Happy Monday!

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for July 19, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

July 21 – The Australian Giveaway
Contributors: 279  Gifts: 158

**July 21 – Internet Marketing JV Gifts
Contributors: 425  Gifts: 37

July 21 – The World JV Giveaway
Contributors: 236  Gifts: 192

July 27 – Labor Day Joint Venture Giveaway
Contributors: 188  Gifts: 78

July 28 – Golden PLR Giveaway
Contributors: 139  Gifts: 72

July 30 – The Gift Vault Giveaway
Contributors: 122  Gifts: 98

July 30 – Hot Summer Vacation Giveaway
Contributors: 154  Gifts: 90

August 1 – Gold Peak Giveaway
Contributors: 150  Gifts: 102

**August 3 – Social Marketing Gifts
Contributors: 852  Gifts: 46

*August 10 – Summer Splash Giveaway 2010
Contributors: 87  Gifts: 3

* Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Happy Monday!

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for July 12, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

*July 13 – The Giant Giveaway
Contributors: 573  Gifts: 140

July 16 – JV Treasures Giveaway 2
Contributors: 192  Gifts: 125

July 17 – Summer Dream Giveaway
Contributors: 137  Gifts: 95

**July 21 – Internet Marketing JV Gifts
Contributors: 267  Gifts: 31

July 21 – The World JV Giveaway
Contributors: 144  Gifts: 104

July 30 – Hot Summer Vacation Giveaway
Contributors: 116  Gifts: 70

August 1 – Gold Peak Giveaway
Contributors: 108  Gifts: 66

* Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

I usually avoid promoting individual giveaway events and prefer to just post weekly updates here on my blog.  However, every so often an event comes along that deserves a special mention.

This one is called “Internet Marketing JV Gifts” and it’s being run by UK marketer Anthony Tilley who has managed to get a few really big names involved to ensure this is going to be the biggest event of the summer.

With this event you will be able to build a huge list of subscribers in a short amount of time, not to mention some really sweet commissions you can earn from promoting the event.

Signup now and start adding new subscribers to your list!

Click the image below to join.

Click Here to join the IM JV Giveaway Gifts

Yep, it’s me again.

I’m not sure you caught my blog update yesterday on all the latest giveaway events but there’s a big underground giveaway event coming up very soon
that you should know about.

With guys like Andrew Fox, Chris Freville, Kim Roach, Chris Cobb, Jeff Dedrick having gifts in this event…

People are going to be signing up left, right and center.

Guess what…

The people who signup will also be able to sign up and download your products as well, leaving you with hundreds of subscribers.

Not only that, but there’s also a 2,000 bucks cash contest.

I hate to say it again, but this is going to be the biggest giveaway event that Internet Marketing has ever seen…

So I’ll see you there!

Click the image below to join.

Click Here to Join Instant Underground Gifts

Happy Monday!

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for May 31, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

June 4 – Internet Marketing and List Building Mega Event
Contributors: 48  Gifts: 30

June 10 – Julie’s Birthday Giveaway
Contributors: 43  Gifts: 28

June 11 – Just 4 Gifts JV Giveaway
Contributors: 28  Gifts: 17

***June 11 – The World Cup Giveaway
Contributors: 1076  Gifts: 84

June 14 – JVQ Graphics Giveaway
Contributors: 106  Gifts: 33

Junt 15 – Early Bird Giveaway
Contributors: 134  Gifts: 104

June 15 – PLR Essentials
Contributors: 72  Gifts: 35

June 21 – WordPress Giveaway Event
Contributors: 74  Gifts: 26

* Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Welcome back to part 3 of my money making series.

A few days ago we started talking about list building as a way for you to make money working from home on the Internet.  For myself and many others this has been the key to our Internet marketing success.

Today I want to share with you the step-by-step system that I use to make money with my list every day.  However, instead of trying to explain it all in this blog post I am going to refer you to an ebook instead.

Sorry.  No sense in me trying to reinvent the wheel when all this information is already out there readily available.

If you are looking for a step-by-step system to building a profitable opt-in mailing list there is no better place to start than Soren Jordansen’s “Internet Marketing Success Formula”.

You download a free copy here:
http://getrichwithjerry.com/downloads/imsf.htm

Save it to your computer and then take some time today to read the whole thing.

Don’t just skim… read it!

You will be glad you did.

Next time I won’t take the easy way out and i’ll show you some techniques you can use to create your own mouth watering freebies that can be given away to build your list.  Look for it in a few days.

Well that was fun.

As you may or may not know I have been working my butt off rewriting my first ebook which is all about advertising with free traffic exchange programs.  It’s been going slow but I really got into it again a few weeks ago and was hoping to do a huge relaunch at the end of the month… and then Tony Tezak released Traffic Exchange Solutions a few days ago.  D’oh!

Tony is sort of a legend in the TE world so there is no way I could realistically release my ebook right on his heels and expect any amount of excitement for it.  I guess that just gives me a little more time to work on my book to make it even bigger and badder than ever!  You’ll just have to wait a few weeks longer before you get a chance to behold it’s brilliance.  lol.

In the meantime I figure I should keep this writing thing going and post some new content.  I decided to write a short info series for the people who are still struggling to make money online.

Before we get started I should probably point out that while there are a whole lot of good free traffic sources and free services out there that you can use to build your business…  from my personal experience it is almost impossible to start a successful online business with absolutely no money.

Not exactly what you wanted to hear, right?

The good news is that it doesn’t take much money to start and most of the tools you will be using include affiliate programs that can eventually earn you a tidy profit every month.

So here is your first assignment…

Follow this link and download a free copy of a book written by my good friend Jon Olson called “The Pizza Plan”.  Inside you will find the exact budget that Jon used when he quit his job and started working online full-time.  It includes the “must have” tools that every Internet marketer needs.

Click here to get The Pizza Plan:
http://getrichwithjerry.com/downloads/pizzaplan.htm

Think about how much you are willing to set aside each month for your own online business.  You don’t need to spend as much as Jon did but if think you can build a successful online business with zero out of pocket expenses you are going to have a very long struggle ahead of you.

We’ll start getting into the good stuff next time so keep checking back here or subscribe to this blog at the top of the page so you don’t miss an another action packed update.

Enjoy the book!

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for February 15, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

*Feb 17 – Daddy’s Birthday Giveaway
Contributors: 336  Gifts: 173

Feb 19 – Internet Marketing Giveaway
Contributors: 220  Gifts: 160

Feb 22 – 2010 Prosperity Giveaway
Contributors: 181  Gifts: 151

Feb 22 – The Queen Bee Giveaway
Contributors: 157  Gifts: 109

Feb 28 – St. Patricks Day Giveaway
Contributors: 193  Gifts: 119

March 1 – Luck of the Irish Giveaway
Contributors: 207  Gifts: 136

*Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for February 8, 2010.

JV Giveaway Events

Feb 8 – The Seven Dollar Giveaway
Contributors: 238  Gifts: 228

Feb 9 – Happy Birthday Box of Gifts Giveaway
Contributors: 278  Gifts: 224

*Feb 13 – New JV Talent Valentine’s Giveaway
Contributors: 431  Gifts: 341

Feb 15 – Traffic Tsunami Gifts
Contributors: 227  Gifts: 150

Feb 15 – Members Only Giveaway 2
Contributors: 207  Gifts: 134

Feb 19 – Internet Marketing Giveaway
Contributors: 140  Gifts: 92

Feb 22 – 2010 Prosperity Giveaway
Contributors: 112  Gifts: 93

Feb 28 – St. Patricks Day Giveaway
Contributors: 155  Gifts: 87

March 1 – Luck of the Irish Giveaway
Contributors: 157  Gifts: 97

*Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Happy Sunday!

One of the key points that I try to emphasize to people who are just getting
into Internet marketing is how important branding is to their business.

Branding is something that is often overlooked by marketers as is evidenced by the number of people out there promoting generic affiliate pages without any kind of personal branding.

Branding is important!

I learned this first hand from working with the “TE guy” Jon Olson himself.

Click here to access an exclusive interview with Jon Olson where he breaks down exactly what you need to know about branding in safelists and traffic exchanges to get better results from your efforts.

You will also get a sneak peak at what is sure become one of the most innovative TE launches of 2010.  I have been beta testing this site and it’s really like nothing you have ever seen before.

Check out the interview with John Guanzon to get a front row seat to the launch of this exciting new traffic exchange where quality advertising and social media blend seamlessly together.

Click here to continue…

I send these updates out every week to the members of JV Giveaway Tactics listing all the new giveaway events that are looking for contributors.  I figured I might as well post them here too.

If you are trying to build a list these events are a great way to get new subscribers fast!

Here is the list of upcoming JV giveaway events for December 7, 2009.

JV Giveaway Events

Dec 7 – Real MLM Network Marketing Giveaway
Contributors: 137   Gifts: 71

*Dec 12 – Seasons Greetings Giveaway (NEW!)
Contributors: 518   Gifts: 211

Dec 14 – Seven Dollar Giveaway (NEW!)
Contributors: 96   Gifts: 84

Dec 14 – Shop4Bizness Giveaway (NEW!)
Contributors: 70   Gifts: 50

Dec 31 – It’s a New Year 2010 Giveaway (NEW!)
Contributors: 114   Gifts: 61

*Jan 1 – New JV Talent 2010
Contributors: 247   Gifts: 158

*Recommended

You can always find the latest giveaway announcements at:
http://www.GiveawayTactics.com

Note to self… Make sure to disable the membership sign-up page until the site actually launches.

Yesterday I woke up to find one of my partners had starting sending traffic to my site even though I told him we wasn’t launching until Monday.  Before I could catch it about 50 people managed to get in and some of them had even started promoting it themselves.  Eeek!

I disabled the start-up page and let everyone know not to start promoting it until Monday.  Hopefully no real damage was done by letting a few people take a peek at the site a few days early.

The good news is that everything works!  The sales page is converting extremely well and so are the special offers.  I am now feeling much more excited about Monday’s launch and much less nervous.

The launch date is still set for Monday, June 8th @ 12:00 Noon EST.

Make sure you check back here Monday morning for more inf0rmation.

Yes, i’ve been gone for awhile.  Did you miss me?

Sorry.  I’ve been having some major financial problems lately and actually had to take a part-time offline job for a little while to help make ends meet.  I’ve also been busy doing light shows around town including a really amazing 5-day festival in downtown St. Louis.

Now that things are looking better and I should have more time to focus on getting my business rolling again which means more frequent blog updates.

So here’s what’s up… after kicking around the idea for over 6 months I am finally going to launch my first membership site.  This is something I have never done before so it’s going to be a bit of a learning experience.  I figure I can document the process here in my blog so hopefully someone can learn from my success (or failure… gulp).

I wouldn’t expect to see a finished product any time soon since I plan on taking my time and trying to do everything the right way.  So far I have purchased a copy of “Launch Formula Marketing” which although being very expensive is actually pretty awesome because now I will be able to launch as many membership sites as I want (assuming I can pull this one off).

I also hired a graphic designer to do all the layouts for me.  That’s right.  No more crappy do-it-yourself webdesigns.  It actually wasn’t that expensive especially compared to how much time I find myself spending trying to do my own layouts.  I’m still waiting for them to send me the first draft but that should be very soon.

The one thing I don’t have yet is a product.  Yeah, you would think that is kinda important but I am trying to do things a little different than what I did with Traffic Success Formula.  Rather than create a product and then try to come up with a bunch of ways to market it I want to create some killer marketing materials first and then create a product to go with it. This way I can be sure my product will be tailored to meet all the needs of the people I am marketing it to.

I also figure I will be a lot more motivated to actually create the product once some of the other stuff is done.

So does this sound like something you would be interested in reading more about?  I am much more likely to keep posting updates if you leave some encouraging comments.  You can also bookmark this page or sign-up for updates up on the top corner of the page.

What?  Oh yeah, apparently I still have a blog.  Sorry.  I’ve slacked off pretty hard on updates.  I had a good run for awhile but offline responsiblities have been taking up most of my time.  I want to at least keep these monthly stats coming to you but last month I missed recording them and one of the only major flaws with my tracker is the inability to pull stats from specific date ranges.

As usual, these stats are from my own efforts promoting a lead capture page for my ebook “Traffic Success Formula”.  Obviously, your results may not be the same as mine.

So, here we go…

Traffic Exchanges
Mythology Surf – 15
BootScootin’Traffic – 11
Traffic Splash – 8
ts25 – 8
ILoveHits – 5

Ok, I probably spent less than an hour actually surfing traffic exchanges last month so those results are actually much better than I would have expected.  Nice to know I can take some time off and still get residual traffic and sign-ups from the work I did a few months ago.

Safelists
ListJoe – 35
Elite Safelist – 14
Newage Safelist – 13
AdTactics – 8
List Auction – 8
Global Safelist – 8

I may not have had time to surf the traffic exchanges but I did a good job up keeping up with my daily safelist mailings.  ListJoe is at the top of the list as always but I was surprised to see relatively smaller safelists like Elite Safelist and Newage Safelist performing so well.

Text Ad Echanges
Traffic Swarm – 22
Maximum Profits – 7

I have virtually killed off using all of my text ad exchanges.  Traffic Swarm has always been a winner but if you are looking to try one of the many text ad exchanges out there then Maximum Profits is worth a shot giving me 7 verified sign-ups last month.

JV Giveaways
Daddy’s Birthday Giveaway – 46

There haven’t been many giveaway events lately that have been worth joining.  Obviously Daddy’s Birthday Giveaway was a winner but I think the doors are closing on that one tomorrow and so far I don’t have a replacement.  If you grab a free copy of my ebook top of the page I will be sure to send you an update when the next hot new jv giveaway event launches which, in my opinion, is one of the easiest and fastest ways to get sign-ups while doing the least amount of work.

Ok, that about covers it for this month.  I’ll try to post more often when I have the time and content worth sharing.  If you have any comments or suggestions please feel free to post them below.

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Over the last few years so many different blogs and web sites about Internet marketing have appeared on the Internet that it has become very difficult to make your site stand out from all of the others. It doesn’t matter if you are just starting a new site or if you are thinking about making your existing site more unique, the trick to creating and maintaining a site that captures the attention and interest of your target market is to find your own unique niche. If you are able to figure out a way to provide something unique that nobody else is doing then you will have a better chance of creating a lasting relationship with your site’s visitors. Once you have figured out your unique niche there is still a lot of work to do but this is the best way to begin.

Every great site starts out with a really good idea, and it’s almost impossible to build a really good site that lasts without one. There are many excellent websites out there that are targeted to Internet marketers so the competition out there can get pretty intense. To make sure that your site stands out from the pack you are going to need to offer something that nobody else is currently offering… or you will need to do something that someone else is already doing but do it in a way that is more impressive or that is more valuable to your visitors.

One of the ways you can develop a really good model for your site is to look at some other sites that have figured out how to successfully capture your target audience and determine if you can use some of their strategies to help you do something similar with your own site. I’m not saying you should copy them exactly. You will have to add your own unique twist to what they are doing in order to make sure your site stands out from all the others. I think many people would agree with me that the sites out there which are the most successful have their own unique personality. With so many popular sites to choose from most surfers will gravitate to the sites which they feel offers the best personality so try to take this into consideration when you are trying to decide how to give your site a unique feel by adding your own voice to the design and content on your site.

After you come up with a great concept for your site, picked a specific niche that you are comfortable with, and infused the site with your own voice and personality, the next big step is trying to figure out how to get the word out there to other people. When it comes right down to it a really good idea just isn’t enough to make your website successful any more. You are going to need to come up with a smart and realistic marketing plan that is designed to constantly draw new visitors to your site. Once you are able to hook your visitor hopefully your great content will hopefully keep them coming back for more but it is vital that you are able to get that first glance from them or else your site will never get the opportunity to shine.