Why Is Viral Marketing So Effective?
Viral marketing is an amazing method of generating traffic and leads but also creates a great demand for a yet to be released product. Viral marketing is not a marketing strategy. It’s in genius and quite valuable for many marketers that rely on the internet for a full time income. Viral Marketing is so successful because it creates the curiosity and desire needed to generate the demand for a product or service.
It is designed to generate excitement over nothing. It builds upon itself by word of mouth and it is so important today in all areas of business. Viral marketing is the quickest way to market a website and it’s described as a strategy whereby people are encouraged to pass on marketing content to other people.
Viral advertising may take the form of video clips, interactive flash games, e-books, images, or even text messages. In 2007, World Wrestling Entertainment promoted the return of Chris Jericho with a viral marketing campaign using 15 second videos. The videos contained hidden messages and biblical links related to Jericho.
On their website, a video required the user to put in his or her name and phone number before playback started. This then featured the coach and players waiting outside the locker room while Jericho makes a phone call to the user telling him that they just can’t start the season until he buys his season tickets. This led to nearly 200,000 page view phone calls in less than 24 hours.
If you want a truly viral video that will get millions of people to watch and share it, content is key. Some tips would be to first of all make it short. Fifteen to thirty seconds is ideal. Create a video that is simple enough to be remixed over and over again by others. When your video is finished you are now presented with the daunting task of attracting as many viewers as possible.
The main goal of video marketing on Utube is to take advantage of the web site’s traffic. You have to get your video displayed on the same page as the most viewed videos for that day. There are several ways to achieve this goal such as using Blogs, Facebook, Forums and MySpace, to embed the video in the comments section. Also make sure all of your friends know about it and have seen it and ask them to tell their friends as well. An email campaign would also help.
Viral marketing is only one of many ways to successfully market your product. It’s the new buzzword in advertising. Viral marketing is a difficult term to define, as it is used in many different contexts to describe different ideas. It is similar in nature to starting a rumor and just standing back and watching it spread. Viral marketing is just another marketing tactic but you can’t deny the results.
Bob Withers is a professional sales and marketing person with over twenty years in the field. He has also turned his sights on Affiliate Marketing to apply his trade. Bob changed career paths four years ago when both he and his wife began working with Autistic adults in the US, which along with his Home Business and Affiliate Marketing, is his focus right now. If you want to get in touch with Bob or learn more about Affiliate Marketing and Home Business opportunities please visit:
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This is my new Blog and having been away from it for a couple of years it’s great to be back because I really enjoy it. Just to tell you something about myself, my wife and I are currently working with Autistic adults in the state of Maine and we love it. Although we’re from Canada, originally from Newfoundland, this is our second stint working in Maine and the two men we are working with this time around are great. We’ve become very attached to these young men and we consider ourselves to be a family. Actually our job title is that of Therapeutic Foster Parents and of course we take it very seriously. One of the main reasons we take it so seriously is that we are advocates for these young men because at times they can’t speak for themselves.
The sad part about our job here in Maine is that we have to leave the country after 18 months. The reason for this being the company who hired us and sponsored us into the US could only get us into the country by way of a Training Visa with the main condition being we have to leave after 18 months. We were here under the same circumstances in 2007 and had to leave the guys we were caring for at that time at the end of 2008.
This of course was very difficult for the three men we were working with and living with at the time and it was also very difficult for us because we became very attached and as I mentioned earlier we became a family. One of the main benefits of coming back is that we get to see the guys we worked with on our first visit and we also get to do what we enjoy which is caring for and helping these young men.
Because of our love for what we do and for the people we work with I will be dedicating a Page on this website to Autism and to the people who live with it on a daily basis. I’m hoping this will help educate people who aren’t familiar with what is fast becoming a global concern and help to raise funds for research.
The other objective of this website is to offer Home Business advice and present opportunities to people who are interested in making a legitimate living by working from home.
I’m hoping to have a great deal of relevant content added soon and I hope people will make it a point to visit often. Thank you for visiting and for taking the time to read this information.
The following two videos should give you some idea of the majestic beauty of Newfoundland:
I’ve added a video below, one of which is actually an advertisement by a local brewery located in St. John’s, Newfoundland which is where I’m from. But it contains some great shots of the area and I like to think portrays what we, as Newfoundlanders, are all about: People who care about people, who work hard and play hard but aren’t afraid to laugh at ourselves. In the following videos you will see many examples of this outlook on life as portrayed by local entertainers performing at what we call “Kitchen Parties”.
These are events where neighbours come together to have a few drinks and entertain one another through song and dance. Please take the time to have a look.