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.

Alex Jeffreys will be releasing his new report called “Gurs’s Nightmare” soon.  This is the third book in the series of Guru’s Dream – Newbies Nightmare – Guru’s Nightmare.

This ebook will be FREE and I will post here to let you know when it is available.

His new coaching program will also be released and if you haven’t been in one of Alex’s coaching programs in the past I can highly recommend his training.  I was on his first coaching program which was held at the end of 2008 / start of 2009 and in it Alex completely over delivered in each of the sessions.

Alex’s webinar training sessions were to have been a total of 3 hours long with 2 hours for training and 1 hour for questons, at least that was the plan, they exceeded that time frame considerably with the longest one being over 7 hours in total.

His Marketing With Alex 2.0 coaching took place in the summer of 2009 and again it sold out very quickly.  I did not partake in that coaching but I have heard the students from it again say that Alex over delivered.

Once you have been through his coaching the webinars are all recorded and available in the members area for you to look back on as often as you want.  Some of his past students are earning in excess of $10,000 dollars per month simply by following Alex’s training.

This post has been written to give you advance notice of the new coaching and if you are interested in learning more either leave me a comment below and as soon as I have more details I will let you have them or you could click the following link to register your interest for the Marketing With Alex Coaching and go onto the waiting list.

This does not commit you to joining the coaching but does ensure that you have the opportunity to sign up for it when it is available.

I will update this post as and when I have more information available.

Your comments are always welcome.

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

Jean Shaw, who was one of Alex Jeffreys first coaching students along with myself and many many others, is at present interviewing all Alex Jeffreys students that she can contact.

She interviewed me yesterday and if you go to the following link you can listen to the recording.

Richard Moloney

I tried to paste the audio mp3 here but was told the file was too big.  The mp3 is approximately 49 minutes long and there is a bit of what sounds like heavy breathing on the line.  This was due to my phone being too sensitive and picking up my breathing whilst the call was being recorded.

Jean has also interviewed the following students:

Rob Brooks

Bryce Woodard

Daylynne Starr

Marcus Passey

David Walker

Rob J Bradley

To listen to any of these recordings just click the name and it will open in a new window.  Jean also has more students lined up to interview along with the man himself – Alex Jeffreys and these recordings will be available when completed.

If you are a past or present student of Alex and would like to be interviewed by Jean then make your presence known by leaving a comment below with your best active email address in the comment box and I will pass the details on to Jean.  She will then get in touch with you directly and arrange a mutually suitable time for the call.

This post has been written to update you on what I’ve been doing during the last month or so.

To start off I have written a new report “How To Easily Build A Large E-Mail List” which you can get for free.  All you have to do is enter your name and email in the optin form at the top of the left sidebar.  This report has also been listed on some JV giveaways and with it I expect to build my list to a level at which I will be able to do some ad swaps with other marketers.  My list at present is around the 220 mark and is increasing daily.

I have also written a 112 page ebook which I have called “Richard Moloney and The Millionaire’s Code.”  I was advised that I should charge $197 for this ebook because of the detailed content included.  However I know that that would reduce the number of customers and so I have priced it at $97 and as a special price for the first 100 purchasers I have discounted this to $67 and you can get a copy here for that price.

If that page is not available then you have not been one of the first 100 customers and you can get a copy here for the $97 price. The ebook covers everything that a Guru would charge you upwards of $497 if they were going to train you how to build your business via webinars or teleseminars and I may go down that line in the future and then use the ebook as a bonus to the course.

• Within the pages of this ebook I have covered the following:
• starting and planning your business,
• setting your goals,
• the foundations of your business,
• becoming an expert in your niche,
• the sales funnel,
• traffic generation and
• how to set up and use an autoresponder correctly.

I have also considered converting the ebook into a series of audio recordings which could then be sold as part of a continuity program but I am still thinking about that.

If you are interested in JV Giveaways then check out my page on them.  (Click the page in the header.)

If you are interested in doing an ad swap with me leave me a comment below telling me the size of your list and when it would suit you to do this.

Your comments are always welcome unless they are classed by Akismet as spam and as such for 99.9% of the time will be deleted, occasionally I will publish a comment if I think it has been unfairly labeled spam by Akismet.