I’ve decided to move all posts concerning JV Giveaways to the blog at my JV giveaway directory (makes sense, no?).

So if you want to read part 2 of my ‘I’m a JV giveaway Dinosaur’-post, you’ll have to head over to the other site. You can do so by clicking here)

Feel free to leave your comments!

Miguel Alvarez is putting on a gigantic contest on his blog: The Blog Boost Giveaway.

On September 20th, one lucky winner (plus 3 additonal winners) will receive 1000s of dollars worth of the most coveted prizes a blogger could possibly desire. The list of prizes is way too long to add it to his post, but you can everything that’s included here.

Entering this contest is easy and free. All you need to do to earn a ticket is subscribe to Miguel’s email list. You can earn additional tickets by:

• blogging about the contest
• adding Miguel as a friend and following him on Twitter
• Dig, Stumble, Twitter, … Miguel’s post about the contest
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Good luck!

Here’s the link once more:

http://www.marketingfactor.com/blogmarketing/blog-boost/

These last few weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time working on my blog(s). During my research, I came across ‘Entrecard‘, a blogging network that lets you advertise your blog for free.

Entrecard claims to be a an internet business card. Just as in ‘real life’, you can leave your business card at other sites. Every time you leave your business card, you’ll earn EC (Entrecard Credits), which you can use to purchase advertisements on thousands of blogs or to shop for hundreds of products and services in the virtual marketplace.

You also earn Entrecard credits when others drop their card on your site, or when they buy advertising space on your site.

The site works through a widget you can easily add to your blog sidebar (several versions of the widget are available). You’ll find my Entrecard widget in the sidebar under ‘Leave Your Business Card’.

It’s common knowledge that the best way to build your list is by offering an incentive. Just recently, I connected my blog feed to my Aweber account (I’ll tell you more about that later) and now people can download my new ebook  if they subscribe … by email.

Knowing there are many people who don’t want to give out their email address, I started looking for a way to give away the ebook in return for reader subscriptions.  I thought it would be best to add some sort of a footer message to every outgoing feed, but when I turned to the Feedburner site, I couldn’t find what I was looking for.

However, a Google search learned me that it was actually possible, and although Feedburner makes it sound so complicated, it’s quite easy, really. And now I’m glad to be able to announce that now EVERY subscriber can receive a free copy of my ebook. 

For The Niche Giveaway 2, I used an exit survey tpopup, in which I asked leaving visitors why they were leaving the site without subscribing.

On The Niche Giveaway blog, you can read what people had to say. Afterwards, I summarized the survey results, and noted down some of my thoughts. I’d like to ask you to do the same by leaving your comments, thoughts, tips and ideas. Together, we might be able to keep the concept alive…

See The Results & Leave Your Comments Here

Today, I signed up for a new JV giveaway event and I was shocked to see the upgraded membership being sold for only $7. This upgraded membership allows people to get all the gifts without having to sign up for any list besides the main JV Giveaway member list. So with every member that upgrades his or her account, the JV partners lose a potential subscriber.

For The Niche Giveaway 2,  I decided not to offer upgraded memberships. On the giveaway blog, I posted this message to inform my JV Partners:

In my opinion, the whole idea of giving people direct access to the downloads is not really fair to the partners - after all, it means less signups for them…