Viral The Heavy Weapon of Marketing

One of the best ways to build a subscriber list quickly is to make use of viral marketing principles. For those of you who don't know what "viral marketing" is, let us reassure you it has NOTHING to do with those nasty little programs that wreak havoc with your computer
causing all sorts of problems.

Having said this, there ARE some similarities in that those nasty little programs replicate themselves very quickly spreading to literally thousands of computers in a matter of hours.

Viral marketing is one of the most potent weapons you can possibly use to literally EXPLODE your list and your business. It's responsible for generating us thousands and thousands of additional subscribers over the past couple of year or so.

Simply put Viral marketing is a marketing strategy that encourages people to pass along YOUR messages to others in order to generate added exposure for your business.

Here's a VERY BASIC overview of how to setup a BASIC viral marketing campaign using a simple viral report:

• Create a useful and informative report (you can even start by using a good quality Private Label product as a base to work from - or outsource it if you are not up to it yourself)
  
• Add some "brandable" links into the report (perhaps referencing some relevant recommended resources)
  
• Create a small and relevant "advert" for your own business so that readers will visit your site and hopefully subscribe to your newsletter.
• Turn it into a PDF and start giving it away.
• Make sure you clearly state that your readers canfreely give away your report.
• Within a short period of time, assuming you've done everything correctly, you'll have a LOT more traffic coming to your websites and hopefully more sales!

HOT TIP

To really make sure you get as many people on your list as possible, why not get them to join your autoresponder in order to download the branding tool?

This is a win-win because they get a high quality report that they can give away to their list (and even potentially earn commissions from) and YOU get
additonal subscribers to your list.

Viral Referral Traffic

I have seen this to some major sites. They have a referral script to implement a "refer a friend" feature. Remember, for this to work with great success, you have to give some form of incentive in exchange for the referral.

Viral Affiliate Program Traffic

If you have your own product or acquire a resellers right of the product made by others, opening your own affiliate program is a good traffic generator. The profit incentive is built in and you pay nothing for the publicity until an actual sale is made.

You can also consider implementing a multi-tier affiliate program with an attractive incentive plan. This will build your affiliate base like crazy and generate traffic on steroids for your site.

Viral Subscriber List Traffic

If you have built your subscriber list, not put it to work for you? Again, all you need to do is offer an incentive. One great example is for you to announce to your list that one lucky member can receive a high ticket items from you for free if they can refer say for example X number of new subscriber to your list.

Viral Free Article Traffic

Yes, an article containing your byline and links submitted to article directories will gain you more traffic. Your traffic will be coming from the re-distribution of your articles with the clicks on the link in your byline and from the search engines themselves.

Place more valuable information on your free articles and optimized them as well. Webmasters love to publish valuable articles especially if it's for free. The more re-distribution you get, the more traffic you can win.

Viral Free Report Traffic

Free reports are common these days. If you sell information product, it is almost a requirement to have at lease one freebie report aimed to pre-sell your information product and to be given away to other websites or blogs. Allowing others to re-brand your report with their affiliate links is the basic incentive for webmasters to let your report be downloadable for free at their website. In this case, your army of traffic multiplication is made up of other webmasters.

Place more value to your free report. Your success depend upon how likely webmasters are to earn commissions by giving it away. The more webmaster made your free reports downloadable, the more traffic you can win.

How to Create Traffic System

Do you feel good about the volume of traffic currently you are getting? How would you like to exponentially increase your blog traffic without investing an extra cent on advertising?

Yes, this can be done. Your ultimate target should be to create sustainable traffic system, a kind that will pay you for years for a one-time effort. All this can be done through the powerful principle known as leverage.

What then is the secret to leverage?

The secret to leverage is in coming up with effective, efficient and self-perpetuating systems to gain traffic for years and years. You need to invest time creating traffic building generation tool. Once done, let it loose on the web and let others do the work for you. You will only do this once but the system continues to grow and multiply your results.

Any system you set up which allows your sales message or your links to propagate online in "word of mouth" fashion qualify as leverage. This can be an article with your byline and links on it submitted to multiple article directories, a free e-book and even your affiliate program.

However, for these tools to work their magic, the same must contain incentive either in the form of profit or value. You're either paying someone in commissions for their effort or you're offering them valuable information for free.

With this in mind, here are five no-cost explosive viral leveraging tactics you can put into action immediately:

Viral Free Report Traffic
Viral Free Article Traffic
Viral Subscriber List Traffic
Viral Affiliate Program Traffic
Viral Referral Traffic

So, they are the 5 explosive secrets to boost your traffic for free for years. Try one of them. Integrate in your campaign the principle of giving incentives and watch your traffic multiply on autopilot that will last for years if not forever.

Remember, your ultimate target should be to create sustainable traffic system, a kind that will pay you for years for a one-time effort.