Viral Marketing

by James Bratley
6th Sept 2007

When many people read about the process of viral marketing, they are often put off due to the fact they do not completely understand the systems involved.

The system i will go into for this article is one which uses other webmasters along with yourself to reach beyond 1,000,000 visitors per month, if done correctly.

You can find the complete guide to these systems from the link at the bottom of this article. You can receive step by step instructions for free, it's more of an educational course. for webmasters. If you do not own a website, then there is not much point in following up on this article as the system will be useless to you.

The viral marketing system works by signing up to a third party website to place a specific ad of your product or service and receive a unique individual page. You then market this specific page to other webmasters who may be interested in promoting their services to other webmasters through the viral technique.

Every time someone signs up from your viral page (to do their own viral marketing), you receive a hit due to the fact they had to visit your page in the first place to get a code for their viral marketing system to work.

There are 6 ads on your marketing page, one of them been your very own. On your own viral page you are in the number one spot, and when someone signs up to your website, their own viral page will show your position as number two, with their own link in the number one spot.

Now assume that you only get 10 sign ups from your own viral page, you may think this is pointless and not worth your time? Well you would be wrong, because that means your link has been visited 10 times, and is now placed on 10 other viral pages from different marketers.

These 10 new pages (where you are number two, may get 10 sign ups each, so that would be 10x10=100 new hits for your website.

So we now have:
-your viral page (lets call this tier 1)
-10 viral pages as a result of sign ups from your viral page (tier 2) = 10 visits to your website
-100 viral pages from 10 sign ups of the 10 pages in tier 2 (tier 3) = 100 visits to your website
-1000 viral pages from 10 sign ups of each of the 100 viral pages in tier 3 (tier4) = 1000 visitors
- You can see where this is going. (tier 5) = 10,000 visitors
- On the 6th tier (where your ad is at the bottom of the list, but must still be visited, you will receive 10,000 x 10 visitors = 100,000
- And finally, as a result of clicks from your tier 6th psotion which is on 100,000 sites, this would give you 1,000,000 visitors.

The above example is only a conservative estimate for if you receive 10 sign ups to your viral page, imagine if you could market such a page so you receive 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 25, 30 or more sign ups.

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