Does Viral Marketing Works for Affiliate Marketers?
Viral Marketing in fact is one of the best way to make a lot of sales - and is one of the best way to sell a product or service. In case you don't have anything to sell, it is also one of the best way to sell as an affiliate.
How? Because thanks to the way that viral marketing works, you don't need to have a big list, or a lot of money to put into an advertising campaign - but you can still have a huge impact.
First of all, what is viral marketing exactly. According to Wikipedia, "Viral Marketing refers to marketing techniques that use preexisting social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet. Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily. Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, images, or even text messages."
You may think that it sound quite complicated, right? To make it easier to understand, Viral Marketing is simply a way of getting a group of people to tell other people about something you've created and make a buzz to your product or service. Beyond that, by passing it around to other people, you can build a proof on the social network. You may get lucky sometimes depending on how they like it, the more it passed around, the more it takes on the life of it's own.
"Free Hugs" video on YouTube is a perfect example. Millions of people has viewed it, and the music - a song written by a group called the "Sick Puppies". That video was not originally in intention for the launching of their singing career but it create a big impact. That video - and the story behind it went viral and caught the attention - and the hearts - of people all over the world. It even spawned a movement that is still going on.
Although you might not be able to pull off a viral marketing campaign that does as well as the "Free Hugs" video, if you are willing to spend a little time researching your market and your target audience, and can think outside the box, you can create a very successful viral marketing campaign of your own.
So what kind if thing is mostly go viral? Definitely video. Actually, if you look at the most of the internet marketing "gurus" recently, you will see that all of them are heavily using videos to boost their product launches and generate a viral marketing campaign. But if you don't have the capability to make videos, you can go with the older materials - "special reports", podcasts, white paper, and even case studies all have a ability to "go viral" and attract a lot of people interested in what you are saying - and finally sell.
In order to make a successful viral marketing campaign, the most important is you should find a right mix of media, marketing and audience. The targeted audience should be interested in what you have to say, and make sure the way you're saying and the way you're going to bring their attention should be tested carefully. If you prepare these three things right, you're on the right track to be a winner of the race, and the next marketing campaign will definitely go viral too.
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