Archive for January, 2009

Viral Video Marketing

If you’re trying to get a product or concept spread around the internet using a video you’ve created, then you’re interested in viral video marketing.  The term viral, of course, refers to the rapid spread of the information on the internet.  It’s not easy, however, to get your video to climb up the most-viewed lists.  There are some basic ideas here that you can explore and build on.

While you’re learning about this marketing technique, you’ll come across the term Web 2.0.  This refers to the fact that people are networking on the internet.  It’s different from the old days when we just clicked on our internet browsers and let them take us wherever.  Now people are proactively disseminating information to each other using videos, photo spreads, blogs, websites, and forums.  Web 2.0 basically refers to people-to-people interconnectivity.

If you have created a video, one of the easiest ways to get it onto the internet is through a site such as Youtube™.  Basically they have laid out all the html codes you’ll need in their upload assistance.  That means you can create your video, go to Youtube™ and upload it.  They provide you with the technology to tag it with keywords.  They’ll also tell you if you are getting any views—more about that later.  Then you can copy it—complete with the html tags—to places like Facebook, MySpace, Digg, and more.

If you want to get your video to go viral, you’ve got to keep it short!  People just won’t sit still for longer than two minutes for a video unless they’re really hooked.  It’s better to do a series of videos and link them together.  The message is important, but your first video has to have that hook that keeps people wanting more.  Avoid making your video look like an instructional thing—you want to find some catchy way to package your idea and then lead people back to your website.  Also, even if your videos are sequential, you will launch them all at once.

When you create a video, Youtube™ allows you to identify it with three thumbnails.  One of these thumbnails is taken from the exact center of your video.  So whatever frame is in the center will be one of your thumbnails; make it a good one.  You can also change your other thumbnails, plus your keywords and video title, every few days.

Now let’s talk about how you create that traffic for your video.  Some statistics say that there are a quarter million videos available on Youtube™, with maybe 65,000 more added each day!  It is brutally difficult to get yours to stand out.  One of the most popular tricks is to create multiple Youtube™ accounts.  Then you can view your own video and comment on it using these multiple accounts.  Get your relatives and friends to view the video and comment on it.  Send links to it to everyone you know.

You’ve already utilized Youtube™’s technology to put your video on your MySpace, your Facebook, and others. Then you need to create multiple accounts at each of these various social networking sites, and backlink these sites to each other.  Call upon your friends and family again to visit these, comment, and forward links.  It’s a lot of work, but it’s the best way short of hiring a firm to make your videos go viral.  All it will cost is your time!

Fredi Donosa

Viral Marketing Tools

Affiliate marketing businesses are some of the hottest online when it comes to home based businesses. Coming up with new ways to market your products and attract customers to your site is essential. E-books are one way that you can not only increase traffic but also increase your conversion rate. The conversion rate is the percentage of visitors who complete a certain action. For example, signing up for a newsletter or mailing list.

Writing these e-books however can be an expensive process and for many a process that is one they are unable to do themselves especially if they are looking for something that provides a professional feel as well as a name to back it up. There are ways around this however, there are a number of ways to obtain these types of e-books, be able to input your affiliate information and offer them as free products to provide your business with an increased marketing list or even sell them for a profit. Not just a partial profit you can sell these types of e-books for as much as a 100% profit.

The system is simple, you simply log in, you pick out what you want, insert your information and you are all set. All you have to do from there is decide how you want to market these e-books. There are thousands of different books to choose from so there is something for everyone who is involved in affiliate marketing; this is one of the best ways you can earn money without having to do anything. It is the ultimate expression of viral marketing.

Viral marketing is simply put word of mouth advertising. In terms of the internet, it is done through social networking, a variety of sales pages and splash pages and it is done through things such as e-books. There are dozens of ways to use viral marketing however, people love to receive free products and love even more to receive something that is of use to them.

Information is one of the most powerful objects to use for this type of marketing because the internet is all about information. People log on every day looking for information. This is why providing information that is relevant and real in a format that can be taken anywhere and searched quickly such as an e-book works so well for marketing.
If you are getting into affiliate marketing or if you are looking for ways to expand your affiliate marketing business, then looking into a system that provides you with a wealth of materials that can easily be customized for your business is something to give serious consideration. You may be surprised at how much a system like this can actually assist your business.

In many cases, viral marketing tools such as these are considered invaluable to the individuals who use them and with a number of directories already provided to you to submit your e-books to you have a wealth of connections right at your fingertips that require no additional work. In the space of a few minutes, you can have everything in place to increase your affiliate marketing business all with a simple viral marketing system designed to provide you with thousands of ready to use e-books.

Fredi Donosa

Viral Marketing Tips

Viral marketing is one of the newest and greatest ways to market your business on the internet today.

It is the internet version of word of mouth only it spreads significantly faster bringing in hundreds or even thousands of people at a time to your business. E-books are one of the biggest ways to not only make use of viral marketing but also make a profit.

You can use E-books as a product for your business or you can use it as a free giveaway to attract and entice customers to do something, such as sign up for your newsletter or fill out a survey with marketing information. Some individuals even sell their eBooks with reseller rights. This keeps all their information in the E-book but allows their customer base to expand exponentially by adding all the contacts and buyers of the people with reseller rights.

In order to make use of the viral marketing aspect of E-books it is important to create an e-book that is going to bring people in and encourage them to invest in the information or product that you are selling. In order to do this your e-book must have certain characteristics.  They must be designed to be appealing, designed in a professional manner and they have to be marketed correctly.

This sounds like a significant amount of work and creating an e-book is but there are other options. You can purchase e-books in your niche that are already professional written and optimized to provide you with the best possible product to offer your customers either as a purchase or as a freebie and all you have to do is fill in your particular information. This is perfect for affiliates who are looking for ways to increase their customers and increase their marketing base and sales.

This type of system gives you hundred or even thousands of e-books that are already professional done, written by professionals in the industry and designed to promote a niche perfectly with the latest when it comes to marketing. Then all you need to do is submit this to directories, create sales pages or add your mailing lists. It can even help you increase your mailing list all with the click of a few buttons and filling out a few simply pieces of information.

Then all you do is sit back and let your e-books increase your sales, your traffic and your business. This type of program takes all the guesswork out of having to locate or even create e-books, then find where to market them and how to market them in the most effective way. All of these things are taken care of for you making it easy for you to take care of everything you need in order to promote your business without the hassle or worry.

Viral marketing is one of the best ways for you to be able to expand your affiliate marketing business and e-books are a great way to not only attract customers but also get customers to sign up or provide you for information in return for obtaining the e-book free. To do this you need an eBook that is designed to attract attention and is professionally written to supply customers with something valuable. Having a system that provides you with these types of products and makes it easy for you to modify them and submit them with your information is an invaluable tool for your business.

Fredi Donosa

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