Using Refer-friends script as a viral list building tool is a smart tactic that many marketers use successfully. You can use it as it is or you can add more flavors to this already powerful internet word-of-mouth marketing method.

We will discuss more about how refer-friends scripts are used in more than one way and here are 5 of them:

1. Just Refer Friends.

This is what commonly used by many webmasters. The tell-a-friend script creates a refer-friends form on the webpage. The webform allows the referrers to input their names and their friends' names and email addresses to recommend their friends to visit your website.

Their friends will get the emails with a link to your website. The sole purpose of the emails is to invite them to visit the website and nothing more to it.

2. Refer Friends for a gift.

I have been using this approach on one of my websites and it's working well.

Instead of just asking your web visitors to refer more friends to your website, give them something in return. It will motivate them to refer more friends to your website.

The way it works is that you set up a minimum number of successful referrals to your website and when the pre-programmed number is met, you send the referrers your gift.

I'm sure many people would love to receive free gift from you by referring friends to your website, and the gift can be in the form of an ebook, software, audio or video.

3. Refer Friends for a contest participation.

In this approach, for every time you use the tell-friends script, you'll be entitled for a drawing of a contest.

If you refer more friends, it will make you eligible for multiple chances of winning the prizes in the contest. You can make the contest a seasonal event or you can offer more than one prize at any given time.

I've seen it done by a famous internet entrepreneur to promote his webhosting website it is combined with affiliate marketing. Their affiliates will refer their friends for potential clients and they can also stand a chance to win a prize.

4. Refer Friends to promote products.

If you've been involved in affiliate marketing for quite some time, you'll see this method used in a few places.

What the script does is that it allows your affiliates to refer their friends to your website. In the email that are sent to your affiliates' friends, you'll give them the affiliates' link where your affiliate will collect commission of the sale if their friends buy from the link in the email.

It is a simple marketing tool for your affiliates to promote your product.

5. Refer friends to allow others use your refer friends script.

Recently, a script was developed to allow you to put the refer-friends form on your website. At the same time, you allow other people to use your script on other people's website.

They will use your script because your script will allow them to have their web visitors bookmark their website, make their website a homepage, and refer friends to their website for free.

There is also a checkbox at the end of the refer-friends form where the referrers and their friends can opt-in to your newsletter or e-course as well. This is where the leverage comes in where every time someone uses your script on his or her website, you'll get a chance to get more subscribers.

In short, I'm sure that there are many other ways that refer-friends script can be really use to its optimum. Find out which way is the best for you and don't hesitate to use it immediately today.

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