Using Giveaways to Build Your Online Business

Hi there,

Today I would like to talk to you about how to use giveaways effectively to build your own online business.  When you are just getting started, giveaways are a really great way to get your hands on thousands of dollars worth of free ebooks, software, and scripts.  A few tips I would like to share with you regarding giveaways are:

1. Don’t try and download everything.  I love freebies, but trying to download each and every item offered is probably going to be a complete waste of time.  That’s a perfect recipe for coming down with a bad case of ‘information overload’ and odds are you will never even open many of those files.

2. Try to find items that include resell rights.  Basically, resell rights mean you have the right to sell that product to others.  By picking up some great products with resell rights, you can not only learn and benefit from the information contained in the product yourself, you can then resell it to others and make some money as well. (Note: If you do decide to resell the product yourself, I strongly recommend sticking to high quality products that you would be willing to purchase yourself.)

3. Look for items that will help you immediately.  Most of us are usually looking for specific information or tools to help us in building our online business.  I recommend looking for items that you know will help you right away (and ignoring items that ‘might’ be of use to you down the road).  For example, let’s suppose that you are interested in setting up your own blog, but you aren’t sure how to.  Try to find some ebooks or video tutorials that will help you set up your blog immediately and instead of saving that information in a directory (which is what I do for almost all of the items I download), save it to your desktop.  This will remind you to actually open the file and use it.  Remember, out of sight, out of mind…

4. Try to find ebooks and products that have been produced by someone you respect and trust.  Since our time is so valuable and there is so much information out there, I spend most of my time learning from people I already respect and trust or people that they recommend.  Some of the authors I have seen featured in giveaways whom I highly recommend include: Liz Tomey, Jeff Dedrick, Alex Jeffreys, Lee McIntyre, and Ewen Chia.  (Please note:  These are only some of the great authors who in my opinion produce very high quality content.  I am simply listing a few of my personal favourites.  Your list will be and should be different.)  

5. Consider becoming a gift contributor yourself.  Once your online business is up and running and you’ve already built a list of subscribers of your own, I would strongly recommend that you consider becoming a contributor.  It is obviously going to take a little work on your part (you may have to set up a squeeze page and download page for your gift), but it is something that I strongly recommend since they really are great ways to build your list.  Please note, that these are usually by invite only and you will be expected to promote the giveaway to your list.  However, if you are interested in becoming a contributor and already have a list of your own, please feel free to click on the link below which is an invite from me to join a great giveaway that starts on April 20th. 

http://www.musthaveinternetmarketingtips.com/recommends/jvlist/

I hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to really grow your business, but if you aren’t ready to participate as a contributor then hopefully you will find some really great resources and tools at the following giveaways.

This is a link to a great giveaway that just started yesterday: http://www.musthaveinternetmarketingtips.com/recommends/massive/

You’ll find over $7,000 worth of ebooks, sofware, and scripts there for FREE.  There are lots of great products just waiting for you here.

A couple of more giveaways you should take a look at are: http://www.musthaveinternetmarketingtips.com/recommends/angel/

http://www.musthaveinternetmarketingtips.com/recommends/ebay/

I found some great gifts at these ones as well.

Good luck and hopefully you found some of my tips regarding using giveaways to build your online business useful.

 Jit Uppal

www.GettingStartedOnlineFast.com