Viral Marketing?

[Humak]

Can anyone tell me about Viral Marketing ?

Kind Regards

[heatman07]

Viral Marketing is a type of marketing that uses Gossips, Buzz, or anything that makes a thing or a person being talked about. It is a campaign that uses word-of-mouth or “tell a friend” mechanisms.

[dee_el07]

"Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_marketing

[mabel01]

Viral marketing is the extremely powerful and unique ability of the Internet to build self-propagating visitor streams, bringing about exponential growth to a company's Web site.

It is the effective way or advertising or producing brand exposure through social networks. The technique spreads throughout the network rapidly by word of mouth or by Internet resources like e-mail, blogs or other services

[Blender]

use protection and viral marketing won't affect you

[ezhel]

refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as product sales) through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet.

[Hafsoh]

viral marketing is any marketing technique that induces Web sites or users to pass on a marketing message to other sites or users.

[rodas_jay]

Viral Marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message. It's somehow called "word of mouth marketing". Below are the six basic elements you hope to include in your strategy. A viral marketing strategy need not contain ALL these elements, but the more elements it embraces, the more powerful the results are likely to be. An effective viral marketing strategy:

1. Gives away products or services
2. Provides for effortless transfer to others
3. Scales easily from small to very large
4. Exploits common motivations and behaviors
5. Utilizes existing communication networks
6. Takes advantage of others' resources


Source: http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt5/viral-principles.htm

[Shawn Jackson]

Some examples of Viral Marketing:

(You tube) Video Marketing
Article Marketing