Viral List Building Secrets of Top Internet Marketers

Viral marketing is a technique which is being used by many of today's top Internet marketers to grow their subscriber lists. Another expression for this is "word-of-mouth marketing", you will certainly have heard of that before. You should apply this technique as well. This is a very effective way of getting new subscribers. And it's definitely much cheaper than ezine solo ads or banner advertising... 1.) Free Ebooks Ebooks have been definitely the top choice for many Internet marketers (although they are getting less effective). If you're giving away valuable information, you can be sure that many readers will appreciate this and might want to get information from you on a regular basis. So be sure to include your signup form or subscribe email address on every page if possible. You can also insert your affiliate links into it and at the same time, you can have exposure for your own web site(s). In *.exe ebooks, you can also insert a little pop-up for your newsletter. If you want hundreds or even thousands of downloads, you should upload your ebook to software sites like http://www.tucows.com/ . Include a note that you will allow others to give away your ebook for free. If the pieces of information included in your ebook are valuable, you have just started a traffic virus! You can see this in action here: 2.) Free Reports It is no secret that most of the top Internet marketers are using free reports to market their products and services. You can do it as well. Just write a short 7-12 part report about a topic from within your niche which gets delivered by autoresponder. Your existing products, products you've purchased reprint rights to and your affiliate products will then be promoted 365 days a year. You will get enough email addresses to market your products to. You should offer other webmasters and newsletter publishers an incentive if they offer your report to their lists. It must be something valuable, of course. They will know that you'll use your free report to sell your products and services, so offer them at least a free top sponsor or solo ad in your own newsletter. A reciprocal link will work as well. After this initial process, the report should get passed around by itself because of the valuable content. Another option is to turn this report into an ebooklet and apply the tactics described above. 3.) Tell-A-Friend A Tell-A-Friend is just a form which allows visitors to enter their friends' names. The system then sends them a personalized message from you, telling them about something special, either a web site or a newsletter. By adding a few lines of JavaScript or something similar, it can be added to any of your web pages. One of these Tell-A-Friend services is located at: