First rule of web viral marketing. Create your own interwebs.

This is rule number one. In order for you to have maximum success potential on any and all web marketing campaign, you MUST create your own interwebs. 

I know. Thats a dumb word. But if you dont, you are even dumberer.

This is why. If you amass a million subscribers in youtube, get to page one of google under any and all key words, have a huge network of friends in digg, but don't have your very own intimate relationship with the people you've build into following you, then you are dating the most sexy person in the world through a surrogate and proxy.

Think about it. You have all these people. You have all these relationships. BUT do you know anyone's real name? Anyone's real geographic location? Demographic? What about a simple email address? 

This is all 100% ABSOLUTELY important. If google changes it's algorythm, youtube disables viewer hijacking, and digg shuts you out for being a spammer... what do you have left?

So then how to gather personal contact information from your subscribers? Let see... 
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