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Viral Friend Generator
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Viral Friend Generator is a relatively new method of list building that was launched at the end of February 2007. Mike Filsaime who has offered scores of products to affiliate marketers via Click Bank over the years offers this viral affiliate friend generator. He is that guru rumored to make $185 K a month with his series of virally marketed web sites. Even though he only introduced his concepts in 2005, h e is now a big name because his successful viral efforts are legendary in the Internet marketing and advertising sphere.

Viral Friend Generator is supposed to be the sleekest and very latest in tell-a-friend technology. In less than five minutes (the time it takes you to fill in the form and upload to your server) you can literally multiply the number of visitors and subscribers your web site receives by 300%! You push a button and the program does the rest.

The Internet guru claims that he has made over seven hundred thousand dollars marketing just one product in twenty-four hours. However you should no that the product that probably made this much was his Butterfly Marketing package that goes for nearly fifteen hundred dollars and not a $47 eBook like most people sell.

Think of Mike Filsaime's newest tool as being the most evolutionary way to Get rich in thirty days without even trying!" This software is supposed to be better than every other type of viral marketing including writing articles, link building, pay per click programs, classified ads and ezine advertising. He says that all of these methods take up too much of your time.

However, seasoned readers of this type of how to material will catch a little bit irony in this kind of pitch to sell the Viral Friend Generator. It is almost like this guru is saying that everything else that he has promoted in his famous Butterfly Marketing packages is obsolete and having this tool is the answer. It is the old "everything I just told you is useless, now listen to this" approach to marketing an idea.

So what is this exactly? It is a basic pop-up creator that reminds your visitors to tell a friend about what you have to offer as they enter or leave your site. You download and install a copy of Viral Friend Generator to your site simply by cutting and pasting a piece of web code to your site. The Viral Friend Generator gives you the ability to require those who submit referrals to actually persuade their friends to visit and even join your list of subscribers in order to be rewarded with your free offer!

You have probably encountered this type of technology and were either irritated by it or very impressed depending on what you think of pop ups. Essentially each visitor is asked to fill in the email addresses of other people that might be interested in your offer. This is like having affiliates that you don't have to pay. If you have no idea how to write one of these referral emails this software has a template that you can use to send out.

This software has many features that make it very easy to use. For instance you can program it so that your visitors can choose to email your info about to ten people or as few as three. This is recognition as to how you don't want to wear out your customers with requests for other people's email addresses. Usually the more business savvy or intelligent your customer base is the less willing they will be to allow you to send spam to their friends in the form of a referral. So this technology could work for some sites and not for others. If you are offering a free game or access to something amusing this can sometimes work very well. A great feature of viral friend visitor allows your visitor to personalize the email with a few comments so that it does not seem so much like spam.

You can also use this in reverse and not allow people to access to your site unless they refer a certain number of people to it. This is a way of forcing them to refer people to it or they are simply warned that they will be denied access. Be careful how you use this tactic though as it can make many people angry. One option is to put a link at the bottom of this so that when they try to exit they still end up somewhere on your site.

The user-friendly control panel allows you to manage all of your Viral Friend Generator campaigns across all your web sites at a glance from a control center. This is all the result of pasting the program HTML where you want it on any of your sites. This software also tells you which of your visitors is telling a lot of friends and also see which of these referrals converted into subscribers.

Of course just sending people emails without their permission would be spamming unless there was some kind of opt out feature at the bottom. This software helps you keep your mailing list clean by offering an opt-out "do not mail me again" link to the end of the welcome message that they get. This makes sure that people who don't like unsolicited advertising will never be sent an email from your server ever again.

Once your subscriber has opted to receive the product or access to your site they receive a thank you confirmation email. This lets them know that their request was successful and that their download link, password or URL information is on its way.

There is also a function in this software that helps you spy on your potential customers. The sender can also be notified every time one of their friends clicks on a link inside an email. You get full statistics of each visitor's activity from inside your control panel so you'll know every action your visitors and their friends are taking when it comes to visiting your web site.

Michael admits that this is a tactic that may turn some people out but he says he has done field studies with it that prove that it increases traffic 300% even if the occasional person who surfs in and sees your pop up gets in a huff and goes elsewhere. His theory is that if a person really wants something and intend to buy then they will do anything to find out more to get it including filling out a form that spasm their friend's email boxes with your information. This means that anyone who does end up on your site is probably a likely conversion or sale and not a window surfer who is wasting your site's bandwidth with browsing.

So how do you prevent people who visit your site from simply entering bogus emails? Quite simply they will be sent an email saying their email address is false and that they will not be allowed to enter the site until a working email is inserted into the pop tell-a-friend form instead.

The author also claims that he has used this tell a friend technology over one hundred thousand times and never once received a spam complaint. This is because spam is not technically just an email that is sent to someone without his or her permission. No mass mailing is involved.

This software also comes with a money back guarantee. If you do not make that 300% increase in conversion rates within sixty days then you will be refunded the price of the book.

Michael justifies the $97 price for this software by claiming that it takes the place of a designer or viral marketing consultant that could cost you as much as $10,000 to achieve the same kind of 300% raise in confessions. He also states that this software can spare you the need for spending money on expensive eBooks and seminars about increasing viral traffic.

The viral friend generator can also spare you from buying an expensive opt-in list or trying to build one from a third party list. These can cost as much as $200 a month and you still may not create brand awareness or attract the targeted buyers that you really need to your site. If you want to see how this works there is a viral video on the creator's site that can show you how to make the most of this pre existing viral potential.

If you need an example of how this type of tell a friend technology worked on a large scale you only have to think of how a similar form was used as the catalyst for hotmail's torrid growth when it first started up. To this day this type of enrolment encourage is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates & encourages people to promote your site. The result is often a geometric multiplication of replication of your marketing message that has a high pass-on rate to people.

The conclusion of this Tell a Friend Generator review is that a viral friend could be your best friend when it comes to business. This is a worthwhile piece of torrent software to buy as long as you are certain that your customer clientele will not be offended by the manipulative nature of the referral process and that your pre existing customer base is the type that enjoys social networking.