Home >
Marketing >
Viral Marketing
Viral Marketing: 25 ideas for the Financially Challenged
by Wild Bill Montgomery
There has been a lot of articles written about ViralMarketing, but I just had to offer my 3 cents (that'sall I can afford) on this subject. For those of you whoaren't yet familiar with the term, Viral Marketing isthe technique of enticing others to promote yourbusiness by distributing something of value with yourmessage attached. Rather than get theoretical oreditorialize you to death, I'll just list a few ideasto get your business and web site out there in thepublic eye. There are many more and if you can findsomething original you are always better off.
1. Distributing your own Free Software2. Writing and Offering Free eBooks3. 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 FreeMeta Tags, Free Image Rollover Scripts and Free DoorwayPages. Now, you're thinking, everyone and their brotherhave these things. Well, what I did to promote thisuphill battle was to set them up so that you could notonly get them from my site, but you can also offer themfrom your site as well, by using a few lines of script.Why would you want to do this? In the script, you canalso add your own advertising message that gets sentout to your visitors using the service, which by theway I host completely at my site. This makes an easymarketing add-on for newbie sites who want to offerfree content. We also sell these little programs toothers who want to offer the same Viral MarketingFreebie to their visitors. If you would like to seewhat I mean, stop by and visit us at
Good luck to you in your Marketing Ad-ventures
More articles by Wild Bill Montgomery:
