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What Falcon Taught Me About Going Viral

What I learned today is sometimes you just need the right story to become popular or maybe at least follow it on its wings . Your blog can grow really quickly with the right story, coverage, or humour. Get the right content and have people pass it on. Soon you will be watching your traffic grow.

Yesterday a little 6 year old boy Falcon flew off into the air in a giant home made weather balloon. It was all over the news , the nation watched wondering if he could be saved as rescue and National Guard black hawks followed close behind the balloon. The the drama the balloon fell slowly to the ground a brave rescue rescue worker rushing to catch the rope so it would not fly again. Then open the balloon and no Falcon .

This became a very big hit on Twitter and many other social websites. Soon it was on Twitters top 10 most active tweets, consuming at least 5 of the spots at once. Balloon boy became a hit online and across the nation. Tweet after tweet people laughed and giggled and complained all about balloon boy. There were questions such as: was it a hoax ? Where is Falcon or aka balloon boy if he is not in the hot air balloon?

A simple story like the example of Falcon or video, article or picture can quickly capture the mind and audience of the web. If you are lucky to find yourself catching a ride on one of these viral waves, then your success can happen over night. With viral episodes like balloon boy people pass the info from one person to the other , and like a virus it soon spread every where.

With this story for instance someone threw this website up online http://www.whereisballoonboy.com/. This site was not marketed anywhere but as a joke on twitter and it quickly got 25000 hits. If done right this website could have been very profitable by capturing new followers of your website or sales .

These sort of viral news and entertainment happen quite often. The most popular method in recent years have been usually with YouTube where a video or a photo captures the audience. Musicians, directors , actors, models , and many other businesses have launched successful careers by singing or performing their talent on YouTube, Face book and Myspace.

The lesson is have good context that entertains your readers and you can quickly grow. You do not have to go extreme viral like Falcon , instead focus on growing your audience with valuable or entertaining information that they will share. Offer something unique and useful. The best and most valuable growth and sales are always those by word of mouth. What to do once you have people coming to your website and how to turn those hits into a plan on how to make real money , that is up to you. Never let them slip by without at least giving them another reason to come back or to purchase a product or click a link. So go show your talents to the world and get that video camera rolling.

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