Look who’s talking: Conversation marketing case studies

By Simon van Wyk

As discussed in our most recent podcast, online conversational marketing requires a different mindset to traditional marketing techniques.

Here are a few places you can go to find some good examples of conversation marketing in action:

  • Now is Gone – a good historical list ranging from Burger King’s Subservient Chicken campaign in 2004 (which even back then generated 17 million hits and resulted in a double-digit boost to chicken sandwich sales) to cause marketing through Facebook for the Nature Conservancy.
  • Cases2.com- Andrew McAfee, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, who made the most recent list of 100 Most Influential People in IT, has created a short but detailed collection of social media case studies.