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[T1110]Top 10 Viral Videos

by Simon_m Skinner, Sim

Viral videos have been responsible for some of the greatest marketing campaigns of all time. Viral videos have an unbelievable capability to get your product or service in front of millions of people in a very short period of time. So what is behind a good viral video and how can you come up with one?

First of all we should look at what a viral video is. A viral video is one of those videos that you receive in your email or see on a website that you forward to other people. At some point or another, it makes the rounds all over the internet. Everyone from Bangladesh to Boston has seen it and marveled at it.

A viral video has to get the attention of the people who watch it. It's usually either something hilarious or something that boggles your mind. A great example of a viral video is the one with the soccer player in it from a few years ago. He started by doing all kinds of tricks with the ball and followed it up with kicking the ball into the goal post from a great distance repeatedly. At first, you're not sure if it's real or not. If it is real, it's completely amazing. If it's fake, it's not nearly as amazing, but it's still a pretty cool camera trick. It was later discovered that Nike came up with this video.

While a viral video doesn't have to be some completely amazing computer graphics video like that, it does have to be original. This is the big thing with viral videos. If someone has seen it before, they're not going to pass it on to their friends.

The key to a good viral video is that it has to make people want to pass it on to their friends. You have to make them want to send it along. You can't force them to do it, but they have to want to. Sometimes this can be pretty tricky. In fact, many people might make video after video without success. However, it only takes one video going viral to make your business a huge success. It's almost like winning the internet lottery. If you create the right video, you could create a firestorm of traffic for your website. Everyone knows that the lifeblood of any business is traffic.

Besides being a really cool concept, the video has to have a short section about your website. If you just make a really cool video without any website address, no one will know to visit your website as a result of the amazing video they just witnessed. Therefore you need to put your website address on the screen at some point in the video. Usually the end of the video is the best place to put it after you've gotten their attention.

If you don't create a viral video right off the bat, do not be discouraged. Keep trying and eventually, you just might stumble across the viral video to end all viral videos.

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Viral advertising and viral marketing are popular means of allowing people to freely pass along or distribute your free product, service and / or information to others. The main viral concept is that you include your targeted ad with the freebie so that hopefully a percentage of the recipients will read your ad and order paid products and services from you at some point in the future.

To help you kick start some viral campaigns, here are 10 viral marketing strategies:

1. Give other people the right to reprint your articles. They can use them on websites, in ecourses, guides, ezines, print newsletters, magazines, reports, ebooks and more, so in your resource box or byline at the end of the article, include permission for others to reprint the piece, keeping the resource box intact.

2. Set up an online forum or discussion board with your banner ad at the top and share it with others who do not have anything similar for their sites. Invite forum subscribers to link up in a similar manner.

3. Create and package a special report, an ebook, learning series or other item from time to time, and insert your ads in all of them. Invite your clients, prospects and others to include these specials as freebies or free bonuses for their own clients, prospects, members and others.

4. Set up free web sites on your server and include your company banner with link somewhere on the page for promotions. Then give away the free space, requiring people to keep your banner ad in place in exchange for the hosting service at no charge.

5. Set up a free link directory. Then invite others to add their links to your directory in exchange for a return a link back to your directory site.

6. Offer some type of free online service like free 5-minute consulting sessions or e-mails, search engine, domain or RSS submissions, etc. Then invite others to share these services with their subscribers, website visitors and others.

7. Create or outsource the creation of new software. Brand it. Then invite people to give it away free to others.

8. Create or outsource the creation of some awesome web site templates and / or graphics. Brand them. Then invite people to use them and give them away free to others.

9. Create or outsource the creation of an ebook, report or other info product. Brand the content with your ads. Then invite others to insert their own free ads in exchange for promoting the item(s) to their lists, in their ezines, on their websites, etc.

10. Once again, create or outsource the creation of an ebook, report or other info product. And brand the content with your ads. This time simply give the item(s) away, and invite recipients to also give the item(s) away.

So kick start your own viral campaigns. See what works best for your products and services, and then repeat accordingly with new campaigns all year long to keep a healthy flow of leads coming your way.

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