Viral Marketing is essentially a marketing strategy intended to help marketers generate huge traffic, exposure and massive bottom lines. Surely the word ‘viral’ bears close resemblance to ‘virus’, our most popular flu bug. Viral marketing will do wonders for marketers if only its power is drawn and used effectively.

How can viral marketing be of effective help to our online business? What sort of advantages and benefits can viral marketing give us?

In the world of marketing, as in mortar-and-brick marketing, we know one thing for sure that will definitely help us in gaining more customers and increasing our profits. It’s none other than word-of-mouth referral system. We can imagine the impact it will have upon our online business. Customer A is satisfied with your product or service, and he or she goes to inform another friend B about it. B trusts A and buys your product or service and goes on to inform another friend C who is inquiring into your product or service. If C expresses interest and buys, you will get the repetition of the cycle which will impact your referral system and bottom line positively. How powerful and effective can this word-of-mouth referral system gets, especially when you will get to increase your clicks and conversions in the long run! A good noticeable example would be Windows Live Hotmail, who tags a simple little advertisement indicating free email account with them to each and every email sent by its member user. This resulted in a huge explosion in the former Hotmail and is still garnering numbers in email user memberships for the new Windows Live Hotmail. This is how it’s being done effectively:

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Viral marketing helps to build up your credibility. Visitors and customers will trust you more as time passes. As word goes forth about your product or service, isn’t it wonderful and beneficial to your business that someone commends very well about your product or service. As Rome was not built in one day, so credibility has to be earned and built over a period of time. Much effort is required to present yourself as a credible and trustworthy marketer, therefore, the image projected must always be good.

Where there is viral marketing, there is the tendency to created buzz for your online marketing. When visitors come to know and express deep interest in your product or service, there’s this possibility of good ‘noise’ about what you have to offer. Questions will be asked about your offers. What views or comments can be expected from them? How will you be tackling reservations about your product or service? Importantly, you must know how this good ‘noise’ is going to affect your business when visitors take their vote on future purchases from you.

When there is creation of buzz, your marketing campaign will be made visible inevitably. Viral marketing does this effectively. Your online business goes prominent especially when your visitors and customers come flocking to you to find out more or for more purchases. It’s a win win situation. Needless to say, your business will experience exponential increase in sales if clicks are converted. Viral marketing makes closing of sales so much easier for marketers. A good example is Amazon.com, who attaches a flyer to every gift that you are recommended to send to your friend. The flyer is actually viral marketing in motion - it details the products of Amazon.com.

Viral marketing knows no boundaries. It can activate itself even in social bookmarking websites. YouTube for example is one site where you add a few links allowing users to bookmark your content. This amounts to opening opportunities for the promotion of your website, with the possibilities of massively increasing traffic. Understanding the demographics of the various social bookmarking websites will be of advantage to you. Application of different strategies such as free games, interesting articles and funny videos to your site will do wonders to your campaign. Viral marketing will take care of the results.

Viral marketing has the power to reduce your promotional costs besides marketing costs. The main part of the promotion is actually carried out by your subscribers and customers who interact with their friends, relatives and work colleagues. In effect, they are the ones who put viral marketing into action, bringing you its results.

Viral marketing is effective. It is also explosive. You will see exponential growth in your online business through vast increase in site traffic and demand for your product or service. Put simply, at all costs hold on to viral marketing power.

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Blogging is an activity that has changed our landscape on the internet so dramatically that millions of blogs are floating in the blogosphere right now. How do we view blogging and the outcomes of indulging in it like a drug addict is to drug? How much do we know about and to what extent the power of blogging can impact upon our online business?

Even in the mortar-and-brick business, we need to look at certain factors to put our business into trim and fit shape. We often look at good ideas for our product or service, the greatness of the product or service itself, how visible is our product or service, and what comprises support to achieve our goals.

Let’s look at each factor individually:-

• Good Ideas

It is beneficial to our online business if we often have good ideas to further improve it. We have to give our ideas the space to grow, besides nurturing them and bring them to fruition through their implementation. We will see the power of blogging in action if we allow our blogs to be truly transparent and peer reviews to be permitted. For the sake of internal blogs, such strategies will remove the obstacles in idea generation and vetting. There will also be interaction from your customers if you provide the necessary space for them on your blog.

• Greatness of product or service

We have good ideas to be turned into product or service for our online business. We can churn out them out according to our plans. One thing is crucial. The product or service may be great but may under-perform when facing stiff competition. We need to talk and find out from our customers to get feedback, primarily to study the buying patterns of our customers. Blogging helps us unselfishly in this problem area. Through your blog, you are able to obtain answers from your readers at least. Not only locally, but globally, as your blog transcends boundaries on the web. We will definitely know the truth.

• Visibility of our product or service

It is obvious that to market our product or service, it needs to be visible to the world. The right customer will come along at the right time to buy the right product or service. We are in reality talking about the global reach, when your blog has the capacity to touch readers effectively through various programs such as contests and press releases. Interaction with the readers is important. Mindshare, which reveals how many people are really aware of your product or service, is even more significant. The power of blogging brings your online business to a global audience, who must be given an appreciable amount of mindspace. They will of course decide how and when to engage and build a relationship with you. Here, we can actually notice viral marketing in action too. Blogging, with its intrinsic characteristics, will surely bring about the formation of a community of reading participants, large enough to positively affect your online business.

• Support

Through your blog, internal communication is greatly enhanced. Information can be viewed through the blog, similarly minded people can share exchange of views and interests through the blog. The power of blogging brings out the beauty of the blog - it keeps your team informed and motivated at all times. Great ideas can be easily archived and viewed any time. There is common ground to work with passion. The blog does it all in rendering support for better internal communication.

Blogging requires a voice from you. It is the new platform from which you will provide information to meet the needs of your customers and to build relationships with them. Along the way, you will immerse yourself in the culture of blogging. Well, that’s indeed the power of blogging!

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How do you write an extremely powerful headline and content body for your online marketing campaign? Have you ever wondered why some marketers sell very well and easily their products or services? There’s no secret whatsoever for their success. It is simply due to great copywriting! Below are great copywriting tips that will help you to write effectively.

For your online marketing campaign, it is important that you draft a marketing copy that bears a catchy name and has a headline of about 10-25 words to describe it. The sole purpose for this is to lure traffic to your website i.e. to initiate or increase your subscribers’ list. Remember that your list must have a name which should preferably be tied to your niche product or service. Another important point is that your headline must stand out prominently i.e. it must grab readers’ attention immediately.

There are various ways a powerful attention-grabbing headline can be formulated. It is recommended that words denoting “power” be used . This is because there is this need to alert readers to your headline and immediately grab their attention to read on. Furthermore, such “power” words will impact readers to take immediate action. Several “power” words that can be used to grab attention include secrets, success, proven, unleash, power, guaranteed, and free, just to name a few.

Besides usage of “power” words, it is also recommended that power phrases be used to support the power of “power” words. Examples of such power phrases include “success is guaranteed”, “proven strategies that work”, ” unleash your inner power”, and many others. Such a strategy will further enhance the success of your marketing campaign. You just have to put in more “punch power” in your headline!

What’s the key to success in copywriting, you may ask? It is not difficult to the extent that it is unachievable. Let me assure you that writing your marketing copy is actually quite easy and straightforward. If there is a product or service to be sold online, much homework regarding what niche product or service to sell, what target market to reach to, how to aggressively fine-tune promotional strategies, and how to close readily your visitors, all these should have had been planned at the outset of the marketing campaign. There is only the need to stay confident in your product or service, put your belief that this campaign is the on the right track, and importantly, be able to answer positively to online queries.

It must be clear that the intention on your marketing copy is essentially drawing the interest of the visitors. We must not be mistaken that the direction of the copy is not towards sales-pitching. We have to first of all stimulate the interest of the reader to what the product or service can potentially do, as shown by the “power” words in the headline. So it is our intention to attract or lure visitors and then to close in on their wallets. It just cannot be the other way around.

Another copywriting tip is that you do not use too much of “power” words though they are stressed as important and will contribute to effectiveness of your headline. Too much of anything in general is not going to be pleasing to the visitor. It will do more harm than good. Use “power” words in moderation to achieve the ideal impact upon the visitor. Last but not least, do not put all your “power” words in bold. It will turn out to be irritating and unsightly. It will turn off the visitors in no time.

That said, copywriting should pose no headaches whatsoever even if you are new to writing. The aforementioned copywriting tips should be the mentor for your copywriting.

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Every marketer, I’m sure, would want to build beneficial and long-lasting relationships with his or her customers. In so doing, customers will then be more attentive, engaged and loyal to their marketers reciprocally. Customer retention will positively affect your credibility in the long run. Who wouldn’t wish for such scenario especially when the ultimate results will most probably be higher sales and profits, coupled with the possibility of increasing your customer database?

What is email marketing? We all know what email and marketing are about as distinct separate terms. Email marketing is merely the objective of marketing to transmit communications to the prospect visitor until such time that he or she is turned qualified or returns to buy your product or service.

Why email marketing? How has it been a help to marketers? To answer these questions, let’s look at some reasons why it is now considered as another marketing medium.

• Ease of use - It is now extremely easy to develop effective email programs that will help you as the marketer to build customer relationships. Amazingly, the programs are user-friendly without the need to be technically inclined. Such programs will also allow marketers to effect complete and smooth management of their campaigns. Email is fast and instant. We can actually develop our email marketing programs over time to make it more efficient.

• Interactivity - We are surely aware that we can track email each time we check our mail boxes. Isn’t it wonderful to know that you are actually in the real-time world of interaction with your senders. You are privileged to speak with your sender by just a click. What is very important to marketers is feedback. As customers feed comments, marketers are able to study their buying behavior via the landing page. On the lighter side, email gives you the chance to stay in contact or tell a story. You can also use it to build up loyalty for your brand of product or service.

• Inexpensive - Certainly we cannot disagree that email is extremely inexpensive. This fact is welcome news to marketers to construct their email marketing programs so as to benefit from their inexpensiveness, saving their money for other projects. They are able to do follow-ups with the opportunity to have more conversions from prospect to buying customer.

• Provides information - In order for email marketing to be effective, it is recommended that you send only important and relevant information in the emails to customers, that is to say, unique message as well as dialogue should be specially tailored for onward transmission to the customers. They must be made aware of our good service to them, that our products or services are unique to solve their needs, and more importantly, to show them that we are good listeners too.

• Trackable - Through email, we are able to know what has happened to our programs. We will definitely receive different results when we send out emails with different subject titles and headlines with differing offers and bonuses. Email marketing gets a real boost with this tracking feature of email. Future messages can thus be improved to increase clicks and conversions.

We have now seen why email marketing is considered an integral part of the marketing media. We have only to acknowledge that it is a tool great enough to affect positively your bottom-line when the final click comes.

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Blogging is the recent phenomenon that has hit the internet with full impact. We know that it is here to stay. There are millions of blogs in the so-called blogosphere today. I am pretty sure every blogger wants his blog to show up top of Google search engine. Before you can achieve that, your blog has to get enough traffic and repeat readers . What then, you may ask, must be done in order to achieve these results?

To exhibit good blogging, the blogger must stimulate initial reader interest. He must show real enthusiasm in whatever topics he is writing about. This is because the readers will fall in love with his material if they find it interesting, and if the material has quality too. Often, the content in your blog will receive good conversational time. New readers will flow to your blog.

No two bloggers are the same. Every blog is different in many ways. One blogger writes in a style that differs from that of another blogger. That blogger may probably interest you with a surprise topic, which would make you a return visitor to his blog. The important point here is that if you want to show good blogging, you will have no choice but to write stylishly. Make an impression with the reader through great writing.

Constantly writing new posts or updating earlier posts will certainly not make the reader disappointed should he returns to your blog. It will help to keep readers coming back for more material. From the business sense of view, frequent posting will increase your traffic numerics. Therefore, good blogging requires the blogger to spend about an hour a day to do some reading and writing.

The blogger has to be diligent and source for latest information if he does not has the material on hand, in order to post it to his blog. If he has a topic on mind, it is content ready for posting. To be well-equipped, the blogger has to be well-read and kept informed at all times on topics of his interest. It will be to his advantage that the blogger remembers he is actually preparing his content specially for his readers, and not the other way round. Good blogging requires bloggers to be mindful of this truth.

In posting content to the blog, the blogger must realize that readers do write comments before leaving. There is no need to feel offended in case of receiving negative feedback. We should be open to such comments and improve our posts. We should help readers with their problems. Interaction and dialogue with the readers are integral to good blogging. Importantly, the blogger has to handle criticisms well, and not react with aggressive defensiveness.

In all honesty, be honest. This is the most significant truth of good blogging. The spirit of good blogging lies in honest interaction and dialogue. If there is no transparency in dialogue, and if there is no openness in interaction, the consequences will be drastic - the readers will leave and migrate to other blogs.

Through blogging, you can reach the world of readers with your varied posts. With your pre-defined goals in mind for your blog, strive to achieve credibility with the readers by posting relevant content, not forgetting having honest interaction and transparent dialogue, all in the name of good blogging.

PS If you are looking for beneficial article writing tips or you are facing low traffic and getting poor returns, you can read my posts “Great article writing tips to boost your internet marketing business” dated 18 Dec 07 and “Are you facing low traffic to your website and poor returns from your internet marketing business?” dated 12 Dec 07, both of which are featured on Ezine Articles.

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