Navtej Kohli

July 7, 2008

Navtej Kohli on Viral Marketing

Filed under: Internet Marketing — NavTej Kohli @ 4:04 am

Viral Marketing is all about creativity. All it takes is, thinking out of the box that will create a buzz, thereby setting the ball rolling. Navtej Kohli blog brings you a closer insight into Viral Marketing.

For a business owner, there is nothing better than his own product or website. They are all high and mighty of their website. But did you ever bothered to look around and see where do your competitors stand? If not, I would advice you to go and see for yourself.
Soon, the loopholes in your marketing strategy would be apparent.

While you tour through competitor’s website, see if they have some special viral marketing strategies in place. For uninitiated, viral marketing denotes getting people to promote your website or product. It’s something like a chain reaction. Once you have created awareness of your product or service, the rest is taken care of automatically.

How it works?

Very simple! Viral marketing is a kind of advertising, where customer as an evangelist would pass on the information to his/her kinfolk. Thus, your purpose is to get as many people involved in the process of information dissemination.

Like I said, creativity is the hallmark of a successful viral marketing campaign. You must be creative in a way to experiment with almost anything that is beyond imagination of the ordinary. Take liberties to include video, audio, humor, or anything that stimulates audience’s interest. Add spice to your message. Then be it your own personal experience or some controversial stuff, it should be intriguing enough to be shared.

Viral marketing is one of the most cost effective forms of advertising. With just one time investment, you can reap benefits for life. Once you have created the virus, nobody can stop it from spreading. So why spend time and money on other internet marketing tactics? Let the Viral Fever catch up…

July 1, 2008

Internet Facts By Navtej Kohli

Filed under: Internet Technology — NavTej Kohli @ 4:50 am

Navtej Kohli shares some amusing internet facts that you should know:

1. Who coined the phrase ‘World Wide Web’?

Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. He’s also considered by most people as the person who started the whole thing rolling.


2. How did the Internet Start ?

It all started with the time-sharing of IBM computers in the early 1960s at universities such as Dartmouth and Berkeley in the States. People would share the same computer for their computing tasks. The Internet also received help from Sputnik!

3. What was ARPANET?

ARPANET stands for ‘Advanced Research Projects Agency Network’ Came about in the arena of Sputnik and the cold war. The military needed a method of communicating and sharing all the information on computers for research and development. It would also be a handy communication system if all traditional ways were wiped out in a nuclear attack.

4. What was the First long distance Connection?

In 1965 using a low speed dial-up telephone line, MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts working with Thomas Merrill, connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32 in California. The phone lines weren’t quite up to the task!

5. When was the first mouse introduced?

The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco.

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