Using Giveaways To Build Your List
Using Giveaways To Build Your List
Using giveaways to build your list is becoming an increasingly popular method, and providing you do it right it’s easy to generate a large amount of subscribers in very little time.
A giveaway event is basically a website where marketers upload products for other people to download for free. These products can be anything – eBooks, short reports, audio products, video products, etc.
In order to gain access to the products, people first have to sign up to the giveaway event (so the organiser of the giveaway gets to build their list) and then people also have to opt-in again to download any individual product (so the person who puts the product on the site gets to build their own list.)
Contributing a free product to a giveaway event can therefore be very lucrative. People sign-up to giveaway events because they’re looking for free products, and if you can provide a product that people want then you should generate plenty of new subscribers.
The most important thing is that you give away a QUALITY product. Many people upload products to giveaway events that are outdated, tired, and are generally rubbish.
You can’t offer crap. Sure you’ll get opt-ins, but if the product is rubbish then people will very quickly unsubscribe.
The other thing to consider is the quality of the giveaway event. Some giveaways seem to be put together in a great hurry, look very unprofessional, and have lots of rubbish products. Do you really want to be associated with a giveaway like that? Probably not.
It’s a good idea to promote the giveaway you’re participating in. By generating referrals to the giveway you will in most cases help your product appear more prominently in the giveaway. On some sites it is a requirement that you generate a certain amount of referrals before you are allowed to contribute a free product.
If you’d like more information on giveaways the following Push Buttton Giveaways might be quite helpful – http://www.craigdawber.com/recommends/PushButtonGiveaways
The last paragraph seems to sum it up for me. For the individuals who have “NO” list, that start up can be very difficult. It is very frustrating to enter a giveaway, even pay for an upgrade but then not obtain signups via your link.
Anyone having suggestions on how to solve this should pass a tip on.
Thanks for the feedback Carol, you should really start joining giveaways as you’ll pick subscribers anyway without promoting and then you’ll be able to mail the subscriber do get about your own and sites etc…
you could even do a blog post about how your list building efforts are going via the giveaways you have joined, leave links to the giveaways you joined…..then send an email to that small list you have build letting them know about your new blog post in a hope they will join the giveaways also
You have a perfect opportunity to do this as I know your a member of http://www.craigdawber.com/recommends/PushButtonGiveaways
Craig
Hi Craig,
Loved your post because I am a firm believer in Giveaways…
they are the biggest thing that built my list last year.
I haven’t done any yet this year because I’ve been busy with projects…just like you…but I will be in Stephanie Mulac’s huge Giveaway coming up
After cruising around on your site, I see your content is awesome. I am glad to see we have someone like your posting valuable information again…
Thanks!
Kathy
Hi Kathy,
Yes giveaways are a great way to build your list and get your name out there at the same time
Thanks for your comment
Craig
Hi Craig,
Great post, and something we were all talking about on Saturday at the meet up. I had a great list last year from a giveaway, reported at the meeting that I had never sold a product to anyone on that list, then came home from the meeting to find a sale from my latest mail out! I’m now completing a few products I’ve had on the back burner to enter the next few giveaways. It’s all go!
Very nice to meet you at the weekend. I learnt so much I intend to go often.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
Hi Mandy,
Congratulations on making your sale from your list, some people never get to that point so well done!
Let’s use that as a snow balling effect and build your list and make more sales….One thing I would advice is that when your building your list giving away freebies you should always upsell them straight away with an offer then syphon them off to another list so you have a list of buyers and not just freebie seekers.
I wish i’d done that from the start as it’s had a big effect on my income levels since I started doing it
Yeah great to meet you also at the weekend
Craig
Hi Craig,
you have great, Awesome Content here. Nice work. I’ll be back soon to learn some tricks from you. Thanks for that.
Sanya
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Glad you like it Sanya, nice blog you have as well
Hi Craig
I think if you enter a new product into a giveaway you’ve got a better chance of getting more sign ups because yours will stand out more.
Don’t you just get fed up of joining a giveaway and you see the same old stuff again and again I know I do.
Good to see you’ve started blogging again. Did Randy’s meet up give you a push?
Dawn
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Hi Craig,
I like your interesting post about giveaways. I tried one earlier in the year but, unfortunately, didn’t have much success and gained less than half a dozen subscribers. I have however now joined your Internet Marketing Apprentice program so hopefully will learn a better way to present and market my gift if I take part in any more Giveaways. Hopefully the IMA training will also cover what to do with subscribers once you get them as I still haven’t thought of anything to mail to the tiny subscriber list I have gained…
Ian.
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