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Rhea Drysdale · 2 years ago

Awesome, awesome, awesome summary! Most marketers forget about providing a value to their audience. You just did a great job of highlighting some of the most effective methods. Tamar rocks.

Rhea Drysdale · 2 years ago

btw, where's your Sphinn button, damn it?!

Tamar Weinberg · 2 years ago

I'm not fishing for Sphinns, unlike some people. :P

Matt Jones · 2 years ago

Great ideas Tamar. That T-Shirt one must be gold because I watched it despite the fact I don't fold my cloths at all anyway lol.

Rhea Drysdale · 2 years ago

pfffft :)

Derek · 2 years ago

This is a great list of ideas coupled with specific examples that other people should certainly take note of and review. I definitely appreciate your time putting this all together! (bookmarked and saved)

Daryl Clark · 2 years ago

Great practical post that isn't self serving and provides solid examples. Excellent! I have linked back to your article from my blog too. Thanks!

Jason Falls · 2 years ago

Hey ... that fishing for Sphinn jab was at me, wasn't it?

Great post, thorough and useful list. Yet again why you are the queen of all bloggy, posty, social media-y things.

I bow.

Jeff · 2 years ago

Yeah. but there's totally nothing new in this article here, "What *blank* are you quizzes have been around for years. The main appeal of most things that take off on the internet is that they were made because someone wanted to make them, not because some movie studio is trying to make a few extra dollars by trying to take advantage of cheap advertising.

Rhea Drysdale · 2 years ago

Jeff, did you read Tamar's article? It looks like you skimmed the article and reacted to the Zombie Apocalypse and Transformers quizzes, neither of which were produced for movie studios. They were timely and on trend, but didn't benefit studios except for minor brand recognition, which doesn't mean much since the target market was already flooded with fan boys and girls.

As for the main appeal of viral content, a component is certainly an individual having the creativity, time and resources to develop it, but ultimately it's the connection it makes with readers/viewers. The "if you build it they will come" philosophy only goes so far.

bakkouz · 2 years ago

I spent at least 45 minutes on instant domain search to look for 3 letter domain names and i couldn't find any. they're all gone :|

Tamar Weinberg · 2 years ago

Sorry bakkouz :( They are all gone -- probably have been gone for years.

Tarun · 2 years ago

Hi buddy.. Thanks for dropping by.. I have blogrolled you.. Hope you reciprocate.. Thanks

Shannon B. · 2 years ago

I enjoyed this summary muchly, great tips to get someone started on the road to generating viral content. :D

give_me_time · 2 years ago

Very informative. My stuff falls under the Tools category, the last item of your 6, does that mean it's harder to do 'viral marketing'?
Thanks.

Tamar Weinberg · 2 years ago

It wasn't in any particular order. These are just 6 of many ways to do viral marketing, and they're usually pretty effective.

sophie_k · 2 years ago

There’s such a lot to learn. I’ve been blogging for, wait for it, not even one week... I could do with some traffic!

Thanks very much, I'll be giving your suggestions a go and I’m sure I’m going to learn a lot.

Martial Artist · 2 years ago

Very informative. Thanks.

Interwebhunt · 2 years ago

That in and of itself is a great list posting! Thanks for the great ideas and resources. Another fun idea is to try a contest or two with a prize people really want.

Bosnian Pyramid · 1 year ago

Thanks for the ideas. I like such inspiration.

arindra · 1 year ago

congratulations on winning at the Semmys . this post surely deserved to win.

Tamar Weinberg · 1 year ago

Thanks Arindra (and to everyone who voted!) :)

list building · 1 year ago

Great post!

Alexkazam · 1 year ago

Some great ideas, in bite sized chunks, too- nice work, and, many thanks!

John Wilson · 1 year ago

Hye,
Great Ideas about Viral marketing, I have been studying about the ideas regarding Viral and Content marketing, But it's really great , Thank you for educating people.

Mayank - Start Internet Busine · 1 year ago

Great ideas for creating viral content. Will surely try some of them!

Franck Ribery · 1 year ago

Great Ideas about Viral marketing

Trott Felipe · 1 year ago

Great ideas. I will be using these to promote my journal.

Myrna · 1 year ago

Tamar, thanks for the list. I've a new blog with Wordpress and I'm trying to learn (by the seat of my pants) how to do things on my own. Someone got me started but I'm flying on my own now. You confirmed what I thought about video content. I've been thinking of putting video content on my site as I personally am drawn to it when I visit other sites. Your example was a "How to" but I think most interesting videos draw people in. I'm a sucker for the play button!
Glad I found you - will enjoy reading your blog!

venus · 1 year ago

I like the way this page is widespreading the vitality of viral content in the social media marketing.

venus · 1 year ago

actually i want to promote a website on the internet arena. I will be glad if you assist me in this and suggest me certain fruitful ways to promote the website. It will be my pleasure if experts will come and recommend me the methods.

Ryan · 11 months ago

This is a great post! Thanks for sharing...it served as inspiration for a recent viral attempt of my own:
www.theofficialdouchebagmeter.com

Graeme · 11 months ago

A type of viral content that seems to bring some traffic (if only small amounts) over a longer time period is downloadable content with links back to your site (perhaps a short article in PDF format on photography hints)

Tech Blogger · 7 months ago

Impressive stuff. Viral content marketing is and should be the topmost priority of any online marketing campaign.

Excellent.