Hey all you Product Creation Giveaway partners!  I thought I would tell ya why some of the gifts are disappearing.

No freakin’ referrals!

A giveaway is a simple concept.  A group of partners get together and supply a gift in return for ALL OF THE PARTNERS promoting the giveaway.

We have some partners kicking some serious posterior, like Odinn Sorensen and Scott Drake, while others who will remain nameless are simply along for a free ride.  I say they will remain nameless, but I am going to start a database of freakin’ freeloaders so that other giveaway owners can remove them from their contributor lists, so that they don’t get any more opt-ins without promoting.

Why so harsh?

Think about it.  Micheal, Odinn, Stephanie, Scott and a host of others are making their list available to everyone else.  They are diluting their own money making in order to participate in a giveaway where they stand to gain a few new subscribers.

That is a risk.   And by allowing people to just steal their opt-ins without contributing a few new people to the mix, that is just wrong.

I had a complaint about some of the gifts not working, so I freakin’ deleted them.  I get so freakin’ tired of answering support emails, that I just say screw it.  The morons who can’t upload a working zip file won’t get any subscribers from us… period!  I mean, how tough is it to test your downloads?

Ranting is supposed to be good for your health, so I should be able to live at least a couple more years (unless pictures of me start circulating on the web).  But I digress.

Micheal asked me (truth be told, he said “get your lazy ass back to work, or I will fire you so fast it will make your head spin as fast as your eyeballs do after a double shot of espresso!”)  to start deleting the gifts of anyone without at least two referrals.  Since I love the dirty work, I accepted with glee!

So get out there and promote, so I don’t have to delete so many gifts!  Think of the subscribers you are going to get as your gift moves up the ranks!

Have a freakin’ great day!

Bernie Dorman
http://berniedorman.com

PS - Micheal is launching a blogging school that won’t cost you an arm and a leg! (maybe just a finger and a toe…he he) And he is looking for people who are interested in doing some blogging teleseminars!

Just email us and we’ll get something set up!

I just checked out the current state of the gifts on the Product Creation Giveaway.  It is pretty exciting!

I had to delete a couple of gifts because they had nothing to do with product creation and one was a duplicate of someone else’s gift.

Let’s keep the momentum by adding your gift.  I know that people love to see a lot of gifts inside the member’s area, and we want to have as many of them as possible.

Your PayPal email address…

Make sure your paypal email address is valid, because you could be getting commissions when people are buying the products that I have up on the billboards!  I know one person already made a $27 commission from the sale of one 12 Pack of Products.

I had to change a lot of blank paypal email addresses and none@none.com addresses, because people would not be able to purchase with those addresses…

The launch is set for April 27th through May 15th!  Let’s get the word out!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal

Get ready for the relaunch of the new and improved Product Creation Giveaway!

Everyone will need to add new gifts unless:
-You had over 50 referrals
-You purchased a 6 Month Billboard
-You purchased guaranteed optins…

Why are we removing all the gifts?
-To make the site fresher (it was getting a little stale)
-To help you get more subscribers
-To see who is going to promote

We are relaunching on April 27th to May 15th, and this time we are going to be making it more exciting. I am selling Billboard spaces for one month ($47) or six months ($97). These billboards:
-Will be seen by people when they log in
-Can be a product you want to sell (priced from $3 to $30)
-Can be a special squeeze page for a different gift
-Are a great way to get exposure!
-They also get you rotated for random referrals from my own advertising for the amount of time that you purchased the billboard (one month or 6 months).

Buy 6 Month Billboard For $97

Or Buy the 1 month Billboard For $47

I will also be giving prizes to the top referring partners.

So what do you need to do next?

Create an awesome gift, you can use my Creating Products Using Free Tools software,
or download some using Viral Ebook Explosion (they even host your squeeze page and the downloads).

With these tools at your disposal, you can have a great product for a gift and one for an upsell! Anyone who gets 10 referrals before April 27th will also have their gift featured on my Special Downloads BillBoard… Think about that, your gifts can be downloaded before members even finish logging in…

This is a long post, but I think you can see that you have a chance to make a lot of money and win some prizes here. To get your billboard spot, click here.

Finally, I want to talk about the PCG Fairness Doctrine:
-Everyone should promote PCG during the course of the event.
-Everyone should have at least one referral by the 4th day of the event: gifts will be removed for those who don’t have one referral after 4th day.
-Everyone should have 10 referrals by the 8th day - gift removal for those who fail to get 10 referrals.
-Everyone should have 20 referrals by the 14th day - gift removal for those who fail to get 20 referrals.

Why have a fairness doctrine? We want you to succeed. If you don’t have someone telling you how many to get, nobody will try to get any referrals. If you don’t know how to get referrals, you shouldn’t be a JV Partner. I select JV partners for future product launches of my clients from the top referrers of PCG, because if you can’t get people to sign up for free stuff, you probably will not be able to sell anything to them, either!

I have many new joint ventures coming up from some new clients, and they are going to have great products. I want only my top partners to get access to these products for FREE so they can review them before promoting them to their lists.

By the way, if you want to get a good head start with your product, I can help you get joint venture partners to do autoresponder swaps and help sell your products. I only charge 10% of the sales that my JV partners get for you. So if you are interested in this service, email me!

So how do you get that many referrals? I have some software to help you, I have some giveaways you can sign up to get your list built up before the launch. If you are willing to put in some effort, I will help you succeed! Contact me!

Here is to a successful launch!

Micheal Savoie and Bernie Dorman

PS - Bernie will be overseeing the referral criteria, because he is a little more ruthless when it comes to trimming the gifts…

Sign up for my Partner Improvement Mini Course to discover the secrets for building a list that will sign up to giveaways!

I just realized that I have sent emails to JV partners on a regular basis, and only 10% of them are trying to market things that I recommend.

What does that tell me?

One of five possibilities…

1. They don’t like me… This could be a depressing area for me to tread.
2. They don’t read my emails.
3. They don’t know how to be a JV partner.
4. They don’t have a list.
5. The offers are not targeted to their list.

A large number of Super Affiliates  are becoming wary of promoting anything but the products that their best friends are putting out, because they want to stay part of the “good ole boy” network, and frankly, they aren’t good to have as JV partners anyway, because they are too demanding.  They want you to do all the work and then they send out the email and your conversion had better be really good or they won’t do anything for you anymore.

I once roamed among that group and found myself disliking an awful lot of the snob atmosphere.  When people can’t answer a simple email, they are too big.  Send Ken McArthur an email sometime.  You will get a response, whether he is busy with a thousand things going on or not, he will answer your email, because he is a genuine, caring person.  Now he is particular about the products he will promote, which I do not blame him one bit for, because once you have the quantities of people that Ken has on his list, you don’t want to feed them a bunch of crap.

But some marketers have made huge successes out of selling $3 products and they are afraid to answer their emails.  They know that they will get hundreds of emails from customers complaining about the junk being served to them.  Again, it is easy to understand why you wouldn’t want to have to answer all those emails.

Last year, I was studying under Matthew Glanfield (who does answer his emails, but has also moved the majority of his support to a help desk system to give him more time to devote to his family and friends) and I learned some methods of getting JV partners that involved communicating directly with marketers.  I found that most marketers are busy (especially those who are successful, clearly because they are taking action), but they usually responded to my emails.  Some told me up front that they had no time to work with me.  Others were more amenable and we developed some good partnerships.

I remember one guy, a rather famous “Joint Venture Specialist” who even had a website devoted to joint venture announcements.  Well at first he seemed to be friendly and said we could work together, and I was rather excited - enough to start writing emails and other affiliate tools for him to use in his autoresponder series.  But since I was using the ideas that I had learned in the coaching program with Matthew Glanfield, other people from the program were also contacting this fellow, too, and suddenly he stopped communicating with me completely.  I emailed him to find out what was up and he sent me a very abrupt email stating that he was not going to work with me or my “friends” now or in the future!

Now I want to help my JV brokerage clients succeed, but I also don’t plan on enlisting the “good ole boy” network of Super Affiliates who don’t want to be bothered with anyone who hasn’t raced their yacht with them…

So my plan is to help potential JV partners become super affiliates in their own right.  And I want to help them by providing an area where they can tell others about their product without worrying about rejection.  I will also help train potential JV partners with the things I have learned from Matthew Glanfield, Ken McArthur, Gina Gaudio-Graves, Stephanie Mulac and Ross Goldberg.

So I am opening up the floor for comments.  Do you want to learn to become a JV partner that product owners would be excited to have on their team?  Are you interested in promoting products that fit with your lists, if I can get you the information in a timely manner?  Do you want to be able to tell if someone keeps their word about promoting before you give them a copy of your product that they might have purchased if they hadn’t been on your JV list?

Just let me know, because I have a site in place that I will be launching this summer to help product owners get help with promotions and it won’t cost an arm and a leg.  It will give you the benefits of jvAlert and JV-network without the high fees and the “free copy grabbers” who get a copy of the product but never promote.  That is all I can tell you about it right now, but tell me what you think!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie

I should have known that putting Bernie Dorman in charge of the emails this morning would raise a ruckus!  I woke up and found my inbox full of rants from JV Partners giving me excuses why Stephanie Mulac is whipping their tails…

A couple of emails were from people telling me they were not out of the race yet.

I have to tell you, though, a new player has entered the scene… Amar Mehta the co-author of the Giveaway Code.  If anyone can show us how it is done, it will be Amar!  After all, he wrote the book on giveaways!

So let’s see what kind of race this becomes now.  Anyone can take this with one mailing.  Even Bernie is rising through the ranks.  He already told me he is giving up his spot at the dinner table since he’s my intern (no not that kind of intern).

So let’s see what you have for the homestretch!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie

PS - Beware of the Bernie Dorman follow ups.  He still tells it like it is.  I sugar coat it a little more…

When the clock strikes midnight on tonight, we will be opening the gates and the crowds of people will be streaming in to sign up for gifts. Right now, the gifts are plentiful, but we still only have 30% of our partners with gifts uploaded… Does that mean some of our partners are really members in disguise?

Let’s hurry and get the rest of the gifts in place for the opening, so you can take advantage of the hordes of people opting in to the lists of the people who have their gifts on the site already!

My autoresponder is set to email at 8AM tomorrow, with news of the grand opening of Product Creation Giveaway! If you beat me to them, then you’ll have a chance at getting the commissions of anyone who buys the OTO’s!

Race 1:
The first person to get 500 members signed up will get $100 Cash to their Paypal, and over $1637 in prizes (including a copy of JV Giveaway Pro and a One Year Gold Membership to Extreme Product Explosion)!

Race 2:
The first person to sell 25 OTO’s will win $100 Cash (plus the commissions) and one year Silver Membership to Extreme Product Explosion!

The top 3 partners who refer members will also be invited to join James and I in Las Vegas for Dinner January 24th!

Thanks for being such amazing partners!

Micheal Savoie
James Germana

PS - Join us for the Call we are doing Monday Night November 12th for a chance to win a 6 month Silver Membership to Extreme Product Explosion, a free membership to 27Gifts or $50 cash! We raised the prize amounts because so many people are signing up for the call:

http://www.michealsavoie.com/presents/ConversionMagic

We already have 153 JV partners on board and 50 gifts approved, and we are growing fast! If you have been involved in other JV’s, you know how cool it is when you see the signups as people are downloading your gifts.

This giveaway we are allowing you the chance to make extra money by including several OTO’s that you get commissions on. If you have a really cool product that you want to contribute to the OTO’s (meaning that the all sales are split between the admin and the person referring the person who buys the OTO) you can add a bunch of buyers to your opt-in list.

We are going to be adding $7, $17, $27, $37, $47, $57 and $67 products for the OTO’s and they will rotate. All payments go directly to the person who made the sale at the time of the sale, much like the RAP script.

Referral Races
We have 2 races that have already begun!

Race 1:
The first person to get 500 JV partners signed up (they must have uploaded a gift to be considered a JV partner) will get $100 Cash to their Paypal, and over $1637 in prizes (including a copy of JV Giveaway Pro and a One Year Gold Membership to Extreme Product Explosion)!

Race 2:
The first person to sell 25 OTO’s will win $100 Cash (plus the commissions) and one year Silver Membership to Extreme Product Explosion!

The Top 3 JV Partners will get to join James and me for dinner in Vegas on January 24th before the Masters Seminar. If you aren’t going there, I suggest you change your plans, because Stephanie Mulac is speaking and when Stephanie says anything, you had better be there to listen!

Remember to get the promos out as often as you can, because the deadline for the race is November 12th at launch time! We want all the gifts up and ready in time to flip the switch, so you get the most benefit!

Thanks for being a part of the JV that is going to make Giveaway History!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie
James Germana

PS - Want to sign up for the Master’s Seminar and see Stephanie Mulac reveal the secrets to her success? You can get a discount by ordering your ticket early - use the link in the sidebar to get yours now!