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How To Use A Tell A Friend Script To Drive Traffic

December 15, 2008 by Tom Lindstrom · 2 Comments 

Lots of internet business owners have problems driving enough traffic to their sites, many traffic methods have been developed to solve this problem, most of them work really well but some would not make even a
small impact.

Viral marketing is one of the traffic methods that have spawned a lot of success stories online.Viral marketing makes use of the tendency of a person to share something to find informative,entertaining or amazing.This is used by many companies to increase the popularity of their business and website.

What Is A Tell A Friend Script:
A Tell a friend script is a simple programming script that you can easily attach to the code of your website.This script is often installed on pages where a media is placed so that a person can easily send the media to any of his friends or family members.A Tell a friend script is a script where a person puts his name, email address,the recipients email 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 a spam mail because he would see the sender’s name as someone he or she knows and trust.

It eliminates greatly the chances of being blocked as spam 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 mail 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.The along with it is another tell a friend script.

When more people starts using a tell a friend script, more and more people will know about the website.This drives traffic into the site resulting to great number of potential customers.Installing a tell a friend script is simple and does not require complicated programming,all you do is copy and paste it to the intended page.

To find a tell a friend script all you need to do is go to a search engine and type in the search box “tell a friend script” then press enter or click go.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 and copying it to your intended web page.

With a tell a friend script viral marketing strategy you can drive traffic into your site which could potentially spell 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 is expected of it, it may take some time before it gets spread or shared.But surely many people will see your ads and there is great probability that they will visit your site increasing your traffic flow.

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Are You Familiar To Viral Marketing?

September 28, 2007 by Tom Lindstrom · 3 Comments 

The internet is full of companies willing to create a great ad for your company and place it on popular marketing sites all over the internet, for a huge fee of course. When the ad end its run it will disappear from the websites into the cyberspace and you need to do the same all over again.

This is a problem for most online marketers who are on very limited budgets, or have no money at all when starting up.There are however an online advertising concept that many marketers may have overlooked. Are you familiar to viral marketing? If you are just starting your internet marketing career, this is something you should look into.

Viral marketing is a major concept that is used to refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, and is a marketing phenomenon that encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily.Getting people to pass along a marketing message willingly and freely is not as difficult a concept as it may appear on the surface.

A lot of companies started viral marketing by giving away free email accounts. In the email being sent was often a invitation to sign up for a free email service provided by the company. This message was sent to every person the user sent an email to, and was then replicated by every person who signed up for the free email service.

When clicking on a news video, you will often find a commercial first and the video will be shown after that. Often there is also a link to send the video to a friend, and with the video comes also the commercial that spreads the company´s message. Videos and text messages are often subject to be forwarded by one user to many others and companies that promote the video and help pay service fees for it to be shown also include a message for their own services, allowing their advertising message to be sent to countless potential customers.

Social networking sites are the current target of most viral advertising methods as a means of promotion and for continually spreading an advertisement along with videos, games and messages.

Most social network services are primarily web based and provide a collection of various ways for users to interact.Blogging, different discussion groups and marketing forums, email and file sharing are popular ways to interact.

A link inviting users to see more of a particular type of offer is often accompanied by a registration requirement. It helps the company to build a large customer base when future emails are being sent to the people who have registered. Every registration includes a notation that they are signing up to receive future emails from the company.


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