Joint Ventures - The Easiest List Building Strategy, Bar None!

Okay, others will tell you that buying lists is the easiest way to build a list, but I will tell you from experience, it's headache and, it's wasted money.

Sure some of the top Internet Marketer's used this strategy in days gone by, but if you try to import these names into Aweber, 1Shopping Cart or any of the other online subscription databases there will be trouble and from experience, these lists are unresponsive.  In other words, they're likely to buy nothing from you and they could even report you for spamming them!

So what if you are about to launch a product and you don't
have a list and want to generate some cash fast.

I was personally in this situation last year. 

I set up a membership site showing people how to set up and sell their products and services with their blog and whilst I did have a list, it wasn't very big so, I decided I had to make the best choice that would a) get people to my site fast and b) build my list in the process …

Joint Venture Marketing!

I had heard Internet Marketers talking about Joint Ventures and how great it was for co creating or promoting a new or relaunched product, but you know what I thought … 

Who would want to partner with me?  And why would any of the top Internet Marketers want to promote my product to their list anyway?

WRONG QUESTIONS!

The question I should have been asking was "how can I get joint venture partners to work with me."

And, thanks to Marc Goldman, Shawn Casey and Marlon Sanders who explained in laymans terms (simple enough for me to understand!) that partnering with even the best online marketer began only with "knowing how to approach a prospective joint venture partner," I soon lost that fear of approaching people to become an affiliate or Joint Venture parther on the grounds that I wasn't good enough.

After all, I believed in my product and so the question I had to ask is "why wouldn't they want to promote my program."

To cut a long story short, it was Christmas 2007 and I wanted to promote my new site and generate some extra cash.  I didn't have much time to create YouTube videos, podcasts, articles, web PR (though I did use this very powerful method too) and so I contacted three potential Joint Venture partners and asked them whether they would be willing to promote my new membership site as an affiliate.

Just to give an example of one success, I sent an email about 2:00am in the morning to one of the top Internet Marketers online (I live in the UK for those of you who may not be aware) and I woke up the next morning to all these emails that read … "you have a new subscriber …" 

You have no idea what confidence that gave me, but in that day alone, and from just one joint venture letter that I sent out and one short email giving some information about my product, I raised around $800 (about £400 UK pounds). 

Not too shabby in my view considering this prospect had no idea the email was coming and, barely knew me.

If you want to learn how to do successful joint ventures though, I'm really not the person to learn from! :-)  I only did what I was instructed to do!  But, if you want to learn for FREE from the guy who started the buzz around joint venture marketing, then I highly recommend that head on over Joint Venture University and let Marc Goldman tell you how you can get access to his joint venture success secrets and like I said .. it's free although there is an upgrade option IF you want to take advantage of Marc's offer.

Don't turn your nose up at this free content though, just because it's free.  There is no skimping on content in the free members area and there certainly is enough in there for you to replicate what I did just a few months back.

When you've signed up for your free account, come back and report to me … really.  I want your feedback on what you think about the content at Joint Venture University.

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