Free Stuffs to Build Your Online Business

I often meet new Internet marketers on various forums and they aspire to earn the big bucks like some of the well-known personas out there, such as Yanik Silver and Bryan Kumar. However, most of these new marketers have only the slightest ideas on where to start, and a lot of them are not willing or able to invest a startup capital in their online business. However, it is almost impossible to start an Internet business without spending some money on basic infrastructure such as web hosting, domain names and so on. Hence, here is a rough guide on how to build an Internet business starting with $0.

The first and most important thing to do is to list out all your skills. What skills do you have? You may have picked up these skills through daily life (for example languages), through your job (hands-on knowledge on a specific niche) or from your hobbies (for example fishing). It is most vital to list down skills or knowledge that you have and might be in demand elsewhere. For example, you love fly-fishing and you do it every day after work. You may build your Internet business upon this: writing an instructional guide on fly-fishing, teaching people how to do it, etc. Best of all, you do not need to spend money to acquire this knowledge: you already have it.

So, the very first option, if you have no money to start off your online business, is to earn some capital using your already existing skills or knowledge. You can give tuition to students on your dominant subject in college, you can teach stuff about your hobby to people who are interested, you can write guides on knowledge or skills you picked up through experience and cannot be found in theoretical books.

Okay, let's say if you just can't think of any skills or knowledge that people might be interested in. Then, it's most important that you locate a workable business model and focus on that alone. You can obtain almost everything you need through bartering, web hosting, domain name or credit card processing, to name a few in exchange for your product (if you own one) or services like copywriting, ghostwriting and website designs. There is always some mundane job that people don't want to do, and you can do that for those people in exchange for things you need. You just need to ask for it!

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Give Away Events Exposed!

All smart Internet Marketers and list owners know that "the money is in the list". And I know you are one of them, too!

Therefore, every marketer who firmly believes in how much business, influential power and wealth a mailing list can bring are doing just about any and every way possible to build their mailing list.

That's why you see marketers running advertising campaigns such as:

Ø Pay-Per-Click
Ø Ad Swaps,
Ø Article Marketing,
Ø Joint Ventures,
Ø Affiliate Recruitment Drive,
Ø Press Releases,
Ø Traffic Exchanges,
Ø Paid E-zine/Web Advertising, and
Ø Much more than this list can bear!

And the savvy marketers often run these campaigns with one goal: build their mailing list! (Besides trying to sell, of course.)

Now some of these methods require low to high costs to run, which can be out of the option for beginning marketers who are on a tight budget. And one thing is for sure: all well-executed advertising and list-building campaigns require a high degree of skill.

In the last couple of years, a new method of list building was conceived primarily in the Internet Marketing circle. It's called:

Give Away Events!

This is one of the recently discovered methods in Internet Marketing where list building is
now made possible through the spirit of giving away!
It can be carried out as and when you - or anyone - like to.

The cost of hosting an event can be next-to-nothing.
And to join a Give Away event in the shoes of a contributor or JV partner is zero cost.

But you can rake in hundreds, possibly thousands and potentially tens of thousands of subscribers through joining Give Away events!

And to get kick started, you just need a gift of your own and an auto responder to suck fresh, red-hot leads in!

Remember! Not all Give Away events are created equal.

Having said that, some Give Away events are great, some good and the others%u2026 real bad.

In fact recently, a number of marketers believe that Give Away events are beginning to become "wash outs" or diluted in their quality, and that they won't work like a charm as they used to.

Now for the great news: Give Away events are still workable and viable list building models - as long as they are done right!

It's really only a matter of joining the right Give Away event. So what makes a good Give Away event%u2026 good? Some important criteria you will want to look out for are listed below:

Give Away Event Factor #1:
The Partners are Cooperative

In short, are the partners in the same event as you are willing to endorse the event to their mailing lists as required? While it's hard to tell if this is going to be your first few times giving a try at building your list through such events, you can
usually tell whether the partners are cooperative or not if the partners are somewhat closely related or working together with the host.

This substantial difference can be seen in both of what I call "Massive" Give Away Events and "Mini" Give Away events.

Massive Give Away events are usually participated by more than 20-30 marketers in the same event, and its growth is often encouraged by the use of
affiliate programs.

Mini Give Away events, on the other hand, are somewhat more "closed door" whereby the host is more selective of the partners he or she chose to work with.

While I cannot say which type of event is better than the other, from my experience, Mini events have most cooperative partners due to bias choosing and "closed door" invitation. Incidentally, it's harder to enter a Mini Give Away event as an outsider.

Massive ones may or may not produce good signup results depending on the partners who join in. If the event is full of unknown marketers or free riders, you probably can tell that it might not be executed well.

Give Away Event Factor #2:
There Are Some Hard-Hitting Partners in the Same Event

If there are a couple of reputable partners joining in the same event, it would be a good chance to hitch a ride.

Important tip: In many cases, I learned that some top marketers usually just join in without putting in any effort in endorsing (which makes him or her a free rider, too). So if you learn that the specific marketer is that kind of person in nature, it's
probably not wise to join in that Give Away event%u2026 because the biggest free rider is there.

Not all top marketers are like this, fortunately.

Give Away Event Factor #3:
The Event Host is Trusted & Responsible

You can tell this if the event host regularly updates his or her partners on the event - before, during and after.

The event host is considered responsible if he or she monitors the event carefully on a regular basis, and that he or she DOES indeed remove the free riders from the event promptly, justifying other active partners' efforts.

Give Away Event Factor #4:
The Event Has A Reputation

If the event has been heard of or recognized by many, this would be another attractive reason why you should join that Give Away event!

Give Away Event Factor #5:
You & The Partners Are All From The Same Niche
This way, the event would work successfully with everyone sharing subscribers of an almost same nature.

It would hardly work if all the partners come from a different background or niche.

I mean, imagine pooling a gift to have people sign up for your "relationship dating" e-zine when all the other partners are referring subscribers from the Internet Marketing niche!

Give Away Event Factor #6:
The Give Away Event Is Hosted For A Limited Time Only

Give Away events should be running for a limited time only, and the model is at its best that way. It increases the urgency of people to sign up for your gift while protecting the value of your gift (assuming it's used specially on for this occasion).

My idea of limited time events are in the range of 5 to 7 days but fewer than 14 that's for sure. When you hear of events running for ridiculous time length like 21- 30 days, or even forever%u2026 you will do well NOT to join them because the above 2 success factors are ripped away owing to the long time length.