Queen Bee Giveaway now open for Contributors
The Queen Bee Giveaway is now open for Contributors, will run from April 15 to April 30. Upgrade cost is only $9.99.
When I signed up I had some difficulty. For what ever reason I did not get a confirmation email when I signed up with my gmail account. I tried again with another account, and got an email with my password, but no confirmation. I checked my spam folder and no notice there either. But the next morning I did find it in the Spam folder. So it just may have been a slow email process? Anyway it finally came, so all is well.
This event is using the Ultimate JV Giveaway Script v4.2.5 and I had similar problems with another GiveAway using it recently as well. Not sure what the source of the problem is, but I will not promote a GiveAway I can’t join. Nor would I send my readers to one without at least an advance warning that there could be a problem.
That said, I was able to get in. The upgrade on this one is cheap. I didn’t upgrade because of the grief. But you may want to. At the very least, sign up and stick in your mainstay giveaway offer, and get some new additions to your list. Join the Queen Bee.
29 March 2009, 9:11 am
Yes, Earl, I agree.
I have had similar problems with some of the giveaways myself. Unfortunately I wasn’t as proactive as you and don’t remember what giveaway platform they were running on.
I have also noticed that when referring members to these giveaways that the people that sign up as members, only about half of them are able to complete the opt-in process.
I have even had these people come back to me wanting to know why the did not get their information. Of course I cannot help them other than to give them the support information of the giveaway. This makes me look bad and I don’t like that!
For that reason, I am with you, and will not support these giveaways.
In one particular instance I tried to let the owner of the giveaway know that something was wrong. Just by looking at the stats of the giveaway, it was painfully obvious that a large percentage of the people that tried to opt-in were not able to complete the process. Well, as you can guess, I was basically ignored and told that there was nothing wrong, even after I proved that there was.
Just an FYI: the problem may be more with the autoresponder that is being used than with the actual giveaway script. Didn’t pay any attention to that either at the time it happened. Now I wish I had.
Thanks for bringing this up as it is definitely something that you will need to watch out for.
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29 March 2009, 1:58 pm
Earl,
The upgrade is cheap $9.99, but if you decide to see first inside, then it will cost $17 to do it on the inside. Personally I don’t like that but it seems becoming the standard for most.
Fred
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29 March 2009, 6:06 pm
Earl – you are right that there’s a lot of giveaways with technical problems, but it’s not always (or even usually) the script. A lot of less-experienced marketers are jumping on the bandwagon, buying scripts and running giveaways, without taking the time to learn the scripts properly or getting help from those who do.
That being said, though, there’s no excuse for an event manager not to find and correct the problems if a number of people contact them with the same issues. Some can’t be fixed, like the habit of certain big ISPs to over-do the filtering of e-mails their subscribers receive – but your use of a gmail account shows this wasn’t the case here – gmail is probably the best there is for these type of events, as it is for most reputable marketing-related activities online.
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29 March 2009, 6:40 pm
This was definitely a new giveaway that I had not heard of. Nice to know that you are paying attention to these giveaways and informing us as to the problems that may be encountered. Thanks.
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29 March 2009, 8:50 pm
Earl sorry to hear that you had problems with it and it’s unfortunate to hear that others are experiencing similar issues.
I do agree that if I were to have problems with the sign up process in an event, I might be hesitant to promote it just because of that fact.
In most of these events the process is fairly seamless and there are no issues and the only thing I have come across is when I tried to enter an offer in one and the script ‘truncated’ the code. The owner of the event didn’t know how to tweak the script, so Doug’s comment about marketers not knowing how to run the script is very true.
I wish you luck in the future with other events.
Ron
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29 March 2009, 9:02 pm
Ya, scripts can always cause issues that you just can’t predict sometimes.. but it’s how they are handled by the site owner that makes the difference.
Many times it could be an autoresponder issue when emails are late, and there’s not much that can be done about it from the site owners view. They can start using a different AR, but that doesn’t help those that are waiting for an email from the old AR.
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30 March 2009, 4:05 am
Now where was that other post I saw recently about the importance of focus and persistence Earl. I can’t remember off the top of my head, but they are important to remember.
That said, I think I would personally be a bit short tempered with scripts that don’t work, particularly when they are for short lived events like giveaways..
Cheers,