It’s like Winning a 3 Week Shopping SPREE!

This is a heads up on the SECOND incredible “Giveaway” Event our
GutZy Women International Mastermind Alliance has teamed up for
in the last several weeks.

If you didn’t get a chance to take a look at the first one, and missed
out on the INCREDIBLE Giveaway of products and services, all I
can say is you’re NUTS for missing out!

Now you have a SECOND CHANCE! And this time, you don’t
have to buy ANYTHING at all to be able to collect.

This Friday…June 20th, 2008, The GutZy Women Alliance members…
Tracy Repchuk, Diane Corriette, Patti Serrano, Hayley Solich, Joanie
Winberg and I will be offering an array of INCREDIBLE products and
services to you and THOUSANDS of others across the world for
absolutely NO COST!

Are we NUTS too?

Actually, we’re taking part in the Wonderful Web Giveaway put on by
Janet Beckers and her Wonderful Web Women. Over 200 items are
being offered, adding up to over $10,000 in value. Just the ones being
offered by our GutZy Mastermind alone are worth close to $700.00
They’ll be available for 3 weeks and that’s it.

You can sign up here to choose as many of these gifts as you like
just by clicking on the link below. No purchase necessary!

Wonderful Web Giveaway 2008

But because there are so many gifts, we want to give you a clue as
to how to find ours…It’s actually really easy.

When you get to the giveaway pages, there is a search box. Fill in
any of our names, or the term, “GutZy Women” and it will take you
to our page. A few clicks later it’s all there for the taking.

Once you’ve collected ours, you’ve got 3 weeks to look over the
others and request as many as make sense to you.

Many of these gifts have been created especially for this event and are
donated by men and women from all walks of life.

Here are just a few of the topics covered:
* tools to help you build an Internet business or a traditional small business.
* ebooks and audios on personal and business development, including training.
* ideas and help on starting a business and keep it sustainable.
* health and lifestyle gifts on yoga, weight loss and skin care
* fun things like books and videos on music, recipes, jewelery making and
  gifts for children created by children.

This is a really great opportunity to get the tools, resources and people you’ve
been looking for to make your life just a little bit easier with NO COST!

We’re very PROUD to be a part of this event and sincerely give of ourselves
in the hope that you will be inspired to TAKE ACTION! No Excuses.

Wonderful Web Giveaway 2008

By the way… The Chet & Amanda Holmes Giveaway is still available as well and can be
accessed by going to:
http://www.ChetandAmandaHolmes.com

1.  Become an affiliate of those who are selling products on the giveaway. For example: on the Chet Holmes Giveaway, in order to get into it as a recipient of the free gifts, you must buy Chet’s book or Amanda’s CD.  So if I am an affiliate of Amazon.com and I send you to Amazon to buy, when you do so, I make a percentage of that. In the case of Wonderful Web Women, as an affiliate, if I get you to come to the giveaway and like what Janet has to offer in her Gold Membership and you join, I get a commission.  YOU can do the same.

2. Once you get new people to subscribe, you can promote your products or services for them to buy, through email campaigns and relationship building activities. 

3. After people subscribe, but before they reach your gift page, you can make them a onetime offer, but if you do this, be sure to give them the option to pass and to be able to download the free gift after they buy 

4. When you send them the Thank You page or email once they have retrieved their gift, you can offer them either the same product at a lower price or offer a brand new product. 

5. You can follow up with a series of automatic messages with valuable tips and information without actually making them an offer, but the intent to build relationships. Once they learn who you are and how great your products are, they will naturally want to buy from you. 

6. Co-promote with JV Partners in the Giveaway itself, like I did with the GutZy Women International Mastermind Alliance. Be sure to become an affiliate of theirs and send traffic their way using your affiliate link.  

7. Run a Giveaway yourself: offer dollar incentives to contributors to upgrade their positioning on the pages of the giveaway. Get them to promote the product offered for sale by you in an affiliate arrangement. Offer services like consulting or webmastering to help your contributors who don’t have the time or skills or desire to do the work themselves.  

These are just a few ideas you can use to make money while giving your product or services away. We would LOVE to hear more ideas from you if you have experienced success at using them in giveaway events!  

In the meantime, check out the Chet and Amanda Holmes Giveaway still in full swing Tracy Repchuk, Diane Corriette, Joanie Winberg, Patti Serrano, Hayley Solich and myself have some great stuff for you FREE, but you won’t believe the QUALITY of people who are taking part in this one.

If you have taken part as a recipient of any FREE products or services as a result of an online GIVEAWAY EVENT, then obviously you saw some value in agreeing to give out your name and email address in exchange. Thousands and perhaps millions of other people have done same and rightly so!

In one shot, without spending tons of valuable time and energy, you get incredibly informative and valuable stuff for FREE…all in one place.

Sure, our privacy is important to us, and while we’re NOT open to just ANYTHING, we like to get stuff we can really use for free, right? “The price was right”, we like to say.

Once we recieve it and check it out, we’re either thrilled with it or sadly disappointed. If we’re thrilled, aren’t we going to follow that person or company in the future to look for more good stuff? Hey, maybe we’ll even spring a few dollars next time because now we know what the contributor is about and we like what we see.

Well, that’s the basic premise behind GIVEAWAYS and why they are so popular, as well as why software developers are creating software programs to run them and why internet marketers are getting the word out.

In my previous article, I outlined the first 6 steps for how Free Giveaway Events actually work because they can be a bit confusing, and NOT just for “newbies”. Here’s the rest of the story:

7. On the contributor’s end, they must have a way to capture their visitor’s information as well. Although the giveaway link can send them to an email message to be sent off to the contributor, the best way in the long run is to set up an auto-responder system that automatically send the information from the capture form the visitor filled out to a database. An autoresponder then sends an immediate email message back to the visitor.

8. If it is a “double opt-in” system, the visitor will get a “confirmation email” with a link they click on to “OK” their subscription. This option is designed to verify that visitor does in fact want the gift and further contact from the contributor and reduces the risk of getting slapped for Spamming.

If they don’t “confirm”, the visitor doesn’t get the free gift. If they DO confirm, they are then taken to the page where they can collect or download their gift OR they are sent a second “Thank You” email that contains a link to the giveaway item(s) as well as other information that is needed to collect. This email very often includes other links to websites or other products they can buy. (This is a great way to “monetize” the promotion.)

CLICK HERE to read the article in its entirety:

OK, back to Free Giveaway Events…if you haven’t read my previous post, you missed a good example of aligning with others to gain more credibility and value when taking part in one.

If you’ve never done it before, it can be confusing and maybe a bit intimidating, but GutZy Women is all about stepping out with some gentle guidance and a whole lot of support and education, so let’s take it step by step.

Below are 6 steps to follow today, plus 5 more steps tomorrow, so check back. Better yet, just subscribe to my Feedburner RSS feed and you’ll get tomorrow’s conclusion.

1.       The giveaway site itself is set up by the individual or organization that decides to use the event as a marketing strategy.  They attract as many contributors (those who contribute the free gifts) and others (sponsors, advertisers) as possible to support their efforts by offering participants increased visibility and prizes through the joint efforts of ALL who take part.

2.       The contributors decide what products or services they will give away. The contributor is responsible for creating the text, graphics and link URL for their offer which will be listed and displayed in their “box” on the above website. There are as many different types of gifts, freebies, bonuses, giveaways, etc. as there are contributors. To be most successful, they must be perceived as valuable enough to warrant a person giving their name and email address.

3.       If you agree to be a contributor, then you also agree to send out to your email lists the message that has been prepared by the organizers. That message describes the event and has a link that sends the reader to the giveaway website. It’s a good idea to personalize it in a way that will better appeal to your particular market and make it unique to represent you, but it’s not essential. It is essential, however, to have the integrity to do your part in getting the word out and not just rely on others to get the job done.

4.       If the visitor decides to partake, the organizer of the event captures the site visitor’s contact information to be followed up with in the future. The visitors are given a way to get back to the site, once they leave, for future use…ometimes with user names, passwords or other ways to be exclusive.

5.       The first page of the giveaway site can either be the contributor’s giveaway itself with no purchase required or it often is designed to get the visitor to buy something first and then once purchased, will take the visitor to the contributors “giveaway boxes”.

6.       Next, the visitor decides which of the offers they want. They push a button or a text link on that item which takes them to the contributor’s website OR opt in page (often called a “squeeze page” as it “squeezes” that person’s contact information out of them before they can proceed.)

      So yes, the offers are free, but are in effect, an exchange for information. It’s the part that entices the contributor to give something away in the first place

Some people get upset about giving out their info, but they needn’t worry. The CAN Spam laws require that people be allowed to “unsubscribe” from a list, even after they have collected their free gift, so there really is no risk AND if they’ve done their due diligence, stand to greatly benefit.

Join us tomorrow to finish up with the other 5 steps of Giveaway Events and a hint of a Cool Giveaway coming up very soon.