Hello and welcome to Rim Digest, the ezine for

"Responsible Internet Marketers".

February 22, volume 7-issue 8

Subscriber Count as I hit send is 1345

Rim Digest eZine: http://www.rimdigest.com/

Your editor: Jan Tallent, rimdigest@usa.net

Striving to be the BEST resource for Small Biz Owners...

Celebrating SEVEN years of doing so!

** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **

Today's issue is sponsored by:

Finally Discovered! The "Holy Grail" of Internet Marketing!

You can stop wasting endless hours online,

searching for an answer you can't seem to find.

I've done all the searching for you!

This report will explain how a 26 year old single

mother of two is making 5k a month from home

and how you can too!

http://ezinerolodex.com/

** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **

Today's Issue Contains:

Publisher's Spot

Featured Article

Explode Your Business With Viral Marketing!

by Justin Blake, CEO ViralShock.com

Creativity.

This is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in

the ruthless competition in the Internet based business.

With so much competition and rivalry going on, every method

of marketing must be employed and utilized.

It doesn’t matter if you have a killer product or a

fantastically designed website, if people don’t know that

you exist, it doesn’t matter, and you are not going to make

it big. Worst of all, you business could just get killed.

While there are so many methods and schemes used by so many

e-commerce sites today, there are still some of those that

can help you with an extra boost in the popularity ratings.

One of these is the so called Viral Marketing.

While the term Viral easily depicts a virus, a word

very much dreaded by all computer owners, it is not

what it seems. You do not actually use a computer virus

to spread your business; on the contrary it just might

kill you. Everyone has had enough of all those pop up

ads and spyware.

Viral Marketing Overview

Viral Marketing also known otherwise as Viral Advertising

is a marketing technique used to build the public awareness

of one’s product or company. They use many forms of media

to reach out to the public without actually promoting the

product by riding on in other forms of addictive means

that could get a person hooked and be obliged or amused

to actually pass it on, with the product or company

advertisement along with it.

In a nutshell, companies ride on the idea that if people

like the content of a media they will pass it on to their

friends and family. They sponsor the certain media, such

as a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story and such,

which one may pass on to another with the company brand

or logo or the products description or any other content

to help promote the company or its product.

Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising

and marketing because they are relatively low cost. To

avoid being tagged as spam mail, viral marketing counts

on the eagerness of one person to pas on the product.

If a person sees the name of the person they know as

the sender, they won’t block it and open it as well.

Many companies offer incentives such as discounts and

rebates when they help in spreading their viral marketing.

They rely on the number of recipients a viral marketing

gets from one person in determining the amount or number

of incentive they can be attributed with.

Using Viral Marketing to your advantage

The main and foremost advantage of viral marketing is that

you get a lot of publicity and public awareness about your

site and your company. You get to generate a flow of traffic

that are potential customers. With a little ingenuity and

imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach

out to a great number of people and announce your existence.

Most sites and companies are catching on to the

effectiveness of Viral Marketing and Advertising.

Not using it could kill your business. Along with

other schemes and methods in promoting your site,

like Search Engine Optimization and such, viral

marketing could easily push you ahead in the

rating games.

Viral Marketing could be a sneaky way to get people

to know about you and your company. You get them to

pass your advertisement along. They are also very

low cost that not investing in it could be downright

a business suicide. All it takes is a great idea,

a good addicting game, a funny story many ideas

are still out there. Create gossip or a buzz.

Many movies are promoted by using scandals and

gossips to make them more popular. Remember the

movie “The Blair Witch Project”?

Many big companies have tried viral marketing

and have had many success stories with it.

A classic example is Microsoft’s Hotmail.

They were the first known big company to

utilize the scheme and it has worked wonders

for them.

Now it’s your turn to use viral marketing to work

wonders for you. Act now and reap the benefits

Viral Marketing will provide for you and your

sales figures.

- Justin Blake, CEO

---

Justin Blake one of the web's foremost experts

in Viral Marketing. He has recently created a

brand new viral marketing resource to help

online business owners radically increase

their profits and subscriber base, and you

can find out more about this incredible

resource here:

==> http://www.viralshock.com/members/jantd

** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **

Get the FREE copy of the iCop Member Directory.

http://www.rimdigest.com/iCop-Desktop.pdf

Vote for this Ezine at the Cumuli Ezine Finder:

http://www.cumuli.com/ezines/vte.html?ez=rimdig

Here are some of my newest offers:

Introducing: The 27-Day Affiliate Marketing Formula

http://www.affiliatemarketingformula.com/?ref=jantd

The Breakthrough Site That Gives You a Backstage Pass

to a Powerhouse Internet Marketer's List Exploding,

Cash Flooding Foolproof System

http://www.giveaway-guru.com/gg/?go=1180

I Get Paid As My List Grows Itself! Do You?

==> http://www.viralshock.com/members/jantd

Giant Package of 200 Products with Master Resell Rights

http://resellrightspack.com/go/15350

** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **

Positive Quotes

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby

a man does what he ought to do in circumstances

confronting him.

-- St. Thomas Aquinas

and

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

-- Bertolt Brecht, 1933

BRAVO!

** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **

Funny for the Week

AT THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE

A gorgeous young redhead goes into the doctor's office

and said that her body hurt wherever she touched it.

"Impossible!" says the doctor. "Show me."

The redhead took her finger, pushed on her left arm

and screamed, then she pushed her elbow and screamed

in even more. She pushed her knee and screamed;

likewise she pushed her ankle and screamed.

Everywhere she touched made her scream.

The doctor said, "You're not really a redhead, are you?

"Well, no" she said, "I'm actually a blonde."

"I thought so," the doctor said. "Your finger is broken."

** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **

Feedback

Good Morning Jan,

Someone sent me the link below for inspirational

flash movies, etc., and I thought of you!

Have a great day!

http://www.inspiringthots.net/index.htm

Faye

** ** ** ** ** **

Hi, Jan,

I must unsubscribe (to the ezine and solos) as I am

going off line for a while to help my husband build

our new home and won't have time to check the emails.

Thanks for your help.

Toby

A Mother-Lode of Home Businesses & Opportunities

http://www.prosperity-gate.com/

** ** ** ** ** **

Hiya Jan,

Thanks for the recognition in RIM - glad you liked the story,

and you are welcome!

Any cat nuts among the RIMmers? They might want to see

my free felizine (feline magazine):

http://www.catnipchronicles.com/

Thanks,

Kent

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

remember, this is YOUR newsletter, send any

comments, good or bad, address change or other

needed correspondence to mailto:rimdigest@usa.net

and use a subject, please. :-)

if you like this ezine, please forward a copy

or an invitation to a friend. :-)

** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **

Recommended Ezines, check them out and see WHY!

iCop's Internet Marketing Trade Journal™

http://www.i-cop.org/trade-journal.htm

Free Newsletters from 123Greetings.com

URL: http://www.123greetings.com/newsletter/

The Goal Mine Gazette Newsletter http://tinyurl.com/l8sw

Culinary Companion http://tinyurl.com/nbk0

the Cabot News http://tinyurl.com/nbk3

eCommerce Resources eZine: http://tinyurl.com/nbk5

Biz Site Biz E-zine: http://tinyurl.com/6ytsh

** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** **

"Bye" for now and thank you for reading. I appreciate your

being part of my *rimmers* family. Hope to "see you" for

the next issue- which will be delivered next Thursday.

You will also hear from me with the occasional solo.

If you do NOT want to get solos, please just let me

know here: mailto:rimdigest@usa.net?subject=NoSolos.

Your email address will NEVER be sold, traded or in any

other way used for any purpose other than to send you

issues of the ezine or solo offers from our advertisers.

The offers are paid for by the ad runners but mailed to

you exclusively by ME, Jan Tallent.

If you feel a need to stop getting Rim Digest eZine use:

mailto:rimdigest@usa.net?subject=Leave

To send feedback, an address change, article submission,

etc. use: mailto:rimdigest@usa.net and a SUBJECT, please.

or call me from 9am to 5pm central USA time: 573-775-4520

Rim Digest runs articles and ads in good faith but offers

NO guarantees unless expressed by ME or Rim Digest eZine.

Please use your best judgment in ANY transaction

or deal you enter into or offer you respond to.

Check out the brand new Newbie Helper package:

http://www.ofbdigitalpackage.com/newbiepack.html

and, PLEASE, join our reseller program.

Jan Tallent, Marketing Warrioress

at http://www.jantd.com/ and Publisher of

Rim Digest eZine, http://www.rimdigest.com/

Both Divisions of the Tallent Agency

po box 858 - Steelville, MO 65565 USA

Build Your Own 24hr A Day, Profit Producing

Opt-In List In 30 Days Or Less Without

Spending One Penny On Advertising... Guaranteed!

http://nocostlistbuilding.com/?e=rimdigest@usa.net

Earn $7 endlessly with this report!