Since you are alive, there is a good chance you have been affected by viral marketing in one way or another. Viral marketing happens any time someone tells another person about a product or service, without compensation. That is viral marketing. It happens everyday, and the internet is making it easier than ever.

Facebook, Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter, MySpace, Blogs, and many more social websites provide easy conduits to share information on the internet. Whether it be through news feeds, tweets, blog posts, emails, or other streams, we, as website owners can take advantage of these services. You can directly use these services, or you can use some fantastic tools directly on your website.

Viral Marketing Tools

AddThis is a free service from addthis.com that makes it easy to share or bookmark content on the internet through various 2.0 websites. With a simple piece of code you can add the AddThis button to your website. Then, when your visitors scroll over the button a list of sites they can use to share your content drops out of the button. Click on the link to get the Add This Button.

The Add This button includes links for the following websites, (I will go over in detail How you can use each in a later post) For more information about the Add This button or their services, click on the link:

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