Comments on: Buzz Marketing Stats http://deanhunt.com/buzz-marketing-stats/ The highly acclaimed and controversial Internet Entrepreur Dean Hunt shares his off-beat views on success, marketing, personal development and some wacky humour. Why? Because everyone is entitled to his opinion Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:38:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Dean Hunt http://deanhunt.com/buzz-marketing-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-48958 Dean Hunt Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:08:26 +0000 http://deanhunt.com/buzz-marketing-stats/#comment-48958 Chris, fair point! When I first started the live buzz campaign I wasn't overly bothered whether it got on the main page or not. Sure, it would have been nice, but it can also be a lottery at times. To date the Digg article has almost 900 diggs, I sent the email to just my core newsletter readers, so off the top of my head it is around 100 core people. Of which, less than half opened, plus, there were broken links, so my guess is that YES, it helped, but marginally. Some really powerful digg users voted for it, and imo that meant that this was hitting the homepage with or without that email. But yes, your point is valid, and I will ensure I mention that in any summary to make sure people are aware. Dean Chris, fair point!

When I first started the live buzz campaign I wasn’t overly bothered whether it got on the main page or not. Sure, it would have been nice, but it can also be a lottery at times.

To date the Digg article has almost 900 diggs, I sent the email to just my core newsletter readers, so off the top of my head it is around 100 core people. Of which, less than half opened, plus, there were broken links, so my guess is that YES, it helped, but marginally.

Some really powerful digg users voted for it, and imo that meant that this was hitting the homepage with or without that email.

But yes, your point is valid, and I will ensure I mention that in any summary to make sure people are aware.

Dean

]]> By: Chris http://deanhunt.com/buzz-marketing-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-48935 Chris Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:14:33 +0000 http://deanhunt.com/buzz-marketing-stats/#comment-48935 Dean - the results are impressive and definatley display why we need to pay attention to buzz marketing and social marketing. I do have one question and fact to point out - this live case study is not 100% pure as you did send out to your mailing list the link to the article and commented on how you are trying to get some buzz. I am sure that your loyal fans (myself included) helped you out by digging the article or submitting it to Stumble or someother social network. I have no doubt that the article still would have been a success and generated some buzz but do you think it would have been this good without sending the letter to your subscribers and just posted the article on the blog and let it generate its own buzz? still either way the results are impressive Dean – the results are impressive and definatley display why we need to pay attention to buzz marketing and social marketing.

I do have one question and fact to point out – this live case study is not 100% pure as you did send out to your mailing list the link to the article and commented on how you are trying to get some buzz. I am sure that your loyal fans (myself included) helped you out by digging the article or submitting it to Stumble or someother social network.

I have no doubt that the article still would have been a success and generated some buzz but do you think it would have been this good without sending the letter to your subscribers and just posted the article on the blog and let it generate its own buzz?

still either way the results are impressive

]]> By: Korey King http://deanhunt.com/buzz-marketing-stats/comment-page-1/#comment-48922 Korey King Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:53:00 +0000 http://deanhunt.com/buzz-marketing-stats/#comment-48922 You've got my attention Dean. Hold the hex, I subbed. You’ve got my attention Dean.
Hold the hex, I subbed.

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