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Solo Build It Mastery Lesson 28 - Getting Maximum Leverage From Your First Joint Venture

Today we'll discuss something that you may or may not be ready for yet, but setting up joint ventures with other related website owners should be one of your priorities in the medium term.

Joint ventures offer the highest leverage you can get for making money online quickly...

Just some of the benefits of setting up JV's are -

FREE ADVERTISING - In the majority of cases you receive 100% free advertising. You gain targeted promotion at ZERO cost to yourself
FAST SETUP - Most joint venture offers are quick and easy to set up. They take very little time and preparation and you can have a profitable joint venture in the works in a couple of hours
FANTASTIC RESULTS - You can make thousands of dollars in profits for a half hour's work with a joint venture
FUTURE PROFITS - Set up properly, you can make profits for YEARS from a successful joint venture
FAMOUS BRANDING - Another great benefit of doing joint venture partnerships is that you get to brand your name in your market. You can go from being a nobody to a well known member of your niche market overnight...

Already some of my coaching students have asked my advice on setting up their first joint venture deal – they have created a new product after doing market research to find a need, but they haven’t yet built a customer list of their own, and they want to make the biggest paycheck they can for the least amount of effort possible.

While this a natural goal for most people to aim for, the problem is that they are approaching the deal with the wrong mindset.

The fact is, the person with the CUSTOMERS has the power in every transaction, while the person with the product has very little leverage most of the time when you are brand new to a market.

Finding and nurturing a responsive, loyal group of customers is much more difficult and time consuming that finding products to sell to them, and the customer list is where the power is in any business.

It doesn’t matter what your product is, it can be copied, knocked off, simulated or plagiarized until the cows come home and there’s very little you can really do about it unless you want to tie yourself up in legal action for a good part of your life.

The best way to approach a potential joint venture partner, especially if you are brand new, have a brand new product, and are inexperienced at doing JV deals, it to realize that you don’t hold many cards and act accordingly.

What do I mean by this?

Well, remembering that you are basically being a parasite on your potential joint venture partner’s customer base, you’d better be prepared to compensate them for helping you to get your product to market.

If you think you are going to be able to go to one of the big dogs in your niche and offer them a 50/50 commission split on a digitally downloadable information product, you’re in for a rude shock.

Even giving potential JV partners 75% of the initial sale proceeds may not be enough incentive for them to promote your product to their list.

Many novice product developers find that by giving away 90% or even 100% of the initial sale proceeds (after processing fees) they create a compelling reason for potential joint venture partners to help launch their product and get it into as many hands as possible quickly.

But if you give away all the profit, what is the point?

Think long-term, not about
making a quick buck...

Good question…there are many reasons you should consider giving the lions share of your initial product sale price to your joint venture partners.

Here are just a few…

You will receive the names, email addresses and often mailing addresses of every person on your joint venture partner’s list who buys your product. This will give you multiple chances to offer these proven BUYERS additional, related products for months or years to come. A list of people who have purchased a product is the biggest asset any business owner can have, and your list will have cost you nothing to create
Your product will be launched and in circulation much faster than it would have been if you had gone the traditional route and used pay per click campaigns, ezine advertising, traffic generation programs, SEO or articles to generate leads to sell your product to
You can ask your list of buyers for testimonials which you can then use in your own personal marketing to generate additional sales on which you will receive the full sale price
You’ll know exactly what new products to create as back-end offers for your list of buyers because you’ll be able to survey them and ask for their feedback. You’ll get a much more accurate idea of what your market wants to buy if you ask BUYERS as opposed to prospects who haven’t purchased anything from you
Many of your purchasers will become affiliates and help you to sell even more of your product to others. You only need to pay affiliates the going rate of 50% to 65% and all sales they make for you basically cost you nothing to generate For these and many other reasons, it can be a very profitable decision to give up the early profits on a product to earn long-term back end profits from the customers you generate through your joint venture partnerships.

Something to think about…

If you would like to learn a lot more about how to go about setting up long term, super profitable joint ventures, then Jimmy Brown and Ryan Deiss's Niche JV goes into everything you need to know to set up profitable JV's in any market.

It shows you how to find potential joint venture partners, how to contact them and what to say so you don't scare them off, how to build a mutually beneficial long-term relationship, how to split the cash...and much more.

For all the details, check out Niche JV here.

You probably won't be able to sleep tonight after going through this course. Jimmy offers heaps of great tips on setting up your own joint ventures quickly and easily.

It doesn't matter what niche you are in, joint ventures should be part of your marketing mix...

Anyhow, that's all for today. Until next time,

Take care,

P.S. And don't forget, if you want to move on with the next lesson, or review any of the other lessons in this coaching course, you can by visiting this page.