Dear Friend,
A staggering amount of today’s successful marketers got their start in Internet Marketing by participating in giveaway events…
Thanks to giveaway events they now have “work in your underwear” freedom and make money whenever they want to by pushing the autoresponder’s SEND BUTTON!
There is no easier, cheaper way to add subscibers to your list than by contributing to a giveaway event…
.. BUT.. HOSTING YOUR OWN event, is BY FAR the fastest way to build your email list.
Giveaways have changed over the years though.. those MASSIVE events with hundreds of contributors (most of which don’t even promote) are just NOT as effective as they used to be.
Now-a-days.. it’s like pulling teeth trying to convince guys with big lists to contribute a gift and promote your event.. they’ve come to realise that the “average” giveaway event is not even worth their time to even hit “reply” to tell you NO! .. because they get invites EVERY DAY… and 99% of the events SUCK!
Not to mention.. most of these events are run with an Admin squeeze on the front end so the people that contributors are sending, HAVE TO sign up to the Admin list.. JUST TO SEE the gift page.. most guys with big lists are just not into having their list “skimmed off the top” like that anymore.
BUT.. there ARE events that these power promoters will ALWAYS participate in.. and PROMOTE HARD..
.. it’s the “MINI Giveaway Events”
You’ve surely seen events like this.. there are usually only 15-50 gift contributors.. and they are ALL “well known” marketers with email lists in the multiple THOUSANDS.. and they promote multiple times.
Now don’t be short sighted.. stay with me on this.. just because you’re not “skimming” all the contributors’ lists off the top.. doesn’t mean you won’t end up with a massive list.
You can make your own gift listing “sticky”.. at the top of the gift page.. so your Admin gift is the first one everybody sees.. so you WILL get the most subscribers (provided it’s a decent gift worth opting in for ;-))
Running your own Mini Giveaway event is a WIN-WIN-WIN situation..
– You WIN – because you attract contributors who won’t participate in crappy events.. and they WILL promote hard.
– Your contributor partners WIN – because you provide a quality event with big list owners participating and don’t “skim” their lists on the front end.
– The visitors WIN because they don’t have to opt-in to some stranger’s list just to see the gift page, don’t have to wade through pages and pages of utter CRAP downloads for a few half-decent morsels.. and they get great gifts from top marketers who they can actually learn something from.
The Mini Giveaway Events I’ve run have added 300- 500 new SUBSCRIBERS to my list in the very FIRST DAY and 1500-2500 by the end of the events!
And now, I’ve made an option available to run similar events on a WordPress Platform that is unbeatable…
The install process for the script needs to be as easy as possible.
You need to be able to customize the settings for your event. One Size Does Not Fit All!
The event needs as much automation as possible. From signing up contributors to sorting and ranking the gifts display.
You need to be able to guard your event from cheaters.
The software you use to run your giveaway needs to be cost effective.
It needs to be easy to upgrade the software
The install process takes a rocket scientist to figure out. Upload here, chmod this, chmod that, ect…
Either there is no customization available, or you need to hire someone to do it for you because it is so complicated.
You spend your time updating the gift ranking page or adding contributors that you do not have time for anything else.
There will always be people out there that try to cheat.
In these times you do not want to spend hundreds of dollars on something if you do not KNOW you will have a good ROI.
The upgrade process takes a PHD to figure out. Upload here, chmod this, chmod that, make sure you do not overwrite this or you will break everything, ect…
Scott Case
#1 Selling “Ultimate JV Giveaway Script” Developer