Many people think that in order to make money online they have to go it alone,
but by doing so they set themselves up for failure. Or at the very least, they
don’t make nearly as much money as they should make.

For instance, let’s say you create a product and write a sales page for it, you
drive some traffic to your sales page and make a couple of sales each day.

There’s nothing wrong with that scenario, per se, but how hard are you working
for those 2 or 3 sales every day?

If you spend the bulk of your time online driving traffic to make those 2 or 3
sales, you won’t have time for other tasks - like creating more products to
make more money.

You really have two choices here…

You can continue to drive traffic and make 2 or 3 sales per day, but that’s the
long, hard road with the least amount of profit.

                                      OR

You can gather other people to help you drive traffic to your site so that you
sell more, and that’s a win/win situation for everyone.

Even after paying them a commission for making those sales for you, you’ll
still pocket more money at the end of the day - every day.

I’m talking about JV partners and affiliates, of course. Your business will
level off and stagnate if you go it alone, but when you have partners it can
skyrocket to heights you won’t believe.

And with the right tools and resources, getting people to promote your products
can almost be put on autopilot, so you can concentrate on other things.

First, let’s talk about your affiliate system…

Over the years, many scripts have been produced that can do the job of managing
your affiliates, providing them with pre-made tools to promote your products,
and giving you reports to show how much each affiliate has earned so you can
make payments to them.

Having a good affiliate manager system in place is a must for serious business
owners. If you want JV partners and affiliates to promote your products, you
need to accomodate them as much as possible.

You need to do everything within your power to give them an incentive to
promote your products, including pre-written ads and emails, a high commission
rate, and easy signup for your affiliate system. If they have to jump through
hoops anywhere along the way, they’re not likely to promote.

I’ve worked with several affiliate manager systems in the past, but I ditched
all of them a few months ago for Rapid Action Profits (RAP) for a number of
reasons…

*  It’s easy to install and use, even for non-techies like me

*  Affiliates can quickly and easily choose which product or products they’d
like to promote from the affiliate center, as well as grab promotional
materials that I’ve provided  to save them time and effort

*  Customers can become affiliates instantly - I just put the affiliate sign up
link in the email they receive with their download page URL so it’s right in
front of them

*  Affiliates get paid INSTANTLY to their PayPal account - I make sure to note
that in the email they receive with their download link, too

That last one is a biggie!

Affiliates LOVE to get instant payments because they can access their money
without waiting 30 - 60 days for the product owner to pay them.

They also know that they cannot get ripped off by marketers who simply don’t
pay their affiliates at all. (It’s sad, but true - some marketers will do this,
so be very wary.)

Thus, the reasons the Rapid Action Profits Script was born, and let me tell
you, affiliates love it!

[Sidenote: From now until Nov. 14th you can save 28% on RAP by using this link
only. It’s not available anywhere else.]

Once you have your affiliate manager program in place you’ll need to recruit JV
partners and affiliates. Before I get into that, let me briefly explain the
difference between the two…

Affiliates are generally people you don’t know personally who sign up for your
affiliate program.

Joint Venture (JV) Partners are people you do know, and who usually get
“preferrential treatment” because they’re your friends and business contacts.

You build relationships with your JV partners via email, Instant Message Chats,
phone calls and/or live seminars and events.

There is a lot of offline business relationship building that goes on among
many industries (realtors and mortgage loan officers, for instance), and this
is the same sort of  thing.

Your JV relationships are precious, and you don’t want to abuse them or go
about them in the wrong way. As with any other relationship in life, you have
to nurture them so they grow and blossom.

[Sidenote: You can grab 5 free videos and a 26 page report on building
relationships to grow your business at JVSource.com]

Now, on to the task of actually finding JV partners…

This is probably the part that seems the most daunting, but I think you’ll find
that it’s really not that hard once you get the hang of it.

The term “Joint Venture” means more than just people  promoting each other’s
products. There are all kinds of JV’s.

For instance, if you’re good at writing sales letters, but horrible at writing
how-to reports, you can joint venture with someone who can whip out ebooks in
no time, but can’t write ad copy that sells them.

Or if you have a great front end product, but no backend products to offer your
customers, you can approach marketers who have products that compliment your
own, and work out a deal to send each other’s buyers to the other person’s
sales page.

These are just two examples of joint ventures, but the possibilities are only
limited by your imagination.

In order to find partners, you simply “hang out” where they hang out - in forums, social sites, and blogs in your niche. Take the time to read and reply to their posts, and build the relationship just as you would with any new friend.

Keep in mind, though, that it’s very important to go about it the right way.
You want your potential JV partners to see that you’re watching out for them,
and that it’s not just all about you.

I suggest reading some good information that explains Joint Ventures in much
more detail than I can post here. A brand new product launches on November 11th
that will do just that - JVSource - and I highly recommend you take a look at it.

Don’t take the long, hard road to profits. There is a shorter, easier route -
JV partners and affiliates - so be sure you go in that direction and you’ll get
where you want to go much quicker.
 

We all know the economy stinks right now. A majority of people
don’t have money to spend on very much besides the bare
necessities. As a result, they’re looking for ways to earn extra
money to keep themselves afloat.

More and more people are turning to the Internet every day in
hopes of making that extra cash, but for new marketers, and 
especially those who are desperate for financial relief now,
the money might not come fast enough.

Learning to market online involves a learning curve that causes
most people to spend a year or more testing the waters before
seeing any significant money for their efforts.

But many successful marketers have become successful just by 
“thinking outside the box.” They did something different from
what everyone else was doing and it was well-received by their
target market and very profitable.

Such is the case with a young man I spoke to on the phone the
other day. He wasn’t really even known in the Internet Marketing
arena until now, yet he just launched a product that’s been very
profitable - to the tune of 1,000+ sales and more than $57,000
gross profit at the time of this writing!

This guy didn’t jump online and try to make money the same way
everyone else does by selling information products or even
physical products. He actually builds websites that are highly
ranked in the search engines for his local offline business
owners.

But then one day he set his mind to “think outside the box mode”
and created a whole new type of product - a unique way to market
his websites so he can make more sales.

And instead of selling “the same old stuff” as other people 
(a.k.a. an ebook explaining how to do what he does), he produced
a marketing kit for Internet Marketers to sell his websites to
offline businesses.

If you think about it, this concept is similar to some large
offline corporations and it works well.

For instance, I can think of several companies right off the top
of my head that provide their representatives with postcards,
party invitations, business cards, and product samples. All the
representatives have to do is hand out or mail their marketing
materials and they get sales.

By thinking outside the box, this relatively unknown marketer
created something other Internet Marketers hadn’t seen before
and it’s been a huge success!

But, as you can see by the similarity to some offline companies,
he didn’t completely reinvent the wheel. He just tweaked it a
little and adapted it to Internet Marketers, and had a whole new
target market to sell to.

Of course, he’ll reach his goal of selling more of his top
ranked websites to offline businesses, too… all because of his
ability to “think outside the box.”

And in my opinion, his product couldn’t have come at a better
time for those in need extra income in this tough economy. The
marketing kit doesn’t require any computer skills, marketing
experience, or that infamous Internet Marketing learning curve
either.

You can pick up this free report for more details on the
marketing kit, but don’t miss this lesson - thinking outside
the box may be your ticket to success.

I feel a rant coming on, but I don’t know exactly who I’m ranting at. Let me explain…

At least once or twice a week I get a reply to an email that I’ve sent to my list members that’s nothing more than reverse marketing. For anyone who’s not familiar with that term, it means you market to people whose lists you’re on.

In other words, people on my subscriber list hit the reply button and don’t actually ‘write’ an email to me. They just include information about some product or program that they’re pushing.  

Now, the reason I don’t know who I’m ranting at here is because I don’t know if this is a common ‘marketing method’ among newbies who just happen to think of it and think it’s a good idea, or if some marketer actually wrote a report on using this method and sold it to newbies.

Either way - newbies, take heed…

This is not the way to market your products or programs. It’s nothing more than spam, because I didn’t ask to hear about your products. You asked to hear about mine, therefore you double opted in to my mailing list, giving me permission to email you. I did not give you permission to email me.

Of course, if you ever have questions, comments or joint venture offers, I’m more than happy to read your emails, and I reply to every one that I receive.

But please don’t get on my bad side, or that of other marketers, and start your marketing career with a bad reputation by using reverse marketing methods. Starting off on the wrong foot will only lead to failure.

It’s much easier to ‘play nice’ and build a good reputation from the get-go, than it is to re-build your reputation after you’ve had a bad one.

“If you were to start from scratch with NO list, NO JV partners in your niche, and all you have is $100 capital, what would you do to start making sales for your niche membership site within just 15 days?” 

I found this blog post that answers that question, and I thought it was good solid advice, so I’m posting the link here and you can read it, too.

Click Here

Enjoy!

By now you’ve heard of social media marketing, no doubt, and hopefully you’re using it in your promotional efforts.I just came upon a blog post by Robert Plank that talks about using Twitter. It’s quite an interesting post. You can read it yourself here.

Twitter, like other social media sites, must be used carefully so you don’t appear to be spamming. But when done correctly, social sites can drive tons of targeted traffic to your own website or blog.

If you’d like to follow me on Twitter, just go here: http://twitter.com/DeniseHall

There are literally thousands of ways to make money online.
One of the most solid business models to ensure a continual
monthly income is a subscription based membership website.

Members pay a monthly fee for access to a private member’s
area where they can access your information. You can provide
a variety of information in as many formats as you choose.
You can offer articles, reports, audios, videos,
teleseminars, downloads, software, almost anything you can
imagine.

Even if you offer a low cost membership, it only takes a
few members to make a comfortable income. A membership
website that charges $9.97 a month, only needs 300 members
to generate $3,000 every month.

And setting up a membership website has become remarkably
simple with advances in software that can be set up in a
couple hours, even by the average non-technical person.It’s just that simple. In the beginning, it takes some time
and energy to put the whole project together, but then it’s
simply a matter of updating, maintaining and marketing. So
let’s look at the steps to put together a successful
membership website.

It’s been a little while since I had time to post here. Sorry about that!

I just came across the blog of one of my favorite marketers, and he invited his readers to post their internet marketing questions and he’s replying to all of them.

I hope he doesn’t mind if I put his blog link here so that you can get the information, too.

Nah! He probably won’t mind.

http://www.michaelrasmussen.com/free-coaching/

Oh, and you can pick up a free gift from him by clicking on the image below my signature here.

Enjoy!

Denise

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Hopefully by now you’re using social marketing to drive traffic to your website or blog. Web 2.0 is here to stay, and it’s the fastest way to get free targeted traffic to any site you choose.

Sites such as StumbleUpon, Squidoo, MySpace, HubPages, Twitter and others are prime spots to “drop” your url’s while you’re “socializing” with people in the communities.

And the best part about these sites is that you don’t have to wait days or weeks to see results. Social sites will bring you an instant surge of “same day” traffic!

The reason for this instant traffic is that social sites are extremely viral. If one person enjoys your posts or comments, they’ll let their friends know about it. And those people will let their friends know, and so on.

A good number of the people who read your comments at social sites are likely to visit your website or blog to see what else you have to say.

Once the ball starts rolling you almost can’t stop the traffic coming to your website… but why would you want to?

Maybe it’s just me, but the dealings I’ve had with any big business in the last few months or so haven’t really been very pleasant.

It just makes good business sense and it will keep loyal customers and readers coming back for more.

Sorry if this is a bit of a rant, but I can’t help it. I’m tired of people saying they want to make money online, but then they don’t want to work for it. Making money online isn’t really much different than making money offline… you have to work. It’s just a different kind of work.