Are All Joint Venture Giveaways A Good Way To Create My List Fast?
A JV giveaway event is a site setup by online marketers who get together to make use of their lists of subscribers to help build the lists of all the participants included. By taking part in such an event each and every participant has the potential to build up their own list by taking advantage of the total power of every the other list builders who are participating.
The way it works is every single member of the JV giveaway register one or more gifts along with their squeeze pages that they will use to gather new leads. They then agree to email their mailing list on launch day promoting the giveaway event and all the free products being given away by other marketers.
Are JV giveaway events really a good way to establish my list quickly? The answer to this question is: it depends on the situation. If you are managing your own JV giveaway event than it absolutely is.
Even if you are unskilled and the event is not so well run, you will develop your opt-in list by 100's if not 1000's of subscribers. Successful events may add to your subscriber list many 1000's of new subscribers but you will need to really be good at it and have a name that attracts people. You will benefit greatly if you could find yourself a seasoned partner to run the event together.If you are joining someone else to giveaway as a contributor than you will expand your list.
Will it be a huge growth? Again - it depends on the situation. If this is a well known event (running at the same time of the year for several years) and if you do great work with your submission (more on that later) then you can see 100's of new subscribers on your list. However, many of the JV giveaway events I've seen are either conducted by unacquainted people or are run by "professional" event creators on behalf of others. Sadly, many of those are not so well run and the results for participants are not as good as one could hope for.
Conclusion
JV giveaway events are one way of developing your mailing list. Use them well and you will benefit.
Use other ways to build your list as well; don't rely on JV giveaway events alone.