Giveaway and List Building Guide

Okay so let’s talk about ways to get traffic to JV giveaway sites when you haven’t got a list to start with.

If you have a Twitter, Facebook, Myspace or other networking site, tell all your friends or followers about the best giveaways to join.  These are all types of lists in their own right.

You can tell your friends and family about the giveaway sites, especially if they are new to the internet and want to learn ways to make money from the internet.  They can pick up loads of free resources and ideas from giveaway sites.

You could start a blog, and blog about the benefits of giveaways and provide links to the latest giveaway sites.  Much like I am doing here at greatgiveawayguide.com, just make sure you get your contributor links from me.

You can also write articles about the giveaways and why people should partake in them, also you could consider writing brief press releases about interesting up and coming giveaways.  These can be submitted to article directories and press release distribution sites respectively.

All the content that you do create can be socially bookmarked, so that your contributor links start to appear all over the internet, and you will get lot of sign ups underneath you.  Onlywire.com let you social bookmark multiple sites in one go, and it’s free.

Note before you start creating content, you should do some keyword research to find some good competitive terms that people are searching the net for.  I like to use the Google External Keyword tool for this purpose.  This way when you do submit to article directories, press release distribution sites and social bookmark sites, you will gain numerous links for your chosen keywords and people will easily find the links you promote.

Something that I have not seen anyone do, and am considering myself, is to offer incentives for people to sign up under your contributor link.  Something like a free MP3, additional ebook, interview etc.  You’ll get plenty of freebies from the actual giveaways themselves, to match the number of giveaways that there are.

Lastly, there is always the upgrade option on the giveaways, this will give you the necessary boost up the rankings with your free gifts and enable you to concentrate on building a list of your own.

 If you have any traffic tips of your own, please do comment and share them, so we can all learn and earn together.

Do you build your lists as quickly as you could?

If you’re not sure, I can understand why.

Does this seem like you:

More often than not, I was too busy chasing sales and not building relationships. Sure, I’d set up pay per click, write articles, post useful comments in forums. and still not make any sales.

Arrgggh! Before I knew it, I wasn’t marketing as often I should have and thinking “Bah humbug, what’s the point…? No one’s going to buy my product anyway, so why bother.   Besides, I’m so busy working on my next big project.”

In the back of my mind, though, I knew I should be marketing differently. It nagged at me, so sometimes I would at least make the effort to ask another successful marketer for their advice. But, smart people that they are, they would usually say,”The money is in the list!’

So when I found out about a marketer named Jason James, I perked up.  You see, in less than 3 years, Jason has created more than 5 different products that debuted with six-figure paydays.

But that’s not the part that amazed me. You see, Jason found a way to add thousands of people to his own mailing list at the same time.  In fact, one of his launches he created a brand new subscriber list of 1,000’s of buyers.

Jason is a real sharp guy. He realized that he could (and does) make even more money, simply by mailing to his own list.

He sends them useful content.

He sends them new product announcements.

He sends them affiliate emails that promote the latest big product being offered by other marketers.

And each time, he makes money when those subscribers buy.

It didn’t take Jason long to realize that the more subscribers that were on his list, the more money he could potentially make. So he shifted The good news is he discovered their marketing edge.

It’s called a Giveaway event and they have become fairly popular in the internet marketing niche.  Of course, if you’re an online marketer, 99.9% of the niches you’ve thought of entering have never heard of giveaway events. (Talk about a big competitive edge!)

Done right, a giveaway event can give you a big list of hungry buyers and more money in your bank account.

Done wrong, and your event will be a major flop.  Your professional reputation will be toast and you still won’t have a big list.

That’s why I was really excited when I learned that Jason wrote a manual that covers Giveaway Events. 

It’s called Giveaway Riches.

With Giveaway Riches, you don’t have to worry about doing your own giveaway event.  As long as you follow Jason’s step-by-step plan on setting up and running your own giveaway event, your success is practically guaranteed!

Tell me more about Giveaway Riches

Jason reveals everything he’s discovered about giveaway events – and nothing is held back.  He even tells you some of the major mistakes he made – and learned from – so you don’t make the same mistakes too.

He’s now making this manual available to you. Say goodbye to slow list building and say hello to:

* Rapid list building. Add loads of new buyers to your mailing list that other marketers gladlyrefer to you.

* Easy to understand step-by-step plans. You don’t have to guess how to do a giveaway event. You get access to
exactly what you need to know. FAST!

* Unlimited license. You can use Giveaway Riches system on as many websites as you want or any niche you want to go after. There’s no limit to where you build a list.

* Make money at the same time as you build a list. Thanks to the special offers built into a giveaway event, you can make money while you build a hot fresh subscriber list.  Brilliant!

Click here to find out more about Giveaway Riches

What are you waiting for? Go ahead and check it out.

Isn’t time you stopped taking months or even years to build a profitable mailing list? Just take a look at the webpage above and you’ll get a sneak peek at Jason’s system that has helped him become a self-made Internet millionaire in less than 3 years.

Just a quick post today to make you pause for thought.

How many lists do you have?  Is it just your email mailing list that comes to mind?

What about your contacts on Facebook, friends on Myspace or followers on Twitter?  These are all people who will potentially read your messages.

I’m personally in love with Twitter as I’ve met so many great new people there and had some enlightening chats publically on the time line and privately by direct messages. 

If you are not already Twittering you should (sign up at http://www.twitter.com) and if you are already are, you can find me @ghostwriteranon!

Be sure to get as many followers as you can, so more people see your tweets. 

It used to take me about a month to get 100 new followers, until recently when I stumbled across a free tool that has helped me get 100 new followers in the last 6 days!

I wanted to tell you guys about it too,  read more at http://www.tweetergetter.com/ghostwriteranon

Remember you are building lists everywhere and getting your name out there.

Ps. The next Giveaway Update will be posted later today

You finally come to the realization that you need a good opt-in list if you want to be able to make quick cash. After you’ve read a myriad of articles and sought the advice of IM experts you ultimately determine to create an opt-in list of your own.

And then it happens…

You suppose that you know all there’s to understand about  opt-in lists, have followed the gurus suggestions to the letter and, nonetheless, you still could not pull in a net profit.

In fact, you might be going further in the hole. You may be paying writers to assist you or there may be additional expenditures incurred — it all costs money! Even if you have a large list, but only a small percentage actually make a purchase, you are nonetheless suffering a loss.

Unless you keep careful records, you might not realize that you’re leaking cash until after a few weeks when you review your reports and sales totals. By then it might be too late!

So, what was wrong? Why could others have success where you’ve failed?

The most common error is that you dove right in. You picked a subject YOU believed would be extremely in demand and would earn you a pile of money.

This isn’t how Internet Marketing works. Just because YOU believed the market would be hungry for your product does not mean the marketplace will rush to buy it.

Here is some important advice, for those who have begun an opt-in list and failed, you can rejuvenate your failed venture. Here’s three quick and easy ways to build a profitable opt-in list.

1) Get your prospects to believe in you and your products first. Just having an opt-in list does not make you a guru and a trusted marketer. Post several articles first before you start to build an opt-in list. Write about subject you know. Post to and participate in forums to gain knowledge about your prospective marketplace and about their wants and needs. Zero in on those wants and needs.

Join forums from other sites as well. Provide expert advice and recommendations. When you feel that people trust you, you will be able to start your own subscriber list. You can build a subscriber base as well with other forum users. You can ask them to join your list. Friends are always good customers. Put up a link to your site so that they may be able to see what your business is all about. You can make quick cash if you do your homework first.

The truth is, the money will only come in when future subscribers believe and trust in you. They want a product or service that will be a good exchange for their money. People are not going to buy something on your recommendation if they don’t know and trust you.

2) Find a product or service that prospects want and need. Although it may not be your forte, if you provide a service and product that you have researched and learned about, you can be successful. 

3) Get to know other opt-in list marketers. They have the experience in marketing to a list. Experience is still the best teacher. While there are many articles available for you on the internet, there is nothing like getting a first hand account from someone you know.

Experienced subscriber list users will be able to tell you what to do and — just as importantly — what not to do because they have gone through it. While different situations occur for different people, the general concepts can still be very helpful.

Building a profitable subscriber list don’t just happen overnight. The most profitable opt-in lists are built from scratch. As your list grows, you should also maintain the quality of your list. Hire help if need be. Make sure that your subscribers are happy and satisfied and they will allow you to make quick cash!

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

One of the easiest ways you can build a list of your own list is by offering free gifts at giveaways.  Many top marketers like Jason James and Alex Jeffreys, have jump started their list building efforts in this way, so why can’t you?

Don’t tell me that you are not a well known internet marketer and it won’t work for you.  Okay when you start you might not get hundreds of sign ups a day, but a handful when you start out contributing free gifts to giveaways.  You will need to experiment a bit, as you find out what works, what doesn’t and soon you will have a list to be proud of.  And guess what, there is at least one giveaway going on everyday, so you will never be short of places to experiment and learn what works best for you.

It is hard work getting noticed on the Internet at the best of times.  You are a fish in a sea of millions, but with a bunch of people promoting their free gifts in one place (including top marketers), you will get a lot more attention than if you were swimming alone.

The premise of free giveaways is that everyone loves to get something for free, so therefore they attract a lot of visitors and potential subscribers.  You have to make sure to try and offer something unique and write a description that is as appealing as possible to attract new subscribers.  The best way to view it is as a swap – your new subscriber will get a free gift, and you will get an email address on your list.

There is a stigma that you shouldn’t build a list based on getting subscribers that sign up to get a free gift, as they are freebie seekers.  Remember that a free customer today, could be next year’s best customer.  Yes, you will get people who sign up, get their free gift and then unsubscribe, such is the world of list building.

If you don’t have a list to start with, you will need to promote the giveaway events in other ways, as you will need to make sure you get some referrals to make sure that your gift stays in the event and so your gift climbs higher on the list and attracts even more subscribers.

It might be hard work and slow at the beginning, but it will soon snowball and you will get a large list before you know it, so it’s well worth the initial effort.