Art-ology

If you wanted to catch the mind of people in a large area, one of the best ways to do so is by talking through a megaphone. Now, wouldn’t it be awesome if you can also own an online “megaphone” which you can use to have people’s attention on the Internet? Even if such a concept would be unfeasible to do right now, you can settle for the next best thing by using the equally useful tell-a-friend script.

One of the hottest web tools utilized by bloggers and online entrepreneurs at present, the tell-a-friend script is the online answer to the megaphone when it comes to reaching out and catching people’s minds online. As its name implies, the tell-a-friend script is a computer script designed to assist users “tell-a-friend” or make suggestions of a specific website to their e-mail contacts. The script is positioned onto the target website and enables the visitor’s to extend the e-mail addresses of their friends, family, and officemates and send them recommendation e-mails about the location without having to unlock another browser key. Some intermediate-kind scripts also have an inducement attribute which checks and gives benefits to users whenever people who got the proposal e-mails.

The tell-a-friend script works because it uses people who go to the website as “megaphones” to advertise it to social networks online. People pass on information about the website via word-of-mouth to others, and the people who get this data may also pass it on to other people. Over time, this “viral” turn over of information will turn into a massive wave of talk about the aimed website, producing in increased traffic, potential clients, and online sales.