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Viral Marketing-Strategies:  Viral marketing is the marketing strategy of adding give-aways such as a free product or service in order to multiply your marketing quickly over the Internet. The concept behind viral marketing is that you include your ad with the 'freebie" people give away or use. 

High impact viral marketing strategies- allow your visitors to:

Testimonials:  Testimonials are also another powerful tool to include in as many ads and locations as possible. Utilize them in your web site, in your autoresponder messages, advertising etc. Don't make them up, generally testimonials will include the persons name, location  and email contact, so they could possibly be checked, besides, a professional,  ethical marketer does not have to use devious and underhanded tactics to succeed. Remember,  your credibility is at stake.

Always check your advertising before submitting; typos project an unprofessional image to the reader and will probably turn them away. Check that all URL's and email addresses are included and correct. You generally only get one "shot" when a person sees your ad. If you are going to  advertise a business on the web, and you present a less than professional image you're not going to do business!  

I have a good memory and I scan ads in this order: Header,  then the URL, the reason? I am looking for the keywords "free" and "no cost" in the header, and If I see a URL or handle that I know I have seen before,  (domain name) I skip the ad entirely - why waste my time?  When you are using a common domain name related to the affiliate or other programs you are associated with, your URL can be a disadvantage as others have the same domain name, however, you can use the IP address instead e.g. http://206.158.220.50/free/?352936.01  is the equivalent of:        http://.www/sixfigureincome.com/free/?352936.01  check it and see!

One tactic many marketers use is to delete all their ads and resubmit them each week. Using this technique you can generate a steady flow of new leads, provided you are consistent and keep posting each week. Submission periods vary greatly and you should note how often you may re-submit to your advertising  sources:  some may be daily, weekly, monthly or every ten minutes,  it's imperative that you keep a log of them. The most critical aspect of your advertising is consistency, you must submit and re-submit at every opportunity and on a regular basis or your recruiting or sales efforts will lose momentum.

Operating Multiple Businesses: if you expand your income portfolio by operating  multiple on-line businesses, ensure you create relationships between them all in advertising, links, banners, referrals and so on, this will consolidate your advertising and marketing efforts and automatically increase your entire business-group exposure on the web.

Submitting your Ad or Url - When you first advertise and submit your URL to Search Engines or your ad to a submission service, don't expect an instant reaction, ad placement and URL submission takes time. Please realize that some search engines can take days or weeks to review and place your submission (not all - some are relatively quick.) and that's if it's accepted. Ad placement can be instantaneous, overnight,  or within several days depending on the service you use. Ad placements are generally manually checked for relativity and then placed if they are within the service's guidelines. If you submit over the weekend it may take even longer. Patience!

Posting on FFA sites - the amount of time your ad will stay on FFA sites will vary. Your ad will be posted at the top of the list, and as other ads are placed, yours will drop down, until it is ultimately dropped off the bottom of the list. Some FFA sites will advise you when your ad is dropped off the list so then you can re-submit, and the process then starts again!

Remember the story about how do you eat an elephant? - One bite at a time!

Submitting your ad or URL can be a tedious process even when using some auto-submitters, (manual submission by yourself is regarded to be more reliable as you know the ad has been placed) If you aim to maximize on your efforts for advertising exposure:- submit multiple ads using different URL's and email addresses at the same time. By setting up multiple email addresses, autoresponders and web sites - you can then submit your ads using different email addresses and Urls for your bizop/s to each submission service (you can't be accused of spamming and you're already logged in, so make the most of it). Your ad headers and content  should be different for each ad, (use Notepad) readers shouldn't see repetitive ads from you. Let's face it, there are already too many generic cloned ads and headers supplied by numerous Companies.

Advertising Categories when submitting your ad/s you will be asked to select a category to advertise in. Obviously you would select a relevant category and/or sub-categories to your business or several if the service gives you that option. Submit to as many categories as possible - remember you need to maximize your exposure whenever and wherever possible.

As an example, an excellent free classified site to use is Yahoo Classifieds. You can submit up to 10 classifieds. Simply go to the site, register, then select "Submit Ads". You'll get a list of categories, select "Business Opportunities". You'll be presented with a form to fill in. On this form you have to select a category and a sub-category (called Industry).

Market your business in the most forceful, aggressive and cost-effective manner possible -  marketing is the key to driving your business!