What do we know about Twitter? We know that it’s popular with celebrities. We know that businesses as well as individuals use it to communicate with like-minded peers. We know that it forms part of a comprehensive online marketing strategy. We know that it’s global and now, thanks to protestors in Egypt, we know that [...]
Archive for the Viral Marketing Category
5 Tweets that will kill your social media campaign
Posted 23 March 2011 by SandyTagged As: | Categories: Online PR, Viral Marketing | Leave a Comment
How to succeed at guerrilla marketing
Posted 15 March 2011 by SandyTagged As: | Categories: SEO, Viral Marketing | Leave a Comment
Guerrilla marketing uses innovative and creative campaigns to stop people in their tracks, make them blink, make them think or make them smile all while boosting brand awareness. Viral marketing falls under the guerrilla marketing umbrella, in fact, one of the aims of guerrilla marketing is for campaigns to go viral. The nice thing about [...]
Conquer viral video marketing, just like Old Spice
Posted 7 March 2011 by SandyTagged As: | Categories: Online PR, Viral Marketing | Leave a Comment
When it comes to viral content many people think that video is the way to go. They’re not wrong. Successful viral marketing videos can do enormous things for your brand; they can drive huge volumes of targeted traffic to your website and, if they’re very successful, drive sales through the roof. But bad viral videos [...]
Charlie Sheen shows viral marketers how it’s done
Posted 4 March 2011 by SandyTagged As: | Categories: Online PR, Viral Marketing | Leave a Comment
The world loves a bad boy. Don’t believe me; let’s take a look at Charlie Sheen. The man’s a mess. He says he isn’t, but it’s pretty clear to the rest of the world that he’s one take short of a television show. Despite all his problems and the fact that he is currently unemployed, [...]
Real or not: making a success of viral campaigns
Posted 24 February 2011 by SandyTagged As: | Categories: SEO, Viral Marketing | Leave a Comment
Last year yielded two very good examples of viral campaigns, which were hugely successfully in entirely different ways. First we have the young woman who quit her job using a series of white board messages, which she emailed to her entire office. The story broke on TheChive.com but it was picked up by virtually everyone, [...]
7 things about blue cheese that are kind of gay when you think about it
Posted 24 February 2011 by SandyTagged As: | Categories: SEO, Viral Marketing | Leave a Comment
Link bait is an easy enough concept to understand: it’s about creating fantastic content (an article, blog, badges, widgets, pictures, etc) that everyone will love and link to. Link bait is not, however, that easy in practice. Right at the forefront of the problems you will encounter is volume. The net is packed full of [...]
What makes a good viral marketing campaign?
Posted 18 February 2011 by SandyTagged As: | Categories: Viral Marketing | Leave a Comment
As a concept viral marketing is self-explanatory: it entails the prolific and exponential spread of content that people find compelling and share-worthy. Like a real virus it’s contagious, people can’t help but pass it on. The web is full of viral content, some of which is successful but most of which is not. Are you [...]



