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-Chris Vendilli
Author of the Pro From Go Internet Marketing Blog

We’ve all seen them…

Some better than others…

… GIVEAWAY SITES.

Some of them are pretty blah.  A few of them really kick butt.  I aim to launch & host my own giveaway site next month that really kicks butt.  I’ve already got a select handful of partners on board to help me put together some irresistible OTO’s & downsells.

My giveaway site, however, does have one small twist (at least for the initial launch next month)…

Introducing www.10DayGiveAway.com

The twist to this giveaway is that it’s going to be much MORE than just a bunch of helpful internet marketing related, business-boosting downloads.

Noooo my friend, this one is much more.  Not only will we be giving away helpful downloads… but I also plan on GIVING AWAY 100% OF THE PROFITS EARNED ON THE ONE TIME OFFERS!

I guess when you look at it that way it really is a giveaway site in every sense of the word!

You see, I came across a family that’s been recently struck by a sad series of events.

Tom O’Connor, a young Pennsylvania State Trooper, loving husband, and proud father, was recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of bone cancer called chondrosarcoma.

Tom then underwent extensive surgery to remove a tumor from his sacrum (the upper portion of the tail bone).  Unfortunately, a complication from the surgery rendered Tom permanently blind.

To make matters worse, the cancer in Tom’s body was not completely removed during the surgery and it metastized & spread throughout the rest of his body.

Since the cancer’s rapid spread Tom has volunteered to be enrolled in clinical trials so that he can receive experimental cancer treating drugs not yet approved by the FDA.

The scariest part about the entire ordeal that Tom & his young family are going through is that it all unwraveled in a very short period of time, & Tom is way too young to be having to deal with this CRAP!

“Cancer sucks.”

Tom’s wife has a really cool pin that says just this, “cancer sucks.”  She displays it proudly anywhere & everywhere she goes.

In addition to giving all the proceeds from this event to the O’Connors… I also have yet another trick up my sleeve.

I’ve rallied up some marketing top guns to all come together & each donate a full featured product of theirs, for a period of 10 days, for the purpose of this giveaway…

You’re probably wondering, “So what the heck does that mean???”  Right?

Well, it means that the one time offer page that everyone sees upon signing up for the giveaway is going to convert like C-R-A-Z-Y!

How many times have you seen a sales page with access to over a dozen full featured products, that all normally sell for anywhere from $27-$97 A PIECE, contained on ONE sales page, for ONE low price?

I’m not going to spill all of the beans quite yet… but I will say that there’s some very prominent marketers involved and I’m excited to see how this turns out.

Those who grab our one time offers are going to get access to a valuable grab bag of internet marketing related information products that would cost well into the thousands if each item were purchased separately.

I had to do a LOT of arm twisting to get some of these guys & gals on board.  I had to explain to them that the event is ONLY 10 short days… and they aren’t really giving away their produt, they’re just giving away the profits for the copies sold during the giveaway’s one time offers.

Giveaway participants and affiliates are still going to make a killing because 50% of every sale is going to the referring affiliate.  So you can build your list AND make money by joining in the fun… but best of all… the other 50% (normally MY half, a.k.a. “THE PROFITS”) are going ENTIRELY to the O’Connor family!

I can’t wait until it comes time to give them that big fat juicy check.  I have a goal in mind but I don’t quite want to post it just yet…

Thanks for reading… feel free to leave a comment with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns, regarding this fast-approaching event.

The tentative dates of the giveaway are Tuesday November 11, 2008 thru Thursday November 20, 2008.

(I just started using Google Calendar, MS Outlook Calendar, and Google Calendar sync, along with my Palm Treo to keep uber-organized but that’s just ammo for another blog post…  I merely wanted to explain why I’m about to post this Google Calendar button for you other Google Calendar fans… so here it is…)

MARK IT ON YOUR CALENDAR:

Tuesday November 11, 2008 - Thursday November 20, 2008

If you use Google Calendar click the button below to add 10 Day Giveaway:

On a final note, if you’d like to take a peek at the 10 Day Giveaway site and get on the notification list to be kept in the loop regarding the upcoming launch visit here today:

www.10daygiveaway.com

Be sure to check out the “About” page too if you’re curious to see how these giveaways work & want to learn a little more about the O’Connors: www.10daygiveaway.com/about.php

Related Links:

Support Sgt. Tom O’Connor Facebook Group:

http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=21730643965

Tom’s friend, Joe Ruggery, recently rode in a 24 hour long bicycle race meant for riding teams… BUT he did it SOLO to raise money for his buddy Tom, check it all out here:

http://24fortom.blogspot.com/

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I spent a couple hours today putting together a page containing all of the best free bonuses I could gather up for my subscribers. I figured since this bonus page is going up in the member’s area of one of my minisites, I might as well slap some of the links right here on the blog as well.

So after a couple hours tinkering around I came up with the following page & bonuses for everyone… keep in mind these are all butterfly sites owned/operated by some of my friends & co-workers. Each of the sites offers a valuable free info-product on the front end followed by upgrade offers & etc… but each of these products has been reviewed & critiqued to ensure the free info-product, whether it be a video, special report, or audio, is good “as a standalone.”

Otherwise, I wouldn’t have included it on this list!

So without further adieu, here’s the list of great free bonuses I came up with for my subscribers… check ‘em out & let me know what you think…

BONUS 1 - Make Money From Your Error Pages $97 Value - Yours Free Today

Discover the hidden secrets to creating income with your error pages. Great audio, video, and report included. You will lose money if you do not implement the strategies revealed in this incredible course. Over 28,000 people have put these secrets to work! ~~ Click Here to Download ~~

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So that’s it in a nutshell. I had fun looking through each of these items before coming up with my list of bonuses. I also have to give credit where credit was due and make a special mention that I got this idea from Jason Dinner… after he contacted me to do an ad swap for one of his sites I decided to just create a whole bonus page like his, and this is what I came up with…

Leave a comment and let me know what you think of these products & the idea of creating a “bonus” page with links to free “frontend-ed” offers on butterfly sites….

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I’ll leave this particular subscriber’s name out of this blog entry because I’m not attempting to embarrass or harass him in anyway… I just took his email to be very pessimistic & my reply was not aimed at making him more upset or angry, but to show him that he’s already defeated himself in his own mind, without even attempting to battle.

So here’s some very brief background info:

This subscriber signed up for information regarding “how to get traffic from Twitter” at my site www.TwitterHints.com

After receiving a few of my informational messages giving him pretty detailed step by step tips for taking action to make this stuff work for him, he replied to an auto-responder message with the following (the ONLY thing I changed in his message was the deletion of his name so he can remain anonymous):

“Hi Chris,

I wish I understood how all this works. LOL

It’s far too complicated for the ordinary person to try.

I’ve no ‘plugins’ on my blog.

No posts, either. What do I know that anyone would want to read?

I’ve been selling for 4 years and resisted a blog until 3 months ago.

The “install Wordpress in seconds” actually took two LOOOOONG days.

Once the theme is in, that’s all that can be done with it.

I don’t use it at all because I’d need to pay a programmer to go past the initial set-up.

I have no accounts at any of these kiddies’ social sites and don’t really see the point.

Even if I did, there’s no way to put the silly looking buttons on the blog.

Therefore, no blog. No loss.

How would anyone find it to read it?

I’d be too embarrassed to tell anyone I was playing with adolescents’ websites. LOL

Twitter -sounds childish - does it have a purpose for anyone over 15?

Or is it like MySpace and all the others, a hangout for lovelorn teenagers.

Regards,

(Name Deleted for Anonymity)”

After reading the email I did not feel irritated.  At first, I almost didn’t reply because I thought there was little chance of getting through to this lost soul who has already lost the battle for traffic before it’s even begun.

But after a little pondering & thought, I went ahead & replied to our anonymous friend with the following message… I did let him have it a little bit, but only because I was hoping to inspire him to change the way he is thinking, and open his mind to new possibilities:

“Hmm,

Sounds like you’ve already got it all figured out then… so why the waste of time emailing me?

I don’t mean to sound rude, but I don’t get your email at all…

If you’re so sure that all of these “kiddie” social sites aren’t worth the effort then why did you even bother following up with me or joining the email list?

I’m getting loads of traffic from Twitter & my subject matter is not childish whatsoever, but heck, maybe I just got lucky…

I have a feeling that if you took a few minutes to try out some of the things I recommend in the email course you’d see this is a worthwhile way to get quality traffic for free.  I can’t do it for you & if you don’t have the technical skills to set this stuff up that’s not really my fault & doesn’t necessarily mean this stuff doesn’t work.

Where there’s a will there’s a way.  I’m sure you could benefit from my information if you put it to good use, but you have a very “defeated” attitude that won’t get you far.  I hope you can figure out a way to turn that around & make this stuff work for you.

If you’ve been selling for 4 years then you should be able to pay a programmer a few bucks to help you out.  I found a programmer on Elance that I’ve been using for years and he would setup a blog for me & follow all of the instructions in my report if I told him to, and he’d probably do it for about $75.

Excuses are like hurdles that you are putting in front of yourself.  Stop making them and you won’t have to jump around as much & you’ll be amazed at how much you can accomplish when you set your mind in the right direction before you start moving your feet.

Chris”

I hope that you who are now reading this blog entry aren’t doing this to yourself.  You shouldn’t hold yourself back based on prejudices or ill-formed assumptions.  There are always new & changing possiblities, especially when it comes to internet marketing, because after all, a big part of our business relies on technology - which IS constantly changing!

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