"What Does A Little Snowball, An Avalanche, And A Closely Guarded Secret Have To Do With Your Website, Your Visitors And Your Bank Account?" In the next 2 minutes and 17 seconds you're going to learn how to use the snowball effect to double, triple, quadruple, oh heck, you're going to create an avalanche of traffic that grows so fast you'll hardly be able to keep track of your sales. You may want to call your bank manager and warn him to make more room in the vault for you. If you've been hanging around the internet marketing community, you've no probably heard of viral marketing. It's certainly not a new concept. In fact it's been around since the Stone Ages. Back then we just called it word of mouth, or I guess back then it was more of a grunt, but either way, today we define viral marketing as
Viral marketing [vahy-ruhl] [mahr-ki-ting] - marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes... Source: Wikipedia
OK let's get down to brass tacks. Viral marketing is one of the most popular buzzwords in the internet marketing community. It's also one of the most misunderstood and misused marketing tactics around. Done correctly, viral marketing can amass millions of visitors, members, and customers for your website. Done wrong and your website traffic stats