There are three things you should NEVER do when creating a joint venture proposal for a potential partner. Below are three things NOT to do, with several tips to help you do it right.

1. Fail to Plan. Before you send out any emails to potential partners, you need to plan your offering, decide who you are going to send it to, and what you expect in return.

First, create your offer. Ask yourself these questions:

What am I going to give potential partner to make him/her want to joint venture with me? i.e. Are you going to give partner a copy of product, do you have bonuses available, what's commission you are paying, are you offering a large one time commission, or a recurring monthly commission?

My rule of thumb is to never offer less than 50 percent. What you want to do is make partner an offer that is not only fair, but more beneficial up front for him/her than it is for you.

Once you know what your offer is, you want to create solo ads, a review, or something that partner can plug his/her information into so that you have something to give him/her when you make offer.

Include affiliate sign up link, and make it as easy as possible to sign up. Also include link to product, as well as tell partner how to get download, membership, or whatever you are selling.

The point is, make it easy. My joint venture partners are busy people. They don't have time to write ads for me, or spend a lot of time getting prepared. They need something they can set up in a few minutes, send it out, and move on. Remember, your potential partners are probably same.

There are tons of free traffic generators you can use to build traffic to your site. Some are better than others, but before you go signing up for 50 accounts, let me give you a couple of tips, as well as seven sites I think do job better in getting you traffic and sales you want.

My joint venture partner, Steven Boaze, http://www.boazepublishing.biz, gave me this one:

BUILD YOUR LIST. Everything traffic generation method you use should be geared toward building your list. It's far easier, and a lot more profitable, to market to a list of receptive customers than it is strangers.

Give before you get. If you want to get people to your site, don't shove a sales pitch down their throats. Offer them a valuable freebie to say thank you for visiting your site.

Although there are plenty of freebies out there, I think it's best to make your own, whether it's an ecourse, ebook, or report. Just give your visitor something useful and capture that email.

Below is my list of best ones I use. (They are in no particular order).

http://www.10khits4u.com - This site offers a newsletter, as well as an ecourse to teach you how to make most of free traffic generators. Work smarter, and not harder on your traffic generating efforts, and you'll see more traffic and sales. This site will help you do that.

http://www.traffichoopla.com - Want a great start page rotator, as well as a selection of best safelists and traffic generating pages, look no further. They offer a terrific, and inexpensive upgrade, which will tell you results they get with each program they test.