JV Partnerships are one of the most powerful tactics for getting traffic and building your list in internet marketing, but where do you start..?

If you’re just beginning and don’t have a list or product then that’s really where you need to start.

JV’s are usually based on a relationship that you’ve built up with the prospective JV partner, but you still need to be able to offer something of value, good JV partnerships are never “one sided”, and you want to make them as good an offer for your new partner as possible, as it should be seen as the start of a long term relationship/friendship, not just a “one off” thing…

Just writing an email saying “promote my product and you’ll make a bunch of money” is simply not going to work, unless you have something new and exceptional, which is rare, and it’s more likely to stop that potential JV partner from ever wanting to work with you.

So Step 1 of your plan should be to start building a subscriber list/newsletter.  Read more... (780 words, 1 image, estimated 3:07 mins reading time)

Why on earth would anyone who has a list of subscribers want to promote someone else’s affiliate link for a product launch, instead of their own…

I’ve actually done exactly that twice this week, and it’s not the first time I’ve done it.

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Fair Warning: I gotta warn you here, this is the longest blog post I’ve ever done, it’s over 2,500 words…

I hope it’s worth reading, but feel free skip bits when you think I’m “rambling”.

As a reward for reading it, there’s 2 x $50 cash (you need a paypal account to receive it) up for grabs somwhere down the bottom, but for the question to make sense, you will need to read at least some of the post…

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I earn a living online, and promoting things to my subscribers is a significant part of that income, although I am fortunate (or maybe I’ve just been doing this long enough) that I have enough other income streams (always important for a healthy business) that I don’t have to rely on this one method of making money, which grants me a certain degree of freedom, as I mentioned in my last post.  Read more... (2774 words, 3 images, estimated 11:06 mins reading time)