What would happen if 3,483 people shared your website on Facebook today?

You would get…

More website traffic.
More email subscribers.
More customers.

But how do you get your content to go viral?

Most people think that viral marketing is a fad and something that requires you getting lucky. So I thought I’d test to see.

Is it possible to make your content go viral?

Are there repeatable and reliable methods you can follow that consistently produce 1000s of visitors and shares? 

Yes, there are!

And in this article we’re going to dissect 4 highly effective viral marketing campaigns and give you the tools and best practices you need to increase your traffic and shares.

Let’s jump in.

Campaign #1: Viral Facebook Campaign (by I Heart Sweet Life Planners) 

Before I started researching this topic, I was looking at the I Heart Sweet Life Planners Facebook page when I came across a post that had 3,483 shares.

What was weird was that all of the other posts on the page had 2 to 5 shares each.

But this one had gone viral and had 1000s. Why?

The first time I tried to start a business I had no clue what a sales funnel was.

It was 2012, I’d just read an article by Tim Ferriss on how to create iPhone apps, and I was sure I could start making $10,000 per month doing the same thing.

One year later, I had two apps under my belt and a balance sheet that looked like this:

• App development cost: $2,000
• Revenue from apps: $615
• Net profit: -$1,385

It didn’t take me long to figure out the problem. Simply adding my apps to Apple’s app store and hoping people would find them hadn’t resulted in the flood of customers I thought it would.

Shocking, right? 🙂

It took two years before I was ready to try my hand at launching something again. During that time, I studied every sales funnel I could find and worked hard on building one that would make selling my next product as easy as possible.

The results? I launched an online course that generated $15,460 in total revenue within a few days.

Key takeaway: if you want your business to grow, it’s tough to find an activity with higher ROI than building a sales funnel.

In this post, I’m going to show you what most articles don’t—practical steps for actually creating and implementing a sales funnel so finding customers no longer feels like pulling teeth.

18 months after starting this website as a side project, I did one new product launch that changed everything.

That one launch produced more revenue than my entire gross income from 2008 to 2011 combined…

Honestly?

I’m still in shock at what happened.

I’ve written this post to take you behind the scenes and give you a proven product launch plan that will take all of the guesswork out of your next launch—regardless what your product is (or whether you’ve even created it yet).

First, I’ll walk you through the exact process I used to figure out what new product to create. Then I’ll give you the product launch plan, checklist and email sequence we used to generate $220,750 in revenue in a 10-day period.

By the end of this article you’ll have a complete roadmap to follow in my footsteps and crush your product launch.

Quick case study…

1. This website used to get 15 new email subscribers per day.

2. Now it gets 75 per day.

What did I do?

I ran a small experiment in which I tested a handful of new lead magnet ideas, picked the ones that performed the best and then showed them to visitors on relevant pages.

In this article, I’m going to share the 11 highest-converting lead magnets from that experiment. You’ll also get downloadable free lead magnet templates and real-world examples of each.

So if you’ve been looking for fresh and unique lead magnet ideas–keep reading…

People who successfully build an email list go one of two routes:

Route #1: Publish content that people love, promote it like crazy and hustle their face off for 2 or 3 years.

Route #2: They started a blog 15 years ago when there was almost no competition, and now they just bask in the glow of their millions of visitors every month and go on podcasts telling you how easy it is.

Both of these routes suck.

Then 6 months ago, I heard of a guy who grew his list by 25,000 subscribers in 10 days. When I heard those numbers I immediately reached out to learn more about what he had done. I’ve been studying list building and actively growing my email list for 3 years, and I had never come across a strategy that produced those kinds of results.

Here is what I learned after talking with him…

Takeaway #1: It took about 3 months to set up and run this strategy.

Takeaway #2: The overall strategy is extremely effective and repeatable.

Takeaway #3: This can be used by both early-stage companies and solopreneuers and big, thriving businesses.

So, what did the guy do?

He hosted a Virtual Summit.