The Passion Conversation

NO PASSION, NO CONVERSATION. NO CONVERSATION, NO WORD OF MOUTH. NO WORD OF MOUTH, NO SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS.

If you think you are in the marketing business, think again. You're in the people business, and in order to succeed, you need to make people fall passionately and madly in love with your organization or cause. You need to stoke the embers of love by celebrating your customers, touching their lives, and discovering their passions.

Loaded with the latest in academic research, alongside practical, real-world stories, The Passion Conversation shows how any business can spark and sustain word of mouth marketing. Learn how loving your customers can result in not just building a thriving community, but also driving meaningful conversations and, ultimately, the financial success of your business.

The Passion Conversation will change your perspective on marketing by delivering essential advice and insights for igniting passion in your customers and employees, including:

• The three motivations that drive people to talk about businesses and causes
• How every marketing problem is actually a people problem in disguise
• Heartfelt evidence that marketing materials are now conversation tools
• The importance of finding the right people to lead a conversation
• A series of exercises called "Passion Explorations" to help you apply these lessons to your business
• And much more!

Marketers and businesses must go beyond shouting about your product and services. The time has come to understand, spark, and sustain the passion conversation that tells the world why your business is in business. Customers, those madly in love with your brand, will happily and passionately tell others of your greatness.