• E-books and Affiliate Programs

    E-books and Affiliate Programs 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 bran...

  • "Folksonomies" - a New Viral Marketing Tool

    "Folksonomies" - a New Viral Marketing Tool A new consumer phenomenon is called "tagging" or "folksonomies" (short for folks and taxonomy). Tagging is powerful because consumers are creating an organizational structure for online content. Folksonomies not only enable people to file away conte...

  • Four Good Reasons to Use Viral E-books

    Four Good Reasons to Use Viral E-books It is a well known and widely accepted fact, that E-books….FREE E-books…are one of the best weapons in a viral marketing campaign arsenal.  Here are four good reasons why this is true today and will continue to be true for the foreseeabl...

  • Getting a “Buzz” On

    Getting a “Buzz” On Viral marketing has matured a bit over the years. There seems to have been a shift to the web not just being seen by agencies and brands as another tick box for any ad campaign, which is significant enough, but now being the medium where a campaign is launched ...

  • Houston Museum of Natural Science Went Viral

    Houston Museum of Natural Science Went Viral The Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) was one chosen to showcase the world-famous Exhibition for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. HMNS quickly realized that while the exhibit was expected to generate a great deal of interest, it didn’t ...

  • How to Get and Use E-Mail Addresses for Viral Advertising

    How to Get and Use E-Mail Addresses for Viral Advertising Viral marketing has an array of possibilities and ways to achieve your overall goals. However, just like everything else, preplanning and the right setup to create success are the things you will need to make it work for you and your e...

  • Humor Turns E-Mail Viral

    Humor Turns E-Mail Viral A study by Sharpe Partners, an interactive marketing agency, revealed that 89% of adult Internet users in America share content with others via e-mail. This is excellent news for those companies who use self-propelling word-of-mouse” e-mail techniques to sell th...

  • Start Viral Marketing Campaigns Using E-books

    Start Viral Marketing Campaigns Using E-books Viral Marketing sounds like something bad but it is actually something very good. It is, also, a powerful way to generate traffic to your website. Think about how a virus spreads from on person to another. One person gets sick and just by sneezin...

  • Successful Forum Viral Marketing

    Successful Forum Viral Marketing In order to be successful using forums to do viral marketing there are some things that are required.  Do Your Homework: Prior to joining any forum, you must do some research. 1. Join relevant forums that are in some way related to the promotionâ...

  • The Many Facets of Viral Marketing

    The Many Facets of Viral Marketing In the beginning, e-mail was the one way that viral marketing was started. Since that long ago day, viral marketing has gone from a marketing strategy to an art form and there are many ways to accomplish the objective of creating a successful viral marketing...

  • The Subservient Chicken

    The Subservient Chicken Created for Miami Advertising Agency Crispin Porter and Bogusky by The Barbarian Group, the Subservient Chicken is a viral marketing promotion of Burger King’s line of chicken sandwiches. The campaign is based on a web site that features a person in a chicken c...

  • Using Chat Rooms in Viral Marketing

    Using Chat Rooms in Viral Marketing Spamming chat rooms or instant messaging systems with undifferentiated marketing messages is certainly not a very good idea. But if they are used the right way, these channels can be great to communicate with the market - especially to establish a dialogue ...

  • Using E-Mail to Achieve Objectives

    Using E-Mail to Achieve Objectives Viral marketing is an integral part of a campaign strategy that is used to achieve objectives. It is not the objective itself. If the main objective of an e-mail campaign is branding, in order to achieve greater branding success exposure you craft your messa...

  • Using File Sharing in Viral Marketing

    Using File Sharing in Viral Marketing There are probably ten million people online, looking for downloads at any given time. Of course, a lot of them could be looking for pornography or free software but still, reaching a minimum on a million people on any given day does offer some rather int...

  • Using Forums in Viral Marketing

    Using Forums in Viral Marketing Recently, forum marketing has been touted as a kind of free, organic, viral marketing. But because so many marketers go into forums purely with the intention of marketing products or services, their actions and attitude unwittingly causes the exact opposite of ...

  • Using Videos in Viral Marketing

    Using Videos in Viral Marketing More and more advertisers are adopting video as broadband continues to rise and ad-serving technologies become more sophisticated.  Online video advertising is really taking off. Users’ attention can be captured and ads stand out from the crowd in a...

  • Viral Marketing Goes Mobile

    Viral Marketing Goes Mobile Mobile devices, mobile phones and PDA’s are one of the last great frontiers of viral advertisement opportunities. However, we have become experts at filtering everything, our air and water, our e-mail and pop-ups, and our mobile devices as well. We are good at f...

  • Viral Marketing using Forums

    Viral Marketing using Forums There are different types of forums, beyond the obvious topical types, of “marketing” or “special interest”, etc. “Marketing” and “special interest” are two types of what are commonly referred to as “open forum...

  • What an E-book Can Do for You

    What an E-book Can Do for You An E-book that includes your marketing message and a link to your website is a proven technique in viral marketing. This method uses the multiplication effect to “explode” the distribution of your message by willing participants. This is the basic pr...

  • What Works & What Doesn't in Viral Marketing

    What Works & What Doesn't in Viral Marketing Stop with the enforced e-mail forwards already! Trying to force or bribe people to forward your info to a friends or family in order to be rewarded or win looks skanky in today's ultra-permission-based world. Especially when you tell visitors n...