10 Viral Marketing IdeasWritten by Hans Peter Oswald
Viral Marketing is allowing people to giveaway and use your free product or service in order to multiply your marketing quickly over internet. The idea behind viral marketing is that you include your ad with freebie people giveaway or use. Below are ten high impact viral marketing strategies: 1. Allow people to reprint your articles on their web site, in their e-zine, newsletter, magazine or ebooks. Include your resource box and option for article reprints at bottom of each article. Example: We give away all articles at http://www.20six.de/secura and http://www.20six.de/secura1 2. Allow people to use any of your freebies as free bonuses for products or services they sell. Include your ad on all your freebies. Example:You can download Domainchecker at http://www.domainregistry.de/domainchecker.txt 3. Allow people to use your online discussion board for their own web site. Some people don't have one. Just include your banner ad at top of board. 4. Allow people to sign up for a free web site on your server. Since you are giving away space, require them to include your banner ad at top of site. 5. Allow people to add their link to your free web site directory. Just require that they return a link back to your web site, advertising your directory.
| | Are You Ready To Research Your Market?Written by Dan J. Fry, Ph.D
Are You Ready To Research Your Market? by Dan J. Fry, c. 2003-2004, All rights reserved.Picture this. You develop some product or service, spend countless hours making sure everything is just right, set up a beautiful web site, make sure ecommerce end is secure, and then release what you know will be of utmost benefit to others. Do you really know this? How do you know it? Gut feeling? Someone else told you so? In world of online ventures, researching currently defined marketplace can be even more important than in offline world. Why? Things change so incredibly fast. Web sites and services start and end with blink of an eye. In part this is because of nature of internet, and most are able to survive these types of massive fluctuations. But ones who succeed and stay near top, releasing of product after product are ones who initially conduct market research and do so on a regular basis. Now, don't let term intimidate you. Market research is simply about getting to know what others are doing, what others want and who if anyone is supplying it. Yes, in a way this is supply and demand revisited. But, and this is important, market research is also about predictions and expectations. By studying and learning about what is going on not only in your current market but in related areas, you will begin to develop a keen sense of what is needed. Even better, you will begin to develop a sense of innovation, possible areas that others have not yet thought about. At this stage your brain will flair with excitement and your online business ventures will begin to take on a "cruise and control" nature.
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