Surely, everybody has been exposed to Viral Marketing.
Have you ever registered for a free e-mail address or service? Have you utilized this free email address to send messages across to your friends? If you have answered, “yes” to both questions, then Viral Marketing has definitely hit you. In fact, we can go on to say that you are a Viral Marketing carrier.
No, Viral Marketing is not the latest disease outbreak. Viral Marketing is a phenomenal marketing strategy that encourages the voluntarily spread of messages shared with a handful of people to be passed on to countless networks of each individual who then forwards the same message to their own set of network and so on. As a result, the message’s influence is grown exponentially - much like the cold virus.
The Internet has generally spawned this exciting marketing scheme as it provides a readily available and vast network of potential “carriers” of the information that Viral Marketers wish to spread. So, technically, it can be said that Viral Marketing is the cyber-enhanced version of the more commonly known “word-of-mouth” marketing.
In the example of free e-mail registration and utilization, an individual has caught on the bait of a Viral Marketer of a particular service with almost no effort and, in this particular scenario, no cost at all. You will notice that all messages sent using these free e-mail accounts are always tailed with the same invitation for free registration. So, if your friends who receive your e-mail message through this free account similarly decides to avail of the free e-mail service and eventually sends messages to their friends using this account, the Viral Marketing cycle has caught on…. with each of you and your friends considered as “carriers” of the Marketing Virus.
The beauty of Viral Marketing is that it is the most economical, yet, most powerful form of marketing. With very minimal investment, in terms of effort, time and resources, the impact and exposure of any marketing message through Viral Marketing is amplified within an indefinite period of time among an infinitive number of people.
The intended customers of the marketing effort become, themselves, the marketers of the product, idea or service even without them realizing it. What other marketing effort can be more ingenious than this?
So, the next time you decide to use the web and surf through the internet, be aware. You may be the next recipient of another Viral Marketing strain.
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