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Every business owner wants the same thing: customers who bring in more customers. The kind of organic growth that happens when someone loves your product or service so much they cannot stop telling other people about it. That is the dream. And yet, for most companies, it remains exactly that. A dream.
**Author:** Jay Baer
**Estimated Reading Time:** 42 minutes
**What You'll Learn:**
- Why word of mouth drives nearly one in five consumer purchases - What a talk trigger is and why it differs from traditional marketing - The four criteria every effective talk trigger must meet - The five types of talk triggers with real-world examples - A six-step process for creating, testing, and scaling your own talk trigger - How to measure, amplify, and evolve your talk trigger over time
**Who This Book Is For:**
Business owners, marketers, customer experience professionals, and anyone responsible for growing a brand through customer loyalty and referrals. If you want customers to do your marketing for you, this book provides the operating manual.
Every business owner wants the same thing: customers who bring in more customers. The kind of organic growth that happens when someone loves your product or service so much they cannot stop telling other people about it. That is the dream. And yet, for most companies, it remains exactly that. A dream. The reason is simple. Most businesses never give their customers anything worth talking about. Think about the last time you recommended a restaurant, a plumber, a software product, or a hotel to a friend. What prompted that recommendation? It probably was not the fact that the business met your expectations. Meeting expectations is the baseline. It is the price of admission. Nobody rushes to tell their friends about a perfectly adequate experience. Nobody posts on social media about a transaction that went exactly as expected. The uncomfortable truth is that most businesses are boring. They work hard to be competent, reliable, and consistent. Those are admirable qualities. They are also invisible. Competence does not create conversation. Reliability does not generate referrals. Consistency does not make someone pull out their phone and text a friend about your business. Jay Baer calls this the "same is lame" problem. When every business in a category does essentially the same thing, customers have no reason to prefer one over another, and no reason to talk about any of them. The businesses that win are the ones that deliberately create something different. Something noteworthy. Something that gives customers a story to tell. This book is about how to create that story. Baer's central insight is both simple and profound: word of mouth is not something that happens to you. It is something you can engineer. You can build it into your operations. You can create a specific, repeatable experience that customers naturally want to share. He calls this a "talk trigger." A talk trigger is not a marketing campaign. It is not an advertising slogan. It is not a loyalty program or a…
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Get the complete summary in the appWord of mouth drives 19 percent of consumer purchases. It is the most powerful marketing force available.
Customers do not talk about businesses that meet expectations. They talk about businesses that exceed expectations.
A talk trigger is a purposeful, operational differentiator that creates conversation and recruits new customers.
Every talk trigger must be remarkable, relevant, reasonable, and repeatable.
The five types of talk triggers are empathy, usefulness, generosity, speed, and attitude.
Talk triggers are operational choices, not marketing campaigns.
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Motivated to help readers with nineteen percent of all consumer purchases in the United States are directly caused by word of mouth, Jay Baer wrote “Talk Triggers” to package those ideas for a fast, focused read. In “Talk Triggers”, Jay Baer focuses on nineteen percent of all consumer purchases in the United States are directly caused by word of mouth. Through “Talk Triggers”, Jay Baer distills the core ideas on business into lessons readers can absorb in a single short sitting. Readers turn to …
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