Have Giveaways Passed Their Sell By Date and The Value Of IMTrustworthy
Have Giveaways Passed Their Sell By Date?
I’m sure anyone involved in building their list using JV Giveaways will have noticed there are probably more events running now than ever before.
I have one myself at the moment with Chris Shaw – The Cyber Monday Giveaway which is open to members now:
http://besteverjvgiveaways.com/cmg11/go/3
The downside of there being a lot of events is that most people are not going to join them all, and there are really too many to promote.
I’ve found that promoting to get members loses me more subscribers than I get back.
For example I promoted to around 5000 subscribers, got 7 member signups to an event but had around 20 unsubs, so now I normally promote to contributors, and get only a small number of members into events via my blog and my list of events open to members which I link to in emails.
This is probably the reason why a lot of people don’t promote events – there’s not enough WIIFM.
Competitions can help eg cash prizes, co-hosting a future event, or promotion to the event lists.
In most events a lot of people are not promoting at all though, even those with fairly
big lists, which is unfair on those with smaller lists who do have signups.
I think a ‘pay or promote’ policy which some people use may be the way to go ie contributors have to pay for an upgrade, or promote – if they are
free and dont get signups then they will be downgraded.
Does anyone have any other ideas and how to boost Giveaway Events?
The Value Of IMTrustworthy
Anyone can setup a website, and many give you no idea who is running it, so how can you tell if it is genuine?
One way to gain credibility and insure people know who owns a site is to use a seal from IM Trustworthy – I’ve just added on to the top right of my blog. I’m going to add these to my other sites as well, and people will be able to see other marketers comments about me (only one at the time of writing but I hope to have more soon).
This is my profile – I think only members can view it, but it’s free to join:
https://imtrustworthy.com/marketers.php?searchfield=14394
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No idea how one could boost Giveaway Events, but one thing’s for sure: something new needs to come , some brainstorming, thinking out of the box, you get the general idea.
Everything is possible, we’re just not there yet when it comes to understanding how to actually make it possible. There’s a workaround to any problem.
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Hi Keith,
We tried to have a contest with high dollar prizes to boost our event, but you bashed our event for doing this.
Best regards,
Steve Yakim
Hey Keith, thanks for the post.
I think you’re right. There’s quite a few events going on at the moment and I suppose people are becoming a bit more wise to the whole concept of them.
I’ll admit, I’ve never run one so don’t have any stats to back this up.
How are you promoting your giveways? Are you doing solo ads etc?
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Hi Keith! I think Giveaways can be an effective way to attract some clients. But you should think of Giveaways that they can benefit out of it.
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Hi Keith
Maybe have a dedicated sign-up specifically for people who want to get Giveaway notices and nothing else? So when they do an extra sign-up, they know that is the only thing that it is for?
I got something like that from a big marketer in his newsletter. Not for giveaways but for something else….basically he put in his newsletter “I am going to have a seperate mailing just “for this”. If you want it, go here to sign up…if not do nothing and you will not get those notices.
Also – I am also a big advocate of IM Trustworthy…..great program!
Mary
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Great meetup last night mate and really good chatting with you.
What you’ve done and achieved is really impressive and inspirational.
Cheers,
Des.
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I think that there is still some scope for givaways, however, when you buy something for $9 and the “free” stuff with it totals “over $999 of ebooks” you have to really stop and think, people are not stupid!
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Hi Keith,
The problem with giveaways is they are much easier to do because the software is now available at a very inexpensive price. I was the second person to do a giveaway 3 1/2 months after Mark Hendricks did his first 12 Days of Christmas back in 2003.
I wrote the sales letter for the first Easter JV Giveaway and help run several other giveaways including Henry Gold’s 117 Work At Home Giveaway.
Back when I started doing giveaways there was no software and then in 2005 Henry Gold came out with software for himself. In 2006 I ran my first Everyone Will Win Giveaway and got over 22,000 subscribers and this was without software.
3 month later I teamed up with Brad Smith, Joel Christopher, and Chuck Daniel for another Everyone Will Win Giveaway. Joel did not want to do the giveway manually so we got Henry Gold’s software and it was a nightmare with built in bottle necks and no way for all 4 partners to receive the list.
After a bunch of reprogramming and a bunch of software problems this run of the giveaway only created a little over 10,000 subscribers mainly caused by the software problems. I had to work harder with the software for fewer subscribers than I did without the software.
So I started to create my own giveaway software and so did Brad Smith. Since we both were just about finished with our software at the same time, I let Brad launch his software for sale. Brad Smith was the first to sell software designed specially for giveaways.
There have been a few other people create giveaway software since, but 2007 was the beginning of the downfall of giveaways because the process was now automated.
Before 2007, there were only 4 or 5 giveaways a year and they were a big deal. Today not so much because of the huge number of 15 to 20 giveaways every month.
Mark Hendricks just did another 12 Days of Christmas but I’m sure he did not do as well as he did when he did his first back in December of 2003.
My software was written in a modular format and I have since developed it into a content management script that I will be releasing next year.
If I do a giveaway now, it is mainly so my software can learn new autoresponder form codes.
This has been a little history on what has happened to giveaways and why software may not always be good. You also know who the main giveaway players were back in the day when they were very productive list builders.
I hope you liked this little bit of history,
Steve Yakim
Giveaways have pros and cons: it’s ok to give back to your readers, especially since they’ve brought traffic to your site. I don’t like this action because it takes too long to verify entries and sometimes winners don’t even say “thanks”, it’s quite annoying.
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how current is the info in Free-Listings-Report.com?
Is the info in the paid report still valid as Jan 2012?
Ideas and how to boost Giveaway Events? Be Trustworthy !
Most of those that hit my inbox are NOT trustworthy. My inbox is deluged with people wanting to give me something free. Most of the offers are just people wanting to collect an email address, and most of the content is nonsense. PLR stuff that’s 5 years old with new graphics, ebooks that state the obvious, tools that waste your time if you use them as they don’t work to begin with.
So how do we find the few things worth keeping from the chaf ? IT really comes down to the marketers that will break the mold and only email offers they actually use themselves and will swear they work, not just an other JV Push. Oh and here is a radical thought … you want to build a relationship stop being a pest. Email me maybe twice and month with something really useful not twice a day with junk offers.
I used to participate in JV Giveaways and as a newbie I loved them. There was so MUCH free stuff I could never understand why they took place…. then a few years back I learned I could contribute and build my list. It was a bit like find out Father Christmas [cough] not [cough]. Nowadays I’m a little worried about damaging my list but maybe need to test it, not overdo it and segment my lists a little bit better to make them work and get results.
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