1. Purchase the branding rights to a viral E-book. Allow people to give away your free E-book to their visitors. Then, their visitors will also give it away. This will just continue to spread your ad all over the Internet. 2. If you have the ability to set up a forum or other bulletin board, you really have a great tool. Allow people to use your online discussion board for their own website. Some people don't have one. Just include your banner ad at the top of the board. 3. Do you have a knack for web design? Create some templates, graphics, etc. and upload them to your site. Then, allow people to give away your free web design graphics, fonts, templates, etc. Just include your ad on them or require people to link directly to your web site. Make sure that you include a link back to your site in the copyright notice and require them to keep your copyright notice in tact.
Viral marketing is a great strategy. If you want to market your product or service think if and how you can apply it to the product or services that you want to market. The idea will come like a spark. if your idea hits the right spark your job is done.Discussion of viral marketing, especially in online marketing arena is never complete without the classical example of hotmail. Hotmail started free email service at the time when other companies were offering paid email services. With every email there was a simple tag at the bottom of every free message sent out: “Get your private, free email at http://www.hotmail.comâ€. Very soon the message spread like a wild fire. Hotmail just ignited the initial spark and the fire spread like a California forest fires.
This is true, it's easier to be controversial about a topic than to bring something really new and original, and people will probably react if you give them the opportunity (comments allowed with no need to sign up)
Viral marketing is undoubtedly the next wave of word of mouth. As a matter of fact, it is the internet word of mouth.