Research: Small Companies Leverage WOM Better
Small companies do a better job leveraging word of mouth tools such as blogs and message boards -- and often allow company employees to engage with customers more freely and directly -- than large companies with more ad dollars to spend. Those are the key findings of a new study from Jupiter Research, which also found:
* 44% of small businesses ran corporate blogs, compared to only 24% of larger firms.
* 74% of smaller businesses posted information on a web site to generate buzz, versus 61% of larger companies.
* 30% of smaller businesses allowed employees to maintain blogs, compared to 22% of bigger businesses.
