More and more internet marketers have the recurring dilemma on how to increase the flow of traffic to the blog or website.
One of the methods that many have had success stories with in driving traffic into websites is viral marketing. Viral marketing makes use of the tendency of a person to share something to find informative, entertaining or amazing.
Tell A Friend Script
One of the easiest methods in viral marketing is using a tell a friend script.
This is a simple programming script that you can attach to the programming of your website. Generally, tell a friends script are installed in pages where a media is placed so that a person can easily send the media to any of his friends or his family members.
The basic concept of a tell a friend script is a script wherein a person may input his name, e-mail address, the recipientís e-mail address and send the media to the intended recipient much like an e-mail with an attachment. As the recipient receives the e-mail he wouldnít think of the mail a spam mail because he would see the senderís name as someone he or she knows and trust.
Tell a friend script eliminates greatly the chances of being blocked because they use the information inputted by the sender. This allows for wider spreading of this marketing method. It can be quite sneaky but it is very effective.
With the e-mail sent and opened the sent media will either be read, viewed or played. Also along with the mail would be a brief description of the company or site that sponsors the media sent. This allows for the introduction of either the site, company name or its products. The along with it is another tell a friend script.
Then the process begins again. As more people use the tell a friend script, more and more people will know of the existence of the sponsoring company or site. People who read the ads inside the mail who liked what they see would go and click on the link and visit the site. This drives traffic into the site resulting to great number of potential customers.
Tell A Friend Script Availability
A tell a friend script is very simple and does not require a complicated method of programming. In fact, you can copy paste a script and simply put it on an intended page. Finding one is even simpler. All you have to do is go to a search engine and type in the search box ìtell a friend scriptî then press enter or click go.
In the search results page you will see many links that will direct you to a site where you can get a tell a friend script. It would just be a simple matter of looking and searching for the script and copying it to your intended web page.
With a tell a friend script viral marketing strategy you can drive traffic into your site which could potentially spell profits. This is a simple harmless script that offers great benefits for low cost paired with great creativity and foresight.
I have included a download link to a simple tell a friend script:
“Tell a Friend” script with HTML and PHP. click here to download them!
Mark Terrell
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This is a great way to drive traffic. “Tell a friend,” hmmm!
I’ll have to give it a try. Thanks for sharing this.
Dawn
Hi dawn,
Yes anything that drives traffic is the way to go.
mark
Mark,
This is a great tip i never knew you can do something like this.
Thanks Mark,
Nick
Hi Nick,
Sure it has given me some great traffic.
Mark