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.

This is the fifth and last part of the information I have gained from David Walker’s sixth and final webinar in a series of 6  training webinars. It was called The Email ATM and covered the following:

1. Foundations of email success
2. How to get more optins
3. Autoresponder follow ups
4. Broadcast messages
5. Get more of your emails opened
6. Get more of your links clicked
7. Strategies to ensure each campaign is as profitable as possible

In my last post I was dealing with item 5 above and start with item 6 here.

6.  Get More Of Your Links Clicked

For this David showed us one of his emails which he used to get people to sign up to his Facebook page.  The subject line read “Are You on Facebook, XXXX?” where XXXX is the name of your prospect.

Then he followed up with:

Hi XXXX,

I was just wondering to myself whether or not you use Facebook?

And suggest that the person could add themselves to his page if they wanted.  He placed his Facebook page link in twice to the email body, finished off with “To Your Success”, David Walker and his blog link.

He then showed a side of some links he uses after the signature line under the heading “Here are some more free gifts you should check out” listed three gifts for people to check out.

7.  Strategies To Ensure Each Campaign Is As Profitable As Possible

Doubling Your Email Effectiveness

Check your autoresponder stats

You will probably find your open rates are around 20-25%  That means 75-80% DIDN’T open your email they just consigned it to the bin.

Use your autoresponder segmenting and mail those people AGAIN who either did not open your email or click a link within your email.  Change the subject line but mail out the same message.

David then showed some stastics from his autoresponder account showing the subject line (or part of it) the number of emails sent, the number and % opened, the number and % clicks.  From the selection we saw that the %open rate varied from 5.9% – 21.9% and the click rate from 2.2% – 11.7%  The % click rate did not follow the % open rate as the lowest or highest open rates where not necessarily in the same position as the lowest or highest click rates.

For these figures to mean a lot you will need to keep a check on the relationship between the subject line and the % open rate along with the click rate every time you do a mailing to your list.  By doing this you can find your best subject lines to get the best open rates and subsequently the best click rates.  You will also get to know what your customers are most interested in.

The Triple Threat Affiliate System

This system was taught by Alex Jeffreys to all his coaching students.  Alex had taken part in a JV for Andrew Fox and topped the list even though he had a much smaller mail list than some of the other JV partners.  He was explaining  to Andrew how he had done it and Andrew turned round and told him he was the triple threat affiliate.

This system take segmenting your lists to a new level.

When you do an initial mailing you get:

1. Those who open your email and click a link
2. Those who open the email but do not click a link
3. Those who do not open the email

You then do a follow up mailing to each of the three groups and especially groups 2 and 3.  Again you will get people falling into each of the three groups as listed above.  The next step is to do another follow up email to each of these three groups.

The end result is that you get some of those from the first mailing who did not open the email, or who opened and did not click the link to open and click the link thus resulting in more cash for you with each remailing that you do.  If you try to keep on emailing the same offer to the same people you will possibly turn them off and they may remove themselves from your list so 3 mailings is most likely the best.

This brings me to the end of module 6 of David Walkers webinars and as module 6 was the last module the end of my posts on them.  I hope that you have learnt some useful information from them and that you will support David in any future training he does.  I feel he did an excellent job with these webinars and I myself learnt from them.

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This is the fourth part of the information I have gained from David Walker’s sixth and final webinar in a series of 6 training webinars. It was called The Email ATM and covered the following:

1. Foundations of email success
2. How to get more optins
3. Autoresponder follow ups
4. Broadcast messages
5. Get more of your emails opened
6. Get more of your links clicked
7. Strategies to ensure each campaign is as profitable as possible

In my last post I was dealing with item 5 above and continue that here.

5. Get More Of Your Emails Opened Contd.

Formatting Your Emails – Opening Sentences

Suck them in with the Opening Sentence which must flow from the subject line.  You have only one purpose and that is to get them to read the next sentenance.  Remember you are writing to ONE person.  Don’t write Hi Everyone or Hi Guys or anything that would make the reader think the email is no personal to them.

Keep the first sentence short and remind them of who you are.  Get the promise of benefits in early. there are five types of good opening sentences as follows:

1. Ask a question (Curiosity is good here too)
2. Reveal something startling
3. Inject emotion
4. Provide proof or facts
5. Present a problem or solution

Examples of good opening lines:

• Did you hear the news?
• This may come as a shock to you
• Have you ever seen this?
• I have a confession to make
• I’m so aggravated I could Scream
• Yes it’s true…..
• Did you know?
• Here’s the story
• According to a new study
• Let’s face it…..
• Let me make a prediction…..
• Does this describe you?

The Email Body

There is only one purpose of your email – to get the click - nothing else.  The email is not written to sell or make a complete offer.

You should use short choppy sentences and paragraphs of 3 -5 lines only.

You should insert 3 links to your squeeze page – the first early in the email, the second in the middle and the third near the end or in the PS.

Keep the email to 300 words or less but vary the number between the emails in your email sequence.

Personality is important – be you and use stories to boost readership and make your point.  Sandwich sales message in content or story or both.  Being personal deepens relationship.

Maximising Your P.S.

Use a ’signature sign off’ for every email  David uses “To Your Success” you can use the same or something similar in your emails.

You don’t always have to use a P.S. but if you do: Restate the promise (in different words) of the click, Touch on the consequences of delay, Mention scarcity.  It’s a great spot for your third link.

Timing Your Emails For Best Results

Timing can make a difference with the best days being Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.   Monday is a busy day for most people as it is the first day of the working week and Friday is when people are thinking of the weekend.  The weekends are best for free or low price offers $7 or $17.

David suggests the best time is 5.30am EST (10.30 GMT) The reasons behind this are simple any emails sent the night before are pushed down the list so by sending at this time your email should be visible when person checks their inbox first thing in the morning.

This brings me to the end of part 4 of Module 6 from David Walker’s webinar series,  I will continue with Getting yur links clicked in part 5 shortly.  Any comments will be welcome. If you wish to receive notification when a new post appears sign up to receive these notifications.

This is the third part of the information I have gained from David Walker’s sixth and final webinar in a series of 6  training webinars. It was called The Email ATM and covered the following:

1. Foundations of email success
2. How to get more optins
3. Autoresponder follow ups
4. Broadcast messages
5. Get more of your emails opened
6. Get more of your links clicked
7. Strategies to ensure each campaign is as profitable as possible

I finished my last post with item 4 above and start this one with item 5.

5. Get More Of Your Emails Opened

Subject Lines

A killer subject line is VITAL.  It affects 80% of the response you get from the email.  The subject line has one purpose and that is to get the email opened.  It should have a maximum of 60 characters and should raise curiosity and be benefit orientated.

Monitor your open rates for ‘topic resonation’ and keep a file of your most opened emails.  You should also start a swipe file of emails in your niche and a second file of emails outside your niche.

Use subject lines to attract your prospect / customer to the email. This applies equally to your autoresponder follow ups and your broadcast messages.

• Using odd numbers “How to make $1,922.63 every day” is better than “How to make $2,000 every day”
• Use Question marks
• Use Percentages eg 99% of bloggers make zero online. Ensure the percentage you are quoting is correct don’t say 99% of XXXX make %1,000 per week unless you can prove it.
• New Video:  How I made %1,922.63 today.
• Free report: 7 blogging mistakes to avoid.
• Be careful using RE:
• Use personal pronouns – You, Your etc.

Example subject line you can use, just fill in the blanks with words related to your niche:

1. For ___________ This Works Like Crazy.
2. Why Your ________ Wont ________
3. How To Survive ________________
4. This _________ Tip Is Almost Too Easy
5. The Biggest Mistake _________ Make
6. Do You Make These Mistakes With ___________
7. The Real Secret To _____________
8. The Fastest Way To _____________
9. Get Your __________ Questions Answered
10. Here’s An Example Of What Works For ___________
11. Something Every __________ Needs To Know
12. Here’s A Shortcut For ____________
13. How I ______________
14. Here Is Your ___________ Checklist
15. About Your ___________
16. The Best Way I Know To ______________
17. A Great ___________ Resource I Just Found
18. This Ruins Most _______________

You can get subject line ideas from Digg.com which is a hugely popular social media website.  People vote on great articles, posts or stories usually because they have a killer headline so by searching for the most popular items you can use their headlines as a basis for your subject lines.

It is a great resource to tie subject lines into current events as timely, newsworthy subject lines get noticed.  Eg.

• Seasons and holidays,
• Breaking news,
• Celebrity and Political news,
• Sports News

Formatting Your Emails – HTML Vs Text

You should use both HTML and Text for your messages for better delivery.  Some older browsers cannot accept HTML messages so they will get the Text message.

HTML can monitor open rates and you should maintain consistency in formatting your messages.

David suggests a line length of 65 characters.  Some other marketers suggest 5 or 6 words maximum line length which gives approx 35 characters.  Look at the emails you receive and check the line lengths used and what are the easiest for you to read.  I think that the readability of your emails is more important than exact line length.

You can check formatting in a variety of email clients.

This brings me to the end of part 3 of Module 6 from David Walker’s webinar series,  I will continue the description of  Get more of your emails opened in part 4 shortly.  Any comments will be welcome. If you wish to receive notification when a new post appears sign up to receive these notifications.

This is the second part of the information I have gained from David Walker’s sixth and final webinar in a series of 6 training webinars. It was called The Email ATM and covered the following:

1. Foundations of email success
2. How to get more optins
3. Autoresponder follow ups
4. Broadcast messages
5. Get more of your emails opened
6. Get more of your links clicked
7. Strategies to ensure each campaign is as profitable as possible

I finished my last post with item 2 above and start this one with item 3.

3. Autoresponder Follow Ups

It is essential to have a series of emails in your autoresponder series to send to your prospect or customer because it is the key to moving them to the next stage of the sales funnel.

In your thank you email offer another product as if they have just purchased they are in a buying mood and are HOT.

David said “You should send one email daily for at least one week”  although other marketers say only send an email every third day.

You should focus on one individual benefit per email and deliver benefits in daily, bite size chunks.  Try to get your customer using the product as without using it they will not become a raving fan.  You then focus on overcoming objections.

Ask your customers if they have any questions and answer them.  Questions can bring up objections and answers overcome them.

Use testimonials to bolster claims and proof, but do not only show the highest claims for the product.  Due to the legislative changes in the USA if your claim implies that everyone will be successful through using your product and does not state that it is possible for someone to be unsuccessful then you could be prosecuted in the US for making incorrect claims.

You should over deliver with surprise bonuses and / or content.  These could include videos, interviews with related marketers or written articles.

4. Broadcast Messages

These are messages that are sent as one offs, they are not in your autoresponder series of follow up emails but are sent to promote a specific event eg a new product launch, teleseminar, webinar or a new coaching program.

You can send a series of emails to your list starting with the pre launch period and as the launch date gets closer increase the frequency of these emails.

For example if you are writing the broadcast email to promote a high price event, you can offer specific  bonuses to the first 10, 20, 50, 100 or more people to sign up using your link.  The sum of these bonuses could be worth more than the offer price and if you have say 4 bonuses available to the first 10 sign ups, only 3 for the next 20, 2 for the next 30 and so on so that the first to sign up get the most from the bonus offers.

By doing this you not insert a sense of urgency to your prospects.

This brings me to the end of part 2 of Module 6 from David Walker’s webinar series,  I will continue with Get more of your emails opened in part 3 shortly.  Any comments will be welcome. If you wish to receive notification when a new post appears sign up to receive these notifications.