The Giveaway is Back. While I feared it may have died last year in a flood of same old events vanilla events it appears to be alive and kicking due in large part to Rodger Hyatt and friends.
He has put together two very successful events in the past few months and has just announced a third which is now open for Joint Venture partners called EZ-IM Giveaway.
The secret to Rodger’s approach is that he has discovered ways to make it worthwhile for people to promote the events. And he has built a huge following of large and small marketers to participate in the process. If you are building a list and have a product you can contribute, you too should join as a JV partner.
In his last effort with Gary Simpson and Stephanie Mulac, called the Self Improvement Giveaway I had 130 people download my gift and join my list.
Now these days, I sometimes get that many and more from some of the ad swaps I do, but if you don’t already have a list in the thousands or tens of thousands, a hundred plus people is pretty good. Had I upgraded, (and I wish I had) I could have offered three gifts and I probably would have easily double that number.
Now I going to repeat the old saying here. Bear with me. The money is in the list. There I said it. It’s actually in the relationship you build with your list, but the saying is a truism. One I heard but didn’t fully understand and more unfortunately did not take action on as soon as I should have.
Once I did, through giveaways and then ad swaps my income has dramatically improved. If you are relatively new to internet marketing and haven’t focused on list building yet. Start.
And a good way is via Giveaways. What ever your niche, create a short report you can giveaway. Create a Short Squeeze page, and get your product listed in the EZ-IM Giveaway. It opens on February 5th at 10:00AM EST. Join today and get your product ready if you don’t already have one.
So why are these events successful? Well in large part because they have been designed to encourage people with lists to actually promote them. The upgrade money flows to the people who recruit the JV’s, which encourages participation. This increases the variety of products offered so there is even more reason for members to go to the event and shop for gifts they can actually use.
I don’t know what Rodger and his partners, The Mutrie Boys, Charles and Philip, have in mind for this event, but I am expecting some mid event promotions to encourage promotion by the JV’s. This is good for everybody.
In the past on most giveaways the bulk of the action occurred on the first few days and then next to nothing there after. In the SI event I was getting sign-ups all through the event, and a big burst toward the end. It was gratifying.
I don’t normally write about Giveaways on this blog. I have another where I regularly post current and upcoming events. http://AskEarlAbout.com/GiveAways
I do so today, because these guys have made a difference that can be of real value to you. This event will get a lot of traffic, and if you have an attractive report that highlights your niche, I can promise you will get a nice list of prospects. If you don’t have a report yet, use this event as the reason to create it. You have a few days to do so. Get it done. You can use it over and over again. Sign up today and get busy.