If you haven’t had a chance yet to read through “List Building With Alex” then I recommend that you do. Alex leads you through step by step how he built his email list up into the thousands.

If you have read it then you already know that he recommends joining JV Giveaways to quickly build your list.

What Is A JV Giveaway?

A JV Giveaway is where a bunch of internet marketers submit free gifts for members to download. Then members can download these gifts at no cost, all they have to do is sign up for your email list.

There is no charge for you to participate. The only requirement is that you promote the giveaway. Usually the more members and contributors you refer to the giveaway the higher your free gift will rank.

These giveaway events generally last about 1 to 2 weeks.

I had never heard of JV Giveaways until I read Alex’s free report. Now that I’ve learned a little bit about them I’m finding that these giveaways are being held quite often.

Not only are they great for marketers that want to build their lists, but they are also a great place to stock up on all kinds of free internet marketing reports, software and all kinds of things for free.

You can use these gifts for your own personal use or you can use some of them to provide value to your own readers.

Here are a list of some upcoming Joint Venture Giveaway events. Check them out, like I said, there is no cost to join.

Permanent Giveaway 2010

>> Member Sign Up <<

>> Contributor Sign Up <<

7 Dollar Giveaway (April 1st – 15th)

>> Member Sign Up <<

Audio Video Giveaway 2010 Event (March 20 – April 10th)

>> Member Sign Up <<

The Huge-Giveaway (April 16-30th)

>> Contributor Sign Up <<

A Whopper of a Giveaway (April 10th-20th)

>> Contributor Sign Up <<

No Name Giveaway (April 12th – 26th)

>> Contributor Sign Up <<

How-To Giveaway (April 30th – May 30th)

>> Contributor Sign Up <<

But, Heidi, I don’t know how to set everything up …

Believe me, if I can do it, you can do it. It took me a little while to figure everything out, but now that I know what I’m doing I can set up my squeeze page, optin and thank you page fairly quickly. Of course, they may not be the best, but you don’t need to be perfect.

You want to build a list, right? Then sign up for a giveaway now. You will learn as you go.

If you want to learn more about what JV Giveaway’s are and everything you need to know about setting up your own gift, here is a free ebook by Jerry Iannucci that explains everything in great detail.

>> Click Here To Get Your Free Copy Of JV Giveaway Tactics <<

Here is some of what you will learn:

• How JV Giveaway Events Work
• How To Create Your Gift
• How To Create A Lead Capture Page
• How To Create A One Time Offer
• and much more!

I hope this post helps some of you get started that haven’t already. This is a learning process, but you learn as you take action.

I’ll see you at the next Giveaway!

Take Care – Heidi

One of the first methods of driving traffic I have learned is commenting on other peoples blogs.  I had always thought of blog commenting as a way to build backlinks to your website, which is a benefit, however if done right it can really help drive more visitors to your blog.

Here is the theory Alex Jeffreys teaches behind it.

Oil Rig Hopping

The internet is like the ocean.

If you were go tuna fishing where would you go? Would you go straight for the shallow waters or the deep part of the sea? Where would you get the most fish?

Some of the best tuna fishing in the world is located around man made oil rigs. An oil rig turns into a man made reef.

Algae grows beneath these man made oil structures. Because of the algae, clams start to build up all around it.  Little fish are then attracted because they eat clams. Then larger fish come to eat on the little fish. Then even larger fish come to eat on the bigger fish and then eventually you have sharks coming to eat on the even bigger fish.

By leaving comments on other blogs you are attracting all of those fish back to your blog.

If you are in the internet marketing niche, a great resource to finding great blogs is http://www.winningtheweb.com. You can get a list of the top internet marketing blogs from this website. These are sites that have LOADS of fish just waiting to swim over to your blog. You can also just do a simple google search for blogs in your niche.

Please remember that the key is not necessarily to post on as many blogs as you can, but to leave thought out, quality comments. The better your comments are the more likely it will attract visitors.

I struggled with this at first, just because I have hard time figuring out what to say. The more blog comments I have left though, the easier it gets.

Be sure to read the bloggers post. Don’t just leave a canned comment that you would leave on a hundred different blogs. Many people do this. I know this because most of them go straight to my spam filter. Some of these comments amaze me too, especially the ones that have absolutely nothing to do with what my blog is about.

If you find it difficult, take a couple quick notes while you are reading the blogger’s post. Find something that you can relate to. Maybe they mentioned something you have had experience with. Maybe you agree or disagree with something they have said. It’s ok if you disagree, just be sure you leave your opinion in a respectful manner.

The more blog comments you leave the faster you will get at it. Then yes, you do want to leave as many comments as you can to get more and more traffic. Just make sure they are always quality.

I know this works! I have left comments on some of the blogs I found in Winning the Web. My Google Analytics shows that I have had some visitors from these blogs, so they would have had to have found me through my blog comment.

I just wanted to do a quick post about what I plan on doing in the next couple of weeks and where I am at as of right now.

Although list building is my key focus, I am learning about different traffic generating methods in Alex’s course.

Some of the traffic methods we have learned about so far include blog commenting, social media and video marketing.

I will be posting about each method as I work through them.

Just to show where I am at right now, here is a snapshot of my Google Analytics page for this blog for the month of February.

This is my traffic for February 1 – 10, 2010.

My lifetime blog stats are as follows:

950 Visits
1929 Pageviews
2.03 page/visit
64.43 % bounce rate
3.10 average time on site
70.63% new visits

Yes, I know, not too impressive. LOL

I originally started my blog back in July, 2009 and have done a little here and there, but now I am actually taking action on everything I am learning through Alex Jeffrey’s training.  Right now I’m getting about 5-15 visitors a day, but I plan to see that increase over the coming weeks. I’ll let you know everything that I am doing to build the traffic I generate.