This is a big season for giveaways and I have talked about them a lot here lately. Another one just launched today -

Santa’s Big Giveaway

Contributors

One of the ways I add new subscribers to my list is by participating as a contributor to these types of events and you should too. Unfortunately though quite a few people don’t and I think I know why. Lack of knowledge to get things going.

See to contribute you need a gift and most of you have something you could use for that already on your hard drive. May have to search a bit through the digital dust to find them but I would bet that 98% of you have something with the rights to give it away. Obviously the gift isn’t the problem.

You do need to construct a couple of pages to participate. You need a page with your autoresponder form on it, a page to send people to about verifying their email address and finally a download page to give people your gift. This is where people get stopped.

These pages are not hard to create and I will be putting together a quick report on this with sample pages over the week end. Look for more information then and you too can easily participate in these events.

Subscribers

Now lets talk about why you should be a subscriber to these types of events. Just took a quick look through the latest one Santas Big Giveaway and found these topics for help just on the first page or two alone.

• PLR articles and how to book
• Social marketing – Stumble upon, Twitter, Facebook
• Website templates
• Adsense information
• Graphics software
• SEO information
• Blogging information
• Affiliate marketing tips
• and much more

The key is to get the things that you need more information or can use right now. See if you don’t do Adsense that information will not move your business forward but cause you to start a new learning curve. Keep your focus but if for example you are using PLR as a focus of your business then the information on

• PLR articles and how to
• Website templates
• Graphics software

Would probably be useful for you. If you are already creating sites and looking to increase your traffic from the search engines then maybe the SEO information would be valuable.

Much as I love and recommend blogging if you are not blogging and using that now or planning to add it in the next month then don’t grab the blogging information. You won’t be using it so why tempt your self to go down a new learning curve.

Now if you have not created your business plan and know what will help you and what will cause you to lose focus grab the Business Building Series in the upper right part of this page and start there before you start cluttering up your hard drive.

Hope this helps you to get the most out of these both as a subscriber and a contributor. Using the giveaways both ways can be extremely helpful to building your business. Look for more information on the giveaway kit next week.

As always your questions and comments are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold

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