Learn about joint ventures in five minutes
By: Jasbir Kaur
Thanks to today’s level of technical development and
the Internet itself, the circumstances are made for a
different type of marketing and dealing. Just with e-mail
we can contact thousands of people, with one click only and
all that in 5 minutes of our time. Thanks to web sites our
online business can run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Technology definitely breached the barriers, replaced
humans and surpassed their biological limits. Computers
never sleep and they never get tired!
Experience shows that the e-zines advertising is one
of the best ways of promoting on the Internet. I’m talking
about solo mailings. Now I’m going to recount my first
experience and how I got in touch with the phenomenon
called "joint venture".
As an affiliate, of all the diversity of Internet offers, I focused on selling digital products. I had some
experience in free advertising which, despite all the
discouraging stories, showed some results. It's always nice
to make a few bucks, without even one dime invested. Of
course, it's not enough - so I decided to give "paid
advertising" a chance. The product I promoted is one of the
internet guru's membership only web site, which offered a
bunch of resources related to the internet marketing and -
the thing that attracted the most - group chat in a form of
online workshop twice a week, where you could ask anything
you wanted. Additional attention was given on practical
stuff, on things like e-zine advertising. The solo ad
consisted of a "teaser letter", which comprehended my
autoresponder address with 6 valid follow up messages from
good affiliates. So everything was well set and automated,
the next step was finding a good e-zine. That wasn't a
problem, because at the time I obtained J.D.Brown's "E-zine
AD Profits", in which I found a list of 35 magazines with
good reputation - J.D.Brown personally advertised his
products in them. I picked one with 3500 subscribers -
solo ads were 35$. One sell made me 25$, this meant that I
needed only 2 sells to make a profit. Until this moment
everything was going smooth.
I forgot to mention that I do not have a credit card
and because of that I have problems with online shopping.
I'm not interested in other ways of money transfer, like
international money order or even "snail mail". Especially
today, when information through the Internet literally flies
from one part of the world to the other in a few seconds. I
can't afford the "luxury" of my money traveling 3 weeks
from Europe to America just because I don't have a credit
card. I've tried through Western Union, but you cannot send
money from Yugoslavia, you can just receive. So I was in a
situation that I wanted to pay, but simply all I could do
is send a "snail mail" and wait for 2 months to see a
response from my campaign. Thanks, but no thanks.
I'm sure that every one of you have some good e-books
related to Internet business. I own 20 of them, and for 6
of them I paid - altogether 140$. The rest of the books are
either freely purchased or not worth mentioning. Joint
venture with e-zine publishers is one of the best ways of
doing business on the Internet, which use all of the online
gurus - you can convince yourself by reading the book which
interviews some of them on this address:
Usually, a guru is offering a larger percentage of his
sale to the e-zine publisher if the publisher agrees to
send private mails to the subscribers. So in some way they
become partners and share the risk. I don't have my own
product, nor full resell rights on a quality product - all
I have is my affiliate offer. I can forget this type of
joint venture, at least till I get my own product or buy
full resell rights on a new bestseller. Then I got the idea
to trade the books I own for a solo ad. The, above
mentioned, 6 I own are good books, but they're a bit
outdated. Never mind, I'll offer more books than the price
of the ad.
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