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The Power of Viral Advertising Double a penny every day for a month and what do you get? Over 10 million dollars! That’s the power of exponential growth. The Internet is the best medium for this system. Since the Internet era, viral advertising has become the most reliable means to advertise almost anything. The Internet reaches every [...]

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Corporate advertising types love to talk about viral marketing these days and it seems they’ll stoop to whatever they have to do to make their stuff “go viral”. But what happens when the web takes the message out of the advertisers’ hands? Well sometimes the results are terrifically bad.read more | digg story

84% of all brides use the internet to plan their wedding. That’s an astounding 190,000 brides! Everyone has a website these days, but there are plenty of websites that aren’t optimized for search engines. Wedding vendors that should consider optimizing their website include: photographers, videographers, floral designers, bakeries/cake designers, DJ, Band, [...]

Seth Godin has to be one of the most forward thinking marketers around, what ever he writes is worth reading. He has authored books such as The Purple Cow, Permission Marketing and more lately, Meatball Sundae. You can get one of his books FREE, in ebook format. To download his manifesto on viral marketing and idea viruses click the link. This has been out there a while but I only came across it recently and enjoyed it thoroughly.

Facebook has published a list of best practices titled "Insider's Guide to Viral Marketing" which contains helpful hints on how to make your presence on Facebook go viral. This is not a generic guide to viral marketing but is rather a guide on how to utilize Facebook for marketing purposes with tips on using Facebook ads and use of Facebook pages. Overall this doc is by itself a great example of how to do viral marketing and reminds me of Marketing Guru Seth Godin's initial strategies to establish his name over internet virally with stuff like free ebooks this doc has already spread virally on the net and will get Facebook's ads some much needed attention.According To Facebook the key strategies for going viral on Facebook areMaking Business Personal by showcasing human element of the

As an internet marketer, you are going to need to create your business and your product or service offer rise out from your competitors, or else it's a one-way ticket to financial destruction.You're also going to have to get your target market to notice you, remember you, and if possible, point you to their associates,friends and additional potential customers.There might just be one significant problem you haven't got a answer how to do it, nor do you have the money to do it.The answer is in a brilliant vehicle called viral marketing.Viral marketing is in essence word-of-mouth enhanced a thousand times over through the power of technology, especially the internet. It uses the resources, credibility and social contacts of your customers and potential customers to promote and "spread the wo

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 forums”. There are, however, business and professional forums, which do not operate under the same rules and, more often than not, disallow any and [...]

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 campaign. Seven of those ways are: 1. E-mail: It was first but [...]

The problem with ebooks is that there are already a lot of ebooks in the market. If you replicate what has already been said, you have no chance at all to stand out from the crowd. I suggest you to be original. Present your ideas in creative ways that have never been used before.

The problem with ebooks is that there are already a lot of ebooks in the market. If you replicate what has already been said, you have no chance at all to stand out from the crowd. I suggest you to be original. Present your ideas in creative ways that have never been used before.

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 promotion’s primary sales market. For example, someone involved with a health related product, many types [...]

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The one virtue that helps sites overcome the competition online is creativity. With so many competing, you must employ every method of marketing you can to stay ahead. Do you have a killer product? A really cool website? If people don’t know you are there, none of it matters and you won’t make a dime. Worst [...]

The next phase of The Dark Knight viral campaign has started rolling out. A new issue of The Gotham Times has been posted on that website - TheGothamTimes.com - and the Harvey Dent campaign website - IBelieveInHarveyDent.com - has been revamped a bit with better graphics and campaign news. In addition, a plethora of new Gotham City related websites have appeared, courtesy of the latest issue of the newspaper, and the Joker has contacted all of his "people" again via text message on the cell phones distributed earlier. We will certainly be following this next phase at it begins to ramp up. However, the one thing that is certain - they're putting together one hell of a big election. We just received an e-mail update from Harvey Dent's campaign website stating "We did it! Harvey Dent h

With advertisers constantly on the lookout for new ways to spread their message, the new social networking phenomena of the late 1990’s became a perfect venue. Viral marketing is a form of advertising that relies on the enthusiasm of the end user to actually pass on the message to others. Using easily self replicated processes like individualized affiliate squeeze pages and [...]

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Viral Marketing - as a forward-thinking “buzzword” - is missing. Gone are the days of catchy buzz-marketing that you could just let loose upon the world and watch take off. Now, with users getting more knowledgeable and opportunities getting slim, you need to take advantage of using your know-how as part of the reason Viral [...]

Yesterday I caught up with the Dentmobile tour in my local city (yes that's me on top of the van) and followed it around until a snow storm hit and shut us down. We've been following the viral campaign for The Dark Knight quite closely and this weekend was the last time the Dentmobile hit the streets. There is one thing I'm amazed at - the lack of actual coverage this campaign is getting! We've already mentioned it before, but there is a lot going on out there that we don't even know about. This is what happens when millions of die hard fans rally in support of a movie and a brilliantly conceived viral marketing campaign. After signing up on the ibelieveinharveydent.com website last month, everyone got a phone call from Harvey Dent on around March 8th (you can read more about that here).

Even though I am not a fan of horror films, I wanted to mention the viral campaign that is currently online to promote THE RUINS. The campaign is similar to the Dexter and Breaking Bad viral campaigns, and I always think they are fun. This time around however, they went a step further by having the [...]

"Salon.com could have attracted a lot more links by publishing the release on their own site and syndicating it from there but all in all it is a great example of how a case study about your viral marketing can actually be as effective as the campaign itself""Yahoo Buzz sent Salon.com over a million unique visitors after the story was promoted to the Yahoo homepage."Read more at Leveraging your success Salon.com styleSalon.com Reaches Over 1 Million Unique Users in 1 Day

ALL FREAKIN' DAY I've seen the likes of Gary Vaynerchuk, Ze Frank, and others go back and forth on Twitter about joining the Very Green Team and wondered if they'd lost their natural minds. It looks like there's a color war going on... just something to pass the time. Gary explains why he's so passionate about the color green on his website:This is a great example at viral marketing at it's finest. Sam Harrelson also posted about the phenomenon at CostPerNews. So take a page from the Garyvee book and do something viral!EDIT: OK, Ze was kind enough to explain what the heck is going on with these color wars in his blog.

ALL FREAKIN’ DAY I’ve seen the likes of Gary Vaynerchuk, Ze Frank, and others go back and forth on Twitter about joining the Very Green Team and wondered if they’d lost their natural minds. It looks like there’s a color war going on… just something to pass the time. Gary explains why he’s [...]

Putting viral marketing to work for your network marketing business is a brilliant strategy. When implemented correctly, your organization will grow rapidly as the "virus" spreads from person to person.First, you need a product that you can send individual samples of.Next, you have to have a fulfillment center to take care of all the mailings.And then you need to follow the system that is provided to "trigger" your explosion of exposure.How does a viral system work inside a network marketing company?For an example of viral networking in action, I am going to give you a quick rundown on how…

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CHICAGO – As we reported would happen on March 12, 2008, “The Dark Knight” enthusiasts indeed congregated in Chicago (as others will across the country on various other dates on this “Dentmobile” tour) to show their fictional campaign support for Harvey Dent – played by Aaron Eckhart in the July 18, 2008 superhero monolith – running for district attorney. Those familiar with the film’s extensive viral marketing campaign enjoyed keeping “in character” and confusing uninformed Chicagoans who weren’t aware that the charade was actually in support of a storied politician within Hollywood. We feature below exclusive photos of the morning campaign from longtime HollywoodChicago.com source Vlkers54. The morning campaign, which was supposed to run from 8 to 10 a.m., was c

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CHICAGO – I received a call to my cell phone at 7:02 p.m. from 000-000-0000 directing me to IBelieveInHarveyDent.com for more “The Dark Knight” viral marketing. Indeed, the site has relaunched itself with a new campaign. A screenshot of the revamped site is below. To hear it from yourself, the phone call can be listened to here (source). At the updated site, a slew of new promotional campaign materials have gone live at a new downloads page. These are all below. This campaign calls for enthusiasts to print out these materials and display them in creative ways on the streets of cities across the U.S. A “you in action” page has appeared to show submissions, which are due by March 26, 2008 at noon. Photos and videos can be submitted here. The site gives some suggest

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 campaign. Seven of those ways are:1. E-mail: It was first but it is still around and still used. It is, however, getting a little harder to use as more and more government restrictions are placed on it. Still… it does work.2. Newsletters: This is an extension of e-mail but it a very effective tool. If you include enough timely and valuable information, a good newsletter can drive up the number of visits to your website.3. Blogging: Providing the tools on your website to enable bloggers to interact with one another is a terrific way t

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 nothing about their friend's or family’s privacy in the space directly next to the e-mail form.A true viral campaign gets forwarded because consumers are compelled to do so by the glory of the content, not because you bribed them with points or something else.What absolutely will not work:Suggesting that e-mail recipients forward your message to their friends and family will not work. Adding a line at the bottom of your e-mail that reads “Please feel free to forward this message to a friend” is more likely to get it deleted than forwarded.What a

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 with customers.Have you ever been to a chat room and posted a message. If you have then you may learn some free web-advertising secrets on how to market your products and service in chat rooms. Chat rooms are usually broken into categories. You will need to find the right chat room where your targeted audience would gather. If there isn’t one, them you may need to create one.It will be of no use to create one that is obviously for the sole purpose of selling your product or service. Rather, it needs to attract people who would be inter

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 an increasingly ad-cluttered online environment. It is true that video formats cost five to ten times more to serve than standard banners and they involve a lot more production and implementation work but they may well be worth all of that if they achieve greater response rates.Where to use online video if wishing to maximize its effect, is what advertisers must carefully consider. Video to be used on the Internet should be information and communication focused while video to be used on television should be focused on entertainment.Like everythi

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

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 intriguing possibilities.People like using file services to download music for two simple reasons, they’re free, and there is an incredible selection. The fact is Pandora’s Box has been opened. In Napster’s wake, other quasi-legal services quickly emerged… a lot of them. Even if they are closed, others will succeed them.Major record companies would like to thing otherwise but they are never going to stop file sharing. Net users are file sharers…plain and simple. Long before the Internet came into being, people made cassette tapes of

Startups often want to use viral marketing (aka word of mouth) because it is free, the public does most of the work for you and people are more likely to use a product recommended by a friend. My experiences with viral marketing often involves a startup asking me to turn on viral marketing like a [...]

HCL has been trying over the last year to improve its brand image among perspective employees as part of which it had a disastrously unbelievable ad campaign on TV where they tried to compare an investment banker with software engineer. They however have now decide to extend that brand campaign online and created viral based on the Deewar Theme which portrays them as an extremely hi-tech company nothing great it has just got 5300 hits only however if you want you can check it out at hcl.in/humor/

ITC's Bingo has always been known for their adoption of different mediums and having a different kind of advertising strategy compared to others. Now they have become the first FMCG company in India to experiment with viral marketing and have launched a new viral developed by Contests2win. It is in essence a spoof on the long winding saas bahu soaps on TV and looks interesting to say the least take a look at the video here or head to : Seems like campaign is still under wraps so they have made the video private and therefore the below video will not play lets wait and see

Sony Entertainment Television (SET) India tried its hand at Social Media Marketing when it launched its comedy reality show, "Champion Chaalbaaz No. 1". The concept of the show, launched in December 2007, was to get 33 contestants to play the best practical jokes on people. Cyrus Broacha and Saajid Khan hosted the show. Sony wanted to create a buzz on the web about the show by trying to build upon the viral power of the web and making use of user generated content on the web.The CampaignOn a micro site it developed in-house, Sony invited people to upload videos of pranks that they had played on their friends. Other content on the site included a pranks discussion forum and viral presentations with jokes and pranks. Sony also licensed an animated character developed by Phonethics (the agen

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 an increasingly ad-cluttered online environment. It is true that video formats cost five to ten times more [...]

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 intriguing possibilities. People like using file services to download [...]

Viral Marketing is now a part of 360 degree marketing approach of the companies and ICICI prudential has created a new viral to promote its health insurance solutions .Created as a spoof on 1970's style of films this is created by contest2win.com. (I appologise for mistakenly attributing it to WC earlier and as pointed out in the comments.)This viral titled "Beta no.1 "has been created to complement ICICI Prudential's large scale advertising already running on TV Screens. This viral has a 1970's feel with an Amitabh bacchan lookalike talking to a doctor about his ill mother. The doctor than prescribes some medicine, and says "Tumhari Maa ko dua ki nahi , dawa ki zaroorat hai". Our hero somehow manages to bring the medicine but how therein lies the suspense watch this entertaining viral to find out

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - BacklashPosted TodayJudd Apatow invites Paul Rudd, Justin Long, Jonah Hill and Craig Robinson to discuss Walk Hard in a blatant attempt at viral marketing and a fight breaks out!

Creativity 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 popup ads and spywares.   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 nothing about their friend's or family's privacy in the space directly next to the e-mail form. A true viral campaign gets forwarded because consumers are compelled to do so by the glory of the content, not because you bribed them with points or something else. What absolutely will not work:Suggesting that e-mail recipients forward your message to their friends and family will not work. Adding a line at the bottom of your e-mail that reads "Please feel free to forward this message to a friend" is more likely to get it deleted than forwarded. What absolutely will work: Offering something worthy of sharing like a valuable discount, vital information or offering an incentive for sharing like additional entries into a sweepstakes or an added d

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 forums".There are, however, business and professional forums, which do not operate under the same rules and, more often than not, disallow any and all types of advertising or self-promotion. Forums that have been created to support the membership of a particular program are especially adamant on this topic and often demand that all members refrain from all types if advertising on their sites.Still, even with all these hurdles, it is possible to successfully advertise in forums. In all cases a pre-requisite for success is developing a good reputation and a good relationship and maintaining both. So, while it is true that this a form of free advertising, it does require a certain amount of investment as far as time and energy are concerned, not to mention subtly and

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 filtering.The very idea of unwanted advertising streaming through our Blackberries is abhorrent. Mobile devices are the ultimate opt-in medium and, therefore, a great way for marketers to connect with users…if that's what the users want. "WANT" is the key word here. How should marketers approach the medium? There are three main ways to achieve this. They are:1. Offer exclusive content. Anyone can offer ring tones. It's the unique content, such as exclusive mobile images of new brand concepts, that drives interest and calls them out in other media like e-mail campaigns, newsletters, websites, etc. So a wireless campaign is most effective when it offers exclusive content for wireless devices. 2. Make it useful and timel

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 an increasingly ad-cluttered online environment. It is true that video formats cost five to ten times more to serve than standard banners and they involve a lot more production and implementation work but they may well be worth all of that if they achieve greater response rates. Where to use online video if wishing to maximize its effect, is what advertisers must carefully consider. Video to be used on the Internet should be information and communication focused while video to be used on television should be focused on entertainment. Like everything else, there are good ways and bad ways to use video advertising. Right now most marketers are incorporating their audio-visual content into existing embedded ad formats like banners or over-con

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 the desired effect.Forums aren't marketplaces but when used as such, the marketers' actions become offensive and will only inspire the wrath of fellow members and marketers, not to mention moderators who can ban them from the site with the click of their mouse.In order to be effective, this kind of marketing carries a certain degree of commitment, responsibility and respect. The first requirement is to take a personal interest in the main topic of the forum. Not only does that mean visiting it regularly, but it also means developing a good relationship with both other members and the moderators, as well as taking an active interest in helping others. Of course, it also means abiding by and all rules that exist. By doing this,

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 intriguing possibilities. People like using file services to download music for two simple reasons, they're free, and there is an incredible selection. The fact is Pandora's Box has been opened. In Napster's wake, other quasi-legal services quickly emerged… a lot of them. Even if they are closed, others will succeed them. Major record companies would like to thing otherwise but they are never going to stop file sharing. Net users are file sharers…plain and simple. Long before the Internet came into being, people made cassette tapes of their favorite music for their friends…cd burners are so much easier and faster. So how can you use this to help your viral marketing campaign along? Think about this. Once someone downloads your

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 with customers. Have you ever been to a chat room and posted a message. If you have then you may learn some free web-advertising secrets on how to market your products and service in chat rooms. Chat rooms are usually broken into categories. You will need to find the right chat room where your targeted audience would gather. If there isn't one, them you may need to create one.It will be of no use to create one that is obviously for the sole purpose of selling your product or service. Rather, it needs to attract people who would be interested in your product or service. For example: If you sell garden products, your chat room should be on the subject of gardening and not the brand name of the products you sell. Another way to use a

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 campaign. Seven of those ways are:1. E-mail: It was first but it is still around and still used. It is, however, getting a little harder to use as more and more government restrictions are placed on it. Still… it does work.2. Newsletters: This is an extension of e-mail but it a very effective tool. If you include enough timely and valuable information, a good newsletter can drive up the number of visits to your website.3. Blogging: Providing the tools on your website to enable bloggers to interact with one another is a terrific way to get the message about your product of service out there and being talked about. Bloggers have their ears to the ground for new products and services. 4. Chat Rooms: A chat room on your website can a

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 promotion's primary sales market. For example, someone involved with a health related product, many types of forums could apply….everything from holistic medicine to stay-at-home moms. 2. Choose popular forums. There is no point in wasting your time and energy on forums that few members and few posts. Page raking and the amount of active members are two good ways to check for this.3. Choose forums that allow sig tags. If it's possible read the rules before joining and pay attention to them. Your time is important, too. It is better to find out that a forum doesn't allow posts with sig tags before you go to the time and trouble of joining.After You Have Joined: OK…you have chosen two or three forums that meet your requirements…now what?1. Kee

Here are six ideas to help you start your viral marketing campaign:1. Purchase the branding rights to a viral E-book. Allow people to give away your free E-book to their visitors. Then, their visitors will also give it away. This will just continue to spread your ad all over the Internet.2. If you have the ability to set up a forum or other bulletin board, you really have a great tool. Allow people to use your online discussion board for their own website. Some people don't have one. Just include your banner ad at the top of the board.3. Do you have a knack for web design? Create some templates, graphics, etc. and upload them to your site. Then, 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. Make sure that you include a link back to your site in the copyright notice and require them to keep your copyright notice in tact.4. Write an E-book. Allow people to place an adverti

Viral Marketing 101 - Not Using It Could Kill Your Business! 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 [...]

Viral marketing adalah konsep marketing yang meniru kerja virus komputer yang bisa bekerja sendiri, menyebar dengan cepat dan secara otomatis menginfeksi jutaan komputer di seluruh dunia. Itulah sebabnya viral marketing juga di namai dengan traffic virus. Bedanya jika virus komputer merugikan bagi pihak yang terkena maka viral marketing justru sama sama menguntungkan baik oleh orang yang menyebarkan nya.Viral marketing atau traffic virus merupakan konsep "win win solution". Konsep dasar viral marketing adalah mengijinkan orang lain untuk menggunakan produk anda secara gratis dan selanjutnya pengguna produk anda tersebut anda perbolehkan atau kalau perlu anda minta untuk memberikannya ke orang lain dan seterusnya secara berantai dengan maksud untuk melipatgandakan pemasaran anda lebih cepat melalui internet. Ide di belakang viral marketing adalah dengan mengikutsertakan iklan anda pada produk gratisan anda yang menyebarluaskan ke orang lain.Dengan viral marketing promosi terjadi secara

Viral marketing is a fast growing method of business marketing that enables anyone who uses it to get a high amount of exposure for their website or product. It is considered a very attractive and interesting method for the customers.One of the greatest features of this kind of promotion is that it makes your site stand out. Viral marketing is based on a promotion of a product while amusing the potential customer by interesting articles, videos and all other kinds of files. If it's good enough if it make the viewer send the viral marketing piece to their friends. By this method the promotion of your business spreads through the Internet and can reach thousands of people a day. The most important thing for you to do is to generate a lot of excitement in your potential clients, so that they

Viral marketing has definitely gained its popularity over the global network. More and more businesses are adopting this marketing strategy to gain their fair share in the market. The approach developed by Hotmail in increasing its number of subscribers is one classic example of viral marketing.How Hotmail Did ItHotmail is one of the first web-based email provider that gives away email addresses for free. Their marketing approach starts by giving free web-based email addresses and additional services. Each of the messages sent with a Hotmail address has an advertisement at the bottom that goes: “Get your private, free email at http://www.hotmail.com.”Then, of course, Hotmail subscribers will use the service to send messages to their friends and colleagues. These friends and colleagues will get the message and read it, and then clicks on the link at the bottom. They will also sign up and be a subscriber like what the sender did. Then these new subscribers will also email their own s

This review of free viral marketing explains how profitable and simple this method is. It’s a highly recommended method of promoting your business, which will let you to extremely increase your popularity in the Web! More: continued here

This 80-second clip has been viewed a record-breaking ten million times and has prompted a fierce debate about whether or not it is real.Sites that hosted the video were overwhelmed with comments, with some fans even claiming to have tried to copy the astonishing feat and has turned into one of the most successful viral marketing campaigns ever.The grainy footage, apparently captured on a mobile phone camera, shows a group of youngsters seemingly playing with a bundle of dynamite by a lake while one of them paddles into the centre on a surfboard.One of the youths runs on to a bridge, lights a stick of the explosive and throws it into the lake.After a moment's pause, it explodes, sending a huge flume shooting into the air and creating a massive wave.The surfer waits, paddles like mad, then coolly catches the wave and rides it to the water's edge - all to the beat of a pounding rap track.The film was in reality shot on high-definition cameras and digitally altered later to look as if i

Well there have been lot of videos about what is Web2.0 but here is a viral funny video from Nokia about web2.0 .The theme is Web 2.0, let's keep it simple It's all about connecting people. Nokia's own tagline is Connecting people so this commercial fits there. Quite a funny video thanks to go2web for the link enjoy

The photos are flooding in for “The Dark Knight” viral marketing campaign as directed by RorysDeathKiss.com, which lit up on Oct. 31.Fans are charged with sporting their best Joker attire in front of their city’s most famous landmark. The main page of Rory’s Death Kiss now features a wide array of fan submissions along with various top picks.On Nov. 1, I published a montage of photos displaying fans putting their mirror to the Joker for Halloween. I promised to do so again once groups started organizing in front of their city landmarks.I’ve sorted through shots sent directly to me along with photos from the viral marketing site to create the top 10 Joker photos.

Like a virus that spreads quickly, your flyer printing project, when done right, can be a bug that will stick to your prospective clients and get them to do your bidding it can multiply your business potential along with your return of investments. More: continued here

Speed, low cost of development and optimized interaction are what make online viral marketing such a popular concept in e-marketing techniques.When you are making use of viral marketing strategies for spreading the word about your business, remember these words- ‘easy access’ and ‘free’. People would rather be paid for advertising your product than not being paid at all. But if you want them to advertise effectively, it is your responsibility to make it easier for them to do so. After all, you know your service better than them.Allow them to publish and feature any article written by you on their website, blogsite, e-book or whatever medium they are using citing you as their source. This is a good strategy employed by many businesses to attain credibility and visibility for their s

First the facts increasing ad rates and constant bickering with cable channels has meant a greater awareness of Internet as a marketing medium in India. Now even with conservative numbers Internet as a medium reach out to nearly 25% of the same audience that Companies target through Cable TV hence the recent fascination with microsites and viral marketing. A few of them have really caught attention but mostly they seem to be done so that companies can claim 360 degree marketing.These days every company comes out with new virals and hope to make them spread through emails and flashing them through TV ads.Latest in this scene is Colgate which is celebrating Oral Health Month (OHM) which is an intensive month-long oral health awareness campaign that will run through October 2007 to establish and promote the importance of good oral hygiene and regular dental check-ups and is intended to expand the rural market. There Press release claimsOralHealth Month 2007 has outreach events taking plac

Reebok India has made a second effort to hit its target segment of young Indian consumers online by launching a cricket based website. During the ill fated world cup campaign Reebok India had also launched a cricket based website which turned out to be disaster thanks to performance of Indian team. Now the success of Twenty 20 has meant that Reebok India have tried to make yet another effort to target their sports loving Target group online they have just launched a jazzy flash based website www.rbkcricket.in for the cricket lovers in India. This represents how an increasing number of marketeers are targeting the online youth segment of the market.Reebok claims"The site is also representative of innovation in digital and how digital as a medium is used creatively and effectively by Reebok to reach out to their TG."Here is a snapshot of the website interestingly it also allows people to buy fan gear( from Indiatimes) , read articles and download some sexy photos of Reebok endorsers ran

The Manihaaris form a robust viral marketing system where they recommend complementary products to the customers.The rural customers listen to the Manihaaris in order to choose from an array of products.Manihaari Bazaar popularly known as Manihaari Lane, is located in centre of Chowk Bazaar of Banda.Popular among the women folk for shopping of Cosmetic Products and Chuddis (Bangles). Thus Market's Economy is totally dependent on women. This Market was set up 80 years ago during British Period. It was dominated by Manihaars (a class of people who are mainly small scale home made goods sellers). Thus the market was named by British Rulers as Manihaari Lane. Started with Few shops, Market has now grown to a big one. The total no. of shops has reached to about 80 where goods worth about Rs. 1/2 million are sold everyday. The Market has once changed its palce from chowk ba

Hi Guys, There are many ways to increase the amount of traffic to your website, and one of the most effective methods is known as viral marketing. Too use viral marketing to it’s fullest potential, you’ll want to employ many different techniques into the marketing plan of your site. Some include great looking graphics, pre written emails, integration [...]

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 doesnt matter if you have a killer product or a fantastically designed website, if people dont know that you exist, it doesnt 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 OverviewViral

The internet is full of companies willing to create a great ad for your company and place it on popular marketing sites all over the internet, for a huge fee of course. When the ad end its run it will disappear from the websites into the cyberspace and you need to do the same all over again.This is a problem for most online marketers who are on very limited budgets, or have no money at all when starting up.There are however an online advertising concept that many marketers may have overlooked. Are you familiar to viral marketing?If you are just starting your internet marketing career, this is something you should look into. (more…) advertising, social networking sites, viral marketing

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

Arvind Mills owned Wrangler brand underwent a rebranding exercise using new age media and viral marketing concepts.Wrangler had decided to shed its rustic image to take on a chic urban look and since its target audience is slick city youth besides traditional marketing it also adopted several below-the-line strategies and ‘new’ technologies such as mobile phone communication, online media and mall marketing. The ‘Truly Clean Jeans’ theme campaign saw Wrangler adopt a 360-degree campaign using new media – through applications such as WAP, Bluetooth and the Internet, apart from mall marketing.Wrangler also exploited the power of new media. At the Phoenix mall in Mumbai, Wrangler set up a Bluetooth zone and anyone walking within a 25-metre radius of that would receive Bluetooth messages on their handsets and could receive ringtones, wallpapers and m-coupons.A micro-site ‘ www.wrangler-trulyclean.com ’ was created with features such as online games and downloads such as wallp

Kreativiti... Kreativiti adalah satu kelebihan yang harus seseorang miliki untuk bersaing dalam perniagaan internet hari ini. Dengan begitu banyak persaingan yang terdapat di internet, setiap kaedah pemasaran harus digunakan dan diterapkan. Tidak kira jika anda mempunyai produk yang bagus atau rekaan website yang sangat menarik, jika orang tidak tahu akan kewujudan anda, anda tidak akan berjaya

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 Overv

Do you posses a website? Do your websites have online visibility? Are you known in this global open marketplace? Are you able to sell your product and services? Do people recognize your product, your services? If answer to these question are YES!! Then your next step should be brand awareness and if you really want to gain exponential increase in brand awareness then try using viral marketing technique. Viral marketing uses pre-existing social networks and self-reflecting viral processes for exponential growth in your brand awareness.Viral marketing includes enumeration of individuals with high social networking potentials who purchase the offer and the viral message is so compelling that it is passed throughout the social network. Viral marketing messages may be in the form of text messages, internet videos or word-of-mouth. This strategy is successful only if marketer achieves positive return on investment. In Viral marketing campaign messages are self driving and are very fastly cir

Google sometime back had released a collaborative video of Gmail and had asked users to imagine how an email message travels across the world and post their own videos on the same theme. Now this is a very unique and viral way to promote its weaker link Gmail which is not as popular as compared to other mail services like a yahoo mail as well as to tap into user creativity and promote video making on Youtube and to add to it Google has posted the locations of users by mashing it up with a Google Earth API thus a three way cross brand promotion and all without spending a dime. From a marketing point of view the key in fact is the Gmail logo in the shape of an envelope which is being passed around in the video and that is very visible throughout the video through which Google is trying to create a subconscious brand appeal for Gmail.We really have a lot to learn from them even in terms of marketing.You can check out the final video which was combined after nearly 1100 video submissions

Pedro Sardinha has come up with an interesting concept in viral marketing. This is the first one that I’ve seen of this type (correct me if I’m wrong)… He is offering $2 for anyone linking back to his site to promote his free e-Book. Posts like this just help in spreading the word; which is what viral marketing is all about! The concept is quite simple. His e-book has links to affiliate sites from where he hopes to reap in the benefits. Nice concept Pedro. Let us know how successful you get at this. Related PostsReviewback: You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yoursApogee Search: A review of the SEO GlossaryBoo-Box: A simple affiliate marketing toolSearch Engine Optimization (SEO)‘Make Money Online’ community at BumpZee! © 2007 Anuj Seth

Obama's Viral Marketing Campaign - TimeExcerpt:"As eye-popping as Barack Obama's second-quarter fund-raising total was--it raked in $31 million for his campaign for the 2008 Democratic nomination, beating even the much vaunted Clinton money machine by better than $10 million in funds for the primary race--what really has the political classes chattering is another figure Obama reported: 258,000. That's the number of people his campaign says have already donated to him, and it amounts to more than a doubling of his fund-raising base in the past three months. "He's got a much more viral campaign than we do," says an envious Hillary Clinton strategist, using a term for word-of-mouth advertising and marketing techniques. "He's got a real buzz about him.""http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1640402,00.html

As I have been formulating ideas for my feature flick, I've tried to think ahead to my ultimate marketing plan. In a past post, I mentioned that a catchy, direct-to-the-point, exploitation-esque movie title would be beneficial when it was time to distribute your movie. I still think that, but now believe that it is not enough. Not only must I have name that grabs people, but it must take advantage of the internet, propelling people to the film's eventual website.This can be accomplished in several ways. First, come up with an original word that optimizes Google in your favor. Jaws is a great name for a film, but if you do a search for it, you'll get over thirteen million hits. 'Jaws Movie' will pare that down to two million, but such a common word carries lots of its own baggage. On the other hand, 'laserfork' garners a whopping one hit. When your site goes up and has even a little traffic, you'll always be at the top of the list. When you go to register your domain name, chanc

As I have been formulating ideas for my feature flick, I've tried to think ahead to my ultimate marketing plan. In a past post, I mentioned that a catchy, direct-to-the-point, exploitation-esque movie title would be beneficial when it was time to distribute your movie. I still think that, but now believe that it is not enough. Not only must I have name that grabs people, but it must take advantage of the internet, propelling people to the film's eventual website.This can be accomplished in several ways. First, come up with an original word that optimizes Google in your favor. Jaws is a great name for a film, but if you do a search for it, you'll get over thirteen million hits. 'Jaws Movie' will pare that down to two million, but such a common word carries lots of its own baggage. On the other hand, 'laserfork' garners a whopping one hit. When your site goes up and has even a little traffic, you'll always be at the top of the list. When you go to register your domain name, chanc

As part of our search to find the best use of John Smeaton as a driver of traffic to a website we have found the following details: One website received almost 200 hits for the search term “John Smeaton Banjoed” - Nice bit of long tailing there. One website received over 1,500 hits just from one link [...]

Using viral marketing is a very powerful way to market your online product or service. The amount of traffic to your website can increase remarkably if you use viral marketing strategies. With viral marketing you will usually be giving away a product, whether it is an article, a report or an ebook. Then you will have [...]

The first causality in the newly named “Iris” marketing campaign for Microsoft’s HALO 3 is a college student from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Michael VanderZand, a marketing and advertising major at Grand Rapids Community College, has received hundreds of phone calls and text messages on his cell phone since the “alternate reality game” began. read more | [...]

Microsoft has divulged details of their latest viral ad campaign — called Iris — designed to promote the über-anticipated Halo 3. Microsoft calls Iris a “spiral campaign” (clever!), promising to reveal details about the Forerunners, as well as other elements of the heady Halo mythos. read more | digg story

One of the most successful way of creating a Word of Mouth advertising is to give everyone involved in the process a chance to make some money himself .Google proved it with adsense by giving a share of advertising to everyone and in the process making millions for itself .Everybody wants to get rich quickly and this is what Mginger was unable to pick having started with an estimate of getting 50 thousand users in the first month they ended up having over 4.7 lakhs registered users (power of WOM) and they were frankly not prepared for this since they had only 10 advertisers with them. This has led to angry reaction from their registered users who were expecting to get rich quickly with mginger's ads but are yet to receive any ads . People had signed up with intention of receiving 7-10 ads per day and when they find they are yet to receive any ads they are bound to get angry.Mobile advertising is new in India and advertisers are skeptical of its capability after all people are receiv

While surfing on social bookmarking site bestofindya I realized that I have been robbed of my posts 10 reasons india's crazy about Orkut and India world's 5th largest market by an Ibibo blogger and worse it was being promoted at bestofindya.this continues to highlight the tragic fact that Ibibo has now become a hotbed of poor quality bloggers who in their quest for earning money will fall to any extent and this has created lot of discontent amongst the blogging community in India.Ibibo was launched by MIH which is part of Naspers a multi billion dollar media company. The website was launched in august of 2006 and to boost its blogging numbers in india it decided to pay cash for blogging and since then has become notorious for its bloggers stealing content from various Sulekha blogs alootechie has a story about it here.Its formula was interesting as it along with rediff iland both believe in increasing social networking with blogging something which has worked well at iland though eve

Cari amici questo post è tutto per Viralavatar, seeder di GoViral. Daniele Montemole 23enne lavora per GoViral con base a Copenhagen, e da poco è entrato a far parte anche dei nostri co-autori; Daniele fa il seeder, ovvero per chi non mastica il Virale si occupa di diffondere in rete i contributi delle campagne virali. In questo post che vi consiglio di consultare Daniele parla della sua Agenzia GoViral.Oggi alle 14.00 su sarà possibile, anche per chi ancora non ha avuto la possibilità di conoscerlo, ascoltare la lezione di Viralavatar via Twitter e su Voglioessereartdirector e Naba (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano) pubblicheranno il file audio dell'intervento. Impossibile mancare all'appuntamento e in particolar modo per chi vive da vicino le tematiche del viral marketing!Qui le sue indicazioni per seguirlo. :-)Buon ascolto!!!http://marketing-crazy.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Well on the top of this pages you are now getting live streaming video content from Nautanki.tv.Thes guys already featured on Businessworld and other magazines and are the guys who seem to me capable of filling young India's entertainment needs they have an idea that is different from hordes of other entrepreneurs who are entering Indian market and have built a so far successful network about it

Time to be scatterbrained! The following references are posts I've come across that have no relevance to each other, but are very relevant to the beloved movies we want to make. Peruse and enjoy, and don't forget to apply what you learned to your own microbudget efforts.Mysterious Phenomenon Causes Nearly 2,000 DeathsHere's a real doozy taken from the pages of Uncle John's World of Odd, and reprinted by Neatorama. Check out this setup: in 1986 a man is riding his bike toward the village of Num in Cameroon, a province in western Africa. He comes across a dead antelope, and not wanting to waste it he puts it on his bike. Continuing his ride, he notices dead rats, a dead dog and other lifeless animals. Coming upon some huts, he stops to inquire about what's going on--and sees dead human bodies everywhere. What follows is a fantastic mystery involving a crater lake and a giant smothering cloud of CO2 gas. A fascinating read that deserves to be a movie.A Viral Marketing LessonLooking

Time to be scatterbrained! The following references are posts I've come across that have no relevance to each other, but are very relevant to the beloved movies we want to make. Peruse and enjoy, and don't forget to apply what you learned to your own microbudget efforts.Mysterious Phenomenon Causes Nearly 2,000 DeathsHere's a real doozy taken from the pages of Uncle John's World of Odd, and reprinted by Neatorama. Check out this setup: in 1986 a man is riding his bike toward the village of Num in Cameroon, a province in western Africa. He comes across a dead antelope, and not wanting to waste it he puts it on his bike. Continuing his ride, he notices dead rats, a dead dog and other lifeless animals. Coming upon some huts, he stops to inquire about what's going on--and sees dead human bodies everywhere. What follows is a fantastic mystery involving a crater lake and a giant smothering cloud of CO2 gas. A fascinating read that deserves to be a movie.A Viral Marketing LessonLooking

I have been seeing this trend of late of Gtalk users using status messages to give a link to a new youtube video or something entertaining like a article of use and now when i saw one of my friends giving out Makkadman link as his status message then i realized that how important gtalk can be a as a tool for creating buzz or to do Viral marketing.A quick google search later i found that this

Magnetism 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 [...]

Viral marketing can best be described as a marketing campaign that permits you to reach a large number of people quickly online, much in the same way a human cold virus might spread throughout an office complex. The online equivalent of word-of-mouth marketing, viral marketing permits people to pass along marketing material to friends, customers, and colleagues so that the marketing campaign catches on and spreads like wildfire. Because many online distribution channels are free or low cost, viral marketing is possibly the most cost-effective Internet marketing technique out there. Once you've launched your viral marketing campaign, it has the capability grow and spread automatically for years.With a well-thought out and implemented viral marketing campaign, you can:--increase targeted traffic to your site--build brand recognition--increase your link popularity--collect contact information from targeted prospectsTwo of the most common viral marketing strategies I've

Last week MarketingSherpa announced the Top 10 Efforts & Results Data to Inspire You from the Viral Marketing Hall of Fame 2007.Here are the 5 prevailing ideas from the contest:-> Organizations should take notice that viral isn’t just for commercial marketers. Use Web 2.0 in communities that make sense for whoever’s interest you represent. -> B-to-B viral is gaining steam. This year, we have a winner who used a fun video (check it out, Space Invaders fans) and another that employed a crafty online contest.-> As was the case in 2006, we saw marketers thrive despite shoestring viral budgets. Of course, these campaigns are often created by tiny in-house teams. -> Track your results as specifically as possible. One of this year’s winners turned in video numbers from dozens of community sites. His results are already fabulous. But with that kind of tracking, we cannot wait to see what he turns in next year -- because the more you hone in on what works to achieve your goals, the better