I Caught a Virus
I hate getting sick! There is nothing worse than catching something from a person and not knowing they had “it” in the first place.
Well, over the past few days I have caught something and I had to check it out.
Viral marketing is a fairly new concept that is an effective way of getting a message out to as many people possible through other people. The concept is similar to “word of mouth” marketing. The concept is pretty simple, you have a message you want someone else to know so you pass along the info to as many people as possible in your network at one time. The recipients of the message or idea then pass the new info on to their networks and so on and so on. You get the picture (or should I say the virus).
This happened to me this week as I was reading a blog and came across a picture that I really didn’t understand. I tried to follow up but found dead ends. I ran across another blog recently that began to talk about an upcoming movie that is being “dissed” by Hollywood with a link to the movie trailer.
WOW! Marketing folks have taken spreading so-called “good news” to a new level. Maybe we should try to start “spreading the good news” (gospel) we have in a similar way. Let’s “infect” as many people as we possibly can in our own networks.