Unleashing the Ideavirus

Unleashing the Ideavirus
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 www.ideavirus.com
Introduction
If you don’t have time to read the whole book, here’s what it says:
Marketing by interrupting people isn’t cost-effective anymore. You
can’t afford to seek out people and send them unwanted marketing
messages, in large groups, and hope that some will send you money.
Instead, the future belongs to marketers who establish a foundation
and process where interested people can market to 
each other
. Ignite
consumer networks and then get out of the way and let them talk.
If you’re looking for mindblowing new ideas, you won’t find them in this, or any other
marketing book. Guerrilla marketing, 1:1 marketing, permission marketing—these ideas are
not really new, but they are thoughtful constructs that let you figure out how to do
marketing better. The fact is, if we built factories as badly as we create advertising campaigns,
the country would be in a shambles. This book will help you better understand the time-
honored marketing tradition of the ideavirus, and help you launch your own.
Questions the book answers:
1.
Why is it foolish to launch a new business with millions of dollars in TV ads?
2.
Are the market leaders in every industry more vulnerable to sudden successes by the
competition than ever before?
3.
Should book publishers issue the paperback edition of a book before the hardcover?
4.
What’s the single most important asset a company can create—and what is the simple
thing that can kill it?
5.
Every ad needs to do one of two things to succeed…yet most ads do neither. What’s the
right strategy?
6.
Does the Net create a dynamic that fundamentally changes the way everything is
marketed?
7.
How can every business…big and small…use ideavirus marketing to succeed?

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