The businesses rely on word of mouth, as well as mass e-mails, online videos and blogs.
The method of the algorithm is primarily based on word choice within a composite document.
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Pretty impressive for a company that does little advertising, relying mainly on word of mouth.
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The Gruets expend much effort getting their wines into Santa Fe restaurants, figuring on word-of-mouth tourist advertising.
So far the firm has relied entirely on word-of-mouth promotion by its fervent adherents to attract users.
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Authors, especially first-time and independent ones, count on word of mouth and reader reviews to sell books.
Relying on word of mouth, Edgefield finally made money in 1997 after losing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"I used to choose my health plan based on word of mouth from colleagues, " he confesses to me.
The key finding was that customers tend to rely on word of mouth when choosing a local merchant.
The site relies solely on word of mouth, and gets 500 new users each day because of this.
Mei said Siri was also based on word chat services before it was acquired by Apple on April 28, 2010.
Also, these chains tend to rely, as In-N-Out always has, on word of mouth as their primary form of advertising.
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To distinguish Popchips from the hundreds of other foods in the snack aisle, Mr. Belling focused on word-of-mouth and grass-roots marketing.
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Religion appears to be the fastest growing segment of the podcast community, and Patchett believes this is based on word of mouth.
Motorola shares moved nearly 1% lower on word of the legal battle.
Without it you rely on word of mouth tactics and if your strategy is built around that then you really are rolling the dice.
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Initially, we relied heavily on word of mouth by industry influencers.
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They also discussed the importance of promoting transnational cooperation on Word Heritage, building on the imperative of regional cooperation to face the current challenges of globalization.
"What we found is that it may be hard to put a value on word-of-mouth but that it absolutely has predictive power, " says Omar Wasow, a Ph.
It eliminated the need to learn how to navigate sites and rely on word of mouth to find the best sites available, truly changing the way people accessed content.
According to the Small Business Search Marketing Survey by American Express OPEN, U.S. small businesses can still count on word-of-mouth as a top way for shoppers to find them.
This was against Microsoft over a feature on Word.
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Built by New York-based startup Husky Laboratory, the extension quietly launched in the Chrome Web Store during mid-September and has relied solely on word of mouth to spread thus far.
On Wednesday, the airline sector fell hard as oil prices rose, although though shares of Midwest Air Group kicked up 5.3% on word of a higher bid for the company from AirTran Holdings.
Every pair of glasses is still designed and produced in the latest Mykita Haus in a quiet residential area of Berlin's Mitte district and much of the company's success is based on word-of-mouth, its founders say.
The study found that so-called "sociometric" leaders like Physician 184 had more of an influence on word-of-mouth buzz than the self-reported opinion leaders, perhaps because the latter group tend to be less involved with their peers.
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The challenges that e-commerce companies face in India mean that they are more likely to be successful if operating in small, high-margin niches, and rely on word of mouth for new customers instead of overblown marketing campaigns.
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Legg Mason ( LM - news - people ) shares moved more than 3% higher after the bell on word the company has paid off debt and amended its debt agreements with its lender.
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