Thursday, August 03, 2006

Viral E-books, Videos & Audios

I personally like using viral methods of marketing. It's simply because of it's ability to spread fast and far if done right, and it's a very passive way to market. You just have to create the viral vehicle once, send it out, and watch it proliferate.

The viral vehicle here that I'm speaking of is a free ebook, video, or audio, with valuable content related to the product being marketted that will encourage the listener/viewer/reader to want more and purchase via your affiliate link or url.

It can sometimes be difficult to brand a viral video or audio with your own affiliate url, based on the fact that an affiliate url is often too long for the listener/viewer to type into their browser address bar. The way to get around this is to use a link cloaker.

Then you can create a shorter simpler url and add it to the video or audio at the end. That'll take some basic editing skills.

Another way to do it, is to send people to a specific page for downloading the free video or audio and when you do this you send them to a page that cookies them and then redirects them to the download. That way when they go to the main page of the product/service, your cookie will already be on their computer, the sale will track to you, and your commission check comes in the mail (or paypal).

How would you do this?!?! You must be wondering. Here's the simple code to paste onto the page that you send them to initially for downloading the freebie. Just edit in the "DOWNLOAD-LINKPAGE-HERE" to be the freebie download page and your affiliate tracking URL where it says "AFFILIATE-LINKCODE-HERE" to cookie them.



Blogger.com won't let me display code, SOooOOOo......
You'll have to go here to see the code snippet: http://ViralMarketingBuzz.com/CookieCode.htm

Got it? Good!

If you want to create your own viral ebooks, the best way to do it is either write the content yourself and add your affiliate links right into the PDF file, or get a bunch of PLR articles related to your niche, compile them, edit them, and add your affiliate links. Then give away your branded ebook for FREE and watch the commissions come rollin' in. You'll need to add into it that others can also pass it around and give it away for free as well (This will help it proliferate).

You can also add in some extra incentives of it getting passed around by using a simple PDF branding program. If the programs you're promoting are 2-tiered, then you can earn big on the second tier with this trick. Just create your viral ebook as described above, but use a PDF Brander to allow others to brand the affiliate links with their own affiliate code. The PDF Brander allows you to make this easy for them to do, and you just have to distribute the viral ebook in a zip file along with the rebrander tool that comes with the PDF Brander. This allows them to easily rebrand ONLY the links you want them to be able to rebrand. If you have some single tier affiliate links in the ebook, you can prevent them from being able to rebrand those. They will just be able to rebrand those links you choose them to.

This works like magic, and gives others extra incentive to rebrand with their links, and pass it along for free to many others. Viral marketing! It works!

Good luck with your new tools.

Peace & Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
AffiliateSuperNetwork.com/gtt - Best Link Cloaker on the market
AffiliateSuperNetwork.com/irbrand - PDF Brander Tool
AffiliateSuperNetwork.com/plas - Private Label Article Website
ViralMarketingBuzz.com - Viral Marketing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
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