You have written
an e-book or you have made a decision on what merchandise you are going to
market. You have built yourself a web
site. What’s next? More and more web site owners have the
recurring dilemma of how to increase the flow of traffic to the web sites. Or
maybe the problem is how to get traffic STARTED on your web site. During the past few years many methods that
been developed to solve this predicament. While most of them would work there
are those that would not make even a small impact.
One of the
methods that have spawned many success stories in driving traffic to web sites
is viral marketing. What is this?
Viral marketing makes use of the tendency of a person to share something
to find informative, entertaining or amazing.
Many companies
bank on this behavior to spread their products and increase the popularity of
their company or their web site. Viral marketing makes use of many mediums in
enticing this behavior. It might be in the form of an interesting story, an
addicting flash game, an amusing video and many other techniques that may catch
a person’s fancy.
This ingenious
form of marketing is typically low cost and is a wonderful tool for any company
to utilize. The benefit greatly overshadows the cost or efforts to initialize
this marketing scheme. Any web site would greatly benefit from viral marketing. How can you take advantage of this method?
Tell-A-Friend
Script
One of the easiest
methods in viral marketing to use is a tell-a-friend script. This is a simple
programming script that you can attach to the programming of your web site.
Generally, tell-a- friend scripts are installed in pages where a media is
placed so that a person can easily send the media to any of his friends or his
family members.
The basic concept
of a tell-a-friend script is you provide a script wherein a person may input
his name, e-mail address, the recipient’s e-mail address and send the media to
the intended recipient much like an e-mail with an attachment. As the recipient
receives the e-mail he wouldn’t think of the mail as spam mail because he would
see the sender’s name as someone he or she knows and trusts.
Tell-a-friend
script eliminates greatly the chances of being blocked because they use the
information inputted by the sender. This allows for wider spreading of this
marketing method. It can be quite sneaky but it is very effective.
With the e-mail
sent and opened the sent media will either be read, viewed or played. Also
along with the e-mail there would be a brief description of the company or site
that sponsors the media sent. This allows for the introduction of either the
site, company name or its products. Then along with it is another request to
tell-a-friend and pass along the media to another group of recipients.
Then the process
begins again. As more people use the tell-a-friend script, more and more people
will know of the existence of the sponsoring company or site. This is YOUR
company or web site! People who read the
ads inside the e-mail who like what they see would go and click on the link and
visit the site. This drives traffic to YOUR site resulting in a great number of
potential customers.
Tell-A-Friend
Script Availability
A tell-a-friend
script is very simple and does not require a complicated method of programming.
In fact, you can copy and paste a script and simply put it on an intended page.
Finding one is even simpler. All you have to do is go to a search engine, type
in the search box “tell a friend script”, then press enter. When I did this recently there were over 14 MILLION results returned for the
search.
In the search
results page you will see many links that will direct you to a site where you
can get a tell-a-friend script. It would just be a simple matter of looking and
searching for the script that fits best with your requirements, then copying it
to your intended web page.
With a tell-a-friend
script viral marketing strategy you can drive traffic to your site which could
potentially spell big profits. This is a simple harmless script that offers
great benefits for low cost paired with great creativity and foresight.
It is imperative
that you have patience in using a tell-a-friend script. If your chosen media
doesn’t get the mileage that you expect of it, it may take some time before it
gets spread or shared. But surely many people will see your ads and there is the
great probability that they will visit your site thereby increasing your
traffic flow. This is the whole purpose
of your site. You want more visitors,
more customers, and ultimately MORE SALES!
All of this means more profits!
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QUOTE TO CONSIDER
THOUGHTFUL GEM
"Before the internet the fastest means of communications where:
Tell-a-Phone
Tell-a-Graph
Tell-a-Friend"
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