Why I’m giving away $100 to one of my newsletter subscribers

So, as you probably noticed in the top right corner, I’m giving away $100 to one of my newsletter subscribers when I get to 1000 of them.  Why would I do that?

Well, here’s the deal.  You can’t get famous online without a following.  And that following needs to know when to check out your new video or find out about your latest project.  And what’s the best way to keep in touch with the people and let them know about these things?  By email.

You can subscribe to my YouTube videos, but if you’re subscribed to a lot of people or if you don’t check the front page of YouTube very often you’ll likely miss mine.  I can tweet about it on Twitter, but same things apply there.  And again for Facebook status updates or posts.  And unless you really like me or are really interested in how to become famous online, you probably won’t check my blog every single day either and will likely miss some posts.

But with an email list I’m able to actually get in touch with everyone, at once, with a summary of what’s been going on in the blog over the past couple of weeks, or a special event/video coming up that I’m doing, etc.  It’s a simple and effective way to spread the word when I need to.

So that’s why it’s important.  And the money is the incentive to get everyone to do it. Because let’s face it, a lot of sites ask for your email address and unless there’s a good reason for you to do it, you probably won’t.  I’m hoping the chance at $100 is a good enough reason (beyond the obvious of being interested in keeping updated on the information I have to share).  And of course there will be other contests after that one too.  I did afterall start out on YouTube by giving away $1000 (more on that in a future post).

Have you signed up yet? Remember, you can unsubscribe at any time and your email address will never be shared with anyone.  And no, it won’t be monolopy money that I’m giving away.