By James Pearson

Viral marketing is one of the most powerful marketing techniques on the Internet. Yet, many small Internet entrepreneurs either don’t know what it is, or how to use viral marketing to effectively promote their website.

Viral marketing can be one of the most cost-effective marketing techniques and, once you’ve launched your viral marketing campaign it practically runs on autopilot.

There are few types of Internet marketing that can boast both of these features. Search engine optimization, Pay Per Click advertising, and so many other forms of Internet advertising can be time consuming and costly. Meanwhile, viral marketing costs little or nothing to implement and, once you get started, it can take on a life of its own, continuing to drive prospects to your website even when you aren’t actively advertising it.

What is Viral Marketing? Viral marketing refers to an advertising technique that is spreads from person to person – much like a real virus. Viral marketing is word-of-mouth advertising at its best.

Some prime examples of viral marketing include:

* Tell-a-friend scripts that allow visitors to share a website with other people they know through an email.

* Free e-books or software that people share with each other because of the value of their content.

* Affiliate programs that pay members to tell others about your product or service.

You don’t have to be an expert author or programmer to create a great viral marketing product. A simple information product which contains valuable information about your niche market or product is all you really need. This can be a simple report that is provided in PDF format.

The key element to making your viral marketing product truly viral is giving people a reason to pass it along. This might include:

* A way for them to make money – such as by reselling your product.

* Advertising space in your article.

* Entertainment value – joke sites, cartoons, and games often work this way. We pass them along simply because they amuse us.

* Tug at their “heart strings” – if your report covers a sensitive issue, or one that is very personal to many people, then they will pass it along because it offers a solution to a common problem. Recall all the emails about 9/11 that were passed around.

Viral marketing can be a truly powerful part of your advertising campaign, especially if you are operating on a shoestring budget. A little effort and creativity are all that you need to get started.

About the Author: James Pearson is the author and creator of many viral marketing products and a veteran Internet marketing. His website http://www.viralmarketingunleashed.com/newsletter.html contains a growing collection of unique viral tools and techniques to promote your website and grow your on-line business automatically.

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By David Hobson

There are many marketing programs out there seeking your money and effort (plus your email address!), that fall under this category. There are quite a few names used for these marketing programs but I will refer to all of them as “safe lists”. Each of these marketing programs work under the same basic principles.

Email Safelist is a dynamic way for all sort of businesses to advertise anything. It’s great to advertise any kind of links but also for Admins to advertise their programs and rating sites.There are numerous important benefits of safe list email marketing which every web site or blog site owner should be fully aware of.They include the following;

a) Safe list email marketing is like a prime time TV ad and enjoys many similar benefits. Some folks will turn the sound off while other will flip channels to avoid the ad, but the ad is broadcast to such a huge number that even a 0.5% response will cause the advertiser to laugh and dance all the way to the bank.

Some recipients will not even open your email message while others will quickly read through and fail to take any action. But the key benefits of safe list email marketing is that the numbers reached with the email are so high that even a small fraction of a response will mean huge traffic and the potential for equally huge sales.

b) There is no other online advertising tool that has the potential of giving a person such huge results within such a short time. The clear benefits of safe list email marketing include the fact that it has no equal.

c) Also included in the major benefits of safe list email marketing is the fact that this online marketing tool has the potential to help a site owner to virally multiply the number of one way links pointed at their site for SEO reasons. The way to do this is by distributing SEO marketing articles complete with detailed resource boxes through email safe lists.

Avoid safe lists unless you don’t mind hundreds (if not thousands) of emails and marketers are your intended target audience. Even if marketing specialists are your target audience it is not likely anyone receiving your messages will actually read the message because it will be buried in a sea of e-mail.

If you would like to try safelsits take a look at www.xfactorsafelist.com

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By Tony Chang

Internet marketers are constantly faced with the challenge of getting and increasing traffic to their websites.

In order for your website business to stay profitable and competitive, you might choose to draw visitors to your website with the use of low cost online advertising, or put in some effort to get you free website traffic.

Beginning Internet marketers are sometimes skeptical about the effectiveness of some of these methods that generate free website traffic.

However, some of these free methods can be just as effective as paid website traffic methods in helping you make more sales, generate email leads, or simply to get additional visitors to your website.

Here’s a little nugget of truth about getting free website traffic: Although you will not need to pay money for such free traffic to your website, you will actually be paying with either your time, energy, or your attention, or with all of these limited resources that you have.

However, the benefit of generating website traffic for free is that you will not need to spend any money.

Another benefit is that such traffic going to your website can also be more stable, predictable, and targeted. Consequently, these website visitors might be more receptive to making a purchase or performing the most desired action (such as signing up for your newsletter) when they arrive at your website.

Here are 3 of the really effective bread-and-butter techniques that can help get you tons of free website traffic:

1) Using SEO or search engine optimisation to get more website traffic:
One way of getting consistent and free website traffic, is to apply sound SEO or search engine optimisation principles when designing and building your webpages for your website. Such principles involve having appropriate title tags, meta tags, keyword tags, and meaningful keywords in your body text. Another key thing to remember about SEO is to have high quality content that are written for people. Such content should include relevant keywords and keyword phrases that people are looking for.

Baffled and confused by SEO terms and techniques? Just check online by typing “seo methods” in the search engines for some of these easy-to-apply methods. Alternatively, you can pick up a good SEO book at your local library, read, and simply apply them.

2) Getting Links from other websites for free traffic to your website:
Getting links from relevant websites that have website content or themes that are similar or compatible with yours, can help boost visitor traffic to your website.

To do this, you can simply go to the Google search engine, type in the keywords that your website uses and look at the search engine results.

Contact those websites that are on the first 3 pages of the search engine results and ask the site owners if they would be agreeable in posting your website link on their website. Try to request links from websites that have a similar or preferably, a higher page rank and search engine rank than your own.

3) Multi-task and do market research and website traffic generation at the same time:
Participate in forums and blogs that have content themes related to the content on your website. Not only can you do some market research and assess what your potential customers might want or need, you can also actively participate by making useful, relevant and meaningful posts to such forums and blogs.

In your forum or blog posts, you can either make a reference to your website or provide a short email signature that includes a web address or URL that can guide people to visit relevant webpages in your website. Remember that it is important for you to post useful and relevant content or information in such blogs or forums.

These 3 free website traffic generation techniques can be very effective in increasing the number of visitors to your website or online business.

Just keep in mind that such increases will take some time before you start seeing results.

To leverage your time in the most efficient manner, have a system and schedule of performing the suggested tasks above, all of which will help drive traffic to your website free of charge.

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By Elisabeth Kuhn

If you’ve studied internet marketing, you’ve surely heard the catch phrase, “The money’s in the list.” And to some extent, it’s true – but only if you use your list to build strong relationships with your prospects. After all, who would you rather buy from? A trusted friend and advisor or someone who constantly fills your inbox with spam? Here are seven ways you can build a strong list:

1. Write and Submit Articles
Articles are one of the fastest ways to start driving traffic – and prospects – to your list. Try to write ten 500 word articles on topics in your niche and submit them to directories like EzineArticles.com among others. Because articles are reviewed and posted so quickly, they’re indexed by the search engines quickly. You could wait weeks for a static web page to be indexed, but articles start sending you traffic almost immediately.

2. Write a Good Resource Box
After writing ten or more articles, you might be tempted to blow off the author’s resource box. Don’t fall into this trap! The resource box you use on your article submissions is your one chance to convince the reader to click through to your site, so put some time into it. A good resource box includes a statement that draws the prospect in and a call to action that tells the reader what to do. Spend some time tweaking it before you publish your articles.

3. Give Away Something Free
We all want good, quality content for free – but certain types of free offers do better than others. Free access to your newsletter is not enough to get people to sign up for your list. Most internet marketers offer free ebooks or ecourses in exchange for a prospect’s email address. Ebooks are easier to produce, but ecourses can be more effective in the long term, since each message that goes out is another chance for you to build your prospect relationship and make money.

4. Make Friends in Forums
Find forums in your niche and set up accounts immediately. Pay special attention to forums that allow you to use a signature file after each post – use something similar to your author resource box to help drive traffic to your list. Start posting as much as you can, but keep your posts informative and valuable. Don’t spam your new forum friends! Posting helpful information will help cement your status as an expert in your field and encourage people to join your email list.

5. Use – Don’t Abuse – Your Auto-Responder
Once you’ve attracted a prospect to your list, don’t break the relationship by sending ten messages a day. On the other hand, don’t send messages once every three months and expect your prospects to care what you have to say – or even remember who you are. Most internet marketing experts recommend sending your list 2-3 messages a week to keep them hooked without feeling overwhelmed.

6. Language is Key
It should go without saying that spelling and grammar are important – no one wants to read an unintelligible message full of errors. However, it’s also important to watch the overall tone you’re conveying with your emails. Try to write in a friendly, conversational tone. Start your messages with, “Hey ” instead of, “Dear .” Using colloquial expressions instead of formal language will help your prospects feel at ease – and much more likely to buy from you.

7. Don’t Spam
It’s exciting to have prospects join your list – like having new friends who are interested in what you have to say. The fastest way to break this trust is with spam messages. Spam isn’t just limited to Viagra ads or messages from your long-lost Nigerian friend – sending message after message full of affiliate links is just as dangerous. Choose the products you promote to your list carefully, and try to balance each promotional message you send with quality content.

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By Peter Phillips

All of us internet foot soldiers in the trenches are aware of the high flying super affiliates sitting in their command tent making the rest of us do all the work for them. You may have received emails from people asking you to buy a product, but only through their link, and they are offering supposedly thousands of dollars worth of bonuses used as an enticement to do so. Then they may have shown you where they are on that product’s top sales listing, and when you’ve seen a few you will notice that a lot of the same names keep appearing. Now you want to know what it is you have to do to join their exalted company and hopefully this affiliate marketing resource will be of some use to you.

Free to join affiliate programs are one of the easiest ways to get started on your internet-marketing career. After all, for most affiliate marketing online programs you just have to sign up as an affiliate for free and you’ve now got a product to sell, with no inventory to keep or deliver, and no dealing with disgruntled customers, and the money will start to roll in. Of course those of us who have been around a while know that there is a lot of hard work to becoming a successful affiliate, and below you will find some of the essential tools required to become a super affiliate.

Your best asset will be your own website. A lot of affiliate programs will have a dedicated affiliate website, probably with your name on it. There are two things to consider, if you are looking at using this kind of custom web site.

On the plus side, it will be professionally designed, and will look a lot better than your own design. On the other hand, it is the same as every other affiliate for that product, and you have no say in what is on that website. With your own site, while it may not look as good, you have control over the content. People may come to your site because of your product promotion, but while they are there they may see something else which catches their eye and they may buy that instead. It may be something as simple as an opt-in box. In each case you are using the affiliate link to drive traffic to your site rather than someone else’s, and you may pick up some collateral sales, as I have described.

Next you will have to provide some sort of incentive. Competition among affiliates is fierce, and no doubt you have been bombarded with emails from different marketers whenever a hot new product comes out. For your success you will have to match the big boys in offering incentives. You could offer your thousand dollar bonus package – just clear out your hard drive of all those products you’ve bought and never used and allocate an arbitrary value to them, just like everyone else. Offer a newsletter, as long as it is of value, and you will do the work necessary to keep coming up with new content for it. Give them free membership to your exclusive members’ area, if you have one, or any other free stuff you can think of. People love freebies, and in the internet world it seems the more the better.

Thirdly, you need to get your link popularity up to a high level in order to increase your page ranking. Visitors are impressed by high page ranking, which is achieved by having lots of relevant one-way links back to your site. I have got mine up to PR3 in a short time by using one-way links. Don’t put too much trust in link exchanges – have a look to see where the link to your site is. You will often find that it is buried among a list of other links, at number 549 or something. I don’t think Google pays much attention to these links, as it quite rightly pays more attention if the site which is linking back to you is in the same field as your site. For instance if your site is about dog grooming, linking to a site which is about pets may be relevant, but it’s no use linking to a real estate site. It will be ignored for page ranking purposes. I use articles to get my one-way links rather than link exchanges.

Finally, every super affiliate has a large customer list, numbering in the thousands. They work on the theory of the numbers game, meaning that if they send out a thousand emails they may get ten sales. If you have the same low success rate, you will obviously have to send out thousands of emails in order to make any money, so you must increase your list numbers. You will have to do this gradually, as you only want interested people on your list, not those who will sign up for anything. This may sound difficult, but every super affiliate started out with a list of zero, just like you.

To summarize, I hope I have given you a few things to consider in your quest for super affiliate stardom, but remember one thing. Super affiliates are making a good income from their affiliate sales, but who is making the really big money?

The answer is of course the product owner, and this is ultimately what you should be seeking to become, having a host of affiliates working for you. If you do not know how to go about getting your own product, there is a link in my resource box which will get you on your way.

©Peter Phillips

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