Everybody you ask in Internet marketing will agree that ‘the money is in the list’.

From day one, you should be wanting to be capturing leads and then communicating with your sign-ups effectively.

In fact, list building should be the one thing you focus on before all else and you don’t actually have to own a website to start this essential process.

A well known way of list building is by using Joint Venture Giveaways, and you can see one that I’m currently involved with here:

http://www.inyourfacewisdom.com/kf8

Giveaways dominate in the Internet Marketing niche, but are not only found in the IM niche as you can also find them in other popular niches like Health and MLM/Network Marketing and so on.

This Giveaway is concentrating on video training resources.

The basic process goes like this:

# A hosts will set up and advertises a JV Giveway event.

# Contributors (like me, and if your wise you) sign up and add their ‘gifts’ or free products to the website … these are usually e-books, software packages, audios or videos.

# The gifts are given away, hence the name GIVEAWAYS, but members have to sign up to the contributor’s email list in order to receive their gift … That’s why this is agreat ‘list building exercise’ for contributors

# After the JV contributor period has ended and all the gifts are in, the doors open for members to sign up and take their choice from the products on offer.

# The first few days of it opening is usually a mad rush and the members can quite often be like kids in a candy store grabbing every download they can get, a lot of these products also come with resell rights so can be sold on by the member for extra profit.

# Members and JV’s alike are encouraged to promote the JV Giveaway, and quite often there can be incentives for doing so.

# Credits or commissions are usually awarded for referring people and possibly downgrade penalties if nobody is referred.

Quite often people sign up to Giveaway events just to grab the freebies on offer, and there is nothing wrong with this as this is what they are there for.

If people didn’t do this, the marketers would not generate any new leads … so a Giveaway thrives on its ‘freebie seekers’.

However, there is no better place to be – if you’re serious about your online business and your list building – than at the front of the queue … and that means being on board as contributor and taking an active part in a Giveaway.

For first-timers, it’s best to take a free listing … most, if not all Giveaway events, offer a free listing option.

At http://www.inyourfacewisdom.com/kf8 there’s even a ‘Newbies Bootcamp’ which shows you exactly how to create a first listing at absolutely no cost to you whatsoever … and challeges you to sign up your first 10 referrals to convince yourself that this process really works.

Once you’re convinced about the process, having ventured nothing but your time, you can start to get really involved and get the additional benefits of taking an upgrade.

When you do this, you get text adverts and One Time Offers, as well as the ability to list more of your products.

Most Giveaways are so reasonably priced, you only have to sell one of your One Time Offers and you’ll have earned your fee back.

So, what are you waiting for?

Whatever niche you’re in, there’s bound to be a benefit in taking part in these Giveaway events.

Sign-up at http://www.inyourfacewisdom.com/kf8 right now and convince yourself that Giveaways really are the place to be if you want to build a list fast.

I hope to see your name at the top of the leader board at http://www.inyourfacewisdom.com/kf8!

James Howard