It’s often been said that the key to making money online is to build a list of followers who know you, like you and trust you. But how do you go about building a list like that?
People in the ‘Make Money Online’ niche tend to behave a little differently from those in, say, the knitting and scrapbooking niche. In some ways, they’re more jaded – they’ve fallen for all the Internet marketing tricks before. One time offers are no longer new and exciting. Countdown timers, viral videos, artificial scarcity – they’ve seen them all. They’re well aware that when they sign up for a free report, it’s not really free at all – they’re trading their name and email address for the shiny new thing.
So on the one hand, they’re hard to impress. On the other hand, they’re quite happy to sign up for your list, provided you offer some value. And if you can get them to stay for long enough to become aware of you, if they see your name in their inbox frequently enough for them to become familiar with you, after a period of time you can get them to trust you.
How do you get them to sign up in the first place? One of the quickest ways to build up a mailing list is through joint ventures. But when you’re just starting out, it’s unlikely that you’ll be in a position to offer any joint venture partners much of an exchange.
A possible solution to the ‘chicken and egg’ dilemma is the JV Giveaway. This is a special kind of joint venture arrangement where you add your gift – a special report, an ebook, a free membership – to a list of giveaways from other marketers. Each marketer then promotes the giveaway event, using their own mailing list, their blog and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. You get credited with the number of subscribers who sign up using your unique link (as well as for any contributors who sign up under you).
The important points are that everyone who wants to download your giveaway has to sign up to your mailing list, and that you benefit from the promotional efforts of all the contributors.
JV Giveaways generally last for a short period of time, perhaps 2 weeks. The rules regarding the type of gift you can offer, the number of subscribers you need to get signed up and your ranking in the list of giveaways varies from site to site. If you don’t have a mailing list, or you don’t think you’ll be able to get enough subscribers to sign up, you can buy your way in – a paid membership generally gives you a higher rank in the giveaway listings, and may also give you premium promotional slots.
I should warn you that by signing up – either as a contributor or as a regular subscriber – you’ll be facing a veritable barrage of product offers. You’ll get upsells, downsells, cross-sells, upgrades, hard sells and soft sells. If you can stay calm in the face of yet another marketer advising you that “There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen – and those who say “What happened?”, you’ll be fine.
If you’d like to see how a JV Giveaway works from the subscriber perspective, you can sign up for the Christmas JV Giveaway here.
If you’d like to give it a try as a contributor, here are some up-coming JV Giveaways:
The New Years Giveaway (Jan 1st 2010 – Jan 12th 2010)
The Peoples JV Giveaway 2 (Jan 1st 2010 – Jan 31st 2010)
Self Improvement Gifts 4 (Jan 5th 2010 – Jan 19th 2010)
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I really like the last part: “There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen – and those who say “What happened?” ” nice way of putting it!
The main thing is to identify first about the kind of peoples mentioned in the post and behave them according to the nature.
You are right it’s really does matter in making money that you should have a list of your followers because they are the main part of your business. Without healthy contacts we can’t establish a business.
I think u need not have list in order to have a business. Because i think business is about building newer relation. So its not the builded list that we want but want to build up a new list
I have tried this method before. It works great to network as well. This will build up a great network between you and other JVs.
Can’t succeed alone to make money online. Always need people to help out.
Thank you. This is very informative for someone trying to build a customer base.
Thanks for the informative post. Building a mailing list is one of the most important aspects of online business.
hey i don’t have any idea bout online making money. so i also want to make online money. so can you tell me in short , i am little confused by your post
I like that quote you mentioned! It is very true!
I totally agree with you on the point that to succeed online, or offline, you need a group of followers. Basically as Seth Godin puts it: come up with a product/service, find 10 people who love it, let those 10 people tell more people, and so on.
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Your point of getting success with a group of people is a fair thought which is necessary foundation of success….
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You have summed it up quite well with this thought effect: “There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen – and those who say “What happened?”
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Thanks and I’ll be signing up. I’m not very easily swayed so I should be able to put up with the pesky marketers.
I figure if the product is good, everybody will win.
You’re right, JV giveaways are a good way to build your list. That’s a technique I haven’t tried yet.
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This is indeed a great idea and I have been using it from quite some time. IT truly helps your to build a loyal readers and members. Though you might be spammer to but you can still get rid of them, quite easily. Also you do need to have some spams in order to get the first comment on your post as it really helps in starting the communication and get the ball rolling.
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I work from home, and luckily I make money from it. What buggers me the most is when people approach me and say “wow, you work from home! that’s kinda easy, you don’t have to commute, blah, blah, blah”. They don’t take in account the fact that you can make money on the web, working from home, but it takes hard work , same as with any endeavor, doesn’t matter if it’s from home or from the South Pole.
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This is a good way to build a contact list. If you give out things to these people on your list you can even build some decent backlinks to your site.
Thanks for your insight on contact lists.
Giveaways are definitely good ways to entice people to sign up for your mailing list.
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I’ve seen a bunch of free offers requiring email info on the webs lately…I’m guessing it is a mailing list building ploy.
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