Viral Marketing Strategies

Viral Marketing is allowing people to giveaway and use yourfree product or service in order to multiply your marketingquickly over the internet. The idea behind viral marketing isthat you include your ad with the freebie people giveaway oruse. Below are a collection of high impact viral marketingstrategies:

Allow people to reprint your articles on their web site, intheir e-zine, newsletter, magazine or ebooks. Include yourresource box and the option for article reprints at the bottomof each article.

Allow people to use any of your freebies as free bonuses forproducts or services they sell. Include your ad on all yourfreebies.

Allow people to use your online discussion board for their ownweb site. Some people don't have one. Just include your bannerad at the top of the board.

Allow people to sign up for a free web site on your server. Since you are giving away the space, require them to includeyour banner ad at the top of the site.

Allow people to add their link to your free web site directory.Just require that they return a link back to your web site,advertising your directory.

Allow people to provide your free online service to their website, visitors, or e-zine subscribers. They could be freee-mail, e-mail consulting, search engine submissions, etc.

Allow people to give away your free software. Just include yourbusiness advertisement inside the software program.

Allow people to give away your free web design graphics, fonts,templates, etc. Just include your ad on them or require peopleto link directly to your web site.

Allow people to place an advertisement in your free ebook if,in exchange, they give away the ebook to their web visitors ore-zine subscribers.

Allow people to give away your free ebook to their visitors. Then, their visitors will also give it away. This will justcontinue to spread your ad all over the internet.

Create an alliance with other web sites. Include each of yourads or banners on the other web sites. You will all sharetargeted traffic with each other. For example, you wouldinstantly have a number of web sites selling for you withoutpaying them an affiliate income. You would just be giving themad space on your web site.

Create a free e-zine directory. You'll attract a lot of trafficfrom e-zine publishers and people who want to subscribe to thee-zines. Your listings could include name, subscription instructions,publisher's name, etc. Of course you could put your own e-zinelisting at the top of your directory to get extra exposure.

When you offer a freebie from your site, submit it to freebie sites. They provide target categories which mean targeted traffic.

So if you're submitting software, you could submit it to the"free software" section. Just remember, some freebie sites wantyou to link to their web site before they will list yourfreebie submission.

Get your products or services evaluated for free. You can give your product for free in exchange for evaluations and even testimonials. You will find out any problems with your product before you sell it. You might also discover new uses or sellingpoints for your product too.

Clone your advertisements all over the Internet by allowing your visitors to give your online freebies away. Just includeyour ad somewhere inside them. You could also start an affiliateprogram and pay people commissions to run your ads. You couldalso give your affiliates viral marketing tools to use likee-books or articles.

Allow people who do not have time to explore your site to download your web site in e-book format. This will allow themtime to view it offline. Just compile it like you would a normal e-book. You could also turn it into a viral marketingtool by allowing people to give it away to others for free.

Hold a contest on your web site. Give other web sites the optionof offering it to their visitors. This'll multiply your advertisingall over the Internet. It would become a viral contest.Of course the contest must either be ongoing or held regularlyso you could allow other online publishers to offer it to theirvisitors or subscribers.

Allow your visitors to reprint the content on your web site. Just ask them to include your resource box and a link to your site in exchange. This will turn your content into a traffic machine and the external links will help increase your ranking in some search engines.

Anders Eriksson, a 41 year project manager from Sweden, reveals hisviral marketing strategies that can be applied to just aboutany business...

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