Dropshipping Introduction

Viral marketing sounds scary, doesn’t it? The first time i heard this term i thought someone should be visiting the doctor’s office. It never occurred to me that this had anything to do with the internet. When it finally did dawn on me that this was a promotional technique, i didn’t have a clue as to how powerful it could be. I began my relationship with this odd sounding technique by installing greeting cards on my site. I know it sounds small, but greeting cards are actually one of the most powerful techniques of all.

Why? Because everyone seems to want to send ecards to their friends, lovers and relatives. Each card contains a link back to your site, which tends to produce visitors. My next exposure was something called “tell a friend”. This is a simple script, installed in less than an hour, which allows your visitors to, well, tell their friends about your site. This is an excellent way to get people to visit, as virtually everyone will do something that their friends recommend. I’ve found this does not produce an incredible amount of traffic, but considering only an hour was put into installation, it’s not bad.

Another viral marketing technique which i’ve tried is creating an email service. I signed up a couple of domains with bigmailbox.Com, which allows me to give away web-based mailboxes. For example, i own the domain renaissancefaire.Org. I could link this to bigmailbox.Com, and allow people to send messages to theirname@r… Since every single email that is send from this mailbox contains a link back to my site, it tends to produce some traffic.