Are All Joint Venture Giveaway Events A Good Method To Create My List Fast?

A JV giveaway event is a site setup by online marketers who get together to use their lists of subscribers to help build the email lists of all the participants involved. By taking part in such an event every participant has the potential to build up their own mailing list by taking advantage of the combined power of every the other list builders who are participating.

The way it works is every member of the JV giveaway contribute one or more free products along with their squeeze pages that they will use to collect new sign-ups. They then agree to email their subscriber list on launch day promoting the event and all the gifts contributed by other members.

Are JV giveaway events really a decent way to establish my list fast? The answer to this question is: it depends on the situation. If you are producing your own JV giveaway event than it absolutely is.
Even if you are inexperienced and the event is not so well conducted, you will build your list by 100's if not 1000's of subscribers. Good events may add to your list many 1000's of new subscribers but you will need to really be awesome at it and have a name that pull in people. You will benefit greatly if you could find yourself a experienced partner to run the event together.If you are signing up for someone else to event as a contributor than you will expand your subscriber list.

Will it be dramatic growth? Again - it depends on the situation. If this is a well established event (running at the same time of the year for several years) and if you do good work with your contribution (more on that later) then you can see 100's of new subscribers on your list. However, most of the JV giveaway events I've seen are either conducted by inexperienced people or are run by "professional" event managers on behalf of others. Unfortunately, most of those are not so well run and the results for members are not as good as one could hope for.

Conclusion

JV giveaways are one way of developing your opt-in list. Use them well and you will benefit.

Use other ways to build your list as well; don't rely on JV giveaways alone.