Part of the guide: Affiliate Marketing
If you are just beginning your online marketing career, you might have heard of the term viral URL. A viral URL is very contagious but you’ll love having it. I don’t have any personal experience with a viral URL but here’s what I found out about it.
Viral URL is a way to email up to 3000 people at a time.
Viral URL will hide or cloak your affiliate links from people who want to steal your commissions, and is a tracking system to help test different ads for effectiveness. The people you are emailing are generally network marketers.
The good news about this type of email system is that everybody you send your email to has opted in or volunteered their email, with the understanding that they will receive emails from marketers.
Here’s the downside to the program:
You have to agree to accept emails from other people who are marketing and selling their wares. So when you join viral URL, you should set up a completely separate email from your personal email. You will get 50 emails or more per day sent to your email box.
Think of it as an email community.
Everybody in the system is trying to accomplish the same thing you are trying to do: make money.
There are two ways that allow you to send up to 3000 emails at a time.
The first is by earning credits in the system by manually getting your URL in front of people for them to click. So it’s a sort of hope and pray and manual labor method of marketing. The second way to send up to 3000 emails at once is to buy an annual membership to the site. When you pay for the membership, you don’t have to wait to let credits build up in order to send a mass email.
The cost to use ViralURL.com is $197 per year.
Sounds like a ton of dough until you really break down the value. The system will allow you to email 3000 people every 3 days for the one-time yearly cost. If you get 30 leads back from interested people who want to talk to you about your product or service, you will have received 3120 leads over the course of a year. Do the math. Your leads are dirt cheap and targeted.
You would be hard pressed to find leads that are cheaper using a paid tool.
So if you would like to build your own list and you have a little capital to spend to give it a try, ViralURL.com sounds like a great program to help build your business.
Here’s to your crazy success!
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You have watched the number on the dashboard not match the number in your account. What is different now is simple: it settles on a public contract you can check yourself, not a dashboard I control.
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Comments
Joanna Mazurkiewicz, September 7, 2011
I will definitely have a look at this.
Pj Zafra, September 8, 2011
Never heard of this yet. Sounds amazing. I think it’s definitely worth checking out. Thanks for another awesome post David. You’re awesome! Keep it up man! Looking forward to getting to your level soon! 😀
Anna Miller, July 15, 2024, 14:45
I’ve been considering using ViralURL for my marketing campaigns. Your insights are very helpful.
Susan Brown, July 15, 2024, 16:05
Great information! Do you think the cost of ViralURL is justified for a newbie marketer?
Thank you for this detailed review. It’s encouraging to see such positive results from using ViralURL.
Emily Johnson, July 15, 2024, 17:30
As a newbie to online marketing, this post was really informative. It’s good to know there are reliable tools like ViralURL for marketers. Any tips for beginners?
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Most affiliates earn little, and that is disclosed up front. The difference here is not a promise about what you will make. It is that you can verify every payout yourself, on a public contract, in about twelve seconds.
See how the payout works →Most participants earn little to nothing. No income is guaranteed. You can verify every payout on the public smart contract.
I built a team doing exactly this kind of bulk emailing years ago, so I recognize the pitch immediately: cloaked links, credits for manual clicks, an annual fee that removes the waiting. What the post leaves out is the fifty-plus emails a day landing in whatever inbox you set aside for it. I did that for about a year. Eventually I stopped opening that inbox at all, and I doubt I was the only one.
Samir, translate that for the rest of us: it’s a service where thousands of marketers all email each other constantly, and you pay so you don’t have to wait your turn. My mother would call that a very expensive way to shout into a room full of people also shouting.
Gail’s plain version is closer to the truth than the post lets on. Running the diner, I kept a mailing list of regulars for the Sunday specials, maybe two hundred names, and I knew which ones actually opened the flyer because they’d mention it walking in. Three thousand people getting the same email every three days, all of whom are also marketers sending their own, isn’t a mailing list anymore, it’s a swap meet where everybody’s selling and nobody’s buying.
I ran a similar bulk system for about four months out of the spare room here. Week one, maybe a dozen opens out of a few hundred credits gathered manually. By week three the manual credit method was eating close to an hour a day just clicking other people’s links to unlock my own sends, which the post never mentions, it makes that part sound automatic. I switched to a paid tier after that, and the inbox flooded exactly like the post describes, fifty or more a day, mostly identical pitches. I kept it running two more months before deciding the time cost wasn’t worth what came back.
The strongest case for it, even if I’m not sure I believe it myself: at that volume you don’t need a high response rate, you need a nonzero one repeated often enough. If even a sliver of three thousand opted-in marketers respond over a year, the arithmetic in the post about leads adding up technically holds. Whether a sliver of replies from other marketers is worth having is the actual question.
I am wondering also, does this send well outside of the US? My list is mostly in Turkey, and dollar pricing means something different depending where you live.
The math in the post assumes a consistent response rate every time you send, which isn’t how any list behaves, opt-in or not. I’ve watched enough small businesses handle their own customer lists to say the typical case is a handful of real replies and a lot of silence, with the good months carrying the average. Possible doesn’t mean typical, and the post only really describes the good month.
We called this a ‘safelist’ back in 2009. Same fifty emails a day, same math, same inbox nobody ever bothered checking again by spring.
Is $197 a year actually reasonable for something like this, or is that considered expensive as these tools go? Genuinely asking.