One of easiest ways to start building a list is through giveaway events. What’s a giveaway? It’s a joint venture where several marketers get together to give away free products in exchange for email addresses of potential customers. These products can be anything: a short report, an ebook, graphics and templates, a software, a membership.
How does it work? Each partner has to promote the event in order to drive visitors and earn credits to have his own product shown. Many of these giveaway events bring together 200-300 partners, some of them already with a large list. All this people promoting that single event tend to build huge amounts of traffic, which makes it one of the best places to present your product or offer.
How can you benefit from that? No matter what promotion methods you’re using to build your list, you’d hardly manage to bring as many visitors to your signup page as you can in a Giveaway event. So take advantage of the opportunity, join several giveaways, add your gifts, a signup page and start building your list right away!
If you think it’s easier said than done, I can prove you’re wrong.
Product: You probably have something in your hard drive – a report, a script – that you can give away. If not, join a giveaway event and download some stuff. Then signup for another giveaway event as a contributor and offer one of the products you downloaded. Just make sure you hold the rights to do it.
Signup page (also called squeeze page): You can get a squeeze page template here or you can join Instant Squeeze Page Generator and build your pages for free.
Autoresponder: You will need an autoresponder service to manage your list and your followup messages. You can signup for aweber or getresponse for around $20 a month or you can use norabots for only $9.95 (accepts Paypal).
Follow up messages: if you have minimum writing skills, you can write a series of follow up messages yourself. If you want to go the easy way, have a look at the package that’s being offered here.
Giveaway events: join as many as you can, if you want to build your list fast. A list of Giveaway events can be obtained here.
Now get down to action. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Your list won’t either. But giveaway events will help you build your list in a faster way than any other method available on the Net.
