Integrate an end-to-end viral marketing to your Marketing 2.0 plan

Viral Marketing is an integral part of Marketing 2.0. Thus agencies are starting to exploit the lack of integrated tools and strategies for you to have a full viral marketing set of tactics embedded in your campaigns. Here are some of the available ones I noticed:

Some marketers have a tendency to think that viral marketing is just about creating an e-mail buzz or post a funny video on YouTube. DON’T! Viral marketing is more than just one isolated tactic or a trendy gimmick to sparkle on your existing plan. It is an entire dimension to your on-going marketing strategy.

The difficult part of it is to address influencers as a demographic target. In fact influencers usually aren’t. As Regis McKenna coined it many years ago, in his famous book The Regis Touch – 1985, influencers include all individuals between the vendor and its prospect impacting the decision to buy. And as Regis stated 20 years ago: 90% of the world is influenced by the other 10%. The good news in the Web 2.0 era, is that we now have means to identify and enroll influencers over the web. Some call it building communities – read Isabel’s post about it as an example.

Whatever it takes don’t miss it: integrate end-to-end viral marketing to your Marketing 2.0 plan. Make sure you identify end engage over time influencers to maximize Marketing ROI, especially if you’re dealing in B2B Marketing. Don’t forget to let them talk and listen.

Published by Emmanuel Obadia

Optimist Trusted Advisor | Mentor | Coach | Consultant | Public Speaker and Independant today, I’ve been providing executive leadership for fast pace High Tech businesses for several decades before. Acting in Marketing, Communications, Digital, Business Development, Product Management, M&A, or Alliances roles, I covered EMEA and global theatres from Europe and Silicon Valley. I started as an entrepreneur, founding my own software company, and then served major global IT vendors in international roles. I am passionate about introducing new technologies, helping reinforce the strategy, positioning, go-to-market, and ecosystem of companies with a purpose to make the world a better place (Sustainable development, Tech for Good, ESG…). Helping teams of any size thrive in complexity, speed, and change is what fuels me, particularly Mentoring & Coaching Millennials and Gen-Z. View all posts by Emmanuel Obadia

2 thoughts on “Integrate an end-to-end viral marketing to your Marketing 2.0 plan”

Harald Eltvedt says:

January 24, 2007 at 16:32

Emmanuel,

Thanks for mentioning us on your blog.
I have actually written a paper recently on the power of advocates, and how to measure the net value of the engagement with them.
If you’re interested, you can download it at:
http://www.informative.com/mt/infblog/archives/2006/12/informatives_pr_1.html#more

Harald

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Emmanuel Obadia says:

January 24, 2007 at 23:06

Good stuff. I will advertise it for sure.

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