Viral Velocity --How to Build a Million Dollar Business Machine, Part 4

Viral Velocity --How to Build a Million Dollar Business Machine, Part 4
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The internet is the perfect platform for spreading the buzz about a website, product or even film. This is known as viral velocity, it's like the momentum of a sneeze spreading worldwide overnight via the internet.

The internet is instant in nature, and if someone likes something they see or read they will recommend it straight away and with the power of Web 2.0 this can spread like wildfire. The internet doesn't close, it's worldwide and millions of people are on it 24/7. Wouldn't you like some of that buzz and momentum about your latest article, blog post or free ebook?

The secret is to create something of value for free, like ebooks, articles, posting interesting content on forums and blogs, software, or videos and use the power of social networking to get the word out. These are the seeds of your viral campaign and the more you get out there, the more likely that sneeze will spread to the far corners of the World Wide Web.

Some considerations you should think about when creating your viral seeds and campaigns are how easy is the viral seed (whether it's a URL, article, free ebook, video, software etc) to pass on? It might be that you need to provide instructional videos or promotional tools for people to want to pass the seed on. If there is an added incentive like the ebook can be rebranded with that person's affiliate details, then they are more motivated to pass it on.

If passing the viral seed on is easy, then you increase your chances of it going viral. It could be as simple as you Twittering your latest blog post URL and someone picks that up and lets their followers know, and someone else does the same. Before you know it, this could have a whole load of visitors to your blog.

Be warned though good news spreads fast, bad news spreads even faster, so make sure all your dealings online are honest, above board and your best work. There will always be people we don't get on with, but keep conversations civil, especially on forum posts and blog posts, as these can be picked by the search engines and can go viral also. If your credibility and reputation is damaged in this way, it can be hard work to build up the momentum again.

Valuable content and viral velocity - that is the key to this money making system. Everything that you place online should be valuable information, directing you towards your final business goals. One of your goals should be building a list by giving ebooks away and this combined with viral velocity is a powerful money making system, but only if what you create is valuable.

The last bit of advice I will give you today, is that when you start out with your business online don't chase the money; nothing puts people off more. Instead, create valuable resources that people will appreciate you for and they will seek out your products and ways to give money to you. Be helpful and let the money come to you.

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Viral Marketing Method

Viral Marketing Method
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So you want to get free traffic to your website? Have you ever tried viral marketing?

Viral Marketing, if done right can explode your website traffic in just a few weeks time. The best part is it is totally free and very effective.

If your in advertising and can get free search engine traffic you will get more visitors and make more sales to your website. It's as simple as that.

How do you start viral marketing? Well you can create a free report with your product inside as a backend and tell people that download the report, that they can make money with the report by changing the links in the report to their affiliate link.

This way other people have an incentive to give the report away to their visitors and list members and thus the viral effect starts happening as more people read the report and start doing the same thing. You pay all your affiliates a good commission and you make the smaller percentage because they sold the product for you.

The benefit to them is they get money for the sale and you get to recruit a many affiliates as possible. Just image for one minute, that you created a report and 100 affiliates gave it away to their list of 1000 each. Your report will be seen by 100,000 people. Do you see the power in viral marketing?

Another thing you can do is make a piece of software or buy resell rights to the software and give it away. You advertise inside the software and people that download it and use it will see your ad every time they use the tool. This a great way for permanent exposure.

So you can create a viral video or ebook/report or software but how do you market it on the web?

1 Use article directories and write articles on your topic.

2 Upload you video to video share sites.

3 Use Cnet and others to give away free software.

4 Use Social Networks to post your reports and videos to.

5 Start an affiliate content site and have your viral brandable PDF in your promo section.

Viral marketing is one of the best ways to get free targeted traffic to your website. The best part is, the viral effect compounds itself, so after you do some essential marketing you won't be able to stop the traffic even if you wanted to.

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3 Sure-fire Ways to Get Free Viral Traffic to Your Website

3 Sure-fire Ways to Get Free Viral Traffic to Your Website
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One of the most important numbers for your website will be your value per visitor, and even if you have a very high value per visitor, you still may make any profits. If your current VPV is 30 cents, and you are paying Google 30 cents per click for your advertising, then you aren't making anything. But on the same token, let's pretend you took the time to implement a few viral marketing tactics for your website, and let's pretend that you starting to get 300 free website visitors per day. That would mean a $90 profit each day for your business. That's $2,700 per month and $32,850 per year in profits. There are 3 sure-fire ways to get this viral traffic to your website and I want to share them with you.

One of the most popular ways for getting free viral traffic to your websites is by creating a viral eBook; the only problem is that many people do it all wrong. Many people will write a book report and call it an eBook. What I mean by this is that many people will write a 30 page guide, put everything is 18 point font, give people resale and master distribution rights, and call it good. Now, some people write really great 30 page eBooks with killer content, but in the majority of cases, if you really want your viral eBook to be shared with everyone, then a 30 page "book report" isn't going to work!

So, here's the real secret to creating a great viral eBook: You are going to want to make the content so great that you would find people across the web selling similar content for $30, $50, $100 or more. You want people to read your book and then think to themselves that the information was so great that they would have been willing to pay for the information. When people think this to themselves, then they will want to include your eBook as a free bonus on their site, give it away, or resell your eBook for a profit. You will mention your websites and maybe include a few affiliate links in your eBook so that you get free traffic and maybe make some extra income for your efforts.

A second very popular way for you to create free viral marketing for your website is to provide great resources on your site. It is very popular to see sites giving away free eCourses or newsletters. I have done this a number of times and it works very well. You can also give away your viral eBooks, free recorded calls, coupons, free reports, etc. Basically, you want to provide tons of resources with high perceived value that you can deliver electronically, making the only cost to you your time. Providing people with these great free offers usually automatically assures that you will get word of mouth advertising. Remember that content is king, and that especially goes for viral marketing.

A third sure-fire technique to brining free viral traffic to your websites is by creating viral videos. I admit that this is not an easy task to accomplish, but if you put in some effort, then it can all be worth it. Here are a few tips: First, make sure that after you have creating your "amazing video" that you include within that video a compelling offer for people to visit your website and learn more. Second, ask people to share your video with friends and ask them to comment and rank your video. If you convince people that your video is worth sharing, and then ask them to share it, then they likely will. Third, upload your viral video to multiple video sharing sites for maximum exposure. You see, your video make go viral on a site like Mega Video before it goes viral on YouTube, so you'll want to upload and promote your video on as many sites as possible for maximum effectiveness.

I would like to point out that there is a common theme amongst all three of these viral marketing techniques, and that is the theme of creating great content and then giving it to people for free. When viral marketing has worked the best, it has always been because of people providing very informative or entertaining information for free. The more value you can provide to people for free, the more word of mouth marketing you will receive. Then you will be rewarded with tons of free website traffic while others may struggle to break even with a similar business.

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Start A Viral Marketing Campaign Using eBooks As Your Viral Salesman

Start A Viral Marketing Campaign Using eBooks As Your Viral Salesman
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Viral Marketing is a very effective way to generate lots of traffic to your website. You can compare the very concept of Viral Marketing to that of someone having a cold.

As one person spread germs by coughing or sneezing while in the presence of others, more and more germs are spread until practically every person in that same area end up with a cold.

That's the nature of viral marketing. Once you create a viral eBook to start a viral marketing campaign, include your affiliate links, links to your sales page or website and give it to a few people who in turn gives it to two or three other people, the viral effect begins.

As more people get access to your viral eBook and pass it along (which is what you encourage them to do), eventually, your eBook takes on an exponential effect and is spreading all over the internet among thousands of people.

eBooks are easy to duplicate and the marketing eBook has taken on a life of its own and has become a very important part if internet marketing.

Unlike a regular eBook the marketing eBook contains a lot more. It contains navigation controls, text, links to other web pages, images, navigation controls and more.

Your viral eBook can be your best salesman because you can present your story in a much different and effective way.

It's better to write your own eBook and there are several ways that you can create it.

You can create an eBook using articles or Private Label Rights Material or you could hire a ghostwriter to write an eBook for you.

Always make sure that your eBook is very informative and interesting. It is also wise to include inside of your eBook, links back to your sales page or website.

You have to make sure that you let your reader's know that it's OK for them to pass your eBook around the internet and that they have your permission to do so.

You should provide a section in your eBook that explains the things that they can or can't do with your eBook.

For instance, you can grant them certain rights such as the right to freely give away your eBook to other people, bundle it with other products, use it as a bonus, use it as content, etc.

As you will be including links back to your website, be sure to test every link to make sure it is working properly and check the spelling and grammar before you release your eBook to the public.

Obvious grammatical and spelling errors will reflect badly on you and could be very damaging. One way to check for errors is to use the spell checker on your computer.

You will still have to proofread you eBook because the spell checker doesn't always catch everything.

Another way to market your eBook is to use eBook directories.

Some eBook directories are free. If allowed, post your eBook to those eBook directories. Though some eBook directories are not free, some will still allow you to post a link to your eBook on their website.

Marketing your eBook this way will create a viral marketing effect for your eBook for years to come.

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Viral Marketing – A Traffic Building Method To Reckon With!

Viral Marketing – A Traffic Building Method To Reckon With!
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Targeted Traffic Is The Key

The popularity of a website can be measured by the amount of targeted traffic it gets. There are hundreds of ways to attract traffic to a website – some extremely effective, some not so effective. Among these, viral marketing is one method no online marketer can do without. In fact, most Internet businesses use it in one form or another without conscious effort.

What Is Viral Marketing?

Put simply, viral marketing is just like word of mouth marketing. The marketing message is quickly spreads through everyone exposed to it just like a virus and soon everyone knows about it. When the intention is to make money online, careful thought goes into the kind of message that needs to be spread. It must be easily understood so that it can be passed on naturally. Some ingredients of a successful viral marketing strategy are:

Has products to distribute for free
Is easy to pass on
Takes advantage of gregarious behavior of people
Knows what triggers action in people
Uses communication lines that are already there
Makes use of resources available from others, etc

The great thing about viral marketing is that it can keep up a consistent flow of traffic long after the message is out. This is especially useful when a new product or service is being launched. Most Internet marketers use free stuff like ebooks, Ecourses, affiliate programs, free basic software, etc. in viral marketing to grab the attention of their target niche market. As these wares are sampled, it develops a thirst for more, pulling the traffic back to their website! Viral marketing is a great way to build email lists.

Viral Marketing Strategies:

There are many ways in which viral marketing can be used to multiply the number of people you want to reach effortlessly. The main idea is to bring these people back to your website. The following are some highly effective viral marketing strategies that every Internet marketing ebook will elaborate on:

Through your articles: by letting people to reprint your article on their websites, in their newsletters, ezines or ebooks. Your article includes an author bio or resource box with a link to the website and the message permitting the user to reprint the article in its entirety.

Resale rights: making a resale rights package comprising of an ebook, audio, etc. and including your website URL and name in it. When people buy your product and distribute it as their own, your URL will get a lot of visitors.

Resale rights: making a resale rights package comprising of an ebook, audio, etc. and including your website URL and name in it. When people buy your product and distribute it as their own, your URL will get a lot of visitors.

Ebooks: Niche market ebooks are very successful in viral marketing. Some viral marketers promote other products through their ebooks while letting their own affiliate links remain in the ebook.

Referrals: offer a download link as a freebie for visitors who recommend your site to three of their friends.

Newsletters: ask subscribers to send your newsletter to friends

There are hundreds more like these. Viral marketing cashes in on the speed at which the message is passed on – if a large number of people relay the message to an equal or more number of people, there is a snowballing effect. Of course, there are messages that fizzle off as well if they are not compelling enough.

How To Ensure That Viral Marketing Is Effective

As a very low cost method, viral marketing ranks among the most effective since it can use several channels at once. But to ensure that it is completely effective, the viral message must present an obvious benefit for it to be passed on. It must be easy to forward as well as easy for the marketer to track so that there is at least an approximate idea of its reach.

As far as limited period offers are concerned, viral marketing campaigns are not such a good idea simply because of the nature of viral marketing. Imagine having 50,000 items on offer, a 100,000 people getting the message; then the remaining 50,000 would probably set some negative viral marketing in motion!

That said, viral marketing has been around for a long time, and will definitely continue to be used. It is a question of finding new ways to get the best out of it. There are several ebooks like the Mike Filsaime Butterfly Marketing manuscript that talk about it.

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Online Joint Ventures – Partners In Success

Online Joint Ventures – Partners In Success
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Aim Is Mutual Benefit

The concept of joint ventures is a boon to any online marketer who wants a lot of targeted traffic and publicity without spending a dime or with a dismally low advertising budget. A joint venture or JV is where two or more people join hands for mutual benefit – in this instance, to make profits.

Why joint ventures are powerful

The biggest advantage of joint ventures is that you can take advantage of your partner’s most precious assets – namely his email lists and his website where he enjoys a flood of traffic. For those who also offer an affiliate program, JVs are the ideal way to promote them. Some of the best people who make profitable JV partners are those that have newsletters and websites that are similar to your niche market. It is quite common in the Internet marketing world to see JV partners with similar sites. They exchange links, share content and at times also sign up with each other’s affiliate programs.

Locating The Ideal JV Partner

About the only problem with JV partners are finding the right ones and having something relevant to offer them. Some Internet marketers try to find JV partners via the search engines with the help of their keywords. You can also locate JV partners at niche market Forums, newsletter directories and membership sites. Teaming up as a joint venture can bring in additional resources that both partners can use to their advantage to make money online

Basically the JV partner must preferably be someone who runs a business that can complement yours. Someone you view as a competitor could also be a potential JV partner in certain cases. The traffic to your sites must find both the websites of value to them. It is important that a joint venture partner’s plus points add the right value to your own products or services.

Kinds of Joint Ventures

Joint ventures can be of different types. Ezine joint ventures involve a joint subscription. When someone signs up on your site for your ezine, you thank him or her via email and invite them to sign up with your Joint Venture partner’s ezine. Your JV partner does the same for you with the result that you promote each other. Your JV partner promotes their business on your site, while you promote yourself on theirs through messages targeted to your niche.

Some JV partners use the concept of exit pop ups on their site. If you use pay per click advertising, you end up paying for each click regardless of whether it results in a sale. To maximize the return on your PPC investment, for visitors who leave your site without buying, you use an exit pop up window that points them to another site.

Another way to benefit from a JV is to email your subscribers to inform them about special offers from your JV partner. Since they are your optin subscribers, they will take you seriously. The JV partner also promotes your offers to their email list. There are several Internet Marketing Ebooks that talk about multiple ways to make joint ventures a totally symbiotic relationship.

Tracking Your JV Performance

While JVs have their advantages by being risk free, easy to use and easy to set up, it is important to monitor their effectiveness for your site. A JV works best when the both benefit through the alliance. There must be some kind of equality – for example, if you send 10000 visitors to your JV’s site, and get 100 in return, then its time to take a close look. A joint venture must begin to generate substantial traffic as well as profits almost immediately after you set it up and that is what makes this a preferred method for building lists.

Joint ventures can take online businesses to an entirely different level. Through experimentation, there are many creative ways to make JV’s work. Resources like the Mike Filsaime Butterfly Marketing Manuscript have substantial information on this concept. Many Internet marketers have made a fortune through joint ventures.

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Understanding The Strengths Of Viral Marketing

Understanding The Strengths Of Viral Marketing
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The power of viral marketing can be seen in the answer you give to this question – Who would you rather believe – a movie star extolling the virtues of a toilet cleaner or your next door neighbor? The answer is very simple. In the over-advertised world of today, if people watch ads at all, it is for the production quality and the glamour. Trust them? I doubt. Everyone knows that an ad is all about someone trying to make a profit out of you.

The marketing world may try to hide the harsh truth behind ads by calling them info-tainment or consumer education. They may try and embed them in films or in TV programming. But the truth is known to most. 90% of what you watch is someone trying to condition your responses in a certain way.
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We Trust Those We Know

Viral advertising is very different. You trust people whom you daily interact with. And if they tell you that a restaurant is good, you take it at face value.

As an advertiser, if you were to market your goods or services using viral marketing techniques, your efforts will be more credible and most likely to get far better results. A key aspect of viral marketing is the understanding that not every person is ideal to carry on this campaign. There are people who like to spread the word around and there are people who are not so inclined.

A viral marketing strategy therefore tries to identify those people who are naturally inclined to build social networks. Having done that, it tries and creates messages that these people will enjoy discussing. On an average, a well networked person will have a list of fifteen to twenty who he/she will communicate with. If even one third of these are as good at networking the first person, the message will have a higher chance of reaching upwards in just two or three iterations.
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Ethical Issues With Viral Marketing

Sure enough, there is no dearth of people crying foul. Viral marketing, they say is taking advantage of the trust people put in their friends and using it for devious gains and for personal advantage. This is especially so when marketing agencies collect e-mail addresses referred by people and then send promotional mail with the friend’s name in the subject line, thereby increasing the chances that the mail will be read.

While there are some aspects of viral marketing that still need to be debated and clarified, it is clear that it is a powerful marketing medium. A person needs to be selective in providing references because of the dangers of abuse. The industry will also have to regulate itself and bring in mechanisms that will ensure fair play and that will make the subject of the mail clear. Regardless, it is evident that viral marketing will play a major role in modern advertising campaigns.

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Viral Strategies for Internet Marketing

Viral Strategies for Internet Marketing
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First of all, I realize that anything with "viral" in the name doesn't conjure up images of something you want close by, but there is a new type of Internet marketing known as "viral marketing" is worth investigating. Despite its unflattering appellation, it is an effective Internet collaboration marketing tool, and one that is important to understand if you want to expand your business.

What is Viral Marketing?

Viral marketing is a strategy that encourages your business to carry a marketing message via e-mail, and to partner with other businesses, which will attach your marketing message to their emails. This is ultimately another form of collaborative marketing for your company, but one that lends credibility because your message is passed on through other companies. The name viral marketing was chosen to indicate the way a virus can rapidly multiply within a cell, and ultimately taking over the cell, bending the cell to the whims of the virus. This aggressive expansion and growth is the target of a viral marketing platform.

The strategy ultimately uses a network of relationships that you have developed, as well as the relationships and resources of the companies with whom you are collaborating, which are attaching your message to their emails. This can work both for your own business, as well as a collaborative marketing partnership with other companies.

You can include a marketing message in the emails that your company sends to its clients and customers, and you can contract to have your marketing message sent by other companies, via their emails. By creating collaborative relationships with secondary companies to pass along your email advertisement, you will be able to reach out to a whole new client base that, perhaps otherwise, you would not have been able to target.

This may sound a little confusing at first: am I sending marketing messages along with my companies emails, or are other companies sending my advertisement along with their emails? The answer is either, or both—both are good ways to get a marketing message broadcasted. Using an outside company often involves a fee, but may be a worthwhile investment due to the sheer volume of people you'll be able to reach, as well as the range of customers you'll be able to target, because it differs from your typical client base.

A Few Examples

You have undoubtedly been exposed to viral marketing, yet have not realized it or registered the fact. One of the most classic examples of viral marketing is used by the free email website, Hotmail.com. If I have a hotmail account, automatically attached to each email message I send is an accompanying by a message from Hotmail.com, encouraging the recipient to sign up for an account. In this way, Hotmail is advertising its own business through the emails that each of its existing clients sends.

Another clear example is that of e-greeting cards. Each greeting card that is sent carries the company's marketing message, encouraging the recipient to send a card using this service. If I receive an electronic greeting card from a friend, I will automatically be prompted to send a card using the site from which I've just received mail.

Viral marketing is a newer Internet marketing strategy that was more recently developed and is quickly becoming popular. It is a strategic way to advertise your business and services, as well as to partner with other companies to help you form a broader collaborative marketing platform.

Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A strategic Collaboration Marketing consulting firm. He empowers business owners to discover and implement Integration, Alliance, and Joint Venture marketing tactics to solve specific business challenges. He demonstrates how to create your own Collaboration Marketing Strategy to increase your sales, conversation rates, and repeat business.

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Viral Marketing Basics

Viral Marketing Basics

Viral Marketing is one of the best ways for you to sell a product or service – in fact, it's one of the best ways to make a lot of sales.

How? Because thanks to the way that viral marketing works, you don't need to have a big list, or a lot of money to put into an advertising campaign – but you can still have a huge impact.

First of all, let's go over exactly what viral marketing is. (According to Wikipedia, "Viral Marketing refers to marketing techniques that use preexisting social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet. Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily. Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, images, or even text messages.")

But that sounds a little complicated, don't you think? To break it down into plain English, basically Viral Marketing is just a way of getting a bunch of people to tell other people about something you've created to build a buzz about your product or service. And by passing it around to other people, it builds social proof – (because there's a kind of implied endorsement when you send something to someone else.) Sometimes you get lucky and the more it's passed around the more it takes on a life of its own.

A perfect example is the "Free Hugs" video on YouTube. It has been viewed by millions of people, and the music – a song written by a group called the "Sick Puppies." That video was responsible for launching their singing career – even though that was not the original intention. That video – and the story behind it went viral and caught the attention – and the hearts – of people all over the world. It even spawned a movement that is still going on.

Although you might not be able to pull off a viral marketing campaign that does as well as the "Free Hugs" video, if you are willing to spend a little time researching your market and your target audience, and can think outside the box, you can create a very successful viral marketing campaign of your own.

What kind of things can go viral? Obviously videos. (In fact, if you look at most of the "gurus" in the Internet Marketing field right now, you'll see they're all heavily using videos to promote their launches and create marketing campaigns that go viral. However, if you don't have the desire to do videos, you can go with that old standby – the "Special Report." Podcasts, white papers, even case studies all have the ability to "go viral" and get a lot of people very interested in what you have to say – and sell.

To create a successful viral marketing campaign, it's very important that you find the right mix of media, marketing and audience. Make sure that your target audience is going to be interested in what you have to say, the way you're saying it and how you're bringing it to their attention. If you get these three things right, chances are, you'll have a winner on your hands, and your next marketing campaign will go viral too.

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Multiply Your Efforts with Viral Marketing

Viral Marketing is all about giving away your own free product or service along with your ad copy (contact information, link, email, etc.). In turn, recipients of your free product are allowed to pass it along to their own clients, prospects, visitors and others as a freebie. This is a quick way to multiple your marketing at no extra expense and without extra effort on your part.

Here are some popular viral marketing techniques to follow:

1. Ebooks – Share your no cost ebook with your website visitors. Include a nice full-color ad for your most popular product line with links to your website and email. Tell recipients to share copies of the ebook with their own site visitors and other contacts.

2. Software - Share a trial or “lite” version of your software with your website visitors as a freebie. Don’t forget to include that ad for your most popular product line with links to your website and email. And tell recipients to share copies of the software with their own site visitors and other contacts. For help creating software, hire help from online bid sites like Elance.com.

3. Web Host – Offer to host small business web sites on your server at no charge. In exchange, place your own banner ad at the top of the site for viral marketing. You can setup a fold for their site and they can choose their own domain name and have it redirected to that folder.

4. Templates – Design your own website or other templates, include your own marketing information on them and give them away as free downloads or as an electronic package. Grant permission for recipients to pass them along.

5. Articles – Write articles about your industry. Include your website and contact information in the byline and grant permission for others to publish as long as they keep the byline in tact. Then people can use your contact on websites, in ezines, newsletters and other places where once again, viral marketing will speed the spread of information about your business.

6. Discussion Board - Set up a Discussion Board on your website with your banner ad attached at the top. And invite others to link to it and use it for their own sites.

In summary, by using viral marketing strategies, you can reach out all over the Internet with much less effort. See which methods work best for you and repeat them as often as needed.

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The Hidden Power In Viral Marketing

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There is enormous power in viral marketing and it stems from the fact that it can be very tightly bound to its audience. You can broadcast an idea to the winds but only a few will ever germinate or bear fruit. But if you are able to ensure that people who have need of your product or service get to receive news of it directly then the per sale cost of advertising will be substantially lower.

How Internet Scores Over TV And Print

It is but natural that the advertising you create is closely linked with the type of product you are offering. If you are creating something that has value in a limited geographical area then your medium of advertising will differ from a situation where you sell globally. But the Internet can be of great value to you in either case. This is where it scores heavily over both print and TV media. Both of these cannot be applied universally without prohibitive costs. However, with Internet based viral marketing, you can be both local and global at extremely low costs.

On the other hand, even Internet based viral marketing is not a piece of cake. Most of us know that there are billions of pages on the net and these are growing exponentially. Besides this, the average unsolicited e-mail is never opened and more often than not, the sender is blocked as a spammer. How then do you ensure that your message is seen?...read more Viral Marketing

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Great Tips For Successful Viral Marketing

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While many successful marketers know the great benefits of viral marketing, many others are simply not aware. Some may even associate the word ‘viral’ with something nasty or unethical!

The DNA Of Viral Marketing

Of course all those who know better, know that the ‘viral’ in viral marketing refers to the rate of growth if something simply doubles every day. No doubt you have heard of the weed that doubles every day. If today it covers the entire pond, then a week ago, the weed patch was barely visible! So it is with viral marketing. If everyone who is introduced to a product simply tells two others about it twice in a day, then in a month you will have probably covered the country!

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Build Your Online Business Using Viral Marketing Techniques

Build Your Online Business Using Viral Marketing Techniques
By Paul Majestyck

Viral marketing has emerged as an unstoppable marketing tool to reckon with in businesses. It is a system that makes use of networks that have existed from before for the promotion of a service, idea, or a product. The term viral gained currency because this marketing method spreads very fast among people by passing information.

Given below are some superb viral marketing techniques and characteristics:

1. Give away something of value away for free

One of the most powerful marketing terms is none other than “free.” When you plan to use this term for your enterprise think about what you want to give away as a freebie. A few of the common things are research reports, e-zines and books, free samples, or an email auto-responder course. All of these items can be provided for “free” through various means. Put opt in tools on all the pages of your website for any or all of the above.

Opt in functions should also be installed in your current e-zines, in your article or blog signature file, in your email signature file and cross referenced with each marketing tool.

2. Provide a way to easily transfer an idea, image or concept to others

Viruses spread only when they are easily transmitted, otherwise they stay inside their host subject. It is very important to create a marketing system that can be forwarded easily. Attachments, HTML emails, podcasts and website links are some of the techniques that can be sent to recipients. Internet users also forward to others website links of articles, blogs and forum posts that they like themselves.

3. Make it scalable

Your business as well as website should have the strength to tackle a large flow of queries when you start on viral marketing. For instance, if large number of people show interest on your freebies that you have put up, do you possess the technology to deliver what you promise? If not, then you should contact a provider that can do the needful on your behalf. Becoming thoroughly acquainted with this marketing tool before you introduce a campaign and getting used to the supportive technology that you will require to execute the plan are a must as requests pour in.

4. Make use of the motivation and natural instinct of others

Opt ins and permission email lists are instances of marketing skills that make explore the natural instinct of people to want things for free. Affiliate programs make use of businesses by generating a high volume of links from persons searching for a place to put high quality ads on their sites.

5. Utilize current and existing communication methods

Once you decide to launch a viral marketing campaign, make sure that you explore the most recent internet marketing tools and trends. Right now email autoresponders, podcasts, nanocasts, article writing, blogs, and instant messenger are the most popular communication and marketing tools the Internet has to offer. To become a successful business owner you will need to acquaint yourself with all of these methods and also newer techniques that come up so as to build a real viral marketing potential.

By making the most of the above ideas, your business will be in a prime status to generate small and even big scale viral effects as you create quality materials for your business.

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Boost Your Business With The Power Of Viral Marketing

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Viral marketing is an essential marketing tool because you cannot expand your business without marketing it in some way or the other. It has long been proven that of all the advertising methods in use, the ‘word of mouth’ method works best in a localized scenario. No matter what the glossy ads may say, if a friend tells you of a product and how well it has worked, you become automatically predisposed to trying it out.

Don’t Use Pink Dancing Rabbits

The same holds true for viral marketing. This technique relies on people receiving intimation of your product – not from parties that have a vested interest, but from real live persons who have tried the product out and have something good to say about it. This sort of buzz carries far more credibility. Most businesses consciously try to create this with their advertising methods. This is why you see a lot more typically next door persons in the ads these days rather than pink dancing rabbits. And if you do have pink dancing rabbits in your ads, then you better sell rabbit feed!...read more

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Using Articles For Viral Marketing

Using Articles For Viral Marketing
By Paul Majestyck

Viral marketing methods are used today for one good reason – they work. There are many different techniques that you can use, but it tends to be better to focus on one strategy at a time and work at it until you get the results you want. If you are already into ‘bum’ or article marketing, a great strategy is to turn your articles into a viral marketing report or eBook.

As you have already written the articles, it requires very little work on your part to develop something that will bring in traffic (and sales) for years to come. Compiling the articles into a single document is relatively easy although you may need to do some work in re-branding and making it aesthetically pleasing. In addition, there may be some effort required in adding viral elements. Many authors are not so subtle and put in blatant advertisements. You may get more success by adding some value to the reader and disguising the marketing component. A popular technique is to add a review of several products in the particular niche. You will need to include your own affiliate links, but to make them less obvious you should consider cloaking them.

Distribution can be done in many ways. If the resulting publication is of high quality you could consider selling it. In order to make it viral you would need to include reprint rights. Not only do you get sales from the book (which is practically written already), you get others spreading it around on your behalf.

If you really want the material to spread you should consider giving it away and encourage others to do the same (with the proviso that the material is not changed in any way). You can advertise your giveaway in forums and in list emails. One area that can be very useful but is often neglected is on the download page of any related products you sell. People love to be provided with unadvertised bonuses. Because it is on the download page, it is seen as a part of the actual order and most people will download it.

A viral marketing campaign costs a lot less to implement than traditional advertising. It needs to be remembered that viral marketing is just one component of your marketing repertoire. It should be linked with other strategies such as setting up squeeze pages to collect opt-ins. When combined with other essential business building strategies it can help to generate traffic to your web site, build a huge and solid customer base, add to your sales and contribute towards your success.

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Mass Customization And Viral Marketing

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Have you heard of mass customization? Viral marketing allows you to do that for your target audience. The greatest advantage of mass customization lies in the fact that you are able to tailor your core message for users in such a way that every recipient feels that the message is meant only for him. Such a message carries far greater credibility than a standard – one size fits all approach that most advertisements apply.

So how do you customize a message that has a target audience of say ten thousand? There are a few very distinct methods, and they vary with the mechanism of viral marketing that you decide to use.

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Customize Or Fail

If you are going to launch your viral marketing campaign using e-mail as the primary media, then the process is fairly simple. To begin with, you will need to tap the power of the core group of your users. This is a group of power users who are so satisfied with your product or service that they are willing to put in a good word on your behalf to just about anyone. Ask all of them for a testimonial and references of friends and business acquaintances who they think will be interested in your product....read more

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Learn Viral Marketing – Say Goodbye To Traditional Marketing Methods

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Once you have figured out viral marketing, I doubt if you will really put your entire faith in traditional methods again. This is not to say that you will stop using the standard methods of advertising, but that your perspective on how advertising is to be used to deliver results, will change.

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An Example Of Local Viral Advertising

I will give you the example of a servicing station. Every time you got your car serviced in that particular station, you were made to feel as if you were the only customer. They would keep a track of your mileage, your oil change and give you reminders when various schedules were falling due.

Your car was tracked and maintained as if it was the Atlantis out to go into orbit and every time you went there, you were surprised by that little extra. Just before the rains, they would make it a point to check your wipers and tires – mind you they didn’t stock tires – but their concern for your safety showed.

This service station did not advertise its great service. Its patrons did it. I never went anywhere else if I could help it, and guess what; I told everyone I had a car related conversation with, about the service. I am sure that the service station never had a bay empty.

The entire operation was sold on word of mouth advertising, the best kind there is, and was backed up by a service that kept getting better....read more

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Viral Marketing for the Uninitiated

Although most any computer user has been conditioned to back off quickly at the word virus, viral marketing is actually a good thing! Vital marketing, for the uninitiated, is the methodology by which potential consumers of a company’s product are led to willingly share personal information about an interaction with that company or its affiliate marketers without there being any monetary incentive for the consumer to do so. In other words, it is akin to the old model of word of mouth marketing, only this time it takes place online.

Of course, what are the odds of a consumer telling another to go to a certain website to buy a product? The odds are slim overall. Especially if the two consumers do not have a need for exactly the same product! On the other hand, if the company were to include a fun game – maybe a video game, a crossword puzzle, or an oldie but goodie like Solitaire with a twist – on its website, the chances of one consumer passing on the information to another are much greater!

The goal of viral marketing for the uninitiated is to create sticky content that can be passed on from one consumer to another or, in the alternative, will encourage one consumer to suggest the website to another. Such games will have customers come back time and again even if they are not planning on buying anything, yet it is the visit that creates the potential for a sale and if savvy marketers are able to build the web traffic, before long the sales will increase quite dramatically as well.

Viral marketing may also be done via email and this is the thought behind the cornucopia of free newsletters that are being sent out by a plethora of websites. Consider the mandatory newsletter creation requirements of the Bella website or the various free newsletters that several major stores and also television shows put out, and it is obvious that with the useful information the incentive of passing on the information to someone else who might find it useful is quite great!

Yet the only way that viral marketing will be truly successful for any company rests heavily on the portability of the information. Generally speaking, if a customer has to copiously preface an email or link, it will not get sent, while an email that is fairly self explanatory or requires only a sentence or two in explanation will be passed on much more readily. If you are creating viral marketing campaigns, remember to observe the spam laws! Consumers will not pass on unsolicited commercial emails even if the information contained therein is quite useful.

On the flipside, if you offer free sign ups and perhaps promise money savings downloadable coupons with your newsletter, finding willing consumers who will look forward to your emails is an easy proposition indeed. Add a little known fact, memorable quote, or word of the week, and you are sure to have found something that will be passed on quickly and quite possibly to a large number of future customers!



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7 Viral Ways for Exapanded Online Reach

What would happen if one of your friends tells about your newest blog to her five friends and they, in turn,tell their friends and it goes on like this? Pretty soon you will have all the traffic you need for a comfortable income from your newfound writing careers. Is it possible to achieve this kind of success using the virility of the social web, or does it sound like a pyramid scheme?

The emergence of social web provides opportunities for viral marketing that never existed before. Face to face talk or talk over the phone has its limitations in reaching your audience. The Web 1.0 offered forums for a limited viral marketing opportunity. The social web has opened up avenues greatly expanding the online reach. This article describes seven techniques for using the social web to achieve that viral reach.

1. Before jumping to social websites to launch your viral adventure, make your site social web friendly.Provide a link on your site for users to invite their friends. When someone joins your site through an invitation, reward points to the inviter. Announce a contest on your site and reward the top inviter with e-books or a t-shirt with your site logo.

2. Spend some time at Digg. This is a community based news popularity web site. If your blog article hits the front page of Digg, you will get thousands of visitors and some of them will eventually become your regulars. Study the types of articles that end up on the front page of Digg. Write your blog articles targeted to Digg users.

3. MySpace is the ultimate social website because of its sheer size in terms of visitors. If you have lots of friends who have their MySpace pages, create a niche network community in MySpace with common interests.Post teasers of your interesting blog articles in your MySpace page with links to your full article. Ask your friends to write comments on your blog postings.

4. Take a look at Delicious. Google Delicious to get the url because it is not a dot-com domain. It is a social book-marking site to store your bookmarks online. You should build a network of friends at this site and study their book markings to assess the type of articles they prefer to bookmark. Tailor your blog articles to mimic the article style your network appreciates.

5. Visit a site called Squidoo. At Squidoo you create "lenses" (a Web page) about any topic. You can create as many lenses as you want and you can embed external links in your lenses. Squidoo lenses also have good search engine credibility. So, your sites will get some good external in-bound links for free.

6. LinkedIn is an online community of experienced professionals. Create your account at LinkedIn and network with professionals in your fields. Offer some free services for other professionals in your network and solicit their recommendations. All recommendations appear in your profile. LinkedIn provides great opportunity for someone to find your business or services.

7. YourElevatorPitch provides a free online spot to announce your business and services. User rates your ad pitches. This site also allows you to link back to your site.

Other sites worth exploring for viral opportunities are Flickr and YouTube. Both the sides accept multimedia (photos for Flickr and videos for YouTube) contents. These sites are good for establishing your brand by regular posting of theme oriented humorous contents.

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