One of the most successful ways of marketing in offline
businesses is word-of-mouth advertising. Customers tell
their friends about a business and up go the sales. There
are no direct costs involved.
How do you do the same thing online? By using tell-a-friend.
Tell-a-friend buttons and messages are becoming popular
on websites all over the Internet. One day it could become
one of the best methods of free online marketing.
Tell-a-friend is especially successful for relaying information
to genuine target markets. In other words, when someone
logs onto a website they may not be interested in the offer,
but they may know someone who would be.
Friends can be personal, business, or online contacts.
You can place a tell-a-friend button somewhere on your
website. When a visitor clicks on this button a small form
pops up. The visitor enters the name and email address
of their friend as well as a short note. When they send the
message a link to your website is sent with it.
The best part of tell-a-friend is that it is private and voluntary.
The only information the friend should receive is what is
promised in the tell-a-friend message.
If your site sells online products or services, tell-a-friend
might be especially beneficial to your e-business.
How does it work?
As an example, someone logs onto a site that is selling
an ebook of "Seafood Recipes". They know someone who
loves this type of cuisine. They click on the tell-a-friend
button and send their friend a little note about the website
and the ebook. The friend receives it by email and then
clicks on the link to visit the site. In the end, an online
sale might result from this recommendation.
Even if you decide not to be as elaborate as using a special
button and form, you can always place a note on your
website that says something like "Tell A Friend About
This Site". You can put this in another color to make it
stand out more.
Tell-a-friend is free. Once you have your system in place
there is nothing else to do.
When visitors begin to tell their friends and contacts about
your website, and those friends tell their friends, and so on,
the traffic to your website will increase tremendously over
the months to come. All from the little tell-a-friend button
on your site!
TELL-A-FRIEND RESOURCES
CGI Tell-A-Friend Scripts
Over 20 different tell-a-friend packages are available.
Some are free and some require payment.
http://www.icthus.net/CGI-City/scrtell.shtml
27STARS
Each person who recommends your site receives a free gift
of an ebook. You can also provide your own free gift instead.
Free service. Easy to install. Easy to use.
http://www.27stars.com ell-a-friend.html
SendaPage4U
Free service. See demo.
http://www.sendapage4u.com/join2.htm
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