This post is a continuation of my post yesterday about viral marketing. Since I have discussed what viral marketing is and how it can help your business online yesterday, I will now tackle with some of the top and proven effective methods used for viral marketing.
Viral marketing is hot and when used effectively, this powerful marketing method will boost the traffic to your website to numbers way beyond your imagination. These are the top 5 viral marketing methods that tops my list:
1. Tell a Friend Scripts
One of the easiest methods in viral marketing is using a tell a friend script. This is a simple programming script that you can attach to the programming of your website. Generally, tell a friends script are installed in pages where a media is placed so that a person can easily send the media to any of his friends or his family members.
Just like the call of action on a landing page or banner ad. Look on the internet and find yourself a ‘Tell a Friend’ script. Some of them are really cool. Install the script on your site and make it clearly visible. You’ll be surprised how many people will use this. Make sure that in the script, you are always included in the CC (Carbon Copy) section so that you receive copies of what visitors to your website are saying. Some scripts allow you to send out a ‘thank you’ message.
2. Video
Video marketing is the most powerful and effective method of getting noticed and driving traffic to your website. To make this method go viral, you will need to produce video that’s appealing, funny, compelling… Be creative. Post it on YouTube and other video websites for maximum exposure.
3. Articles
Website owners are always looking for qualifying content to keep their sites up-to-date. Start writing articles about business related topics and post them to article websites. Most article sites allow you to create an ‘Author Resource Box’. Here you can include your contact details, a brief description about your business and a link back to your own website. Once you have posted your article, you also have a great chance it will get published on other websites or distributed in newsletters. This effective viral method is extremely powerful and effective.
4. Forums
Also known as ‘message boards’, this is a place to engage in conversations that are going around. You can include a signature in all of your posts, including a link to your website. The more posts you do, the more your link is being exposed to other people. What’s so nice about this free viral marketing tip is that some forums are actually indexed by the search engine. So this method really drives traffic to your website from 2 directions: the link in your posts, as well as traffic from the search engines.
5. Create your own Screensaver
Though this is not used frequently nowadays, the idea here is to create a simple but catchy and appealing screensaver to advertise your business or website and products. You can make your free viral marketing screensaver available for download on your site and you can include it as an attachment to all of your outgoing emails. Imagine hundreds or even thousands of people, using your screensaver on their computer, promoting your business.
Do a trial and error with these viral marketing methods. Try each of these one at a time and check what works best for you and your business. These viral marketing methods not only are efficient in driving traffic to your business but this are all cost effective as well.
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