You may wonder what a virus has to do with marketing? 
 
Well, viral marketing describes any strategy that encourages individuals to pass on a marketing message to others, creating the potential for exponential growth in the message's exposure and influence. 
 
Like viruses, such strategies take advantage of rapid multiplication to explode the message to thousands and then to millions. 
Viral Marketing sounds like something bad but it is actually something very good. It is a powerful way to generate lots of traffic to your website or sales page. 
 
Think about how a virus spreads from on person to another. One person gets sick and just by sneezing they can give the virus to many more people… 
... those people get sick and share their germs with everyone they know and the next thing anybody knows is that there is an epidemic.
 
 
That is the very concept of viral marketing. The idea is to get everyone to spread your marketing message around because they want to...