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Creating a viral Video

This is an extract from quora.com/how-do-you-make-a-video-go-viral

	1.	Create a viral video as a Listi
	2.	Put together a marketing plan
	3.	Post to Facebook
	4.	Post to twitter
	5.	Post to Reddit
	6.	Post to Hacker news
	7.	Ask people you know to share it
	8.	Tweet it at well known people that could help
	9.	Email to bloggers that cover other viral videos of this type
	10.	Follow advice in this article
	11.	Try to get it to Mashable
	12.	Try to get it to Huffington post
	13.	Identify other places that if it's seen will go viral (Tosh, CNN, etc.)
	14.	Understand how the money flows
	15.	Get on Youtube front page
	16.	Try many things
	17.	Release video on Monday not on Weekend
	18.	Release on slow news day
	19.	Release when people are at the office
	20.	Figure out who has a stake in your video, these people can help you market, ask to share video
	21.	Video must be good
	22.	See Made to stick for ideas on making a good video
	23.	People share when they feel emotions. What emotions will your viewers feel?
	24.	Use awe, excitement, amusement, anger, anxiety
	25.	Tell a story, awkward to amazing
	26.	Make video shorter
	27.	What is the average length of viral videos?
	28.	Write a viral title. "Hey did you see the video of _______" the blank is your title
	29.	Controversy is good
	30.	Open as many doors with your 15 minutes of fame. What doors do you want to open?
	31.	Make sure media can get a hold of you. Link you blog, website and twitter from video
	32.	Have a way people can buy your content ready or whatever you want them to do
	33.	Do it on something you believe in