The life blood of all experienced marketers is the list. NO list and your business is in liquidation. Wd gather our contact lists in many different ways. Most common currently is having the user fill in a registration form in exchange for a free gift. The registration form generally consists of a name and an e-mail address. Once the form is completed and registered into the autoresponder the free gift is provided.  With the understanding that whom ever collected the name and email address can follow up with you via other e-mails with other pieces of information which will generally at some point in time include another offer.

Other variations included having the recipient forward the offer to 4 to 5 friends or family to qualify for the free gift.  Other times it was an extremely low priced offering.  Viral in nature a single e-mail can explode exponentially as every level of recipient continued to forward the offer to even more and more people.

 

Social Media

Yes video is hands down making the single largest impact on social marketing.  The only place video is not showing up in the web 2.0 space is on Twitter.  But a version of video to fit in twitter is coming.

The king of video distribution YouTube has proven the power video carries.  Other social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace and everyone’s blog is carrying or embedding video.  Now the only sense you as a marketer are not able to touch is smell.

You now have the advantage of developing that one to one relationship with thousands of people at the same time.  Tie in  the use of the chat, video conferencing and audio communications the chances of you being able establish the trust relationship needed to sell your product and service has just escalated several fold.  Especially when it comes to giving away a free gift.

 

The New Viral Video World

Interestingly, a new video software system to build a contact list and potential customer list virally has been introduced. Internet guru Joel Therien, CEO of Kiosk.ws, is launching Easy Video Producer, a video building software with the capabilities of generating mountains of contacts virally and effectively. This system is unique because the software itself is being offered as the free giveaway for this video “tell-a-friend” system. Essentially, the system will offer you free and extraordinarily easy to use video generating software that builds and posts your personally produced video and information capture form on a website or blog. With every offer is a contact management system included.

Virally allowing you to introduce yourself to a prospect in personal fashion, while offering them the option of opting in and free use of the software to prepare videos. The prospect and new contact would in turn use his free new system to attract even more potential contacts for his list and yours as well.

As in the earlier e-mail systems, the originator of the viral distribution of the free software would have access to every subscriber in the levels below him. So a free and easy system of posting videos on the internet with the specific purpose of gather a network of contacts by giving away a viral software which gives you the opportunity to continue.

 

How to Deal With the Issues

Easy Video Producer software system appears to offer a simple and easy, no cost solution for both the experienced and inexperienced non-technical marketer to make effective use of videos for their viral list building and business needs.

Providing a number of ready made templates from which to not only gather the names and email addresses but allow the prospect in a novel non threatening manner share and use the video and free giveaways. Thereby getting it out to the people who are potential buyers.

The manner in which Easy Video Producer software has made it so simple and easy for the lay person to utilize develops the credibility needed to instill the confidence and trust the prospect is after.  Through the use of the software the prospect themselves begins to categorize exactly what solution they are looking for you to provide.

Again proving the critical necessity of list building with the power of video.

The simple truth is without a list your business is in liquidation.