Viral Video Marketing

Viral Videos

December 26th, 2009 at 8:48 am

3 Sure-fire Ways to Get Free Viral Traffic to Your Website

One of the most important numbers for your website will be your value per visitor, and even if you have a very high value per visitor, you still may make any profits. If your current VPV is 30 cents, and you are paying Google 30 cents per click for your advertising, then you aren’t making anything. But on the same token, let’s pretend you took the time to implement a few viral marketing tactics for your website, and let’s pretend that you starting to get 300 free website visitors per day. That would mean a $90 profit each day for your business. That’s $2,700 per month and $32,850 per year in profits. There are 3 sure-fire ways to get this viral traffic to your website and I want to share them with you.

One of the most popular ways for getting free viral traffic to your websites is by creating a viral eBook; the only problem is that many people do it all wrong. Many people will write a book report and call it an eBook. What I mean by this is that many people will write a 30 page guide, put everything is 18 point font, give people resale and master distribution rights, and call it good. Now, some people write really great 30 page eBooks with killer content, but in the majority of cases, if you really want your viral eBook to be shared with everyone, then a 30 page “book report” isn’t going to work!

So, here’s the real secret to creating a great viral eBook: You are going to want to make the content so great that you would find people across the web selling similar content for $30, $50, $100 or more. You want people to read your book and then think to themselves that the information was so great that they would have been willing to pay for the information. When people think this to themselves, then they will want to include your eBook as a free bonus on their site, give it away, or resell your eBook for a profit. You will mention your websites and maybe include a few affiliate links in your eBook so that you get free traffic and maybe make some extra income for your efforts.

A second very popular way for you to create free viral marketing for your website is to provide great resources on your site. It is very popular to see sites giving away free eCourses or newsletters. I have done this a number of times and it works very well. You can also give away your viral eBooks, free recorded calls, coupons, free reports, etc. Basically, you want to provide tons of resources with high perceived value that you can deliver electronically, making the only cost to you your time. Providing people with these great free offers usually automatically assures that you will get word of mouth advertising. Remember that content is king, and that especially goes for viral marketing.

A third sure-fire technique to brining free viral traffic to your websites is by creating viral videos. I admit that this is not an easy task to accomplish, but if you put in some effort, then it can all be worth it. Here are a few tips: First, make sure that after you have creating your “amazing video” that you include within that video a compelling offer for people to visit your website and learn more. Second, ask people to share your video with friends and ask them to comment and rank your video. If you convince people that your video is worth sharing, and then ask them to share it, then they likely will. Third, upload your viral video to multiple video sharing sites for maximum exposure. You see, your video make go viral on a site like Mega Video before it goes viral on YouTube, so you’ll want to upload and promote your video on as many sites as possible for maximum effectiveness.

I would like to point out that there is a common theme amongst all three of these viral marketing techniques, and that is the theme of creating great content and then giving it to people for free. When viral marketing has worked the best, it has always been because of people providing very informative or entertaining information for free. The more value you can provide to people for free, the more word of mouth marketing you will receive. Then you will be rewarded with tons of free website traffic while others may struggle to break even with a similar business.

April 1st, 2009 at 12:00 am

The Many Methods of Viral Marketing

Viral marketing used to rely heavily on email but it has grown substantially in recent years to take in many other forms and strategies. A successful viral marketing campaign can be created in many different ways including:

Email
The most traditional and simple method of viral marketing was email and it is still a
viable method today. There can be restrictions on email and spam filters can sometimes get the better of you, but the results can still be outstanding often resulting in viral emails being sent all over the world with little being done by you.

Newsletters
Newsletters build upon email viral marketing but they allow you to provide even more information to prospective customers. Newsletter are generally sent to an audience interested in a particular topic, the information you send will be based on that topic therefore capturing their attention A fantastic newsletter can also assist with website traffic.

Blogging
Possibly the most powerful of all methods in recent years, blogging allows website visitors to interact with your site and you can also interact with other bloggers so cross promoting is easy and effective. Blogging also allows easy customer feedback through comments, leading to increased word of mouth sales.

Chat Rooms
Having a chat room on your site means customers can chat to each other and hopefully recommend your products. You can also conduct tele-seminars which can attract prospective buyers. Cat rooms are a great way to build up a relationship with our customers and something they can tell their friends about and spred the word about your site.

Tell-a-friend Scripts
As long as you include a privacy policy, tell-a-friend scripts are a powerful way for people to quickly and easily pass on information to their friends as a recommendation for your products or services.

Video clips
Posting videos on sites like YouTube or even on your own site can get the viral machine pumping. People love video as they can digest information easier. If you create a good video, it is likely that people will pass this on to others interested in the same topic.

Flash games
Flash games get passed around through email and if you can include a small unobtrusive message in the game about your site, you can literally get thousands of visitors. You can also submit flash games to big game sites or social sites like Facebook where they can be accessed by millions of people.

Viral marketing has so many possible methods and implementations that it is impossible to ever run out of ideas. By combining several methods together, your word of mouth marketing campaign is sure to bring results.