Paul Teague and Ashley Gough held a 2 hour webinar  on JV Giveaways and how to use them to build your list.

The webinar covered the following points:

• Why Giveaways are the Number One way to build your list
• The 5 basic steps in any giveaway
• Professional tips for registration
• How to setup your profile, free gift, text ads and special offer
• A special guest (Adrainne Lee) who explained how she built her list from zero to 1,500+ just using giveaways
• Why you should get out of giveaways when your list reaches 1,000

Lets take these in order

Why Giveaways are the number one way to build your list

When you are starting off with no list using giveaways helps you to get started building one fast and easily.

1. You don’t need a website
2. You don’t need to be a known person in internet marketing
3. You can start for free or for next to nothing
4. Your traffic comes from the giveaway so you don’t need any of your own
5. You don’t need a vast knowledge of technical skills.  If you can use a word document and cut and paste text then you can do this.
6. You don’t need your own product.
7. You must have access to a computer with a broadband connection.  It doesn’t have to be your own.  You could use one at your local library or a friends one.
8. You must have an email address
9. You must have a paypal account
10. You must have an autoresponder

Points 7 – 10 are the only items needed to enable you to join giveaways and build your list.  The more giveaways you join the faster your list will grow.

The 5 basic steps in any giveaway are:

1. Enter your details into your profile for the giveaway.  This includes your name, email address, a photo of yourself (Passport size and style is all you need).
2. For each gift you then add a description, optin page url and download page url
3. Add your text ad or ads
4. Add your Special Offer or Offers
5. Promote the giveaway – with some giveaways if you have not sent some people to the giveaway by preset deadlines your gift will be removed and you will therefore not get any signups.  Promotion can be done by email, using Twitter, Facebook etc.

Paul gave a live demonstration on signing up to a test giveaway to show how easy it is at this point.

Professional tips for registration

1. If you don’t get your registration email – check your spam folder
2. Hotmail addresses cause problems with giveaways and some hosts also report problems with gmail/googlemail although I personally have never had a problem using gmail/googlemail.
3. If you don’t get your registration email use the help desk to contact the host and they will sort it out.  Emails sometimes go astray no matter what service you are using and the host can easily resend the activation email.
4. As Paul says these events are not scams he has never yet been in one that was badly run or the host did not respond to his queries.

How to set up your profile, Gift(s), Text Ads. and Special Offer

The first thing to do once you log into the giveaway is to set up your profile so click on the profile tab at the top of the page then:

1. Enter your name
2. Enter your email address
3. Enter your password – this will have been supplied in your registration email or it may be one you select yourself depending on the giveaway setup.
4. Upload a passport sized photo of yourself
5. Enter your Paypal email address
6. Enter your Clickbank ID if you have a clickbank account
7. Enter your Twitter user name assuming you have a Twiter account.

To set up your gift(s) click on the Manage Gifts tab then:

1. Enter your product name
2. Enter your product image
3. Enter a logo image if you have one
4. Enter a short description of your product
5. Enter a long (sometimes called full) description of your product
6. Enter your squeeze page url
7. Enter the direct download url
8. Enter your support email address in case of problems downloading your gift

To enter your text ads click the Text Ads Management tab

1. Enter the title for the ad
2. Enter the text for the ad
3. Enter the display url
4. Enter the destination url

To enter your special offer click on the Special Offer Management tab then:

1. Enter the offer name
2. Select the price from the range given in the drop down box
3. Enter the download url
4. Enter the sales page html without any sign up form

Ashley says this is much easier if you install the screen grab addon in firefox and take a screen grab of your offer and save it to your desktop.  Open the image in Photoshop or a similar program and crop the image to remove the background and just retain the content then set the width to 700 pixels.

Upload the final image to your domain.

Insert the following html code into the Special Offer section at point 4 above:

<div align=”centre”><img src=”http://www.yourdomain.com/images/yourimagename.jpg “width=”700″ height= “xxx” align=”middle”></div>

For each of the above Paul showed how to do them live on screen with his test giveaway.  Ashley’s method loaded much quicker that just copying and pasting the html from the sales page.

At this point Paul invited Adrienne Lee to come on line and tell how she got over 1,000 signups just using giveaways.  After Adrianne’s short talk she said that her ebook “How I Got Over 1,000 Signups Thanks To Giveaways” could be downloaded from her website at AdrianneLeeMarketing.com free of charge.

Paul then went on to tell us how you could get started for free with giveaways and the following steps are what he explained:

1. Take out a free membership of Viral Ebook Explosion as this will give you a product image and a free ebook to list in the giveaway.
2. Sign up for a free account at Instant Squeeze Page Generator as this will give you your sign up page.
3. Get an autoresponder as you will need it for anything you are going to do on the internet.

I recommend GVO who offer not only an autoresponder but also unlimited domain name hosting, Video hosting, a video creation package with Easy Video Producer, etc.  Now some of their functions you will not need at first but will as your presence develops.  They offer a $1 trial for 14 days and after that their Titanium package is $44.95 per month and allows you 20,000 signups.  Get response offers a free trial but restricts you to 10 signups.  Aweber costs $19 per month until you reach 500 subscribers and then increases in steps to £149 per month for 10,000 to 25,000 subscribers and keeps increasing as your list grows

You can get free autoresponders but if something goes wrong with them you could end up losing all your subscribers and having to start from Zero again.

Most companies will allow you to transfer names from another service but usually insist that your subscribers have to reconfirm their details and this could mean that you lose a large percentage of them through apathy.  This was happening to me when I first switched from Aweber to GVO but after talking to the technical team and being able to prove that my list were all double optin subscribers they manually uploaded them for me.  Other companies may not be willing to do this so be careful when you select your company as you may be stuck with them.

If you want to take the $1 trial with GVO click the GVO link at the top of the right sidebar on this blog.

Why you should get out of giveaways when your list reaches 1,000

Once you have 1,000 subscribers on your list you should move on and try a new technique for list building as it is now time to diversify your efforts.

Why do you need to diversify?  Quite simple you will find that most giveaway signups are not buyers and it is buyers that you need to make your income from.

Once your list has reached 1,000 you should then try Ad swaps.  Whilst you can get Ad swaps with a smaller list you are likely to find that you are swapping with others with similar sized lists and will not get as good a result as you will when your list reaches 1,000 +

Ad swaps will be covered in a later post.

Don’t abandon giveaways totally just concentrate on the best ones rather than all the giveaways that are available.

I have updated my J V Giveaways page and it now has links to a total of 13 Giveaway events some already underway with the remainder to start for members during March.

The Giveaways that have not yet started are looking for contributors and some are offering cash or prizes for the top recruiters.

I have signed up as a contributor in a number of these Giveaways and expect to build my list bigger and bigger as long as the giveaways run.

To check them out go to the JV Giveaways Tab at the top and click it.

Each Giveaway has a load of products for you to download totally FREE ranging from, ebooks, audios, videos and one Giveaway only has MRR/PLR products on it.

Check them out

Why you’ll love using events like the Valentine’s Giveaway to build your list.

This Giveaway starts in 6 days so get in now as a contributor.

Everybody in Internet marketing agrees that ‘the money is in the list’.

From day one, you need to be capturing leads and then communicating with your sign-ups effectively.

In fact, the list building is almost more important that the website … and you don’t actually have to own a website to start this essential process.

A well-established way of list building is the Joint Venture Giveaway, and you can see one that I’m currently involved with here:

http://new-jv-talent.com/valentine/go/247/jv

Giveaways dominate in the Internet Marketing niche, but also flourish in other popular niches like Health and MLM/Network Marketing.

In this case, the Giveaway is concentrating on video training resources.

The basic process is this:

# A hosts sets up and advertises a JV Giveway event

# Contributors sign up and add their ‘gifts’ to the website … these are usually e-books, software packages, audios or videos

# These gifts are usually offered free of charge, but members have to sign up to the contributor’s email list in order to receive their gift … hence this is a ‘list building exercise’ for contributors

# After a pre-determined period of contributors adding gifts to the site, the doors open, and members can sign up and see what’s on offer

# Usually it’s a downloading frenzy, a trolley dash where you can download e-products for free … and many of them can be resold for profit

# Members are encouraged to promote the JV Giveaway, and incentives are usually given to encourage this

# Credits or commissions are usually awarded for referring people and possibly downgrade penalties if nobody is referred.

Many people sign up to Giveaway events just to help themselves to freebies, and there is nothing wrong with this.

If people didn’t do this, the marketers would not generate any new leads … so a Giveaway thrives on its ‘freebie seekers’.

However, there is no better place to be – if you’re serious about your online business and your list building – than at the front of the queue … and that means being a contributor and taking an active part in a Giveaway.

For first-timers, it’s best to take a free listing … most, if not all Giveaway events, offer a free listing option.

At http://new-jv-talent.com/valentine/go/247/jv there’s even a ‘Newbies Bootcamp’ which shows you exactly how to create a first listing at absolutely no cost to you whatsoever … and challeges you to sign up your first 10 referrals to convince yourself that this process really works.

Once you’re convinced about the process, having ventured nothing but your time, you can start to get really involved and get the additional benefits of taking an upgrade.

When you do this, you get text adverts and One Time Offers, as well as the ability to list more of your products.

Most Giveaways are so reasonably priced, you only have to sell one of your One Time Offers and you’ll have earned your fee back.

So, what are you waiting for?

Whatever niche you’re in, there’s bound to be a benefit in taking part in these Giveaway events.

Sign-up at http://new-jv-talent.com/valentine/go/247/jv right now and convince yourself that Giveaways really are the place to be if you want to build a list fast.

I hope to see your name at the top of the leader board at http://new-jv-talent.com/valentine/go/247/jv!

Richard

Start your own internet business as your New Year resolution for 2010
by Richard Moloney

I’ll bet you’ve thought about starting your own internet business at some stage.

Most people have … we’ve all seen how people make incredible amounts of money, seemingly from ‘nothing’, and it all takes place in cyberspace, no premises, no staff, no fleet of vehicles, just one person and their PC.

Or, it’s the dream of working for yourself and having the wonderful freedom to make money wherever you are via an online business that only requires a broadband connection and a laptop.

If you have ever thought about starting your own business on the Net, don’t leave it a moment longer.

Make your New Year resolution that you will finally make a start with your home internet business.

And if you have started already, make 2010 the year it really takes off.

There’s an easy way to do this, and it’s happening right now … but you have to get in quick!

You need to check out the New Year Giveaway at http://new-jv-talent.com/go/327

A Giveaway event is a great way to launch your online career.

Here’s how they work:

# A host sets up and advertises a Giveaway event – in this case the host’s name is Paul Teague

# Existing Internet Marketers sign up and add their ‘gifts’ to the Giveaway … these are usually e-books, software packages, audios or videos

# When the Giveaway opens, members (like you) sign up and get access for free

# The gifts are available free of charge to regular members, all they have to do is sign up to a Marketer’s mailing list to gain access

# As well as getting some high quality training materials, members also get to make connections with established marketers who can guide them to web success.

To see how it works, sign-up free at http://new-jv-talent.com/go/327

It really is as good as it sounds, and don’t think for one minute that because products are offered free, that they are of a low quality.

Marketers offer some of their best products in these Giveaways.

Why?

Because they know that if they make contacts with people at the beginning of their web careers, they will stay with them and learn from them long after the first free gift has been downloaded.

It’s a win-win situation, which is why they’re called ‘Joint Ventures’ or ‘JVs’ … everybody wins.

So, let this be one New Year resolution that you don’t break.

Sign up free at http://new-jv-talent.com/go/327 right now, and let this be the year you start your own home internet business.

I wish you every success.

Richard Moloney

By the way, Paul Teague asked me to mention that he is offering free access to his Giveaway training website at http://www.first-jv-coach.com

These free memberships are free only until 15 January 2010, so get in fast before he pulls the offer!

This giveaway will add to your mailing list fast and easily.  Look through your hard drive and see what you have that you can add as a gift to the Social Marketing giveaway then sign up as a contributor and get started.  It’s that time of year again and you are personally invited!

===>>>> Join the Social Marketing Giveaway Here

The one and only Social Marketing Gifts Giveaway is preparing to open it’s doors once again.  It opens on 7th July to members but you can get in now as a contributor.  Last years event built lists in the thousands for those who got involved.  This year brings even more excitement!

===>>>> Sign up here

Don’t let this years giveaway slip you by.

The sooner you get involved…the better. With so much to gain you need to get started now!

We have some of the internet’s top marketers promoting this event. This can only mean one thing for you…

Tons and tons of signups, more sales and more money!

Be sure to check out all of the upgraded contributor benefits. These benefits will help you get more signups and make more money.

Check it out now…before everybody else gets a jumpstart on you.

===>>>> Click here to join now
To your success!

Richard