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Guerrilla  viral marketing

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Guerrilla and Viral Marketing

 

 

Guerrilla Marketing

Promotional strategies that use unconventional means and venues to push products.  Implies that marketers "ambush" the unsuspecting recipient.

Examples: Hyatt Hotels sent out 100 bellhops in Manhattan to open doors, carry bags  and hand out pillow mints. Scion uses street teams to hand out merchandise and hang up wild posters.1

 

 

Types of Guerrilla Marketing

 

          Experiential               Wild Posting               Presume               Ambient                   Ambush                

 

               Allows the                            Posting are                             Marketing                      Creating brand                     A company uses

               consumer to                         placed in large                       campaigns used             recognition by                     marketing tactics to

               interact and                          quantities in                           to make consumers       connecting a product           attract attention to 

               connect with                         in several places.                   feel the presence            to something else and         their brand during large

               the product                                                                        of a product.                  emphasizing it's features     events, often sponsored

               before purchase.                                                                                                      instead of the company.       by other companies.

 

                                  

 

          Presence                Alternative                Undercover                Viral

 

           Communicating                 "Publicity that                         Also known as                      Uses websites

           your product to                 looks like it is                         word of mouth                     or users to pass     

          the target market               completely removed               create a buzz about              on information via

           on a daily basis.                from the company                  a product by passing            other websites or

                                                    itself.                                     info from one person            users.2

                                                                                                  to another.

                

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benefits of Guerrilla Marketing

  • Inexpensive in most cases (viral or word of mouth)
  • Allows the business to make new connections 
  • It allows the company to break out of the clutter with new innovative techniques
  • It is memorable 3

 

 

Disadvantages of Guerrilla Marketing

  • Many variables that can go wrong
  • It is difficult to obtain measurable results
  • Takes a lot of dedication
  • Takes time to see results4 

 

Footnotes

1. Solomon 2011, pg 407-408

2. http://www.guerrillaonline.com/cs/Viral-marketing-67.htm

3. http://www.freeinternetmarketingcourses.com/blog/2007/11/28/advantages-disadvantages-of-guerilla-marketing/

4. http://www.gotobig.com/thinking-Big/big-talk/marketingbranding/guerrilla-marketing.aspx

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