| What is viral marketing? Viral marketing can be | | | | People read your article and then click on the link to |
| defined as any marketing strategy that encourages or | | | | your website or affiliate site that you place in the |
| gives incentives to individuals to pass on a marketing | | | | resource box at the end of the article. Article |
| message to others. The result, much like a virus and | | | | marketing becomes viral when other publishers use |
| hence the name, is rapid multiplication that creates the | | | | your content on their own blogs and in ezines and |
| potential for exponential growth as the marketing | | | | newsletters. They are allowed to use your article as |
| message can quickly be passed to hundreds, | | | | long as they don't change any of the content and |
| thousands, or even millions of people. | | | | keep your resource box in tact. Publishers are always |
| This article explores 3 viral marketing examples you | | | | looking for excellent content to give to their readers, so |
| can start using immediately. Read to the end and you'll | | | | if you write high-quality, informative articles, you can |
| have a much greater understanding of how viral | | | | quickly have your articles appearing on dozens or |
| marketing works and how it can be beneficial to your | | | | even hundreds of websites.eBookseBooks are |
| online business. | | | | another viral marketing example. To create an eBook, |
| 3 Excellent Viral Marketing Examples You Can Use | | | | you can either write it yourself, hire someone to write |
| Today | | | | it, or modify private label rights (PLR) products that |
| Twitter | | | | already exist for your niche. You then put your affiliate |
| One of the newest and most explosive viral marketing | | | | links or links to your websites in the eBook and give it |
| examples is Twitter. With Twitter, you can post short, | | | | away for free. |
| 140 character messages (tweets) that can be seen | | | | The viral aspect comes in when you give permission |
| by anyone who has chosen to follow you. The viral | | | | for other people to give your book away for free as |
| element comes into play when your followers find | | | | long as they don't change any of the content. They |
| value in your message and decide to re-tweet it to all | | | | can then use your eBook as a way to get people to |
| of their followers who then re-tweet it to their | | | | subscribe to their list, as a free bonus when someone |
| followers and so on and so forth. You can also add | | | | purchases another product, etc. If you really want to |
| Twitter elements to your blog so your blog posts can | | | | crank up the viral nature of an eBook, you can allow |
| be tweeted and re-tweeted in the same viral fashion. | | | | people to rebrand some of the links in the eBook with |
| Article Marketing | | | | their own affiliate links which will give them even more |
| Article marketing refers to writing and submitting | | | | reason to pass it along. |
| informative articles based around your niche topic. | | | | |