One effective viral marketing tool is the use of email on the Internet. The messages that you send on people contain promotion of your company regarding the product or services that you offer.
A study by Sharpe Partners, an interactive marketing agency, revealed that 89% of adult Internet users in America share content with others via e-mail. This is excellent news for those companies who use self-propelling word-of-mouse” e-mail techniques to sell their products.
The study generated some interesting results regarding the type of content that is most often forwarded, as well. The most popular content is humorous material.
News is the second most popular topic on emails. The third one is healthcare and medical information, followed by religious and spiritual stuffs, games, business/personal finance category, sports/hobbies and the rest. So if you will use viral marketing as one of your tool in promoting your product, use humor as your content since it is the best content among all categories.
You can add funny videos, jokes and cartoons on your email to make it more interesting and to assure that your email will go viral. Other people want to spread something that can make others happy.
They are a lot more likely to hit the forward button and send your email to their friends and relatives if it is an “advertainment” rather than an advertisement.
Not along ago, about 35 million people got an e-mail containing a picture taken in Disneyland. It took a minute to see it but there was Donald Duck lying prone in front of the famous Cinderella Castle. The title of the picture was “Bird Flu has hit Disneyland”. It was a viral e-mail advertising Disneyland and used the edgy strategy of making light of what’s serious and it works.
I’m sure that those people with computers have seen the picture of Donald Duck. Disneyland comes up with an idea of spreading their not so called advertisement since lots of people enjoy it. Instead of showing their customers a plain advertisement, they put some flavor on it so that people can’t see the true purpose of that email.
Remember that people are much more likely to share a joke or a funny picture than anything else so you would be well advised to include humor in your e-mail campaign.
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