The Top Ten Viral Email Campaigns that Make Sales
June 11, 2009 by Dean
Without a doubt, sending out emails can make you popular. When you send emails to people, it makes them think they are special. In fact, this is probably the reason why the concept “email marketing” is born. Email Marketing is one of those spread-the-word techniques used in Internet Business. For now, let me tell you the top ten viral email campaign used to entertain your customers and friends.
Funny Videos
Everyone seeks humor. They still want to laugh after a very stressful day at work. This is probably the reason why YouTube is very popular nowadays. These stressful people are searching for various hilarious videos to laugh for a while.
On the other hand, it will also be a great idea if you are the one who will deliver those videos in their inbox. If you want to start a blog but you can’t think of any niches, begin it by posting some of the craziest and funniest videos from YouTube, MetaCafe, Google Video etc. Do the posting regularly so that the search engines will easily recognize your blog or site. Believe me, there is a huge demand for entertaining videos and people all over the world will never get tired watching it.
Once you have collected some clicks, never hesitate to make friends with these people. Get their email address, send them a nicely-written introduction script and if possible, give them newsletters about the significance of funny videos in life.
Jokes!
Of course, when you send out videos to your customers or friends, never forget to email jokes. A joke is always a joke no matter how old is it. People want also to read jokes because they are short and full of humor in it. It doesn’t require critical analysis to read a joke. Once you read it, you can easily understand what it means.
But be careful not to offend your customers with your jokes. Not all people are born equal. Some are too serious and can’t get along with your jokes. To avoid this scenario from happening, better search for funny jokes online and post them below the videos you have created.
Funny videos and jokes should go hand-in-hand and it’s up to you how to use these methods to your advantage.
Christmas Emails
As of I’m writing this article (12-2008), Christmas is around the corner and what’s great way of connecting with your loved ones and friends than sending them Christmas emails or ecards. Christmas is the season of greetings and although you didn’t meet those people in flesh, it will be nice if you make these people smile for a while.
Creative HTML Email
If you have some knowledge on hyper-text markup languages, why not share it to your customers and friends. HTML tags are very easy and even beginners can learn it. Your customers will love you more if you are going to offer them something they don’t know but of beneficial to them.
Broadcast Emails
From what I’ve read, a broadcast email software helps your marketing campaign into hundred folds. With this type of viral software at hand, “you can create, manage and send your own personalized email marketing messages to your customers (mailworkz.com).”
In short, investing your money to this software will be a great choice, right?
Celebrity Emails
Now if you are a big fanatic of those Hollywood celebrities like Matthew Fox or Katherine Heigl, your email campaign should center on showbizness. To those who love gossips and create make-believe stories, this will be a great niche for you. You can begin by creating a showbiz blog, collect news and a photo of all the famous celebrities out there and once, your blog receives thousands of readers, it’s time to make some grounds and earn money. How? Use the viral techniques I’ve mentioned above.
Birthday Cards
It will also be a good practice if you’ll get some personal information (e.g. birth dates) from your readers and every time their birthday comes, send them an email telling them your wishes and how glad are you to meet them online. There are numerous birthday card templates online, I see no reasons why you can’t send them your simple greeting.
Business Emails
Nowadays, everyone seeks for marketing advices on how they can earn money online or offline. If you think you are a good entrepreneur who got the skills and experience, never hesitate to share these ideas with them. When you do this technique, these people will be thankful and will come back to you for more.
Friendship Emails
Do you have friends? Are you the type of person who wants to invite various people in MySpace or FaceBook? If you answer yes then think of ways on how you can convert this hobby into money. Start emailing them with friendship quotes, inspiring videos about friendship and tutorial podcast on how to win friends.
Anyone wants to be loved and be loved that’s why; you’ll have to think of ways on how you can build unforgettable relationship with them. Marketing is about making friendships anyway.
Read Emails and Get Paid
This might sound very interesting to you but beware! The Get-Paid-To-Read-Emails sites are not generous. Some of them are even scams. From what I’ve learned, the average rate for every email message that is read in 15-45 seconds will only cost one cent.
For this, here’s my suggestion: once you join a site like this, get ready with a new email account. Don’t be satisfied with only one site, sign up for four to five sites and make sure, you are in great shape and read their emails with great interest.
Final Thoughts
Never limit yourself with these top ten viral emails. Do your research online, I’m sure you can find more. Viral Marketing is about spread your word to the world and this is not only limited to email marketing.
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