What Makes an E-mail Viral Marketing Work?
November 27, 2009 by Danielle Deray
Filed under Internet marketing
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Viral Marketing got its name from the concept of virus. Yes, the same virus that brought us cough and flu. You see, these are contagious, rapidly reaching other people, and affecting them. The concept of viral promotion is to encourage people to forward the message they have received to their friends, family, or colleagues. Consequently, these recipients are expected to forward the message too. Therefore, thousands, or as much as millions of people receive the message.
On the time of flu season, we are advised by public health figures, and our mommies, to stay away from people who cough. We should always wash our hands, and avoid touching our mouth or nose if we haven’t cleaned them yet. The viral e-mail marketing and Internet have always had a strong relationship, as they complement each other. With the use of Internet, communication is speedier, and the financial cost is much smaller. For your message to be remembered, and easily understood, always take note of K.I.S.S. or Keep It Simple Stupid. Your audience prefer something short and easy, rather than long and complicated.
The clever marketeers make use of viral promotions to make use of common human motivations. You see, people have the innate want to be considered cool, be loved, and be accepted. To reach these goals, greed sometimes take place, just to feed the hunger. Hence, an urge to communicate produces numerous sites, and millions of e-mail messages.
According to social scientists, people are generally social. There might be an exception, like those people who prefer to mingle online, instead of meeting people in person. According to studies, 8 to 12 are the usual population of an individual’s network. For people who opt to establish network online, they collect website url and e-mail addresses. These are the types of lists that affiliate marketers tend to exploit. Therefore, make sure that your recipients have an existing and active network online, as this assures the transfer of your ads.
Now, what you have to focus on is to establish a plan that includes building a rich network. You may include friends, colleagues, and family on your plan as they are willing to do this for free. Also, bear in mind what motivates people to pass the message.
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Thank you for your article.
I have also read about social media and SEO marketing lately and found that this is indeed the future. The problem is, that many people can’t still see, that viral marketing is history and it will not be able to stand against affiliate marketing in the future. Marketers get smarter and cleverer every day and work out different ways how to work in social media sites unnoticed. At the same time though, viral marketing is also widening and every day, more and more banners and different ads are being bought and to be honest, this is the cornerstone for affiliate marketers. There is a very simple and rather bizarre reason for this – affiliate marketers earn money from selling viral ads, which means, that these two are very closely connected.
All in all, at present time, internet offers everyone to educate themselves on SEO and social media marketing. If you would like to do that for yourself also, then I’d suggest you to visit ted.com for some lectures. You may also visit the following blogs, I’m giving you, which will tell you, how to promote, optimize, etc. your website.
Note that these are for informative purposes!
1) A good, short article, which gives you 13 ideas to Promote your website for: http://fr.ee/article/13-ways-to-promote-your-website-for-free
2) A special blog, written by people, who work with website promotion: http://www.developertutorials.com/blog/category/website-promotion/
3) Another good and big blog site, similar to the previous one, giving you many ideas: http://www.websitepromotionblog.com/