You’ve probably heard about viral marketing: you produce something that spreads around the internet so fast, it’s like a virus.
You may even have produced a viral “something”. Articles are a good example of viral marketing. So are videos on places like YouTube. But they don’t always spread as fast as you’d like.
Viral Sneakiness is an ebook that shows you how to create a viral report. Nothing too heavy – they suggest that it should be around 10 pages, which if you write at a couple of pages an hour will take you about 5 hours to write. Plus research time on top of that.
All in all, you can follow the techniques shown and have your first free viral report live and getting downloads in a few days. Maybe less – my first viral report following this method took me just over a day to produce, start to finish.
The book is an easy read and totally practical. It teaches you how to research your topic so that the report you write will be above average, even if you knew nothing about the topic before you started. Quality is important. If your report is rubbish, you won’t get any sales from it. And sales are the whole point of giving your report away for free.
Viral Sneakiness shows you how to weave affiliate links into your free report without them appearing spammy. They liken it to product placement in movies and that’s a good analogy.
They also give you a bunch of places to submit your finished report (like any list of this sort, not all these links are still live, but enough of them are) and other ideas for promoting your free report.
The promotion of my first report took less than an hour. I got my first download for it within a day. That’s pretty fast.
Once created and “promoted” like this, your report will gradually work its way round the internet. If you follow the advice in Viral Sneakiness, it should end up in free ebook collections and may well be given away on websites.
Overall, I think that Viral Sneakiness is one of the easiest ideas I’ve come across in a long time. The most difficult bit is writing the content but 10 pages or so really isn’t that hard and could be outsourced if you wanted to.
They miss out a couple of things that I’d include but to find out my thoughts on that, drop me an email here (this is an autoresponder email, so you’ll need to reply to the confirmation message that gets sent back to you).
Overall, so long as you’re prepared to actually do something (!), I recommend Viral Sneakiness.