<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314</id><updated>2011-11-27T20:01:25.503-06:00</updated><category term='email marketing'/><category term='viral marketing'/><category term='viral salesman'/><category term='e-book'/><title type='text'>e-viral marketing</title><subtitle type='html'>viral marketing and email marketing blog</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-6390817476956603276</id><published>2008-10-22T20:18:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-10-22T20:20:52.840-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>Start Viral Marketing Campaigns Using E-books</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Viral Marketing sounds like something bad but it is actually something very good. It is, also, a powerful way to generate traffic to your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Think about how a virus spreads from on person to another. One person gets sick and just by sneezing they can give the virus to many more people… those people get sick and share their germs with everyone they know and the next thing anybody knows is that there is an epidemic. That is the very &lt;a href="http://googlebacklink.oggix.org/2008/10/18/seo-contest/"&gt;concept of viral marketing&lt;/a&gt;. The idea is to get everyone to spread your marketing message around because they want to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now let’s look at using an E-book to start your viral marketing campaign. First you create an E-book… a really good one that has links to your website, to your sales page and affiliate links to products and services that you recommend… and you give it to three people. In the book you encourage those three people to give it to their friends and family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" class="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before you know it the E-book is spreading across the Internet like wild fire. Digital information duplicates easily and quickly so before you know it, thousands of people could be reading your free E-book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make certain that you let people know that they have permission to forward the E-book around the Internet. When you create the E-book, you have the right to give people certain rights. One of those rights could be that you allow them to give the book to other people. Make it clear that this book is free to give away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can write the E-book yourself, use private label content or you can hire a ghostwriter to prepare the content. There are a lot of ways to create an E-book. Once you have your E-book written, use software to create your E-book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-6390817476956603276?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6390817476956603276/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=6390817476956603276' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/6390817476956603276'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/6390817476956603276'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/10/start-viral-marketing-campaigns-using-e.html' title='Start Viral Marketing Campaigns Using E-books'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-7498589470708694935</id><published>2008-08-01T06:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-08-01T06:58:25.160-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='email marketing'/><title type='text'>5 Things To Consider When Publishing A Newsletter</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I will provide you with some things to reflect on when you decide to start your own newsletter for your site. Here are five things to consider when publishing a newsletter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Make sure that the content of your newsletter pertains to and closely associated with your business or the theme of your site. Do not dwell too far on what could be regarded as your field of expertise. You have started a site and your theme for your site will always be something you are knowledgeable about. For example; if you have a site that sells auto car parts, your newsletter must contain articles or content like photos that pertain to cars, auto parts and such. You may also include content about your company and your staff.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;" class="fullpost"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember that visitors of a certain site are there because they are interested in what the site has to offer. If they sign up for an opt-in list or for a newsletter this means that they want to be updated for that certain theme or subject. Be sure that when you publish your newsletter you are providing for the need of the subscriber as well as their interests.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Ensure that you have well written, information riddled and content rich articles. You articles will be the body of your newsletter and that they should be able to excite your readers as well as provide information. Articles should be well written and checked for errors such as spelling and grammatical errors for it to look professional and believable. The trust of your client to you and newsletter is at stake here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Fact-check your articles. Make sure that you provide true facts and figures so that your reputation as an expert and knowledgeable in that field is not questioned. If you lose the trust of your subscribers these may persuade them to unsubscribe to your newsletter. You will lose many potential sales this way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) Provide fresh and new articles that can provide new information to your subscribers. If you publish stale and old news in your newsletter, there is a tendency that people or your subscribers already have read and known about them. This will lose their interest in your newsletter and they wont get to read what is most important, your ads. They may not open or read any of your succeeding newsletters losing your intention in writing and publishing newsletters, to get them to visit your site and make a purchase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) Never use copyrighted materials such as photos and articles. This is outright plagiarism, you may get into a lot of trouble for this. You can lose your business and get sued over copyright infringement. If you do not have the time to write your own articles, there are many willing and able professional article writers that can do it for you for a reasonable fee. All your investment in writing and publishing articles will be well worth it when you see your list build up and your traffic increasing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-7498589470708694935?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/7498589470708694935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=7498589470708694935' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/7498589470708694935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/7498589470708694935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/08/5-things-to-consider-when-publishing.html' title='5 Things To Consider When Publishing A Newsletter'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-938236926796896709</id><published>2008-07-09T21:37:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-07-09T21:39:13.228-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>B2B Marketers Do It, Too</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;They use viral marketing by e-mail as a marketing tool... what did you think I meant? Viral marketing can work well for B2B providers, as long as the following is true:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;" class="fullpost"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. The product or service has to add value for the sender, as well as, the receiver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. The offer has to be deliverable. You don’t want to offer a product that you can’t deliver if demand grows rapidly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. The offer has to be easily transferable to others. E-mail and Web pages provide the best medium to facilitate this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. The vest viral marketing campaigns use existing networks to move the message along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The basis of viral marketing has been around for a long time. The idea is that you incite your customers or referral sources to pass on something about your business to their network of colleagues and friends. Those that pass on your information get something in return. The something might be a gift or service related to your business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using e-mail makes it incredibly easy to pass information on to a friend or colleague, especially if it involves something fun or free. With millions using the Internet worldwide, the potential for exponential growth is tremendous. The great things about viral marketing are that it is free and works virtually by itself. Once you make an offer and provide the facility for referrals, viral marketing spreads like… well… a virus…but the good kind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To implement viral marketing at your business; first, start with your customer base. Incite existing customers to refer new ones. Second, go to your referral sources. Service providers, your outside network and colleagues can be encouraged to provide referrals that lead to business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your customers are stressed business owners, offer a reward that provides relaxation and leisure... like a weekend away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-938236926796896709?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/938236926796896709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=938236926796896709' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/938236926796896709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/938236926796896709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/07/b2b-marketers-do-it-too.html' title='B2B Marketers Do It, Too'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-3984751347796026004</id><published>2008-07-07T12:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-07-07T12:45:32.065-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>6 Ideas for Viral Marketing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Here are six ideas to help you start your viral marketing campaign:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;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.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;" class="fullpost"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Write an E-book. Allow people to place an advertisement in your free E-book if, in exchange, they give away the E-book to their web visitors or E-zine subscribers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Write articles that pertain to your product or service. Allow people to reprint your articles on their website, in their E-zine, newsletter, magazine or E-books. Include your resource box and the option for article reprints at the bottom of each article.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. You can easily find products on the Internet that will sell you a license allowing you to distribute the product free of charge to other people. Look for those products that provide "branding rights". That is where you can include your own name, website, and contact information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-3984751347796026004?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3984751347796026004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=3984751347796026004' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/3984751347796026004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/3984751347796026004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/07/6-ideas-for-viral-marketing.html' title='6 Ideas for Viral Marketing'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-3191159900966341662</id><published>2008-07-07T12:31:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2008-07-07T12:36:29.858-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>3 Steps to Find “Freebies” to Add to Your E-book</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Those of us who regularly shop on line are familiar with the array of free gifts, free bonuses and just plain freebies that are offered to a visitor to a website to encourage them to buy. How could you collect, select and offer free gifts, which will be valued as much as the original merchandise that is being purchased, put these gifts together and add them to your E-book? There are just three steps to do that very thing. They are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;" class="fullpost"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Identify your key words in each chapter of your E-book. Now, type those words into your favorite search engine. You are looking for free E-books on the same subject in more depth, by a greater expert than you are, or by someone who gives a new and fresh angle to the topic. Add a link to the free E-book in each chapter of your E-book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Research the Internet for related free gifts. Now you are looking for things that you could give as free gifts in your E-book that will make it more appealing and give it more pass-along appeal to your readers. For example: If you are selling gardening supplies, find a planting guide on the web that can be downloaded and include that as a gift in your E-book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Download the freebies. Visit the freebies pages on those web sites. Most sites have freebies and encourage you to distribute them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Other key words I searched for are freebies, free E-books, and free reports and then gave the key word that I wanted the free stuff for. Like… “freebies for gardeners”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Give your reader the vest that you can offer. Give them your book, additional reading material and free gifts to boot. Everybody loves a bargain!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-3191159900966341662?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/3191159900966341662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=3191159900966341662' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/3191159900966341662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/3191159900966341662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2008/07/3-steps-to-find-freebies-to-add-to-your.html' title='3 Steps to Find “Freebies” to Add to Your E-book'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-4046050105161943059</id><published>2007-12-14T01:32:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-14T01:33:16.920-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>The Many Facets of Viral Marketing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;" class="fullpost"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Chat Rooms: A chat room on your website can and does encourage interaction among your customers and that can’t be a bad thing. Also, you can use the chat room to schedule special events like having an expert available to answer questions on a given day at a given time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Tell-a-friend Script: If you add this with a statement saying that e-mail addresses supplied will never be shared with third parties, you can increase your potential customer list greatly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. Video Clips: Including cool video clips on your website will keep the interest up and increase traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. Flash Games: Although they are a little costly to start, they are an extremely effective tool to get your viral marketing campaign going. Once they are launched, they require nothing more from you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-4046050105161943059?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/4046050105161943059/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=4046050105161943059' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/4046050105161943059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/4046050105161943059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/many-facets-of-viral-marketing.html' title='The Many Facets of Viral Marketing'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-7954139752664163869</id><published>2007-12-14T01:31:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-14T01:32:18.792-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>The Subservient Chicken</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Created for Miami Advertising Agency Crispin Porter and Bogusky by The Barbarian Group, the Subservient Chicken is a viral marketing promotion of Burger King’s line of chicken sandwiches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The campaign is based on a web site that features a person in a chicken costume. The actor performs a wide range of actions based on a user’s input, showing pre-recorded footage and appearing like an interactive webcam. The takes literally the advertising slogan “Get chicken just the way you like it”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are more than a hundred commands the chicken will respond to, including:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;" class="fullpost"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;· Michael Jackson dance moves such as moonwalk&lt;br /&gt;· River dance&lt;br /&gt;· The elephant&lt;br /&gt;· Lay an egg&lt;br /&gt;· Walk like an Egyptian&lt;br /&gt;· Yoga&lt;br /&gt;· Rage&lt;br /&gt;· Spank&lt;br /&gt;· Taco Bell&lt;br /&gt;· Fight&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When told to do anything the Subservient Chicken thinks is offensive, like perform sex acts or take off his mask, the chicken walks up to the camera and shakes a scolding chicken finger in disappointment. If he is told to east food from rival fast food places like McDonald’s he approaches the camera and places his finger down his throat but when told to eat Burger King he has a more positive response. The chicken responds to the command “smoke crack” by smoking but when told to “smoke a bong” he waggles his finger scoldingly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Burger King’s Chicken Fights campaign was recently introduced. The two cockfighting chicken characters are modeled off this chicken.&lt;br /&gt;There seems to be no end to the variations on the theme from Burger King. There has also been a lot of criticism leveled at the chain about the Subservient Chicken but for now it looks like Burger Kind is crying all the way to the bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A successful viral campaign isn’t always in good taste… maybe that’s what makes them so tasty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-7954139752664163869?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/7954139752664163869/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=7954139752664163869' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/7954139752664163869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/7954139752664163869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/subservient-chicken.html' title='The Subservient Chicken'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-1790171723875647429</id><published>2007-12-14T01:29:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-14T01:31:03.953-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>Using Chat Rooms in Viral Marketing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;" class="fullpost"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another way to use a chat room to promote your business is to include a chat room on your web site. Host a free online seminar in your own chat room about a subject of your expertise. Use your chat room to meet with your current customers and answer any questions or address and problems they may have. Regularly schedule free events in your chat room and be certain that your customers are made aware of when they will occur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, you might have an expert in the field available to answer questions on a certain day and between certain hours. You might, also, host other people’s chat rooms as an expert yourself. You, of course, could charge for this but it might be wise to do it free to gain publicity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-1790171723875647429?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1790171723875647429/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=1790171723875647429' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/1790171723875647429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/1790171723875647429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-chat-rooms-in-viral-marketing.html' title='Using Chat Rooms in Viral Marketing'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-1349973476824629795</id><published>2007-12-14T01:23:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-14T01:27:25.432-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>Using E-Mail to Achieve Objectives</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Viral marketing is an integral part of a campaign strategy that is used to achieve objectives. It is not the objective itself. If the main objective of an e-mail campaign is branding, in order to achieve greater branding success exposure you craft your message or offer in a way that it encourages pass-along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Producing a message with a quality offer or an incentive for pass-along is what viral marketing is all about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just suggesting that e-mail recipients forward your message to their friends and relatives is not viral marketing. A message at the bottom of your e-mail that reads “Feel free to forward this message to a friend” is nowhere close to viral marketing at its best.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;" class="fullpost"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other hand, if something worthy of sharing, such as a valuable discount, vital information, additional entries into a sweepstakes, an added discount or premium service, a joke/cartoon, or a hilarious video, is included in the e-mail, viral marketing happens naturally and quite successfully.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bottom line is that your message must be perceived as having value. Relevant or timely information, research, or studies are all good examples of content that might be viewed as potential pass-along material. Interactive content like a quiz or text can inspire forwarding, especially if it is fun. Personality tests, fitness quizzes, or compatibility questionnaires are all things that have been passed on by many people many times. Why? Because they are entertaining and entertainment has value.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A multimedia experience is always going to achieve some pass-along. Someone is always touting the benefits. It is a bit more of a time and money investment but the messages have a great appeal and rich media has the advantage of being new. The tech factor alone is often enough for the message to be perceived as valuable.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-1349973476824629795?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/1349973476824629795/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=1349973476824629795' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/1349973476824629795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/1349973476824629795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-e-mail-to-achieve-objectives.html' title='Using E-Mail to Achieve Objectives'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-4451314900551979186</id><published>2007-12-13T02:24:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T02:25:01.082-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>Using File Sharing in Viral Marketing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fullpost" align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;So how can you use this to help your viral marketing campaign along? Think about this. Once someone downloads your MP3 files and those files are available on that listener’s hard drive, viral marketing begins. After two users start sharing your files, suddenly, your music is on the hard drive of a second computer…then a third… and on and on. When users are searching and they find your music on a lot of different computers, they are more likely to download the files. It’s just a matter of time before you’ll find your files showing up in more and more places.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No matter what genre music you play…Rock and Roll, Country, Tejano, Mozart sonatas, Heavy Metal, of Brazilian Jazz, there is an audience for it somewhere.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this new paradigm, you aren’t hawking a product, you are offering free music via a medium that lets you be directly connected with your audience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-4451314900551979186?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/4451314900551979186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=4451314900551979186' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/4451314900551979186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/4451314900551979186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-file-sharing-in-viral-marketing.html' title='Using File Sharing in Viral Marketing'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-6681377373933592474</id><published>2007-12-13T02:21:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T02:23:22.750-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>Using Forums in Viral Marketing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fullpost" align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;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, one can develop a reputation and, since it is human nature to work with a trusted colleague, business will naturally develop from this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This type of marketing has already suffered some abuse and because of this, many forums have recently developed stringent rules designed to protect their members from abusive or overly-aggressive marketing tactics. One forum grants .sig files only after a member has created one hundred valid posts and another has disallowed ads in sig files altogether.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marketers must respect that the purpose of a forum is to be a platform to exchange ideas on a given topic. It is not there to advertise products and services. By focusing on the topic and posting questions and answers, a marketer’s reputation will grow and this creates the potential for sales naturally.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-6681377373933592474?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/6681377373933592474/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=6681377373933592474' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/6681377373933592474'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/6681377373933592474'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-forums-in-viral-marketing.html' title='Using Forums in Viral Marketing'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-7234550541349614822</id><published>2007-12-13T01:20:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T01:37:49.332-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>Using Videos in Viral Marketing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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-content formats like pop-ups. Though this could reach a potentially large audience, viewers are likely to be less captivated and more annoyed by these disruptive and distracting placements.&lt;br /&gt;Cached or streaming video on a specific destination site offers the best chance of interesting consumers in brand messages, but it is not likely to reach a large audience unless it generates a viral outcome.&lt;br /&gt;Whatever you come up with, don't forget to make it easy to open and distribute. File size is important, as is the media format. If your viral video has been created for a particular type of software that not many people use, how will you get people to spread it like wildfire?&lt;br /&gt;Also, if you've made a video the impact will be better if you send the clip as an attachment rather than stream it. It's cheaper and, if you're not hosting it, it's more viral, too.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-7234550541349614822?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/7234550541349614822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=7234550541349614822' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/7234550541349614822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/7234550541349614822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-videos-in-viral-marketing.html' title='Using Videos in Viral Marketing'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-9201316944046166319</id><published>2007-12-13T01:18:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T01:40:19.646-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>Viral Marketing Goes Mobile</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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?&lt;br /&gt;There are three main ways to achieve this. They are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;2. Make it useful and timely. Think about what would be handy and helpful to have on a mobile device. Last year, for example, Food Network enabled Sprint customers to download shopping lists for their Thanksgiving dinners. There was a lot of “Sprint-envy” going around among non-sprint customers.&lt;br /&gt;3. Clearly define objectives. Usually, one of two business objectives drives successful mobile experiences: incremental revenue of brand intimacy. On the intimacy factor, a text message usually takes priority over almost any other form of communication. Why? Because we haven’t yet been saturated with mobile spam, and this is what causes us to prioritize wireless messaging over voice.&lt;br /&gt;Mobile marketing has been out there for a while but we marketers have new territory to explore. Video offers fantastic opportunities for engagement. Consumers already bypass their filters for highly useful or entertaining content and will do so for rich exclusive, compelling content. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-9201316944046166319?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/9201316944046166319/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=9201316944046166319' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/9201316944046166319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/9201316944046166319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/viral-marketing-goes-mobile.html' title='Viral Marketing Goes Mobile'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-7905241665357588741</id><published>2007-12-13T01:17:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T01:41:53.153-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>Viral Marketing using Forums</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;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”.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;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 finesse.&lt;br /&gt;To successfully market on any forum, the first requirement is to take a personal interest in the main topic of the forum. That means visiting it on a regular basis and developing a good relationship with the members and the moderators. It, also, means taking an active roll in the conversations and being willing to help others. Of course, it goes without saying that it means abiding by any and all rules that exist. In this way, one can develop a reputation, and business will just naturally develop because humans tend to work with people they trust.&lt;br /&gt;Since the main purpose of a forum is the exchange of information and/or ideas, marketers must respect that objective and abide by it. Marketing forums, where everyone there has something to advertise and sell, usually have even more stringent rules. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-7905241665357588741?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/7905241665357588741/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=7905241665357588741' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/7905241665357588741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/7905241665357588741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/viral-marketing-using-forums.html' title='Viral Marketing using Forums'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-8703462360466184418</id><published>2007-12-13T01:16:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T01:43:58.082-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='e-book'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>What an E-book Can Do for You</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;An E-book that includes your marketing message and a link to your website is a proven technique in viral marketing. This method uses the multiplication effect to “explode” the distribution of your message by willing participants.&lt;br /&gt;This is the basic principle that was used by Hotmail to get established. When the two founders set up their free email system, all the messages that were sent by subscribers had a text message at the bottom which identified Hotmail as the origin. People who sent emails to their friends advertised the free email site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Using viral E-books as a marketing method is cheap. It doesn’t take long to set up and it’s even quicker if you use rebrandable E-books that have been written by others. Just use your favorite search engine and do a web search. You will find many rebrandable E-books that are available on whatever subject you are interested in and that apply to your e-business. One method of distributing the E-book is to offer it to visitors in exchange for subscribing to your newsletter. If they pass it on to their friends and family it will promote your business for you.&lt;br /&gt;E-books are capable of reaching a large audience and are limited only by the enthusiasm of the participants.&lt;br /&gt;E-books are fairly easy to create. It’s possible to produce your own E-books by combining articles that you have written or have gotten from public domain sources, such as directories.&lt;br /&gt;A common approach is to use material that has Private Label Rights, including articles and reports that have been written specifically for that purpose, for that niche. Using a portion of a larger work that you have prepared such as the first three chapters of a large E-book could also be used as a viral E-book.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-8703462360466184418?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/8703462360466184418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=8703462360466184418' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/8703462360466184418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/8703462360466184418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-e-book-can-do-for-you.html' title='What an E-book Can Do for You'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-5775534888737163518</id><published>2007-12-13T01:15:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T01:16:37.205-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>What Works &amp; What Doesn't in Viral Marketing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;What absolutely will not work:&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;br /&gt;What absolutely will work:&lt;br /&gt;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 discount or premium service will work.&lt;br /&gt;Relevant or timely information, research, or studies that are included in your e-mail might encourage the recipients to share with their family and friends. Interactive content like a quiz or test, especially if it’s fun, will inspire forwarding.&lt;br /&gt;Jokes and cartoons are almost always forwarded to everybody the recipient knows.  Why?  Because they are entertaining and entertainment is meant to be shared.&lt;br /&gt;A really cool multimedia experience is always going to achieve a lot of pass-along. Rich media is new and the novelty and tech factors alone are often enough to make the e-mail recipient eager to share it.&lt;br /&gt;Oops!  Almost forgot one really important thing….You can craft a brilliant e-mail following all the rules, but if a consumer visits your site and has an experience less that what was promised, you are going to achieve viral marketing, alright…the bad kind.  So be certain that your product or service is ready and is as advertised.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-5775534888737163518?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/5775534888737163518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=5775534888737163518' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/5775534888737163518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/5775534888737163518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-works-what-doesnt-in-viral.html' title='What Works &amp; What Doesn&apos;t in Viral Marketing'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-2066340195965607681</id><published>2007-12-13T01:13:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T01:15:15.964-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral marketing'/><title type='text'>Why and How E-mail Viral Marketing Works</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;What does a virus have to do with marketing? Viral marketing describes any strategy that encourages individuals to pass on a marketing message to others, creating the potential for exponential growth in the message's exposure and influence. Like viruses, such strategies take advantage of rapid multiplication to explode the message to thousands and then to millions.&lt;br /&gt;Public health nurses offer sage advice at flu season: stay away from people who cough, wash your hands often, and don't touch your eyes, nose, or mouth. Viruses only spread when they're easy to transmit. Viral e-mail marketing works great on the Internet because instant communication has become so easy and inexpensive. Digital format make copying simple. From a marketing standpoint, you must simplify your marketing message so it can be transmitted easily and without degradation. Short is better. Remember the K.I.S.S. standard….Keep it Simple Stupid.  The shorter and easier to remember is always better than long and complicated. &lt;br /&gt;Clever viral marketing plans take advantage of common human motivations. The desire to be cool and greed drives people. So does the hunger to be popular, loved, and understood. The resulting urge to communicate produces millions of websites and billions of e-mail messages.&lt;br /&gt;Most people are social. Nerdy, basement-dwelling computer science grad students are the exception. Social scientists tell us that each person has a network of 8 to 12 people in their close network of friends, family, and associates. People on the Internet develop networks of relationships, too. They collect e-mail addresses and favorite website URLs. Affiliate programs exploit such networks, as do permission e-mail lists. Learn to place your message into existing communications between people, and you rapidly multiply its dispersion.&lt;br /&gt;If you can design a marketing strategy that builds on common motivations and behaviors for its transmission, you have a winner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-2066340195965607681?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/2066340195965607681/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=2066340195965607681' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/2066340195965607681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/2066340195965607681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-and-how-e-mail-viral-marketing.html' title='Why and How E-mail Viral Marketing Works'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5327446430393112314.post-7116560915253279882</id><published>2007-12-13T01:10:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T01:12:42.579-06:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='viral salesman'/><title type='text'>Your E-book is your Viral Salesman</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;E-books are the future and the future is now. The printed word on paper and bound into books used to be the only way information was given and received. They were great, you could take them with you and put them on shelves and they do still exist and will continue to for the foreseeable future but the time of the E-book has arrived.&lt;br /&gt;The marketing E-book is a slightly different animal from just an E-book. Marketing E-books contain text, images, links to web pages and navigation controls. The marketing E-book has become a very important part of marketing on the Internet.&lt;br /&gt;With a marketing E-book you can present your story in an effective way and include links to your web sales pages. Your E-book can become your best salesman.&lt;br /&gt;First, your E-book needs to be interesting and informative. It always has links back to your web site and to your sales page.&lt;br /&gt;Next, be sure that you have a prominent section telling readers that they are free to give your E-book away. Let them know that they can post it on their site as a free download, that they can use it as a bonus, and that they can bundle it with other products. This is the way to create viral marketing for your products or services. Remember those links back to your site contained in the E-book?&lt;br /&gt;Last but certainly not least before you send your E-book out to the world, double check spelling and grammar and be sure that you have tested every link to verify that it goes where it is supposed to go. Obvious errors will reflect badly on you and will not be of much value to you, it could even by damaging.&lt;br /&gt;Post your E-book to some of the E-book directories. Many let you post it for free, or will let you post a link on their site to your E-book.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5327446430393112314-7116560915253279882?l=e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/7116560915253279882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5327446430393112314&amp;postID=7116560915253279882' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/7116560915253279882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5327446430393112314/posts/default/7116560915253279882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://e-viralmarketing.blogspot.com/2007/12/your-e-book-is-your-viral-salesman.html' title='Your E-book is your Viral Salesman'/><author><name>admin</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
