Stage I: Before You Hit the Road • Introduction
• What on earth is a Giveaway?
• Why do you want to run your own Giveaway?
• When is the best time for your Giveaway?
• What do people want from the event?
• What sort of Giveaways are there?
• How long should your event run?
• Before, During and After Your Event
• One part of your domain name that you should NEVER do
• Two questions you need to ask yourself before you start
• Three things you need to do to prepare your site
• Four things that you need to AVOID
• Five things you must do BEFORE you invite JV Partners
• Six things you must do BEFORE you invite Members
Preparing Your Contributors • How do you find JV Partners?
• What sort of gifts do you accept?
• Terms and Conditions you MUST include
• Setting up multiple opportunities for income
• Preparing your partners to send traffic to your site
• Keeping your Contributors happy (so they continue to build momentum)
• Provide templates for your contributors to use
• Demonstrate how to set up an Autoresponder
• Demonstrate how the site is set up – video
• Demonstrate how to recruit traffic to the site (and earn commissions)
Preparing Your Members
• Do they actually know what they are doing at the site?
• What do your members want?
• How to help avoid them being ripped off
• How to encourage them to buy from your site
• How to Avoid being Labelled a SPAMMER
Where to get your traffic from?
• Train your Contributors to use these methods
• Referrals from your Contributors subscriber list
• Blogging for traffic
• Video Lens for traffic
• Pay Per Click for traffic
• Articles for traffic
• Ebay for traffic
• News Releases for traffic
• RSS Feeds
• Forums
• Ezine Advertising
Guarding Yourself
• Guarding against digital property theft
• Guarding against Spyware, Malware, Viruses
• Guarding against links that don’t work
• Guarding yourself against abusive members/contributors
• Guarding yourself against being blacklisted
• Guarding yourself against SPAM complaints
• Guarding your Contributors against SPAM complaints
Setting up Your Site and Server
• Software requirements
• Avoiding technical issues
• Bandwidth required
• Setting up your Support Centre and Help Desk
Making Money from Your Event
• Setting up your One Time Offer
• Setting up Backend offers
• Setting your price point for products offered
• Contributor Gift Ranking enhancement
Building Your Subscriber List
• What type of Opt-in list to use?
• Should you totally rely on the Giveaway software?
Setting up Your Landing Pages
• Before the big day (for Members)
• Lead capture
• Using video and audio
• What to put in the Autoresponder series
• How to Unsubscribe
• How to Whitelist your sending address
Communication before, during and after the event
• Communicating with your JV Partners
• Communicating with your Members
Stage II: Hit the Road Running
• Building Excitement for your Event
• Have a pre-enrolment page
• Use video clips and tell them what’s happening inside
• Launch Day: You’re Set!
• Check any reported bugs have been programmed out of the site
• Your Launch Email Procedure
• When is the Best Time to Launch Your Giveaway?
• During the Event
• Keep your members returning for more
• Using contests to build momentum
• Getting your members to refer members
• Communicating in your forum
• Monitor your members activity
• Check your site’s Alexa activity
• Check your site’s bandwidth
Stage III: Your Race Has Finished! • You’ve crossed the Finish Line
• Close the doors to the site
• Did you have a contest?
• Announcements to JV Partners
• Mention / Highlight Significant Contributions from your Partners
• Learn from Your Event
• Conclusion
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