Each of the events below are looking for new Joint Venture Partners.  Contributing one or more gifts to events like this is a great way to build your list. You can use the same gift for more than one event, so sign up for all three. Just remember, you need to promote these to your existing list.

Father’s day GiveAway  Opens    5/31     http://cli.gs/jSY6B1

Ed Reuben’s bday   Opens  6/2     http://cli.gs/WSWemX

Memorial day  Opens   5/25     http://cli.gs/zBPZnP

Fight MS

Multiple Sclerosis Fundraiser & Giveaway 2009 is open and ends April 24th, 2009 . The Giveaway/fundraiser is run by Scott & Toni Drake, they intend to Present to The National Multiple Sclerosis Society any Money raised from this Online Fundraiser and any Offline Donations they receive. Help support this cause and your own by visiting this event. Your downloading gifts will encourage contributors to support the event in future years, even if you don’t buy any of the upgrades or one time offers.

Contributors

Still the biggie on the scene. The Easter Giveaway promises to be highly promoted and as such a huge list builder. Sign up and get your products in.  Remember there are three levels of upgrades.  But if none appeal to you, you can still buy the required points to list your gift once you join by buying points for as little as $17.

I think it will be worth a lot more, and if the upgrade bonuses fit you and your business model, by all means take advantage. This one promises to be huge.

For a totally free event with a modest upgrade the Back to Basics event has a lot going for it. Particularly if you have a product that is oriented to newbies. It’s unique aspect is that it doesn’t have a set closing date. It is intended to serve as a place for new people to come to get the basics they need to get started for free. This is an ideal time to start and build a solid relationship with new people coming into the industry. If you recognize the opportunity for what it is, you will have a chance to be a guru to new people and their initial and most long term advisor if you keep helping them as they grow their business. Don’t miss out on this one. If you think you can help someone succeed faster because of all the mistakes you made, (and who hasn’t) this is the place to go.

No fancy banners yet, but a link worth clicking: Back to Basics

It was a spur of the moment event, but what a success! Russel Brunson may be getting older, but its clear he has a lot of friends. Not only has his Birthday bash brought out a ton of gifts, perhaps the largest of the year, it’s brought a lot of traffic as well.

My personal list has added about 30 new names in each of the first two days and today’s preliminary totals look as strong. Now that might not seem like a lot, but if it keeps up at this rate I will be close to 200 for a week. I bought the one time offer and upgraded for $17. That works out to 8.5 cents per new name on my list.

Now I don’t buy the $1 per month per list member some folk pass on as gospel in the community as the potential sales value of a list, but let me assure you eight and a half cents is a price I am more than willing to pay.

There are giveaways and there are giveaways. I subscribe and participate in a number of different sponsor’s events. They tend to draw the same promoters and thus the same people event after event. And they keep producing for me, so I keep doing them.

This event is different because Russell doesn’t normally do them. Since Jason James recent product launch which was aimed at niche giveaways, the number of new giveaways has exploded.
I will continue to try to report as many of these as I can here.

If you are serious about list building (and you should be,) you will want to join as many as you can. But the bottom line of this post is, keep an eye out for events like Russells, where a non traditional leader is involved. These are clearly worth popping for the upgrade, assuming it’s reasonable.

If you haven’t visited Russell Giveaway yet do so. Not only are their different people promoting it, there are a lot of different gifts that aren’t on everyone else’s events. Heck I’ve got a new one of my own out there.

The Free PLR Giveaway just launched and I strongly recommend you check it out.

http://askearlabout.com/Free-PLR.php

This is one of the best giveaways because you get full PLR with no restrictions to all of the items and the participants involved are all first rate.  Here are a few of the  people participating.

* Doug Champigny
* Willie Crawford
* Paul Evans
* Joel Osborne
* Jeff Dedrick
* Kathe Lucas and Denise Hall
* Kez Engineer
* Nicole Dean
* Mike Mazzela
* Mike Paetzold
* Ginny Culp

http://askearlabout.com/Free-PLR.php

All of the products come with full plr so you can do anything you want with them.

Unlike some PLR there are no restrictions what so ever.

You can…

* give them away
* sell them at any price
* add them as bonuses
* bundle them with other products
* add them to a membership site
* just for a few ways you can use them.

Use your imagination, rewrite them in your own words and turn them into articles.

http://askearlabout.com/Free-PLR.php

Closes March 9th at midnight Eastern Time

Items I downloaded were a set of  Word Press Themes from Joel Osborne and a collection of audio files offered by  Ginny Culp. I hope to use the audio as intros and exists for my pod casts. And I have been searching for a good set of easy to use word press themes to use for niche marketing.

There were a lot of other great items, but I have stopped downloading everything, and instead foucs on what I can use at the moment.  But I was sorely tempted by the big one time offer. In fact, I may yet go back and grab it. Too much good material to pass up.

This might not be appropriate for you.

But rather than deciding that for you, I feel obligated to share it with you. Then you can decide.

As you know, I am a big believer in the maxim, “Give and you shall receive.”

That’s why I promote Giveaway Events, and products like Jeff Dedrick’s Instant Bonus Pages.

Now while I have benefited from participating in Giveaway events, the organizer of such events does way better. They end up with everyone on their list. Contributors and Members. And they know which contributors promoted the events and which sat on their hands.

Think about the power of that.

Now, Imagine you were the promoter. Not in internet marketing where a new Giveaway event launches every other day, but in your niche. Whether that niche is online or offline, you could take the same free giveaway idea and over night build a massive list of both people interested in the niche and joint venture partners who you can work with to mutual benefit.

Now I said overnight, and the truth is it won’t actually happen overnight. It will take effort and a strategy and follow through.

Frankly, I don’t know if you have the vision and maxi to make it happen. Now I’m not saying you don’t. I’m saying I don’t know if you do. Do you?

Well to make it happen, it will take that maxi, some determination and a workable plan. And that’s the reason for today’s post.

Jason James has just released his “Giveaway Riches” Manual. This is your key to unlocking the locked door that is holding your back.

If you access this material and put the plan into action, you will be able to use the power of the Giveaway to catapult yourself into a dominant position in whatever your niche market is.

The cost of this key is only $37 during launch week, which began today Tuesday February 3, 2009 at noon EST. The price will be going up next week and then again the following week.

If you have been exploring internet marketing while working in another niche or job, imagine the power of being the first to bring to your field the power of the giveaway. This is the type of technology – the type of idea – that can take a 1or two person company to the top of the heap. By passing the established “Old Style” firms virtually overnight.

Do you have the guts to transform your industry?

Those who accept the dare and take action will be winners.

The innovators who lead their sector, their industry, their niche out of the current economic downturn.

They will be the ones others will marvel at and wonder how they managed to become so successful overnight.

And the answer to that question will be, as it always is… you had a plan and you took action.

Now I still don’t know if you are up to this. Frankly I have my doubts. But if you are go to Giveaway Riches

Four Giveaway Topics to be covered today.

These include Current and soon to open GiveAways including some that want you to make a contribution. They are at the bottom.

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First I want to discuss a new free product that was released this past week that will greatly enhance your chances to profit on your Giveaway Gifts and any other products you may be marketing. It’s called Instant Bonus Pages and was released by my Badger State Neighbor, Jeff Dedrick.  Odds are you got multiple emails about it. If you grabbed the product like I did, skip to the next topic. If not, let me tell you what it does and why you want it.

As all experienced Giveaway fans know, you don’t want everything that’s offered for free.  But this is one item that most of you will want to grab.  If you haven’t signed up and started using it, you’re leaving bucks on the table every time someone downloads one of your products, grabs one your giveaway gifts or joins your list!

The concept is really simple – you use this new tool to add 1-6 free bonuses to your pages – reports that people can download for no outlay.  If they choose to also grab an “One Time Offer” (OTO) while they’re there, you make a commission.  Once set up, you can add code your product delivery pages, thank you pages and more in seconds. This is a real time saver, and it looks great.

This really makes a lot of sense for any offering, but especially so for Giveaway event offerings.  I was just getting ready to create my own “standard set” of such bonuses, when this came out. I have already added it to all my Giveaway products and will make changes to all my for sale products this week.  I expect to make thousands from it this year.  Get it now, this link opens in a new page.  You can come back here afterward. Instant Bonus Pages

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Next Tuesday, I and a few hundred other Joint Venture partners will be sending you emails about Jason James’ new GiveAway related product.  I previously mentioned it here, while I was trying to recruit some additional Joint Venture Partners for Jason. I also talked it up on my MicroBusinessSpecialist.com/blog because it will help take this wonderful internet marketing tool to entire new audiences.

You will hear from me on Tuesday, and I expect to write it up next week in more detail once it’s launched.

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Up Coming Giveaways

Adding a report, video, or software product to a free giveaway is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to accelerate your list building.   Target your gifts to your niche.  That way, you will attract the people you want to have on your list.  This builds the value and responsiveness of your list.

You can use the same product in multiple giveaways. I do. That way, your overall list has fewer duplicates.

I recommend that you pay for the upgrade on most events, if you can afford it.  (It is usually very inexpensive.) This tends to get your offering a higher placement, and the chance to offer more free gifts. Rules vary by Giveaway.  So be sure to check them out before you pop for the extra bucks. Know what you are getting in return.  (And be sure to add Instant Bonus Pages to your thank you and delivery pages.)

System GiveAway This is one I am pinning my hopes on to revolutionize Internet Marketing GiveAways.  Time will tell.  The sponsor has been on vacation this week, resting up for the wild ride he expects during the coming week or so until it launches on February 17th. So far the total number of items offered is a bit light, but I expect that to pick up dramatically once he’s back and beating the bushes.    This one is different, and while I think it will hit a home run, the system is untested.  I bought the $27 package, but if you are new to giveaways, stick to the free package or the cheaper upgrade option.

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St. Patricks Day Giveaway

This is one where I tend to buy the $17 upgrade. It allows more products, and guarantees that your product gets seen, even if you are not able to recruit a ton of members.

Launches on: 02/28/2009
Closing Doors: 03/31/2009

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Niche Giveaway 3 Will Focus only on Products involved with Social Marketing and Web 2.0. If you have one or more products so targeted, this could be an excellent venue for you.

Launches on: 02/20/2009
Closing Doors: 03/20/2009

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Launches on: 02/02/2009
Closing Doors: 02/28/2009

Current GiveAways

Opening yesterday was the 2009 Give Away Event. I don’t like their banner, but it’s a worthwile GiveAway.

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This is a short timer – so you may want to check this one out today.  The books say to run them short, but more and more people run them longer.  When they were few and far between that may have made more sense.  Maybe is still does as I am giving ink to the fact that you need to act Now to get in on this one.

Launches on: 01/25/2009
Closing Doors: 02/03/2009

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Be my sweetheart, and check this one out too!

Launches on: 01/31/2009
Closing Doors: 02/28/2009

Adding a report, video, or software product on a free giveaway is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to building a list. If your gift is targeted to your particular niche, it is likely to attract people interested in your niche, which makes them an ideal list to follow-up with for paid products.

You can use the same product in multiple giveaways. I do. That way, you list had fewer duplicates, at the same time I recommend that you upgrade on most of these, if you can afford it, (It is usually very inexpensive.) This tends to get your offering a higher placement, and the chance to offer more free gifts. Rules vary by Giveaway.

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Launches on:     01/31/2009
Closing Doors:   02/28/2009

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The System Giveaway: New Interesting Format Just opened of Contributors. Not much up here yet, But as I have posted I think this new format shows a lot of promise. I will be getting my offerings up soon, I opted in at the $27 level, although their is a free level and and in between level as well. If you are a contributor, I encourage you to give this one a chance. I think it will prove to be an effective format that will advance the entire industry.

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Renate has recently suffered a major health setback. But the Giveaway is proceeding with the help of some of her friends. A tribute to international friendship in the internet world.
Launches on:     01/20/2009
Closing Doors:   01/31/2009

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NEW To My List

Launches on:     01/25/2009
Closing Doors:   02/03/2009

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Launches on:     02/02/2009
Closing Doors:   02/28/2009

A few day’s ago I wrote about Jason James new effort to take the giveaway concept thats worked so well for the internet marketing niche into other arneas.  I am looking forward to his product which will be coming out in early February.

But I was blown away this morning when I learned of William Clement’s new System Giveaway.  He has retooled the cookie cutter approach that has been the standard for so many recent GiveAways and I predict he will blow away the old model.

There is a school of thought that explains the rise of European states to world dominance in the 16th -20th centuries, that focuses on the war like nature of the varied nation states.  The theory holds that competition between them lead to better and more armaments to the fight their incessant wars that they ultimately achieved technological superiority.  The same is likely true online in the internet marketing niches.

People keep coming up with better ideas to improve on the old.  Let’s hear it for creative competition, much better than wars, don’t you think.

Check out the System GiveAway, at  http://askearlabout.com/Giveaways/SystemGiveaway.php

The first thing you will see is a slightly breathless Bill Clements touting the ten major improvements his new system offers over the traditional Giveaway.  This isn’t a little tweak here and there, he is making some revolutionay changes that will make these events more accesible and I beleive more valuable for both contributors and those who download products.

For a start, when members come to the site, when it opens mid February, they won’t be staring at a OTO as soon as they log in.  I am convinced many people I have referred to giveaways in the past have been confused and even pissed off by an offer to buy something when I told them they were going to a Free Giveaway.  I gotta believe many of them just clicked away in disgust never having found the link to bypass the offer.

As a contributor and promoter of these events, I have been less than motivated by the typical JV Contest.  I know my smallish sized list has no chance against the big guys. Now I understand that the conventional contest is intended to goad on the top producers to promote an event.  I also understand that works to the advanatage of us littler guys who get a chance to share part of the big guys lists. But still it would be nice to have a chance to win.   The System Giveaway offers a lottery, so that each new JV you sign up gets you an “entry” to win the big prize.  The biggies still have an advantage, but this time I have a chance.

Time will tell, if that causes some of the biggies to not compete, but it sure should serve as a motivation for all the smaller guys to buy into the promotion.

They also have an innovative way to eliminate at least one of the squeeze pages in the system, which should eliminate some of the drop off  that occurs with each hoop people have to jump through to participate.

I haven’t tested it out yet, but it sound promising.

Another big improvement is that they will be grouping gifts by category.  This is an excellent idea for both contributor and member.  It should help members to better select gifts they actually need and can use, and encourages contributors to compete categorically ourselves as our product will be side by side with other products in the category.  This will raise the bar on the quality of offerings and reward contributors with a more targeted list.

Instead of members pigging out at the GiveAway smorgasbord grabbing a little of everything, I suspect it will result in more prudent sign-ups, and thus a more meaningful list.  The quality will increase the participation, which should not only replace those lost to less gluttony, but with any luck at all result in even more list participants, and better ones at that.

As you can tell, I am taken by this new approach, time will tell if it works out as well as its promise. I am betting it does.

If you have a product you can offer, go for it. This is your chance to participate in the cutting edge of GiveAway marketing.

Till next time.

Earl Netwal

Your MicroBusinessSpecialist

I have advocated for some time that off line businesses use internet marketing Give Away events to market non internet reports.  Last night the New Year Giveaway opened, and already today I have had five people download a report I wrote on First Day Cover Collecting.  While I have sold first day covers on line for almost twelve years, I would not normally think of internet marketers as first day cover people.

And yet, at least a few are.  I suspect I will attract quite a few more in the coming week as more and more people learn about the New Year Giveaway

The past holiday period between Thanksgiving and the New Year have been full of such Give Aways. I have participated in many and have downloaded a lot of useful material and gained a lot of new subscribers to my lists.   The point I want to get across here is that you don’t need to only offer internet marketing products to these lists, as my First Day cover collecting ebook proves.

Another Giveaway opened today called the ultimate PLR Giveaway. As it’s name implies all the products are private label rights, which means you can use them as thought they were your own, but always be sure to double check the rights statement with each product. There may still be restrictions on what you can and cannot do.

Worth shopping to find one or more items you can use as the basis of your own product. The key to PLR is not to reuse it as it is, but rather to build upon the material by embellishing, or sometimes condensing the material. Putting an different spin on it, or even combining two different products into a third.

The cost of the raw material is free, all you need to do is add some creativity and you have something worth selling.

Check this one out. But as I said, be sure to double check the rights statement that comes with each product.

When you have that finished product ready, you should try to make it viral. A key tool to do that is the Instant PDF Profits Rebrander.

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