Stealing affiliate sales has become "silent" Internet crime, stealing sales and products from honest guy (or gal) who is trying to grow an Internet business.

I did not think that this crime would affect me, until I noticed that there were 3 times as many downloads of my ebook than there were actual sales. That was a wakeup call that I needed to correct problem or risk losing hundreds of dollars.

The problem was that within my purchase page HTML, download page URL that purchaser would be directed to was posted in HTML script like a sitting duck, saying "Why pay when you can download for free". From HTML text anyone could copy download page URL into their browser and download my product without making a purchase.

Well, this was not good news.

So, I quickly located a program that would mask my download page URL. There are a number of these programs available online, simply go to a search engine and type in "link cloaker" or "affiliate link cloaker". The programs are really very similar. You type in URL that you want to mask.

example:

http//www.myaffiliate.com?ID2345

and program generates a cryptic single line of numbers and letters, which you put into HTML script to replace easy to read URL

example:

The download page URL is now masked and much more difficult for thieves to steal my product.

In fact, some marketers have told me that if they could only utilize one marketing strategy it would be joint ventures fullstop.

If you have got a product or service to promote you know joint ventures are essential to your business. Joint ventures are when two or more people work on same project. The most lucrative way to benefit from joint ventures is to let other people sell your product or service and share profits with you. Some examples of cross promotions would be exchanging popups and testimonials.

In my online experience recently I have noticed that some forms of ezine advertising did not pull results that would have been expected. If you are also spending hard earned money on ezine advertising there is a better and easier way.

An example of a joint venture unrelated to internet marketing would be a gym coming together with a company that produces body building supplements.

Joe Vitale made $25,000 from joint ventures from just one email.

So if you want to explore more fully lucrative world of joint venture marketing how do you go about finding joint venture partners?