From the course: Jonah Berger on Viral Marketing

The power of viral marketing

From the course: Jonah Berger on Viral Marketing

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The power of viral marketing

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- All of us are working on ideas that we hope will become more popular. You might be working on a product, something new, or hoping to increase the sales of an old product. You might be hoping to change people's behavior to get them to do something differently or change their mindsets about the world. You might even be working for a non-profit, wanting to raise money for a charity or get people to be more pro-social towards the environment. But to make these ideas successful, to help them catch on, they have to grow beyond you and spread more broadly. It's not just enough for you to love this idea. Other people have to love it as well. I'm Jonah Berger, I'm a professor at the Wharton School and author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller "Contagious: Why Things Catch On". I'm going to share with you the secret science behind social transmission. I'll explain why all sort sorts of information, from offline stories and rumors to online content, like advertisements and videos, go viral and how you can apply these ideas to make your own stories and messages more likely to spread. While it's not just about advertising, and that's good news for us who don't have a large advertising budget, and it's not even about having the best product or the best idea. It's about using the power of social influence and word of mouth to help your ideas spread. It's not random and it's not luck. There's a science behind why people talk about and share some things rather than others. If you understand that science, those six key steps to driving behavior, you can craft contagious content and you can make your own products and ideas catch on.

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