My attempted giveaway didn't turn out to well but there are always some lessons to be learned from our failures.

• I should have done a little research instead of acting on a whim (if I had, I would have found that participating in a JV giveaway was a much better and easier option)
• always have all aspects of a promotion in place before you begin (I should have had all the blog posts completed a head of time and all the gifts uploaded to my server before I started)
• don't ask to much of the participants (having a daily task to qualify for the grand prise wasn't such a good idea because nobody qualified, I guess 12 days was too much)
• make sure you create lots of pre-launch buzz so that you get sufficient traffic when the time comes

I have decided not to worry about it and think it would have been better if I had concentrated my efforts on list building and viral techniques, which was my main purpose for creating this blog.

So tomorrow, back to work. I am going to talk about one of the fastest and easiest list building techniques I have ever seen.