Hi all,

 I just want to talk about giveaways –do they work ?

 I have been doing some split testing as to what piques peoples interest and have offered two different free giveaway packages.

 I took on board what Alex and Linda Carol said about what to offer and what not to offer.

 I have offered on the one hand, a very good package of 30 different quality PLR and MRR products, and on the other hand, a single product of my own.

 The 30 product pack certainly attracted interest, but unfortunately there was a downside.  A significant number of people de-subscribed almost immediately after downloading this attractive and good value package.

 I was able to ascertain from their email addresses that they were more than likely taking the 30 product pack to split up and use themselves.

Quite a number of people seemed to take no notice of the double optin request, even though they must have realized that they would not be able to get the free offer without doing so.

After editing the optin form and making it clear, in huge red text, the necessity for the double optin, there was a slight increase in people doing so, but there was still a large number who didn’t.  Why?  There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme nor reason, why complete only part of the process if you want the free offer?  Surely you do what you have to do, to get it?

 Then I submitted a single product, and whilst the take up rate was significantly lower, the upside was that the retention and open rate was much higher.  This surely goes to prove that it is not such a good idea to offer such a large number of products at any one time.  You will only attract freebie seekers!

 This proves the point that Alex made that it is far better to offer one quality product of your own than somebody else’s batch of 30 products, albeit quality ones.

Hi all, firstly a big apology for the time between posts.

I think everybody within the student body will agree with me that these post-course weeks have been extremely hard work, but at the same time extremely exciting times.  Since the end of the course I have been looking at various methods of communicating with members of my list on a different level than the bog standard text e-mail.  I signed up to a fantastic service run by Jive Systems.  Basically Jive Systems have come up with a video e-mailing system that as far as I am concerned is the bees knees.  I have done a lot of research in this particular medium because as a lot of you know I am very interested in  video communication.  In my research I have found that there are lots of companies offering video e-mailing but I discovered the price of these programmes to be quite prohibitive inasmuch as they would set you a figure based on how many e-mails you would send out per month and beyond this you would be charged a tariff based on each extra e-mail sent.  The beauty of Jive Systems  is that there are no extra charges, you have one fixed monthly payment and it doesn´t matter how large your list becomes.  As you can probably tell I am really excited about this product as I am becoming more and more comfortable talking to the camera and I do feel that it is a far nicer way to communicate with the people on my list and one of the other fabulous points about this system is the fact that within each of the 40 templates they have to offer you are able to include live links to wherever you point your customers.  Be that a link to your blog, a video, a pdf or in fact anything.

I have joined virtually every giveaway event that has been advertised at the moment.  I am really pleased to say that they are actually working for me.  My list is growing daily.  It is quite incredible how much work you can actually fit into a 16 hour day! (not every day but nearly. Ha.Ha.)  Inbetween outside commitments and the need to give this business the input that it needs to grow, I find my once burgeoning social calendar has taken a nose dive, but it´s all good.  Apart from producing videos for Clickbank products, I have been beavering away at my own first product launch for the IM niche.  (My Journey So Far – Version 12!!).

I feel really bad for not getting round to see any of my fellow students blogs but even as well as I manage my time, I am just finding at the moment that extra hour to do this is just beyond me at the moment, so my apologies to all but I promise I will be visiting again as soon as everything starts to calm down.