The purpose of joining a giveaway as a contributor is to get people to sign up to your list.
The way to do this is to upload a good gift, a gift that people will be glad they downloaded. They will then be quite happy to be on your list.
To do this you will first of all need a free product, a squeeze page, a download page and an autoresponder to look after your list.
Sounds complicated doesn’t it but after you have done it once it becomes easier and you will have also learned how to do all the above which you will surely need as your business progresses.
So let us begin:
Creating A Free Product
The quickest and easiest way to get started is to take a free ebook, PDF report, video/ audio file or software that you get from somewhere else on the net, and use this, first having made sure that it has giveaway/resell rights. This means most of the work has already been done for you and it is quick and easy to set up.
However, you can use my The Useful Tools And Resources Report to get you started!
Alternatively, here are two resources where you can download free products:
Your eventual aim should be to create your own product as this is unique, you have control over it and it adds to your brand.
I have found that you also get more sign-ups from an original product. You can create an original product or rework a PDF product but that is a subject for another day
Setting Up Your Mailing List
Whatever you are doing with internet marketing, if it involves a mailing list you must have an autoresponder to handle your list.
There are free autoresponders out there but I strongly recommend that you get an account with one of the big mailing list providers. Free autoresponders come with much advertising, poor email deliverability rates and indifferent service.
Like a large percentage of marketers I use AWeber which is what most internet marketers use as it is without doubt one of the best, if not the best (this can depend on what you are using your autoresponder for in many ca
ses). Another excellent autoresponder is Autoresponse but there are other excellent autoresponders.
I use AWeber and I have no complaints whatsoever. The monthly subscription is $19 and in my view well worth it.
Creating A Squeeze Page
You can download free squeeze/landing pages.
You can Click Here or just search for ” free landing pages”.
Best advice is to keep it simple and quick to use so that anyone that comes to your page is in no doubt about why they are there and what they have to easily do to get their free download.
Here is a sample of a simple squeeze page:
All that you need to do now is create a Thank you and Download page.
AWeber automatically provides a default “thank you page”, which I’m sure everyone is familiar with, so you can start with that:
Typically this page thanks the subscriber and tells them what to do next.
Now you should submit your free gift to as many giveaways as you can – and build your list! Good Luck!
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