay listings! I don’t know if anyone else does this, but I have, on a number of occasions, said something to the effect of: “I wasn’t sure how old this pitcher was, but the XXX Yahoo Group helped me determine not only that it is from approximately 1905, but that it was manufactured in the YYY plant just shortly before fire destroyed that facility. YYY, of course, went ahead to build another plant, and another, and another, and remains well known in the industry today.”
Thanks for an opportunity to participate in this forum. It’s a fascinating subject, and one I would like to know lots more about.
Jayni Mosher
Love your suggestions and comments. I am looking for ways to promote my group (TheFamilyBookshelf). I just started it last Saturday and it is a group to buy and sell adult and children’s books. We currently have 20 members and I am looking for new ways to promote it. I have emailed my friends, posted in other groups I belong to without much success so far.