How to get JV partners to promote for you…
There are several places to find JV partners…
The best by far are seminars and conferences.
Get to know the people at these events. They may not be able to help you now, but they can be a resource in the future. Make sure you always have a healthy supply of business cards to trade.
You could use Click Bank or other affiliate networks to find people willing to promote your product.
Search engines are an option – find out who is a “leader” in your chosen niche.
And there are forums and social networks for joint ventures – jvnotifypro.com, jvme.com, iajvb.org.
LinkedIn and Facebook are useful sites as well. Invite bigger marketers to “Friend” you on LinkedIn and Facebook. And offer advice where you can!
Build up a healthy number of Skype contacts too! Get talking to people, and get to know their friends.
I got some of my best contacts through chatting to people on Skype who then brought someone else into the conversation. If you buy a product and you like it, see if you can find the vendor on Skype and invite them to connect.
Don’t steam in to all of these places and announce you want JV partners. You need to build relationships!
Here’s how I landed my first big JV partnership….
I bought a product – quite an expensive one! But I noticed that the forum that was set up along with the product was suffering dreadfully from unpleasant spamming. And a lot of questions were being asked that were not being answered for days. So, I offered to moderate the forum for the product owner. Over the next few weeks we built a great relationship, I learnt a load once I had my first product ready to go he was more than happy to promote for me. Not only that, he also had influential marketers as personal friends and they promoted for me too on his recommendation.
Think what you can offer JV partners. OK, an extra few % on the commissions might help, but it might be better to offer a service – moderate a forum, help out answering support questions, design a website, do some graphics, if you find problems on somebody’s site offer to fix them….
We all have our own sets of skills, so think what you can offer them above and beyond the normal few % extra.
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This is a really great post, very informative content, Thanks for sharing Dave!
Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for stopping by and do keep in touch.
Dave