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		<title>Viral marketing explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social media optimization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[viral marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays we always tend to hear about viral marketing, how something got &#8220;viral&#8221; on the internet and how cost-effective this technique could be if looking from an online promotion standpoint. What exactly is viral marketing? Basically, viral marketing translates in something or someone getting widely promoted via word of mouth (in our case social media networks, [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nowadays we always tend to hear about viral marketing, how something got &#8220;viral&#8221; on the internet and how cost-effective this technique could be if looking from an online promotion standpoint. What exactly is viral marketing?</p>
<p>Basically, viral marketing translates in something or someone getting widely promoted via word of mouth (in our case social media networks, blog posts, media exposure) without any costs applied. This could happen for a couple of reasons: there&#8217;s a shock factor present, unique idea or concept, internet meme or something that a lot of people will benefit from.</p>
<p>Not everything can get viral on the internet, especially if it&#8217;s heavily commercial. You won&#8217;t get lucky trying to get viral by promoting a product or a service directly, however if you apply a twist to your method chances of generating sales would be much higher. Here are a few examples of the reasons described earlier, which can make something viral:</p>
<h2>-  Having the shock factor present</h2>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qg1ckCkm8YI" height="365" width="470" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>People who saw this video stated that one must be crazy to even attempt to put an Iphone in the blender but actually trying to blend it must is purely insane. Well, here you go! This is the shock factor which BlendTec has basically introduced into an ad, making it viral and also, making it look less commercial.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s think about a plain ad which presents the functionalities of a blender. That sounds boring, doesn&#8217;t it? And I&#8217;m 100% sure that won&#8217;t get viral, thus generating sales.</p>
<h2>- Unique idea or concept</h2>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/D2FX9rviEhw" height="225" width="470" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>Samsung got pretty clever here, advertising its brand and led-technology thru costumer created videos. As you can obviously notice from this video, putting leds (Samsung, of course) on sheep, later on recreating the famous Mona Lisa portrait is, in a funny way, a truly brilliant and unique idea. People loved it, had a laugh, promoted the video without anyone asking them to do so, and generated more than 17 million views. That calls for a lot of money Samsung would have spent otherwise.</p>
<h2>- Produce something that a lot of people will benefit from</h2>
<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DebhWD6ljZs" height="225" width="470" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<p>At&amp;t had a huge campaign increasing awareness regarding the negative affects texting &amp; driving could have. Not only they have educated and spread awareness about something that causes a lots of accidents, they also strengthened their brand and reputation by doing so.</p>
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		<title>Gift ideas for holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holidays are always awesome and also could turn out to be a true challenge because it&#8217;s never easy to find the most suitable gifts for our friends or family members. Thanks to the modern times and the all mighty internet we now are able to shop online, thus saving time, nerves and also find the [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Holidays are always awesome and also could turn out to be a true challenge because it&#8217;s never easy to find the most suitable gifts for our friends or family members.</p>
<p>Thanks to the modern times and the all mighty internet we now are able to shop online, thus saving time, nerves and also find the best price by comparing different web stores together which is truly a no brainer. However, with so many web stores being available we can never know which one would be the best and which one would fit our needs better.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve learned that shopping online on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/?tag=reviofgadg-20" target="_blank">amazon.com</a> is a more than delightful experience because of the following factors:</p>
<p>- You get to save a lot of money because there always are a lot of discounts for a large area of products</p>
<p>- You are able to read different user reviews and actually find out what is worth to be bought and what&#8217;s not.</p>
<p>- Awesome customer satisfaction. You don&#8217;t need to feel embarrassed to ask for a return or a refund if something went wrong or you feel that the product you ordered isn&#8217;t right for you. They offer live chat assistance and amazon team will be more than happy to help you with your problems.</p>
<p>- Brilliant shipping services for low costs. In 99% of the orders I placed in the past with amazon, my products arrived just in time or even earlier than they were supposed.</p>
<p>Giving the fact that Christmas is just nearby, you might want to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/?tag=reviofgadg-20" target="_blank">check their holiday deals</a> as soon as possible, you don&#8217;t want to miss the big discounts!</p>
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		<title>New category launched – product reviews</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m glad to announce that I put up a new category on this blog called &#8220;product reviews&#8221;. Basically, in this category you may find articles that will clarify you if a product is worth to be bought or not. Surely, I am talking about digital products or softwares, I would never give advice upon buying [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m glad to announce that I put up a new category on this blog called &#8220;product reviews&#8221;. Basically, in this category you may find articles that will clarify you if a product is worth to be bought or not. Surely, I am talking about digital products or softwares, I would never give advice upon buying or not a vacuum cleaner.</p>
<p>Given the fact that in the past few 5 almost 6 years now I&#8217;ve managed to become an experter in the Internet Marketing area I am confident enough to say that I will truly give only my honest review upon reading/using that certain product in detail.</p>
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		<title>Helping your child learn to read – parent’s tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life tips]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can still remember the period when I was a young lad and time came for me that I had to learn to read, knowing that all my life would be centered around that. I would be going to read a lot in the next few years and I still haven&#8217;t stopped doing it. Reading [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can still remember the period when I was a young lad and time came for me that I had to learn to read, knowing that all my life would be centered around that. I would be going to read a lot in the next few years and I still haven&#8217;t stopped doing it. Reading it&#8217;s a great way of acknowledging new information, finding out what your friends have been up to (see text messages or e-mails) or even relaxing by enjoying a great SF book, for instance.</p>
<p>Also, I can still remember that I had quite a hard time learning to read, mostly because at that age I only wanted to do enjoyable things, play football or watch cartoons, reading was classified by me at that age as boring. Both my parents and kindergarden teacher must have had a lot of patience, time and determination to, eventually, make me listen to their teachings.</p>
<p>However, currently parents around the world can feel relieved, let me present you:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-6761195-10953085" target="_top">Teach Your Child to Read in 5 Weeks &#8211; The Online Program That Kids<br />
Love</a><img alt="" src="http://www.lduhtrp.net/image-6761195-10953085" width="1" height="1" border="0" />.</p>
<p>ReadingEggs is an online program developed by teachers, writers and developers with great experience who managed to create an enjoyable and educative experience for children aged 4-7 years old. There are more then 120 big lessons available online which are created in a way that manages to teach children read and actually make them love doing it!</p>
<p>I wish I could have had access to this beautiful online program many many years ago when I first started reading because not only it would have improved my results at school but it would have also made the whole situation a lot more enjoyable for me and less stressful for my parents.</p>
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		<title>Getting rewarded for your opinions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surveys]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alextips.com/?p=302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always liked programs that engage with the visitor and actually reward him for doing various tasks that don&#8217;t even imply much effort on his part, these kind of programs are perfect for internet users who spend a few hours on the internet each day. By focusing part of your free time on something that [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve always liked programs that engage with the visitor and actually reward him for doing various tasks that don&#8217;t even imply much effort on his part, these kind of programs are perfect for internet users who spend a few hours on the internet each day. By focusing part of your free time on something that is useful and gets you rewarded seems like a winner combination to me.</p>
<p>What I&#8217;m talking about is called: <a href="http://www.mb01.com/lnk.asp?o=2634&amp;c=36760&amp;a=32387">MySurvey. Click here to join.</a> Basically, you get rewarded to share your opinions and thoughts on various subjects, more than $15,000,000 were paid last year to their members so I guess you can see the potential in this. Not only you get to do something very lucrative with your time but it&#8217;s also very enjoying, you might think that the whole thing is very boring and you have to complete extraordinary long surveys all they long for pennies but that&#8217;s very untrue. You will be able to complete surveys targeted to your preferences, and receive rewards which are very motivating, keeping you focused.</p>
<p>The process is very simple, all you need is to become a member, voice your thoughts in online surveys, earn points for them and redeem the points for various rewards or even cash. Doing all this from the comfort of your home is just an added bonus, you can listen to your favorit tunes while doing it, eat a bowl of cereals, stay in pijamas all day long and nobody will knew, see how awesome this is, all due to a magnificent idea: <a href="http://www.mb01.com/lnk.asp?o=2634&amp;c=36760&amp;a=32387">MySurvey. Click here to join.</a></p>
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		<title>Green web hosting? Of course!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alextips.com/?p=326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been a lot of environmental campaigns, and everyone is looking to go &#8220;green&#8221;, whether by buying a hydrogen-fueled car or just by recycling plastic however many people don&#8217;t know that they can continue with a good eco-friendly behavior by going with green web hosting. The internet is not an eco-friendly place, that&#8217;s for sure, thinking about all the [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There have been a lot of environmental campaigns, and everyone is looking to go &#8220;green&#8221;, whether by buying a hydrogen-fueled car or just by recycling plastic however many people don&#8217;t know that they can continue with a good eco-friendly behavior by going with <a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-6761195-11020413">green web hosting</a>.</p>
<p>The internet is not an eco-friendly place, that&#8217;s for sure, thinking about all the energy that is being used to power all the web-sites available online, we are talking about a huge polluter here. However, <a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-6761195-11020413">Green Geeks</a> replace, with wind power, 3 times of the energy used by their servers which is a big plus in the eyes of an environmentalist or of someone who simply cares about the planet and future generations that are yet to come.</p>
<p>On <a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-6761195-11020413">Green Geeks</a> you may find a wide range of services, from shared web hosting to vps and reseller plans which are great for starters in the online field or more experienced &#8216;players&#8217; out there. There&#8217;s a 99.9 up-time guarantee and if you feel like you want your money back, you have 30 days to do that. Their tech support teams are very experienced and keen to resolve any issues that may appear in a timely manner.</p>
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