A cell phone, everyone has one and also the kids. But their cellphones are not always allowed on all places. On most schools or public places a mobile cell phone is not allowed. Like a cinema or a funeral. But also at school.
When your phone rings while you're at school you loose your phone when you get caught on having one in the school. And it's not so hard to notice a mobile phone when it rings, is it? But now there is a solution for that problem: the mosquito ringtone. This ringtone is a mp3 ringtone wich makes the sound of a mosquito. But the sound is such a high sound that you need really good ears to hear it. And it is well-known that children have better ears than older people. When you become 20 years old you start getting hearing losses and you won't hear the mosquito ringtone. So that's what is so great about the mosquito ringtone at school, only you and your classmates hear them, not your teacher! But when the teacher has a good hearing, you're in deep mud!
Also when your phone 'rings' everyone in the class looks up to you and the teacher might get the idea of you having a mosquito ringtone on your cell phone. Your classmates might even ask to shut down the annoying sound!
This high sound technique is allready used at some train stations in the Netherlands to get rid of all the youth that's hanging out there. They have speakers where they play the mosquito sound with so they scare off the local youth. So the train visiters feel safer and the perron is less busy. But there have also been complaints by the younger people who are waiting for the train to go to their work, they hear that annoying sound the whole time. So probably it's not that solution against the rebellic youth.
The mosquito ringtone is available on the internet on various websites. It's easy to get a free one, but you will need a datacable to send it to your mobile phone.
The next question is: what's next? If you allready have realtones, monophonic ringtones, polyphonic ringtones, irritones, voicetones, nametones, truetones, funtones, videotones and you now even have unhearable ringtones? I wonder what's next...
The Latest Buzz Episodes
* Autoresponders
* Squeeze pages
* Safelists
* Pop-ups
* Subscribe forms...
The list is endless.
But one key feature that seems to elude most marketers is how can you build your mailing list using other peoples' efforts?
Viral marketing is without a doubt the long term solution to the marketer's woes. Most vial marketing tools can be set and forgot, as they work covertly whilst you go on your merry maketing way. One such tool, the Promotion Bar does just that.
The cool thing about this little tool is that once installed on a web site, it can spread like wildfire potentially to hundreds, maybe thousands of web pages with no further input from you. Visitors to your web site get the Promotion Bar by pasting a single line of code on their web sites to add functionality to their web sites:
* Their visitors can bookmark their web sites
* Their visitors can make it their web page their home page
* Their visitors can recommend their web page to their friends
Each of these web pages then start sending you subscribers as they use the "Share it With a Friend" feature. Not very long ago Instantbuzz built an empire using this technique and has become a force to be respected. Promotion bars are cool because they're so subtle and easy to set up and use!
The result is that you end up with hundreds, maybe thousands of web sites that just keep sending you subscribers with no further input from you. And you're not begged to join a bunch of affiliate marketing organizatins as a part of the system. A viral marketing tool shouls be kept very simple to pass on to the next gal or guy. It should always be free. And it should always be easy to use.
I think InstantBuzz had the right idea. Recently though, someone else created a similar tool. After using their promotion bar, with the greatest of success, for only a couple of weeks, I witnessed thousands of subscribers come on board. Now, that is viral marketing at its best.
I hope this article has helped you in some manner. If so, pass it along.
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