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While some forms of Viral Marketing may work better than others, there is sure to be some out there that works best for you. There are so many ways to get started but probably the most important thing is to first determine what product or service you are trying to sell/give away. Once you have that established, the rest should be fairly easy.

Probably the best and cheapest form of viral marketing is word of mouth. This is such an important aspect of Viral Marketing. There are a couple of ways to help push along the word of mouth process though.

1. Offer something for Free - People love free stuff. This is commonly used when dealing with software. For example lets say you have created a new software. What many have done before is that you can offer a limited version of this software for free. Then when people realize how much they need this new program, they can then pay to get the full version.

2. Using e-mail/Newsletters - It's important to stay in contact with your customers to let them know when new products become available. As long as someone has had a positive experience with your products, they begin to tell others. This will help you to gain more targeted traffic to your site.

3. Utilizing Social Networks - This is a tool that many independent filmmakers or musicians use. It's a very popular form of viral marketing on sites such as MySpace. Just by spending a few minutes a day, you can get your films, music or any other products into plain site of any of the members of these pages. This may not always bring you targeted traffic, but it can be a very effective word of mouth tool.

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