I’ve always been leery of playing in the list building giveaways for a few reasons. First, because I’ve heard horror stories about the hoops some organizers make you jump through. And then there’s my own introverted personality that has usually sees me preferring to say in the background. Finally, there’s the notion that people who take advantage of all the freebies on offer will never become long-term subscribers or paying customers. When you add it all up, participating in a list building giveaway almost seems futile.

But it’s not, as I found out firsthand this week.

I really surprised myself when I decided to join the PLR-Giveaway this week. I surprised myself even more when I actually took the better part of a day to set up a gift, submit it, and get it approved. And I have to say I’m really glad I did.

There were no hoops to jump through. Sure the display of gifts on the download page goes by points, and I’m near the bottom but that’s okay. I don’t have an active list (that’s another story I might tell ya someday) so I don’t have a lot of people to promote to. I’m forced to rely on blog postings, and a few mentions on facebook and twitter to help me raise my ranking.

The really cool thing is that I’m getting signups. Even being mired down at the bottom of the page, I’m averaging about 10 new subscribers a day. And I’m ecstatic with the results. I’ve also picked up a few gifts myself of PLR products that I haven’t seen offered anywhere else.

If you get a chance, stop by the PLR Giveaway and check out all the great PLR products available for the cost of an email address.

What are your experiences with giveaways? … Leave a comment and share your story!

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I was working on my plan for the rest of the year, and thought it might be a good idea before I dive into something totally new, to write an update on how my two goals for August are going.

Goal #1 – To Complete the 30 Day Challenge successfully.

Well, it’s looking like 2009 is going to be a bust as well. I got stuck early on in choosing a niche and really haven’t moved beyond that point yet. I’m not making any excuses for myself this time. I didn’t get it done, and that’s that. But there’s still 7 days left and I am going to be doing as much as I can over the next week to see how far I can get with it.

Goal #2 – To Run a Successful PLR Giveaway for 30 Days

I started about 5 days later than I had planned because I totally underestimated the time it would take me to set everything up. But now that I have, I’m so glad I did it. We’re on Day 14 right now, and the blog is averaging about 20 visits a day. It’s not much at the moment, but that’s my fault too because I haven’t spent nearly as much time on promoting it as I should have.

My secondary goal now for the rest of this month is to focus on getting the visitor count up to 100 visits a day and I’ll be experimenting with several different traffic building methods to do that. So stay tuned because I’ll be sharing some of what I’m doing here.

Regardless of what happens with the traffic from the giveaway, I consider it a success. It’s taken me a long time step out from behind the scenes and actually start to do something for myself and having already done 14 straight days of blog posts and PLR gifts is a major accomplishment for me. And there’s still 16 more days to go! Who knows what they will bring.

Have a great day!

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I probably should’ve posted this yesterday, and don’t really have a good excuse for why I didn’t. I’m reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and blogging about it over on HelenaRitchie.com. I’m only on Chapter 2 so far, and am really finding it mindblowing. It’s the first time I’ve read the book and I can see why people say that it has changed their lives even though I’m only 30 pages in. I can already feel the changes in myself just from having read that little bit.

One of the most important things I’ve learned so far is how to put Hill’s six step formula for turning desires into reality into action. I’m really great and the desire part and not so great at the follow-through but I’m aiming to change that starting now.

For August I have two main goals:

1. To complete the 30 Day Challenge successfully. I’ve started the challenge every year since 2006 and so far have found ways to distract myself from finishing every year. This year I AM going to finish all 30 days and have a positive result to show for it at the end.

2. To run a successful giveaway from August 5 to September 5 to celebrate my birthday, and to build a solid foundation for The Ritchie Report. To do that I’ll be giving away a gift with PLR every day when you subscribe.

Why PLR? Because I love the stuff, and I know that whatever direction I end up focusing my business on, that PLR will need to play a major role. I’m just not sure at this point where I fit into the overall scheme of things, and my ulterior motive in giving you lots of PLR resources over the coming days is to get to know you, and to find out how I can help you.

Ultimately, at the end of the 30 days I will have a fully developed USP and know exactly where I’m going in order to achieve the rest of my goals for 2009.

I’ll be spending the rest of today getting the opt-in page set up and ready. Although the actual giveaway doesn’t start until August 5th I’ve got a couple of surprises for the early-birds. If you want to know the minute the page goes live, please follow me on twitter because I’ll be posting there once everything’s set up.

Have an incredible day!

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