Yes, I did and it’s no lie. Not only did I get 1.9k new optin subscribers, I also made about $490 is sales of product upgrades. The method is simple.
There’s one list-building tactic you can implement yourself, which is the “Giveaway” model like I did with www.DiwaliGiveaway.com – all you need is (1) a theme (2) promotion partners
In this model, you promote a free giveaway, where for a limited time people can download gifts for free. It would be much better is these gifts themselves are selling on the Internet for any price, or if the product is not available publicly.
Giveaways themselves fall into 2 categories (for me at least):
- The big giveaways – Like the 12 Days of Christmas and the 117 Work at Home Gifts giveaway. To hold this kind of giveaway is usually a big deal, and you’ll need at least some kind of software to automate it. These kind of giveaways usually involved hundreds of partners and thousands of gifts, and if you cannot organize one you can always participate in it.
- The mini giveaways – This is much simpler, and I learned this from the master of mini-giveaways Edmund Loh. Unlike the big events, you only need about 8-10 partners that can contribute their gifts and also promote the event. Unlike the big giveaways, you don’t need any software to do this except maybe for a tracking software, I personally use GoTryThis. A big part of this promotion is based on trust, so you need to only invite good partners who can will go all out to promote the event. Instead of the big giveaways where there is usually an optin box on the main page itself, with the Mini Giveaway the optin page is only on the individual partner’s gift download page. Done properly, you can make as much money and get as much new subscribers from the Mini-Giveaway as you would with the big ones.
If you want to build your list, here are the 2 giveaways that you can join now:
112 Work at Home Gifts (live now, ends December 10)
12 Days of Christmas (starting December)
There are many other giveaways, but these 2 should be enough. Joining too many makes it hard for you to manage and track results. Also, you would do better promoting 2 events than promoting 10, since these events rank you by the amount of new members / partners you promote. It’s better to rank highly in one than to get a shitty ranking in 10.
Once you’ve joined, read the submission guidelines, submit your product, and do your best to promote the event. At the very least, I’m pretty confident that with just these two events you can add between 300 – 500 subscribers yourself!
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Highly impressive…I will give it a shot sometime!
I’m going to prepare my giveway for the Xmas ! Wish me luck hehe
The Rich Beaver
Hey! I will definitely give this one a try.Thanks for the tip!
Gobala, 1,980 in 7 days that is impressive. I am positive that you will earn far more than the $490 from these subscribers if you have a strong follow up sequence.
Chris
I just checked your feedburner subscriber count. It shows 403 subscribers.
This is a great idea, thank you for sharing!
Hey Gobala,
I am going to see how this process works with a product I have, I always enjoy learning new ways to promote and gain subscribers. Thanks for the tips and guidance!
Toki
Gobala, that is very impressive really, that’s 1,980
new subscribers and $490 in sales, that’s a great feeling.
Terrance Charles
http://www.terrancecharles.com/blog
I’m quite confuse on this…but I’m going to try it out…Thanks
So now you have 1,981 optins- because of blogrush! Great article, thanks for the good content
This is really a good way for the growth of subscribers. Well done !
Eh I missed the webmaster gathering lah.. didn’t get to see u in action…
It’s OPTIN subscribers to my mailing list, not RSS subscribers. You do know the difference right?
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