Viral Marketing Strategies
by Anders Eriksson
(Your are allowed to reprint these strategies on your web
site if you include my byline and the resource box)
Viral Marketing is allowing people to giveaway and use your free
product or service in order to multiply your marketing quickly
over the internet. The idea behind viral marketing is that you
include your ad with the freebie people giveaway or use. Below
are a collection of high impact viral marketing strategies:
Allow people to reprint your articles on their web site, in their
e-zine, newsletter, magazine or ebooks. Include your resource
box and the option for article reprints at the bottom of each
article.
Allow 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 use your online discussion board for their own
web site. Some people don't have one. Just include your banner
ad 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 include your 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 web
site, visitors, or e-zine subscribers.
They could be free e-mail, e-mail consulting, search engine submissions,
etc.
Allow people to give away your free software. Just include your
business 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 people to 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 or e-zine subscribers.
Allow people to give away your free ebook to their visitors. Then,
their visitors will also give it
away. This will just continue to spread your ad all over the internet.
Create an alliance with other web sites. Include each of your
ads or banners on the other web sites.
You will all share targeted traffic with each other. For example,
you would instantly have a number of web sites selling for you
without paying them an affiliate income. You would just be giving
them ad space on your web site.
Create a free e-zine directory. You'll attract a lot of traffic
from e-zine publishers and people who
want to subscribe to the e-zines. Your listings could include
name, subscription instructions, publisher’s
name, etc. Of course you could put your own e-zine listing 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 want you to link to
their web site before they will list your
freebie 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 selling points for your product
too.
Clone your advertisements all over the Internet by allowing your
visitors to give your online freebies
away. Just include your ad somewhere inside them. You could also
start an affiliate program and pay
people commissions to run your ads. You could also give your affiliates
viral marketing tools to use like
e-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 them time to view it offline. Just compile
it like you would a normal e-book.
You could also turn it into a viral marketing tool by allowing
people to give it away to others for free.
Hold a contest on your web site. Give other web sites the option
of offering it to their visitors. This'll
multiply your advertising all over the Internet. It would become
a viral contest. Of course the contest
must either be ongoing or held regularly so you could allow other
online publishers to offer it to their visitors 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.
About the
Author:
Anders Eriksson,
a 41 Year Project Manager from Sweden, Reveals His Marketing
Strategies That Can Be Applied To Just About Any Business - In
72 Hours Or Less...
Contact: http://www.Ask-Anders.com
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