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Viral Marketing Buzz Blog Has Moved!

2007-06-21T16:02:00.000-07:00

I just want to quickly inform everyone who continues to land here, that I have moved the blog onto my own domain and set it up with WordPress!

This is a very positive step in the right direction, as WordPress has a lot more expandability, usability, and flexibility.

So please visit the new Viral Marketing Buzz Blog Now!

http://ViralMarketingBuzz.com/blog

Peace & Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo

Free Video Submitter Software

2007-06-12T19:09:00.000-07:00

Woah! Is this ever cool!

I just came across a piece of software that lets you automatically submit your viral videos to the top video hosting websites.

The best part is, that it's absolutely free! Now some people are charging a lot for this kind of service, and some of them will charge you per submission or a monthly membership fee to use the service. This software allows you to use it on unlimited videos, an unlimited amount of times for free!

Let's just discuss the viral power of this as a marketing technique for a moment.

So you create a video which has your marketing message in it, and you hope that it'll be entertaining enough to go viral. In order to make that happen though, you'll need to hit the right and get it in front of the right viewers.

As most of us know already, websites like YouTube and Google Video are the top places to search for videos online, and anyone searching will be typing in keywords to find videos they want to see.

So how do we maximize the chances that they'll see our video?

Through the use of well chosen keywords relevant to your video, and getting your video displayed in as many video hosting sites as possible. That's where this new video submitter software will come in so handy.

So here's the strategy:

In order to maximize the number of video's you have displayed on those sites, you can edit a few different versions of the same video (Different lengths, cut scenes, clips, etc...). Once you have a few different versions, autosubmit each one using the free video submitter software. When you do this, you can target different sets of keywords that are all relevant for each submission. (EG. Submission #1 Keywords: viral, video, marketing, submitter, software. EG. Submission #2 Keywords: video, autosubmitter, submit, software, free.)

Get the idea?

Now here's another tip: After you've done that, you can also resubmit all those video's again under different video file formats, and again targeting different keywords. This will give you multiple video listings for the same video on many of the video hosting sites. If the video is identical to previously submitted video's then it will not get posted twice, which is why small edits and changes in file formats submitted will be enough to fool most of the video hosting sites so that you get multiple video listings.

Of course the more times your video comes up for relevant keyword searches, the better your chances of having your videos go viral and spread farther.

So I'm sure you're now eager to get this free video autosubmitter software, right?!

Well you can get it now by clicking this link: Get Free Video Submitter Software NOW!

And may your viral videos spread as easily as jam on toast.

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com
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BubblePly Your Viral Video's

2007-06-03T00:11:00.000-07:00

Viral Video is one of my favorite subjects, and of course whenever I find new resources to facilitate making videos viral or increasing the marketing effectiveness of them, You, my readers, are the first to hear about it.

So let me share with you an excellent new resource that was shared to me by an excellent friend of mine. (By the way, this excellent friend of mine has a whole wealth of great marketing resources that you can check out by clicking here)

This great new resource is called BubblePly, and it's a website that allows you to take your video's hosted on other video hosting sites like YouTube or Google Videos, and then you can edit them by adding bubbles, icons, or links on top of the videos!

Now in terms of marketing, the key word there is "links". Yes, you can add links to your videos. Fully clickable links that may be clicked on during the video.

Do you realize what this means?

This means that you can add affiliate links, or links to your website, or links to wherever you want, and those links will be right there on the video where the viewer's eyes are glued.

Now, before you get too excited, let me explain something that I read in BubblePly's Terms of Service. They have the right to occasionally display some ads on any video you've edited using BubblePly. Unfortunately you have no control over that aspect of things, but even so, I still think this is a great resource, and of the BubblePly videos I've seen so far, none of them have had ads on them. Perhaps they're waiting until the site gets bigger and more used before they start filling the videos with ads. At any rate, it looks good now, and unless someone might know of some other service that allows you to embed links onto your videos, then this is it, and powerful tool for marketing.

It also has the usual button at the end to share the video with friends for added viral referral power, or tag as one of your favorites.

So if you've got any viral video's, I recommend heading over to BubblePly.com and embedding links into them to send people over to your salespage or through an affiliate link. If you're looking for more great marketing resources, then check out my excellent friend's resource package!

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com
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Facebook: As a Viral Vehicle

2007-05-25T19:18:00.000-07:00

Let's take a look at one of the most popular social networking sites out there from a viral marketing perspective.

Have you heard of or used Facebook?

I kept getting emails from all my friends inviting me to join facebook. You know what went through my head everytime?

"Not another frickin' Social Networking site!!"

I mean really, how many of these things are we expected to sign up for and start profiles in?

Well along came my sister, and she said "You gotta join it, it's incredible, it's NOT like the other social networking sites!" I was certainly skeptical, but she kept insisting that it was so amazing that she was meeting up with all her old classmates from high school, university, old groups of friends she hadn't seen in years etc...

So I signed up for it, and the first thing that amazed me about it, was the fact that it'll go through your address books on Yahoo, MSN, Gmail, etc.. if you let it, and invite everyone automatically. Ok, so this isn't entirely a new feature, I've seen it before, but it's still an incredibly effective way to get a lot of users real quick through simple word of mouth marketing.

Once I started using it, I realized what's so special about it. It really is different than the other social networking sites. It allows you to see an RSS feed of all your friends daily activities, including new friends that they make. This last part is important, because when you see a friend befriend a friend of yours that you're not currently friends with on Facebook, then you'll be able to go add them too. (Did you follow that?) This really grows your network real quick and easy.

It also keeps you in the loop on whatever your friends are up to. What parties they're going to, whose wall's they're posting on, and let's you see the latest pictures people are posting. Now the pictures are an interesting feature, because you can tag other friends when you see them in a picture and then that picture shows up on their profile pics. Interesting isn't it. I certainly thought so.

Another thing is the groups. There are groups for different schools and educational institutes so you can meet up with all your old friends from highschool and any other groups of friends that find their way to Facebook and start their own groups.

So where am I going with all this?

First of all, this site is growing virally by being arguably the best social networking site online for keeping in touch with friends.

Secondly, because it makes keeping in touch with people as easy as pie, it also means that it's ripe and ready to be utilized as a viral vehicle.

A viral vehicle is something that can carry your viral marketing message to others who can then use the vehicle to spread the message further on to others, etc, etc, etc,...

So all one has to do is find a way to seed your viral message in Facebook, and watch it grow.

I've already seen this working with chain-letter type of messages being posted on peoples walls (Each user has a wall which comments can be posted on by friends). Someone will post a message which has a note to post on 5 friends walls or suffer the consequences.

Now I don't recommend posting such chain-letter style posts. But certainly if you have some incentive to encourage others to spread your message, then they most certainly will, and Facebook will make it a very easy task for them.

They can just pick and choose which friends would be interested in your message and easily send the message along.

Anyways, i just wanted to introduce you to Facebook, if you haven't already discovered it, and get you to start thinking of ways in which it can be utilized as a powerful viral vehicle.

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com
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The Yin/Yang Viral Marketing Strategy

2007-05-18T22:06:00.000-07:00

I know I've explained this before, and if you've read my Viral Marketing Buzz Report - Volume 1 then you would've read it in there too, BUT it's a really important point to emphasize.

What is the difference between pure Excellence vs. the other forms of viral incentives.

Other forms of viral incentives include offering commissions to people for sales of product (eg. affiliate programs), or bribing people (eg. we'll give you this free **** if you tell X amount of people), or using psychological fact of curiosity/the zeigarnik effort (eg. we'll reveal **** only if you tell X amount of people). Are you getting the picture here?

Now compare that to pure Excellence being the viral incentive. In this case your product, service, information, or whatever your viral vehicle may be, that is so excellent that people just go off of their own volition spreading the word about it.

Why?

Because they think it's something that is worthy of praise, and that anyone they tell about it, will most certainly thank them and respect them for their most excellent referral.

Notice the difference now?

You could say it's a difference between a Pull or Push viral strategy, Yin or Yang viral strategy, Passive or Active viral strategy.

The Push, Yang, or Active viral strategy requires more effort on your part, and that effort requires you to force the viral effect to happen whether it's going to happen with ease or through hardship.

The Pull, Yin, or Passive viral strategy requires little to no effort at all , often happens without any intention of it at all, and when it does happen it requires no effort to uphold and often snowballs with great effect in perfect alignment with the laws of nature.

So which method should you be striving to achieve?

Of course everyone is now going to say the Passive strategy, but hey, why then is everyone these days generally only focusing on the Active strategy?

Perhaps ignorance, but more likely due to the fact that the Passive viral strategy requires more creativity and ingenuity. Most marketers these days are copy-cat marketers, following the exact same strategies that their predecessors use. Unfortunately with the passive viral marketing strategy, you can't always follow the others because it just won't have the same viral effect. To truly make it work for you, YOU MUST create your own Unique Selling Proposition (USP) with emphasis on the UNIQUE! And it must be to the level of PURE Excellence!

So again, why should you focus on the Passive Viral Marketing Strategy?

Answer #1: Because when done correctly, it's effects are far superior, far more wide-reaching, and with far less residual effort involved. It's self-perpetuating in and of itself.

Answer #2: Because everyone already knows how to implement the Active viral marketing strategy (Just do what the others have done), and if you add the active strategy to your campaign after the Passive strategy has been effectively created, then you're likely to explode your viral reach even more.

The active viral strategy will also require far less effort in combination with the passive viral strategy.

So my advice is to focus on the Passive Yin Viral Marketing Strategy, and finish with the most powerful Passive/Active, Yin/Yang Viral Marketing Strategy.

May you succeed in all you set out to accomplish!

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com
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Reality TV Shows are Super Viral!

2007-05-10T22:15:00.000-07:00

Yes indeed, reality TV shows ARE super viral, and that's why there are so many of them these days. They are hugely successful.

Why?

There are a number of reasons for this. First and foremost I would say it's because the reviewer can really relate to the contestants, as they are often average people. This gives them a lot more empathy and rapport with the contestants of the show, and makes them feel more involved themselves. The diversity of different characters chosen for these shows is often intentionally done so that many of the different psychelogical archetypes are covered, and that way more viewers can find one or more people that they can closely relate to. This entices those viewers to choose someone that they like, and want to cheer them on to win.

Viewer participation also adds to their desire to keep following each episode and gives them a feeling that they help choose the outcome of winners or losers. Now when those viewers feel that they can influence the outcomes, this is where the real viral power kicks in. With their desire for their chosen character to win, they will be eager to tell their friends about the show, and about their favorite characters. They will then urge their friends to watch and vote, so that their circle of influence becomes greater.

These are the mental incentives, and when also matched with easy viral tools to spread the word about what's going on even faster, this could literally explode, and has!

However, it's about to unveil a new kind of Reality Show! Internet Reality Television!

You heard right, and you know what that means? It means that viral tools can be utilized more easily to spread the word even faster, because the viewers will be in a position to use them at any time.

Joel Comm and Eric Holmlund have teamed up to create the first internet marketers reality show online called:

"Next Internet Millionaire"

This sounds and looks like a lot of fun, and it'll be an interesting viral experiment to observe. I'll tell you right now that I'll be watching closely to see what they do right, and possibly what can be done better (If anything).

They are going to be setting a standard for new internet reality tv shows, and I can only imagine that there will soon be more popping up all over the place, so pay attention to this one.

If you're as eager as I first was to check it out, then click here NOW!

It has only just recently been unveiled, and they are still taking auditions for becoming a contestant yourself. Do YOU want to be the Next Internet Millionaire? Make a video audition and see if you can get voted onto the show.

If you just want to participate as a viewer, then go to the site where you can watch the current video auditions and vote on a scale of 1-10 for which ones you like the best. Some of them look pretty good.

Go Check it out and Vote NOw!

I hope you enjoy the viral experiment, however you choose to participate.

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com
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Viral Marketing - How, Why, What, & Get Started!

2007-05-03T00:16:00.000-07:00

I just discovered a good article on viral marketing, which explains in nice simple terms the How, Why, What, & Let's Go!

Do you want to know How viral marketing works?

Do you want to know Why you should be utilizing viral marketing?

Do you want to know What the two sub-types of viral marketing are?

Do you want to know how to Start your own viral marketing campaign?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then I am happy to present to you this wonderful article on viral marketing, that is brought to you by Quirk. Just follow the link below!

Quirk's Viral Marketing Chapter

I hope you enjoy.

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com

The Viral Power of Freeiq - Making Viral Marketing easy!

2007-04-19T23:49:00.000-07:00

It seems that a new viral website has just launched in beta, and the potential I see for this one is HUGE!!!

It's called Freeiq, and it's going to literally amaze you, when you see it. You see, it's kind of like an affiliate network but with added leveraging power.

First of all, it allows you to sign-up for free. Then you can watch informational videos on numerous topics of interest. As a member, you can also add your own info-video's to share with the world and add your video author profile.

So why would you want to give out free video's on this site?

Simple, you post a free video teaching about a topic you're an expert in, and then you add other video courses into the affiliate network system, which other members can promote for commissions, and you'll earn money from sales of your paid video's.

The free video's you post are just hooks (Viral videos) for the paid videos, and you want to make your videos as informative as possible to really give people a taste of what they'll get when they buy your full video course.

Believe me, this thing is going to be big. It's created by Brad Fallon, and nothing he creates is ever small. I also know a lot of big time marketers have and will be pushing this thing to make it a huge success. I wouldn't even be surprised if it flew by ClickBank in a wink.

The site is very well designed, looks pleasing, and most of all the foundation and structure of the system with it's inclusion of powerful viral marketing leverage is going to benefit each and every member who promotes it and/or adds products to it.

Not only will Freeiq pay you affiliate commissions on the first tier, but also on the second tier, and if you refer other product creators, then you will earn a commission off of the sales of all their products for a full year. This could equal a LOT if you refer some top product creators.

So I recommend you jump on the bandwagon ASAP, sign-up now, it's free! & refer your friends to it, especially if they are product creators themselves!

You can sign up now by clicking this link! Check it out!

Enjoy the site, I know I will. I haven't seen a truly powerful viral site quite like this before, and I can assure you it has all the viral marketing motivators to go SUPER VIRAL in no-time. So get in while their still in Beta!

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
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The Small Girl Who Changed the World

2007-04-14T14:39:00.000-07:00

Once upon a time there was small girl with big aspirations.

She wanted to make the world a better place, because when she looked around, she saw a lot of suffering caused by greed and lies. She had a simple message, with a simple truth, and she firmly believed that by spreading this message, and the wisdom it would bring to the people of the world, she could cause things to improve a thousand-fold or more.

Her only challenge as it were, was to get her message out,
And for a small girl like her, this challenge brought a bit of doubt.

This small girl, told others about her passion to change the world, and most people laughed.
"You've got a good message small girl," they'd say
"but in the real world, people will never think that way".

The small girls mother, however, would tell her
"Do what you do, as long as you're following your passion so true".

So the small girl, she searched everywhere looking to find,
A way to spread her message to change the collective-conscious mind.

Then it came to her one day while sitting calmly and quietly on the grass out in nature.

She was admiring the dandelions, and how pretty they were. They were here, there, and everywhere as far as the eye could see and assuredly beyond. As she picked a stem of one that had gone to seed, she did what every small girl likes to do: Make a wish, and blow all the seeds into the air to float gently on the wind as far as the wind will take them.

So as she blew, the seeds flew
Her wish began to come true
As the wind did start to blow
Through the air the seeds did flow
Far and wide they did spread
As a thought arose in her head
For she had wished for a way
To put her message on display
Within the minds of everyone
So that justice would be done

The seeds she thought, that is how
I'll spread my message within seeds I sow
And when they land on fertile ground
They'll start to sprout and spread around
Then soon the world will finally know
And enlightenment will start to show
The world will evolve for the better
Thanks to efforts put forth from a small go-getter.

So the concept she had, and the rest easily followed, as she created viral ebooks, viral videos, viral articles, viral websites with viral tell-a-friend scripts, sent viral emails, and started a viral buzz around the world.

It spread like wildfire and when everyone was talking about this simple wisdom of a small girl on the news, all over the web, and in every household. Enlightenment soon did follow. Greed and lies ceased, people instead adopted a new code of ethics. World peace became eminent, and the simple wisdom of this small girl was to simply follow the tenets of Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect. She called it PLUR. ;)

The end.

by
Jambhala Rinpo
SimpleMaster.com
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Bonus Viral Marketing Video amongst $6825 worth of Free Gifts

2007-04-05T19:45:00.000-07:00

Okay maybe I didn't stress enough how important it is to get Mark Joyner's book in my last blog post, or perhaps you didn't even read it.

Anyways, I was going to see how many of you would actually go and buy it without me giving you any more incentive than my word. However, I see that only a few of my readers took action, and to those I congratulate you on taking a positive step towards greater success in life.

To those that didn't take action last week, I'm now going to give you some even better reasons why you should check out Mark's new book on Simpleology.

1- You'll get over $6825 worth of free gifts (both digital and physical products) and these are not the normal crappy PLR gifts that are floating all over the net for free.

2- The book only costs $13.77 <-- That's nuttin'!

3- One of the bonuses includes an exclusive Video on Viral Marketing that was created by Mark Joyner and Tellman Knudson, and it's awesome!

4-Mark has put together an Easter Egg hunt for you. Now he wouldn't give me any details, and to be honest I couldn't even find the egg myself. So the first person to successfully find the easter egg and the person who scores the highest on the easter egg will receive free copies of a new product I'm releasing soon that will be sold for $147 and is a packaged ebook w/ audio's and videos on Joint Venture Marketing. Either post on the blog if and where you found it, or send me an email. Post your score too.

Hint: You'll find the Easter Egg on Step 1, 2 or 3 following this link

Now that's an incredibly irresistable offer if I ever heard of one. I don't even get any commissions for selling copies of Mark's book, I'm doing this because Mark is a good friend of mine, whom I respect greatly, and I really believe that the knowledge he shares is more than worth your measly $13.77 investment.

Okay, I must admit that I do have a slight ulterior motive. I've added my Viral Marketing Buzz Report as one of the bonuses, and the more books I sell, the higher up the list my bonus will appear. Which means more downloads, and more subscribers for me. So help me put my bonus as high up the list as possible and I'll be grateful. :)

What are you Waiting for? Get Mark's Simpleology book now and your Bonus gifts worth over $6825.

Good Luck, and happy hunting!

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com

Mark Joyner Lauches Simpleology the Book!

2007-03-30T14:38:00.000-07:00

My excellent friend Mark Joyner has finally launched the controversial Simpleology book that he's been working on for the past few years. So far I've only gotten a sneak peak at some of it that he let leak out to his Simpleology members recently, but TODAY is the DAY!

It's out now, and Mark is looking to stir some controversy with it. I really can't fully explain how excited I am about this, because in my personal conversations with Mark he's let me in on some of the details of his master plan, and this is a major reference point within it. I can't explain all the details of it in this post, but let me just tell you this.

GET MARK'S BOOK! It is invaluable. If you're looking to free your mind in the simplest way possible, then this book is for you. If you want to help your friends free their minds too, then buy a few copies and give them away for birthdays and at christmas.

Some of the things Mark reveals in this book may shock you, but more importantly they will greatly increase your awareness to what's going on in the world around you, and give you an advantage to take the path of least resistance towards your highest good!

Self Empowerment is the name of the game, and becoming aware of all the things that disempower you is part of the solution, matched with knowing what actions will lead you to success the least of amount of time with the least amount of effort!

Again, I say this book is invaluable! So go get yourself a copy at Amazon.com today!

If you need more convincing then go watch the video trailer that Mark Joyner put together to promo his book launch. After watching the video, you can just click the button beside it to be redirected to Amazon.com and make the purchase!

Watch the Simpleology Book Launch Video NOW!

I hope you make the right decision on this. As the old saying goes "A stitch in time, saves 9", well Mark Joyner's Simpleology book is like "Stitches in time, learn now, don't wait - Put them into action, save 108" ;)

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com

Viral Shock Review

2007-03-22T20:39:00.000-07:00

It seems Justin Blake has just created and launched a viral marketing/viral listbuilding system, and a lot of people are wondering whether this is gunna fly or die.

It's hard to say just yet because it only just launched in beta, and if they do this right, they may succeed incredibly.

Well honestly I got real excited when I first heard about this system, (as I do with any new viral marketing system) but when I downloaded the software and started to figure out how it really worked I was disappointed.

They say a system like Viral Shock has never been done before, but that's only partly true. There are others out there that work similarly, but none with the capabilities and technology that Viral Shock uses. Unfortunately the problem with other systems that have the same framework is that the response rates for mailouts are extremely low, because the lists are completely untargeted to any specific markets (Except maybe internet marketers). It's like mailing to safelists.

Viral Shock claims that their system will be more effective than traditional safelists because of the 100% deliverability feature that direct delivers right to your desktop. This feature intrigued me, but when seeing it in action, I found it to be annoying and disruptive.

On top of that, you will be getting hit by numerous messages from all the people in your upline. I don't know about you, but I have enough junk emails to sift through each day in my email program, let alone having them pop-up and alert me right on my desktop.

Also, since it sits there running in the system tray, it will be using up system resources, which may not be a big problem if you have a fast dual core computer like I do, but if your computer is slower, then it might bog down overall processor performance, and may be the first program users decide to delete when streamlining their system tray.

Another thing I didn't like, was the fact that when you login to the members area, which can only be done on the system tray icon, it fires up Internet Explorer. Now I happen to be a hardcore Firefox enthusiast, and so I really dislike that. It's really only a minor issue though, and not at all if you regularly use Explorer, but I'm hoping they expand the compatibility to autodetect the default browser and fire it up instead.

$197/month, or $97/month if you take the one time offer. You're paying that to send html ad's once a week, and receive ad promotions right to your desktop (Actually you'll get the ad promos for free too). It seems logistically that this might be it's greatest feature, because if you manage to recruit others then you get paid high monthly residual commissions. Now in this case they are offering a service for that money, so I believe it is within the laws.

So what's my overall summary and analysis of Viral Shock?

Well, my guess is that it will be successful because it offers a lot of residual monetary incentive which will be enough to make it go viral. I think that if you get in early (Like NOW, while they're still in beta), then you will minimize the amount of ads and messages that land on your desktop, because there won't be a huge upline built yet above you. I would recommend not getting the upgrade to pro, unless you feel that your copywriting abilities for creating ads are so good that you can grab the attention of even the most random uninterested audiences. All in all, I'm not psyched on Viral Shock. I'm sure the creators will profit, and a many others will too, but not without effort put forth in recruiting. I would think it to be more effective to spend your time building your own targeted list, and building a relationship with them.

I do like the name Viral Shock and the website is definitely very professional looking with great step by step videos teaching how to get started with building your downline.

If you are interested in joining Viral Shock, then do it ASAP. As I said, they're still in Beta and getting in now may mean that you down get as many messages from your upline. :)

Join Viral Shock Now!

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com
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Jason James' Audio Video Riches

2007-03-16T23:19:00.000-07:00

I've certainly posted about some great viral video creation products in the past, but Jason James has gone the extra mile with his new release of Audio Video Riches.

That's right, he's produced an incredible package here, and I must admit that I underestimated him at first, but once I saw and tested the product for myself I was amazed.

This course goes into great detail step by easy step, so that even a newbie can create great professional looking videos with ease, and then easily post it onto their website to stream live!

Now when I mean easy, I REALLY mean easy. If I could say there was anything I'd have to nitpick about this video course, I would say that it's tooooo step by step, and for someone like me who has done a lot of this before, I found that a lot of the steps I didn't need to pay attention to, BUT that doesn't mean it's not also valuable to the more experienced. I certainly learned some new tricks, and the web streaming files it comes with are great and easy to use (Again step by step instructions on how to use everything, even down to plugging a firewire cord into your videocamera and computer).

This video course teaches you everything you need to know about creating great video and audio for your website.

It doesn't go into depth on the actual marketing of your video or audio, but it does touch on the topic.

All in all, I would certainly recommend this to newbies and even some of the not so newbies. The pro's may find a lot of the info redundant, but it does come with a guarantee if you're not 100% impressed.

It's certainly worth checking out if you want to do video and audio for your websites. Remember that if you can make a good viral video these days, your video or product could become famous quite quickly, but you'll need to know the basics of creating a good looking video first.

Check out Jason James' Audio Video Riches!

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com
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Viral Business Cards in Second Life

2007-03-09T17:46:00.000-08:00

A recent article in Reuters Second Life news caught my attention the other day regarding business cards in Second Life. It appears that the Second Life company Moo is making business cards for Second Life users.

At first I thought what a great idea. Then I thought, how could it be made more viral.

In real life, business cards are handed out here and there during meetings and at conferences and seminars and such. But once they're handed out, they usually stay with the person who received it, and you have to hope that they find your business card when they need your services.

In Second Life, the digital aspect of business cards makes them easily reproducible to hand out to other denizens of the world, while maintaining their own copy. But why would others hand out your business cards to others.

This is where the viral part comes in. They may do so, if your island/land is just incredibly awesome, or if your services or items are incredibly awesome. I've been handed other peoples business cards in world before when asking people for certain things like where to buy cool clothes, or where to find cool places. In these cases, if your business is memorable then people might start handing out your business cards to others who ask for such locations.

The other idea I had, which I've seen successfully used in Second Life, is giving away free boxes/free items that contain your business card, and allow others to give away the free item as long as it comes with the business card.

This strategy is great, because then there is even more reason for people to ask about you and your business. For example: You see someone on a really cool motorcycle and ask them where they got that awesome motorbike. They say "For free, want one?", then when they give it to you, it comes with a business notecard that gives you all the details of the maker and where to find them. This strategy is incredibly effective, and very viral.

The one key thing to remember (As in every viral marketing campaign) is to make the free gift something that is linked with your business and your businesses offerings. That way people remember you when they use the gift they got from you, and they'll come to you when they want more.

Simple and effective. Just check out Second Life and do a bit of brainstorming on what and how you can create a gift that makes your business memorable. If your business is within Second Life then it should be easy, just give a sample product. If your business is not directly in Second Life, then you'll have to think a little more wisely, but you can still come up with something, perhaps a Second Life version of your real life products. ;)

Good luck, and I hope to see you on the grid sometime. (Just IM Jambhala Richez in world)

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
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How to Generate Viral Friends

2007-03-01T00:06:00.000-08:00

One of the best and often under-utilized viral techniques is providing a simple way for your existing members to tell their friends about your product or service.

Trusted endorsements by friends is the best form of advertising bar-none.

And what's even better is it costs nothing to implement.

Many tell-a-friend scripts have come out and have been effective to a certain degree, but they lacked the features necessary to cause a viral wave of traffic that we'd all love to experience on our sites.

Well, the same guy who created the most incredible Viral Marketing script that has revolutionized the internet marketing industry and made viral marketing easy for virtually everyone has just created a new tool that has been responsible for over $209,349 in extra sales just from two beta testers using it in it's raw form.

The marketer is Mike Filsaime, and the new tool is Viral Friend Generator.

He just launched the completed version and I am thoroughly impressed.

Viral Friend Generator is the next evolution in tell-a-friend technology.

In less than five minutes (the time it takes you to fill in the form and upload to your server)... you can literally multiply the number of visitors and subscribers your web site receives by 300% or higher!

It is compatible with all of the major autoresponder services out there and has many incredible features that every other tell-a-friend script just cannot compete with at all.

Put your marketing efforts into high gear with this extremely powerful new and easy to use tool that was put together by the Viral Marketing Expert of experts, Mike Filsaime.

Visit the Site Now!

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
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Beware of these 7 Deadly Viral Video Sins!

2007-02-16T22:17:00.000-08:00

Are there really 7 deadly viral video sins?

Well to tell you the truth, I had never even thought about it until I read an incredible article on the subject just today. I highly recommend reading this informative article on the 7 Deadly Viral Video Sins, so you can make sure not to make these mistakes. Click below.

7 Deadly Viral Video Sins

It's a great article, and explains these viral video sins in a way that will warn you of these dangers, and give you an understanding of how to do it right!

I'm sure some of the sins listed will just become more deadly as more people jump onto the viral video craze.

Yes, the viral videos are pouring down from the mountains, and soon there will be a sea of viral videos that cover 60% of our planet, and if you learn to swim now, you'll be safer when the floods come. Heck, maybe you can even build an ark if you start figuring it out now.

Peace and Prosperity,
Jambhala Rinpo
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Video Editing FREEWARE - Viral Video

2007-02-05T17:14:00.000-08:00

For those of you who want to make some Viral Videos to increase your marketing leverage, or any video for that matter, I have an incredible FREE resource to share with you.

It's a few freeware video editing programs from BoByte.com.

1- AviTricks: This is a great free video editing program that is setup just like a lot of the expensive paid video editing programs. It allows you to put different video clips together with fancy transitions. It also lets you add all sorts of cool effects to your videos to give them that professional look and feel. It's even very simple to use, with an intuitive interface. With this program, you can be creating professional looking viral videos in no time at all. I highly recommend this program, and of course it's FREE, so you have nothing to lose from trying it, and everything to gain. :)

2- AviSplit: This is another great free video editing program from BoByte. Be warned though, that it is not for commercial use. It allows you to very simply and easily split and join different videos together. Also free, and recommended for personal use projects.

3- AviScreen: This is an incredibly simple to use screen capture software program. Again it is 100% freeware, and you can use it for commercial use. It has some fancy features that many other video screen capture programs do not have. It allows you to change the size of the screen that you are capturing, and it has a nifty feature that follows the mouse, so that what you are doing is always more or less centered in the screen. Some programs I've seen don't have this feature and at times the mouse may move outside of the video capture area, leaving the viewer wondering what's going on. This program remedies that, and it is also very simple to use. I highly recommend this great freeware program, that can help you to create your viral videos, or simply educational videos for your affiliates or customers.

That link again to download all these great programs and more is at: BoByte.com

You'll probably also want to check out some of their other freeware programs they offer. They've got another cool one that lets you easily create 3d product boxes.

Good luck with your viral video endeavours. If you do create a viral video with these tools, I'd be interested to see it. Just leave a comment with a link to it on my ViralMarketingBuzz blog, or sign up as a free Viral Marketing Buzz member (if you're not already) and drop me an email. I'd even be happy to give you a review if you'd like one, and some possible feedback on how to make it more viral.

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
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Second Life Viral Marketing

2007-01-28T14:51:00.000-08:00

I hope some of you have had a chance to check out Second Life since I mentioned it in a post a few weeks ago.

If you haven't yet signed up, I really do highly recommend doing so. Remember that it is free to sign-up, and it is a growing online marketplace that will spawn some revolutionary ways of online marketing, particularly in the field of viral marketing.

Sign Up for your FREE Second Life Account Now!

Anyways, I will be posting more in the future about Second Life as well, including the new viral marketing strategies being used in Second Life.

I want to point out this week the simplicity of utilizing viral marketing methods within the Second Life world. Since it is a completely digital world, it makes things easy to automate and allows you to run a business with a simple set & forget strategy. Build a store front full of products, and let it run itself as shoppers come and buy your products, filling your bank account while you sleep.

Some of the most successful Second Life marketers are utilizing viral marketing tactics. One simple way to do this, is by creating an affiliate vendor. This is essentially a 3d board or box that displays your products for purchase, and it has an affiliate program added. Any land owner, or store owner who would like to sell your products, can simply get your affiliate vendor stall and put it on their land. When people come by and make a purchase from that affiliate vendor, they receive a commission on the sale, and the rest of the money goes to you.

This works very much like a regular affiliate program, only difference is that it's in a 3d environment. You could even go so far as to create a whole 3d store to offer affiliates to use for generating sales. What appears to be best, is offering a few different sizes of affiliate vendor stalls in different sizes. A vendor stall that is made of a very low number of prims (3d blocks) would be most appealing for people that don't have as much land, and for malls which only allot a very small number of prims available. Offering a more elaborate 3d storefront might also appeal to a user that owns a lot of land and can easily spend their prim allowance on something more elaborate that will attract more customers.

I hope that gives you an idea of how to get started. If you have any questions, please post a comment or send me an email. Also, if you want to be my friend within the Second Life world, do a search for Jambhala Richez (That's my Second Life name), and I'd be delighted to meet you. I can also give you a free Affiliate script, but you'll have to find me in Second Life first. :)

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
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Mark Joyner has done it again!

2007-01-20T00:24:00.000-08:00

Yes, Mark Joyner has done it again!

What has he done?

He's come out with another amazing high-end course that will help the masses change the way they live for the better.

If you don't know who Mark Joyner is, let me just say that he has revolutionized the way Internet Marketing is done time and time again. He has created and helped mastermind a great many viral websites, and his current one is cream of the crop. It's a site that helps you to live life the simple way, streamlining everything you do, to help you manifest your goals in record time, while maintaining sanity, and time for yourself to enjoy life simultaneously.

Unfortunately for awhile there, Mark wasn't able to keep up with the demand for his highly acclaimed Simpleology courses. Thousands of his members have been waiting quite awhile for the final piece of his puzzle. They've already been given the secrets to time efficiency in Simpleology 101, and they're already been given the secrets of making money in Simpleology 102, but FINALLY today he has launched the long awaited Simpleology 103 - The Simple Science of Energy!

What could YOU do with boundless energy?

We can all use more energy, and it will improve all aspects of our life in every way. I've been eagerly awaiting this course, as have many, and to prove the power of demand for this course, when it launched earlier today, so many people rushed to sign-up, that the server cluster crashed!

It's fixed now, which means, NOW is the time to take action and check out what Mark has for you.

Get Simpleology 103 Now!

I've taken Simpleology 101, and 102, and I LOVED them. They were extremely power-packed courses utilizing some of the most modern superlearning training techniques to teach easily while having fun at the same time, and I've gained countless benefits from what I learned.

Although I haven't yet taken Simpleology 103, I read the pre-release report with just one simple technique to increase energy, and I can guarantee you, my energy levels have increased a great deal in the week or two since I started using it.

I'm sure this course is going to be superb, and I have no doubt that my recommending it will absolutely add value to your life if you take the course and us what you learn.

Get Simpleology 103 Now!

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com

Viral Ebook Marketing Breakthrough

2007-01-12T16:47:00.000-08:00

I have a very important question to ask you..

Would you like to learn how to generate stampedes of hot
targeted traffic by utilizing killer viral marketing tools?

If so, then you need to see this (very quickly, time is
a huge factor here..)

Ebook Marketing Breakthrough

Wes Blaylock has just released an incredible offer
that you have to see..

He has taken one of his best selling products and
is running a special sale where the price inceases
constantly in small increments.

So hurry over to:
Ebook Marketing Breakthrough

and grab your copy at a dirt cheap price right now..

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com

P.S. This is a killer product at a rock bottom price.
If you are interested in viral marketing then you need to
grab this today. Go to: Ebook Marketing Breakthrough

Second Life - The Super Viral 3D Internet

2007-01-06T18:49:00.000-08:00

Have you heard of Second Life?

If you haven't, then it's about time you did. It's fast becoming the 3-Dimensional internet! That's right, it's like webpages that are no longer pages. Within Second Life, you have your own 3D virtual real estate to open your business on.

Avatars (3D characters), will then be able to walk right into your 3D store, and take a look at your products or learn more about your services. It's really something you've got to experience to believe. Click here to sign-up for your FREE Second Life account. Getting started in it now, is like getting started online back when the internet first began.

Just to give you an idea of how quickly Second Life has grown. In February 2006, they still had only around 200,000 users, and by December of 2006 they climbed to well over 2,000,000 users. This already shows that it's one of the fastest growing viral websites in history, and it hasn't stopped yet, the momentum is still picking up.

This brings a whole new level of reality to the internet, a virtual reality. In so doing, it brings a whole new level of interaction amongst its users, as well as a whole new way to do business, a whole new way to present media, a whole new paradigm of thinking, and a whole new paradigm of possibilities!

I've been experimenting in this new virtual world (Second Life) since late November, and i cannot believe how powerful this is. This is so revolutionary, i can't even begin to explain, you really have to jump in and see for yourself.

Just Click Here Now - you can sign-up absolutely free with no obligation to pay anything ever, and you can start exploring the virtual world of Second Life.

Please, don't pass over this and take this lightly. There are already people who are earning a full-time income through Second Life alone, and it's not just the creators of this world. The world is open to commerce, and many of it's users are starting businesses selling their virtual products through the world, or advertising real life products and services through the virtual world.

If you're only just hearing about Second Life here for the first time, then you can mark my words, you will be hearing about it again. It's only going to get bigger!

Join Second Life Now!

I'll see you in the Virtual World!

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com

P.S. - Look me up when you get there. My virtual name is "Jambhala Richez", just IM and I'd be happy to personally show you around a bit and answer some of your questions.

Viral Copywriting

2006-12-29T17:50:00.000-08:00

Well I hope you all had a very merry Christmas!

I sure had a great time with my family. It was nice to see my Aunts, Uncle, and Cousin again.

I'd like to give you a little gift for the holidays, and I found one that's perfect for you. It's a great little ebook on viral marketing, that focuses particularly on viral copywriting.

It's written by a copywriter named Brian Clark and is called "Viral Copy - Trading Words for Traffic"

I read through it and found it to be very informational, entertaining, and useful for both writing viral copy and viral marketing in general.

It shares a lot of examples where viral marketing has been used in various niches and markets for success and failure. A few of the stories shared gave me some good ideas for viral tactics, particularly the mention of viral publicity, which is something I have been thinking of writing about soon.

Anyways, please enjoy the free viral ebook, which you can download by clicking Viral Copy!

And have a Happy New Year!!

Jambhala Rinpo
ViralMarketingBuzz.com

Viral Listbuilding SuperGift Tactic

2006-12-22T15:52:00.000-08:00

Most of us know by now that building a list of customers, prospects, etc, is one of the most powerful tactics for generating wealth online. Marketer after marketer after marketer will tell you that "the money's in the list". If you have a list and you can keep your subscribers captivated by sending them quality content and offers related to their interests, then you will build a relationship with them and they'll pay attention to what you have to say. Not only will they pay attention, but they'll also pay money for the quality products you promote to them.

So the question often comes down to "How do I grow and build a list of my own?". "How do I get targetted subscribers within my niche?".

In the past I mentioned a free service for viral listbuilding at: ListHero

Well now there's a new and also free viral listbuilding service that may be even more powerful, and it's called the Super Gifts!

This is an amazing JV gift giveaway event, and it's an incredible viral system that allows you to join as a partner and contribute a gift of your own. In doing so, you'll very easily be able to grow your list virally.

The Super Gifts works via a multi-tier point system that allows you to earn points by referring others to the system. Everyone who joins receives 200 points, which will allow them to download 20 free gifts. Then they refer others to the system so they can get more points to download more gifts.

As a JV Partner, you can sign up for free and add up to 5 gifts of your own to the system. These can be digital gifts, free trials, free consultation, free discount, or anything else that you can think of to give away. Whenever someone downloads your gift, you'll receive their contact information as a new subscriber to your list.

The more referrals you make, the more subscribers you'll get, because your gift will get a higher positioning ahead of other gifts from people that didn't refer as many people to the giveaway.

This whole giveaway was created by Henry Gold, who has successfully done 117ChristmasGifts giveaways for the past few years with great success, generating tonnes of traffic each year. This year he expects to generate more traffic than ever before, and the gift giveaway this time is not just limited to christmas time. It goes on permanently and it only just launched.

This is truly an opportunity that you'll wnat to get in on, and you'll want to promote it and refer others as soon as possible, before someone else refers those people.

So once again, the link to the Super Gifts giveaway is: Super Gifts

Join Now! and start building your list virally!

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
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Powerful Viral Video May Offend Some Viewers

2006-12-15T18:20:00.000-08:00

I want to keep the ball rolling when it comes to the topic of Viral Videos, because I think they're awesome, and powerfully effective.

So this week I want to show you one of my favorites that I must warn you is controversial, and it could be offensive to some viewers (I just think it's hilarious).

But first I want to share with you the technique that caused this video's creation to come about. It has to deal with a movie that star's Samuel L. Jackson, called "Snakes on a Plane".

This movie that could've easily been a bomb at the box office, become a huge success due to leveraging the internet crowds and launching a very successful Viral marketing campaign. You see, there was already a bit of buzz being built online due to the title of the movie and the fact that Samuel L. Jackson was starring in it.

To step up the campaign and make it viral, they created a contest, where-by they offered music artists a chance to get their song onto the soundtrack! For many amateur musicians, this is a potential golden opportunity, and many of them started making music video's for songs called "Snakes on a Plane". As these entries started coming in, the music videos started showing up on YouTube.com, and many became instant Viral Videos. Some of them are more serious, while others are just freakin' hilarious! Of course these videos all became super viral as internet viewers forwarded them to all their friends, and thus the viral effect spread massively at a fast pace.

So what can we learn from this technique? Well how 'bout offering a contest to people for creating some sort of viral video's and awarding the best video's a cash prize or other prize as incentive. Give them just a title to work with that matches your keywords and name of your website, business, or whatever you're promoting.

Perhaps you could even create a contest for your employees to see who can earn the next big promotion or raise.

The technique is scalable, and if you use your creativity, I'm sure you can leverage it and save yourself some money in creating viral videos yourself.

Anyways, I know you're probably dying to see this crazy controversial funny viral video for Snakes on a Plane! So here's the Link:

"All Your Snakes Are Belong to Us"

If you want to read more about Snake on a Plane, just visit the Wikipedia link that also links to some of the other viral videos that were created.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane

The reason I chose to show you this one, is because it is a great example of using humor, controversy, and extraordinarly strange imagery.

It also plays on a video that became viral in the past called "All Your Base Are Belong to Us". That viral video had already been a proven success in the past advertising nothing, but was based on the funny Japanese-English translations (Also called Engrish by some) of a video game cut-scene.

Anyways, "All Your Snakes are Belong to Us", uses various types of funny scenes and characters and actors from famous movies that would appeal to fans for the movie. I think it's a well-done video that could certainly spark some of your creative juices.

Peace and Prosperity,

Jambhala Rinpo
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Viral Video Creative idea resource

2006-12-09T16:28:00.000-08:00

For those of you who got the Viral Video Traffic Formula Exposed video course that I mentioned last week, you may now know how to put your video together, but are perhaps wondering what to create for your own viral video.

Although that course is GREAT for understanding the process of putting together the video, it entirely misses the creative aspect of what kind of video content you should be making that will go viral.

Well I want to address that this week, and see if I can help you get your creative juices flowing in the right direction. There is one place I found that has some of the top viral videos, funny videos, tv commercials, and flash movies. These would be excellent places to look for examples to stimulate your creative ideas. You can visit the site at ViralX.com.

There are plenty of videos to watch here and one thing I noticed is that most of these are either funny, sexy, controversial, extravagant, or just plain crazy!

So does that mean those are things you need to include in your viral video to truly make it viral?! OF COURSE!!! It's been proven time and time again that these types of things are what people are interested in watching, and those are the first things that people will forward to their friends.

JUST REMEMBER, that you must make it relevant to what you are either selling, or whatever your site is related to.

Think first about who your target audience is. What do they like? (EG. Sports illustrated uses sexy women to sell their magazine, because their target audience is generally men. But does Martha Stuart use sexy women on the cover of her magazine? I don't think so. Be relevant to your audience.)

Using comedy by making a funny viral video is probably the kicker that works all across the board for every type of market, but you still must be relevant to the type of comedy you use. So again, think about your target market and what kind of funny they find funny.

As well as being relevant to what your target audience wants, you also want to be relevant to what your product/service/website is all about. Make sure that you can link the humor/sexy/controversy/crazy to your product/service/website, otherwise people will enjoy the video, but they won't remember you or what your business stands for. Make the link clear so that it is memorable, so that your brand becomes memorable.

You may also want to test your video on some of your friends or people you find in forums that would be your target market. Ask them what they think and get their feedback on your video. If they have any suggestions of how you could improve it, then pay attention and try out some of their suggestions. Testing this way can do wonders for you, because a lot of times we miss simple things that can make all the difference, and many times you'll get little suggestions from a bunch of people that when put together create something grand!

Good Luck with your viral videos! May your videos spread like dandelion seeds in the wind!

Jambhala Rinpo
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