30 Day Secret Experiment – Day 13: Writing/ Submitting Articles and a JV Giveaway

Posted by Harmony Rousseau on Apr 14, 2007 in 30 Day Experiment | 0 comments

This post is part of a 30 Day Secret Experiment. Be sure to read the previous posts to follow my progress.

Yesterday, I wrote the first three articles of my 10-day ecourse. Today, I wrote articles 4 and 5 – and am about half way done article 6. I managed to set up my autoresponders so that the people who signed up for the mailing list last week will also start to receive the course. I’m not sure if this is a smart move, since technically, I wasn’t advertising that they’d receive the course back then. But hey, the worst that can happen is that those people will unsubscribe. Hopefully, they’ll find the content valuable and remain on the list.

I also managed to submit an article to iSnare.com and GoArticles.com. I’m still waiting for yesterday’s EzineArticles.com and today’s iSnare.com articles to be approved. The GoArticles.com submission went live at midnight. They say they publish articles once per day (and midnight EST seems to be that time – at least tonight.) If that holds true every day, it’s good information to know since my article didn’t actually make it onto their recent articles page.

However, the good news is that I’m the first article on the self help page, which means I should remain in that top position all day tomorrow – or at least until they publish tomorrow’s articles, whenever that may be.

I also signed up as a contributor to a JV Giveaway. I’m a bit late for Easter, but Bradley Smith is doing an Easter JV Giveaway, so I posted my mailing list freebies along with all the other gifts available.

If you’re not familiar with a Joint Venture (JV) Giveaway, here’s the gist. A JV Giveaway is a database of free software, special reports, articles, and ebooks. You go to the website, Easter JV Gifts 2007, and sign up. You’ll then be taken to a members area where you’ll see all the gifts that are available. You click on the freebies you want, and you’ll be asked for your name/email (to join their mailing list) in exchange for what ever freebie they’re offering.

You’ll find freebies on all sorts of topics, but most revolve around internet marketing or setting up an internet business. The quality ranges from virtually worthless to pretty good so be selective. If you’re new to this, don’t download everything, or you’ll soon find yourself bombarded with email from every list you subscribed to. Pick the freebies that sound interesting to you and download those you’ll read in the next few days.

From a marketer’s perspective, JV Giveaways are great for growing your mailing list. Since there are hundreds of marketers who’ve contributed a “free gift”, lots of people promote it, which means lots of traffic to the site.

My goal is to get the final five articles of the ecourse finished by Monday, and then start producing more content for this site by Tuesday. I’m thinking of writing some articles on either Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich! or Wallace Wattles’ The Science of Getting Rich – maybe something of commentary of some of the chapters. I also have a few book reviews I’d like to post.

Like I said previously, I’m now trying to balance marketing the site and producing content for it…