You may have heard of Joint Ventures, but have you ever heard of Joint Venture Giveaways? Joint Venture Giveaways have lots of benefits, for the people that are giving gifts away, as well as for the people who are receiving them.

The people who are receiving free gifts are getting – well – free gifts. These gifts are usually quite valuable, and the recipients get a lot of use and/or joy out of them. But the people who are giving the gifts away gain even more in the way of benefits.

First, by participating in a Joint Venture Giveaway, you can build a very large list in a very short amount of time. That is the main reason that most people create products and give them away for these events. But there are other benefits as well, such as increasing website traffic.

Joint Venture Giveaways are held throughout the year. Here is how they work:

1. You learn about the event well ahead of time. You may be able to find events in the search engines, or you may be a member of an Internet Marketer’s opt-in list and learn about it that way. You may also join a site such as Ken McArthur’s JVAlert and find out about these events through that media.

2. You register for the event, as someone who will be giving something away. The better events will have requirements that you must meet, such as a list of a certain size, but as long as you meet the requirements, if they exist, you can take part, free of charge.

3. You create your free gift. This may be an ebook, a series of articles, a report, an informative video – or something of that nature. The important thing is that you make sure that it has some value and worth to the people that download it, that it hasn’t been used elsewhere (like at other JV giveaways), and that it contains links to your website inside the product.

4. You upload the product to your website, preferably in a zipped folder, and then you create an opt-in page. The opt-in page should be short (the reader shouldn’t have to scroll to read the entire thing), it should have a good headline, a little bit of text that tells the person what they are getting, and a form that they can fill out with their name and email address.

5. You create a thank you page or an OTO (One Time Offer). This is the page that the visitor sees after they submit the form with their name and email address. These is a great time for an OTO, but if all you want to do is provide a thank you page, that works well also. Make sure that you tell the visitor to check their email, and to confirm their email address.

6. You set up your autoresponder. Once the visitor submits their name and email, they should be sent a confirmation email. After they confirm their email address, the autoresponder should send them an email that tells them where to go to download their free gift.

7. You submit the URL, the name of your gift, and a graphical book cover or CD/DVD cover to the site where the Joint Venture Giveaway is being held.

8. On the day that the giveaway starts, you send out an email to your list, if you have one, telling them to go pick up their free gifts. All of the participants who have donated gifts for the event do this as well.

9. People come to your download site & sign up and download your gift in droves!

So as you can see, Joint Venture giveaways boost your traffic in two different but equally powerful ways – first you get that initial surge as they flock to your site from the giveaway, and then you can use your newly-created opt-in list to bring them back to that site, to your other sites, to your blogs and to any affiliate marketing links you may be promoting. That’s what makes JV giveaways one of the most powerful tools in your targeted traffic generating arsenal!

===============
Doug Champigny is a well-known Traffic Master with over 100 websites and a number of blogs under his control, including the Top Traffic Tips Blog and the Top Traffic Tips Bootcamp. Doug has also authored numerous e-books on increasing traffic for Internet, niche and affiliate marketing. Be sure to bookmark his sites for the latest in targeted traffic generation to bring a flood of traffic to your web sites and blogs.
===============

Note to Webmasters & Bloggers: You may use any article from this site provided you do so without altering the text, and that you include the author’s resource box with the links fully operational on you sites or blogs.

Technorati Tags: web site traffic, blog traffic, targeted traffic, joint ventures, joint venture giveaways, using giveaways for traffic, JV’s, Doug Champigny