Viral Marketing: 25 ideas for the Financially Challenged
There has been a lot of articles written about Viral
Marketing, but I just had to offer my 3 cents (that's
all I can afford) on this subject. For those of you who
aren't yet familiar with the term, Viral Marketing is
the technique of enticing others to promote your
business by distributing something of value with your
message attached. Rather than get theoretical or
editorialize you to death, I'll just list a few ideas
to get your business and web site out there in the
public eye. There are many more and if you can find
something original you are always better off.
1. Distributing your own Free Software
2. Writing and Offering Free eBooks
3. Signing visitors up for Free email accounts via a
site like .
4. Creating up an Award Site.
5. Creating a Top 100 Site.
6. Creating a Recommend-It Site.
7. Offering access to content from your site, while
customizing it to fit each user.
8. Offer Free E-Cards.
9. Writing articles for reprint in newsletters and on
web sites.
10. Set up a discussion board and open it for other to
use for their web sites.
11. Offering Free Graphics, Banners or Web Site
Templates.
12. Free Consulting Services.
13. Free Domain Name Estimating.
14. Free Web Site Reviews.
15. Setting Up A Search Engine Site.
16. Free Banner Rotation or Link Exchange
Site.
17. Specialized Databases or Directories.
18. Of course you must have a Free Newsletter.
19. Free Page Redirect Service.
20. Free Screensavers.
21. Free Autoresponder Service.
22. Free Web Space.
23. Use The "Pass This On" technique. Where you create
something like a humorous picture attach your web site
url and encourage others to pass it on.
24. Free Document Templates.
25. Offer Free Email Courses or Workshops.
I myself have written a few widget programs like Free
Meta Tags, Free Image Rollover Scripts and Free Doorway
Pages. Now, you're thinking, everyone and their brother
have these things. Well, what I did to promote this
uphill battle was to set them up so that you could not
only get them from my site, but you can also offer them
from your site as well, by using a few lines of script.
Why would you want to do this? In the script, you can
also add your own advertising message that gets sent
out to your visitors using the service, which by the
way I host completely at my site. This makes an easy
marketing add-on for newbie sites who want to offer
free content. We also sell these little programs to
others who want to offer the same Viral Marketing
Freebie to their visitors. If you would like to see
what I mean, stop by and visit us at
Good luck to you in your Marketing Ad-ventures
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