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7 Tips For Making Your Marketing Message Go Viral [INFOGRAPHIC]

Oct 31, 2011 1 min readTips / How To

Ever wondered what it takes to make your content or marketing message go viral? Look no further than this. Our friends over at KISSmetrics have created a wonderful cheatsheet for you to help you succeed with this task.

After browsing through this there are two most crucial aspects that one has to focus on in order to create a viral marketing element. The “emotional hook” together with the “technical hook”. What does that mean? One of the most viral marketing messages of all times captured this perfectly:

“They laughed when I sat down at the piano.
But when I started to play…” Buffer this

So are you ready to make your messages go viral too? Here are 7 tips for you:

The Viral Marketing Cheat Sheet


Source: The Viral Marketing Cheat Sheet Infographic

Have you had any success with creating virality around the content you have produced? What was the reason for it? I hope you can share it with us below.

The biggest hits on this blog were these ones:

Check them out and there might be something for you to learn from it there. Personally, I love to go back to these big hit blogposts and try to craft the message similarily again to make the message go viral.

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