How to do your own viral marketing campaign
“A very simple guideline to launch a successful viral campaign”
Part 2
By Duane Harris

Going Viral and the many tools you can use to help you go viral!
To launch your own viral marketing campaign does not need to be complicated. The best one done are the one that are spontaneous and straight from the heart. You do not want to force fed a campaign or it will be doomed like a KFC double down chicken sandwich!

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The most important thing before you start the planning process of a viral campaign is to know your market and to keep the content nice and short within a maximum of one minute to get your point across in order to get the prospect to become a buyer.
I call this the one minute sale. Think of it as a commercial that you tend to see on a major network station. The placement for these commercial can start from $100,000 up to $1 million dollars per minute. The key thing is that I am stressing here you want to treat your campaign as if you were going to place it on a major network in a commercial format.
The following viral campaign guideline is an outline. It can be tweaked as you see fit.
1) Determine the key components for your viral marketing campaign via identifying the key primary objective. (Who, What, Where, Why, When and How)
2) Determine the best social media sites to promote the viral media product. It best to use the one that you use on the regular. Allow for the word of mouth to spread it around and it will go viral!
3) Determine how you are going to create the viewing material for your target market. Is it a video or a HTML e-mail?
4) If you are going to do an e-mail campaign. Does your site have an opt-in list? If not then you need to create one! The opt-in list is basically where people who are interest in your product/service and are granting permission for you to e-mail newsletters/deals and special offers. The opt-in list is a great tool to get e-mail address without resorting to spending money on lists from list brokers.
5) If you have an opt-in list – utilized it first before going public. Treat the people on your opt-in list as VIP. VIP stands for very important person. Let them get it first before you go public. Encourage them to forward the e-mail to their network of circle of success that should be encouraged to pass it forward. HTML e-mail is a very powerful and cost effective marketing tool to use. I personally like Outlook because you can create your own HTML email but not all e-mail servers are created equal. So it would pay to use service like Mail Chimp www.mailchimp.com
6) Understand the power of no. Just because they said no – ask kindly if they could pass it on to someone who may be interest. Don’t take rejection personally because if you do you will not be able to establish a network and you want to keep the bridge of opportunity open. Now if they ask to opt-out kindly ask them why and see if you can accompany them by fixing the problem. If not thank them and ask them to come back.
7) Now if you are going to launch a video for the sole purpose of going viral – then use Youtube.com because when you get a certain amount of hits, GOOGLE will want to talk to you and share in a possible ad revenue deal with you.
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9) Now you are ready to upload the video – depending on your connection and server traffic with youtube.com it shouldn’t take long.
10) Keep the video short 1 to 5 minutes at the maximum. (For best result, keep it under 1 minute)
11) Before going live – do a test focus group – get internal feedbacks. If there are any prime change. Make them and then reveal the link on your site and the various social media sites.
12) Fulfill your orders and inquires in a timely matter. And be sure to take advantage of any PR opportunities whether if they are local or nationwide or international.
Pah 3 Worldwide can provide cost effective viral marketing solution for you especially if you requires personalized services and creative strategies on a budget. Send your inquires to: Duane@Pah3.com