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)

• Join as member and download gifts
• Join as partner and contribute gifts

12 Days of Christmas (starting December)

• Join as member and download gifts
• Join as partner and contribute gifts

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!