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  A mailing list is the lifeblood of your online business. The old adage "the money is in the list" cannot be true enough: If you had a specific list of potential customers to contact every time you have a new product, you could save a lot of effort by marketing it to your existing list of specific prospects. . In fact, you can create a specific list of potential customers who are interested in your products by offering a relevant download on your website . For example , let's take a look at a very good example: apple .com. When you download the free iTunes and Quicktime software from their site, they'll ask you to fill out an optional name and email form so they can send you deals on songs that you can buy through , guess where, iTunes! Actually, it doesn't need to offer as " heavy " a download as a full-featured software like iTunes. You can attract prospects equally well with some quality giveaways such as a simple report, free wallpaper, et...

Viral marketing has a variety of possibilities and ways to achieve your overall goals. However, just like everything else, planning ahead and setting it up to be successful are the things you'll need to make it work for you and your e-business. The first thing to make sure you don't do is be overzealous. The only thing to avoid at all costs is spam. Spam is still widely used, but with the government setting more restrictions and fines, you don't want this to be a problem for you. Your site's professional image will also suffer if you blatantly send email. Spam requires a database containing a huge list of email addresses configured so that the message can be delivered with a single click. The problem with this (aside from government restrictions and associated fines) is that it irritates recipients and kills the validity of your campaign, which in turn kills the factors that would motivate someone to refer your site. You need to personalize it by creating your website...

     Here are six ideas to help you get started on your viral marketing campaign: 1. Acquire the trademark rights to a viral e-book. Let people gift your free ebook to your visitors. Then your visitors will give it away too. This will continue to spread your ad all over the internet. 2. If you have the ability to set up a forum or other bulletin board, you really have a great tool. Let people use your online discussion board for their own website. Some people don't have one. Just include your banner ad at the top of the board. 3. Do you have a knack for web design? Create some templates, graphics, etc. and upload them to your site. Then let people give away your graphics, fonts, templates, etc. free web design. Just include your ad in them or ask people to link directly to your website. Be sure to include a link to your site in the copyright notice and ask them to keep your copyright notice intact. 4. Write an e-book. Allow people to place an ad in your free ebook if they...

 More and more advertisers are embracing video as broadband continues to increase and ad serving technologies become more sophisticated. Online video advertising is really taking off. Users' attention can be captured and ads stand out from the crowd in an increasingly ad-crowded online environment. True, video formats cost five to ten times more to serve than standard banners and involve a lot more production and implementation work, but they may well be worth all of that if they achieve higher response rates.   Where to use online video if you want to maximize its effect is what advertisers should carefully consider. Video to be used on the Internet should focus on information and communication, while video to be used on television should focus on entertainment. Like everything else, there are good and bad ways to use video advertising. Right now, most marketers are embedding their audiovisual content into existing embedded ad formats, such as banners, or over-content formats...