Viral marketing is allowing people to giveaway and use your free product or service in order to multiply your marketing quickly over the internet. The idea behind viral marketing is that you include your ad, url, name, business, etc., with the freebie people giveaway or use. Below are ten high impact viral marketing strategies:
1. Write a small free ebook and allow webmasters to give away your free ebook to their visitors. Then, their visitors will also give it away. This will just continue to spread your ad all over the net.
2. Allow people to reprint your articles on their web site, in their e-zine, newsletter, magazine or ebooks. Include your resource box and the option for article reprints at the bottom of each article.
3. Allow people to use any of your freebies as free bonuses for products or services they sell. Include your ad on all your freebies.
4. Allow people to use your online discussion board for their own web site. Some people don't have one. Just include your banner, or preferably text ad, at the top of the board.
5. Allow people to provide your free online service to their web site, visitors, or e-zine subscribers. They could be free e-mail, e-mail consulting, search engine submissions, etc.
6. Allow people to give away your free software. Just include your business advertisement inside the software program.
7. Allow people to give away your free web design graphics, fonts, templates, etc. Just include your ad on them or require people to link directly to your web site.
8. Allow people to place an advertisement in your free ebook if, in exchange, they give away the ebook to their web visitors or e-zine subscribers.
9. Create a few funny desktop images related to working a job and put your web address on the image. People will then see your url every day and might return to your site regularly.
10. Allow people to add their link to your free web site directory. Just require that they return a link back to your web site, advertising your directory.
Use these strategies and you may ignite a virus that spreads news of your product or service around the net.
