How to Use Joint Venture Marketing to Increase Website Traffic

Joint venture marketing is a beneficial way to get your business noticed when you are just starting out in your sector. The ability to link with a more established business is an excellent way to build credibility and a customer base quickly and effectively.

One of the biggest advantages to JV marketing is that you can increase traffic to your website much more efficiently than by simply using search engine optimization techniques. We will show you a few ways to use your JV partnership to your fullest advantage when it comes to building website traffic for your business.

Backlinks

Backlinks are used to link traffic from one website (your endorser) to yours. Backlinks provide two purposes; they raise your search engine ranking and they help customers find you on the Internet.

To ensure you get the most from your backlink, you should not simply purchase it from another website (which is not only a black-hat strategy, but costly as well). Instead, you need to get your link by mutual agreement, such as a JV partnership. The way to build this type of business relationship is to find a website for a related industry, so the traffic at the original website will be more likely to be interested in what you are selling as well.

It is also important to analyze the website you will put your link on, since sites that get little traffic themselves, or link to illegal websites, may not build your traffic and may even lower your standings in the search engines.

Blogs

Blogging is the way to inform and interact in the 21st century. Many business owners develop their own blogs because people are often more likely to read content than pay attention to an advertisement. If your JV partner also has a blog, you can direct customers to each other through your blogs. This is mutually beneficial, since traffic increases to both websites, which means higher revenues on all sides.

Recommendations

If you find a JV partner who is larger and more established, you can rely on that business for recommendations for your goods and services. Your JV partner may put a link on his website, recommending your business for a related or highly specialized type of product or service. Your traffic immediately increases exponentially because your JV partner already sees a significant amount of traffic each day. More traffic means more sales, especially if the customers directed to you are already interested in what you have to offer.

Content is King

Once your customers find your website, the key is to keep them coming back for more. To encourage customers to sign up for your regular email correspondence, provide content on your website that is informative and entertaining. Your articles will draw your customers to your business and make them want to find out what you have to say next. When you have a good customer list for your opt-in marketing program, you build sales by maintaining regular contact that allows you to alert them to new products and special promotions you are offering.

JV marketing is an excellent method for building high-quality traffic to your website. When your customers come to you, your sales will effectively increase.

Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A Joint Venture Marketing firm. He exemplifies how to profit from Joint Venture relationships by creating profit centers with minimal risk and maximum profitability.

To discover more Joint Venture Marketing Strategies join his free Joint Venture Marketing Wealth Report.

How the Dog Whisperer Can Help Your Joint Venture Relationship

Forming a joint venture can be wildly successful, and it can also become a headache. Joint venture partners come in all shapes and sizes. And though most entrepreneurs and business owners are professional in their conduct, many are still difficult to deal with, and personality conflicts can arise. So what can you do to help assure a sound relationship with your JV partner?

Take heed of advice from Cesar Millan, also known as the “Dog Whisperer”. Cesar has become the leading expert in dog psychology and dog rehabilitation. Although his strategies are aimed at canine “pack” instincts, his psychology can work well for joint venture partners as well. Here are some examples:

Calm-Assertive Energy

Cesar advocates that all dog owners display calm-assertive energy. An owner should show a dog that he or she is the pack leader using compassionate and calm methods. Yelling, nervousness, and anxiety are not good qualities of a good calm-assertive leader.

This tip doesn’t mean you have to set yourself apart from your JV partner as the “pack leader”.  Nor does it mean one of you must become the “calm-submissive” type that will obey the commands of the leader.

How this can benefit you and your JV partner is that you both display assertive behavior without becoming emotional. Energy is calm, and both are in control of all communications and tasks.

Set Rules, Boundaries, and Limitations

Cesar teaches that dogs must have rules, boundaries, and limitations to know how to respond to different situations. Your JV is just the same. Both you and your JV partner must set rules, boundaries, and limitations so you both are clear on your roles and responsibilities.

For instance, can you contact your JV partner any time of day? Do you have permission to access your JV partner’s facilities? And likewise, does your JV partner have permission to utilize your equipment? All this and more need to be pre-determined before the JV goes into effect. Your rules, boundaries, and limitations will help you and your JV partner know exactly what to expect from each other.

Clarify “Issues”

An unstable dog is unclear about its role. This causes anxiety, aggression and fear. Cesar Millan teaches that a dog must trust his owner to be a pack leader and know its role in the pack.

Likewise, you and your JV partner must know your roles. Who will perform the marketing? Who will keep the books? Who’s in charge of production? Clarify all these types of issues and you will have a more successful JV “pack”.

Achieve Balance

Ultimately, you want to achieve balance with your JV. Much like Cesar advocates for dog owners, balance creates a harmonic, productive, and happy life. Set and know your limitations and boundaries. Set up roles for you and your JV partner. Let Cesar Millan’s experience with canine psychology teach you similar lessons in JV psychology. All elements should be balanced so both parties are happy with the effort, as well as the outcome.

Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A Joint Venture Marketing firm. He exemplifies how to profit from Joint Venture relationships by creating profit centers with minimal risk and maximum profitability.

To discover more Joint Venture Marketing Strategies join his free Joint Venture Marketing Wealth Report.

250 million in 11 months using integration marketing

What I’m about to share with you could seriously change your financial future in a positive way…

Wait let me rephrase that.

What I’m about to share with you, directly led to over $250 million in sales for one of my clients in less than 11 months.

Okay, I don’t expect you to believe me, and I know that’s a bold statement so let me give you little background.

I’ll also fill you in on my latest marketing project (these are the same tactics that I used in creating the $250 million in sales for my client) that I’m working on with Mark Joyner, the legendary marketer and business building expert.

I’ll keep this short as possible while explaining this very powerful, “integrated” way of marketing yourself, your idea or your existing product or service.

As you know, I specialize in doing joint venture deals. I connect supply and demand chains, create new relationships, products and services and ethically use underutilized assets of other people, companies, networks, etc as distribution channels to create, automated profit centers.

I know that’s a mouth full, and it may sound confusing, but stick with me.

A little background first…

You see, leveraging existing relationships and trust of other people can literally cut years off of the time that it would take you to create these relationships and trust networks by yourself.  It’s one of the primary tactics that top level marketers and  entrepreneurs, from one-man startups to international corporations have used to launch and expand their businesses for the last 200 years.

If you can tap into these types of existing relationships (and I’ll show you how),  the time it will take you to start earning more money from your business (or start a new one) will be reduced by weeks, months and years. This is a proven fact that I personally witnessed week in and week out since I (unknowingly) started doing joint ventures back in 1989 at the will age of 19.

You’ve been on my list, RSS feed or read by regular blog posts, so you know that I try to push out high-quality, joint venture based information on a regular basis to give you proven ideas, tips, tactics and strategies that I’ve personally used to create millions of dollars for my clients over the years. Hopefully, I’ve earned your respect and most of all your trust in directing you towards being more profitable in your business using joint venture marketing techniques.

Okay, so maybe you know this already. You know about the power of leveraging other people’s underutilized assets. You’ve heard how joint ventures can quickly turn into profits. But, I’m willing to bet that you have not successfully executed a joint venture relationship as of yet.

Let’s take this one step deeper. There is a subcategory to doing joint ventures that allowed me to “integrate” my clients services directly into the existing sales process of another company for no upfront, out-of-pocket costs and with very little risk. In fact, the entire process was set up with a phone call and one face-to-face meeting.

So let me help you take the next step and introduce you to the specific way of setting up profitable joint venture deals through a process called “integration marketing”. In short, integration marketing literally allows you to integrate or insert your existing product or service into the existing sales process of a related product or service.

Integration marketing techniques have been used by some of the world’s most famous companies including Microsoft, McDonald’s, HP and Wal-Mart,  but don’t let that intimidate you or send you down the ” this won’t work for me” highway. It works just as well for small start-ups and  entrepreneurs at home in their pajamas. The same tactics apply regardless of the size of your company. It works if you are one man or woman show or if you manage a complex international corporation with thousands of employees.

My latest project has connected me with the legendary marketer, Mark Joyner. Mark has written an entire book on the subject of integration marketing. He’s taken the concept and broken it down into bite sized, easy to understand concepts that make it easy to understand and apply these integration marketing tactics to your own business. He’s even come up with a method based on “predicted math” that you can use to ensure the highest probability of success when you apply these integration marketing methods.

My next post will give you specifics of how you can start increasing your profits  using these integration marketing techniques.

Joint Venture Psychology – Turning Weaknesses to Strengths

Do you know your strengths and weaknesses? Anyone who has sat down for a job interview has probably been asked these questions. However, have you actually sat down and truly analyzed your weaknesses?

Weaknesses may appear to be strengths. For instance, a perfectionist may consider his need for superior craft, design, or process an asset, when in actuality; it hinders his progress and prevents forward momentum. By carefully determining where your weaknesses are, you can work toward improving them, or using them to the advantage of your business or your JV business.

As an example, during your JV efforts, you find that your marketing strategy for billboard advertising is not what you expected, but your online marketing is showing results. As a response, you and your JV partner modify your strategy to reduce billboard advertising and focus more on online SEO searches and pay per click advertising. This helps to generate the most out of your marketing dollar and improve sales.

The same holds true for your own weaknesses. You might determine that something is not working as well as you’d like. However, by modifying your behavior or capitalizing on a weakness, you can improve your own personal achievement.

Write It Out

The first thing you must do is take some time to write out your weakness. This is not the time to be over-confident and deny that you have any. Consider what hinders your progress. Are you a procrastinator? Do you have trouble with authority and taking directions? Are you a slow typist? Any of these could be a weakness that prevents you from getting work done. Be honest and list what you think are your weaknesses. Then ask others as well.

Determine the Impact

What do your weaknesses cost you? Does your procrastination cost you time and money? Does your problem with sharing authority prevent decisions? Knowing how your weaknesses affect your external outcomes is important to know before you can begin working on internal changes.

Dedicate Yourself towards Improvement

Now that you know what you can improve, and what happens if you don’t, you must dedicate your efforts toward improving that weakness into an asset. Were your communication skills determined to be a weakness? Take writing and speech classes. Procrastination an issue? Read books on organization today (don’t put it off!), or take a local community center class on improving organization and motivation skills.

Capitalize on Weaknesses

With your work set before you, you can set a goal to capitalize on your weaknesses. Take the classes. Face your fears. Focus on improvement. And don’t forget to measure the results. When you can measure your improvement in certain areas, then you know you are on the right track to turning your weaknesses into assets.

Remember, there is strength in your weaknesses. You merely need to crash through the blocks of doubt and denial, and focus on changing behaviors.

Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A Joint Venture Marketing firm. He exemplifies how to profit from Joint Venture relationships by creating profit centers with minimal risk and maximum profitability.

To discover more Joint Venture Marketing Strategies join his free Joint Venture Marketing Wealth Report.

What You Can Learn About Joint Ventures from eBay and Craigslist

Joint ventures can provide both partners with tremendous success, but even the best intentions can go awry. One example of an off track joint venture involves online marketing giants eBay and Craigslist.

In 2004, eBay and Craigslist entered into an agreement whereby the two companies would try to expand more into global markets. However, the joint venture soon stagnated to the point where eBay was trying to market the 28.5% share in Craigslist to other companies, and Craigslist was fighting to get it back.

The biggest problem with this joint venture is that the two companies obviously had completely different intentions and goals. Craigslist wanted to retain authority and management of its own operations, but learn from eBay about larger online classified operations. eBay wanted to use their share in Craigslist to better compete against Google in the online classified industry and maximize profit potential in Craigslist operations. Although both companies had a shared intention of expanding into bigger global markets, their alternative intentions soiled the relationship, and they are now in litigation to end the JV.

Looking at the original intention of the JV, it was a good one. However, there are things you can learn to prevent such a tragedy from occurring in your own JV. Here are some things to consider:

Write Out the Intention of the JV as a Mission Statement

Before your JV goes “live”, you and your JV partner need to know exactly what is expected from one another. Are you looking to have access to technology while your JV partner needs help in reducing expenses? Or perhaps you both are looking to enter into bigger national markets by combining forces?

The mission is critical to ensuring that you and your JV partner will not have disputes over the overarching goals.

Explicitly Write Out the Partner Responsibilities

What will you be contributing to the JV? What will your JV partner contribute? Who will manage the accounting books? Who will handle distribution?

All of the facets need to be clearly outlined in the beginning. You don’t want to have a finished product ready, but find your JV partner reluctant to distribute it appropriately. Know who is responsible for every step of the joint venture.

Shelter Your Proprietary Information

eBay used confidential Craigslist information and techniques to form its own “free” online classifieds, called Kijiji. Craigslist did not want another competitor, especially one that was using its own technology and industry secrets.

Although you may agree to share certain proprietary information to develop a new product, be careful what information you do share. Keep your proprietary information private. Remember, you are still in business for yourself.

Define the Exit Strategy

eBay and Craigslist are still in a lengthy and expensive dispute on how to dissolve the joint venture partnership. You can avoid legal litigation by defining exactly how your JV will dissolve if things go wrong, as well as if things go right.

Joint ventures don’t have to end badly. Knowing all expectations and responsibilities will help you and your JV partner get the most benefit and profit from your JV efforts.

Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A Joint Venture Marketing firm. He exemplifies how to profit from Joint Venture relationships by creating profit centers with minimal risk and maximum profitability.

To discover more Joint Venture Marketing Strategies join his free Joint Venture Marketing Wealth Report.

Leveraging Affiliates as Part of Your Joint Venture Marketing

Affiliate marketing has seen tremendous growth in 2009. People who are passionate about other products, as well as individuals who want a successful work-at-home business, are finding that affiliate marketing can give them the winning edge. With this in mind, you and your joint venture partner should consider leveraging affiliates as part of your JV marketing mix.

What do affiliates do? Affiliate marketing is when a third party agrees to market your product or service for a portion or percentage of each sale they make through their efforts. Affiliate marketers can make great full-time or part-time earnings by gathering a large Internet following and recommending products for their followers.

Benefits of Affiliate Marketing for Your JV

There are significant benefits associated with employing affiliate marketing for your joint venture.

• You pay only when a sale is made – One very nice benefit of affiliate marketing is that you do not pay any marketing or advertising costs until a sale is made. No money is paid up-front. By trusting that your affiliates will bring in sales, you hold onto your much-needed cash until each sale is processed. You can even agree to pay affiliates on a monthly basis, which allows you to leverage cash in your bank account even longer.

• Exponential sales potential – If one affiliate is bringing in an average of sales each month, then five affiliates could potentially be giving you 25 sales each month. Imaging what 100 affiliates could do! The more affiliates you have working the Internet marketing channels, the more you can profit!

• Let others do the marketing – Why not take advantage of others’ marketing efforts to sell your JV product or service? You and your JV partner both have your own businesses to run. By leveraging affiliates in your marketing strategy, you give yourselves more time to focus on improving and expanding your own businesses, or even focus on forming new joint ventures.

• New customer bases – Affiliate marketers can utilize their respective following to make sales. Affiliates may focus on specific market niches in their efforts, such as book clubs, video game player associations, auto clubs, and the list goes on. These marketing niches can be new customer bases for your JV business.

Affiliate marketing may have downsides as well. Some affiliates may not bring in any sales or lose interest in your product when the next best thing comes around. That is why it is important to screen your affiliates and choose the ones that have the best sales potential. You should also offer the largest sales percentages to the best affiliates. Make sure they have an established web site and verifiable list numbers. Offer up to 50% of each sale to the best affiliate marketers. You may see less profit on each sale, but remember, your sales numbers can skyrocket and total profits will increase as a result.

Affiliate marketing could be a boon to your JV business. If you have a product or service that could easily be sold via affiliate marketing, consider this as a viable option.

Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A Joint Venture Marketing firm. He exemplifies how to profit from Joint Venture relationships by creating profit centers with minimal risk and maximum profitability.

To discover more Joint Venture Marketing Strategies join his free Joint Venture Marketing Wealth Report.

Cash Flow Your Home Based Business-Do It Right The First Time

If you are tired of insufficient funds limiting your lifestyle, being an entrepreneur with a home based business could just be what changes things. If you find that clocking in everyday and adjusting your life to your employer’s schedule drives you crazy, being self employed may be your way out.
Have you ever taken off for lunch and go to a local restaurant or maybe the bank and watched a guy dressed casual that looks like he is on holiday? Possibly you noticed this same person out with his wife and kids at a time when everyone else is at a job. Did you speculate what this guy did for an income? It’s very possible that he has a profitable work-from-home business that provides him the abundant finances to to have freedom of time and money. Maybe you could do the same.
Building a home based business is a big decision so don’t take it lightly. It’s very similar to beginning any other small business as far as initial planning. For instance, if you were opening a standard brick and mortar business, you would have to consider a number of factors. Can you see yourself doing it every day? Does it imitate who you are? Do you hold or can you learn the knowledge needed? Can you stay in it for the long haul emotionally and financially? What type of profit can you expect? What is the profit/effort ratio? It can be a lot to consider.
When electing a home based business, you have to be aware of what you are looking at because you might set yourself up for disaster. Becasue you found this article, you realize the potential of online marketing and how much promise it has. When qualifying home based businesses, it all comes down to leverage. Leverage applies to things like money, time, people, experience and positioning.
If you have plenty of money, you can leverage it to complete tasks you don’t have time for by outsourcing or to get tools and materials. If you are short on cash, you unavoidably need to leverage your time to accomplish things that others accomplish with cash. Common sense indicates, some time is always essential regardless of money and some money is required regardless of time. Leveraging people and experience kinda’ goes together. This is why network marketing is so well-liked in home based business because leveraging other people and their experience is part of the game. Getting involved in the right home based network marketing business is viyal to your success. Now positioning is very interesting and varies from business to business. You want to place yourself in the right market, at the right time and with the right leaders to instruct you. In a nutshell, leverage can make you or break you.
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Getting Started In Internet Marketing

When you hear the term “internet marketing“, what do you think of?

For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs. All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet marketing is much simpler.

At its core, internet marketing is about these things:

* Understanding the target market to which the product/service/cause you’re marketing will appeal
* Determining exactly how your target market interacts with the internet
* Positioning your content on the internet to attract the attention of your target market
* Collecting information about your target market (also known as “leads”) for follow-up and conversion into sales
* Design of offers or incentives to induce the desired actions from your leads

Since there is insufficient space in this article to give all of these topics adequate attention, let’s focus on just one specific topic with the realm of internet marketing: Email Marketing.

My best payoff has always come by focusing on permission-based email marketing. Permission-based email marketing refers to the practice of collecting information (including email addresses) from website visitors and communicating with them via e-mail with their direct consent. The “permission” aspect of permission-based email marketing is what separates legitimate email marketers from the spammers that everyone despises.

My love of email marketing is strong for one reason: It works very well. Email marketing has been much like a never-ending goldmine: It enables us to produce income on demand simply by sending a good offer to our list. When you have thousands of loyal subscribers – as we do – and you put a strong and compatible offer in front of them, income becomes nearly automatic.

However, the key to successful email marketing is the development of a legitimate trust relationship with your subscribers. If you opt to send your subscribers a request for purchases every single day, they will likely tire of your badgering and cease reading your emails altogether.

Alternatively, if you take the time to provide good content to your readers on a regular and frequent basis, you’ll discover that your readers take all of your emails far more seriously, and as a result your emails will be opened, read and acted upon with greater frequency. Essentially, email marketing is really an exercise in trust.

Even though there are more sides to internet marketing than just email marketing (permission based), email has been the foundation that our business sits on.

How To Market Your New Joint Venture

For many entrepreneurs who wish to dive into the joint venture arena, getting the first partner is the hardest part. But once you have found a suitable and enthusiastic partner and performed all the proper paperwork, how do you take your newly formed JV and advertise it to the masses?

A great JV idea is like an acorn: it is unfilled potential until it is planted, watered, and finally grows into a new and majestic oak tree. The next step in getting the word out about your JV is to plant that seed and give it some water.

Here are some ideas that can get your JV information to new customers and clients:

Blogs – Form a blog with your JV partner. You can start a blog for free. You and your JV partner can trade writing short blog posts that promote your JV business. Also, get a following from other blogs to get traffic to yours. You might also ask about writing guest blog posts for other blogs to help promote your JV.

Articles – There are many websites that want your articles. Some will even pay you.  Write informative articles related to your industry and JV to publish throughout the web.

eZines – Many websites specialize in subscription ezines. In addition, many online businesses create their own ezine for their customer database. Talk with one of these about writing a helpful article for their ezine and get your business noticed by their customers.

Website – Don’t forget about the possibility of a separate website for your new JV. It can simply be a well designed website that is search engine optimized (SEO) and provides information to potential customers. Or you may go full speed with Flash animation and an online shopping cart to sell more business.

Press Release - A well-written press release to local or regional media can help get the word out about your new JV. Especially if either you or your JV partner has a prominent role in the region to begin with, a joint venture can pique a reporter’s interest to write a more detailed interview.

Email - The nice aspect about forming a JV is that you already have two established businesses with marketing lists.  Join up your databases and send out a promotional email to your joint customers about your new JV. Offer special deals to get them to try your new JV product or service.

Advertise – Don’t forget the traditional route of promotion – advertising. Create ads for print, radio, TV, and even online advertising such as pay per click or pay per call. Research the best venues for your target market and spend the money to promote your new JV. Remember, you are splitting the costs, making advertising more affordable to both parties.

Your newly formed JV doesn’t have to sit stagnant while you try and build a new customer base. Take the initiative and get the word out about your new JV business.

Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A Joint Venture Marketing firm. He exemplifies how to profit from Joint Venture relationships by creating profit centers with minimal risk and maximum profitability.

To discover more Joint Venture Marketing Strategies join his free Joint Venture Marketing Wealth Report.

How Do You Handle A JV Crisis?

Every day, you are subjected to the slings and arrows of business. Machinery breaks down. Shipments get lost. Airplanes are delayed. And in each of these types of scenarios, you are tested on your ability to effectively deal with the situation in a manner becoming of a business owner and a joint venture partner. However, when your JV rubs against friction how do you handle it? Are you a pro, or do you wilt and become a feather in the wind?

Crisis is usually not easy and most certainly unpleasant. But your attitude and leadership toward solving the problem(s) and getting resolution tells volumes about the success of your JV and your relationship with your JV partner. If you can improve upon the ways you handle and lead crises, you can bet you’ll find greater satisfaction with your JV.

So what are the characteristics of an effective crisis leader? A great crisis manger will have the ability to:

See the cause of the crises - A crises happens when something happens that wasn’t according to plan or strategy. What caused the machinery to break down? Was it faulty maintenance, or perhaps a warranty problem? Knowing the source gives light to the path of fixing the problem.

Know what resources are needed to solve the crises – A solution to a big problem requires resources. Continuing on the broken machinery example, a good crisis handler will know the tools needed to fix it, the right mechanic to summon, or perhaps the right tech to call for an over-the-phone repair.

Admit strengths and weaknesses – You may have the right tools to fix your machinery, but you may also not have a clue how to disassemble the parts. Know what you can and cannot do, and lean solutions toward your strengths.

Identify the obstacles - Any solution may have obstacles that need to be overcome. You may not have the right tool, or it may be the weekend and a technician cannot be called for repair of the broken machinery, etc.

Find multiple solutions - A broken down machinery problem may have many solutions.  One solution may be to fix the machinery. Alternately, you could hire someone else with the same machinery to do the work if you’re in a hurry. Another solution could be designing a client order that requires different machinery that is in working condition.  Think outside the box.

Know that a solution exists – A good crisis leader doesn’t give up. There is a solution for every problem.  It just requires creativity and thought to discover it.

Encourage others to do their best - A crisis puts stress levels on overdrive. A good crisis leader will have the ability to encourage and pep up another JV partner and believe in their abilities to work toward the solution.

Crisis leadership is not an inherited trait. It takes practice and experience. Learn to get a grip on your top JV problems as they arise and let your inner crisis leader emerge.

Christian Fea is CEO of Synertegic, Inc. A Joint Venture Marketing firm. He exemplifies how to profit from Joint Venture relationships by creating profit centers with minimal risk and maximum profitability.

To discover more Joint Venture Marketing Strategies join his free Joint Venture Marketing Wealth Report.

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