Are Joint Venture Giveaway Events An Effective Method To Start My List Fast?
A JV giveaway event is a website setup by Internet marketers who get together to make use of their lists to help grow the subscriber lists of all the marketers taking part. By taking part in such an event each and every member has the potential to build up their own subscriber list by using the combined power of all the other list builders who are taking part.
The way it works is every member of the JV giveaway register one or more gifts along with their squeeze pages that they will use to collect new registrations. They then agree to email their mailing list on launch day advertising the event and all the gifts contributed by other marketers.
Are JV giveaway events really a decent way to establish a list quickly? The answer to this question is: it depends on the situation. If you are operating your own JV giveaway event than it undoubtedly is.
Even if you are unskilled and the event is not so well run, you will develop your list by 100's if not 1000's of subscribers. Effective events may add to your list many 1000's of new subscribers but you will have to really be good at it and have a reputation that attracts people. You will benefit greatly if you could find yourself a experienced partner to conduct the event together.If you are registering with someone else to giveaway as a contributor than you will grow your subscriber list.
Will it be a huge growth? Again - it depends on the situation. If this is a well established 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 members on your list. However, many of the JV giveaways I've seen are either conducted by unacquainted people or are conducted by "professional" event managers on behalf of others. Alas, many of those are not so well administrated and the results for members are not as good as one could hope for.
Conclusion
JV giveaway events are one way of building your list. Use them well and you will benefit.
Use other ways to build your list as well; don't rely on JV giveaways alone.