Internet Viral Marketing
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With the speed and far-reaching power of the internet, it would be such a waste if you won’t harness its potential to promote your online business. Add the viral element into the mix, and you double, no, increase tenfold, your business exposure and your sales.  This is the reason why viral marketing is all the rage now for both online and offline businesses.

The problem is, internet viral marketing remains a tool that is still largely untapped. Sure, some online marketers may be deep into viral email marketing right now or getting great content posted on their websites and submitted to respectable article directories. Now, are they using link-baiting?  How about social networking websites?


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How about enlisting the help of affiliates? The thing is, with internet viral marketing, there are numerous ways you can get your business right in the face of your potential customers and maintain a profitable relationship with your existing ones.

The phenomenal viral power of cyberspace is just right at your fingertips, so start clicking that mouse now!

How can you go viral through the internet? The following tips will give you a head start.

• Email. If you think emails are merely for writing back home and telling your dear old folks how good you are doing with your business, or for forwarding cutesy and cheesy sayings about love and friendship, think again. Viral email marketing goes deeper than you may have imagined.
  
  Emails are inherently viral in nature (just think of the viral success of Hotmail), and if every email sent from your mailbox carries your business name and it gets forwarded to scores of other people, why, that’s internet viral marketing!  

To understand how emails work in your viral marketing campaign, check out our separate article on viral email marketing.

• Articles, Ezines, eBooks, Newsletters, Blogs, SEO. Yes, in the world of internet marketing, all these concepts are interrelated. When written in such a way as they underscore the value of your business and establish your authority in your niche market, informational materials such as articles, ezines, ebooks, newsletters and blogs are a sure way to internet viral marketing success.
  
  Throwing Search Engine Optimization into the mix makes search engines adore you and you get placed high in search ranking results. Flash SEO, SEO copy writing, and SEO web development are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. You write something of value to other people and make random internet users easily find you. Now, that should bring the much coveted traffic to your site!

Aside from generating articles for your website, you may also submit these to other website’s newsletters as free content. Just request for a link to your website and a short description of your products or services to be included in the articles.

• Video clips. Think YouTube and you will realize just how much people love to watch and forward interesting video clips. By seamlessly integrating your marketing message into a compelling or funny story (Dove Evolution and Guys Back-flipping Into (Levi’s) Jeans are some examples), you get people’s tongues wagging—and their mouse endlessly clicking—favorably. Want to see more cool videos? Visit our viral marketing examples page.

To fully grasp how video clips can drive traffic to your site, see this article by Marketing Experiments Journal.

• Social and business networking sites. Get your business visible on Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn which count millions of users and you increase the viral potential of your products and services.
  
  
• Squidoo. How would you like to be in one of the Top 500 most visited sites in the world? Yes, it can definitely do wonders for your business, so create an interactive lens in Squidoo now.
  
  
• Affiliate programs. Make use of other websites to drive traffic to yours. By rewarding commission to your affiliates whose websites are peppered with your advertisements, they help spread the word about your business in the internet. Sounds worth it, right? With the right affiliate marketing opportunity it could be. Also check out our Ecommerce Affiliate Program page for more information on this topic.
  
  
• Pay Per Click (PPC) ads.  Your ads will appear as links on the page as determined by your keywords. The ranking is determined through bids among similar businesses. What makes it cost-effective is that you will pay only if someone actually clicks on the link. Truly a great channel for internet viral marketing! For the latest pay per click programs, follow this link.
  
  
• Post comments on relevant online forums and blogs. There are thousands of targeted discussion forums and blogs in the Internet where you can post relevant comments that includes your own signature link to your site. Use Google Groups to search for these useful viral sources. You can also join local business networks and participate in business forums like LinkedIn.
  
  
• Free service. Including a free service in your site that is closely tied in with your niche draws more people to your site. Notice those horoscope and astrology websites that say something like, “Free horoscope forecast for you” or “Get your numerology profile for free”? Once people are on you site, it would be easier to make a sales pitch about your products/services. Among other things we offer the Passive Income Mind Frame free ebook and a free meditation download on the this website.
  
  
• Reciprocal links with other sites. There are many complementary websites that you can forge reciprocal links with. They will include links to your site and you will include links to theirs. Since high-traffic sites get too many of these requests, you can get better response if you try smal.er sites with a similar traffic to your own. A hosting company (one that we highly recommend), SBI, has a built-in reciprocal linking system built in to all that host with their company.

After you have zeroed in on websites you would want to make reciprocal links with, send their webmasters an email requesting for reciprocity. You can find the contact details in the Whois Directory. If emails don’t get a response, try a brief phone call.


So, how is your viral marketing campaign going?

We encourage you to test and combine these methods to get the most of your internet viral marketing campaign. If one technique doesn’t work for you, you can always shift to another.  Some of them are free while others come with a fee, but still internet viral marketing remains one of the cheapest ways you can get your products/services known.

You can gain more knowledge about the ins and outs of internet viral marketing by reading the following resources:

“Thirteen Ways to Make Your Blog Go Viral”

“How to Use Facebook for Internet Viral Marketing"

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