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Viral Marketing Tips:
In the beginning, e-mail was the one way that viral marketing was started. Since then, viral marketing has gone from a marketing strategy to an creative art form and there are many ways to accomplish the objective of creating a successful viral marketing campaign.
SO, stop with the forced e-mail forwards will you! Trying to force or bribe people to forward your information to their friends or family members in order to be rewarded or win looks skanky in today’s super ultra-permission-based world.
If your viral marketing campaign is useful it will get forwarded because consumers are compelled to do so by the usefulness of the content, not because you bribed them with something.
A Vital Marketing tactic that won’t work:
Suggesting that e-mail recipients forward your message to their friends and family will not work. Adding a line at the bottom of your e-mail that reads “Please feel free to forward this message to a friend” is more likely to get it deleted than forwarded.
A Viral Marketing tactic that will work:
Offering something worthy of sharing like a valuable discount, vital information or offering an incentive for sharing like additional entries into a sweepstakes or an added discount or premium service will work.
Relevant or timely information, research, or studies that are included in your e-mail might encourage the recipients to share with their family and friends. Interactive content that is fun, will inspire forwarding.
A really cool multimedia experience is always going to achieve a lot of pass along. Rich media is new and the novelty and tech factors alone are often enough to make the e-mail recipient eager to share it.
Remember this – You can craft a great e-mail following all the rules, but if a consumer visiting your site and has an experience less than what was promised, you are going to recieve a bad review that can hurt your business. So be certain that your product or service is ready has as advertised.
Ways to creating a successful viral marketing campaign:
Email: It was first but it is still around and still used. It is, however, getting a little harder to use as more and more government restrictions are placed on it. Still… it does work.
Newsletters: This is an extension of e-mail but it a very effective tool. If you include enough timely and valuable information, a good newsletter can drive up the number of visits to your website.
Blogging: Providing the tools on your website to enable bloggers to interact with one another is a terrific way to get the message about your product of service out there and being talked about. Bloggers have their ears to the ground for new products and services.
Chat Rooms: A chat room on your website can and does encourage interaction among your customers and that can’t be a bad thing. Also, you can use the chat room to schedule special events like having an expert available to answer questions on a given day at a given time.
Tell-a-friend Script: If you add this with a statement saying that e-mail addresses supplied will never be shared with third parties, you can increase your potential customer list greatly.
Video Clips: Including cool video clips on your website will keep the interest up and increase traffic.
Flash Games: Although they are a little costly to start, they are an extremely effective tool to get your viral marketing campaign going. Once they are launched, they require nothing more from you.
The views here are mine and not always agreed with by others. I hope it’s helpful to you.
To Your Total Success,
Arthur T Sample III
Best At Home Businesses
