Introduction To JV Giveaways

What Are JV Giveaways?

Giveaways are one of the commonest methods marketers are currently using to build their lists.

Most Giveaways aren't as good as they used to be and it takes a while to get a good system working that maximises your results,

Whilst I have gained 100s of subscribers in a couple of events, some have resulted in less than 10.

What Are JV Giveaways?

I know a lot of you will already be familiar with JV Giveaways, but I'll just go over the details so that everyone is at the same level.

A JV Giveaway event consists of two stages:

First of all people are invited to sign up for the event and to add their own free gift (or gifts).

In the second stage members signup to the event and then can sign up for any of the gifts they want.

JV Giveaways How They Work?

The idea of the event is simply to add people to your subscriber list - they have to opt-in to download your gift.

Normally you will have to promote the event and get at least one person signing up via your links or your account will be downgraded and your gift will be removed.

JV Giveaways Contributors

To become a contributor you will need to sign up via an invitation link. You can get this via Push Button Giveaways, on my blog, or by being on the list of someone who takes part in a lot of events.

After entering you details, some events will require you to click an activation link.

After that you will normally be offered an upsell and a downsell which are options to upgrade your account.

Upgrading Your Account

The price of upgrading varies a lot betwen different events starting at $1 and going all the way up to $97.

It's fairly common to have the upsell or first upgrade at around $17, then the downsell (second level upgrade) at $7.

I tend to upgrade in them all but when you first start out you will probably be fairly selective.

Upgrade Features

What you get for your money varies with different events, but I'll give you an example:

Free Account 1 Gift, 50% Commission

Upgrade 2 (eg $7) Three Gifts, 2 Special Offers, 3 Text Adverts, 75% Commission

Upgrade 1 (eg $17)Five gifts, 2 Special Offers, 5 Text Adverts, 100% Commission

Setting Up Your Account

Here's a summary of what we've done so far:

1) Signed up for the event2) Activated account (if required)3) Optional account upgrade

The next steps are:

4) Setting Up Your Profile5) Adding Your Gifts6) Adding Your Text Adverts7) Adding Your Special Offers

Setting Up Your Profile

Your profile contains details including your paypal email (so you get paid commission), your photo etc.

PBG will setup all of this for you in two clicks (apart from browsing for the photo before upload)

Adding Your Gifts

Adding gifts is fairly simple once you have set them up. You will need a title, description, picture, squeeze page and download page (as well as the actual product of course)

PBG will setup all of this for you in two clicks (apart from browsing for the gift picture before upload)

Adding Your Text Adverts

Adding Text Adverts is similar to adding gifts.

You will need a title, description, display Url and destination URL.

You don't need your own product you can send people to an affiliate offer (it's best to send them to a squeeze page and build a list, but you don't have to).

Note: Don't just put in the Url use a call to action.

PBG will setup all of this for you in two clicks

Adding Your Special Offers

Adding Special Offers again is mostly a one-off setup, then repeating a simple process each time you join a Giveaway.You will need a title, price, sales page and download page.

Using your own product is best (unique, branding etc), but you could use a resell rights product. Have an optin form on the download page as this will build you a buyers list.

PBG will setup special offers for you in two clicks

Promoting The Event

Many giveaways will downgrade you if you don't promote the event. 'Promoting' normally means getting at least one sign up through your link.

Each signup you get will also get you 'points' which determine how high your gift ranks.This is very important as if you rank high you have a greater chance of signups.

Promotion Methods

Any traffic can be used to promote a giveaway.Personally I havent had good results from Twitter or Facebook, but if you have a targetted list and social media is you expertise then you can make it work.

I use a targetted email list and pages on my blog.Emails and the blog list are generate by PBG.

PBG also has a link rotator built in - if you are the first person to suggest a giveaway you are guaranteed a signup since I join every event!