When you get involved with internet marketing you hear over and over again – “the money is in the list”!
What this means in fact is that when you promote your own products, or another person’s product as an affiliate, to your list then you have people available to sell to at any time .
When you hear about the big gurus such as Mike Filsaime who have a list or lists running into hundreds of thousands then you realize that this is how they make their (large) sums of money.
However, it is notable that these “gurus” started at zero the same as everyone else!
Well, this is all very nice but if you don’t have a list where do you begin?
You have to build your list one at a time and to be quite honest it is slow and difficult!
The best advice is to start as soon as possible as then you will have begun the long but very important process.
How Do I Start?
One of the most effective ways to get started is to join in JV Giveaways as a contributor.
JV Giveaways are free membership websites where many people will join contributor’s mailing lists in return for free downloads which are usually take the form of eBooks, but can also be videos, software, resale rights or mp3 recordings
By and large, these events are centered around Internet Marketing but as they are seen to be successful then giveaways for other niches are starting to be seen.
The Giveaway site is a site setup by internet marketers whereby basically they agree to use their existing lists to help build the lists of the members involved.
This works when each contributing member submits one or more of their products complete with squeeze pages to the Giveaway, which requires a sign up to their list in order to download the product.
They also agree to promote the event to their existing list via their auto responder, Twitter, Facebook or any other means which can publicize the Giveaway.
What happens when the Giveaway starts?
When the Giveaway opens and the event is promoted then a lot of eager marketers join up for free in order to download these free gifts. These giveaways can run from anything from a week, two weeks, a month – and sometimes even longer.
Needless to say as a contributor you can also download any product that catches your eye.
I would like to suggest that if you have never been involved in a giveaway then first go and take look at an existing giveaway, look around and even download something that you see and would like and by doing this go through the process which will make it all easier to understand.
Click on the two “Massive Monthly Giveaway” images at the top of the page.
(These are actually two different giveaways!)
To sum up this is a basic overview of what a Giveaway is and more detail will appear in my next post.
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