What is funny marketing? You've probably seen plenty of funny marketing on TV. It's often used by corporations in order to capture your attention before you go channel surfing during the commercial breaks.

Instances of funny marketing are used on big TV viewing days like the Superbowl, when companies want to use viral marketing to get their products talked about.

To further put it in perspective think Comcast, "The Slowsky's," or " So Easy a Caveman Can Do It!," or even this really old one, " Where's the Beef?"

These are all well known instances of funny marketing phrases which gets people talking about them, repeating them and passing along the message so often, it begins to come up in day to day conversation.

While we as small online marketers may not have the huge million dollar advertising budget of the big corporations, we still can benefit from creating our own funny marketing strategies. By using free online websites and inexpensive tools we can create comics, online videos, and humorous emails that benefit from viral marketing and are passed around and cost next to nothing.

In a study by an interactive marketing Sharpe Partners it was revealed that the most widely shared type of content online is humorous content. The study also found that 89% of adult Internet users in America share content with others via e-mail.

It was uncovered that the other popular categories are news, followed by health and medical facts and information, religious and spiritual material, games, business and personal finance information and sports and hobbies… in that order. So it is easy to determine that funny and humorous content is best for your viral marketing strategies.

Funny video clips, comics, jokes and stories can all be e-mailed, added to social networking profiles, bookmarked, Stumbled and Twittered about to insure that they will go viral. People love sharing things that makes them laugh.

By sending funny stuff out to your networking contacts, friends and family they we be much more likely to forward the info to their friends and relatives if it's compelling, interesting or entertaining rather than just an advertisement.

To get in on the action you can create comics that you can use on your own website or blog to give your postings a cool buzz factor. Using pictures in your content has been proven to generate increased interest and readership. It can also lead to your stories going viral and being passed along.

Here are some of the best websites to create comics for free. You can sign up and begin making your own comics in a matter of minutes. With many of these sites you can add a personal touch by adding your own pictures.

Create comics with a variety of characters to choose from. Select the appearance of your cartoon character including its clothing, hair, eyes, nose and mouth. Then give it a funny caption to make your comic strip complete.
http://toonlet.com/

Select a photo, add other pictures or doodles, include caption bubbles and generate your comic strip:
http://comiqs.com/

Quickly make a comic of your own with this free website at strip creator:
http://www.stripcreator.com/make.php

Website to create comics. Just name your cartoon, add a subtitle and author name. Then select the pictures and images you'd like to use:
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/

Create comics online free with the comic project. choose from a wide assortment of templates to give it the right layout and look: http://ccproject.comicgenesis.com/

Make your own Garfield funnies strip:
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/starslp/missionz/comic.htm

With the HeroMachine you can create the comic book hero of your dreams. Make your own comic rock star or super hero. Create your own comic, print it or share it with your friends.
http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/heromachine2/

Make your own comix strip:
http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Create your own photo strip using your pictures:
http://www.comeeko.com/

Create your own comic strip and comic characters:
http://laughingsquid.com/bitstrips-create-your-own-web-comic-strips-and-characters/

Add your funny marketing cartoon to vlads advertising cartoon portfolio for website exposure and publicity at: http://www.evlad.com/advertising-cartoons

Using funning marketing techniques works incredibly well with submitting pages to StumbleUpon. Your Stumble posts can get more exposure when you grab the viewers attention right away and hold it with good quality content. For more information about marketing on StumbleUpon, check out the Stumble Traffic Book.