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caveat lector
http://www.webspiner.com/viral/index.htm
Viral Marketing
Many people are creating their own web sites, both for fun and for profit. And
one fact is true of just all of these sites - visitors are needed. I mean,
without people, and lots of them, visiting your web site it's a pretty futile
effort, isn't it? Why bother to put all of the effort, sweat and time into a
site only to have no one read it?
Most people understand that to be seen they need to submit their sites to
search engines. Many others use email signatures, postings to FFA lists and
other similar methods to get people to get to their site. Some even use
classified ads and perhaps even ezines to promote their hard work.
One of the best and most often overlooked method of promoting a site is called
viral marketing. This is the technique that has been successfully used by the
largest web sites over and over again. Sites with familiar names like
Amazon.Com, Bluemountain.Com and even Yahoo.Com.
So what is viral marketing? It is exactly what it sounds like ... you create
something that people want and add some links to that thing. Visitors to your
website like what you've got and add it to their own web sites, send it to
their friends and load it onto their own computers for future reference!
And then those friends and visitors to their web sites do the same thing. They
download it to their own sites, send it to their own friends and load it on
their own computers.
Thus, it works just like a virus! And believe me, a good viral marketing
campaign can spread fast and furious, all over the internet. You got a great
free give-away with your links, and other people will do the rest for you.
Compared to a good viral marketing program, the search engines are a small drop
in the bucket. Great sites like Yahoo.Com would die in a minute if they
depended upon search engines - they depend upon millions of other people
advertising for them.
http://www.webspiner.com/viral/index.htm
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Viral Marketing
Many people are creating their own web sites, both for fun and for profit. And
one fact is true of just all of these sites - visitors are needed. I mean,
without people, and lots of them, visiting your web site it's a pretty futile
effort, isn't it? Why bother to put all of the effort, sweat and time into a
site only to have no one read it?
Most people understand that to be seen they need to submit their sites to
search engines. Many others use email signatures, postings to FFA lists and
other similar methods to get people to get to their site. Some even use
classified ads and perhaps even ezines to promote their hard work.
One of the best and most often overlooked method of promoting a site is called
viral marketing. This is the technique that has been successfully used by the
largest web sites over and over again. Sites with familiar names like
Amazon.Com, Bluemountain.Com and even Yahoo.Com.
So what is viral marketing? It is exactly what it sounds like ... you create
something that people want and add some links to that thing. Visitors to your
website like what you've got and add it to their own web sites, send it to
their friends and load it onto their own computers for future reference!
And then those friends and visitors to their web sites do the same thing. They
download it to their own sites, send it to their own friends and load it on
their own computers.
Thus, it works just like a virus! And believe me, a good viral marketing
campaign can spread fast and furious, all over the internet. You got a great
free give-away with your links, and other people will do the rest for you.
Compared to a good viral marketing program, the search engines are a small drop
in the bucket. Great sites like Yahoo.Com would die in a minute if they
depended upon search engines - they depend upon millions of other people
advertising for them.
http://www.webspiner.com/viral/index.htm
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