The book's success is attributed to bloggers and the sharing of book reviews and recommendations on social media, as well as old-fashioned word of mouth advertising in physical coffee shops, and most probably at the school gates.

CNN: Erotic ebook surges up best seller list

With all the recent studies showing the growing potential of digital marketing channels such as mobile and various social media networks, it was somewhat refreshing to run across new research that shows good, old-fashioned Word of Mouth (WOM) is holding its own as an important tool to deliver marketing messages.

FORBES: Word of Mouth is Still a Valuable Marketing Tool

Its founders (ironically, two Americans), with a love of spoken word and good old fashioned rabble-rousing, decided to formalise what was already happening on bar stools across the city.

BBC: Dublin's underground literary scene

For lack of a better word, good old fashioned opportunistic public relations efforts won the day for Nabisco, with traditional Super Bowl advertising stars E-Trade and Bud Lite nowhere to be found.

FORBES: 2013 Super Bowl Review: Ahead of the Curve Now Wins

He is, in the very best sense of the word, an old-fashioned actor who has no fear of the grand gesture.

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