How to Maximize Your Cash Points From Give Away Events
November 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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Up until now, all we’ve been discussing is how to build your mailing list through joining Giveaway events.
Now let’s talk about something more interesting – like how to make money from joining Giveaway events.
It’s already a given that you can make money from:
The internet giveaway affiliate program – if the event you’re joining has an affiliate program, you can earn commissions generally from any of your referrals taking advantage of the host’s One Time Offer. You will not get rich doing this I assure you, but you can reclaim any upgrade fees or turn a small profit.
Sending promo emails to your list – you can broadcast email promos to your mailing list since the new leads are now already in your mailing sequence. I don’t recommend that you do this very often in the beginning because you do not want to scare off all of your new prospects. Just be sure to only send them useful and relevant information before you attempt to broadcast your sales message.
Here are even more ways I suggest you take advantage of to cash in on more cash points while getting subscribers in the process from the events you’re joining:
YOUR own One Time Offer
Yes, prepare your own One Time Offer. Very often, this is where you also keep 100% of the profits without having to share with the host of the event. You can introduce the One Time Offer to your visitors after they sign up and before they download the gift from you. Be sure to offer them 2 options: buy the offer from you and still download the gift afterwards OR pass the offer to get your gift.
Backend Offer
Slip a good backend offer in your Thank You page where the gift is. Whether you’re having a One Time Offer or not, you can cash in on another cash point right here. The backend offer can be priced lower than the One Time Offer but it’s up to you to decide how much money you want to make.
Automated Emails
You can automate a series of sequential emails to your new subscribers, endorsing what I call “long term selling” products to them. You can also automate some reminders as well. Once again, Do Not Abuse your List!
Affiliate links
If you’re contributing an E-Book or report as a gift, you can still depend on this cash point by putting affiliate links in your written digital product and get paid for some more takers through your recommendations.
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Jump Start Your New Business With Joint Ventures
November 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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Try to answer the following questions first before continuing to read:
* Do you have an online business that you just completed making, with all the links performing properly and have an affiliate program but you need to jump-start it with no cash for promotion?
* Do you want your goods or services in front of thousands of customers within hours without spending a single penny for the offer?
Joint ventures are right for you if you answered “yes” to either if these questions. Joint ventures can give you free advertising and also targeted internet traffic.
Before getting eager, you should first know that joint ventures have advantages and disadvantages as it is with everything in life.
Firstly, you have to know what joint venture is. A joint venture is a collaboration or partnership by two or more companies for mutual gain, usually profit sharing. It’s that simple. You might ask what makes a joint venture very advantageous. Joint ventures allow you to use other people’s web assets, like targeted web traffic.
Another is that you can expand your credibility by joining up with different reputable, branded businesses.
With a joint venture you can obtain new leads to customers, get discounts on products and services, save money on business management expenses, you can have an advantage over your competition, get referrals from other businesses, save lots of time and money on advertising, gain valuable skills and knowledge, safeguard your cash flow and get rid of extra inventory of your products. Also, by saving money, you can get out of debt much quicker.
With joint ventures, you can discover hidden income streams, trade unproductive products for money making ones to your partners, increase sales and profits, learn new information from experts for free, increase income by more affiliates wanting you to sign up for their company, you can offer your products at a much lower rate than that of your competitions.
This is why a joint venture is a great method to jump-start your business, especially if you signed up as an affiliate.
What is the best joint venture partner?
The best joint venture partner would be newsletter owners and website owners that are related to your website product and services.
Those were the advantages of a joint venture.
The disadvantages are:
Locating newsletter and website owners that are related to your website product or services and getting them to accept your proposal. This can be quite a task for someone who’s new to joint ventures. This is because the internet is a very big place and finding a newsletter or website owner can be difficult for a beginner.
This can also be difficult for someone who doesn’t spend much time in the internet and only has an online business for making some extra bucks.
To find a responsive joint venture partners try to consider these following guides:
Since finding a joint venture can be difficult, you should do what most people do. Use search engines, type in keywords that are relevant to the products or services you are selling. After you typed in your search, you will get a list of results. Click on a link that you think would make a good potential joint venture partner. If they don’t accept your proposal then move on to the other sites.
Try to focus your search on the first two pages of the results, if you come up with no results, try using different keywords. If you see a potential joint venture partner, contact them by locating their contact information in their website.
If you don’t find anything on your search results, you can find some potential joint venture partners in forums, newsletter directories, newsgroups and membership sites.
Write an article about your product and services and post them in article directory websites, include a sentence that you are looking for joint venture partners. This way, a business will seek you out and not the other way around.
Once you find a business, email them about your joint venture proposal, tell the business owner the benefits of a joint venture. Explain to the business owner why it would be a win-win situation for both of your business.
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JV Giveaway Event Basics Explained
November 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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All smart Internet Marketers and list owners know that “the money is in the list? And I know you are one of them, too!
Therefore, every marketer who firmly believes in how much business, influential power and wealth a mailing list can bring are doing just about any and every way possible to build their mailing list.
That’s why you see marketers running advertising campaigns such as:
Pay-Per-Click
Ad Swaps,
Article Marketing,
Joint Ventures,
Affiliate Recruitment Drive,
Press Releases,
Traffic Exchanges,
Paid E-zine/Web Advertising, and
Much more than this list can bear!
And the savvy marketers often run these campaigns with one goal: build their mailing list! (Besides trying to sell, of course.)
Now some of these methods require low to high costs to run, which can be out of the option for beginning marketers who are on a tight budget. And one thing is for sure: all well-executed advertising and list-building campaigns require a high degree of skill.
In the last couple of years, a new method of list building was conceived primarily in the Internet Marketing circle. It’s called:
Give Away Events! Joint Venture Giveaway Events!
This is one of the recently discovered methods in Internet Marketing where list building is now made possible through the spirit of giving away!
It can be carried out as and when you ? or anyone ? like to.
The cost of hosting an event can be next-to-nothing.
And to join a Giveaway event in the shoes of a contributor or JV partner is zero cost.
But you can rake in hundreds, possibly thousands and potentially tens of thousands of subscribers through joining Giveaway events!
And to get kick started, you just need a gift of your own and an auto responder to suck fresh, red-hot leads in!
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How To Identify a Quality Giveaway Event
November 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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Remember! Not all Giveaway events are created equal.
Having said that, some Giveaway events are great, some good and the others – real bad.
In fact recently, a number of marketers believe that Giveaway events are beginning to become “wash outs” or diluted in their quality, and that they won’t work like a charm as they used to.
Now for the great news: Giveaway events are still workable and viable list building models ? as long as they are done right!
It’s really only a matter of joining the right Giveaway event. So what makes a good Giveaway event ‘good’.
Some important criteria you will want to look out for are listed below:
Giveaway Event Factor #1:
The Partners are Cooperative
In short, are the partners in the same event as you are willing to endorse the event to their mailing lists as required? While it’s hard to tell if this is going to be your first few times giving a try at building your list through such events, you can usually tell whether the partners are cooperative or not if the partners are somewhat closely related or working together with the host.
This substantial difference can be seen in both of what I call “Massive” Giveaway Events and “Mini” Giveaway events.
Massive Giveaway events are usually participated by more than 200-300 or more marketers in the same event, and its growth is often encouraged by the use of affiliate programs and cash opportunities through upgrading benefits.
Mini Giveaway events, on the other hand, are somewhat more “closed door” whereby the host is more selective of the partners he or she chose to work with.
While I cannot say which type of event is better than the other, from my experience, Mini events have most cooperative partners due to bias choosing and “closed door” invitation. Incidentally, it’s harder to enter a Mini Giveaway event as an outsider.
Massive ones may or may not produce good signup results depending on the partners who join in. If the event is full of unknown marketers or free riders, you probably can tell that it might not be executed well.
Giveaway Event Factor #2:
There Are Some Hard-Hitting Partners in the Same Event
If there are a couple of reputable partners joining in the same event, it would be a good chance to hitch a ride.
Important tip: In many cases, I learned that some top marketers usually just join in without putting in any effort in endorsing (which makes him or her a free rider, too). So if you learn that the specific marketer is that kind of person in nature, it’s probably not wise to join in that Giveaway event? because the biggest free rider is there.
Not all top marketers are like this, fortunately.
Giveaway Event Factor #3:
The Event Host is Trusted & Responsible
You can tell this if the event host regularly updates his or her partners on the event ? before, during and after.
The event host is considered responsible if he or she monitors the event carefully on a regular basis, and that he or she DOES indeed remove the free riders from the event promptly, justifying other active partners’ efforts.
Giveaway Event Factor #4:
The Event Has A Reputation
If the event has been heard of or recognized by many, this would be another attractive reason why you should join that Giveaway event! Many events are held annually or even more often.
Giveaway Event Factor #5:
You & The Partners Are All From The Same Niche
This way, the event would work successfully with everyone sharing subscribers of an almost same nature.
It would hardly work if all the partners come from a different background or niche. I mean, imagine pooling a gift to have people sign up for your “relationship dating” e-zine when all the other partners are referring subscribers from the Internet Marketing niche!
Giveaway Event Factor #6:
The Giveaway Event Is Hosted For A Limited Time Only
Giveaway events should be running for a limited time only, and the model is at its best that way. It increases the urgency of people to sign up for your gift while protecting the value of your gift (assuming it’s used specially on for this occasion).
My idea of limited time events are in the range of 5 to 7 days but fewer than 14 that’s for sure. When you hear of events running for ridiculous time length like 21-30 days, or even forever – you will do well NOT to join them because the above 2 success factors are ripped away owing to the long time length.
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Giveaway Events And List Building Tips
November 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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Always use the same gift.
Okay, not really always, but use it for a long period of time. Most marketers and active Giveaway junkies believe that they should always offer something new in every event.
While they have a valid point and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it, the problem is that you will find yourself drowned in creating new gifts all the time! This is going to be the case if you decide to participate in Giveaway events actively.
Believe me when I say that there are a lot of these events that you will want to participate in. Especially in the beginning when your list is just starting to grow. You definitely Do Not want to be creating a new product for each of them.
Secondly, you will find the issue of “double leads” becoming apparent when the same subscriber to your list downloads your second gift by subscribing to your other list.
When you send a promo email out to ALL of your list, the same subscriber can get annoyed by the same emails being thrown into his or her inbox repeatedly due to the numerous subscriptions – hence the 100% un-subscription!
Besides, there is literally an abundance of people online who probably have not heard of you much less downloaded your product so you can confidently comb the net for new subscribers with the same gift.
Just change your gift occasionally and sparingly and when you do, be sure you reward your current subscribers first so there’s no reason for them to opt into your list again the second time or so.
I actually have found that it will become necessary after a while to create new products. This is mainly because many events will be themed toward a particular niche as I mentioned earlier and will require related products Only!
However when a themed event comes along you can use that as a really good reason to create a new product if you want to participate. By doing this you will have several gifts to choose from as time goes by. Before long you will have gifts for almost any theme or niche imaginable.
Contribute your own gift.
That’s right. As in, YOU create it. Of course, you can opt for engaging ghostwriters or use Private Label Content but ultimately, it should be your name on the gift.
Don’t carelessly bundle a group of products with Resell Rights due to possible terms violation (unless you’re pretty sure about it).
But the encouraging factor about offering your own gift is because of the branding and privilege of being unique, and if you understand the true value of it, you can use your own product to squeeze way more than just subscribers or a little cash from each and every giveaway event you join.
You get what I mean.
Join 2-3 Giveaway events that are held at the same time where possible.
Not only can you build your list faster through this leverage, you only need to send one promo email to endorse ALL 3 events!
But of course? I have discover that I get a much better response when my mailings are for just one event. So, I try to decide if one of the events is worth a solo or will my efforts be better used combining them into one mailing.
Don’t overdo yourself with joining Giveaway events!
Otherwise, your email promotions will be full of sending subscribers to joining Giveaway events. And when that happens, your list might just be a haven for freeloaders and phoney leads.
So do it sparingly and at your own wise judgment. Speaking of phoney leads?
Comb your mailing list database once in a while for phoney leads.
Once in a while, spend some time combing your database for phoney leads. They should be deleted because they can warrant unwanted trouble such as potential theft, troublemakers and possibly hackers!
Since these people didn’t want to provide their true details in the first place, there’s no say as to whether they can be just as honest later on!
You can save some of your trouble upfront by banning common phoney names such as “abc”, “asdf”, “qwerty”, “zxcv”, “hjkl”, “aaa”, “123″, “abc”, and so on.
You might also want to ban and blacklist some domain names and known email addresses that just places your emails in their junk box, such as *@neverbox.com.
And last but not least?
Don’t forget to thank your new subscribers when they join in after the event!
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