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 <<

>> Contributer Sign Up <<

Queen Bee JV Giveaway (February 22 – March 14th)

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2010 Prosperity Giveaway (February 22 – March 15th)

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Saint Patricks Day Giveaway (Feb 28 to March 31st)

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Luck Of The Irish Giveaway (March 1 – March 31st)

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Shop4Bizness Joint Venture Giveaway (March 1 – March 15th)

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Growing Success Giveaway ( March 3 – March 17th)

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Looking Forward To Spring

>> Contributor Sign Up <<

Simon Warner’s My JV Giveaway Event (March 16-30th)

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

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Give Me My Money Giveaway 2010 (March 13 – March 27th)

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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.

Through out the first couple modules of Alex Jeffrey’s training he emphasizes over and over again that your main focus and effort should be on building your list.

Did you know that they say that each person on your email list equals about $1 a month?

Imagine that, just a list of 3000 to 4000 email subscribers and I can kick the day job to the curb.

Of course, it starts slow.

You won’t have 2000 subscribers overnight.

They will join, 1 by 1 by 1.

Alex says that you will start small, but need to THINK BIG.

Not only do you want a list, but you want a warm list. Not a cold list. As you build your list you should first focus on building relationships with your readers. The more value you provide them the more likely they will read your emails and buy something from you in the future.

You can send them tips, helpful links, videos, free ebooks. There are all kinds of things you can do. Just make sure what your are sending them is of value.

Show them that you are there to help them and that you want to see them succeed.

The more you build relationships and the more value you provide them the more they will trust you. Your readers will start to look forward to your next emails.

There are 4 Steps to Your Readers:

Suspects

Prospects

Customers

Clients

You turn your suspects into prospects by giving them free, valuable information.

Then you start to build you relationships with them. Let them get to know you. Let them start to like you and then they will start trusting you.

Then you can start turning them into customers.

Alex overlooked list building for years. Now he has a list well over 23,000 subscribers. It is probably even loads higher than that now.

There is no time than the present to start. Don’t wait 2 years down the road thinking I’ll get to it later. Now is the time to start.

I actually starting learning about internet marketing about 1-2 years ago. I told myself I wasn’t advanced enough to learn how to build a list. Now I know that was complete nonsense.

I highly recommend you download “List Building With Alex”. He leads you through how he built his list into the thousands. It also includes a 12 step guide to starting your own list. You’ll get some great tips and resources to get you going in no time. Oh ya, and it’s totally free. Check out my right side bar to download it.

As I said in my last post I am starting at square one and going back through the training modules for Alex Jeffreys coaching program. I let my day time job overwhelm me for a while there and stopped my internet marking efforts. I decided the best thing to do is to start over, re-listen to all of my training, take lots of notes and start blogging.

The first module is all about planning and keeping on top of your business. You have to have a plan. I won’t go into detail on this module since I posted about them early on. Here they are if you missed them:

Every Successful Online Business Starts With A Plan

K.O.T.O.B.O.T – huh?

Alex’s second module goes into setting up a sales funnel or what he calls a profit pulling platform.

A profit pulling platform is a series of webpages that become your sales funnel. This funnel will have multiple ways to make you money.

Here is an example below of what a profit pulling platform would look like:

You start by sending traffic to your squeeze page. When they get to your squeeze page they only have two options. 1) enter their name and email to get the free ebook, or 2) close the page. (of course, we all hope for number 1!)

Once they opt into your mailing list you send them to the download page where they will be made an offer, or up-sell. They can either choose to take the upsell or download your free ebook.

If you make money on the up-sell, great, but if not, that is ok too. Alex emphasizes that THE MOST IMPORTANT thing is building your mailing list.

Also, your free ebook will have mater resale rights so that it can be given away freely. Since it is full of links back to your website you can create even more traffic.

A website alone won’t make money. You can’t just throw up a website and expect to start rolling in the cash. You need to have the business behind the website. You have to have faith in the system.

Man, it has been a long time since I have posted anything. No… I didn’t drop off the side of the earth, although it felt like it for awhile there.

I was about  3/4 of the way through Alex Jeffreys training program when my day job picked up. Unfortunately, they decided they needed to realign positions and made some HUGE layoffs. Yes, as everyone tells me, I’m one of the lucky ones that I was not laid off. The only thing is that everyone that stayed had to take on a ton of extra responsibilities.

I had to take on some extra accounts, at least until they figured out who was going to be doing what after the layoffs. From about September through November I was so extremely stressed at work I was pretty much a vegetable when I got home.

I don’t think I have ever been so stressed out. It seemed that everything, everyday was urgent and I was constantly rushing to get this done, to get this done, to get this done. Then I got a laptop so I could work from home if needed… Well, that just meant I was checking emails the second I got up in the morning and then everynight before going to sleep. It seemed like I lived, breathed and dreamed about my work. I was so stressed that it felt like my heart was racing 24/7.

You would think that would motivate me even more to get my online business growing, but I was just so exhausted from it all. Things have started to calm down a little, but I’m struggling with getting back into the swing of things with my online work. I’m back to feeling overwhelmed because there are so many things I feel like I should be working on.

So what am I doing now? Well, I am going to go back through all of my training from Alex Jeffreys course and start from square one.

My boyfriend and I started a new workout program as of the New Year and I signed up to be an affiliate for the program. I thought, what better product to blog about and promote than one I’m going through myself. One, it will force me to be accountable and I’ll have plenty to share on my blog because I’ll be experiencing it from start to finish. I’m going to use what I learn from Alex Jeffreys course to get it set up, drive traffic to it and build a list.

Now more than ever I want to do internet marketing full time. I don’t ever want to get as stressed as I was during those few months at my day job. It seriously drained the life out me and I was really unhappy. I even thought about finding a new job, but this is what I really want to do. It would be silly to start out at a new job. What I need to do is really focus on my online business so that I can quit the 9 – 5 routine completely.

Anyhow, I plan to post more regularly again so you should see more of me from here on out.

I would LOVE to hear how other people manage their online businesses with full time jobs.

Please leave a comment and share how you re-focus yourself after getting home from an exhausting day?

I received an email from Alex Jeffreys about something HUGE Rich Schefren and Jay Abraham are doing. Alex doesn’t recommend anything, especially to his coaching students.

He only recommends something if he truly believes it will benefit our online businesses. After reading his email I decided I had to check it out. He was right, this is going to be huge.

So here’s the deal:

Rich Schefren and Jay Abraham, have been quietly working for the past year putting together a one-of-a-kind “Brain Trust-Interactive” expert panel interview series for entrepreneurs.

This mega-gathering is called The League of Extraordinary Minds, and it’s entire focus is to bring together a collection of the world’s finest, leading-edged business experts on highly specialized subjects to help entrepreneurs like you attain more success and bigger profits.

These legendary men and women excel at seeing business building avenues, options and possibilities that virtually no one else in their field of business specialization perceives.

And now, they’re handing all these secrets to you….. FOR FREE!

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That’s right!  You can get inside the League of Extraordinary Minds for a full 6 weeks without paying a cent. No credit card required or anything.

You’ll virtually sit at the feet of the masters as they reveal their most closely held secrets for building billion-dollar business empires.

I’m talking about the world’s preeminent expert on business innovations and optimization…

I’m talking about the absolute brightest consultative sales expert the world has ever seen…

I’m talking about not one, but two On-line Marketing Hall-of-Fame caliber legends…

I’m talking about the roving editor of INC Magazine…

I’m talking about the top social media mind in the world….

I’m talking about men who’ve been named Marketing Man of the Year by the top industry associations….

And many many more–54 experts in all, to be exact.

Check out who they are right here…

Who Is Part Of The League of Extraordinary Minds?

But you need to hurry. Because registration is extremely limited, and Rich and Jay only have a handful of complimentary seats left to give out…

So go here RIGHT NOW and get signed up. Because NOW is the time to shift gears, reposition all your efforts and energies, harvest the treasure chest of profits that the market is eager to reward you with. And the League of Extraordinary minds will show you how.

That’s what you REALLY want, right?

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See you inside…

Heidi

In module one of Alex Jeffrey’s coaching program we focused on “forward to basics”. It was all about planning and organization for your online business. We learned the importance of planning ahead your days, weeks and months. Alex taught us to use the task management tools that he personally uses with his online business.

K.O.T.O.B.O.T

What on earth is K.O.T.O.B.O.T?

KEEP ON TOP OF BEING ON TOP

You shouldn’t just have a plan, but you need to keep on top of your plan. You need to K.O.T.O.B.O.T your online business. Alex originally learned to do this with his own personal finances. Then when he saw the results he realized he could apply this to his online business.  During the first year of incorporating K.O.T.O.B.O.T into his own online business he made $115,000. He created a plan, planned ahead and kept on top of his plan.

Alex says that “An idiot with a plan will always beat a genius without a plan”.

How do you keep on top of your plan? Please leave a comment on what works for you, what doesn’t work or what you plan to do to keep on top of your plan.

Oh boy, I have been tagged. I have to write 25 things about myself. My sister has tagged me many times on Facebook, but I have always shied away.

Well, now I have been tagged by Glenn Windh. Visit Glenn’s Blog to read his 25 things. The GazzMan, Gary Simpson, started this for a fun way to build traffic among the Alex Jeffrey’s students, and it’s a great way for us to get to know each other a little more. Visit the Gazzman’s blog to view his 25 things and learn to learn the rules.

Some of these things have been shared with very few people and I am quite embarrassed by a couple of them, but I wanted you all to have something interesting to read. Please comment at the end, whether you can relate, give feedback, or to just plain laugh at me, please do. All comments welcome.

Well, here goes:

1. I was really active in different things growing up. I can play the piano, clarinet and bass guitar. I still have my clarinet and guitar, but I’m sad to say that they have been collecting dust for about 10 years. I also did ballet, tap, jazz, basketball, soccer, T-ball, gymnastics and track as a kid.

2. I am 1/2 German. My Mom moved to US when she was 14. When I was little she tried teaching me German, but unfortunately she didn’t keep it up. I’ve taken some German in school, but pretty much all I know now are a few words.

3. I have traveled to Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Spain, UK (for about 4 hours), Canada, Hawaii and a handful of states.

4. I love animals. My pets are my kids (at least for now). Right now we have 2 dogs, Dixie our pitbull, Rachal our terrior mix, Roxie and Mia our two cats. Oh ya, we also have an outdoor cat that we feed. She has lived under our porch since we moved in. We never gave her a name because my boyfriend thought that if we did, then she would get run over. So, she has been “kitty” for the last 3 years.

5. I enjoy playing darts. I have helped run a dart tournement at a local bar for the last 4 years. Wish I could also say that I am really good, but I have my occasional lucky nights.

6. I have a mild case of road rage. I can’t stand people that don’t use their blinker and people that think they need to come to a complete stop before making their right turn into a parking lot or onto another street. I rarely use my horn, but boy, if they could hear what I’m saying ….

7. I took a home study course in grooming dogs. I would love to work with animals. I wouldn’t be good in a vets office because I can’t handle blood well and it would be too hard for me when pets didn’t make it. I think I would be balling along with the owner’s every time. I couldn’t work in a shelter because I would want to bring them all home with me. Grooming was the perfect solution! Now that I have completed the course, the only problem that I really need hands on experience to get going. You can only learn so much reading about something. There’s no way I could live on a starting out wage for someone learning the business.

8. I absolutely hate needles. One time the doctor told me she had to prick my finger for a test and I think I almost past out. My whole body went hot in an instant and I probably turned completely white. Therefore … I do not have any tattoos, just in case any of you were wondering, which I’m sure you probably weren’t.

9. I can’t cook. Not anything fancy anyhow. I struggle with my eggs every time and the thought of cooking bacon frightens me. LOL, ok, maybe that’s a bit of an exageration. I can cook somethings, just not a whole lot. People always say cooking is so easy, you just need to experiment with it. I think that “experimental” gene was left out when I was born. Anyhow, I would be lost without my microwave.

10. Did Jenny Craig when I was 12. I wasn’t extremely overweight, but enough that I wasn’t happy with it. I think my Mom thought Jenny Craig would help me to learn to eat better. I have done it twice since then. Really it is the ideal diet for me because I get to eat all kinds of fancy food, but I don’t have to cook it. My meals are conveniently planned and ready to nuke in the microwave when I’m ready.

11. I am currently a part of Alex Jeffrey’s mentoring program. I have learn a lot about internet marketing over the last year, but not how to really create an online business for myself. Alex Jeffrey’s is teaching me that and I am really excited about what the future holds.

12. I worshipped the New Kids On The Block when I was 10. I used to sing to my poster of Joey McIntyre on my wall. You actually couldn’t see any of my walls at the time because they were covered in NKOTB posters. My sister and I slept outside to get tickets on year and then after the concert we went and stood outside their hotel after the concert. Yup! Stalkers. I had NKOTB slippers, alarm clock, sleeping bag, watch and a million pins. … I still have the sleeping bag, watch and alarm clock and one poster! My mom kept much of my stuff after I moved out. Shh, don’t tell anyone.

13. I have a complete workout video library. Jane Fonda, Susan Powder, Billy Banks, Hip Hop Abs, Slim and Six, Richard Simmons, ….. unfortunately about 90% of them are all on VHS. I remember getting up before school each morning and doing Sweat’n to the Oldies with my Mom everyday before school. “You Got To Shout” ….. I can still remember some of the moves and how silly we looked.

14. HATE earwigs. This year they have been especially bad and started coming into the house. I was working at my computer the other morning and felt something on my chest. One was in my clothes! Let’s just say I was quite upset over it. They are nasty little creatures.

15. I missed two finals my senior year of highschool because I went out dancing the night before and ended up so sick I couldn’t get out of bed the next day. The first final, journalism, my teacher just gave me a B because that was my average grade throughout the semester and I was her TA for during another period. (there is no way I would have gotten a b, her tests were tough. Mrs. Smith, if you are reading this, I’m really sorry!) and the other final I got to complete in a room with 3 other people so we helped each other.

16. I have 6 screws in my jaw. I had jaw surgery when I was 14 or 15 to keep my teeth straight. (Painful, painful recovery, at least for a 14 year old anyhow) I never knew what they looked like either until recently. My last dentist gave a copy of my X-ray and you can totally see the screws in my jaw. They are a lot bigger than I thought. LOL

17. In 3th grade during recess I used to make faces at a 5th grade boy selling milk in the lunch room, up until he ran out and chased me across the playground throwing rocks.

18. I love scary movies even though I cover my eyes through all the really scary and gory parts.

19. I really want a motorcycle someday. That is secretly one of my personal goals for my online business.

20. I am the worst person in the world at sending cards. I have several birthday and wedding cards in my desk at work that I filled out, but never mailed.

21. I am not allowed in Fred Meyers. I was 16 at the time and my friends and I went through a really stupid phase. Before I go on, keep in mind that most of us have all done some dumb things when they were young and this was 14-15 years ago. Ok, on with the story. We would go into stores and pocket as much stuff as we could. Up our shirt sleeves, in our pockets, where ever we could put it. Of course, it wasn’t anything that we really needed. Then we’d get out to the car and see what we all got. I was an addictive habit. I did it once by myself and I got caught! I pocketed some makeup and noticed that someone was following me around the store. Anyhow, they rushed me to the exit and lucky, lucky, lucky for me they did not call the cops. They just said never to come back. I can’t even express how guilty I felt over that. I eneded up throwing away anything I had ever stole. The good thing that came from it is that all of my friends stopped after that too. It just took one of us to get caught to stop the whole charade. And yes, I have been back to Fred Meyers since then. =) You learn from your mistakes right?

22. My favorite actor is Johnny Depp. Ever since I saw him in Cry Baby, oooh!. I was in 4th grade then. My best friend and I watched the move 4 times in a row. Awesome underwear scene by the way.

23. I don’t like fishing, but I like to eat fish. I can’t stand the thought of catching a fish with a hook.

24. My mom always thought I should have been in commercials as a baby. All because of this picture to the right.

25. My current day job has been so stressful that I am literally in tears daily. I’ve been with the company for over 5 years and things have gotten busier and busier. I took a new position a little over a year ago and it’s one of those jobs where absolutely nothing goes right. These past few weeks it has escalated too. I have been so stressed at work at I find it hard to breath. I am so exhausted by the time I get home. This is why it is so important to me to build my online business. Either I will do this full time, or I’ll have enough income that I can take a part time job getting that hands grooming experience I talked about in number 7.

Ok, so that’s my 25. If you made it this far I appreciate you taking the time to learn a little bit more about me. I have to admit that I’m a bit embarrassed to admit a couple of the above items, but this is all for fun, right?

Who should I tag, with all of us tagging 5 other people, I’m not sure how we avoid tagging the same people?

Ok, let’s go with:

Jose Perez, Brad Burnie, Rich Darby, Roger Edwards and David Chamberlain

The All In One SEO plugin will help optimize your blog for the search engines.

To start log into your dashboard.

Then hold your mouse over the plug in icon and a drop down menu will appear.

Then you want to click on Add New.

In the Search box type in All-In-One SEO and click Search Plugins.

It should be the first plugin on the list. You now want to click on Install on the right.

A pop up box will appear where you need to click on install again. I have already installed it so mine is worded a little differently. Where mine says Latest Version Installed it will actually say Install Now.

Next you want to click on Activate Plugin.

Now that you have installed the All In One SEO plugin you need to configure it by filling out a few boxes.

Hold your mouse over the setting icon and click on All In One SEO.

Be sure that you have Enabled checked at the top.

Your Home Title is what will show in the search engines as the name of your site. If you want to add an additional description you can put it here. See how mine is below. The name of my blog is HeidiPassey.com, but when you find it in the search engine it actually says “HeidiPassey.com – Learning Internet Marking”.

The second box to fill in is your Home Description. This is what will show up when someone comes across your website  in a search engine. This is the text listed underneath your website. You want this description to catch peoples attention and draw them in. The more interesting your description the more people that will click on your website over other search results.

As you can see above my description text really isn’t too catchy, so that is something I need to work on.

The last box that you should fill in is the Home Keywords. This doesn’t carry as much push as it used to, but it will help with some search engines. You want to list all the keywords you feel your site is about. These are words that you would want your site to show up when someone searches for them.

You can leave the rest of the boxes as they are. Scroll to the bottom and click on Update Options and you are done.

If you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment.