INTRODUCTION

Joint venture giveaway events have become a permanent feature of list building and lead generation online.

There’s been over 200 contributors and over 500 members in each of the last 5 giveaways I’ve joined.

Each event is competitive and exciting at the same time.  The more that contributors promote the event the better the results and the more exciting it becomes.  These events are the best way to test your stuff.  If you do well in a giveaway then you’ll do well elsewhere online.

Giveaway events should be treated much like any other marketing campaign, i.e., article marketing, blog marketing, video marketing, etc.

It’s something that once you start, there’s no turning back.  You simply keep on joining events and improving until you get the results you’re after.  Once you’ve prepared everything necessary for an event you’re in a position to easily duplicate the process over and over again.

Article marketers write and submit articles to article directories on a continual basis and giveaway event contributors join every giveaway event they can possibly manage.

The only difference between each giveaway that you join may possibly be in your choice of gifts.  If one gift doesn’t get any response you can try another gift next time or you can even delete one gift during the event and replace it with another.

Most giveaway events allow their contributors to show up to three gift listings which further extends your ability to test your market.

I don’t want to give the impression that all of this is easy or done quickly.  It takes time to prepare your gifts and offers.  When you’re ready to join a giveaway you’ll have completed a long list of tasks.

If you have your own website and you’ve learned to upload web pages and digital products and maintain and update your website then your as ready as ever to begin preparing your gifts and offers as an event contributor.

If you don’t have your own website but you’d still like to become a contributor and build a list for email marketing purposes then I highly recommend Jeff Dedrick’s Instant Bonus Page Creator.  Jeff’s service provides a web based template for creating your own opt-in page and download page.  You can either press a button and activate your new pages on a site hosted by Jeff or you can copy the new html index files and upload them to your own website.  There’s a free version and an upgrade version of the program at -  http://instantbonuspagecreator.com

It’s extremely important to remember that building a list is useless if you’re not prepared to nurture your list.  It may seem obvious at first but it needs to be said for the sake of others just starting out.

If you take the time to become an active event promoter and contributor make sure that you also prepare a series of follow up emails for your new subscribers.

Your new list is your real house of business and a giveaway event is a clear road to your front door.  There must be something more than one gift on the other side of the door.  When someone opens it we need to have a real business on the other side.  If you simply add a couple extra gifts on the gift download page you’ll make a lasting impression on your new subscribers.

We only need to lay a good foundation to make an impression that get’s good results.  My next four articles will cover the four cornerstones of JV list building giveaways.  Let’s build a strong business foundation by learning the art of the giveaway together!

Microbloggery Is A Twitter Brew

Did Twitter take over the internet or is it merely a prevailing trend?  Is it
the latest fancy passing or passing fancy?   I do jest.  Hold on one moment while I check Twitter’s Alexa ranking…

Twitter’s daily reach is up and down, but it’s mostly up.
Over 63% of Twitter’s participants come from these 5 countries:

Twitter gets a little over 6% of it’s traffic from search engines.

The number of spin-off sites and programs designed to facilitate all manner of twitter needs has risen sharply since it’s popularity has grown.  I’ve added a sampling below of  my favorite twitter related sites and programs.

free search tools:

>>>  http://followerwonk.com/
>>>  http://www.tweetgrid.com/

excellent 2 min. tweetgrid demo video

>>>  http://www.vimeo.com/2356559

free productivity tools:

>>>  http://www.socialoomph.com/
>>>  http://tweetake.com/
>>>  http://thetwittertagproject.com/followfriday.php
>>>  http://twitter.grader.com/index.php

free client-side twitter dashboard:

>>>  http://tweetdeck.com

free income earning programs using twitter:

>>>  http://sponsoredtweets.com/
>>>  http://tweetglide.com/

other income earning programs using twitter:

>>>  http://www.hummingbird2.com/
>>>  http://www.turbocashgenerator.com/
>>>  http://www.thetwittertank.com/

Is twitter.com a success?  It registers significantly in over 20 countries around the world and it has a total of  5,737,867 registered users.  That’s not counting all the people who access twitter by simply subscribing to twitter members RSS feeds or visiting the the twitter members pages via any search engine.

If any of my readers would like to add their own favorite twitter related sites please do so (affiliate links are permitted).

I wish all a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year!
Thanks to all the friends and graduates of John Thornhill’s masterclass and to all my subscribers and visitors, without your support blogging would be dryer than the Texas sand.  See you next year.  Steve D.

Blog posts can attract and hold your visitors attention to your website; visitors who will subscribe to your feed and participate with your site in the future. When you take the time to create blog posts that suck visitors in, you’ll have a great foundation on which to build your business!

Let’s face it – there are a lot of websites out there from people to choose from! No matter what topic you choose, there are bound to be countless other blogs on the same topic.   How do we make our blogs stand out and get people coming back for more?

In four ways -  discover, recover, transform, and create fresh topical content, in any way, shape, or form you can find to do so without using any black-hat-techno-fraud.

When you create your blog and your posts, you have two specific groups of people you’ll be courting – new visitors and patron visitors. The new visitors want to know what your blog is about within a few seconds.

This means that you need to have a tagline at the top of your blog that explains your mission focus.  This statement, displayed under the title of your blog, will give your new visitors an instant snapshot of what you’re about.  Make the sign up box for your RSS feed obvious and you’ll get new subscribers.

Your regular visitors especially need to be thought of as well.  Keep content fresh and update your blog frequently.  When you think about it, each and every post you make is an opportunity to lose or keep visitors.

In this short report, you’ll learn a step by step process to getting your blog running and holding onto the visitors that come YOUR way! Whether you’ve had a blog for a while and need to update it, or you’re brand new to blogging, you’ll be able to use this process to get traffic and potential buyers.

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Success is measured in many ways and money is only one of them.  Yet, because it can be measured it tends to be the only measure of success that gets anyone excited.  It’s human nature.  The subject line of over half the emails that I receive has a tempting number with a dollar sign and often that’s the email that gets opened, at least until the reader becomes desensitized.  Still, Curiosity is a dependable aspect of our nature.

Lately,  I’ve been somewhat preoccupied with the sociology of  the internet.  I spent quite a bit of time reading marketing studies from Michael Cheney and Jeff Walker.  Both of these gentlemen have had some influence upon me, especially Michael.

I’ve never known anyone so young as he, who has overcome as much as he has and to have come through it all with such brilliance.  I do not envy Michael or people like him.  I do admire their tenacity, spirit and courage in the face of adversity.  I’m moved by their indomitable good will towards others who’ve chosen to learn the art of positive influence.

If not for John Thornhill, I would’ve never known of Michael’s work.  And as this thanksgiving weekend comes to a close, I remember my friends on the medicine wheel, the ones who share their good fortune in the best ways they know how, with consistency, commitment and most of all, with heart.

“If you learn from the best, you can become the best.”
John Thornhill’s Monthly Mentorship

Command Your Resources From Two Windows!

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The information age is upon us. When we first glady opened our hard drives to the magic of file transfer protocols and all the information that would follow did we know the extent of it?  Do we even know the extent of it today?  I don’t know …and that’s okay.

I do know that I have been overwhelmed with resources of all topics and types.  When I couldn’t find what I knew I already had I decided it was time to bring some law and order to my computer and my business.

Fear Not, Your Own Database With Power Windows Is Here!

I made the 12 minute video above to demonstrate the power and simplicity of a 2 folder database system.  When I took the time to create a logical structure for my new database I was rewarded with 10 fold in speed and efficiency.

I’m well aware of the many database software programs already available.  That’s why I made my own.  Creating and maintaining a software database program is a major time suck.  If you’re already using database software that’s great.  My point is that some programs are way too sophisticated for the needs of most internet apprentices.

On the other hand they’re sophisticated programs that are a perfect fit for online marketing.  Camtasia, Photoshop, PowerPoint, and Word are money makers’ and product creators‘ tools of the trade.  They take time to learn but they’re rewarding in return.  I also recommend Excel.  It’s a spreadsheet and database program combined.

If you’re using a free or paid database and you’ve already taken the time to create and name all of your FIELDS and FIELD TYPES then you’ve essentially created the database yourself.  The software itself will index every record entry, query information, and produce reports.  That’s what an already flourishing business may need in fact.  Does a newbie or twobie need that much computing power?  One day, perhaps.

In the meantime we need to access, organize and activate the resources that we already have on board.  We need to create our own portable infological database with power windows.  That’s what my little video is about.  I hope it fits.

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The Seed Is Down

Rainbow Over Wheat Fields – Moray, Scotland

Photographer – John Bracegirdle

purchased from – http://www.accessible-imagesjohnbracegirdle.com

Some hard-line realists easily dismiss poetry as emotional blather and lies.  They would say  it’s a form of distorting or masking the truth.  They may even unconsciously resort to poetry while denying it’s value.   It’s their loss in any case – a self imposed loss of subtlety in exchange for absolute certainty.

I understand inflexible positions where logic comes first and foremost.  I suppose everyone has a little bit of Commander Spock inside.  Unfortunately, realists are too unreal, too certain, and too, too right.

A poem, using metaphor, allegory, or rhyme, can simplify things, ideas, or emotions that are too complicated or long winded otherwise.

Logic, in a way, is a unique form of poetry or thought that points to itself.  It simplifies complex ideas using precise symbols and equations.

Logic or reason finds itself to be a part of everything we do as conscious humans for better or worse.

It’s the unavoidable result of thinking and thought itself.

Poetry is also another form of thought using a neo-logic.
A logic that’s self aware – pointing to itself, anywhere, everywhere, or nowhere.

The link below is to a poem and a fine one at that.  I found it last night while blog surfing.  It’s a gift from Ken Woolcock, poet and fellow traveler.
Meditation Basics From The Beach

Pitch

Marketing turns on reason, imagination, and the subliminal,
creating a spontaneous reflex to come closer or to retreat.

You have the right to remain silent.
You have the right to express yourself.
Anything you say can and will be.
You have the right to proceed alone.
Should you decide not to proceed alone,
You may appoint your mentor.
One sooner than later the better.

“If you learn from the best, you can become the best.”
John Thornhill’s Monthly Mentorship