What is Viral Marketing?

What is viral marketing? it sounded like a virus spreading to others. Well, viral marketing has the same way as a virus spread to others. Read on or listen to know more..

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WHAT IS VIRAL MARKETING ?

Viral marketing is one of the most sought after, inexpensive methods of advertising today. The power of recommendation is more than evident in the researches conducted that prove that viral marketing is a clear winner in terms of serving the very purpose of marketing. Generating a buzz through word of mouth has always shown greater increase in sales than otherwise.

Buzz building campaigns can create excitement amongst people. The key here is to build a wonderful rapport with your customers such that you can tap their social and psychological network effectively. This way, your customer base keeps expanding.

Excellent customer service and touching base on a regular basis are the basic drivers of viral marketing. Write articles and newsletters, share it with your customers. This will encourage them to share this information with their network of people and will in turn talk about your services and website as well. These customers of yours will reach out to their family and friends. Viral marketing is undoubtedly one of the most powerful sources of marketing as it involves recommendation from trusted sources. So the believability factor here, is high.

Provide attractive content to your loyal customers. Create resources through which you can connect to your audience and simultaneously talk about your products and services, add on features and so on.

Work around a marketing theme. Once you have an idea, you can build a campaign around these critical ideas. For example: posting articles on article directories on sending direct emails to your customers with a resource box containing a link to your website and a request to send it to their known contacts. Your article if delivered properly will pass many hands and bring you good returns, positively.

Ezines and newsletters are also very effective ways to capitalize on your viral marketing campaigns. Never go out of sight. Touch base with your customers periodically to keep them in the loop and tell them, that you are there to address their needs and they mean a lot to you. You have to figure out innovating means of communicating to ensure that your email does not find a place in your customers “junk” mail. If you are able to hit it off with your customers, you are well on your way to enjoy fruits of some powerful word of mouth advertising.

Include tips, tutorials and relevant news clips that are quick and easy to comprehend. This will want your customers to talk about you and the products/services you offer to their network. It’s not just quality articles that matters. Your articles should moot your customers to forward it around.

There are various viral marketing programs online. You could take some of them as a benchmark to your efforts. BMW for instance has generated tremendous online presence by the launch of short film clips online at BMW Films.

Viral marketing is hence a very enticing concept which if utilized well can drive more word of mouth traffic than you can expect. Viral marketing cannot be purchased unlike television ads. Even though viral marketing is difficult initially, it generates unbiased attention and makes your business stronger.

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