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Word of mouth is all well and good, but a new Cone Inc. report indicates that consumers don’t take it as gospel when deciding on purchases. With all due respect to Uncle So-and-so’s opinion about what they should buy, people are looking online for information to support or rebut such advice.
Eighty-one percent of respondents to Cone’s polling (fielded online last month) agreed with the statement, “After getting a recommendation about a product or service I may want to purchase, I go online to do additional research about that product or service before deciding whether to purchase it.”
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