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FEATURE ARTICLE
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Viral
Marketing 101 - Not Using It Could Kill Your Business!
© Ron Hutton - GoThrive.com
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Creativity.
This is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in
the ruthless competition in the Internet based business. With so many
competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be
employed and utilized.
It doesn’t matter if you have a killer product or a
fantastically designed website, if people don’t know that you exist, it
doesn’t matter, and you are not going to make it big. Worse of all, you
business could just get killed.
While there are so many methods and schemes used by so many
e-commerce sites today, there are still some of those that can help you
with an extra boost in the popularity ratings. One of these is the so
called Viral Marketing.
While the term Viral easily depicts a virus, a word very
much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not what it seems. You do
not actually use a computer virus to spread your business; on the
contrary it just might kill you. Everyone has had enough of all those
pop up ads and spywares.
Viral Marketing Overview
Viral Marketing also known otherwise as Viral Advertising is
a marketing technique used to build the public awareness of one’s
product or company. They use many forms of media to reach out to the
public without actually promoting the product by riding on in other
forms of addictive means that could get a person hooked and be obliged
or amused to actually pass it on, with the product or company
advertisement along with it.
In a nutshell, companies ride on the idea that if
people like the content of a media they will pass it on to their
friends and family. They sponsor the certain media, such as a cool
flash game, funny video, amusing story and such, which one may pass on
to another with the company brand or logo or the products description
or any other content to help promote the company or its product.
Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising
and marketing because they are relatively low cost. To avoid being
tagged as spam mail, viral marketing counts on the eagerness of one
person to pas on the product. If a person sees the name of the person
they know as the sender, they won’t block it and open it as well.
Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and
rebates when they help in spreading their viral marketing. They rely on
the number of recipients a viral marketing gets from one person in
determining the amount or number of incentive they can be attributed
with.
Using Viral Marketing to your advantage
The main and foremost advantage of viral marketing is that
you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your site and
your company. You get to generate a flow of traffic that are potential
customers. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some
incentives or prizes, you can reach out to a great number of people and
announce your existence.
Most every site and companies are catching on to
the effectivity of Viral Marketing and Advertising. Not using it could
kill your business. Along with other schemes and methods in promoting
your site, like Search Engine Optimization and such, viral marketing
could easily push you ahead in the rating games.
Viral Marketing could be a sneaky way to get people to know
about you and your company. You get them to pass your advertisement
along. They are also very low cost that not investing in it could be
downright a business suicide. All it takes is a great idea, a good
addicting game, a funny story many ideas are still out there. Create a
gossip or a buzz, many movies are promoted by using scandals and
gossips to make them moiré popular. Remember the movie “The Blair Witch
Project”?
Many big companies have tried viral marketing and
have had many success stories with it. A classic example is Microsoft’s
Hotmail. They were the first known big company to utilize the scheme
and it has worked wonders for them.
Now it’s your turn to use viral marketing to work wonders
for you. Act now and reap the benefits Viral Marketing will provide for
you and your sales figures.
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