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Viral Marketing:
25 Ideas For The Financially
Challenged
by "Wild
Bill"
There have been
a lot of articles written about Viral
Marketing, but I just had to offer my 3 cents
(that's
all I can afford) on this subject. For those of you
who
aren't yet familiar with the term, Viral Marketing
is
the technique of enticing others to promote your
business by distributing something of value with
your
message attached. Rather than get theoretical or
editorialize you to death, I'll just list a few
ideas
to get your business and web site out there in the
public eye. There are many more and if you can find
something original you are always better off.
1. Distributing your own Free Software
2. Writing and Offering Free eBooks
3. Signing visitors up for Free email accounts via a site
like <http://www.bigmailbox.com>.
4. Creating up an Award Site.
5. Creating a Top 100 Site.
6. Creating a Recommend-It Site.
7. Offering access to content from your site, while
customizing it to
fit each user.
8. Offer Free E-Cards.
9. Writing articles for reprint in newsletters and
on web sites.
10. Set up a discussion board and open it for other
to
use for their web sites.
11. Offering Free Graphics, Banners or Web Site
Templates.
12. Free Consulting Services.
13. Free Domain Name Estimating.
14. Free Web Site Reviews.
15. Setting Up A Search Engine Site.
16. Free Banner Rotation or Link Exchange Site.
17. Specialized Databases or Directories.
18. Of course you must have a Free Newsletter.
19. Free Page Redirect Service.
20. Free Screensavers.
21. Free Autoresponder Service.
22. Free Web Space.
23. Use The "Pass This On" technique.
Where you create something like a humorous
picture attach your web site url and encourage others to
pass it on.
24. Free Document Templates.
25. Offer Free Email Courses or Workshops.
I myself have written a few widget programs like
Free Meta Tags, Free Image Rollover Scripts and Free
Doorway Pages.
Now, you're thinking, everyone and
their
brother have these things. Well, what I did to promote
this uphill
battle was to set them up so that
you could
not only get them from my site, but you can also offer
them from your site as well, by using a few lines of
script. Why would you want to do this? In the script, you
can also add your own advertising message that gets sent
out to your
visitors using the service,
which by the way I host completely at my site. This makes
an easy
marketing add-on for newbie sites who
want to offer free content. We also sell these little
programs to
others who want to offer the same Viral
Marketing Freebie to their visitors. If you would like to
see what I
mean, stop by and visit us at
<http://www.MakingProfit.com>
Good luck to you in your Marketing Ad-ventures!
"Wild Bill"
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