Viral marketing methods are used today for one good reason – they work. There are many different techniques that you can use, but it tends to be better to focus on one strategy at a time and work at it until you get the results you want. If you are already into ‘bum’ or article marketing, a great strategy is to turn your articles into a viral Marketing report or eBook.

As you have already written the articles, it requires very little work on your part to develop something that will bring in traffic (and sales) for years to come. Compiling the articles into a single document is relatively easy although you may need to do some work in re-branding and making it aesthetically pleasing. In addition, there may be some effort required in adding viral elements. Many authors are not so subtle and put in blatant advertisements. You may get more success by adding some value to the reader and disguising the Marketing component. A popular technique is to add a review of several products in the particular niche. You will need to include your own affiliate links, but to make them less obvious you should consider cloaking them.

Distribution can be done in many ways. If the resulting publication is of high quality you could consider selling it. In order to make it viral you would need to include reprint rights. Not only do you get sales from the book (which is practically written already), you get others spreading it around on your behalf.

If you really want the material to spread you should consider giving it away and encourage others to do the same (with the proviso that the material is not changed in any way). You can advertise your giveaway in forums and in list emails. One area that can be very useful but is often neglected is on the download page of any related products you sell. People love to be provided with unadvertised bonuses. Because it is on the download page, it is seen as a part of the actual order and most people will download it.

A viral Marketing campaign costs a lot less to implement than traditional advertising. It needs to be remembered that viral marketing is just one component of your marketing repertoire. It should be linked with other strategies such as setting up squeeze pages to collect opt-ins. When combined with other essential business building strategies it can help to generate traffic to your web site, build a huge and solid customer base, add to your sales and contribute towards your success

500. Start a scarf club. Each month or quarter club members automatically receive one of the latest fashionable scarves selected by the club. Your club might have a single annual membership charge. Membership would make an ideal gift. Choose easy biz ops…..

501. Produce booklets or audio cassettes which contain gay short stories. sell by mail order or have them stocked in shops which are used by the gay community.

502. Set up a home-based computer service which maintains the mailing lists of local businesses. Also supply local businesses with mailing lists bought or rented from other firms in this country and abroad.

503. Open a computerised marketplace for cars and motorbikes. On computer list the sellers and what they have to sell. Charge the sellers a fee for this service. Place ads which invite people who want to buy a car or bike to telephone you to see if you have what they want.

504. Begin a business which makes money from souvenir cosmetics. Bring out lipstick, for example, or hand cream which has a local theme or name. Buy from established cosmetics manufacturers and package under your own label.

505. If you have the necessary knowledge and skill earn money from teaching home computing in your own home or the home of clients. Prepare lessons on a variety of popular software applications and general computer operation. Give classes and teach to solo students.

506. Begin a business which produces correspondence courses about home computing. Base each course on a popular software application and have a general course on general computer operation. The lessons in your course might be modelled on what already exists in textbooks. Sell from ads in computer magazines. Biz ops are all over the place……

507. Organise tours of well-known sights  or areas of outstanding natural beauty. Buy or rent an open topped bus for the tours. Also use this bus for weddings, work excursions and school trips. 

508. Design and produce mugs or posters which predict a persons future. These might be called fortune mugs (or posters). For example a mug or poster might be printed with either a reference guide to what patterns of tea leaves mean or an astrological prediction for each star sign.

509. Start a newsletter for people who want to make money from their home computer. In each issue provide subscribers with ideas for adventure games, educational or quiz programs, and business programs. Also print news, tips and case studies about starting a computing business.

Biz ops can be huge…..

Assembly work at home? What is that? That's an intelligible response arriving from you dealing that gathering work at home is actually quite a rare. Sure. We’ve all heard of countless work at home opportunities from running an Internet business to stuffing envelopes, but assembly work at home? What exactly does a person with an assembly work at home job do?

Well, to explain a few things, assembly work at home involves assembling various items for a manufacturer. However, instead of doing it in a factory, you are given the option of working from your home. The items that you assemble in your assembly work at home job can range from electronic circuits to baby clothes. It’s a pretty easy job but unfortunately, as stated earlier, is a lot rarer than most people might realize.

Assembly work at home might open doors for people who want to find a great way of earning extra money. And advertisements on newspapers make all of it sound too easy so it’s no wonder people flock to it. But the problem with assembly work at home schemes is that these jobs may well turn out to be just scams, elaborate con jobs carefully designed to take your money without giving you much in return.

How Assembly Work At Home Scams

The first thing you should watch out for in assembly work at home schemes is the money required of you. Scams usually ask you to fill out a form which you will later send along with a ‘deposit’ or a registration fee. The normal range of this fee would be between $20 and $40. Supposedly, it has payment as the fact bundle, directions, and stuffs you'll encounter and which they say you'll demand to acquire you started on your gathering work at home. These ‘companies’ claim to have ‘high standards’ in all their products and in order for them to be able to sell your work, you must conform to these.

After you finish assembling the items, you will then have to send one off to the company for quality assessment. Here in lies the problem. However good your work is, they won’t be able to measure up to the standards. This is because the company simply has no real interest in selling the products since the idea was a scam in the first place. So the result? They aimed what they desired: your income. And what do you have? A bunch of products you will have to sell yourself in order to see any profit from your hard work.

760. Cut divining rods for selling by mail order to gardeners and curiosity seekers. A divining rod would also make an interesting and unusual gift. 

 761. Be a family relations consultant. Give advice about how to improve relationships with family members. If you can provide a satisfactory standard of advice your local area should provide you with enough business. 

762. Start an enterprise which makes airport type wind-socks in miniature for ordinary gardens. Distribute these to hardware shops and garden centres or sell by mail order from ads in gardening publications. 

763. Produce a selection of small posters of dogs and cats. Have these stocked at pet shops and gifts shops. For example, at pet shops have a sample of each poster covered by a transparent plastic. Hang these from a rack and have the saleable posters in rolls in a basket underneath. 

764. Make candid videos of weddings. Candid videos provide a fascinating, more accurate record of a wedding. Copies can be duplicated and sold to family members. Also do candid videos of parties, promotions, day trips and other special occasions.

765. Produce a selection of key-rings which have unusual fobs. For example the fobs might be made from: large flat sea-shells, large foreign coins, circles cut from old LPs, fossils, slate, etc. Sell from a stall at crafts fairs and flea markets. 

766. Organise theme parties for children and teenagers. You supply the party-goers with simple costumes, food and entertainment. Each party might be related to a popular theme such as science fiction, pirates, witches and wizards, Wild West, etc. 

767. Invent ideas for practical jokes. Sell these by either producing a regular newsletter or, a directory of jokes for different occasions. You might also set up a national practical jokes club. 

768. Deal in butterflies and sell to collectors by post. Obtain stock by advertising your interest in buying butterfly collections in collectors magazines.

769. Begin a business which produces horror novelty wall-hangings. For example, a framed picture which has the picture itself covered by a sliding or hinged door. The door can be opened to reveal a scary scene. Another example would be a wall mirror with the faint face of a ghost peering out. 

800. Publish a newsletter about successful management. Aim the editorial at managers in large corporations. Each newsletter should discuss the issues relevant to the manager who wants to succeed.

801. Bring out a correspondence course which gives instruction about becoming a professional researcher. This course would appeal to those who would like a career in this field and to authors who want to do their own research. Sell from ads in literary publications. 

802. Produce bookmarkers which have attractive embroidered designs. Package them in cellophane and have them stocked at bookshops. 

803. Put together a regular publication which lists photographic equipment for sale. Your income comes from selling advertising space. 

804. Write and publish a booklet about how to cut the cost of a wedding. Alternatively write and produce a manual about how to have a big wedding on a shoestring. Have it stocked in bookshops or sell from ads in wedding magazines.

805. Design and manufacture some wooden kits for constructing model boats. Sell from ads in hobby magazines or have them stocked in modelling and crafts shops.

806. Use direct mail to sell model steam engines to engineers, doctors, scientists, company directors and other professional people.

807. Set up a mail order business which specialises in selling videos, films, photographs, posters and slides about the pop music of the 50s and60s. Use your ingenuity to find products, for example canvass picture libraries and record and film companies. 

808. Write and publish a newsletter which is devoted to profitable hobbies. The newsletter will be aimed at those who are looking for both an interesting new hobby and a way of making extra money. Asses the profit potential of a wide range of hobbies.

809. Bring out a selection of musical bookmarkers. To make the bookmarkers musical use electronic devices similar to the ones used in musical greeting cards.

The two most important ingredients required in network marketing are a good marketing system or blueprint and implementation.

In a recent discussion with a member of the Renegade Network Marketer, the subject of the law of attraction was brought up and was being used to try to build a business. That’s fine but without the associated effort then not much is really going to happen.

Honestly, trying to attract something into being is okay and it’s worth thinking about what you really want but it’s not going to appear magically out of thin air.

The Renegade Network Marketer lays out the blueprint for success in internet network marketing but requires the process to be put into place.

If you’ve been struggling as someone new to working online and don’t know the fundamentals then you must consider the best training ground for network marketers in a similar situation online. It’s called the Renegade Professional.

Renegade Professional

The Renegade system is only going to work if you apply it. Most network marketers who read The Renegade Network Marketer are excited about the possibilities but struggle with the how because working online is new to them.

Enter Mike Klingler and the Renegade Professional. When I talk about cause and effect, then applying what is taught in the Renegade book means using the resources available to you online and Klingler is very effective in his training methods at Renegade Professional.

The problem with many potential successful network marketers is they’ll come across a blueprint like the Renegade system and sit on it. You need to cause something; it won’t appear out of thin air in magical fashion and the cause in this case is “getting your hands dirty” and diving into the Renegade Professional training grounds.

Step-by-step training is the most requested resource network marketers making the transition to online marketing ask for. They know about the process and understand how powerful it can be but all they really want is to know how.

Klingler has addressed this issue perfectly with the Renegade Professional From marketing and building web 2 properties to building and promoting a blog. This is the stuff you must know if you really want to make an impact on the attraction marketing scene and create targeted prospects into your business.

Imagine performing several positive actions and watching the momentum build to eventually produce a torrent of results. By using what your taught in The Renegade Network Marketer with the practical stuff your taught in Renegade Professional and applying the cause and effect rule, it won’t take long before some magic starts to happen in your business.

Some companies use a network marketing business model to distribute their goods and services instead of using traditional methods. This type of business model relies on independent business owners to sell products or services as well as sign up other associates or consultants. Companies that typically employ network marketing do not spend money on traditional advertising.

A lot of self made millionaires got their start in network marketing and this is recommended by top business experts like Rich Dad Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trupm.

There are several well known network marketing companies. I have included the details on a couple successful network marketing companies you may already know about

In 1959, Amway was founded in Michigan. This is probably the most famous MLM company and many people are familiar with Amway. They distribute primarily household items, but have expanded their product line in recent years. In the United States, Amway is now operating under the name of Quixtar. Many people have tried to claim Amway is an illegal pyramid scheme. The FTC has ruled Amway is a legitimate business, but has imposed some rules and has fined Amway when the rules were violated.

Another example of a very successful network marketing company is Excel Communciations. Excel entered the telecommunications service industry when it was deregulated and had a very successful run before reduced profitabilty in the telecommunications industry took its toll. Many aspiring entrepreneurs made a lot of money by building huge networks of people using Excel long distance. They only got paid a few cents per customer in their group, but that led to big profits for those who got in early and ultimately built networks of hundreds of thousands of customers. The compensation plan Excel developed was considered one of the best and has been copied by many companies since then.

When you are interested in making money in network marketing, it is extremely important to work with a company that has a profitable compensation plan. It is also important to have a product that sells and that you understand and believe in. Ambit Energy is offering a fantastic multi level network marketing opportunity and I will use them as an example of how multi level marketing works.

A network marketing MLM home business starts with choosing a company to work with and signing up to become an independent business owner. As with any business, there is usually a fee involved in becoming a consultant. A business start up kit is usually included with the price to start.

As a consultant, your first job is to gather customers to make money for the company you are working with. The thing that you probably don’t get paid for at work is the work that other people do. In a way, a plant manager gets paid for what the people that work for him do, but there is no direct relationship. In a good network marketing program, you get paid for the work that other people do. You get paid for the customers that are 6 levels below you in Ambit. Exponential growth is the mathematic term used to describe this and that is a very good thing when you get paid for every person that enters your organization.

You will usually get paid bonuses when new business owners enter your business. In a true network marketing business, these bonuses are not paid until a certain number of sales is made. This is just like getting a bonus at your normal job for doing something good.

A pyramid scheme as defined by the US Securities and Exchange Commission is a program where participants attempt to make money just by bringing new members into the program. They are illegal and should be avoided unless you really like living behind bars. There are many sites like Pyramid Scheme Alerts that try to educate consumers before they get involved in something unethical or illegal.

One simple test you can do without checking any websites is to look at how money is generated. If the money is generated by sign up fees and not customer purchases, there may be some unethical or illegal elements to the program.

If you choose to try a network marketing MLM home business you can be on your way to financial freedom. Just make sure you do your homework before starting.

510. Begin a computing lesson of the month club. Each month send a home computing enthusiast a cassette which gives instructions about how to use a popular application or how to improve their programming skills. Advertise in home computing magazines. Choose easy biz ops…..

511. Start a mail order business which sells mosaic making supplies. Also sell a guide about getting started in this hobby. Produce a simple catalogue about your products and advertise in crafts magazines. 

512. Learn the art of tap dancing and put together your own song and dance act. Find an agent and perform at clubs, pubs and private functions. 

513. Design and manufacture kits for making paper at home. Sell the kits to craft workers from ads in crafts magazines and get them stocked in hobby and crafts shops.

514. Design and make a range of fishing lures at home. Sell these by getting them stocked at fishing tackle shops, starting a monthly club which sends anglers one of the latest fishing lures and giving the lures an appealing name like ‘lucky charm lures’. Biz ops are all over the place……

515. Produce a rhyming dictionary on audio cassettes. A spoken word dictionary can illustrate the rhyming qualities of words far better than any printed dictionary. Get these stocked at bookshops or sell from adverts in literary magazines. 

516. Start a mail order company which sells business equipment and accessories for left-handed people. Bring out a catalogue and send it to large and medium-sized businesses. 

517. Publish a craft workers’ equivalent to the ‘Yellow Pages’. In the directory include the addresses of sources for a wide range of products. List the addresses under a heading for each craft. Also sell advertising space to suppliers, crafts schools, craft workers, etc.

518. Set up a service which rents out model trains, boats and planes to businesses with reception areas. These models are supposed to create goodwill because most people will look at and appreciate a good model. Your clients will include restaurants and office-based businesses and particularly travel agents.

519. Canvass shops for older, soiled or other unwanted stock and offer to buy it at a nominal sum. No one else is likely to buy the stock so this is probably the only opportunity the owner has to sell it. Hire a hall and sell the stock at low prices to the public. Or sell at a car boot sale or from a market stall.

Have you decided on your biz ops……

530. Learn how to make china dolls and once your work reaches a high standard make an income from teaching others. Hold classes in your own area or devise a postal course. Choose easy biz ops…..

531. Make peg calendars. A peg calendar consists of a block of wood with a line of 31 holes for days, 12 holes for months, and 10 holes for years. Three tiny pegs indicate the date and are moved each day accordingly. The calendar can hang from a wall like a thermometer or sit on a desk.

532. If you can draw amusing characatures call door-to-door to show people samples of your work and offer to draw one on the spot.

533. Arrange for a set of pictures to be printed to look like old cigarette cards. Turn out hundreds of framed sets and sell to wholesalers and gift shops.

534. If you have the skill, work as a charcoal artist in a thoroughfare of a shopping or tourist area. Biz ops are all over the place……

535. Found a year-book for people who do creative things with their hands, such as painters, drawers, sculptors, cartoonists, illustrators, cartoonists, engravers, etc. Also list buyers of art, art schools, art fairs, etc. Have the year-book stocked at bookshops, artists supplies shops, craft shops and sell by mail.

536. Start a training school which specialises in teaching the art of sketching. Use sketch artists to do the teaching. Your job is to find students and organise the premises and management. Also put together a postal course which teaches sketching to beginners.

537. Draw amusing cartoons of personal names at any location where there are crowds, for example: fairs, trade shows, shopping areas and tourist sites.

538. Design and manufacture finger painting kits for children and adults. Get these stocked at shops which sell toys (for children’s kits) and artists materials (for adult’s kits).

539. Invent a cartoon character which captures the spirit of your town or region. Pick a name which matches the name of the town or region. E.g. Billy Brighton, Mickey Middlesex, etc. Use this character on: T-shirts, posters, postcards, stationery, etc.

Biz ops can be huge…..

520. Reprint old geographical maps. Use the reprints to decorate unfinished stock bought from manufacturers. For example: desk sets, book ends, memo pads, letter racks, lamp holders, book ends, coasters, dinner mats, etc. Alternatively frame the maps in a stylish frame and sell as wall decorations. Choose easy biz ops…..

521. Package low value foreign coins in cellophane envelopes. Distribute these coins to newsagents for selling to children in the way small packets of stamps are sold.

522. Start a firm which manufacturers kits for making etchings. Design the kits so that a complete beginners can make attractive etchings. Sell by mail order or through shops which sell artists’ materials. 

523. Produce and distribute souvenir boxes of matches. Each matchbox is painted with a picture postcard scene of a tourist area. Also produce a souvenir pack which contains a selection of different boxes. This pack can be bought by people as a gift or taken home for personal use.

524. Set up a bead craftwork business. Use beads to make a selection of jewellery such as necklaces, pendants, bracelets and earrings. Sell from a market stall or mount on display racks and get shops to stock them.

525. Start a business which makes a range of souvenir or commemorative wall plaques. They might have a feature such as: town crests, tourist maps, commemorative statements or logos, etc. Sell your wall plaques

through gift shops and hotels. Biz ops are all over the place……

526. Rent out scaffolding for exterior home decorating and maintenance. Advertise in local newspapers and newsagents windows. Provide a free delivery service.

527. Bring out an audio cassette course about advanced driving. Sell by mail order or get it stocked in bookshops. Or produce videos about improving driving skills and hire or sell by post. Each video might feature filmed examples of good or bad driving. 

528. Set up a business which produces X-rated jigsaw puzzles. These might be sold either by mail order or, to wholesalers of X-rated products. 

529. Design and manufacture kits for making string puppets. produce a selection of kits which are complementary to each other and can be used in the same puppet show.

Biz ops can be huge…..