Contagious: 6 Steps Recap

Social Currency:

Does talking about your product make people look good? Can you find the inner remarkability? Leverage game mechanics? Make people feel like insiders?

Triggers:

Consider the context. What cues make people think about your product or idea? How can you grow the habitat and make it come to mind more often?

Emotion:

Focus on feelings. Does talking about your product or idea generate emotion? How can you kindle the fire?

Public:

Does your product or idea advertise itself? Can people see when others are using it? If not, how can you make the private public? Can you create behavior residue that sticks around even after people use it?

Practical Value:

Does talking about your product or idea help people help others? How can you highlight incredible value, package your knowledge and expertise into useful information others will want to disseminate?

Stories:

What is your Trojan Horse? Is your product or idea embedded in a broader narrative that people want to share? Is the story not only viral, but also valuable?

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