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S assistant professor department of business administration sri vasavi college, sf wing, erode introduction viral marketing is a form. The spread of an effective viral marketing campaign is akin to an epidemic outbreak of a virus, limited only by the potency and relevance of the marketing message. A quantitative study about how viral marketing affects the consumers. Viral marketing is a marketing technique that focuses on customers and users spreading information about a product or brand. The dynamics of viral marketing cmu school of computer science. What is viral marketing and does it actually work in 2020. Viral marketing typically supplies its audience with something of value for free. Viral marketing, stripped down to its most basic definition, is a form of marketing that propagates itself. Viral marketing definition is marketing designed to disseminate information as about a new product very rapidly by making it likely to be passed from person to person especially via electronic means. Adometry, c3metrics, convertro, marketshare and visual iq to help companies attribute.
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