Comments on: Steps To Grow A List By Contributing To A Give-Away Event http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:52:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Janet Beckers http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/comment-page-1/#comment-1527 Janet Beckers Sat, 31 May 2008 05:06:46 +0000 http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/#comment-1527 <p>HI Gabriele So great you will be joining us. You can join as a contributor here: http://www.wonderfulwebgiveaway2008.com/contributor.php Cheers Janet</p> HI Gabriele
So great you will be joining us. You can join as a contributor here:
http://www.wonderfulwebgiveaway2008.com/contributor.php
Cheers
Janet

]]> By: Gabriele Reign http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/comment-page-1/#comment-1515 Gabriele Reign Thu, 29 May 2008 15:41:18 +0000 http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/#comment-1515 <p>Count me in... adding to another's life is my highest reward. What's the next step. As my gift I offer a dynamic ecourse: Create It! In Abundance, Gabriele Reign</p> Count me in… adding to another’s life is my highest reward. What’s the next step. As my gift I offer a dynamic ecourse: Create It!
In Abundance,
Gabriele Reign

]]> By: Janet Beckers http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/comment-page-1/#comment-810 Janet Beckers Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:06:53 +0000 http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/#comment-810 <p>Hi Folks and thanks for the comments. You've made some good points Connie and you're right. We certainly don't want to be a "me too" giveaway site. We will only be running one per year and the emphasis will not only be on marketing as so many are. It will be on creating success in your life in all the ways you can define success. So this includes personal, family, health. So an emphasis on balance. We intend to run only one event per year (and have bought the domains for quite a few years down the track).</p> <p>It is interesting that you bring up about the quality of the follow up emails by contributors. Another member has requested we run a session on how to communicate with subscribers after we have them on our lists. Do you think this would be a valuable webinar to run?</p> <p>Re the organisers list. Yes, the organisers create a list as well as everyone who signs up for the giveaway products joins the organiser's list. The owner of this list is me (well, Wonderful Web Group really) as we are the organisers. Stephanie is acting as a consutant and mentor on this project but the project is my responsibility. We are so lucky to have her as a guide to turn to for advice as well as the gift she is giving our members in terms of the extra class she is providing to help our gold members and people who invest in her product.</p> <p>So while many of our members are on a steep learning curve to learn how to contribute to a give-away, I will be on a steep learning curve to learn how to run one! But hey, I decided in June last year to constantly push myself out of my comfort zone, so this is just another push!</p> <p>Cheers Janet</p> Hi Folks and thanks for the comments. You’ve made some good points Connie and you’re right. We certainly don’t want to be a “me too” giveaway site.
We will only be running one per year and the emphasis will not only be on marketing as so many are. It will be on creating success in your life in all the ways you can define success. So this includes personal, family, health. So an emphasis on balance.
We intend to run only one event per year (and have bought the domains for quite a few years down the track).

It is interesting that you bring up about the quality of the follow up emails by contributors. Another member has requested we run a session on how to communicate with subscribers after we have them on our lists. Do you think this would be a valuable webinar to run?

Re the organisers list. Yes, the organisers create a list as well as everyone who signs up for the giveaway products joins the organiser’s list. The owner of this list is me (well, Wonderful Web Group really) as we are the organisers. Stephanie is acting as a consutant and mentor on this project but the project is my responsibility. We are so lucky to have her as a guide to turn to for advice as well as the gift she is giving our members in terms of the extra class she is providing to help our gold members and people who invest in her product.

So while many of our members are on a steep learning curve to learn how to contribute to a give-away, I will be on a steep learning curve to learn how to run one! But hey, I decided in June last year to constantly push myself out of my comfort zone, so this is just another push!

Cheers
Janet

]]> By: Connie http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/comment-page-1/#comment-774 Connie Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:19:00 +0000 http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/#comment-774 <p>The flow chart helps greatly, thanks for putting it up. Can you just clarify one thing for me? When the person opts into the give-away site the give-away organisers get all those addresses? That means Janet and Stephanie? Is there going to be anybody else involved that is classed as an "organiser"? Is this set up as a double opt-in where those people then get the organisers' newsletters etc. even if they don't go any further and get a give-away from somebody else? </p> <p>I understand that for them to go onto my list they have to opt-in for my gift. </p> <p>One comment I would like to add: there seem to be a lot of give-aways happening and I subscribed to one and the products were ok BUT the follow-up newsletters delivered no value whatsoever, they were only sales pitches, one after another, and I unsubscribed from all of them fairly quickly.</p> <p>Some give-aways even tell people that they will find new things in there, not the old tired products they have seen dozens of times before. It seems the stragtegy has been overused by some.</p> <p>We really need to come up with some great, innovative ideas and limit the give-away to once a year or so, make it scarce and precious, otherwise people won't even enter it.</p> <p>Thanks Connie</p> The flow chart helps greatly, thanks for putting it up. Can you just clarify one thing for me?
When the person opts into the give-away site the give-away organisers get all those addresses? That means Janet and Stephanie? Is there going to be anybody else involved that is classed as an “organiser”?
Is this set up as a double opt-in where those people then get the organisers’ newsletters etc. even if they don’t go any further and get a give-away from somebody else?

I understand that for them to go onto my list they have to opt-in for my gift.

One comment I would like to add: there seem to be a lot of give-aways happening and I subscribed to one and the products were ok BUT the follow-up newsletters delivered no value whatsoever, they were only sales pitches, one after another, and I unsubscribed from all of them fairly quickly.

Some give-aways even tell people that they will find new things in there, not the old tired products they have seen dozens of times before. It seems the stragtegy has been overused by some.

We really need to come up with some great, innovative ideas and limit the give-away to once a year or so, make it scarce and precious, otherwise people won’t even enter it.

Thanks Connie

]]> By: JoAnn http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/comment-page-1/#comment-767 JoAnn Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:26:43 +0000 http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/#comment-767 <p>A big thanks to you for this huge effort, it is so "in the spirit" of giving that I love most about working with women on the web.</p> <p>We already have an ebook that we think will be a wonderful giveaway... can't wait to share the abundance of wonderful web women wonderments in June!</p> <p>Warmly, JoAnn</p> A big thanks to you for this huge effort, it is so “in the spirit” of giving that I love most about working with women on the web.

We already have an ebook that we think will be a wonderful giveaway… can’t wait to share the abundance of wonderful web women wonderments in June!

Warmly,
JoAnn

]]> By: Peggy http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/comment-page-1/#comment-763 Peggy Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:32:13 +0000 http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/#comment-763 <p>Thanks for the flow chart, it helps us visual people!</p> <p>I've been wanting to try a giveaway and I'm thrilled that you're setting this up.</p> <p>Thanks! Peggy</p> Thanks for the flow chart, it helps us visual people!

I’ve been wanting to try a giveaway and I’m thrilled that you’re setting this up.

Thanks!
Peggy

]]> By: Wonderful Web Women » Blog Archive » Build Your List With The Wonderful Web Giveaway Project http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/comment-page-1/#comment-759 Wonderful Web Women » Blog Archive » Build Your List With The Wonderful Web Giveaway Project Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:12:06 +0000 http://wonderfulwebwomen.com/blog/2008/steps-to-grow-a-list-by-contributing-to-a-give-away-event/#comment-759 <p>[...] You can see a flow chart I have created that tells you how the process works, what you need to do to take part and how you build your list. Let me know what you think of it. I love flow charts. Details of the Wonderful Web Giveaway [...]</p> [...] You can see a flow chart I have created that tells you how the process works, what you need to do to take part and how you build your list. Let me know what you think of it. I love flow charts. Details of the Wonderful Web Giveaway [...]

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