It’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog. The last couple of weeks I’ve been really busy. We launched the Viral Traffic Bar website that runs on the MTB script and I had to fight with several bugs that were in the script. Now the Viral Traffic Bar website runs smoothly and it grows very fast.

Now that we are done with the Viral Traffic Bar launch it’s already time to get prepared for the Easter Giveaway that we run every year. This year I’ve teamed up with Brad Smith again, the guy who started the very first Easter Giveaway.

Many of you know that I’m still programming and testing the Giveaway Manager 3 software. We’ve used the software for my past 5 giveaway events and steadily improved it. It’s not a secret that the signup rates and conversions are way better than with other giveaway event software. This comes from an integrated tracking feature that no other software on the market has. The software is also the first one that can show up to 3 One Time Offers in a row (and we can switch it to show only 2 or 1 or even no One Time Offers, easily through the Admin area).

Many of you have seen the new Points System that only the Giveaway Manager 3 software uses and many of you have seen the new Web 2.0 Integration with Profiles and links to Twitter, Facebook, your Blog and your Website. What you haven’t seen yet are the new features that I’ve integrated this week into Giveaway Manager 3. These are again very new features that no other software out there has and you’ll see these new features the first time at… yes you guessed it right… at the Easter Giveaway 2010.

We plan to open the doors for contributors on March 9th, so watch out for our emails and blog posts that announce the opening for contributors.

Now, some of you might be wondering: “When will Guido finally release the Giveaway Manager 3 to the public?”.

Well, to be honest, I’ve been thinking a long time about this and many times I came to the conclusion that I shouldn’t release it at all. That’s because with this software I have a unique standpoint in this industry… my events are different than other people’s events. With each giveaway event that I run I make a profit of between $5000 and $15000 and that is only the direct profit from the event… affiliate commissions from banner ads or the income that I make from the new list subscribers are not included.

So tell me, would you release this software… and if you would, how much would you charge for it?

But that’s not all, there is another problem: How many copies of the software would you release?

See, most people who buy a giveaway software run a giveaway event that is targeted to the Internet Marketing crowd. How many Niche giveaway events did we see?

So if I release 500 copies of the Giveaway Manager 3, the market would be flooded with giveaway events.

I guess you can see the problem… Post a comment below and let me know what you think I should do because I haven’t made a decision yet.

Have a great day!

Guido Nussbaum

Hey guys,

in my last post I promised some insights into my business and what I meant by saying that I’ll concentrate on the 20% of actions that have resulted in 80% of my profits.

Now, what does that have to do with listbuilding?

Well, first of all 80% of my profits came and still come from my lists… or from other people’s lists (stop and think!)

There, I just gave you one of the biggest secrets to online success… and I’m happy to repeat it for those who didn’t get it:  You must get other marketers to promote your offers through their lists… so that you get their subscribers onto your list.

Now, don’t get me wrong… you don’t go out there and pump the subscribers of other marketers over to your list… this happens vise versa… you must also promote their products to your list.

That’s called a JV (Joint Venture).

Now, to setup these kind of JV’s you need 2 things:

1.) Your own product or service

2.) Some subscribers on your list to start out

The big problem here is that in most cases you’ll first have to promote other marketers products to your list. You know, give before you shall receive… that’s how it works unless you have a big name.

So your first step towards online success must be to create your own product or service. The second step is to setup a listbuilding system with your product or service. Then you promote your system on your own to get some subscribers on your list.

Once you have a couple hundred people on your list you can start to do JV’s with other marketers. Don’t try to approach the big marketers with your small list… start with marketers who have lists that are about the same size of yours and then work your way up to the big list and to the big marketers.

But wait… that’s only half of the truth!

You can actually create products or services that other marketers promote to their lists without you promoting back for them.

Still, you need to give them something back in return and that can be handled automatically through your product or service.

Let me give you an example: Many people promote my website Traffic Witch to their lists and I don’t have to promote their offer to my lists… that’s because they get free traffic if they signup new members for Traffic Witch… this all happens automatically without me doing anything.

On February 2nd you can see something like this happening again when I launch my next website (more about that later this week).

Let’s call these sites “Viral Membershipsites”.

Another related technique is: Running your own Giveaway Event.

When running your own Giveaway Event other marketers promote it to their lists without you promoting back for them… that’s because they get signups to their list automatically by promoting your Giveaway Event.

I guess most of you know how a Giveaway Event works, for those who don’t, simply signup for such an event as a Contributor and you’ll find out how it works.

OK, so let me resume the above said in one sentence:

“My two most successful strategies for building my list are: Running my own Giveaway events and running my own Viral Membershipsites.”

These 2 techniques are the 20% of action that brought in 80% of my 50,000 subscribers.

Now, I would really like to go more into detail about these techniques but I’d have to write a complete book to tell you everything.

You’ll get more information about both techniques in future blog posts here.

Maybe you have experienced similar results in your listbuilding efforts… leave us a comment and tell us what you think about listbuilding and how you do it.

To Your Success,

Guido Nussbaum

Hey Guys,

with this Blog Post I want to give you an overview on what I’m currently doing and what you can expect from me in 2010.

After working like a maniac for the last 30 months it’s time to change the way I’m doing business. I regard the last 30 months as my business start-up period and like it is with every business, you have to put a lot of time into it at the beginning.

You might have heared about the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80-20 rule. It states that roughly 80% of your success comes from 20% of your actions. That means 80% of the work that I’ve done in the last 30 months must have been unprofitable. And looking back, I have to admit that it’s true.

I have about 50 domains and only about 10 of them are profitable… I’ve tested literally hundreds of ways to get website traffic and only a few are worth the money or time you have to invest to get the traffic… I’ve tried several “business models” and only a few worked for me… and the list goes on.

Looking back I must say I’ve done alot of work for nothing… so it’s time for some changes. I’ll cut down my daily working hours by 80% by concentrating only on the most productive tasks and I’ll try to get more organized.

Another change in my business concerns Blogging. I run several blogs and used them mostly as kind of an article publishing platform with little personal touch. Don’t get me wrong, the information in the articles are great but there is no real interaction with the reader and that’s what blogs were made for. So on this blog I’ll try to concentrate on personal posts rather than articles. Also video-blogging is on my list.

Now that I want to do a more personal blogging style I also need to change certain things in my life… not much to talk about when you are hanging 15 hours a day in front of your computer… it would be much more interesting if I can blog about offline seminars, trips to other countries, meetings with other marketers and just fun stuff.

So one big task for me in 2010 is Traveling!

Hey, if you know of any offline seminars or meetings in 2010, leave me a comment and invite me.

Unfortunately I can’t just drop all current projects and get on a plane… before I start my travel journey there are just a couple more projects that I have to finish. The first one will be a viral traffic generator, launching on February 2nd. Make sure you mark that date in your calendar.

Until I’ve finished my upcoming projects the offline journey will start locally here in Cologne, Germany. I’ll organize some meetings here with other marketers… so if you are living in or near Cologne and would like to meet me and other marketers, contact me through my Help Desk or by phone.

Alright, I’ll be back with more news soon.

To Your Success,

Guido Nussbaum

One of the things I wanted to do for this new year 2010 was a re-design of my personal website.

So this is my first test post… more will come soon.