Monday, April 30, 2007

How To Use Viral Marketing To Build Your List

It doesn’t matter if you have a killer product or a fantastic website, if people don’t know you exist your business isn't going to make it!
With so many methods of getting traffic the fastest route to tons of hungry visitors is called Viral Marketing.
Viral marketing is actually very simple when done properly. You allow people to giveaway your free product or service in order to multiply your marketing quickly over the Internet.
The main goal of this is technique is to build rapid public awareness of your business and products. There are many ways that it can be used. Let's go over a few of them.
First we are going to shout out the word VIDEO!
With the birth of Myspace, Youtube and many other has come the power of using videos as viral marketing tools. People will pass around a funny, heartwarming of informative video faster than you can say Ipod!
You can attach your marketing message to a video and get it in front of thousands if not millions of people in the blink of an eye. Viral video marketing is on of the hottest trends in marketing today and now that I think of it, a great topic for another ecourse.
Now let's move on some non-video ideas that you can use.
Allow people to reprint your articles on their website, in their e-zine, newsletter, magazine or ebooks. Include your resource box and the option for article reprints at the bottom of each article.
Let people to use any of your freebies as free bonuses for products or services they sell. Include your ad on all your freebies.
Allow people to place an advertisement in your free ebook if, in exchange, they give away the ebook to their web visitors or e-zine subscribers.
Start a free web site directory and allow people to add their link to it. Just require that they return a link back to your web site, advertising your directory.
Allow people to give away your free web design graphics, fonts, templates, etc. Just include your ad on them or require people to link directly to your website.
These are only a few of the ways the you can use viral marketing. Remember the key is to think creatively and keep in mind what a huge asset going viral can be to your business, because it is free, it can get you a lot of publicity in a very short amount of time when used properly.

Brett Carroll
http://www.simpleaffiliatesuccess.com

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