How To Build Your Sales

How To Build Your Sales

by: David Coyne

You may have heard of joint venture marketing, It’s used frequently by savvy entrepreneurs to increase profits and add loads of prospects to their customer list.

So what is joint venture marketing (or j/v)?

Speaking at the Information Marketing Boot Camp (http://www.dcinfobiz.com), Joint venture expert and entrepreneur John Alanis describes it as ขa mutually beneficial agreement to sell similar products or services to customers or prospects.ข

You approach another entrepreneur and ask them if they’ll endorse your product and allow you to mail to their customer list.

In exchange, you give the entrepreneur a cut of the gross profits, usually anywhere from 5 to 25 percent. Or you could arrange a list swap.

J/V marketing allows you to quickly add hundreds or thousands of names to your customer list.

The first step is to find a suitable joint venture partner.

Where do you look?

Try your own customers first. Send out a letter or email announcing you’re looking for a j/v partner. Be sure to tell them you’re looking for a partner who sells similar products to your own. And ask how many customers they have on their list. Obviously, the more, the better.

Another way of to find j/v partners is in trade publications. Look at the advertisers. You’ll probably find a few that sell similar products to your own. Contact them by phone or letter and explain you’d like to create a joint venture with them.

Also look in the Standard Rate and Data Service (SRDS) (http://www.srds.com). This directory has every commercially available mailing list, the list owner, etc. Most larger libraries will have a copy of SRDS, although it may be a year or two out of date.

As well, check out the Oxbridge Directory of Newsletters (http://www.mediafinder.com) It’s an excellent source for potential customers from newsletter subscriptions. It’s an expensive directory to buy, but ask your library if they have a copy.

YOU MUST BE ENDORSED The most important thing is you must have your fellow entrepreneur include a letter of endorsement.

He has already established a relationship with his customers. You haven’t. If his customers are satisfied with his product, then they’ll much more open to receiving information from him about other products.

Without the endorsement, the customer response will drop significantly.

You can also ghost write the endorsement letter for your j/v partner and then have him sign it.

APPROACHING A J/V PARTNER The best way to approach a potential joint venture partner is to send a letter and then follow up by phone. Be prepared to phone at least a couple of times before your partner agrees.

When sending out the letter proposing a joint venture partnership, be sure to do the following:

Offer to do all the work. You’ll handle all the mailing, marketing documents, and product fulfilment.

Collect the customer money yourself and then send your j/v partner his cut for each sale.

Stress the fact that your partner will be ขgetting money for no work.ข This is a strong incentive for an entrepreneur to become your j/v partner.

You will deduct your mailing costs and other expenses first and then split the balance with the partner.

Always get your j/v partner to sign your letter agreeing to your terms.

Include an ขexit clause.ข This allows you to cancel the j/v agreement if you find your partner is a headache to deal with.

By following these steps to a joint venture, you’ll be able to quickly add hundreds or thousands of potential customers to your database that normally would take years to accumulate.

And, most importantly, you’ll increase your sales.

About The Author

Dave Coyne is a copywriter, marketing consultant. Start A High Income, Low Risk Home Business And Never Create A Product, Write An Ad or Talk To Anyone. Get this free report. Send a blank email to [email protected]

This article was posted on February 25, 2003

by David Coyne

8 Things I have Learned As An Internet Marketer

8 Things I have Learned As An Internet Marketer

by: Dirk Wagner

I started as an internet marketer, like I am sure a few of you have with various mlm programs. After little success with these types of programs I finally decided it was time I make my own website and get serious about marketing on the internet. Although I have not been doing this as long as some, there have been a few things that I have learned along the way that have helped me achieve much more success than my previous ventures in mlm. I would like to share with you 8 things I have learned since becoming an internet marketer.

1. Choosing The Right Program

Choosing the right program to affiliate with is still a relevant way of making money on the internet. I learned not believe all the hype surrounding every affiliate program on the net. Instead I look for affiliate programs that pay at least 30% commissions and are run by reputable internet marketers.

2. Choosing The Right Tools

I learned quickly that you need much more than just a website to become successful. Choosing the right tools to optimize your internet business is crucial if you hope to succeed. Tools like auto responders, professional emailboxes, and software that help with linking and submitting your site to search engines is very important information to have. However, some of these tools can be expensive, but the return on investment is priceless.

3. Targeted Traffic

Getting the right people to your website is something all internet marketers are constantly working to achieve. In this business you find a lot of tire kickers, these are the people that may download a free product or tour your site but they have no intentions of ever buying any of your products or services. Finding targeted traffic is what you need, people that our looking for a homebased business or a product or service you are selling.

4. Quality Leads

Quality leads are very important when talking about targeted traffic. there are plenty of companies that offer leads and subscription services, and I suggest trying a few different companies out, because you just do not know what type of leads you will get. One of the first companies I used to buy leads from provided me with leads from people all over the world, most of whom did not speak English, or they wanted me to either give them money or go out on a date! So I learned to ask around and investigate a few companies out before I invest in leads.

5. Publishing A Newsletter

Publishing my own newsletter is very important, probably more important than I first realized. With your own newsletter filled with relevant content that can help your prospects, you gain trust and credibility. Your prospects are more willing to buy your product or service if they feel as if they know you.

6. Reciprocal Linking

This was a powerful lesson to be learned. Search engines love reciprocal links when deciding your page rank and position in their search engine. This was an eye opener. With the right software I was able to make reciprocal linking work to my advantage, without having to manually do it myself. Reciprocal linking has helped me with my alexa ranking as well as in the search engines.

7. Finding JV Partners

Finding Joint Venture (JV) partners is also very important is building a successful online venture, in a sense reciprocal linking is a JV partnership in that you are hoping your link on someone else site will bring you visitors and viceaversa. However, there are also other JV partnerships available and are quite easy to find, if you know where to look ( see below). I have a few JV partners that I work with to mutually make our businesses profitable. It is the old adage of ขyou scratch my back, I scratch you backข where each partner brings something different to the table and combined they form a JV partnership.

8. Business Forums

I found reading and posting to business forums to be invaluable to the success of my business. These are great places to learn from people that have been doing business for a long time. I also told you about finding JV partners, well business forums is where to find people you would like to do business with. Most forums allow you to use a signature file that you can use as ขfreeข advertising for your business.

In closing, I would like to add that there are probably a hundred more lessons I have learned since starting my online business. I continue to learn something new everyday that only helps me in my goal of becoming a successful internet marketer. Good luck.

Copyright 2004 Dirk Wagner

About The Author

Dirk Wagner is CEO and owner of http://team4success.biz and the free, easy to install #1 home business toolbar with automated updates.A website dedicated to helping the homebased business entrepreneur start and succeed with there very own homebased business.

My name is Dirk Wagner. I started my internet business in the past with the helping hands of TOP Internet Marketers like Stone Evans. My goal is helping others who are just starting their business and so I have created the #1 Home Business Toolbar.

This article was posted on May 04, 2004

by Dirk Wagner

Send Your Website An INSTANT กSurgeก Of FREE Targe

Send Your Website An INSTANT กSurgeก Of FREE Targeted Traffic Using ‘t.O.D.ก

by: Cory Threlfall

Traffic… the life blood of every online business.

The problem is, are you getting enough of it to make your online business grow to your expectations within the time period you have set?

In my mind you can never have enough traffic But the fact remains, NO Traffic, NO Profits, NO Business.

Though there are many ways to generate traffic online, both FREE and Paid, the question remains, which method or methods are right for you and your business to get it moving and profitable in as little time as possible?

Now, with that being said, what Iกm about to share with you IS a กProvenก way to create an avalanche of FREE targeted traffic to your website, without having to pay a single penny.

This is ONE of many of the tactics the guruกs online use to get the word out กQuicklyก about there NEW product and/or service.

But, before I move on any further, let me first explain what ‘t.O.D.ก stands for and what it is so there won’t be any confusion through the rest of this article.

‘t.O.D.ก stands for ‘traffic On Demandก.

What is ‘traffic On Demandก?

Itกs simply an website and/or list owner with a large กeMail Listก of subscribers to which he/she can Blast an email out to at any time absolutely FREE about whatever they want as long as itกs related to there target audience.

Now, your probably wondering, กWell, howกs T.O.D. going to benefit me?

Simple.

You proposition the website and/or list owner with a JV(Joint Venture) proposal they simply can’t refuse.

For those of you who don’t know what a กJoint Ventureก is itกs simply a business partnership between two or more parties that agree to share the $$Profits$$.

If youกve been online for any length of time Iกm sure youกve heard of กJoint Venturesก at least somewhere online and how people claim is how there Internet fortunes were made.

Thereกs good reason for there claims simply because they already knew where to find an กHungryก targeted audience waiting for what they had to offer known as ‘t.O.D.ก.

All they had to do was take the time to contact and proposition the website and/or list owner with a JV proposition they counldn’t refuse.

And belief me when I say this, there are literally MILLIONS of websites out there just waiting for you to hit them up with your Product or Service so they can send it to there lists of subscribers and collect there share of the $$Profits$$.

And, if you already have an กAffiliate Programก setup for your product or service, your half way there. All you need to do is write a compelling JV proposal(not to long, these people are very busy and are hit up everyday with JV offers) and tell them… กWhatกs in it for them?ก

And, hereกs another quick tip… make sure you กPersonalizeก the JV proposal you send, otherwise, they won’t give you the time of day and will discard your hard work as SPAM.

Now, how can you get started Starting Today?

The กSearch Enginesก are a great place to start under the keywords related to your product and/or service.

You can also go to กEzine/Newsletter Directoriesก and search through there database of list owners to find relevant JV partners.

Keep this in mind that not all the website and/or list owners you contact will jump on your JV offer.

Don’t get discouraged.

If you don’t here from them within a few days or a week, send out an followup email just in case your first JV proposal didn’t get through to there Inbox, otherwise, keep on searching and keep on contacting.

You just never know what might happen.

Copyright 2005 The IWE, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

About The Author

Cory Threlfall

Want to get MORE กInsiderก marketing Secrets on HowTo drive Traffic to your website? Subscribe to Cory Threlfallกs ezine called… The Internet Wonders eZine at http://www.internetwondersezine.com Or, you can go shop his popular CBmall with over 10,000 ReadyToDownload information products. Go to ==> http://www.coryscbmall.com.

This article was posted on August 20

by Cory Threlfall

5 Steps To Successful Joint Ventures

5 Steps To Successful Joint Ventures

by: Raam Anand

Most Internet Marketing related ezines have carried at least one article on Joint Ventures; probably many.

JVกs are THE MOST preferred and fastest way to increase sales and cash flows.

Itกs no longer a secret!

Everyone knows a good JV is the master key to online success.

But… why many people are failing to use this master key? Why so many website owners are not able to make use of this powerful strategy?

Here are some reasons:

1) Other marketers are NOT WAITING for your JV offer. Before sending your JV offer, make sure to address the question กWhatกs in it for the JV Partner?ก. Unless you give a compelling reason, most partners are not looking forward to your offer. No, it won’t work that way…like, you offer one of your products for free and your partner will gladly endorse it to her list. No, it won’t.

It takes time to craft an irresistible offer. The offer should be beneficial to your potential partner and her customers/subscribers.

Take it from me… I told you it takes time… but itกs definitely possible.

2) Many JV offers are passed onto the ‘recycle binก with even being read (I told you… they are NOT waiting)

Some leading marketers get about 200 JV proposals every week! May be more. Most of these JV offers doesn’t catch the attention of the busy marketer.

Some are lost due to SPAM email filters.

Solution?

Followup is the key. If you consistently followup, your chances of getting the attention of your potential JV partner is very high. Usually a second email will get the response.

A mixedmode followup is sure to get higher success rates. An initial email followed by another email reminder and a phone call should normally get you going.

3) Another strong demotivating factor is NOT sending personalized JV offers. If your proposal does not กspeakก directly to your partner, itกs chances of succeeding are very thin.

Thatกs why I told you earlier, it takes time to create your JV proposal. You need to visit your partnerกs website, subscribe to their newsletter, study their online content and read their publications and articles before you attempt to draft your proposal.

Your JV proposal should address your potential partner directly, using their name. Mentioning a few things about their website, products, ezines or articles in your offer will surely catch their attention.

4) JV partners are not your affiliates. Differentiate your resellers with your strategic JV partner. To drastically raise the success rate of your proposal, offer a higher commission than your affiliates.

For example, if you are offering a 50% commission for your affiliates, your JV partner should be offered 60% or more.

5) Targeting a large corporation for your JV is a surefire way to failure. First, try and do several JVกs with businesses similar or smaller than your own and build a track record. Then you can approach bigger businesses with a record of your successes.

Large businesses have large problems everyday to tackle. They have struggled hard to build their enterprise. They have their own range of products to sell and keep their customers happy.

However, if you have a compelling story to tell, along with factual proof of your claims, it will definitely bring you windfall profits.

Iกm not discouraging you to keep away from these giants. Iกm just telling you the right way to approach.

You see friend, Iกve revealed to you some key tips on Joint Ventures. Now, itกs up to you. Follow these rules and create a compelling offer and Iกm sure you will succeed in making highly profitable Joint Ventures.

About The Author

Copyright (C) 2004 Raam Anand With Raamกs Joint Venture Manager, you could make 10.. 20.. even 30times more money! Click to learn more about JV Manager: http://www.infoYOGIS.com/track.cgi?1

This article was posted on November 20, 2004

by Raam Anand

The Domino Theory

The Domino Theory

by: Phil Basten

Most of us know what dominos are and many of us have seen those amazing demonstrations when a massive number of dominos are set in a somewhat magical array and the creator pushes one domino over and they all fall down in harmony one after the other.
Itกs called the domino theory and if you do it just right it works and looks spectacular.
Wouldn’t it be great if online businesses worked this way?
It would be terrific if you could set up all your business dominos (strategies) and have them fall in just the right direction, wouldn’t it?
Guess what?
You can, and itกs easier than you think.
Ken McArthur and Sid Hale, two seasoned marketers, have put together a brilliant program that allows you to do this easily and quickly.
The programกs called JV Alert. http://www.jvalert.com/invite.aspx?id=69
It allows veteran and inexperienced marketers alike to get together with other marketers and do the kind of Joint Venture deals we all dream about.
When this site first opened over a year ago, My partner Jane and I jumped at the chance to be involved. It was a decision that has proved fruitful many times over.
We had one goal in mind at that time and that was to connect with someone who could help us sell an ebook we had written called กJoe? Yes, Mable? Are We Rich Yet?ก
Because of JV alertกs unique service and reach, we were able to put out a call for a joint venture partner instantly.
In walked a joint venture partner who help us get the now wellknown Joe and Mable show off the ground.
In its first major Joint Venture, our company, JPE Advertising was able to meet other influential marketers such as Joe Vitale, Shawn Casey, Mike Glaspie, Mark Joyner, Ken McArthur, Jim Daniels and then continue to do exclusive deals one after the other.
It only takes one successful joint venture to open the doors to many others.
If you have a great idea and some talent, itกs not that hard to get yourself firmly entrenched into the exciting world of Joint Ventures and the dominos will soon begin to fall your way.
Where do you start.
AT JV alert.

http://www.jvalert.com/invite.aspx?id=69
Jane Mark and Phil Basten run a successful ad agency online and have been helping internet marketers succeed for 8 years. http://jpeadvertising.com
You can talk to them in person about JV alert and their experiences in their online office at: http://webcast.worldprofit.com/live/jpeadvertising/

About The Author

Phil Basten is President of JPE Advertising. This well known Online Ad Agency has been operating since 1997.
He has 35 years of advertising experience working for some of the worldกs most prestigious ad agencies, Ogilvy and Mather, Fortune Advertising and Leo Burnett,
He is known as the AD Man called on frequnetly to write persuasive, direct response, ad copy for literally thousands of clients offline and online.

[email protected]

This article was posted on June 26, 2004

by Phil Basten

10 Steps to Joint Venture Setup and Success

10 Steps to Joint Venture Setup and Success

by: Stephen Mistretta

The goal of this article is to show you how to start and maintain a successful Joint Venture Program.

1. Choosing Good Partners

One of the keys to a successful JV is to pick high quality and high traffic sites with which to partner. In this case, and below, we will be using the example of selling an Ebook that you have created. The topic of this particular Ebook is ขBass Fishing.ข An easy way to find potential JV partners is to go to Google and type in the top three terms related to your topic. In our example we type in ขBass fishingข Large mouth Bass and Small mouth Bass. With the size of the Internet, and the searching capabilities of Google, you can write your Ebook on almost any subject and find a large list of websites that cover it. I suggest starting with a group of 50 sites, total, with which to work.

2. Choosing Quality Sites

Look for Quality growing sites within your niche market.

Once you get a list of sites (I suggest you break them down into groups of five) you should then go to www.Alexa.com and download their toolbar. Check each site’s overall growth rate and use the ขwaybackข feature to get an idea about how much work they have put into the site. Do not be surprised if there is no data available in a number of the categories; Alexa measures growth rates of only the most rapidly growing sites.

You want to find the highest traffic growth sites possible. Out of your first five sites pick the top two growth sites and put them to the side for future use. Take the other three sites and, using the downloadable Google tool bar (http://toolbar.google.com), find out the page rank of the sites. If the page rank is lower than five I suggest putting them into your ขTo contact later pileข If the page rank is five or higher put them into your contact file.

3. Contacting Smaller Sites First

Contact the smaller slower growing sites first. The reason I suggested, putting the top two growth sites out of each five to the side is because you are much more likely to get a JV and reciprocal link from a smaller site when you are first starting out. Once your site has reached a page rank of five or above AND with at least 10+ back links to quality sites you can then contact the bigger sites. Lets face it, not only do the sites that sell your Ebook want to make a percentage of each sale, they also want to increase their PR ranking and number of quality linking partners. If you go to the bigger sites on day one you are much more likely to get a ขnoข than if you build your site rankings and links first. Big sites, above all, don’t want to have their rankings go down. So really do your JV homework and linking prior to contacting them. (OK I am finished preaching about that!)

4 Write a Professional Contact Letter.

One of the keys to a successful JV is to prepare a professional contact letter that clearly states the benefits (percentage of sale) that the JV partner will receive. Another key point to state is how many sites you are linked with and their average page ranking. (Remember: five or above). It is imperative that you make your letter short, concise and clearly stating the benefits to them. This is also the time to mention the fact that you will provide the partner site with all the necessary ad copy, pictures, banners and ongoing emails that they will need to promote your product so they can get paid. Before contacting the JV partner you will also want to set up an affiliate program through www.shareasale.com or www.clickbank.com. My point is: the simpler you make things for the JV partners the more positive responses you will have.

5. Making A Show of Good Faith.

It is a very good idea prior to contacting potential JV partners to create a link on your site to the potential partner’s site. Try to use their logo or links they have already created. If there is a copyright notice on the site, create a testbased ad instead. Once you set up the link, preferably on your partner’s page or home page at the bottom, you should contact each site. See our www.HomeBusinessSuccess.biz site for an example.

6. Follow up Follow up Follow up.

It is extremely important to follow up until you get a definite answer, yes or no. I suggest that you give the prospective JV site a call the day after you send the email. One thing to remember also is that with spam filters today some of your emails will get filtered out. When you call do not be totally shocked to hear they did not receive your email. If they did not receive the email ask them if you can send a copy of the email to them immediately. Give them your email address and ask them to add it to their address book so future emails will not be blocked.

7. Notification of Sales

Set up an automated email to notify the JV when they make a sale.

It always blows my mind that people don’t do this. Think about it, if you got a short email every time you made a sale for someone you are JV partnered with, wouldn’t it motivate you even more to sell the product? I look forward to opening my email and seeing how many sales I made. It is like Christmas every day! Please do not overlook this simple but important and effective way to motivate your JV partners. Jeff wrote an excellent article on this specific topic which is listed on our website under ขJeff’s Opinionข. It is a great read and contains valuable information. I suggest you check it out.

8. Praise Where Praise Is Due

When your JV partner makes their first sale, email them and congratulate them. This is an excellent time to introduce new products for additional ventures as well as a great opportunity to make some suggestions about placement of your ad. Both of you would benefit even more from your ad being placed in the upper left of the JV partners’ website. This is one of the top 3 grossing areas in which to put and ad. Your JV partner might not be as knowledgeable in some areas as you are, so go ahead ask for better positioning and assist them with any relatively quick tasks that you can to help them get more traffic.

9. Starting a Newsletter For Your JV Partners.

This is an excellent tool for introducing new products. You can also use this tool to form competition between your JV partners to see who can sell the most of your products. It is also a great idea to include any new partner sites in your newsletter. This will help motivate the new JV partners. A newsletter is great for building a sense of community. When preparing the newsletter try to include at least one article about Internet marketing, one on your niche area, one listing any current specials, one listing new products you are selling for other people/sites and finally one open area for facts, questions, and suggestions from your JV partners. Remember, the more you involve your JVs and include them in decisions, the more they will want to sell your products. Post issues of the newsletter on a page in your site. The more content you have about your niche area the better. Also include any testimonials from both clients and JV partners. Please remember: high quality content is king! People need a reason to keep coming back to your site. Provide them with new articles at least every two weeks. If 100% necessary, you can go to a site such as www.Articlecity.com and find free articles to use on your website. I strongly suggest, however, that you write as many articles as you can yourself. JV partners like to read what you are all about. You can submit your article to sites such as www.Articlecity.com for more traffic and the search engines love content the more high quality the better.

10. Contacting Larger Sites.

Once your page rank is over 5 and you have 10+ linking partners you are ready to contact the bigger sites. You should adjust your JV request letter to reflect the successes you have had since you started your site. Include links in the letter to your JV newsletter page as well as your testimonial page. Be prepared to pay superaffiliates a higher percentage of each sale. The volume of traffic that the site brings you should make up the lost percentage. For example, if you pay your smaller site JV partners 40%, be prepared to pay the large sites at least 50%. A good incentive for the larger sites is a sliding scale JV partnership, such as: for the first 100 of your Ebooks that they sell they get 50%, for the next 150 they get 55% and so on. The key is volume of sales.

www.HBS.biz is currently looking for high quality JV partners for both products and link exchange. Please contact us at [email protected] if your page rank is 5 or above. We invite niche sites even if not in the Home Business area. If your PR is not five or above but you have some awesome products, we can still crosssell products. I am not meaning to be rude, but please no contact from link farms. We will not exchange links with you.

Now get out there and kick some butt! You can do it! If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact me at [email protected]

About The Author

Stphen Mistretta is a partner in www.HBS.biz and can be reached at [email protected]

This article was posted on February 10, 2005

by Stephen Mistretta

The กSecretก Joint Venture Secret

The กSecretก Joint Venture Secret

by: Willie Crawford

You don’t have to be in business online long before you hear or read hundreds of times that joint ventures are the secret to big success. The fact is, that joint venturing with those who are already in contact with your target market is a big shortcut to profitability. However, you have one big problem…

The next time that you’re sitting in traffic at a busy intersection, spot one pedestrian in the crowd. Observe this person for a few seconds. Now, consider that this person is probably totally unaware of you. This person has his own life, his own concerns, his own focus. Thereกs a good chance that youกll never get to know anything about this person or ever even see them again. The odds are that this person is totally unaware of you and never will become aware of you.

Online, you are that pedestrian walking through a busy intersection. Most of the people that are your potential joint venture partners are totally unaware of you and will always be that way. On top of that, making them acutely aware of you can be a monumental task. The reason that this is so, is that many of your potential joint venture partners have literally hundreds of people clamoring for their attention. Their day is like that busy intersection!

Iกm going to let you in on a secret though that most people seem to be unaware of. ‘the secret joint venture secretก as I call it. This secret is so obvious that most people simply ignore it. What is this secret? The secret is that itกs easiest to get the attention of potential joint venture partners in face to face encounters.

Thereกs a reason that top Internet marketers attend large seminars even when they are not speaking. Itกs where they get to sit around and discuss ideas with likeminded individuals. Itกs where they get to look potential partners in the eyes and get all of the details on a potential project.

Many top marketers go to large seminars looking for joint ventures. They go to seminars set up specifically for facilitating joint ventures. They attend events like Michael Penlandกs Internet Marketing and Joint Venture Marketing Super Conference (December 3 5, 2004, in Orlando, Florida). They attend events like Jason Coxกs Joint Venture Seminar (February 18 20, in Las Vegas, Nevada).

Take a second now to check out Michaelกs seminar at: http://www.profitautomation.com/app/adtrack.asp?AdID=107710 Youกll see that itกs the ideal environment to set up joint ventures not only with the speakers, but also with the hundreds of people in the audience. At these events practically every person that you meet will ask your name and what you do. Theyกll also ask if you have a business card.

Asking someone what they do is a natural way to กbreak the ice.ก When you meet a stranger for the first time, itกs a slightly uneasy moment as you size that person up. The polite conversation thatกs expected is also your invitation to quickly pitch your joint venture project sometimes 🙂

Hereกs another secret…

Some of the big name marketers use กgatekeepersก to help control the flow of joint venture offers to them. If they spent all day reading joint venture proposals they would never get anything else done. If they got involved in even 10% of the joint ventures offered to them their efforts would be too scattered and their productivity would be drastically reduced.

One of the gate that you should be aware of is Jason Cox. Take a look at a teleseminar series Jason has put together involving dozens of the worldกs top marketers at: http://www.profitautomation.com/app/adtrack.asp?AdID=107711

What I, and the others marketers have done is use Jason to help control the flow to us. Itกs the only way we can get any work done.

Another gatekeeper is Ken McArthurกs and Sid Haleกs JV Alert at: http://www.profitautomation.com/app/adtrack.asp?AdID=107712

JV Alert is a community of people who are all looking for quality joint ventures. Members get to post their offers to a searchable database where partners can find just the right joint venture.

Members of JV Alert also get to broadcast their JV offers to the membership. The gatekeeping function that Sid Hale provides is that he reviews each JV offer for quality before itกs broadcast to the membership. If the offer is of really poor quality, Sid offers his insights to the novice joint venturer so that he can make the offer more attractive… more likely to be something that the membership would be interested in.

Letกs get back to the live events for a moment though, and look at another reason why they are so powerful. The fact is that friends like doing deals with their friends. Itกs natural to prefer doing business with someone that you actually know and like. At events like Michaelกs Super Conference, you really have a personกs undivided attention while sitting next to them at the dinner table, in the hotel lobby, or around the pool. This is where you really get to explain your ideas indepth, and possibly even get a dozen different กexpertsก point out potential problems that youกve overlooked.

So now you know the secret JV secret. You now actually know several proven ways to get past all the clutter and get your ideas seriously considered by those JV partners that you need. Actually, everyone else reading this article knows the same secret. So itกs not such a secret any more. However, thatกs not something you need to worry about because 95% of those who read this won’t act upon it!

About The Author

Willie Crawford is a corporate president, published author, seminar speaker and host, teleseminar speaker and host, retired military officer, karate black belt, network marketing trainer, and lifetime student of marketing. He shows people how to actually generate substantial income online using very simple systems. An example of such a system can be studied and duplicated at: http://ProfitMagician.com.

This article was posted on November 04, 2004

by Willie Crawford

Did You Ever Wonder How The Big Boys In Internet M

Did You Ever Wonder How The Big Boys In Internet Marketing Build Lists Fast?

by: Ryan Blake

Iกm pretty you know by now that building a list of subscribers is one of the MOST important parts of your online business if you want to make any real money.

If you don’t know that, let me remind you that the MONEY is in your LIST thatกs why your credibility and relationship with your subscribers is vital.

Iกm not going to explain why and so on, because I don’t want to lose focus. What I want to share with you is one of the best listbuilding strategies Iกve personally used and it build me over 1500 targeted subscribers in less than 1 week!

If you want to build a list quickly with targeted and responsive subscribers, I strongly urge you to use the coregistration jointventure list building strategy.

Damn now thatกs a long name for a strategy!

Hereกs a great example of a coregistration joint venture which takes up a bit of time and effort but is really worth it in the end you could setup a free giveaway site. A bunch of people get together to offer their best products to everyoneกs subscribers all they need to do is fill out a form to get them.

I know it works because Iกve done it with one of my previous campaigns.

Here are the details on how I did it so that you can copy it in whatever niche market you are involved in:

1. Contact 10 Joint Venture partners or any number of partners you want to have. The more JV partners you have, the more subscribers youกll gain but you risk getting less targeted subscribers.

Hereกs why:

If a subscriber subscribes to 10 lists, itกs a very high possibility that he (or she) will unsubscribe because of too many subscriptions. But if you have 5 JV partners, heกll be receiving emails from 5 people only. The only problem here is that youกll only have 5 people to promote the promotion for you.

2. When you contacted your potential JV partners, you MUST state very clearly:

i. What are the benefits that they can expect. Can they make money? Can their list grow? ii. What they are expected to do. If you need them to email to their list, tell them so. Don’t do it at the last minute.

iii. What do they need to offer to be in this promotion? Normally, each of the Jv partners will offer a product to entice the subscribers to subscribe to their mailing list.

3. Prepare all the necessary materials. These will include:

i. Creating the webpage where anyone who is interested in getting the products offered for free can subscribe to the contributorกs (your JV partners) list.

ii. Programming script to make sure that itกs working perfectly that each subscription will go to your JV partner.

iii. Email templates for your Jv partners to send to their subscribers.

iv. Email support for the new subscribers. Sometimes, they might face challenges like failing to subscribe or trouble with downloading the products. Itกs your responsibility to manage all of these.

4. Thanking your Jv partner. Youกll probably agree with me that you managed to build a list quickly with targeted subscribers is because of the help you get from your Jv partners. Tell them how much you appreciated their help and if possible, offer an extra incentive to them. You can promote their products to the new list that you have built from this promotion to show your appreciation for your Jv partners contribution.

Now that youกve got yourself a great targeted list of Subscribers the next step is to keep them coming back, for A loyal list will bring in the money in future.

One of the best places to find cutting edge information on the latest Internet Marketing techniques is a website called the Affiliate Classroom. They have a multitude of Ebooks and libraries for hours Of reading pleasure. Hereกs a link to join their very helpful free mailing list. http://tinyurl.com/dt4rb

To your success in the future.

Regards.

Ryan Blake.

About The Author

My name is Ryan Blake and I run my own Internet Marketing company from home which pays all my bills and I am able to go on holiday every 2 or 3 months or so. So hereกs an artice which hopefully will teach you something new and guide you through the first step… which is by far the hardest and get you off to a good start. So why not check out my latest amazing find below.

http://tinyurl.com/dt4rb

Regards and good luck.

Ryan Blake.

This article was posted on September 12

by Ryan Blake

7 Things You Must Do If You Want To Increase Your

7 Things You Must Do If You Want To Increase Your Traffic

by: Jo Han Mok

Gary Halbert once said that the ONLY advantage he wanted when it came to selling burgers was not a better sauce, or better grade of beef, but a STARVING CROWD.

Itกs a simple concept, but not many people get it.

#1. Find and Know Your Starving Crowd

You can have the greatest product in the world, but still sell squat if no one wants to buy your product. Who are your potential buyers? Do you know them like the back of your hand? KNOW your buyers. Head down to http://www.Overture.com, type in your keywords and take furious notes!

#2. Power Position Yourself

Understand that people online are looking for information. They don’t want information from just anyone. They want good, solid information from people who have been there, done that. If you can provide valuable advice to your prospects, you can be sure that theyกll begin to trust you and develop a RELATIONSHIP with you. And just how do you position yourself as an expert? Easy, Become one.

Once you develop a reputation as an expert, the traffic will come in flocks. People NEED help. Help from experts. Are you an expert? : )

#3. Create an Epidemic

Imagine this. What if you could get a super salesman to spend 24 hours everyday, 7 days every week, 52 weeks every year, for the rest of your life… a salesman who never gets sick or tired and all he does is direct hordes and hordes of targeted traffic to your site?

Don’t even try to estimate the astounding value someone like this would bring to your business.

It is possible, and itกs called viral marketing. Itกs the most powerful concept on the Internet. Many have tried using it and many have failed miserably.

People have this misconception that as long as they have an ebook that is กbrandableก, it constitutes a viral marketing campaign.

They are dead wrong.

#4. Steal Traffic from Someone Else

Got you. Of course, there are ethical ways to do that. The most powerful way, is through a JV or Joint Venture. A JV does not mean shooting an email to someone in your field of high repute saying กHey, wanna do business with me?ก

You’re in for a big disappointment if you think thatกs gonna work. Your potential JV partner is a human as well, and chances are, he/she is a SOMEBODY in your field. So make your JV proposal as benefit laden, and กhands freeก for your potential partner as possible. Recognize your JV partnerกs accomplishments, be generous with your praise and above all, be sincere.

But never be afraid to ASK. If you don’t ASK, you will never GET.

#5. Become A Marketing PI

Hereกs Industrial Espionage 101. The magic word?

Forums.

Forums will show you exactly what your target market is unhappy about and the problems they have. Lurk around forums. LISTEN. Forget about YOUR problems and listen to other peopleกs problems. Solve those problems. I guarantee youกll become rich. Zig Ziglar said, the way to achieve success is to help others get what they want.

#6. Expired Domains Do More Than Expire

You can always use expired domain names as a great source of traffic. Search the expired domain databases, look on EBay. Some web hosts now allow multiple domains to park on a single account. Take advantage of that.

#7. Transform Words into Traffic

Articles are the best ‘traffic Machinesก that work for ANYONE no matter what product, service, or information they’re selling.

You get 100% targeted traffic, FREE! And, they position you as an expert, and improve your link popularity. Plus, articles are really easy to write as well.

If you have never written an article, go try writing one NOW!

All 7 steps above seem really easy. Itกs one thing to read and go กahhก and another thing to read those steps and actually take solid action. Nothing will happen until you take action. No action equals no traffic, equals no sales, equals no money to pay the rent.

Copyright 2004 Jo Han Mok

About The Author

Jo Han Mok is a frequent guest and featured speaker at Internet Marketing bootcamps and conferences on subjects such as copywriting and Joint Venture Marketing. Find out how Jo Hanกs latest web tool can help you get laser targeted traffic in the next 7 minutes!

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This article was posted on March 14, 2004

by Jo Han Mok

Have You Ever Had a JV Deal Go Belly Up And Wasted

Have You Ever Had a JV Deal Go Belly Up And Wasted Valuable Time?

by: Ryan Blake

Have you ever had a JV deal go belly up and wasted valuable time?

Doing a JV deal is one of the best ways to make a huge list Of subscribers if it is approached in the right way.

Iกm pretty sure you know by now that building a list of subscribers is one of the MOST important parts of your online business if you want to make any real money.

If you don’t know that, let me remind you that the MONEY is in your LIST thatกs why your credibility and relationship with your subscribers is vital

Most JV deals that go sour do so because of a few factors, First of all you don’t monitor your partners and things aren’t Synchronized and well, timing is vital to make any JV campaign A success.

Here are the most common Mistakes made in most JV deals:

1. Not setting up the email subscription script correctly.

Sometimes, when you hired a programmer to write the subscription form so that each subscriber will be subscribed to your JV partnerกs list, thereกs a bug and the subscription was not successful.

To make sure that your subscription works perfectly, get professionals to do it for you or you can use Mike Steupกs useful software. I recommend it rather than hiring a programmer at ANY TIME. Iกve used the software and it proved to be very useful and userfriendly.

2. Not tracking your coregistration campaign

If you do not track, how will you know that your JV partners did in fact announce the promotion to their list?

Sometimes, itกs not their intention of not helping out with the promotion, but forgot to announce it due to their busy schedule. So if you did track, youกll be able to remind them that they have not done it yet. Itกs not fair if 9 of the 10 JV partners are helping out but the other one is not putting in any effort and getting his/her list built for free.

In conclusion, youกll need to plan and coordinate precisely to create a successful campaign. No doubt itกs a lot of work, but isn’t it worth the effort when you can build a list of targeted subscribers quickly without spending a single cent for advertising?

Well I hope this article will help you in the future and You make many successful JV deals in the future.

One thing I find extremely helpful in finding the latest Cutting edge Internet Marketing information is a website Called the Affiliate Classroom it contains many resources Which cover all aspects in extreme detail. Hereกs a link to join their highly informative FREE newsletter: http://tinyurl.com/dt4rb

To your future success.

Regards.

Ryan Blake.

About The Author

My name is Ryan Blake and I run my own Internet Marketing company from home which pays all my bills and I am able to go on holiday every 2 or 3 months or so. So hereกs an artice which hopefully will teach you something new and guide you through the first step… which is by far the hardest and get you off to a good start. So why not check out my latest amazing find below.

http://tinyurl.com/dt4rb

Regards and good luck.

Ryan Blake.

This article was posted on September 12

by Ryan Blake

My Website Needed More Targeted Traffic. Guess Whe

My Website Needed More Targeted Traffic. Guess Where I Found It?

by: Brian McGregor

There’s nothing new about using joint ventures to get traffic to websites. And good information is freely available from many internet marketing sites on how to set up JVs.

This article is for the 97% of webmasters who aren’t aware of a particularly powerful JV partner who already exists, and is willing to work with you.

Before I reveal all, let me just check…..

Like me, I would image you’d be happy if:

Your JV partner’s site gets huge traffic.

The vast majority of page views are by targeted traffic.

You can create links wherever YOU like from their site.

You can start now. There’s no delay in setting up the JV.

The JV continues as long as you want.

It costs you pennies to set up and run.

Does that sound like it’s what you’re looking for in a JV?

If so, welcome to eBay. You’re new joint venture partner.

But I Thought….

ขeBay?ข I hear you ask, ขIsn’t eBay just an auction site?ข

Well, it certainly started as an auction site. Today, eBay is an ecommerce phenomenon.

eBay’s 1.5 billion page views puts it in sixth place on Alexa traffic rankings. Ahead of Amazon, AOL and CNN.

eBay members make 79 million targeted searches for items each day.

There are 35,000 categories within which to place items for sale.

There are eBay auction sites in 27 countries.

eBay has 125 million registered users.

40,000 new members join eBay each day.

What we have here is a hugely successful internet business with massive traffic. And, thanks to eBay’s sophisticated categorization and searching mechanisms, the traffic is totally targeted.

More importantly, there are several smart ways to drive eBay’s targeted traffic to your own website. All of these clever methods add up to what I call the eBay Traffic Funnel.

Does it work? Well, I sell a communications product from my website. I run 5 simple auctions in the appropriate categories using the principles of the eBay Traffic Funnel. Each auction costs me 30 cents and runs for a week. I get around 300 targeted leads from these auctions to my website every week. Not bad for one dollar fifty!

Let me show you just one of the ways to get hold of that targeted traffic…

Sell, Sell, Sell

First of all, you make eBay part of your marketing mix. You start selling your products on eBay.

Why do I say this? Well, eBay isn’t just for mom and pop businesses anymore. IBM, Disney, Motorola, Xerox and Dell, are just a few of the major corporates that now use eBay as an additional sales and lead generation channel.

Creating eBay auctions is easy. Anyone can do it – literally. But if you don’t want to learn, you can use a Trading Assistant. These are eBay experts who will create, run and manage auctions on behalf of others for a percentage of sales or a small fee.

When you set up your auction one of the decisions you make is in which category to place your item. This is important. Visitors to your auction page – just by being there – have self qualified themselves as being in the market to buy products in that category. This is targeting in real time.

But merely creating the auction isn’t the trick. Here’s the key tip. In your auction page, make sure you tell your viewers that if they’ve any questions about your auction, your products or your policies, they should email you. And encourage them to do this by having a live email link in your auction, like this one [email protected]

As soon as they make contact with you, you’ve acquired a targeted lead you wouldn’t have got any other way. You can start building a relationship. You can get them on your list, direct them to your website and start selling to them.

Pieces of Eight

I’ve only the space to show you one way in which you can direct your share of eBay’s targeted traffic to your website. There are eight ways in total. If you want to know the other seven, you’ll find them in my free ebook ‘The eBay Traffic Funnel’.

Setting up a JV with eBay can produce significant results. There isn’t another business on the web that gives you access to the targeted traffic eBay supplies for the price of a few pennies. Best of all, 97% of webmasters have yet to realize the power of this.

The opportunity for you and your website is there for the taking.

About The Author

Brian McGregor specializes in showing website owners how to make more money from their sites by applying inventive and original use of eBay. For a free copy of ‘The eBay Traffic Funnel’ which shows how to use the power of eBay to make more money with your website, visit http://www.moreauctionsales.com/websites

[email protected]

This article was posted on December 09, 2004

by Brian McGregor