How To Hold Your Own JV Giveaway Event
ByHow do you set up a JV Giveaway event?
I get a load of inquiries from people these days asking me:
a) if I will set up a JV Giveaway event for them
b) what’s the best way to set up a JV Giveaway
I thought I’d write a post on this as it’s obviously something that a lot of people want to know.
First things first, I’m afraid I don’t set up Giveaways for other people.
It was something I dabbled with early on in my Giveaways career, but I have moved away from that now, so I’m very sorry, but I can’t set up a Giveaway for you.
So, what do you do if you really want to host your own event but you don’t have the technical skills to do it yourself?
JV Giveaway quick start tips
Here are my tips to get you started …
Get someone else to do it
There are some people on the Giveaways scene who will set up an event for you at a very reasonable price.
I would actually suggest that you do this first anyway, just to get the feel for what’s involved in an event.
There are four people that I know of who provide this service, and I’ll mention them here.
They are all established and respected Giveaway hosts.
Hans W. Castiglioni regularly runs Giveaways and you can find out more about the basic service here which costs (at time of writing) $97.
If you’re struggling with the special offers set-up, Hans even offers an add-on service to help with that – check it out here.
So you could get your own JV Giveaway, with nothing for you to do but make a few decisions, for $127 and let me tell you, as someone who has set up and run these events, that is excellent value!
Another person I know who’s extremely established and well respected on the Giveaways scene is Joseph Anderson, who regularly holds his own well run events and also sets them up for other people.
Joseph asked me to send people via his Helpdesk for initial inquiries and price quotations.
Jeffrey Palladino will create a Giveaway and graphics starting from $50.
Jeffrey is a regular on the Giveaways circuit now and runs a good event.
He can be contacted via Skype (just search for his name) or email at support@electronicdreamz.com
Finally, somebody who also sets up these events at a very reasonable price, is David Railey, who runs many events himself these days and also sets up events for other people via his website ListBuildersJv.com
Have reasonable expectations of the budget options though … at that low price, you get a basic Giveaway service, don’t go demanding ‘bells and whistles’ because that costs extra 
So there you go, four options to get you started hosting your own Giveaway events.
(Please note, I take no commissions from Hans, Jeffrey, Joseph or David, they are people I have met in Giveaways and who I know to have a good reputation).
JV Giveaway event
JV Giveaway hosts – top tips
Before you leap into the world of hosting your own Giveaway events, here are a few things to consider.
1) These events are brilliant for growing your list, but beware, if you bite off more than you can chew, and you end up having technical problems with your event, you will ruin your reputation before you even begin.
If you’re really desperate to hold a Giveaway event, but you have limited technical skills, get somebody to hold your hand first.
They’re complicated events and I really wouldn’t want you to rush in, make a mess of it, and spoil your reputation in a very fertile niche.
2) See if you can partner up with somebody who is already holding Giveaways … share the load a bit.
The trick here is to partner with somebody who’s at the same sort of stage as you in their list building.
3) Here’s my number 1 Ninja technique for making your first Giveaway a massive success.
This is what I did, and it launched me straight onto the scene.
If you’re a complete unknown, focus on how you’re going to let other people know about your event and get them to promote it.
First of all, let the people know who run the Giveaway listing pages about your event … here are 6 that I know of off the top of my head:
Giveaway Dominator here (this one is mine)
My JV Giveaways here
JV Giveaway Events here
Alex Perez-Prat’s Facebook service here
Giveaway Junkie here
New JV Giveaways here
Give people who run the listings pages a free upgrade … that way you can guarantee they’ll promote for you and list you
Next you need to go into any current Giveaways and see who’s top of the leader boards for referring JV Contributors and regular members.
Contact those people and offer them a free upgrade … get them into your event on a ‘try before you buy’ basis.
If these people get involved in your event, it will help you establish yourself straight away.
Don’t get greedy with the money … if no-one takes part in your event, you will make no money, period.
Once you’ve run a successful event for the first time, it gets easier.
By the way, I still and always will offer established marketers free upgrades to take part in my events … they bring a lot to the party, you want them taking part.
4) Ninja technique number 2 is to suspend downgrades for no promotion if you’re using the Ultimate JV Giveaway script to run your event.
Being downgraded for non-promotion is the number 1 newbie frustration in Giveaways, and it’s a very popular thing to do if you cut new marketers some slack and don’t penalize them if they’re unable to bring in hits via their affiliate links.
If you run your own event, I hope it goes really well for you.
There really is nothing quite like running your own JV Giveaway event to build your list!
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What about you? What are your thoughts on this subject?
Facebook comments:
Hey Paul,
Wonderful Advice!
Trust me .. I shall be doing my own jv giveaway soon. However … I’ve looked at scripts on running them … oy! Now I know why you see road kill on country roads … the little blinking cursor mocks you as you whisper softly to yourself … step 5 .. enter the … what the ….
By the way … we have a pretty good jv giveaways list. It’s current. If you are a contributor (jv partner) or member … if a jv giveaway is open … it’s probably on our list.
Hope it’s OK to give a shout out to Kerry! She and David did a great job on the “Make Your Own Luck Giveaway 2011.” Woot!
If anyone is sponsoring a jv giveaway … tell them to contact me at dan @ jvwoot.com to put the giveaway on the list! I guarantee it will be added!
Again … thanks for the advice.
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Hi Paul
Great post as usual. By the way, thank you for selecting me for testing your new product. I’m working on it, coming back to you soon.
Cheers
Jorge
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Hey Paul,
Great info on the giveaways and those ninja tricks sound awesome.
This is definitely something I will do in the future as building a list using giveaways can be very rewarding.
Super stuff
Glyn
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Hey Paul,
Great info on the give away events! Its crazy but being a relative newbie with the Alex Jeffrey’s program I have read some of the other students posts about JV giveaways and am really interested in trying to do something like this but am intimidated to ask the questions. I know, crazy…. but its SCARY!!
I see that you have an upcoming webinar about ad swaps on adrenalin that I’m going to sign up for. What you are going to be talking about looks real solid and the kind of information that I can pass on confidently thru my blog.
My blog is at http://jennifer-wallis.com/ telling of my basic journey and I like to share stuff with readers who are kindred spirits wanting to be successful as online enterpreneurs. I like to help people get rid of the barriers they’ve put in their brain that stops them from making money. Learning about JV partnering is a literally a no brainer here.
So thanks Paul! Great site…
Jennifer
.-= Jennifer Wallis´s last blog .. =-.
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Paul-
Great blog post! I loved the ninja techniques. It is cool to see the inner workings of someone who I saw running a giveaway when I first started to check them out.
Is Joseph using the UGS 5.x? I am making that assumption since you chat about Hans having the GM2.
Look forward to seeing and hearing much more from you on this topic!
Jerry
.-= Jerry @ TheOnlineSuccessProgramBlog.com´s last blog ..Traffic Tip #5 – Getting Bookmarks =-.
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Paul Teague Reply:
May 23rd, 2010 at 9:18 am
Joseph also uses GM2, I don’t know anybody who sets up Giveaways using Ultimate Giveaway Script.
I know that Jeffery Palladino approaches people who are already established on the scene to hold events, if you have a reasonable list already, it woud be worth approaching him.
He has a couple of events on at the moment, raise him through the Helpdesk in the first instance:
http://www.giveaway-dominator.com/latest-giveaways/
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Cheers Paul,
Some Top Infomation And Thanks
For The Email Help The Otherday
I Will Be Hosting A Giveaway Soon !!
Matt
.-= Matthew Cook´s last blog ..Hedgehog Or Fox? =-.
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Hi Paul,
Thanks for the tips, which have come just at the right time for me as I started setting up my first Giveaway a few weeks ago and am preparing my list of contacts at the moment so No.3 is going to be handy.
Keith
.-= Keith Purkiss´s last blog ..My Good Buddy and twenty identical emails =-.
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Paul Teague Reply:
May 22nd, 2010 at 6:43 am
Hi Keith, I held a webinar recently for a few invited people who’d been asking me how to set up Giveaways so that they didn’t look like they’d just been used ‘out of the box’.
There are swipe files in there too which will make your set up much easier.
If that would be useful to you, drop me a note and I’ll send you the link.
All the best, Paul
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Hello, Paul! Great post! Have to dig deeper into those Giveaway events since I am new to them. Interesting to know something new. And thanks for stopping by my blog too! A do appreciate it.
Wish you the best of luck. Thanks, Dmitri
http://www.dmitri-artemov.com
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HI Paul,
Interesting information, I have seen your product creation video and look forward to watch the rest of the videos’ whenever you release it.
I will defiantly try you “Ninja technique number 2″, I am sure it will be brilliant.
Regards
Nad
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Hey Paul,
Great tips. As one who is new to JV giveaways and ad swaps, etc, it’s great information reading about these tools and every ounce of knowledge I can suck up, the better.
Brandon
.-= BrandonBurgh´s last blog ..David Risley & TheInfoPreneur – Worth the Return on Investment? =-.
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Hi Paul
Brilliant post and great advice.
I was one of those people that emailed you for help, so thanks for all your advice.
I went with Hans although he uses a different script from the one I have, and he has already started to set my first giveaway up, we will launch on 11th June, pre launch around 28th May.
I have now contacted Joseph as well to see if he can help with my next one.
I have also been on a lot of your webinars and watched a lot of your videos and you also give great content and help to everyone, I always get a lot from your presentations and all free!
Thanks
Julie
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Hi Richard,
Link to it if you would Richard, rather than copy it, that’s the best way to do these things for SEO.
Next Q&A webinar coming soon … just juggling the diary
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Hi Paul
A great post on setting up a giveaway that i will come back to when I do one myself.
Can I copy it to publish on my blog? I will of course list you as the author.
When is your next Q & A webinar?
Richard
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