If you have any interest at all in using eBooks and free reports to build a mailing list it is crucial you read this article as the way you operate will change forever.

How much would you be willing to pay to get each and every person that ever opened one of your eBooks or reports onto your mailing list? It’s impossible to put a figure on it, but those people could have made a huge difference to your mailing list.

Why am I telling you all this?

Well, today the way I distribute my eBooks has changed for the better, forever.

Imagine if every single person that ever reads any of your eBooks or reports was added to your mailing list? Yes, every single person, no matter where they got your eBook from. No matter if they got it from you or from a fellow eBook seller, or even downloaded it from a free eBook section of a forum.

And imagine if you could repeat this process over and over as many times as you like?

You would be able to build a huge list of targeted mailing list subscribers on auto-pilot, you could then follow up with relevant deals, more information on the subject – the possibilities are endless!

I really cannot do this software justice here so I urge you to check it out:

Boomerang List Builder

It’s totally unconventional!

So I went on to register myself as a contributor of the JV event I mentioned in my last post.

Just in case, JV Giveaway is an event that typically has these features:

• Run by a site owner offering free gifts to visitors.
• Typical gifts are eBooks, reports, scripts, softwares, graphics and memberships.
• These gifts are collected from participants of the event and they are usually called contributors.
• It is a joint effort where promotions are done by both the site owner and contributors.
• Lasts from several days to weeks.
• Very often, contributors are accepted by-invitation-only, meaning you’ll have to be invited by someone to become a contributor.

JV events are usually run through out the year while more will be organised around certain festivals such as New Year, Christmas, Easter, etc to take advantage of the heightened celebration mood around those times.

Here’s a resource where you can find listing of currently active JV events:

http://giveawayalert.blogspot.com/

So what’s the W-I-I-F-M for everyone involved?

• The visitors get free gifts,
• the site owner get new leads as every visitor needs to sign up as a member before they can browse what’s on offer and
• Whenever a member choose a gift to download, he/she will typically have to optin to the contributor’s list. So the contributor builds his/her list.

So everyone came out of the event a happy person and this is the secret why JV events are so popular and successful. It is so attractive as everyone gain something without much cost if any.

Now let’s go back to JV registration process. It’s a simple process of giving your name, email, userid, password and an additional info or two.

You’re then sent a verification email confirmation before you can log in.

Next critical step is to prepare your gift and optin process. I will share how to go about doing this with you in next posting.

Assuming you got this portion ready, now go submit the gift to the site for approval. You usually do this under the heading “Manage Gift”. In most cases you’ll have to enter product title, description, image upload, optin page URL and download page URL.

Generally site owner requires a review before letting your gift to appear on their site. Acceptance is usually not an issue as I have never had any problem getting my gifts to pass.

The only time my gift did not get accepted was when the site owner requires your own original product to be offered. He did not accept any others such as products you obtained through PLR licenses or similar. This is quite rare though - if I see in my past experiences. I could observe that this type of restriction happens when the site owner is a well-known marketer who can afford to command such a high standard.

As the key to your success is - taking action – so I strongly urge you to signup to any of those JV events listed here at this link and experience for yourself the benefits of such an event. If you don’t feel like wanting to become a contributor yet, just register as a member where you can get to download gifts for free.

http://giveawayalert.blogspot.com/

Next : I will share with you what I did that got me the first opt-in and continue getting new members day after day without miss… you better not try this – it’s simply intoxicating

Is Money Really In The List? 

Yeah, most gurus will tell you that money is absolutely in the list! And you better believe them if long-term passive income is what you’re after. It’s true.

Now, realising the fact that it is crucial to build subscribers lists only answer part of the question. A bigger question is – how to build one?

Most marketers especially newbies got stuck at this point for very long time! They have a list with a big ZERO in term of size. Breaking this figure seems impossible.

I was definitely one of them as I was going on internet marketing adventure for over a year without a name to call my own list. Perhaps you fall into this category too but don’t feel bad as everyone had zero list when they started. Yup even all those we called gurus started at this very same figure.

When we first started, there are just too many options available for us to choose from. This is where information overload comes into play again and this phenomena is not going to go away anytime soon. We are simply lost!

See below if you can answer YES to one or more of the items…

You have:

• subscribed to all big gurus’ newletters and read them religiously
• purchased most ebooks that promised you instant wealth by this time next week
• bought a lot of tools and they just collect dust in your toolbox
• had a large collection of audio and video recordings made by internet marketing gurus
• participated in numerous webinars that had over-excited host manning the show

…and yet you are still as clueless as you were ever before.

Good news is – you’re not alone! Well may be that is not so good news after all.

I realised the secret to breaking this syndrome is - pinch yourself and say, ”hey, pick one method that you like and work on it and give it enough time to bear fruits”. Once it has worked, pick another method and move on…

Yes, the tried and tested “divide and rule” applies here too. So don’t feel bad if you can’t put every single theories you learnt about IM into use all at one go. The smarter way is to go small stepping.

One list that I built started quite accidentally. I visited a friend’s blog and he was talking about us joining a JV Giveaway event which was about to be launched. I had never joined such a campaign before as contributor but I did as a member to get free gifts.

Somehow I decided to try it out and started to do some some mental planning. Immediate questions come to mind:

• will I be accepted by the JV program owner?
• what to offer? Will people like it?
• how to design the squeeze page?
• how to setup the autoresponder?
• how to make money?

As with doing anything for the very first time, nothing is quite clear though.

Ok, thanks for reading this far.

Next : I will share with you what is JV Giveaway is all about and how you can quickly build your list for FREE…