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Secrets of Social Media Revealed 50 Years Ago

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by David Aaker for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Almost 50 years ago Ernest Dichter, the father of motivation research, [.].

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The Dragonfly Effect: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith with Carlye Adler Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2010) In this book written with Carlye Adler, Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith explain how to “leverage the power of the new social media to do something that [.].

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-03-18

Tanveer Naseer

Brand # marketing in social media – Coffee House # Book Review: “Wikibrands&# [link] #. RT @ smaxbrown : Author Jennifer @ Aaker of The Dragonfly Effect reveals how to get results by harnessing power of SM [link] #. *RT @ WikiOrgCharts @TanveerNaseer ‘s review of “Wikibrands&# celebrates org. Thanks Lisa!

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Personal Needs vs. Customer Relationships

Strategy Driven

Marketing scholars Jennifer Aaker and Susan Fournier reveal how closely business relationships and interpersonal relationships mirrored each other in an Internet-based psychology test. “Trust is much heralded in marketing, but it has a downside,” said Aaker in an interview for Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) News.

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Secrets of Social Media Revealed 50 Years Ago

Harvard Business Review

Almost 50 years ago Ernest Dichter , the father of motivation research, did a large study of word of mouth persuasion that revealed secrets of how to use social media to build brands and businesses. The study was reported in a 1966 article in HBR. The message is so humorous or informative that it deserves sharing.

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How to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change

Leading Blog

Social Media. The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, is a playbook on how to use social media to achieve a single, focused, concrete goal. Cut through the noise of social media with something personal, unexpected, visceral, and visual. Nobody really understands it, but we know it’s important.

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Make Your Competition Irrelevant

Harvard Business Review

They devote even more resources to marketing communications that try to sway buyers with more clever advertising, more impactful promotions, more visible sponsorships, and more involving social media programs than the competition's. Customers are just not inclined or motivated to change brand loyalties in established markets.

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