Welcome to the Reinventing 2.0 Series. This will be a bi-monthly series on this blog and feature interviews, book reviews and insight around Web 2.0 and social media.
Today I’m featuring a short review of David Meerman Scott’s latest tome, “World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers That Get Millions of People to Spread Your Ideas and Share Your Stories.” (Wiley, 2009)
The book launch kicked off at SXSW and I was there to hear David talk about the book and at the same time create his own mini-rave by having all of us hold up his posters at the end. Great!
You might also check out how David did on the NASDAQ floor on Monday, but most importantly you need to get his book.
And you need to lose control, which is rule #3 in his Rules of the Rave.
I loved the book not only for its actionable content, but also I have to say that Wiley as a publisher is really kicking it up a notch with the way the book was designed and packaged. They also had the smarts to release it on Kindle for free for a whole week which got it to number one in non-fiction on Amazon Kindle.
Key takeaways from the book for you to apply to your own “world wide rave” endeavors:
” Viral marketing is rarely a world wide rave.”
“A world wide rave is NOT about sales leads.”
“When you truly know your buyer personas, you’re ready to transform your marketing and generate a World Wide Rave.”
“Nothing is guaranteed to be a world wide rave.”
“Be the Grateful Dead and not Led Zeppelin.” (Read the book to find out why.)
And my favorite insight, “You’ve got to think in terms of spreading ideas, not generating leads.”
(To see how David started out, you can read an interview I did with David in 2006, while I was editor of the Must Read Business Books blog for Allbusiness.com here. )
Next up on this Reinventing 2.0 Series will be an interview with Rebecca Lieb on her new book,”The Truth About Search Engine Optimization.” It’s a fantastic book.
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Sounds great and can’t wait to read the book, so thanks for the tip.
Interestingly, our research shows that life’s most sustainably successful, callings-led people (how’s that for a mouthful?) live much of what it sounds like he’s suggesting…
HI Lissa!
You smart gal. Wonderful insight.
Nettie
Thanks Nettie! Glad that you liked the book and thank you for taking the time to write it up. It was good to see you at SXSW (but just for a moment).
Cheers! David
Hi David,
Great to see you. Loved the book and I’m shy in person when I’m not in front of a laptop so thus the short moment. Although I did get pretty outgoing at the Mashable party! But that had to do with the ambience and drinking enough to enjoy watching the karaoke, in particular Peter Shankman’s song.:>)
Signed your unabashed Rave, Rave, Rave – fan.