Marketing: Joint Ventures: Your Path to Success

Joint Ventures: Your Path to Success

Written by Jack Humphrey

Have you ever wondered how Corey Rudl, Allen Says, Jerome Chapman, and other big time online marketers got where they are today? Did you think they did it all by themselves? Wrong.

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Let's take this a step further and say you are offering hosting services and want to find a JV partner who can help you find customers. One great place to look is on internet marketing and web design forums. You will find tons of people with a client base to whom hosting is a central, crucial issue in their individual business development and success.

By participating in these forums you can make friends with designers who constantly look for hosting services to provide their clients with top-notch services geared toward each individual businesses needs. You are providing what that designer needs to offer his clients and you propose a JV. This can include ANYTHING like a cut of repparttar 120579 monthly hosting fee for all repparttar 120580 clients he/she refers to you. When you find repparttar 120581 right person to help you promote your product, and if you participate in forums you WILL, your business can literally take off over night.

I found an incredible partner for my info product "Power Linking Your Way to 1 Million Hits" on repparttar 120582 Internet Marketing Warriors forum. I created a one-of-a-kind product that he saw great potential in, and he provided a contact list for further JVs that rivals any contact list on repparttar 120583 net today. And he himself is a relative no-name on repparttar 120584 net compared to repparttar 120585 contacts he has.

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BREAKING THE VOICE MAIL BARRIER

Written by C.J.Hayden, MCC

Even if you never place a cold call, you still have to reach people by phone. That customer who was so interested last month never called you back, and now you must call her. You call once, twice, three times, but you can't get her in person. How can you manage to close a sale if all you ever get is voice mail? Doing business in repparttar

age of voice mail can be extremely frustrating. While it is true that some people leave their voice mail on all repparttar 120572

time, you can sometimes get through by calling off hours. Try calling before 8:30 or after 5:30. You may also find people at their desks during repparttar 120573

lunch hour. So should you keep calling or leave a message? Actually, you should do both. Assume that most people won't call you back, so just keep right on calling them. Josiane Feigon, principal of repparttar 120574

telesales training and coaching company, Telesmart Communications (www.tele-smart.com), suggests that you try pressing "0" or "0"# to transfer to repparttar 120575

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same job position, and find out when they are expected to be in. Whether you reach your prospects or not, never make them wrong for not returning your calls. Rather than saying, "I haven't heard from you," let them know you are eager to speak with them, and wanted to try again while you were in your office. Feigon recommends, "As a rule, try not to leave any more than three voice mail messages over a 10-day period of time and then lay off for a month." Speaker and trainer Melinda Henning of Doing Business by Phone (www.melindahenning.com) says that repparttar 120578

way to deal with voice mail is to use it as an advertising medium. In other words, leave a voice mail commercial. Especially if you are cold calling, Melinda suggests that you compose a series of different commercials, each one revealing some new and interesting fact about your business, and another reason for someone to speak with you.

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