Internet Viral Marketing 101

By Ricz Sabido On September 13, 2009 Under Viral Marketing

Viral marketing is one of the best free traffic methods around. I know marketers who have earned more than $1,000 of commissions relying only on viral marketing campaigns.

What is internet viral marketing?

It is when you use the power of other people to promote your products or offers in exchange of something of value in return – a gift, comission, reward, etc…

Why viral marketing?

You always hear the phrase “the money is in the list” right? If you have a list, you can send offers to them and earn money right away but…you don’t want to send offers to your list every day…unless you want them to leave your list that is.

Viral marketing will take the burden off your list and pass that to other list owners. By leveraging on other people’s list, your products will be promoted all over the internet without exhausting your own resources.

Internet Viral Marketing Ideas

In the internet, it’s very easy to do and launch viral marketing campaigns than it is on offline businesses. This can be done at no or at a very low cost. The list below are some of the most used internet viral marketing techniques by internet marketers.

1. Tell a Friend Viral Marketing

Almost every social site have this tool. Sign up on friendster, myspace, facebook, etc… and you will be prompted by an opportunity to invite your friends as well. These friends will in turn invite their friends if they sign up with these social sites. The process can go on and on without the site owner lifting a single finger…that’s the power of viral marketing.

This type of viral marketing campaign, however, will only work well with these three conditions:

The one referring or telling his friends should have something to benefit from doing it
His friends should also have something to receive as a benefit for joining
The process of telling or referring should be made as easy as possible

If you want to see a tell a friend script in action, you can look at my site here – Free Traffic Generation Softwares.

There are several tell a friend script or software out there but these are the ones that I highly recommend (good for any level of experience – beginner to expert):

Viral Friend Generator – this is the one I’m using at my website.
Viral Inviter – more pricey but if you want to have a cool looking Facebook style tell a friend tool, this is the one your looking for.

2. Master Resell Rights Viral Marketing

You create a product, put all the links you want inside it and then offer or sell it with Master Resell Rights. The resellers who purchased the product from you will then do the selling for you and spread your name and links around the net.

Ways to obtain a Master Resell Rights product of your own:

Write the product yourself or hire a ghostwriter to do it for you then sell it with Master Resell Rights
Find a product with Master Resell and Re-branding Rights so you can place and brand it with your own links

3. Private Label Viral Marketing

Private label rights is one of the best rights that you can buy from a marketer. Having a PLR means you can do whatever you want with the product. Not all private label rights are created equal, there are some that still have certain restrictions such as bundling rights or non-transferable rights.

You should try to look for products that have no restriction PLR. Since you can also sell the private label rights and pass it to other, this will produce a very massive viral effect because plr products are really easy to sell. And most of them come with a reseller website. You just need to put your links on the product and watch it spread exponentially.

What if the resellers who bought the private label rights from you actually edit the content and change your links?

Believe me, 90% of the time, the resellers won’t do a thing on the plr products they buy. We, as a human beings, are lazy by nature. Because it is too much work for them to redo and rewrite the content, these resellers will just copy and paste the sales page and promote the product as it is – in its original form.

These are just some of the basic viral marketing techniques. On my next post, I’ll give you another three viral techniques (more advanced.)

You don’t have to drive traffic to your website by yourself, maximize your site’s potential by leveraging on any of these viral marketing techniques and watch your sales grow exponentially.