5 Ways To Explode Your Viral Marketing
December 11th, 2009 | 
Author: 5 Ways To Explode Your Viral Marketing
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We all know that viral marketing can be a very effective way todrive targeted traffic to your website but do all viralmarketing tools have to be ebooks or little reports? Absolutelynot…
Before we start let’s refresh our memory on exactly what viralmarketing is. Viral marketing is a form of marketing where youget someone else to spread the word for you just a virus works.
For example if you give someone a free report they like itthey pass it on to their friends and their friends pass it on totheir friends. Basically the report has become a virus and isspreading exponentially.
You can see the power that this form of marketing has overtime it can really build up. But if you really want yours tomove fast then you have to be unique.
Just giving away a free report has become too common everyoneis doing it!
So here are 5 other great tools you can make viral whilekeeping the unique edge.
1. Freeware.
Freeware is software with that has your marketing message in it a banner URLs etc. If you are not a programmer but like theidea of giving away some simple software type “freeware yourniche” into Google and look at the results.
If you find a program that interests you contact the creatorand see if you can get him/her to add your marketing messages inexchange for actively promoting the software.
Simple that way you don’t even have to make your own program.Or if you want just go to any freelance website and hire aninexpensive programmer to build you a small little program thisis very inexpensive.
2. Surveys and polls.
Many people love to share their opinions on anything andeverything. Come up with a provocative poll question orinteresting survey for your niche then use it to drive trafficto your site.
If you can find a “controversial” topic you will get the mostviral effect.
3. Tell a friend forms.
Especially effective in niche marketing. Simply adding atellafriend form to your web site can over timesignificantly increase your traffic.
Many think that these forms do not work anymore but I know frompersonal experience that they still work. A neat trick to getsomeone to use it is to offer them something for free in return maybe another free report!
4. Your own forum or bulletin board.
Adding a forum or bulletin board to your site can be a great wayto spread the word about your product or service. In fact ifthere’s no forum or newsgroup for your niche you can create one and reap the benefits of having targeted prospects come toyour site regularly.
People get their friends to come participate in forums it’s agreat source of wordofmouth advertising.
5. Blogging.
Creating a blog just for your niche is a way to get people tobookmark your site and come back over and over again. Peoplealso tend to spread the word about blogs they like rapidly.Offering your viral products on your blog gives them a reason tospread the word plus it helps you get valuable traffic.
What will you write about? Progress reports and advice seem tobe popular as well as humorous blogs and running commentary oncurrent events.
Blogs help build a community and communities are greatwordofmouth networks!
Well there you have it viral marketing can once again be abit more exciting than just giving away free reports. Thinkoutside the box do something unique and viral marketing couldbe your next big traffic generator!
About the writer:nbsp;nbsp;Author: Corey Morehousehttp://freewebbizsolutions.wordpress.com/2006/02/04/viralmarketing/
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