It’s Third Degree Thursday!
I know I often focus on finding quality PLR to provide good content on your Web site, blog, and in your newsletter, so I wasn’t surprised when I got this recent question:
“I’ve created a great info product from PLR for my coaching clients and would like to sell it online. What’s a good way to ‘get it out there’?”
I won’t lie and say there’s only one way to market a product, because you and I both know there are literally hundreds. So I’m going to choose a somewhat broad method – viral marketing – and give you a few different techniques with which to implement it.
What is Viral Marketing?
Viral marketing is one of the least expensive forms of marketing, but can also be one of the most effective means of marketing an information product, even if your product is still in pre-launch. Viral marketing is the digital age’s version of word-of-mouth marketing. It’s essentially the same thing as word-of-mouth marketing, but the difference is that viral marketing passes information from person to person via the internet. There are a number of means by which this can occur, through links, emails, blogs, videos and podcasts just to name a few.
How’s it Done?
Again, there are numerous means of viral marketing, so I’m going to touch on just a few of the most popular methods.
1. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are a good place to start when beginning a viral marketing campaign for your info product. These sites work by finding and building a list of friends based off common interests. When marketing your coaching product, the interest would be the topic of your info product.
The same goes for businesses, like your life coaching practice. You can make use of these social networks by getting in contact with your clients and alerting them to your new coaching product and any of your services that complement the product.
Since each of your clients have a network of people they are friends with, encourage them to pass on the information to their network. Each person in that network also has a network and so on, and the message is passed from person to person.
2. Video networking sites like YouTube are an extension and specialization of social networks that get a tremendous amount of traffic, so it’s highly recommended that these sites also be considered when marketing your info product.
When tagging a video on a video network site it is important to know the right keywords that people use to find the information you are selling. A little research is in order to find out the right keywords. Once you have them and tag your video appropriately, anyone looking for information or videos on those keywords will pull up your video, which should lead them to your info product.
3. Your blog ties in with all these forms of social networking and video networking through links. Embedding the video in a blog is another great way to gain exposure for both the product and your blog. In addition, by putting teasers, such as “For more Information…,” in your posts, you encourage people to click over to your sales page and get more information about your coaching product.
These are just a sample of the many ways you can use viral marketing to get exposure for a new product. And the more exposure you can generate for your info products in their pre-launch phase, the more successful that product is once it launches.
The great thing about viral marketing is the fact that it does not cost anything to implement. You simply post and allow it to spread.