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Are You Making Income From Viral Marketing
By: Marty Fiegl
One of the greatest things in my opinion about Marketing on the Internet is the ability to reach a large audience VERY quickly.
What's even better is once the information starts getting circulated it can become "viral" and the reach can go far beyond your imagination.
When I say viral I'm not saying send out viruses. Viral is a term that was derived from Viruses because of how they "Spread" out and affect many many people.
We can do the same thing with...
- Free eBooks - Free Software - Free Membership Websites
Now you can't simply just give these things away without a way to monetize them.
If you were writing Free eBooks to give away you would include throughout it links to your products and affiliate programs. The more people that get this FREE eBook the more people are clicking on the links visiting your websites and affiliate links.
If you had created Free Software you'd do it similar to the eBook. You would probably include some form of upgrade option and an affiliate program so people would give it away in hopes to make money when people upgrade. Another way which is very popular is to make software that "generates" something.
For example there's lots of software that generates websites and inserts Adsense Ads, some of them insert the authors ad a percentage of the time the website is visited. Or they put a link to their website or affiliate program on it.
If you were using a Free membership site to get people to signup, then upsell them on the backend (this was made popular by Mike Filsaime) you would make it viral with an affiliate program.
In a future article I'm going to talk about the specific ways to distribute your ebooks or software and make them go viral.
Marty Fiegl is an Internet Marketer & Author of many books on Internet Marketing & eBay. http://www.MartyFiegl.com for more information |
