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Everything you wanted to know about viral marketing

Viral marketing is a marketing technique relatively new, used by businesses of all sizes, including word of mouth, but refers mainly to social networking sites, to increase the brand image and sales.

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Viral types

Transfer: Information or message passing from one person to another in the middle of a conversation.

Encouraged: This is the technique of referrals, contact the delivery person receives a reward from the company.

Undercover: Stealth marketing to spread the message to many people as soon as possible.

Gossip: Create controversy challenging the boundaries of taste or convenience. Discussion of the resulting controversy can be considered a generator of “noise” and word of mouth advertising.

Database users: Through invitations to their databases to participate in their community, users create a viral chain of contacts that spreads and grows naturally self inviting others to join as well.

How to make viral content?

  • The content has to be enough for the message to be transferred to another person easily.
  • The content should be available without cost.
  • The writing should be convincing enough to generate the required response.

6 Principles of Viral Marketing

  • Delivery valuable products or services to attract attention, such as free email services or software programs.
  • Must be able to be transferred to others effortlessly via email, websites, graphics, download software, etc.
  • It allows for easy scalability.
  • Exploits common motivations and take advantage of them, the desire for greed, the feeling of hunger and how to relieve it.
  • Uses existing communication networks. Mainly through online social networks.
  • Take advantage of other resources to spread the word.

How does it work?

In three phases:

Release momentum: Shows the initial wave that has a launch campaign.

Plateau: It represents the community conversation about the campaign on blogs, community forums, social networks, etc.

Long Tail: it is the legacy of a viral campaign and it is created by the giant number of references created by the same campaign.

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