On my way here I came across a guy from the UK Aaron Darko from http://www.Millionaireat24.com who won Yanik’s Young Entreprenuer Scholarship Program this year and was fascinated to hear the techniques he used to get to know the speakers.

So, I asked Aaron to share his top 10 tips on ‘How To Network With Speakers At Seminars’.

Many of us think that we are good communicators. But put us in a totally new, unkown environment and we curl up in our shell like turtles! The best way to grow is to get around new things, new people, new experiences etc.

So knowing how to network effectively is key. If you don’t already; GO TO SEMINARS! That’s where all the like minded people are and you will get great ideas just by interacting with different people.

Tony Robbins said

“The only way to change your life is to get around new voices”

1) Prepare in advance – look at the speakers list and target the ones you want to speak to.

2) Dress appropriately – Wear smart casual clothing or even a suit – dont wear a tracksuit or any blatent sportswear! Keep it cool!

3) After each speaker has spoken go to the back and speak with them – this is important as you are introducing yourself straight away.

Ask them intelligent questions.

Say ‘Hi my name is ___ and I currently _____ (say what you do – online or offline) I enjoyed your presentation ….then ask them an intelligent question

4) Go and talk to speakers during breaks – Here you are basically befriending them now – you’ve ideally already spoke to them after they spoke and now you’re just getting to know them more by asking them questions like how their life is, what they do in their spare time etc etc.

5) Get Photos with speakers – Really important. Why? Because if you dont, think about if you will be remembered! In the email you’ll say ‘hi my names Bob from the seminar was great talking with you’ And the speaker is thinking ‘Who The Hell Is Bob!’

However if you take a picture with them and attach it when you email them they are more likely to remember you. This is what I do with all of them like Mark Anastasi.

6) Make them laugh – laughter is the lubricant that enables people to take in information better. So be humorous! After all they are just like you! Just that they know a bit more than you!

7) Be yourself – don’t make out to be someone you’re not because honestly there’s no point.

Be confident – confidence is what makes this whole networking experience. If you don’t have the confidence to go up there and introduce yourself you are just wasting great opportunities. Summon the confidence to put these tips to use!

9) Make sure you listen closely – this is so so important. Listen closely to every word, when they are finished pause before you answer. If you are unlcear about something then ask ‘how do you mean’ this then gives them the opportunity to clarify any points you misunderstood.

10) Keep In Touch after the event – You HAVE to keep in touch otherwise the work you just did to build the relationship was pointless. Its not easy to remember to keep in touch but its a good habit you need to develop. I’m still trying to get good at it, its an ongoing learning process. Typically 3 days after the seminar up to a week you want to contact the speaker with your photo and see how they are.

Thats all! Now you can go network like crazy!

Hope you enjoyed these tips from my friend Aaron Darko

Remember to get out there and go to seminars – you meet some great people

The good news is, now there is a quicker and easier way to learn how to put together and profit from Joint Ventures through The JV University’s 12 week hands-on certified JV consultant’s training program where me, Willie Crawford, David Preston and Gina Gaudio-Graves hold your hand and even let you work on LIVE projects while you are being trained.

For more information on our 12 week certified hands-on program (hurry, next class starts March 3rd 2010) please click the link below:

http://www.thejvuniversity.com/sohail

To Your Abundant Joint Venture Success!

Sohail Khan (the “7 Figure JV Expert”)

President & Co-Founder, The JV University

For a free audio on the ‘Power Of Joint Ventures’ or to get your free ‘7 Figure JV Consulting’ report visit http://www.thejvuniversity.co.uk

You see many Solo Entrepreneurs work from a home office. Their only connections to the outside world are the internet / e-mail and the telephone. Cold calling, “warm” calling and sending e-mails may seem like the most obvious way to let people know about them and to generate sales. But, there’s another way that works even better.

An alliance is usually an agreement between two businesses whose services or products compliment each other. Each agrees to recommend the other’s services to their respective clients and to pay a percentage to the other if the referral results in paying work.

Let’s say you’re a marketing expert, but you don’t do public relations. However, sometimes your clients require public relations as part of their marketing strategy. You meet with several public relations experts who specialize in different fields, but who don’t offer your type of marketing services, and you form 3 alliances. A 10% commission is what you agree on for mutual referrals that result in work. Now, both you and your alliance partners are more “full service” providers.

You can offer PR services to your clients and your partners can offer marketing services to theirs through you. In addition you could add them as “partners” on your website, giving your company the advantage and versatility of an expert team. It’s a win – win situation.

A joint venture is formed when you not only have an alliance but you come up with a strategy to find customers together. Suppose you make custom window treatments. You decide to speak to a local fabric shop that specializes in upholstery and window fabric.

If you could be their exclusive referral for customers that need someone to make their fabric into beautiful draperies, and you are willing to pay them a commission for each referral, what happens? They can say they now offer a new value-added service to their customers, which may mean a customer chooses their store above another. You have a steady source of customers. You may even get them to display some of your draperies made with their fabric in your store.

They agree to allow you to advertise in their store, perhaps even offer a workshop, and you’ll recommend them exclusively to your clients. You may even advertise together. The possibilities are limitless.

There are numerous ways to put together alliances and joint ventures. Thinking outside the box and being clear about what benefits both parties would receive are essential. As always, getting the agreement in writing is a good idea, as is being sure the person you’re dealing with is honorable and reliable.

And try to discover ALL the alliance possibilities that exist for your business. Our custom window treatment business owner above could also contact interior designers, furniture stores, residential real estate agents, home builders sales offices and even paint stores. So, what are you waiting for? Start today by:

– Making a list of at least 5 prospective alliance partners.

– Making a list of 5 ways the alliance would benefit them and you.

– Making a list of 5 ways you could implement the alliance. start making contact!

One Final Note – some people have asked whether or not to disclose the partnership to the client. Sometimes it’s obvious that you are referring a client to your alliance partner, as in the case of the drapery maker and the fabric store. If it’s not so apparent, you may want to simply inform your client that you will be working with your alliance partner who is an expert in their field.

For the sake of consistency, how much to explain to a client is something that you and your partner should agree upon up front.

The good news is, now there is a quicker and easier way to learn how to put together and profit from Joint Ventures through The JV University’s 12 week hands-on certified JV consultant’s training program where me, Willie Crawford, David Preston and Gina Gaudio-Graves hold your hand and even let you work on LIVE projects while you are being trained.

For more information on our 12 week certified hands-on program (hurry, next class starts March 3rd 2010) please click the link below:

http://www.thejvuniversity.com/sohail

To Your Abundant Joint Venture Success!

Sohail Khan (the “7 Figure JV Expert”)

President & Co-Founder, The JV University

For a free audio on the ‘Power Of Joint Ventures’ or to get your free ‘7 Figure JV Consulting’ report visit http://www.thejvuniversity.co.uk

Now compare this with someone who I had the pleasure of meeting at his $25 Million waterfront mansion in Jupiter, Florida while I was in the US. That person’s name is John Osher – Licensing Legend and creator of the ‘Spin Pop’ and ‘Spin Brush’ which he licensed and sold to Proctor and Gamble for $475 Million!

So how did I meet this guy?

I was spending time with a fellow JV Broker in Tampa and we decided to take a trip to Miami to see my friend Marc Goldman, unfortunately Marc and his wife were out of the country for the holdays so on our way back from Miami my friend mentioned that I should meet a guy called John Osher in Jupiter.

Apparently, my friend invited John to speak at his school many years ago after reading an article about him in Inc magazine and he graciously accepted the invitation. Now this was many years ago and I was pleasantly surprised when my friend called John and he remembered. So John asked what we were upto and as we were so close to his home he invited us to meet him.

So we pulled up to this private country club estate and the security guard opened these enormous gates as we drove up to the never-ending driveway. Having arrived at a truly magnificent mansion overlooking the waterfront we walked up to the front door and rang the bell.

Now for most of you who know my story of making millions just using joint ventures and then losing millions and eventually working my way back from one 7 figure licensing jv deal can guess that I was very excited to be meeting someone who did a 9 figure licensing deal!

John invited us into his beautiful home and to his private office (which looked like a command centre at NASA), the first question John asked was, ‘So what deal do you have for me to look at’… If only I did have a deal ready to show but after having a great conversation and picking his brains I promised John that If I came across the ‘BIG’ one again I would reserve it just for him!

So how did he do it?

I want to first make clear that John’s story is FAR from the typical entrepreneur’s experience. But it’s relevant nonetheless because many of the skills he used to bring his product to market, despite having sophisticated design teams, established contacts, and sufficient funds, are the same ones you must master.

John knew the potential market for such a product was enormous – every sex, race, religion, creed brushed their teeth, right? But because the retail price of electric toothbrushes between seventy and eighty dollars, the product simply wasn’t affordable.

But John had the technology to create a new electric toothbrush – he would apply the same technique utilized by the inexpensive toy candy twirler to a toothbrush.

It’s a good thing he didn’t give up. John has enjoyed the type of lucrative success most people can’t even comprehend. And most of it is due to his persistence in demonstrating that the Spin Brush was a desirable product.

John performed market tests in Meyers stores in Michigan and Ohio – the Spin Brush sold about seven per day. The leading electrical toothbrush at the time sold two a week, he also ran tests with consumers directly. The brush received the highest customer satisfaction and support, ever. It was this specific type of evidence that eventually led John to sign with Proctor and Gamble.

Below are some lessons learned from John Osher:

Notes:

• Must set price right
• Spent 6 years after undergrad as a carpenter. He said he learned a lot about how things work.
• Invented the Baby Gym and eventually sold it to Gerber and became VP of Nothing
• Left Gerber to start a toy company.
• At one point he got stuck with too much inventory and investors wanted out. He went through hell and ended up getting a divorce. After 6 months of being on his knees, things turned around. The company wasn’t a huge success, but he wouldn’t say it was a failure either.
• With most of his companies, he had critical times that required hard decisions.
• Created interactive candy.
• Eventually sold the toy company to Hasbro and became VP of Nothing.
• Left Hasbro and retired for a year.
• Got together and formed a joint venture with a bunch of inventor friends and thought up things that people use every day. They came up with a list of 100 things.
• As an entrepreneur, you have to keep things simple. What is your breakeven? How much do you have to sell to make a 15% profit? ALL entrepreneurs should know the basic financials inside out.
• He has several more ideas in the pot and a few consumer products coming out soon (disposable electric razor?)

The good news is, now there is a quicker and easier way to learn how to put together and profit from Joint Ventures through The JV University’s 12 week hands-on certified JV consultant’s training program where me, Willie Crawford, David Preston and Gina Gaudio-Graves hold your hand and even let you work on LIVE projects while you are being trained.

For more information on our 12 week certified hands-on program (hurry, next class starts Feb 17th) please click the link below:

http://www.jointventureconsultingcertification.com

To Your Abundant Joint Venture Success!

Sohail Khan (the “7 Figure JV Expert”)

President & Co-Founder, The JV University

For a free audio on the ‘Power Of Joint Ventures’ or to get your free ‘7 Figure JV Consulting’ report visit http://www.thejvuniversity.co.uk

Day 1
Open a blank text document and go to your favorite search engine and type in keywords relating to the product or service you are promoting. Quickly visit sites that relate to your product or service and take down names and e-mail addresses of sites that look like profitable JV partners until you have 15. That’s it for today!

Day 2
Open your document and do the same thing today as yesterday except use a different search engine and different keywords to find 15 more potential JV partners. That’s it for today!

Day 3
Write up an excellent Joint Venture proposal to send out by e-mail. You can get a free JV Letter template at my site http://www.thejvuniversity.co.uk/resources.htm that you can use for free that is very effective. Just add in the parts that ask for your information and you’re set! Get your JV Proposal edited with all of your information and save it into a text document. That’s it for today!

Day 4
Today is pretty easy. Analyze your costs and offer the highest percentage you can to your potential JV prospects. I recommend 55%-70%, this sounds like a lot but these JV partners will be doing all the work so this is money you never would have seen and with no additional work for you!

Also offer a free copy of your product upon request. Don’t send it out with the initial proposal, make them raise their hand and say “Yes! I’m Interested!”. Take the next few minutes to go over your letter and make it as appealing as possible to the potential JV partner. That’s it for today!

Day 5
Open your e-mail program and paste the JV proposal you now have perfected into the body. Insert a headline such as “Paul – A Joint Venture Opportunity For Your Consideration” into the subject line. Always personalize the subject line and opening line such as “Dear Paul”.

This shows you didn’t just load everyone into a mass mailer and blast an ad out. Now open your Joint Venture prospect database and plug in the name and e-mail address of your fist prospect into the e-mail. Repeat the above procedure until you’ve sent to your database of 30 prospects. That’s it for today!

Day 6
Today you should start receiving requests for the free copy of the product you offered in your initial proposal. Send it to your prospect right away and thank them for their consideration of your offer. You may also get requests for links to promote your product today depending on the eagerness of your prospects to get started.

Day 7
Today just keep sending the product and affiliate links out as requested and you’ll have yourself a powerful sales-force promoting your product while you sit back and watch the orders come in!

The good news is, now there is a quicker and easier way to learn how to put together and profit from Joint Ventures through The JV University’s 12 week hands-on certified JV consultant’s training program where me, Willie Crawford, David Preston and Gina Gaudio-Graves hold your hand and even let you work on LIVE projects while you are being trained.

For more information on our 12 week certified hands-on program (hurry, next class starts soon) please click the link below:

http://www.thejvuniversity.com/sohail

To Your Abundant Joint Venture Success!

Sohail Khan (the “Million Dollar JV Consultant”)

President & Co-Founder, The JV University

For a free audio on the ‘Power Of Joint Ventures’ or to get your free ‘JV Consulting’ report visit http://www.thejvuniversity.co.uk

The book is called Influence and written by Robert Cialdini, in the book Cialdini talks about how the Power Of Reciprocity possesses awesome strength, often producing a “yes” response to a request that, except for an existing feeling of indebtedness, would have surely been refused.

The rule of reciprocity says that we should try to repay, in kind, what another person has provided us. If a woman does us a favour, we should do her one in return, if a man sends us a birthday present, we should remember his birthday with a gift of our own; if a couple invites us to  party, we should be sure to invite them to one of ours.

So how does this apply to Joint Ventures?

Today at our JV workshop I came across a guy called Robby Le Blanc – Joint Venture Manager for Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup For The Soul books). Robby did something quite interesting, he shook my hand and starting asking me questions about what i do and what I needed help with in my business.

He then took out his ‘Rolodex’ and starting giving me names of people I should contact, these were names such as Jay Abraham, Bill Walsh, Tom Beal, Robert Allen etc I automatically asked him how I could repay the favour and he smiled and said, ‘Sohail, I’m sure you will be able to help me sometime in the near future, let’s keep in touch’.

I now feel obliged to keep my eyes and ears open so ANY opportunity I get to help him gets found and presented.

True Joint Venture Consultants know how to use the rule of reciprocity and the power it holds as when an individual seeks out the JV Consultant to repay the favour, who is in control now?

I myself use the strategy of, ‘GIVE FIRST, ASK LATER’ and it has put me in touch with some of the biggest names in marketing who now are part of my network where I can turn to if I need help etc

So, how do you learn more about the power of reciprocity and joint ventures?

The good news is, now there is a quicker and easier way to learn how to put together and profit from Joint Ventures through The JV University’s 12 week hands-on certified JV consultant’s training program where me, Willie Crawford, David Preston and Gina Gaudio-Graves hold your hand and even let you work on LIVE projects while you are being trained.

For more information on our 12 week certified hands-on program (hurry, next class starts soon) please click the link below:

http://www.thejvuniversity.com/sohail

To Your Abundant Joint Venture Success!

Sohail Khan (the “Million Dollar JV Consultant”)

President & Co-Founder, The JV University

For a free audio on the ‘Power Of Joint Ventures’ visit http://www.thejvuniversity.co.uk

Having the right Joint Venture Mindset is the most important element of doing JV’s. Without it, you’ll find doing JV’s frustrating. With it, you’ll enjoy the process and the fruits of your labor.

Mindset is very important in this business. If you don’t have the mindset of success, then you’re destined to fail. Therefore you need to understand the Law of Attraction, and utilize it to enable your mind, body and spirit to work in harmony for attracting and manifesting your desires and goals.

Everyone is capable of success if they put their mind to it, believe in themselves and take action to make it happen – even YOU! The Law of Attraction, when properly utilized, helps enable you with the proper mindset and strategies you desire.

Visualization is probably the best means of manifesting something specific using the Law of Attraction. In general however, you may wish to generate a type of energy around yourself to continually be attracting certain energies that will serve you. For example, using affirmations can be very effective.

If you want to attract the energy of opportunity, then you could use an affirmation such as “I am the right person, in the right place, at the right time, doing the right things, with the right people!” This is a great affirmation for manifesting beneficial joint ventures and joint venture partners.

If you want to attract million dollar joint venture opportunities specifically, you could use an affirmation such as “I am aware of and open to unlimited million dollar joint venture opportunities, I am involved in the best ‘high-level’ joint venture opportunities”.

When you start doing deals, it is vitally important you start seeing yourself as someone who is on a mission to add value. You want to help others. You know exactly what your partners need. You know full well what would be of benefit to their clients and you make it happen.

If you want them to feel something, you must feel it on a very deep level first. If you want them to see you as an expert, you must first see yourself as an expert. If you live it, breathe it, and project it, doors will open and you will start seeing impressive results!

The good news is, now there is a quicker and easier way to learn how to put together and profit from Joint Ventures through The JV University’s 12 week hands-on certified JV consultant’s training program where me, Willie Crawford, David Preston and Gina Gaudio-Graves hold your hand and even let you work on LIVE projects while you are being trained.

For more information on our 12 week certified hands-on program (hurry, next class starts in December 2009) please click the link below:

http://www.thejvuniversity.com/sohail

To Your Abundant Joint Venture Success!

Sohail Khan (the “Million Dollar JV Consultant”)

President & Co-Founder, TheJVUniversity.com

BLOG POST BY WILLIE CRAWFORD – CO-FOUNDER OF THE JV UNIVERSITY

One of the biggest complaints that we hear from novice Internet
marketers is that they can’t compete with others in their niche
because they “have no list.”

One of the solutions frequently offered is to suggest that they
stop whining, and start building a list. Somewhat more
productive advice is to suggest that they join one of the free
list-building giveaways as a starting point.

Naturally, that brings us to the question of “are free
list-building giveaways” worth the trouble?”

Do they work?

Do they produce quality subscribers?

My personal answer is, “It depends.”

If you do it the way that 90% of people entering those free
giveaways do it, then I think that you’re hurting yourself
more than you’re helping.

I DO offer free items in select free giveaways. Just one of my
several autoresponder accounts with ProfitAutomation.com is
rapidly approaching a verifiable 200,000 subscribers. Many of
these subscribers did join my list(s) as a result of free giveaways.

So, why did I answer with “it depends” then?

First of all, you need to realize that contributing a gift
during one of these free giveaways is just the first step in a
long relationship-building process. Far too many people blow
it right from the start. They offer a free “gift” in these
events that they’d be insulted if someone offered to them.
They violated “Rule #1″.

Whatever you offer in one of these free giveaways, or any gift
that you offer to your customers for that matter, should be
something nice enough that you COULD sell it if you chose to.

Starting a relationship off by offering someone JUNK, as a bribe
to get them onto your list, leaves them with a bad first
impression of doing business with you. Offering an ANCIENT
product that you have resale rights to (along with 10,000
others), or that you purchased on Ebay for 99 cents, is plain
short-sighted.

To give you an idea of the quality of gift that I think that you
should offer, the most recent one that I contributed was a free
ebook entitled, ” How To Keep Digital Product Thieves From
Robbing You Blind.” I wrote this ebook from scratch, consulting
with several computer security and website experts in the
process, and then GAVE it away as an subscriber bonus. That
was an ebook that I researched, wrote, collaborated on, and
had some nice graphics designed for… all so that I could give
it away.

The second thing to consider is the quality of the giveaway
itself.

You need to get involved in events where the organizers cares
enough to really monitor the quality of the gifts contributed.

You do not want to be associated with a free list-building
giveaway that “feels desperate or amateurish.”

You also need to make sure that the organizer of the giveaway
REQUIRES joint venture partners (gift contributors) to all
promote the event. Ideally, those who are discovered not
promoting the event, usually by the fact that they have made
NO referrals, should be purged from the database of those
eligible to receive subscribers fairly early in the giveaway’s
timeline.

I’ve witnessed countless free giveaways where the majority of
contributors merely contributed an outdated product and then did
absolutely NO promotion. They planned on getting a free ride. A
promotion with lot of people doing that can, at best, have only
mediocre results.

Participating in free list-building giveaways CAN jump-start
your list-building. I know numerous online marketers who’ve
built lists into the thousands… and even tens of thousands
with most of their early list members being from free giveaways.

It does work. It can build you a targeted, responsive list if
you offer the right gifts, and if you select the right
giveaways. If you join the wrong ones, contribute JUNK, and
then wait for others to do all of the work, you’re in for a big
disappointment. In these type of events you do get exactly
what you give.

SO, If you would like to learn more about JV Giveaway’,
become a JV consultant and also be personally trained by me
and my team -  Gina Gaudio Graves (The JV Queen),
David Preston (The Legendary Consultant)
and Sohail Khan (The Million Dollar JV Dealmaker)
then I suggest you join our 12 week JV Certified Consultant’s
Program – next class starts in December!

For more information and a discount on our 12 week
certified hands-on program please click the link below:

http://www.thejvuniversity.com/willie

To Your Abundant Joint Venture Success!

Willie Crawford (the “Black Belt JV Broker”)

Co-Founder, TheJVUniversity.com

So, just for ALL of you below some more examples of tried and tested Joint Ventures!

OFFLINE Joint Ventures:

Below are some good examples of offline joint ventures:

Sarah sells Avon and her friend Amy owns a health spa for women. Their two products are both geared towards women, or better yet, the beauty of women. Amy and Sarah see a way to help each other out in their businesses. First Sarah leaves a number of monthly catalogues for her Avon business at Amy’s spa. She also provides Amy with samples of products that women who visit a health spa would be interested in.

Amy supplies Sarah with discount cards and Sarah gives each of her customers one of these discount cards that entitle them to a free visit and a discount off their first year of membership. Both women find that business has vastly increased and both are happy with the arrangement. As a JV broker can you find two complimentary businesses like this and set it all up?

Robert is a JV broker/consultant and approaches 25 different businesses to get each one to offer him a sample or taste of their business to give away. For example, business 1 is an accountant who gives Robert a coupon for a free consultation worth $200. Business 2 offers samples of its products worth $50 and business 3 offers a free single room carpet cleaning coupon. These valuable coupons and samples come with the understanding that, if the sample of free consultation or service results in business, Robert gets paid an ongoing commission on ALL resulting business for a certain period of time. Robert is now armed with hundreds and even thousands of dollars worth of coupons, gift certificates and samples that didn’t cost him anything.

Robert now approaches different businesses and tells them that if they gave him a list of inactive customers and he had a proven way to ethically bribe them and entice them back to reactivate these customers with his Welcome Home package worth hundreds of dollars along with a proven scripted marketing approach would the businesses be prepared to pay him a percentage of the ongoing business, which they wouldn’t have had, over the last one or two years? Not only does Robert get a percentage of the reactivated customers but also a percentage of the sales from ALL the businesses providing the coupons!

Carol owns a flower shop, but her customers often ask for specialty gift baskets. She doesn’t personally know anyone who does gift baskets and decides that this is not something she wants to take on herself.  She needs someone who can do beautiful specialty gift baskets. She does know someone who has done JV deals in the past, so she contacts them and gets the name of their JV broker. Carol contacts the broker and tells the broker what she needs. She needs to be able to supply her customers with gift baskets when they request them. She expects, of course, to keep some of the proceeds from the sale of the gift basket herself. The broker contacts gift basket makers in Carol’s area and finds one that agrees to work with Carol.

Now, when one of Carol’s customers asks if hey do gift baskets she can tell them yes. She takes the order, contacts the gift basket maker, has her delivery person pick the basket up and then has it delivered to the recipient. The gift basket maker is then paid monthly for all gift baskets that have been done for Carol’s customers and Carol makes a profit as well. The JV broker gets paid their agreed percentage of the sales as well – everyone is happy.

ONLINE Joint Ventures:

Below are some good examples of online joint ventures:

Albert has an e-book about arthritis and how it affects an afflicted person’s daily life. Steve, who sells a herbal remedy for arthritis is found and contacted by Albert for a review of the e-book and a testimonial. Steve reads the book and sees that his product ties in nicely with the content of the book. He talks with Albert about a joint venture deal.

Albert agrees to promote Steve’s herbal remedy within the e-book in exchange for a commission on the sale of the remedy. Neither of them has any good marketing skills but Steve finds a JV broker who has excellent online marketing skills. The JV broker agrees to help make the JV deal a success by marketing the e-book for a percentage of the sales. All three of these people work together to make sure that the JV deal is marketed in the best possible way.

John wants to build a membership website to help people learn how to use their computers and the internet better. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have the programming skills that will be necessary to make the site do what he wants it to do. He talks to a friend who recommends another person, a programmer named Heather. Heather has the skills to make John’s website do whatever he wants it to do, but her rates are high and John doesn’t have that kind of money to spare. John’s plan is to sell various affiliate products form the website. In his quest for those affiliate related products and services, he meets Jake. Jake has created an online course for people who need instruction on how to use the Internet effectively.  Some may see Jake as John’s competitor, but John doesn’t see it that way, he may not have the programming skills but he has marketing skills that are out of this world and John doesn’t.

John approaches Jake, making the initial contact through email. He tells Jake about his vision for his site and how he thinks they can help each other out. They work out an arrangement. John will include Jake’s course at a discounted rate to his website subscribers and give Jonathan a percentage of the membership fees to make up the difference in price for Jonathan’s product. The two of them approach Heather. They work out an arrangement with her  as well, offering her a percentage of membership fees for a specified period of time after the launch of the site. They all sign formal agreements that lay out what each is responsible for and how each member of the joint venture will be compensated. Kathy builds the site and it is remarkable. The three of them go over Jonathan’s course and find additional related affiliate products to include in the course. John starts promoting the site and everyone is very happy with the results. As a JV broker can you find three complimentary businesses like these and set it all up?

Tariq is a consultant for start-up online businesses. He helps those who want to start their own online business through the entire start-up process, holding  their hand all along the way. In fact, he gets them through the entire first year, for a very large fee. He is good at what he does and he is worth every penny, but getting clients isn’t easy. He knows if he can partner with other people he would get more business. He contacts a JV broker and tells him what he wants to accomplish. The particular JV broker knows people who have huge mailing lists of people who want to start their own businesses. He matches Tariq with these list owners and starts setting up teleseminars for the list owners.

Tariq will be on each of these calls. The list owners start sending out pre-sell letters their lists and people start registering for the calls. The pre-sells are all huge successes and the call spots are all filled. Tariq goes on the calls with each individual list owner and starts discussing how to go about starting up an online business. He also explains what his consultation services can do to help people just starting out. The calls are very successful and all of his consultation spots are quickly filled and there is now a waiting list. The list owners are all given a percentage of his fees and the broker gets a percentage as well. The entire joint venture deal was so successful that the JV broker contacts Tariq again and suggests that he do another joint venture deal with the same list owners to do a paid series of calls with the list subscribers. Again, everyone enjoys success with each member of the joint venture making a percentage of the call profits.

The JV broker/consultant was very successful in finding the appropriate list owners to meet Tariq’s goals, and of course Tariq, the list owners, the subscribers , that participated in the calls and the JV broker all benefited.

These are just examples of some offline and online joint ventures. These types of joint ventures take place everyday and are almost always successful especially when a JV broker/consultant is involved.

Again, this isn’t rocket science. But since there’s nothing on joint ventures in the bookstores, and since they don’t teach it at any of the schools – you are going to have to learn it yourself.

Now, there’s the hard way of learning it – through the school of “hard knocks”.

There’s the expensive way of learning it – paying a joint venture expert to show you how.

And then there’s the easy way of learning it – which is to find a product that will give you enough “guidance” to start doing these deals yourself…without paying outrageous consulting fees.

And that’s where I can (hopefully) help you.

The good news is, now there is a quicker and easier way to learn how to put together and profit from Joint Ventures through The JV University’s 12 week hands-on certified JV consultant’s training program where we hold your hand and even let you work on LIVE projects while you are being trained.

For more information and a discount on our 12 week certified hands-on program (next group starts in December 2009) please click the link below:

http://jvuniversity.directionsu.com/enroll/

To Your Abundant Joint Venture Success!

Sohail Khan (the “Million Dollar JV Consultant”)

President & Co-Founder, TheJVUniversity.com

Launching a new product online is NOT as easy as many writing ebooks on the topic would have you believe. There are many obstacles that you need to overcome to do this effectively. Let’s look at a few of them, and two excellent solutions.

Assuming that you have a “killer” product that your market has already told you that it wants, your biggest challenge is simply getting the word out. If you are an unknown you need “introductions” to those who can help you. You need someone who already knows the large list owners to contact them on your behalf and convince them to at least take a look at your product.

Top online marketers often receive DOZENS of joint venture proposals per day. Many of these are worded so confusingly that your prospective JV partners stops reading them after the first few words. If you can’t explain your product in only a few words and stimulate interest, you don’t have much chance of getting your JV proposal read.

My friend, Mike Filsaime, recent relayed that he’d received over 100 joint venture proposals in ONE MONTH! That shows you the competition you may face when rolling out your new product if you hope to get some of the “bigger name” marketers to participate in the promotion.

The problem is that the people with the lists in the tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands, simply don’t have the time to sift through all of those proposals. Instead, many rely on trusted joint venture brokers to sift through the proposals, evaluate the products, and then recommend which products they should spend their very limited time looking at and consider promoting.

A good joint venture broker/consultant will:

1) Confirm that the product is really good, and that it’s also appropriate for the lists of his/her contacts.

2) Confirm that the sales page and conversion process for the product has been thoroughly tested.

3) Confirm that all of the right promotional tools are in place – eliminating virtually all of the work for potential JV partners.

4) Confirm that you have a plan flowed out that allows sufficient time to generate the volume of sales that you desire.

5) Deconflict your product launches with dozens of other that he/she already knows about.

6) Contact and follow-up with potential joint venture partners several times… often getting a “yes” out of someone who would probably say “no” to the product owner.

Very busy, large list owners, already flooded with thousands of emails per day, “USE” the JV broker/consultants to ease their workload by serving as a preliminary filter. They know that when their trusted joint venture broker/consultant comes to them with a product, it’s something that they should really look at.

If you are an unknown marketer with a new product you probably need a joint venture broker/consultant. The problem may be that it’s difficult for you to FIND a JV broker/consultant because the best ones are often “booked” MONTHS in advance.

I am a joint venture broker/consultant! I have six friends who are all JV brokers/consultants, and 4 of those were trained by the same mentor.

A joint venture broker/consultant can make or break a product launch. Recent, very visible product launches that had joint venture brokers included:

- Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula – John Reel’s Go Try This – Mike Filsaime’s Butterfly Marketing – Sterling Valentine’s JV Formula – Ken McArthur’s Info Products Blueprint … and practically every other recent major product launch that I know the history of.

A good joint venture broker/consultant has already built critical relationships and already has access to the people that you want to convince to at-least take a look at your product. Since many very busy top marketers with large lists rely upon a few trusted JV brokers/consultants, those joint venture brokers do make or break many product launches.

The simple fact is that since many large list owners are so flooded with joint venture requests, you won’t get through to them unless you go through a joint venture broker.

As already pointed out, the best joint venture brokers/consultants are already booked for months in advance. They also will only choose to work with the very best, often “bigger ticket” product launches. They have so many choices that they can only focus on the bigger launches… and the ones that have the greatest obvious chances of succeeding. It makes sense for them to refuse to broker joint ventures that have less chance of succeeding massively.

An alternative for product owners launching new products is to simply STUDY what others have done to launch very successful products without joint venture brokers/consultants. If you can access people who have launched products successfully, pick their brains and find out how they did it, then you should be able to apply their ideas to your situation.

Tracking down the details on how many successful product launches were done is a lot easier than you think. It’s as simple as locating “INTERVIEWS” that have been done with people who had successful product launches. As soon as someone does a successful product launch, numerous people notice and want to interview them to discover how they did it… often to create an information product on that very topic.

Even better than interviewing the product owners about their successful launches is tapping into a huge library of interviews by product owners, joint venture brokers/consultants, and people who worked on many of these product launches. You can learn a lot from the joint venture brokers/consulants, copywriters, product duplicators, programmers… and others who played important roles in major product launches.

SO, If you would like to become a JV broker/consultant and also be personally trained by me and my team -  Gina Gaudio Graves (The JV Queen), David Preston (The Legendary Consultant) and Sohail Khan (The Million Dollar JV Dealmaker) then I suggest you join our 12 week JV Certified Consultant’s Program - next class starts in November!

For more information and a discount (for the first 10 students to sign up) on our 12 week certified hands-on program please click the link below:

http://www.thejvuniversity.com/willie

To Your Abundant Joint Venture Success!

Willie Crawford (the “Black Belt JV Broker”)

Co-Founder, TheJVUniversity.com

Let’s say there is an auto mechanic and an auto detailer in your town. And let’s say the auto mechanic has a large list of loyal customers who trust him and go to him on a regular basis, even if it’s just to get their oil changed.

Well, all you need to do is make a deal with the auto detailer and auto mechanic, where the mechanic sends all his customers a flier or short letter (he can insert it in his regular customer mailings if he wants) telling everyone about how wonderful the auto detailer is, how his prices are fair and all the reasons why they should take their cars to him to get detailed.

And then, for each customer the mechanic sends to the detailer, you split the money three ways, with you getting a slice of the profits in exchange for “setting up the deal”.

This way everyone wins: the mechanic makes money without lifting a finger, the detailer gets dozens of new customers he wouldn’t normally have gotten – many of which will continue to spend their money getting their cars detailed with him in the future – and you get paid…

Just For Bringing The Deal Together!

Which wouldn’t have happened without you.

What kind of money can you realistically make on a deal like this?

Well, if the mechanic sends the detailer at least 50 new customers, and if the net profit on each new customer the auto detailer services is an average of $200 per car, there would be a total of $10,000 in sales. Split that evenly three ways and you will have made well over $3,000…with little or no real “effort”.

But even more remarkable is the fact that, since the mechanic made money without lifting a finger, and since the detailer got 50 new customers without spending a nickel in advertising (saving himself at least a few thousand dollars), they will almost certainly want to keep doing this same deal over and over again – month after month and year after year. The only difference being, you will be getting paid each and every time…

Without Doing A Thing!

Does that sound good to you?

Then hang on, it gets even better. Because the real beauty about this – and I see it all the time – is after doing several of these deals, you will have money coming in from multiple different streams. Which means your income is not vulnerable to recessions, depressions, company downsizing or any of the economic forces that affect everyone else you know.

Think of it this way: If you set up only one of these deals per month, for an entire year, and each deal brings in just a thousand dollars per month, you’ll be raking in $12,000 per month, or…

$144,000 Per Year!

And that’s looking at it conservatively. Fact is, if you do everything the right way, each deal can bring in way MORE than just a thousand dollars per month.

But here’s the best part: Since your downside is nothing more than the time it takes to put the deal together…and since your own personal slice of the profits can be thousands of dollars in immediate, take-it-to-the-bank cash…

Just One Of These Deals Can Make You Wealthy!

In fact, even though you can make a few thousand dollars per month (or more) just putting smaller deals together, there will probably come a time – when you’re ready, and when you start to get really good at this – when you will want to go after bigger deals. The ones that can earn you 6, maybe even 7, figures. Deals so hot they literally pay off your house, your cars and fund the rest of your life.

And when this is the case, the businesses you are working with may not be able to fully exploit these deals with their own budgets, and you may have to find a way to finance everything yourself.

What do you do when this happens?

The answer is simple: You finance these deals…

With Other Peoples’ Money!

Believe it or not, there are thousands of investors out there – flush with cash – looking for good deals to invest their money in.

And when you know how to find these investors, present what you have and prove to them you know how to set everything up…you will have a line of these serious investors practically shoving their money in your hands…begging you to let them invest in your deals.

All of which means you can make a lot of money (fast) just “deal making” at your kitchen table, over the phone, on the Internet, even with regular postal mail. Without having any money, without any products to sell and without even having a real “business”!

Technically, this is called “joint venture marketing” and there are so many businesses out there willing to do this with you (once you show them how it works) that, even if a thousand people in your hometown all jumped up today and started doing joint ventures…

You’d Never Run Out Of Deals!

Now, this all sounds pretty easy doesn’t it? And it is…if…you have all the details.

First of all, you need to know how to tell the difference between the deals that will be profitable and the deals that don’t have a prayer of working. This isn’t brain surgery, but if you don’t know what to look for, you could end up wasting a lot of time doing joint ventures with the wrong businesses.

Secondly, even though there’s little cost, zero risk, and they produce extremely fast profits – most people have never heard about joint ventures. And it’s only natural for them to be doubtful when strangers contact them. So you have to know what to say and how to show proof joint ventures will work for them…especially if…you are just starting out, with no experience.

Thirdly, once you set up these deals, you will usually have to find or create the advertising. You can hire someone to create it for you (which will cost you a thousand dollars or more, minimum) but unless the person you hire is familiar with how joint ventures work, they probably won’t be much help.

And then there are all the other things you need to know – like tracking the sales (so you know what your share of the money is), finding investors (once you go for the big deals), and making sure everything happens smoothly – from start to finish.

Again, this isn’t rocket science. But since there’s nothing on joint ventures in the bookstores, and since they don’t teach it at any of the schools – you are going to have to learn it yourself.

Now, there’s the hard way of learning it – through the school of “hard knocks”.

There’s the expensive way of learning it – paying a joint venture expert to show you how.

And then there’s the easy way of learning it – which is to find a product that will give you enough “guidance” to start doing these deals yourself…without paying outrageous consulting fees.

And that’s where I can (hopefully) help you.

The good news is, now there is a quicker and easier way to learn how to put together and profit from Joint Ventures through The JV University’s 12 week hands-on certified JV consultant’s training program where we hold your hand and even let you work on LIVE projects while you are being trained.

For more information and a discount on our 12 week certified hands-on program (next group starts in November 2009) please click the link below:

http://www.thejvuniversity.com/sohail

To Your Abundant Joint Venture Success!

Sohail Khan (the “Million Dollar JV Consultant”)

President & Co-Founder, TheJVUniversity.com