Viral Marketing:Whats It All About?

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WHAT IS VIRAL MARKETING? WHERE DID IT COME FROM?

In order to understand the concept of Viral Marketing, we have to time warp back to 1996!

HOTMAIL CIRCA 1996

Founded By Jack Smith and Sabeer Bahatia it was the first Viral Concept Launched. The two gents named above gave the Hotmail application away for free. No Big Deal You Say!! Well, I beg to differ Hotmail was the first FREE E-mail Service.

So every-time someone sent an E-Mail they were instructed "Get your Free Hotmail E-mail Account Click Here." The application spread like a virus(Viral Marketing) Soon They had over 100 million users. Microsoft got wind of it, and bought them out for $400million in 1997. Not a small payday by any means.The Gents realized that they could offer free E-mail, and use the service to advertise itself. "Brilliant."

~VIRAL MARKETING 2008~

New definition. The ability to use powerful and unique techniques to spread ones content over the web. Producing income streams, and exponential growth to the parent site.

Wow Whats That About!

If your the parent site, you give away a useful widget or report that pertains to your niche. That other can download and give away also.(John Reese s Idea I am just repeating it.) That's the whole idea behind Affiliate Marketing. You produce an electronic product(piece of Information) that an army of people sell for you. Hence you gain free web space(content) cornering your niche. What a system of duplication! That's the road to complete dominance!

SO HOW DO WE GET INVOLVED!

I know, I said the same thing. I don't have the money, ability, or time to come up with some unique widget. Yet, I would love to have something that would get the word out about my product ,service,or website by having others spread it around for me. Wouldn't you?

Of course you would. Well quite simply, all you need to do is supply a report of 10 to 20 pages relating to your niche. You simply give your readers very useful good information that offer value,or solves a problem. You then allow your readers to give the report away. Oh, one other point, of course your report has links back to your site and products.

Hold It Tom, You Said You Didnt Have This Ability!!

I didnt until I found the Butterfly Reports By Mike Filsaime. I simply Love this idea by an Internet Master Marketer. Go To Free Butterfly Reports

Catch The Virus,and Give It Freely.

Form More Free Marketing Tools Go To Networkmarketingfreeleads.com

CATCH THE VIRUS NOW!!

BUTTERFLY REPORTS CATCH THE VIRUS NOW!!
BUTTERFLY REPORTS CATCH THE VIRUS NOW!!

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Blake Glenn  says:
17 months ago

Good post. I've heard a little about the story of Hotmail over the years.  But from zero to $400,000,000 in such a short time ... ridiculous! 

Also, I'm glad you mentioned widgets. I'm beginning to experiment with using them. They're great tools to promote viral marketing and to add content to your site. I just added CNN Money videos to my site via their widget.

Blake - "The Looney Executive"

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multimastery  says:
10 months ago

I see you're a fan of viral marketing! I am too! I have followed Mike Filsaime's works for a while now, and I will definitely review your link recommendation as well. I think this is a piece I haven't gotten my hands on yet.

P.S. Here's a hub I also wrote a little while back on the subject of viral marketing ~ http://hubpages.com/hub/Viral-Marketing-101

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