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Mamaearth's Ghazal Alagh on Word-of-Mouth and Influencer Marketing

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The founder herself describing the grassroots mom-blogger gifting strategy that predated Mamaearth's Instagram-era scale - one of the clearest first-person accounts of what seeding looked like in India before the word "seeding" was even common vocabulary.

  • Gifted product to mom bloggers with no obligation, before Instagram was even a factor
  • Built genuine relationships first, scale (500+ bloggers, then celebrities) came after
  • Core philosophy: parents trust other parents more than they trust a brand directly
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The question it answers

  1. What can I learn from how Mamaearth used influencers and word-of-mouth before it had a big budget?

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