Giveaway and List Building Guide

Participating in free giveaways, is not just a about building a list, and getting a load of great products for free, but is a great opportunity for creating multiple income streams. First of all, did you know that most free giveaways have a One Time Offer, which all new members and joint venture partners are exposed to on first signing up and you will get a commission for everyone who signs up (as long as you enter your paypal address on signing up).

Of course, the main purpose of contributing a gift to one of these free giveaways is to build a list.  This in itself presents a few opportunities to create multiple income streams.  As well as a list of people to promote future offers to (and to provide great content and free gifts to, so they don’t unsubscribe), you have the opportunity to place other offers in front of your new subscribers.

You can place an upsell to a product of a greater value, on your confirmation page, or download page. Or even create a One Time Offer of your own, that is presented to your new subscribers, before they get to the download page and this time you will get the whole amount if someone decides to take you up on the offer.

Another thing you should make sure you do, is include affiliate links in your free gift, try to find ones that have a recurring income, so that you stand to earn money on a monthly basis, should your readers take you up on any of these offers. Also remember to cloak your links, so that you don’t lose any commissions.

To do all of this successfully, you need to promote the online giveaway so that your gift goes higher up the list and more people will see your free gift and sign up for it.

But what happens when you don’t have a list to start with?

Well some giveaways will not allow you to sign up, unless you have a list of 1000 people or more, but I find most are happy to include you on their giveaway if you actively promote the giveaway in offer ways.

You can look at creating Squidoo lenses about giveaways, blog about them, create You Tube Videos, include a link in your forum signature, sign up for Pay Per Click, send out ads in safe lists, buy some ezine ads, write some articles and social marketing to name a few ways.  As long as you are bringing a steady stream of referrals to the free giveaways you participate in, who is to say that you don’t have a big enough list?

I’m sure by now you are beginning see the potential of participating in giveaways and the multiple income streams it can bring you. So start finding and promoting these giveaways today, and watch your internet business grow.