In part one of this post, we discussed how to find a Joint Venture partner, and how to initially approach them. Now we will go into more depth about how to persuade them to JV with you.

Once you’ve found somebody that you want to work with, show them that you really do know what you’re doing by successfully promoting THEIR products. This will definitely get their attention. Give them a link in your email to your website, so that a simple click of his mouse is all you require of him.

If you’ve won a competition for most sales of one of their products, you will most definitely have a head-start. Sometimes this is quite easy, depending on the overall success of a product. Some products simply don’t do very well, even for the big-names out there.

Also, if you know a mid-level player that you’ve promoted for and THEY know the person you want to partner with, ask them for an introduction. A simple email saying that you are good to work with and that you will do everything you say you will, would be a real boon for your case.

You may have to attend one of their workshops or seminars in person, at which time you can go and introduce yourself as a fan, or at least let them know that you aspire to being like them. You might also offer to do some free work for them on their next product launch. Actually doing this will surely get you a shoe-in as a possible JV partner for YOUR next product launch.

Don’t be afraid to network; business all over the world is really about networking with people and this is no different in the internet-marketing world. Often is best to aim for a Joint Venture partner who isn’t yet really established as a big name. You can often find these by seeing who came in second or third or maybe tenth in one of the affiliate contests that marketers often run.

These people will one day be one of the big names in the Internet Marketing world. Partner with them while you still can, because one day they may be beyond your reach. You can also find these kinds of people in internet marketing forums. These forums are easily found by using a search-engine and simply typing ‘internet marketing forums’.

If you don’t have ANY list that you can share, you can offer other services to the potential JV partner. You can write sales-copy for them, or help create some graphics. Perhaps you can create the website for one of her new products, or write some emails for the launch of her next product. Try to offer services that are seen to be of about equal value. Offer anything that will help them save time, save money, save effort or make them money.

Certainly, you must offer them a good percentage of the sales, as much as 100%! Yes, really. Anything between 80% of sales and 100%, because you are trying to establish yourself, and to do this, you must be willing to pay the price. After all, once somebody has purchased from you, THEY are now one of YOUR customers and they are on YOUR list.

Keep in mind at all times that you should go into EVERY joint venture partnership with more than profits in mind. You should view them as the beginning of a long and successful business partnership and possibly a lasting friendship.

Luke

Darren Webb has produced a fantastic new course showing you how to create and use videos in all of your internet marketing efforts; it’s called Global Video Secrets.

Darren is without doubt one of THE rising-stars in internet marketing.  What makes him stand-out from the crowd is his integrity.  He absolutely delivers what he says he will and the quality of his work is first-rate.

In the course, he shows you how to create and distribute videos to effectively increase the number of visitors to your website.  He has this uncanny ability to TEACH; he really DOES know how to teach and it’s something that obviously comes very naturally to him.  Most people can know a subject inside and out and STILL not be able to teach it.  Darren not only knows his subject intimately, but he knows how to show others these skills.  He gives reasons WHY you should do the things he teaches.  If you know the “why” you have the motivation to DO IT!

Global Video Secrets includes six modules, each one dedicated to a particular subject.  These are:

1. What equipment and software you need (Darren also shows you which great FREE software to use).

2. How to create a video with sound in under 10 minutes.

3. How to make your video go viral (so that other people will promote it for you).

4. How to effectively do keyword research so that the search-engines like Google will find your video.

5. How to create expensive-looking presentations for pennies.

6. How to get ranked highly in the search engines.

He has also created a very lucrative affiliate program, so that you too can profit from this superb course. He also includes some nice bonuses in the form of completely royalty-free music clips for use in your own videos, and some really good graphics to help you create your own opt-in pages (these are easily modified, allowing you to add your own wording).

This is easily the best course on video-marketing I’ve seen, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.  In fact I’m so impressed with Darren’s course that I’ve included it permanently in my ‘Recommended’ section on the right, just below the ‘Archives’ section.

Here’s the link again: Global Video Secrets.

Luke.

No, G-Trends isn’t an X-rated movie, it’s a new tool that WordTracker has added to it’s already excellent free keyword-research site (WordTracker Free Tool).

What’s different about G-Trends is that it ESTIMATES the volume of searches made for a particular search-term (keyword). This gives you a TREND, a general idea of whether the keyword is going to be searched for MORE or LESS in the coming months.  VERY clever if I may say so.

Here is the formula they use to estimate daily search volume for any given keyword:

Number of searches for a keyword in their database, divided by the total number of searches in their database, TIMES the total number of daily searches on ALL search engines. This equals the estimated daily volume of searches for that particular keyword (search-term).

In average, tey collect about 2.0 million search terms from Dogpile.com and Metacrawler.com (accounts for 0.63% of searches from of the all engines). By combining these figures, they estimate that the total daily searches across all engines is 296.0 million searches.

So if a keyword that has been searched for 9,000 times in WordTracker’s database, this is the number of daily searches that they predict for that keyword:

9,000 divided by 296 million (total daily searches on all search-engines) TIMES by 469,8 million, equals    14, 286 predicted searches DAILY.

This is a great new tool, so use it now………………while it’s still FREE.

Here’s the link to it again: G-Trends by WordTracker.

Luke.

Writing doesn’t come easily to many people which is why there are so many article-directories out there.  The few who can write well are willing to provide content for your website so long as you give credit to the author and put a link on your site.  This is a very equitable arrangement as YOU don’t have to write, and THEY get links to their website.  Definitely a win-win situation.

That’s ONE thing you can do with articles written by other people.  Another great way to use other people’s content is to put several articles together into a compendium-book.  You still have to give each author FULL credit for his or her work and you still need to include links in the book to the authors’ websites, but given that caveat, you can produce and ebook in one day very easily.

Firstly you need a subject matter.  Once you’ve decided what you want the book to be about, go to article sites like Go Articles, Article City, Idea Marketers and Ezine-Articles and use their search-boxes to find articles related to your subject.

READ THEM!  Yep, make sure that each article is well-written and that it does make sense.  Collect enough articles for about 50 pages, which will be about 25 articles or so.  Leave them EXACTLY as they are!  Don’t change a word, even a spelling error.

Now, write a few lines introducing your book and making it clear that it is a compendium of ideas from several different authors.  Put the articles in some order, and then write an index page with the title for each article along with the author’s name and ad the correct page number.

If you don’t have a decent word-processing package, one of the best is OpenOffice, which is totally FREE and very impressive in what it can do.  OpenOffice also has several other office utilities, but the one you want right now is OpenOffice ‘writer’, (though you may as well download all of the other utilities as you may want them and as I said, it’s FREE!).

The other great thing about this software (how much better can it get?) is that it has a built-in pdf printer, which is also one of the best pdf printers out there.  It’s one of the best because you can write ANY text you want and then hyperlink the text to ANY website.  Many pdf printers don’t let you do this.  Use this feature to put links to YOUR websites in your introductory page.

Make the fonts of your ebook look interesting.  Don’t just use the default Times New Roman.  Change some font colors too.

So, now that you’ve compiled your book using this software, click ‘File’ then click ‘Export As PDF’.  Save it somewhere you can find it, like your desktop, then click ‘Save’.

Let the software do it’s magic, and then once it’s finished processing, you have a nice new ebook.  You can the book away as a bonus or you can give it to people who sign-up to your mailing list.  By the way, if you aren’t creating a mailing-list, you MUST do this.  Go to GetResponse to get an autoresponder account set-up.

Luke.

Here are some tips for you to help you get your videos found by the search engines.

1. Consider adding a transcript of your video when submitting the site that contains your video to the search-engines.  This can’t be done on the likes of YouTube of course.

2. Always allow comments when posting your video to YouTube (and Blip.tv etc.).  This encourages interaction.

3. Allow ratings also.  The more people who like and rank your video, the more people will view it.  Who would want to view a video with only a 1 star rating vs a 5 star rating?

4. Use keywords in your videos description.  This will make it far easier to get the search-engines to find you.  Remember that you aren’t bidding on these keywords as you would if you were having to pay for a Pay-Per-Click ad campaign, so you can use the very best keywords that are DIRECTLY RELATED to your target audience.

5. When putting the video on your own website, keep only one video per page and create an index page so that it’s easy for the search-engines and visitors to find all of your vidoes.

6. Because potential visitors to your video will often use the word “video” in their search, so use the word “video” in your description and tags.

7. Use the most attractive thumbnail.  People are more likely to click on a nice looking image rather than a black screen, or just some text.  A pretty woman maybe or a dollar sign?

8. If you don’t use an image for the thumnail, use the word “FREE” or “MONEY” or something similar.

9. If hosting the video on your own site, put it in a folder and name the folder with keywords.  e.g. lukehawthorne.com/videos/free-ebook-fire-your-boss

10. Create links to your videos in other peoples blogs, forums etc.  and submit the links to some social bookmarking sites.

Using these techniques WILL help you get your videos found, so you use them EACH and EVERY time you create a new video.

Luke.