Use Giveaways to Build Your Library
I mentioned giveaways briefly last time, and I’d like to tell you more. There are entire websites given over to free products, and you can find some great stuff (as well as some not-so-great stuff), but what I’m talking about are giveaways built around a season or holiday, made available through partners with email lists.
These giveaways are promoted as ideal ways for marketers to grow their own lists. A marketer signs up to participate by offering a product. When you, the consumer, participate and find a product you want, you are asked to provide your email address in order to opt-in and recieve your gift, and it usually means you are subscribing to that marketer’s newsletter. You get stuff you can use, and the marketer grows her list. Good all the way around.
I know you might be reluctant to so freely give over your email, but you shouldn’t be in this circumstance. Most of the marketers require a double opt-in process (you get an email asking you to confirm that you are, in fact, the real person who signed up), and they are firm in their promise not to sell or share your email. In a year of participating as a consumer, I don’t believe any of the marketers have violated that promise. Down the line, if you find their newsletter doesn’t provide you with anything useful, you can opt out.
If you’re new to all of this, you’ll find lots of material to download, mostly having to do with internet marketing. I learned a great deal just reading the free ebooks and information given in the follow-up newsletters.
One note of caution: you’ll want to download everything, and that’s okay if you have room on your hard drive. However, you’ll make your life infinitely less complicated if you develop a filing system from the first. You’ll see that some marketers tell you just to download the items to your desktop- Don’t Do It! Not only will you have a mess on your desktop, you’ll find it extremely difficult to find that one book you know will have all the answers, but put aside to read later.
Set up files as specific as you can to the topic of your new material. For example, you’ll probably want separate files for traffic information, blogging information, article writing, ebook writing, software for x, y, or z, etc. Try to be as specific as you can to make it easy to find again. I can’t tell you how much time I’ve wasted trying to find an ebook or tool because my filing system wasn’t specific enough. I even lost track of a couple of purchases, because I couldn’t remember where I put them. I now have specific files for each purchased item, all beginning with “purchase,” i.e., purchase site stealer.
Another way to keeps things in order is to watch the file name that shows when you download the product. Quite often, it will have nothing to do with the product, since it’s a name the marketer uses for her own download system. You might find that your Make a Billion Dollars Blogging ebook downloads with the title PLR14blog.pdf. Be sure to change that to something that makes sense to you, preferably the actual title of the book. Later on you’ll be tempted to download Make a Billion Dollars Blogging again because you didn’t remember getting it the first time.
Something else to be included in your download system is to note whether you’ve found a resales rights product and what kind of rights you have. Classes of items will generally be private use, giveaway rights only, or a level of resale right: resale, master resale, or private label rights. I’ll talk more in another post of the differences between these rights, but for now, just know that it will be helpful to have that as a part of the title of product, or a separate folder, for these classifications. I find it helpful to note the rights in the title. For example, our blogging book with private label rights would show as Make a Billion Dollars Blogging PLR.pdf in my file folder “blogging for money.”
To get you started building your library, here are two excellent giveaways. There are overlapping offers for the same product in them, but there are also lots of unique items. Visit them and start building your library. And remember the filing tips. You’ll thank me later.
