Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Explode Your Business With Viral Marketing!
by Justin Blake, CEO ViralShock.com

Creativity.

This is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in
the ruthless competition in the Internet based business.
With so much competition and rivalry going on, every method
of marketing must be employed and utilized.

It doesn’t matter if you have a killer product or a
fantastically designed website, if people don’t know that
you exist, it doesn’t matter, and you are not going to make
it big. Worst of all, you business could just get killed.

While there are so many methods and schemes used by so many
e-commerce sites today, there are still some of those that
can help you with an extra boost in the popularity ratings.
One of these is the so called Viral Marketing.

While the term Viral easily depicts a virus, a word very
much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not what it
seems. You do not actually use a computer virus to spread
your business; on the contrary it just might kill you.
Everyone has had enough of all those pop up ads and spyware.


Viral Marketing Overview

Viral Marketing also known otherwise as Viral Advertising is
a marketing technique used to build the public awareness of
one’s product or company. They use many forms of media to
reach out to the public without actually promoting the
product by riding on in other forms of addictive means that
could get a person hooked and be obliged or amused to
actually pass it on, with the product or company
advertisement along with it.

In a nutshell, companies ride on the idea that if people
like the content of a media they will pass it on to their
friends and family. They sponsor the certain media, such as
a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story and such,
which one may pass on to another with the company brand or
logo or the products description or any other content to
help promote the company or its product.

Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising
and marketing because they are relatively low cost. To avoid
being tagged as spam mail, viral marketing counts on the
eagerness of one person to pas on the product. If a person
sees the name of the person they know as the sender, they
won’t block it and open it as well.

Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and
rebates when they help in spreading their viral marketing.
They rely on the number of recipients a viral marketing gets
from one person in determining the amount or number of
incentive they can be attributed with.

Using Viral Marketing to your advantage

The main and foremost advantage of viral marketing is that
you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your
site and your company. You get to generate a flow of traffic
that are potential customers. With a little ingenuity and
imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach
out to a great number of people and announce your
existence.

Most sites and companies are catching on to the
effectiveness of Viral Marketing and Advertising. Not using
it could kill your business. Along with other schemes and
methods in promoting your site, like Search Engine
Optimization and such, viral marketing could easily push you
ahead in the rating games.

Viral Marketing could be a sneaky way to get people to know
about you and your company. You get them to pass your
advertisement along. They are also very low cost that not
investing in it could be downright a business suicide. All
it takes is a great idea, a good addicting game, a funny
story many ideas are still out there. Create gossip or a
buzz. Many movies are promoted by using scandals and gossips
to make them more popular. Remember the movie “The Blair
Witch Project”?

Many big companies have tried viral marketing and have had
many success stories with it. A classic example is
Microsoft’s Hotmail. They were the first known big company
to utilize the scheme and it has worked wonders for them.

Now it’s your turn to use viral marketing to work wonders
for you. Act now and reap the benefits Viral Marketing will
provide for you and your sales figures.

- Justin Blake, CEO

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Justin Blake one of the web's foremost experts in Viral
Marketing. He has recently created a brand new viral
marketing resource to help online business owners radically
increase their profits and subscriber base, and you can find
out more about this incredible resource here:


http://www,viralshock.com/members/captainjerry

Monday, March 26, 2007

Blogging: A Powerful Home-based Business Tool !

What is a Blog? Simply put, a blog is a web page that is
made up of posts, and is updated regularly. A web log is a
very powerful tool, your home-based business can take
advantage of. You can use this in many ways to benefit your
business. Here are some of the benefits you can gain by
using blogging.

#1- Publish Your Home-based Business On The Web.

You can easily publish your home-based business on the web.
With blogging, you can put in your thoughts, your views, and
various links to web page with a few clicks of your mouse.
Blogging is made simple by different programs, and software
developed by the blog site provider on the Internet.

#2- Get A Cheaper Website With Blogging.

You can get a cheaper website with blogging. Instead of
maintaining a website of your own, blogging sites are good
alternatives. We all know that a website could mean a lot of
money, a lot of programming, and a lot of maintenance to do.
But with blogging, those can easily be eliminated.

#3- No Technical Knowledge Is Needed.

Less technical knowledge is needed. As stated earlier, the
software is already there, ready to be used by bloggers, to
update the sites regularly. There is No need to hire a web
professional every time you wanted to change, or update
something in your web site.

#4- An Edge Over Your Competitors.

Blogging can give your business an edge over your
competitors. Customers and visitors of your blog site, can
easily join in and post their own comments and suggestions,
to your site and your products. And if you post answer to
their posts fast, it would seem that you like reach out and
help your prospective customers and clients. Customers
always prefer personalized attention.

#5- Free Or Low Cost Promotion.

Blogging will give you the marketing promotion you need FREE
or at a low cost. Blogging is a popular way to promote your
home-business nowadays. With its rise in popularity, a lot
of people are using it to maintain a site of their own for
personal reasons. And since people already know how it
works, you can add in a different dimension to your product.
You can setup a contests in there. You can offer discounts.
There are a lot of possibilities.

#6- Share Your Photos
Blogging can be used to share photos, news, upcoming events,
and anything else about your product. Blogging almost has no
boundaries. Almost anything can be uploaded there in order
to boost your home-based business. Dream up of more creative
ways. There are no limits.

Blogging has been around since the late 90’s. Since then, it
has been widely used by businesses and individuals alike.
Even corporations have blog sites of their own now. This has
been the reason why it is one of the most essential tools, a
business should have. Make full use of it. You won’t regret
it at all.


About The Author: Fitzgerald Elliott.
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