Before we get into the meat and potatoes of how you can use viral marketing to help get a buzz going about your small business, let's start with a definition of exactly what "viral marketing" means.
According to the Wikipedia, "Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use preexisting social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet. Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily. Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, images, or even text messages."
If you've ever had a hotmail, yahoo or G-mail account, you've participated in a viral marketing campaign every time you sent an email to someone – because the company inserted a small (and usually discreet advertisement) at the bottom of all of your outgoing emails – inviting the people you were communicating with to receive their own free email account.
So how can you put a viral marketing campaign together for your own business – and more importantly, do you even want to?
Let me answer that second question first, okay? YES! You definitely want to take the time to brainstorm your own viral marketing campaign – even if you don't someday want to be as big as hotmail, yahoo or Gmail.
Why? Because according to a recent survey done by Forrester Research, people are almost 65% more likely to trust a review posted by a peer – or even a complete stranger – than they are to trust the marketing or sales information put out by the company.
Don't believe me? Check out Amazon.com and I-tunes. Why is this the case? Because as consumers we tend to think that the average "Joe Blow" has less of a personal agenda when posting his review about the latest "Dixie Chicks" album and so we give it more weight.
And, by the way, this is a normal reaction – it's one that's kind of hard-wired into all of us. People have always shared the things they like – or hate – with their friends and family members. Back in the 50's and 60's, our grandparents used to talk to their neighbors over the "back fence," call each other on the phone or tell their friends during lunch. The difference is, these days we use the Internet and cell phones.
What's interesting though, is that with the popularity of the Internet, our trust - and believe in "social proof" – has become even stronger.
By creating your own viral marketing campaign, you'll be doing more than getting the word out about your new affiliate product. You'll be gathering social proof – and that will help your sales to go through the roof.
So how do you set up your own viral marketing campaign? The first thing to do is to get back to the basics.
Here's the real "secret" to making a lot of money with affiliate products. Have the right product, with the right message to the right people in the right time.
So start with your affiliate product. Make sure that there's a hungry audience for whatever you're selling.
Then make sure that you're sending out the right message – an in the right way. If you're marketing a product to teens, you'll want to make sure that it's something they want – and you'll have to reach them where they're hanging out. That might be on MySpace, twitter or even Friendster.
What's the right message? Maybe it's a special report. But it could just as easily be a video. Or an audio mp3 file. Match your message to your audience. And finally, make sure that you're getting your message out at the right time – when your audience is ready to buy it.
Make your viral marketing campaign stand out from the crowd – because that's how it's going to get passed around and become viral. By understanding the basics – who your audience is, what they want, how they want to get it and when they want it – all you have to do next is to create something that your audience loves – or hates – or finds interesting enough – to pass around to their friends. And because your product comes with an implied endorsement – social proof – those people will pass it around to other people – and the buzz goes on…and on…and on…and you'll start hearing the "ka-ching!" of your cash register going off a lot more often.
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Making Your Own Viral E-Books
Some E-books combine very well with an affiliate program. When the affiliate receives some extra benefit from promoting the viral message, like being able to brand your E-book with his affiliate links, the affiliate makes a sale when a reader buys through a branded link. You benefit from increased traffic on your website because the affiliate is willing to promote the E-books for you.
Be absolutely certain that your message includes a clear call to action. There shouldn’t be any doubt whatsoever about what you intend recipients to do. Make sure that the instructions are perfectly clear so that recipients know HOW to act. The action that you require should be simple and obvious as well. Don’t make things complicated or it will confuse the reader, such as by adding numerous links.
Remember the K.I.S.S. principle Keep It Simple Stupid! The incentive should be clear to those you want to take an action. Readers will look at your offering for about seven seconds before they move on. If it takes longer than that for them to figure out what it is you want them to do, they will move on. Don’t make your message vague or difficult to comprehend. If you do, chances are you will lose them. You must respect your readers enough to express your message clearly.
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Be absolutely certain that your message includes a clear call to action. There shouldn’t be any doubt whatsoever about what you intend recipients to do. Make sure that the instructions are perfectly clear so that recipients know HOW to act. The action that you require should be simple and obvious as well. Don’t make things complicated or it will confuse the reader, such as by adding numerous links.
Remember the K.I.S.S. principle Keep It Simple Stupid! The incentive should be clear to those you want to take an action. Readers will look at your offering for about seven seconds before they move on. If it takes longer than that for them to figure out what it is you want them to do, they will move on. Don’t make your message vague or difficult to comprehend. If you do, chances are you will lose them. You must respect your readers enough to express your message clearly.
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Are You an Expert?
Everyone knows a lot about something. If you have been a carpenter for 20 years, you pretty much can consider yourself an expert. But, many people don't know how to put that to use and make money with it. Have you ever thought of having your own expert website?
No, you don't have to be a techie, it will be a website that is ready for you to customize to your liking and add your content to. You will earn money from ads that you place on the website around your content that is related to it. You can use a number of methods to do this:
- Use Google Adsense, your new website will be ready for this, all you need to do is plug in your ID code on your control panel. You will be paid for each click that is made from your website.
- Use affiliate sites and promote products that you will be paid for either an action, when someone fills out an information form or for the sale of a product.
Either way, you will make money as your traffic grows. Marketing your website is all you need to do, there is no building or HTML knowledge needed, promote your site through articles and free traffic exchanges.
Don't let your knowledge go to waste, you can put it to use and make money with ANY subject, it really doesn't matter, your advice is the draw to your website, the ads are the bonus that you get from the visitors.
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How to Become an Online Reseller-Graduating From Affiliate to Merchant-Part 1
Marketing affiliate products if a great way to earn income, placing a link on a blog or website is one of the easiest ways to promote your affiliate products. We all know that there is not a lack of product to sell online, but if you want to graduate from an affiliate to a reseller, there is several ways you can do this.
First you will need some kind of product to resell, basically, you want to pick a product you are interested in promoting. Next you need to get the resale rights to it, if it is offered, or if a similar product is available that you can "re-brand" with your own name and customize the salespage as well as the program itself by replacing the links within them with yours.
Once you do this and download the product, you must then take the files in your computer, customize them and place them into your server so they can be viewed by the public. The problem is many people don't have the technical skills to do so and have a problem getting the website to do what it supposed to do for you.
Problem solved. When I started many years ago, I learned the hard way and struggled with the tedious work of relinking a website and getting it up and running, when you miss a link, you loose sales, because the last person who adjusted the programs links are in it, just hoping you miss one or two. I also struggled with uploading it, the files never seemed to transfer over the same way and it caused broken links and images to be in the wrong place. After all that, I learned to FTP download to my server and it went much easier.
In doing all this, I knew there would be a need for people like myself who wanted to make this easier. So when the software developers I had been speaking with about other products said they could do something about it, they did.
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How To Find Your Own Niche In Internet Marketing
How To Find Your Own Niche In Internet Marketing
April 27, 2008 By Kenneth Koh
Knowing how to find your own niche in internet marketing is probably the most important first step in making money online.
Why do I say that?
Because everyone of us has our unique talent. It’s only when we make use of our unique talent can we excel in what we do.
Internet marketing is no different.
If you try to copy the way other people make money online, yet the method does not resonate with your natural self, you will not be able to excel in that area.
For example, some marketers make big bucks conducting seminars. My question to you is, do you like to do public speaking? If you don’t and you force yourself to do that, chances are you will not do well in it.
For me, I enjoy working with technical people, coming out with innovative systems and programs that can help people. I don’t mind spending hours with my programmer, trying to resolve some technical issues. (I know these are non-income generating activities and I should avoid them, but I enjoy the problem-solving process.) That’s me. But you may be different.
Another example. You know who Ewen Chia is right? Do you know what he enjoyed doing most before becoming a successful internet marketer? He liked to compose songs!! He could be spending nights composing songs. Now instead of composing songs, he put his talent into ‘composing’ sales letters! He likes to try out different kinds of sales letters and see which one converts better, something that I don’t enjoy doing! But if you talk PHP or HTML with him, he’ll frown.
Internet marketing is a huge industry and there’re a lot of ways through which you can use your talent.
If you are good in graphic, you can leverage on your strength and provide graphic services online. You can also upgrade your skills by learning HTML and create website templates. You can sell these templates, use them to build leads or simply create websites that make money.
If you enjoy writing, you can start a blog, create content websites and make money from Adsense or by selling affiliate products.
If you have a flair in selling, you can get freelancers to create products for you to sell. Your main focus would be to write powerful sales letters that convert!
“Kenneth, what if I’m good in nothing but I just want to make money online?”
Seriously, this is impossible. Everyone is born with a unique talent. If you haven’t found your talent, that’s because you’re too lazy to find it! No one can help you if you are lazy.
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April 27, 2008 By Kenneth Koh
Knowing how to find your own niche in internet marketing is probably the most important first step in making money online.
Why do I say that?
Because everyone of us has our unique talent. It’s only when we make use of our unique talent can we excel in what we do.
Internet marketing is no different.
If you try to copy the way other people make money online, yet the method does not resonate with your natural self, you will not be able to excel in that area.
For example, some marketers make big bucks conducting seminars. My question to you is, do you like to do public speaking? If you don’t and you force yourself to do that, chances are you will not do well in it.
For me, I enjoy working with technical people, coming out with innovative systems and programs that can help people. I don’t mind spending hours with my programmer, trying to resolve some technical issues. (I know these are non-income generating activities and I should avoid them, but I enjoy the problem-solving process.) That’s me. But you may be different.
Another example. You know who Ewen Chia is right? Do you know what he enjoyed doing most before becoming a successful internet marketer? He liked to compose songs!! He could be spending nights composing songs. Now instead of composing songs, he put his talent into ‘composing’ sales letters! He likes to try out different kinds of sales letters and see which one converts better, something that I don’t enjoy doing! But if you talk PHP or HTML with him, he’ll frown.
Internet marketing is a huge industry and there’re a lot of ways through which you can use your talent.
If you are good in graphic, you can leverage on your strength and provide graphic services online. You can also upgrade your skills by learning HTML and create website templates. You can sell these templates, use them to build leads or simply create websites that make money.
If you enjoy writing, you can start a blog, create content websites and make money from Adsense or by selling affiliate products.
If you have a flair in selling, you can get freelancers to create products for you to sell. Your main focus would be to write powerful sales letters that convert!
“Kenneth, what if I’m good in nothing but I just want to make money online?”
Seriously, this is impossible. Everyone is born with a unique talent. If you haven’t found your talent, that’s because you’re too lazy to find it! No one can help you if you are lazy.
Here’s my 3 simple steps for you to start your online career: See More
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Think You Can Write Your Own Ebook?
Consider yourself an "expert" at something? Do you have a hobby that people would be interested in learning about? Or how about if you have been at a profession for a number of years and you have information to share?
These are just a few of the ideas you can use to write your own ebook. If you wonder why people write ebooks, is because it is inexpensive, there are no publishers to impress, there are no large outputs of cash for pre-runs or material purchases and best of all, you only need a cheap web host and some software to write your book with.
It is something you can do in your spare time and there are no deadlines to meet, unless you set them for yourself, there is unlimited resources available to you on the internet and you can easily sell your ebook through affilate marketing sites.
If you have an interest that you could write about or if you have been making furniture for twenty years, there is a need for a book about what you do or like to do. There are no limits to what you can do. If you are limited in your ideas, you can also use what is called master resale rights.
What master resale rights allow you to do is use someone elses product, promotional pages and name brand, and you upload the information on your server and keep all the profits on the sales. An example would be, if you wrote an ebook about cooking, you can add bonus ebooks such as, perfect salads, desserts, etc. you get the picture, you are offerring your customer added bonuses for free.
How much does it cost? Here is where the internet is great, try opening a store with these expenses! Okay here is what the cost is...
All the software needed to write your own ebook, instructions, advice on fonts, pictures, layout and more. You don't have to be a writer to write an ebook with this program, the program takes your ebook and automatically creates a promotional sales page for you.
You get everything you need to:
Build your own ebook, develop your own affiliate program, setup your own payment processor, create your own PDF documents, advertising advice for fee ads, create your own sales page, create your own delivery page, build a list of opt-in clients, 384 products with master resale rights. Cost of this is $24.95 one time cost for everything. Check It Out>>>Get Started Now
Build your own ebook, develop your own affiliate program, setup your own payment processor, create your own PDF documents, advertising advice for fee ads, create your own sales page, create your own delivery page, build a list of opt-in clients, 384 products with master resale rights. Cost of this is $24.95 one time cost for everything. Check It Out>>>Get Started Now
Domain Name and Hosting- Here is an easy way to do this, you can use PowWeb where you can get your domain name and have your hosting, here is your total monthly business expense $5.77 per month.
Where are you going to run a business for less than six bucks a month? Only on the Internet.
You may reprint this article on your website or blog, it may not be altered in any way including links. PRMan writes articles on how to subjects of all types, visit my home page at http://affiliatemarketingtoolkit.blogspot.com/. Copyright 2008 PR Man.
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