Start Giveaway Business

No special skill

Giveaway stuff? I am sure you must have confused after reading the title of this money making way.

You might be thinking, how can somebody make money by giving away something? But today you'll learn a brilliant marketing strategy that very few marketers are using to make loads of money without investing lots of funds.

Now, let's dive into the strategy.

This strategy consists of organizing a Giveaway of high valued physical products, software, eBooks, live event passes, online services and so on.

Then promoting the giveaway to a specific interested audience and asking them to participate in the giveaway by registering via their email id and sharing the giveaway with their friends thus building a niche specific targeted email list.

Next, choosing random winners from the pool of registered people and giving them the promised products or services for free.

Further, monetize the email list by promoting affiliate offers via email marketing.

Giveaway strategy works like a charm and helps you to build a targeted email list for free or at a low advertising cost which you can later on use to promote affiliate offers and make money.

Suitable For

People who love to talk, write, explain and have the ability to persuade.

Skills Required

Ability to write promotional emails.

How to get started

Step 1 - Research

Before you can start a giveaway campaign, you need to research and skillfully decide upon what are you going to offer in your giveaway.

Following are some tips which will guide you to conduct research and select the right product/offer for your giveaway.

1. Find out what are the most prominent pain points people have in your niche and how your giveaway can provide a solution to it.

Use the following points to dig out pain. points in your niche.

- Visit Q&A sites such as Quora, Yahoo Answers, etc. to find out which are the most asked questions in your niche.

- Visit niche specific forums and find which are the most discussed topics.

- Visit niche specific blogs to find out the most popular articles and note down the topics on which the article is written.

- Visit social media platforms to find out influencers in your niche, then study what they share on their pages.

- Visit YouTube and find out which are the most viewed videos in your niche and which topics are discussed in them.

Study comments on blog posts, YouTube videos, and social pages and try to understand what do people really want.

2. Find out where on the internet your audience is active and engaging.

Is it on social media platforms, forums, YouTube or blogs. If you know this, you will know where you should promote your giveaways.

3. Understand how your audience wants the solution, whether they want a physical product, software, service, online course, eBook, video, etc. It will help you to select the right giveaway which will appeal your audience.

Step 2 - Get all tools for starting your giveaway

You'll need two important tools to start your giveaway campaign, a viral marketing application and an autoresponder.

If you own a Wordpress blog, you can install a free viral marketing plugin named Viral Sign Ups or an another paid tool called UpViral.

Both these tools are easy to use, and you