Giveaway and List Building Guide

Putting a contest on your website can be a magical list building experience! And even better you need little or no money on advertising or SEO.

Offline marketers have been taking this approach for many years. In fact, a poll shows that over half of all Americans EVERY YEAR enter contests and sweepstakes (and that’s just America, with the internet the world is your oyster).  Many savvy marketers are now beginning to take advantage of this list building secret.

All you need is a webpage announcing the contest and a prize. The prize can be a service that you offer, a collection of MRR ebooks or software that is lying dormant on your computer, or whatever your imagination can come up with. It doesn’t need to be expensive.

Contests don’t just get a lot a visitors, but lots of sign ups to. The great thing is, that just like with contributing gifts at giveaways, you know that the people that sign up are interested in what you offer.

If you are not too web savvy or just don’t want to spend a lot of time setting up a contest page, then there is software available, which will help you build a contest form in minutes. It will save you struggling for hours, or getting frustrated with codes coming out your ears and html not doing what it is told.

Today, I came across Contest List Builder software and it makes setting up a contest web page a doddle. It is the answer to a non techie’s prayers

Read about Contest List Builder by clicking here

To save you the time, in finding some contest directory sites where you can add your new contest web page to, here are some I have found:

http://www.contestformoms.com/contestandsweepstakes/

http://www.contesthound.com/

http://www.contestguide.com/

http://www.contestfinder.com/

http://www.bigfatprize.com/

(has suggest prize link)

http://www.uggs-n-rugs.com.au/contests/

http://www.win-contest.net/

Another great way of getting free traffic to your contest site (or any website for that matter) is using free press release services to announce your contest to the world.

PRESS RELEASE WRITING TIP

I find that the best way to create a winning press release is to create a tip sheet. Write about 5 or 7 tips about your niche and announce the contest at the end.

You can a find a great list of free press release sites you can submit your news to here:

http://www.thepressreleasesite.com/list-of-free-press-release-sites.html