The simplest definition of word of mouth marketing is the passing of information about your brand or product from person to person, individual to individual.

This builds trust in your brand or product, because viral word of mouth marketing is perpetuated by people who already know and appreciate you.

Well, what if you could automate this process?

Automated viral word of mouth marketing would bring your message to potential customers accordingly.

You would not need to move a finger.

This is possible by using automated electronic systems.

When you have an electronic system doing this job for you, you can safely call it “automated electronic word of mouth”, and for a good reason.

It does the job for you, even while you are sleeping.

I came across a very interesting automated electronic word of mouth system while launching one of my products a few months ago.

I looked into it on the recommendation of my good friend from Singapore, Idris Arkette, who is the greatest marketer I know in all my acquaintances.

The system is fully automated and creates a very interesting viral word of mouth marketing effect. The beauty of it is that it´s totally honest, straightforward, does not try to impress anyone, and it works because it´s based on real trust between people.

It´s called “Super Tell A Friend.”

More than half of all Internet users have visited websites referred to them by friends or family members.

"Tell-a-friend" referrals bring the best traffic a website can get, because a referral adds real credibility to your message. This system creates viral word of mouth marketing by having people who have already purchased your product, people who already trust you, and the quality of your business, help you to spread the word!

We might call this system a trust-building electronic word of mouth automatic system, and one which actually works!

The system builds viral word of mouth marketing by allowing your existing users to promote their affiliate links.

It facilitates your visitors inviting their friends to join or visit your website, email list building, and newsletter software.

The users, emails, and the invited contacts will not be stored on any foreign or third-party servers.

I highly recommend you give this viral electronic word of mouth system a try.

For more about Super-Tell-a-Friend click here:

www.super-tell-a-friend.com

Happy to be helping entrepreneurs,

Fabio

www.entrepreneur-world.com

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A new area of development for bloggers, which is relevant for increasing the viral potential of your blog, are new developments in comment systems. The new Disqus commenting system is worth mentioning.

Many bloggers are interested in using the best wordpress comments plugin, since having a good system improves users´ willingness to comment and participate in discussions, thus improving the overall viral effectiveness of their blogs.

As a blogger, here are a few things you can do with Disqus commenting system, and a few things you cannot do.

The choice is yours.

What you can do with Disqus commenting system:

There is a very good capability for threaded replies.  Anyone can engage anyone else directly. The Disqus commenting system also shows Gravatar pictures automatically.  This is beneficial because it gives any individual a visual identity. You can log in with a Facebook ID, or log in with a Twitter ID, leave a video response via a Seesmic account, log in with OpenID, track social media response with UberVU, place comment boxes at top or bottom, set comment pagination, fonts, gravatar sizes, and sort comments by age. You can determine the text to display when no comments are there, such as: “Be the first to comment”

What you cannot do:

The Disqus commenting system overrides all of your existing comment plugins.  Askimet (the spam comment system) is also overrided.  There are no hotlinks on names, as that capability is disabled by default unless the person commenting registers with Disqus. The name can be hot linkable only when the email is registered. Disqus also influences names – when a user registers with Disqus he needs to pick an ID. When that user leaves a comment, the ID replaces his or her name. This means that the ID is no longer a personal name, but a generic nickname that is not personal.  Anyway, if you ever change your name, all posts are updated. Comments and controls reside at Disqus, and their servers take over comments and controls,so they are not your own anymore.  This means that they can charge you. At least in WordPress, a copy seems to remain in WordPress itself. There is no other integration between Disqus and WordPress in matters of  moderating comments. Moderation is not replicated back into WordPress.

Whether or not you use Disqus depends on who you are, and what you want from your best wordpress comments plugin. If you are an experienced blogger, and your blog/web site is meant to create and maintain a constant relationship with your customers, you will likely prefer a system which is delivered to you at a one-time price and the maintenance of which does not include any kind of fee or any further control over your system. For you, the best wordpress comments plugin will be a system which gives you the chance to maintain as much independence as possible, while increasing the viral potential of your blog.

This goal is certainly never possible to achieve fully. There are plenty of ways of offering your services. Some of them include membership, fees, and some level of control over your business. Some of them are sold to you “as is,” without any initial or future fees. As a business owner, you will may want to relinquish as little control as possible over your systems.

If the best wordpress comments plugin for you is a system which makes commenting as manageable and scalable as possible, and it is not that important for you to limit its direct direct effects on your blogging and your business, then Disqus can offer you a wide range of very interesting services.

My personal reaction when I ran into it was, "This really would be the best wordpress comments plugin for me, and I really would like to use it if it were possible to do so without too much interference with my WordPress and my other systems.”

Happy to be helping entrepreneurs,

Fabio

www.entrepreneur-world.com

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On Chrome Web store there is a very interesting free marketing tool for Twitter as an add on for Chrome browser.

It´s called InboxQ

It´s a great tool for marketing as it´s based on the principle: everyone gets more value out of it.

You can add it to Chrome browser and it´s ready to work. You add your Twitter account or maybe several. Then you add the keywords related to your business.

Then InboxQ gives you a list of questions people are asking around on Twitter about the topics related to your business.

This gives you a wonderful opportunity for sharing real value with people by offering them the expertise connected with your business.

When you are really direct and honest about giving real value you will get back the same in the same amount , maybe more.

Everyone wins!

More on InboxQ homepage

Happy to be helping entrepreneurs,

Fabio

www.entrepreneur-world.com

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There core idea of viral marketing is this: create a buzz. You want everyone to talk about you and your website, to let others in on their secret which is your website. You want those that learn about you to have a sense of excitement, a sense of privilege, a sense that only you can deliver what they are seeing.

You want other people to market your website for you.

And that is what viral marketing is – it is the process of getting others to market your website for you.

Viral email: the goal of a viral email is to inform people about a particular product or information. An important purpose of this goal is to invite them to share the message or the email with their friends, thus spreading the word about your products. The subject of a viral email is very important. The subject line is what a person sees when they open their email. For this reason it is very important to make it interesting or elicit curiosity. About the content: your message can be a sales letter, a newsletter, or a review. Encourage people to click on the links by offering them something of value. It must be something of value or usefulness to them. Then invite them to share with others.

Viral marketing is about activating an individual´s interest in spreading the message and it is accidental. Viral marketing “just happens” and result in viral transmission. This may be caused by a very interesting in your email or perhaps by some good joke in your message that is so interesting and amusing to the reader.

Motivators are very important if we wish to allow our clients to recommend our products. Through these motivators, clients’ interest will boost all the more and will exert their own efforts to look for somebody whom they can refer. That is why it is always best to give offer rewards.

Use the “tell a friend” strategy. Invite your subscribers to share with their friends and reward them for that. Give them something valuable for passing the information to their friends. This will be their reward for passing the information. The passing of information creates and generates words-of-mouth effect that creates interest in those who received the information. It will be your way to motivate them and keep them interested to look and refer for more.

Make the product available only by invitation: the fact that you could not get it unless you were offered a special invitation all works together in a way to make your business desirable on the web.

Your giveaways and your rewards should always have to be interesting. Meaning, it is something that they can use and can benefit them. If you have a difficulties in looking for what to give, based it on the commonly asked questions found in blogs and forums that are related to your niche. They are a wonderful source of ideas for your viral email campaign.

Happy to be helping entrepreneurs,

Fabio

www.entrepreneur-world.com

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As an entrepreneur you need to take stress management into consideration as a crucial factor of your business, yourself and your personality.

Entrepreneurs tend to be very passionate about what they do and many of them tend to forget something very important – stress management.

Stress management is not something one has to put into practice when already stressed, but is something one has to put into practice before becoming stressed.

A very important rule to follow as a guideline to your stress management is not to manage time, but manage energy.

How this can be done?

By following the two main sets of signals telling you are you getting stressed. These are:

- What your body tells you, your body sensations

- How your mind is working at any given moment

Body sensations – medicine tells us that pain and any other kind of distressing body sensation can be a sign of disease. To fully evaluate if are you stressed and if you need to do something about it, get rid of this mindset.

These sensations are not only symptoms of disease, they are valuable information you are getting through your body about the state of your mind.

You can use them in the same way you use the speedometer of your car. More distressing body sensations tell you that your mind and your body are going too fast.

When you feel some distressing sensations coming from your body, consider that the pain you feel in the neck, the pain you feel in your lower back or maybe the sense of heaviness you feel when going upstairs are wonderful opportunities your body and your mind are giving you to adjust your activities.

The same goes for the other indirect signs of your inner mental state – concentration, memory and how easily you get irritated.

These are not problems, or worse, medical problems. These are valuable signs telling you that your mind and your body are distressed.

By following these signs you can coach yourself to manage energy, not time.

When your body and mind sensations tell you that you are going too fast, simply reduce the speed and listen to those sensation. When they disappear it is the time to focus more intensely on your business. When you are able to focus intensely on one task, you become far more effective.

Focusing on a single task in a state of full energy is far more effective than focusing on 20 tasks at the same time when your body and your mind are telling you ‘this is too much!’

Happy to be helping entrepreneurs,

Fabio

www.entrepreneur-world.com

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