“Giveaways” are a phenomenon that have been around for a while. Contributors sign up to the giveaway site and offer some kind of digital product, hopefully of high quality. Subscribers to the site are able to download these for free in exchange for joining the contributor’s mailing list.

Not only is it a good way of picking up some excellent products at zero cost, if you’re a contributor, it’s also a great way of building a mailing list.

I like to keep an eye on what’s coming up for both of those reasons, but I have been busy with things like my video (see my last post), so I nearly missed what I think is going to be one of the best giveaways for some time. I think it’s particularly interesting for two reasons …

First, it will only run for a total of 5 days. I think this is a smart move because provided enough people get to know about it, there will be limited time for people to “get the goods” !

Secondly, it very cleverly utilises social media to spread the word about it. I know of only one other event like this in the recent past, but I believe that it was just resticted to twitter. This one uses twitter (of course), but also uses practically every other social media platform you can think of !

Anyway, what I wanted to flag was that the sign-up period for contributors is ending today ! I only just picked this up, so I’m relieved to be in. And they have a great upgrade for contributors which makes it very attractive.

Take a peek at The 5 Day JV Giveaway and see what you think.