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Social media as an emerging medium for companies to put across information about their products and promote them excite companies. And who would not be excited? I mean, from a marketing point of view, social media websites and applications are a goldmine for business promotion and product marketing. Just imagining how a single blog post can reach hundreds of people all over the world is enough to make a marketing person jump up and down in glee. You can make your own websites and invite people to visit it by giving out free downloads and holding online contests.

You can try promoting your products by posting on blogs and forums. You can join online groups and post your marketing dialogue. You can invite your friends in facebook and other social networking sites to try your new product. You can post a video online showing how easy to use your product is. You can make wiki entry so that people will know that your product is legitimate.  The possibilities are endless when it comes to business promotion in social media.

But while there are a lot of great things that you can do to promote your products, there are a lot of great things that your competitors can do to malign your product. This is perhaps what worries the marketing world about social media now. Because information can come from just anyone and the medium is totally free and ungoverned, there is no way of knowing whether what you are reading is true or just made up. One can just as easily lie about something and get away with it because no one will be monitoring it anyway. If you say it from a personal point of view, who would challenge your opinion? Everyone is entitled to have one.

Having said all that, it is also true that social media is all about community. If you set up a sharing platform and build honest and accurate communication that allows other participants to share their views, you will indeed  succeed with your promotions. Remember that good long term business can only be established and sustained though building credibility.

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Here are six ideas to help you start your viral marketing campaign:

(1)Purchase the branding rights to a viral E-book.Allow people to give away your free E-book to their visitors. Then, their visitors will also give it away. This will just 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. Allow people to 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, allow people to give away your free web design graphics, fonts, templates, etc. Just include your ad on them or require people to link directly to your web site. Make sure that you include a link back to your site in the copyright notice and require them to keep your copyright notice in tact.

(4)Write an E-book. Allow people to place an advertisement in your free E-book if, in exchange, they give away the E-book to their web visitors or E-zine subscribers.

(5)Write articles that pertain to your product or service. Allow people to reprint your articles on their website, in their E-zine, newsletter, magazine or E-books. Include your resource box and the option for article reprints at the bottom of each article.

(6)You can easily find products on the Internet that will sell you a license allowing you to distribute the product free of charge to other people. Look for those products that provide “branding rights”. That is where you can include your own name, website, and contact information.

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