| Definition of Viral Marketing | | | | Videos are using viral advertising to generate billions of |
| Viral advertising or viral marketing is one of the best | | | | dollars everyday. How you ask? Well, most people put |
| ways to get your information out to the masses, | | | | those video's on sites that host them, like YouTube. So |
| especially if you're advertising on the internet. Viral | | | | even if it's just a video of some silly pet trick, every |
| advertising has been defined many ways but the | | | | time someone watches a video they see YouTube. |
| bottom line is this. When you create something unique | | | | Just like AOL and everyone else, they are providing a |
| to share with others and they find it so interesting or | | | | free tool or service that focuses on people going to |
| funny they begin to share it with people that they | | | | their site. These websites sell advertising, ever see the |
| know. Within a matter of minutes the information is | | | | pay per click ads or banner ads on YouTube? |
| spreading over the internet and is being watched or | | | | Viral Marketing Examples |
| read by millions. | | | | How about taking advantage of some of these free |
| Viral Email Marketing | | | | techniques for your internet business. Lets start with |
| During the early days of the internet examples of viral | | | | email. At the end of each email you should have a |
| advertising took the shape of an email, usually a funny | | | | signature tag. What this means is under your name, |
| joke. What happens is that someone writes a funny | | | | there should be a link to your website. |
| joke that is clean and unique, then sends it to as many | | | | You could just type the web address out or you could |
| friends they have in their inbox. If the joke is really | | | | hide the link in a bit of text. An example is when you |
| funny then a large portion of those friends that receive | | | | see the words, click here now. |
| the email feel obligated to send it to their friends...and | | | | You would embed the code so that the words Click |
| so on. | | | | Here Now were clickable. A basic Google search on |
| The advertising portion of this email (if done right) is | | | | the internet for HTML signatures will provide the basic |
| usually hidden cleverly at the bottom, so it does not | | | | steps for most email programs. |
| appear to be an advertisement. AOL and HotMail | | | | Now every single email that you reply to or create you |
| were able to create millions of Free email accounts | | | | have the power of your link being in front of thousands |
| using this idea. At the bottom of each email was a little | | | | or millions if your email gets passed around enough....for |
| note that asked if you wanted a free email account. | | | | FREE. |
| WOW! I wonder how many billions of dollars are made | | | | Viral Marketing Campaign |
| each day with this idea. How many paid AOL | | | | YouTube makes it so easy to set up an account and |
| accounts for their dial up were sold? The idea is to | | | | the best part is that it is free. Most newer digital |
| give you something of value for free in the hopes of | | | | camera's have a video feature on them. So the next |
| you going to their websites. Guess what? It worked. | | | | funny video you shoot go ahead and place it on |
| Viral Marketing Products | | | | YouTube. Then share it with all of your friends using |
| It still works today. Today emails can be just as viral | | | | email. A trip over to YouTube and a little video surfing |
| as they were 10 years ago. But with high speed | | | | you can easily see how to add your information within |
| internet in more homes, videos are the latest hit. It's no | | | | a video. Do you belong to any other social sites like |
| wonder that Youtube is one of the most popular sites | | | | Facebook? You can share your videos with all of your |
| on the internet. Did you see a funny video about a | | | | friends there too. |
| current event? Well, lets copy and paste the URL (or | | | | Internet Business Training Program |
| web Address) of that video into an email and send it | | | | During this explosion of internet growth the ideas of |
| to 10 of your best friends...and away it goes! Videos | | | | viral marketing are only increasing. Your ides of |
| can be tracked as to how many times they are | | | | advertising on the internet using little or no money are |
| watched and you can see for yourself that a video | | | | endless. You just need to understand the basics of |
| can jump from only a couple of views, to hundreds of | | | | marketing, once you understand this it does not matter |
| thousands in a very short period of time. | | | | what your selling. |