Viral Marketing A Cold You Might Want to Catch<br><br>Viral marketing is a way you take your business from being
virtually unknown to being a household name quickly. Just as the common
cold spreads through schools, malls, grocery stores and other public
places viral marketing spreads information across the Internet. Your
business is competing for customers with thousands of others. The
quickest way to do this is through viral marketing. <p>
As long as the Internet is around viral marketing is going to be a big
part of the success or failure of most businesses. When used properly
viral marketing is the least expensive and fastest way to build your
client list. Word of mouth or viral marketing starts off slowly and
then continues exponentially and often indefinitely. </p><p>
It is important that your company is ready for growth. Not having
enough of your product to fill orders or enough bandwidth to support
your clients can be the downfall of your business. It is also important
to make sure that your product can keep the attention of your audience
once it has attracted them. Getting potential customers to your site
only to turn them off on your products is not helpful. </p><p>
When you use viral marketing properly you get contact information for
people who will truly be interested in your product. This can be done
by adding a link on the bottom of a note (like Hotmail did), put in a
link on someone else's website or by simply inviting someone to join
your list. Once you have got this contact information you should allow
these people to opt in to your list rather than just adding them.
Putting the control in the hands of the potential customer is
important. Nobody likes to receive spam. </p><p>
A common form of viral marketing is done by adding a link at the bottom
of free information pages or with free software. Adding a link on web
pages that potential customers go to is another method. This allows
customers to control whether or not they go to your site and give you
their contact information. Giving free information through e-mail is a
good way to build your potential customer list. </p><p>
Offering free software for a trial period then requiring it to be
licensed after so many days is in excellent form of viral marketing.
People who like your product can pass it on to others to try your
product. Once your customer is hooked, the trial is over and it is time
to purchase the product to continue using it. These ways you put your
product in front of the potential customer and leave it up to them to
make the purchase. </p><p>
A problem you can run into with viral marketing is totally missing your
target audience. Putting your link on someone else's site can increase
your traffic only if those who are interested in your product see your
link. If your target audience is 15 year old male who enjoys playing
video games, putting your link on a site that sells baby food is not
going to get you any customers. </p><p>
Be careful when offering incentives in return for contact information.
People who are looking for incentives are likely to give you useless
e-mail addresses. This not only does not help your business, it can
hurt your business reputation if you send out mass amounts of spam.</p><p>
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