tailieunhanh - Open Source and Viral Marketing

Affirming the right of every child and every pregnant and lactating woman to be adequately nourished, as a means of attaining and maintaining health; Recognizing that infant malnutrition is part of the wider problems of lack of education, poverty, and social injustice; Recognizing that the health of infants and young children cannot be isolated from the health and nutrition of women, their socioeconomic status and their roles as mothers; Conscious that breast-feeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants; that it forms a unique biological and emotional basis for the health of both mother and child; that the anti-infective properties of. | Open Source and Viral Marketing The viral marketing concept as a model for open source software to reach the critical mass for global brand awareness based on the example of TYPO3 John-Robert Skrob john@ University of Applied Science Kufstein Austria August 2005 Vienna Austria ABSTRACT Global competition on the Internet marketplace requires thorough planning and careful investment of capital. Start-up companies with a limited budget need to reduce cost wherever feasible. Eliminating license costs by using Open Source Software is a big saving for a company and viral marketing has become the number one option to dynamically create brand awareness. The power of online influence namely word of mouse plays a key role in the spreading of a message. The aim of this paper is to present the many diverse facets of the viral marketing concept and to determine if the product TYPO3 fulfils the criteria for being viral. Then a marketing model will be created for TYPO3 on the basis of the viral marketing concept. The purpose of the developed marketing model is to generate the required critical mass so that the released message will independently multiply exponentially and in the long run help cross the gap described by Moore in the Revised Product Life Cycle. 1 Introduction Internet marketing has evolved into a major marketing branch for many existing companies. Many new enterprises see the effectiveness and advantages of electronic business by not being limited by time and distance when engaging in business activity. The opportunities to do business world wide with the click of mouse are enormous and enticing. The skyrocketing success of has shaken the Internet marketing world encouraging entrepreneur to develop marketing concepts and to convince capital venture companies to finance them. Despite promising innovative products many start-ups disappeared as quickly as they had appeared. Something fundamentally had gone wrong. Viral .