Viral Marketing-overview
What is viral marketing and how you can build and expand your business?
Viral marketing is a marketing concept, designed to market your business, service or product, exponentially, without your involvement, once it is set up. One of the earliest viral marketing campaigns on the internet was Hotmail. A pretty successful viral marketing campaign, don't you think? Hotmail of viral marketing campaign was pretty simple. They have a small text blurb, with link, at the bottom of every email that is sent from the Hotmail email service that people sign up for their own e-mail account included asked.
Each type of marketing that is designed to encourage people to pass along the message can be considered viral. It is a marketing campaign that via mouth grows. Another example that you see used a lot in the internet marketing niche is that of special reports in PDF-format or simple software tools that people can use.
Internet marketers to encourage even these reports or programs are passed by people "brand" them. In other words, they can also their affiliate links for each product sales that could arise from this free viral marketing tools or reports and they'll get a Commission for each of these sales. Of course, a monetary stimulus if this will motivate people passing along the software, game, report, etc. to others to check out.
The concept of viral marketing is that people like the content they will pass it on to their friends and family, or a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story etc., who can pass to another. Information about the company, a specific product, etc., usually with a link to a website is included in the viral "product".
Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising and marketing because it can be a no cost or very cheap way of marketing and when you're on a winner, like Hotmail hit, your company can explode almost overnight.
Using Viral Marketing for your business
A successful viral marketing campaign will make in instant buzz about your company, and not to mention more customers and sales. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach a large number of people and announce your existence.
All you need is an idea that people would want to pass it on to their friends and family.
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