There is no doubt that Viral Marketing can bring a flood of customers and sales. It can also be some of the highest quality traffic you can obtain.

The problem is, for most marketers, it’s the old, “Easier Said than Done!”. And rightly so, it’s tough. Most folks don’t have the resources or the relationships with other marketers to get the ball rolling in the first place. I am a firm believer you can do anything you set your mind too, so I am not trying to be negative. I should probably say, many marketers have a disadvantage, which in reality, most times, is just in their own mind.

So what do you do? How do you level the playing field? A inexpensive little script I found today, might be the road towards getting that viral flood you’ve been longing for.

To be honest I was and still am very excited about it, I can’t wait to use it myself. It’s a very unquie twist to viral marketing.

They call it, “The Bride Machine“. What does it do? Why is it so good?

It’s similar to a Refer-a-Friend script. But so much better and better still, it’s verified referals.

With a Refer-a-Friend script, your users or customers enter their friends e-mail address, to refer them to the page. Problem is, most of those scripts do not and can not verify the entered information. Many people will enter bogus information so they can get their reward.

The Bribe Machine not only bribes surfers, ethically of course, to vote for your page or pages on Digg and StumbleUpon, but more importantly it verifies they actually did the task, before they receive their reward.

Not only are your visitors building traffic for you, they are also building great link backs. Seems to be a win-win situation, doesn’t it?

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When you really look at Myspace, when you really get down to it, user MySpace profiles are nothing more than web pages.

Not exactly a new or brilliant concept. The brilliant part was the addition of social interaction, making it a seemingly new and amazing place to hang out.

I remember way back when you could get a free website from a place called Geocities. Am I the only one that remembers them?

But it was just a plain old website, nothing fancy and the biggest ineraction your visitors had was a guestbook, if your visitors even used it. While it was cool to have your own webpage back in the golden years, they were… well, boring.

How often do you hear about Geocites these days? Can’t remember the last time I saw the name mentioned.

I think part of it was timing, but Myspace sure hit a cord. It was no longer checking out some one’s home page, it was actually interacting with people. They could leave comments, you could leave comments. You could post pictures, trade question and answer polls and more.

It sure helped to make it easier for people to create their own space on the net. In the past you had to know how to make web pages, you had to know some html, not exactly easy for many people.

If you think Myspace was some new incredible concept it’s not, but Myspace is a perfect example of making an old idea better.

So the question is, what could you make better and become the next Myspace?

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Have you been Elfed yet? Luckily I’ve escaped so far, though my wife and Kid have suffered the laughter. Wondering if I’ll be next.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, I might be a little surprised. A major retail box put up a very interesting web site for Christmas. It is interesting when it relates to Internet Marketing because it is one of the best forms of viral marketing I’ve seen in quite some time.

The web site is a flash animation of Elfs dancing, but thats not the best part. The best part is that you can upload your own pictures, faces that are placed on the faces of the dancing Elf’s. I didn’t think to much of it when my wife’s friend told her about it. Naturally our kids were my wifes first victims. I do have to admit, it is very cute (are guys suppose to say that?).

It really hit when I received an e-mail from a marketer who’s list I am a subscriber. He has a whole family of of cute dancing Elves.

And here I go adding to the viral nature, because it is an incredible example: Elf Yourself

I can’t imagine how many time it’s already be passed around, and it deserves it.

This could be done for any business. What about yours?

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