Viral Marketing.

Unplugged.

The down and dirty.

What is Viral Marketing anyway?

Seth Godin shares the answer on his blog today.

Read it.  Learn it.  Use it.  Do it.  Become it.

What’s the matter, spending $3,000,000 for a commercial to air during Super Bowl XLIII sound a little too steep for you?

How’s a measly $100 sound?

Yesterday, a new website, HundredDollarSuperBowlAd.com launched and plans on dropping $300,000.00 from the sky during Super Bowl XLIII.

Where’s the $300,000 going to come from?  It’ll come from the money generated from selling a TON of $100 ad spots on their website.

To advertise your business, all you need to do is select your state, city, click on an open ad spot, pay your $100 bucks and send them in image you’d like displayed along with your URL.

It sure is a WhackedOut Marketing idea that puts a spin on the whole Million Dollar Home Page craze awhile back… But will it work?  Let’s dig into this One Hundred Dollar Super Bowl Ad idea a little more… Continue Reading »

You just never know when these WhackedOut Marketing ideas are going to appear.  Oddly enough most of my ideas come while I’m in the shower and I often find myself in some interesting situations.  (Remind me to share one of the stories with you sometime…)

Even while I wrote the above, an idea for a waterproof notebook that you could hang in the shower appeared to me.  Think about it… Just imagine being able to capture all of your ideas that come to you while in the shower!  I may be onto something here…

I quickly did a search online to see if any such thing exists.  Darn… thought I had some new WhackedOut idea here. They already make waterproof notebooks.  See here and here.  I may have to get a few of these…

Anyway, I had another WhackedOut Marketing idea come to me and I thought I’d share it with you.  Normally all sorts of wild and WhackedOut ideas pop into Continue Reading »

Edit: I just finished writing the post below.  This very well could be the most WhackedOut blog post I’ve made yet - and could very well change a family’s life during the Holidays.  That is of course if someone is willing to get out of their comfort zone and take action!

I accidently glanced at some headlines this morning and saw some crazy numbers as far as retail sales numbers, November jobless stats, etc.

Photo Of A Pine Cone Relaxing.

Now I’m not here to talk about the economy and doom and gloom all over you.  The media does enough of that to you.

What I do want to do is wake you up a little.

Here, step into my lab and take a seat.  

Now r..e…l….a…x….. deep breath.  Again.  Relax.

There, nice and relaxed.  All the worries and stress melting away.  Are you feeling relaxed and comfortable?  Well, if you are then…

Wake The &#!* Up!

You want to make it out there?  You got to get up and start hustling.  If you want to thrive Continue Reading »

If you’re using YouTube to market your website and your YouTube videos are going down the… Tube, maybe you’re trying too hard.  Maybe, just maybe, creating a viral video may not be as tough as you think it is.

Viral Marketing: In 5 Seconds Flat

Take a look at the video below.  It has over 9.4 million views.  And the most WhackedOut part?  It’s only 5 seconds long!  Now the person who uploaded the video really should have added their website at the bottom of the video to drive some traffic to their website.

The BIG “oops!” with this video?

They also should have added a link to their site next to the video in the area that YouTube provides to add some details about the video.  They missed out on some HUGE website traffic.  A viral video like this could have brought countless thousands, maybe tens of thousands of people to a site.

Just five seconds.  How many videos could you create in one day that are just 5 seconds long?  Get creative.  Think outside of the Tube.  Think about something that would make people laugh, say “wow!”, and something that they would share with each and every person they know.

Just five seconds…