"Leaving Ode there is a great idea, " a BzzAgent coach in Boston immediately responded.

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BzzAgent charges clients according to the number of agents used and the length of a campaign.

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"We feel like people need to understand how powerful their voice really is, " says BzzAgent founder Dave L. Balter, 32.

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"I'm not sure I understand why new-media companies need to pay to get big companies to pay attention to them, " says Dave L. Balter, founder of BzzAgent, a word-of-mouth marketer that Puris approached about joining up.

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Nearly every day Harris, 34, dutifully files an online report to a company in Boston called BzzAgent, detailing various aspects of his salesmanship, such as the time he left a copy of the magazine in a hotel spa.

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The give-and-take gives BzzAgent useful information.

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