Week 9: Use Giveaways to Grow Your Customers & Your Business
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How appealing was the subject line of this email?
I’m guessing it was at least mildly appealing since you are in Summer of Marketing. 🙂
Today I want to show you a simple way to grow your business.
At AppSumo, we’ve used a ton of Giveaways to significantly grow our business.
Our very first giveaway was Dropbox Pro for life.
Here are some of the results we’ve gotten:
On Okdork I’ve run Giveaways for the past 2 months and it’s helped me gain 6,000+ new email subscribers.
First we ran a giveaway for 5 of Seth Godin’s books and then we did a giveaway for all three of Tim Ferriss’ books.
But wait there’s more…
Actually, not really. It’s pretty straight forward.
There are many marketing methods to grow your email list: freebies, PR, content marketing, advertising, etc. Giveaways are one of the most cost efficient methods you’ll ever use.
This week I want you to use Giveaways to grow your email subscribers and list of potential customers.
The best way to do a giveaway is to run it for 2 weeks and offer something specific to the customers you want to attract.
Want developers? Giveaway Sublime Text
Want SaaS businesses? Giveaway 1 year of desk.com
Want sales people? Giveaway The Ultimate Sales Machine book
Here are two tools you can use to launch your giveaways:
1) Rafflecopter.com: 100% free tool you can use to run Giveaways.
2) KingSumo Giveaways: Full intergration with WordPress that let’s you launch a giveaway in 60 seconds. Full disclosure: I’m totally biased since AppSumo developed Kingsumo Giveaways.
For the next 48 hours you can grab it for only $100 (50% off) using code ‘okdork’. This is the best discount we’ve ever done. Please do NOT share this (seriously). (VIP members check your email 🙂
Activity Week 9: Launch Your First Giveaway
a) Pick something to giveaway (keep your ideal customer in mind)
b) Run the giveaway for the next 2 weeks. Make sure you post, email and share your giveaway to get it going. Try increasing the referral # for the first 48 hours.
c) Leave a comment with what you are going to giveaway.
Kick Ass,
Noah
