Andy’s Answers: How Bacon Salt created fantastic WOM

Bacon Salt is one of our favorite companies at GasPedal. Not only do they make delicious products, but the company is also a great case study on how to create amazing word of mouth without a big budget. Instead of elaborate campaigns and loads of money, the company that makes everything taste like bacon used social media to connect with a bunch of new fans.

How Bacon Salt did it:

  • They found their talkers. They searched social networks for anyone who publicly claimed they loved bacon (37,000 on MySpace alone). These are the people they originally reached out to and shared their new product with.
  • They’re active in all the key places. Smart marketers know they can’t be everywhere, but instead focus on where lots of their fans are. Bacon Salt has a great blog, an active Twitter account, and a bunch of videos on YouTube.
  • They made their story really easy to share. Every page of Bacon Salt’s Web site has links to quickly share the page with a bunch of social networks.

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  • I don't know, they didn't find me, and I mention bacon in 3 out of 6 public bios, and use the bacon hash tag at least twice a month at Twitter. To be honest, I'm feeling kind of left out. Damn, Bacon Salt, why you gotta hate like that?
  • Don't you think it is easy to be successful when people have real emotional connections to what they are saying. People feel very strongly about bacon (I know I do!), even the best social media strategy won't work for products or services people are apathetic about. As they say, Bacon makes everything better!
  • Mary Ellen Slayter
    @John Jenner: Criticism is welcome here, but watch your language.
  • john jenner
    This is crap and you seem like you are [profanity deleted] their product/company.

    No real data
    No analytics
    No true links or proof of their "success"

    Hope what you got paid for posting this was a lot.
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