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Help Firefox Break the World Record!

Sounds like a good deal, right? Make sure to download Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours.

The official date for the launch of Firefox 3 is June 17, 2008. Join the internet community and this effort by pledging today.

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P.S. This is a great “Viral Marketing” campaign by Firefox too - think how you could use ideas like this to increase traffic, boost sales, and achive your business goals.

Make a comment on how you plan to implement a plan like this to get the word out about your online business.

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The Beatles Hey Jude at a Whole New Level

This is the best thing I’ve seen on YouTube for a long time:

Are you using video to market your website? If you’re not, you’re really missing out. Although this video isn’t really marketing anything except a really cute and talented little singer, you can use video the same way to promote your products.

A video like this is the “viral” quality: it will get viewed and passed along to millions of people. Find a way to tie it (or a fun video like it) in to your marketing campaign and “viola” - you have traffic that you can’t even handle with tons of backlinks too.

Now go and do likewise :)

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Viral Marketing | Using Pictures for Link Building

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All started out pretty good….but…

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Then she tasted that nasty toothpaste…

I’ve been reading a friends blog from time to time about viral marketing.  These two pictures made me think, “If I had a website and I was a Dentist, this would be a perfect viral marketing campaign to get people to come to my site and book mark the funny pictures…I could title the post - “Will your dentist make your kid do this?” or “Toothpaste that makes you twinge“.

I’m sure there are other directions you could head with these pictures but I think Mat’s viral marketing ideas and suggestions are contagious.  Some may ask, “How can this really help my website?”  Links, links, links!  As we talk about social media marketing (saving articles and web pages to your favorites in StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious and the like), a big part of viral marketing and SMO is encouraging people to add your pages to their favorites.  By doing this, you are creating links all over the internet that help Google and other search engines find you.  The more they find you on relevant sites, the better chance you have of moving up the charts for keywords you are using on your pages.  We don’t want to SPAM these sites, but creative strategies like this really do help build links and increases traffic.

What ideas are you testing?

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