Today is the start of one of my favorite sporting events of the year, The Masters. This is the golf tournament that is held at Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Georgia and is invitation only. Pretty much, you don’t just say, ‘I am going to play in the Masters this year’, or next. You have to earn your way in by winning and be extended an invitation to play in the tournament.

Yes, I am rooting for Tiger Woods to win it, but not just because he is by far the best golfer in the world right now. You see, I have been a golf fan since way back when…I grew up rooting for the likes of the Golden Bear, The Merry Mex, Arnie, and Tom Watson. I am rooting for Tiger because he has brought the game back and made it more popular than it has ever been before.

The Masters is very similar to one of my favorite things in the Information Marketing world; Giveaway Events. You see, you don’t just ‘join’ one, you have to be extended an invitation to participate in one, or several.

How do you get extended an invitation? To begin with, you need to be on someones mailing list. You can do that by signing up for somebody’s newsletter, and if that person is one who participates in these events, you will receive an email from them to become a member of whatever giveaway they are promoting.

Here is a list of the giveaways currently going on:

Easter JV Giveaway
Back To Basics Giveaway
Kings Ransom Giveaway
Peter Cotton Tail Giveaway
Power Dynamtics Giveaway
Mothers Day Giveaway

Once you join that giveaway, you become a subscriber of someone elses mailing list. Now, once you have joined the event, you have the option to upgrade. What the upgrade does in most of these giveaway events, is it gives you the ability to download any gifts you want without having to subscribe to someone elses list. If you don’t upgrade, each gift that you want to download, you will have to subscribe to another list. Now, you do have the ability to unsubscribe from these lists if you want, especially if the person you downloaded from doesn’t provide you with any valuable content (that’s what I, at the very least attempt to do with my subscribers), which a majority of them don’t.

I can’t remember the first giveaway event I got into, I just remember that I thought it was very cool that there are people out there (I almost said marketers), that were willing to give you something for free in exchange for your email address. Of course, that was almost two years ago, and I have learned a ton since then.

One of the things that I have learned, was that in order to successfully be a contributor to these events (and there are a lot of them), you need to have an eproduct that is attractive to the visitors of these events. Once you have found an ebook like this, you can get your autoresponder set up to gather the email addresses of the people who download your product. It’s at this point that you have the capabilty to start sending them valuable content that relates to the product that they have gotten from you.

What that means, is that if they have downloaded a book on dog training, you don’t want to all of a sudden start sending them offers for the best way to take care of your lawn. That makes sense doesn’t it?

Now, go back and read the title of this post. You’re probably asking yourself ‘how’ you go about ‘mastering’ the art of participating in giveaway events. Let me tell you this, most people who are invited to join these giveaway events and want to contribute to grow their own mailing lists, don’t get this part.

The Easy Giveaway Plan will show you how to master this process, and once you have, you can start increasing the number of people on your mailing list and lining your bank accounts with cash.

So, go pick up a couple of products from any one of the giveaways listed above and then pick up The Easy Giveaway Plan and be well on your way to building your list and becoming independently wealthy.

Til next time,

Here’s to YOUR Successes,

Ron

I love PLR. Why? Because you get products that other marketers have put the time and effort in to and you get to take them and change the graphics, edit the ebook, change the sales page, change almost anything you like to suit your style and put your own name on them.

But here’s the big question that a lot of marketers ask:

Where do you find quality plr stuff that hasn’t been through the grinder…that hasn’t been offered by other marketers for the past few months?

That YOU can use for your branding purposes and generate your own cash flow?

The solution: Doug Champigny and Xavier Nelson

They have just launched their FREE PLR Giveaway – Round 6!

What’s so special about this one?

Well, Doug and Xavier personally pick and invite the marketers themselves. There isn’t the usual 50-100 jv partners who are promoting the event and contributing products to give away in order to build their own lists.

Nope, not in this one.

Here is just a partial list of people who are giving away PLR material in this event:

Doug Champigny

Willie Crawford

Joel Osborne

Jeff Dedrick

Nicole Dean

Mike Paetzold

Mike Mazella

Edmund Loh

As I said, that’s a partial list

Any of those names familiar to you??

The cool thing about this giveaway is the products that are offered are brand new and include ebooks, a few videos and some audios, so you can pick some of these up and turn around in a few hours using Joel Osborne’s Product Creation Success Package and be selling them on your own website and generating your own cash flow.

Unfortunately, Doug and Xavier are only keeping it open for about another week, so I would definitely get over there and pick up at least one or two of the products.

Here’s a kicker – After you sign up, you will come to a page that will give you the opportunity to pick up an ADDITIONAL 50 eproducts for an incredible price! Don’t take my word for it, get over there and get in and then not only get the PLR products that are there for the grabbing, but take a serious look at the additional products that Doug and Xavier are offering.

Have you gotten over to Ross Goldberg’s Virtual Seminar yet? You’ve only got until tomorrow evening to get over and get registered to access all of the presentations. Just like going to an offline event, but doing it from the comfort of your own living room.

Til next time,

Here’s to YOUR Successes,

Ron

Is there really ‘one’ secret that the successful internet marketers share?

One that is so closely guarded that almost all of them don’t want to give it up?

I have been doing some reading about, and asking questions of, some successful marketers that I know.

The thing that I was curious about is:

What is the one thing, the one ‘secret’, the one ‘common thread’, that most successful information marketers share?

What I am beginning to find out is:

What it isn’t.

What do you think it is? List Building? That’s PART of it.

Yes, you must have some semblance of a responsive list that you can send out to in order to generate cash flow, but that isn’t the ‘secret’.

Copywriting?

You do need to have a compelling sales page in order to get people to whip out their credit card to purchase whatever it is you are offering.

But that isn’t the ‘common thread’. The closely guarded ‘secret’.

It’s not Network Marketing. Not PPC (pay per click). Not blogging. Not Successful Product Launches.

YouTube
Video Marketing
Classified Advertising
Membership Sites
eBay or Auction sites
Viral Marketing
Joint Ventures
Article Writing
Niche Marketing
SEO

Not, not, NoT, NOT, nOT, nOt, noT…

YES, all of the above things contribute to the success of marketers, but they aren’t the secret, the common thread.

It doesn’t take a lot of skill, and ANY marketer can do it.

All of that being said. Have you figured it out yet? Or are you still scratching your head?

What it  DOES require is a level of commitment that VERY few people have.

Commitment. That’s second in line to that four letter word W-O-R-K.

Now we all know that to succeed in this business you have to have some sort of commitment.

There’s the time commitment, which can be anywhere from a couple of hours a week, to working the business more than ‘full time’.

That depends on how dedicated we are and how bad we want success.

The time commitment takes away from our family and our tv watching (ugh), especially if you are doing this in the evening. Or writing a blog post on a Friday night:)

Don’t get me wrong, I have a few favorite shows that I ‘have’ to watch every week or it just wouldn’t be right. But I also have to find time to work this business.

But that isn’t the commitment I am talking about.

What I am about to reveal to you may come as a surprise, but it is the ONE thing, the biggest ‘secret’, the common thread that almost all very successful marketers share.

They are all willing to make the time, and, monetary commitment to:

Attend at least one Offline Seminar.

Are you shocked? I was.

You see, as I have been asking these marketers what the ONE thing is that made the biggest difference in their online business, it was attending at least one offline seminar.

It is in these seminars that you, as the attender, have the opportunity to rub elbows with the success stories.

To listen to the stories of HOW they became successful.

What they did.

How they did it.

What works, what doesn’t.

How to test. What to test.

How to decipher the results.

These seminars give you the opportunity to network with other people just like yourself who are struggling to make this thing work.

People just like yourself who have that dream that this WILL work, if I just knew what to do.

How to apply it.

Yea, I know. You’re saying to yourself ‘I would absolutely LOVE to go to one of these, but they cost a fortune’. The airfare, the hotel, the rental car…not to mention the fee to just walk in the door of the seminar.

Stop! I don’t want to hear the excuses!

I don’t have the time.

I don’t have the money.

My dog is sick.

My spouse wouldn’t approve.

Enough!

What if I told you that you could ‘attend’ one of these seminars for less than it takes to fill up your car with gas?

Fantastic!

Where do I sign up?

What if I told you that you could attend one of these seminars, and you wouldn’t even have to leave your living room?

NOW, that would be cool, wouldn’t it?

Well…

Ross Goldberg is doing just that.

His 2nd Annual Virtual Seminar is going on right now through March 4.

You have the chance to be ‘in attendance’ for every single presentation, so you won’t miss anything. Each one of the presentations are on video, so if you watch one and want to go back because you think you missed something, or need clarification, you can.

Here are just a few of the marketers that are doing presentations:

Ross (of course)
Doug Champigny
Willie Crawford
Bob the Teacher
Harris Fellman
Ken McArthur

Need I say more?

To get your spot in the seminar (yes, it’s just like a regular offline seminar, there are limited spots) just click here, sign up, and then start absorbing. I know I have.

If you are anything like I am, you are going to come away saying ‘WOW, I learned a ton’.

You get everything without leaving your living room.

The training, The Networking, The JV Opportunities.

What more could you ask for?

Go Grab Your Secret and become part of The Common Thread of successful marketers.

Ross Goldberg’s Virtual Master’s Internet Marketing Seminar

Until next time,

Here’s to YOUR Successes,

Ron