While many successful marketers know the great benefits of viral marketing, many others are simply not aware. Some may even associate the word ‘viral’ with something nasty or unethical!

The DNA Of Viral Marketing

Of course all those who know better, know that the ‘viral’ in viral marketing refers to the rate of growth if something simply doubles every day. No doubt you have heard of the weed that doubles every day. If today it covers the entire pond, then a week ago, the weed patch was barely visible! So it is with viral marketing. If everyone who is introduced to a product simply tells two others about it twice in a day, then in a month you will have probably covered the country!

Some Marketing Tips

There are ways of maximizing the benefits of such an important marketing technique. We set out to give you a few of these:

? The first step you must take is to locate focus groups on the net. Fortunately this is done rather easily. A simple search will give you a large number of sites, blogs and discussion forums that are interested in the very thing you have on offer. You must become a regular contributor to these sites. There is work to be done here. You will need to read and collect considerable information before you can write with authority. Only when you are accepted, will you be able to influence others with your opinion.
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So what is a copywriter?

A copywriter is anyone who uses words to persuade readers to take a particular course of action. Using the medium language, copywriters encourage readers to make a purchase, give a donation, discover information or anything else that a company or organisation might want them to. A copywriter can work in any medium, from TV advertising and online marketing through to direct mail and outdoor posters. Wherever words are used to sell, the copywriter has a job to do.

There’s an important distinction between copywriters who work in-house and freelance copywriters. In-house copywriters are employed by an agency to do copywriting on behalf of their clients, or perhaps by a large company or organisation to work exclusively on their own content. Freelance copywriters work directly with clients they’ve found themselves, doing their own sales, marketing and administration in addition to the actual copywriting. So freelance and in-house copywriters might have quite different perspectives, and that can impact clients’ decisions about where to get their copywriting done. For example, while an agency copywriter might know more about marketing, branding and media buying, a freelance arguably has a sounder understanding of the actual nuts and bolts of running a business.

Copywriters naturally acquire skills beyond simple writing, depending on the areas and media in which they work. Online copywriters, for example, usually benefit from having some understanding of HTML (the language that web pages are written in) and the most common techniques of online marketing and advertising. SEO… Read the rest