10/24/2005 07:50:00 PM|W|P|Jeff Casmer|W|P|50 Benefits Of Joint Venture Marketing What Is A Joint Venture? A joint venture is an agreement in which two or more businesses work on a project for a set period of time. Joint ventures can be long-term, like promoting a product together, or some can be short-term, like bartering (trading) products and services. Joint venture ideas are virtually endless. The Benefits Of Joint Venture Marketing 1. You can build long lasting business relationships. 2. You can increase your credibility by teaming up with other reputable, branded businesses. 3. You can get free products and services. 4. You can construct most joint venture deals with little or no money. 5. You can gain new leads and customers. 6. You can get discounts on products and services. 7. You can save money on business operating costs. 8. You can beat your competition. 9. You can gain referrals from other businesses. 10. You can solve your business problems. 11. 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You can get highly credible endorsements and testimonials from other experts. 47. You can quickly increase your ezine subscribers. 48. You can offer your products at lower prices than your competition. 49. You can easily find new up sell and backend products to sell. 50. You can create products faster and with less effort. These are only some of the benefits. They're endless! Quote of the Day: "If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone." -- Benjamin Franklin Warm regards, Jeff Casmer|W|P|113020884752894245|W|P||W|P|webmaster@24hourwealth.com10/13/2005 12:41:00 PM|W|P|Jeff Casmer|W|P|10 Heavy Duty Online Sales Grabbers ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Give your prospects extra incentives so they will order quicker. It could be free shipping, a faster shipping option, free gift wrapping, etc. 2. Make your small business look big on the world wide web. 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Use time saving promotional software. You can automate your search engine submissions, posting to online classified sites, etc. 10. Advertise your online business by dressing in clothes that are imprinted with your ad. It could be a T-shirt, ball cap, coat, etc. Quote of the Day: "When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor." -- Norman Vincent Peale Warm regards, Jeff Casmer|W|P|112923265186243994|W|P||W|P|webmaster@24hourwealth.com10/12/2005 11:11:00 AM|W|P|Jeff Casmer|W|P|10 Hot Ways To Sell Your Products Like Crazy 1. Turn your ad copy into a story or article. Your visitors won't be as hesitant to read your ad and will become more interested in your product. 2. Give visitors a freebie for filling out your online survey or they usually won't. Surveys will give your business valuable intelligence for your business 3. Enhance the power of your ad copy benefits by using attention getting words, highlighting keywords, using color, bolding key phrases, underlining, etc. 4. Give your visitors tons of choices so they don't get the feeling of being controlled. O.ffer them a variety of ways to order, contact you, navigate, etc. 5. Put yourself in your visitors shoes. Design your site for them, not for yourself. Create your product around your visitors not because you would b.uy it. 6. Get f.ree advice from successful online business owners. Participate in business chat rooms and message boards to chat with them. 7. Use your f.ree bonuses to create an urgency for your visitors to b.uy. Only o.ffer them for a limited time with your main product. 8. O.ffer your customers extra add-on products at the point of purchase. For example, if they are buying an electronic toy try to sell batteries with it. 9. Make your visitors feel good about themselves by giving them compliments. If they feel good they will also feel good about buying from your web site. 10. Add multiple p.rofits to your web site. If you're selling business books try to sell business services, courses and supplies too. Quote of the Day: "The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to." -- Aristotle Warm regards, Jeff Casmer|W|P|112914082936628190|W|P||W|P|webmaster@24hourwealth.com10/04/2005 09:21:00 AM|W|P|Jeff Casmer|W|P|10 High-Impact Viral Marketing Strategies Viral Marketing is allowing people to giveaway and use your free product or service in order to multiply your marketing quickly over the internet. The idea behind viral marketing is that you include your ad with the freebie people giveaway or use. Below are ten high impact viral marketing strategies: 1. Allow people to reprint your articles on their web site, in their e-zine, newsletter, magazine or ebooks. Include your resource box and the option for article reprints at the bottom of each article. 2. Allow people to use any of your freebies as free bonuses for products or services they sell. Include your ad on all your freebies. 3. Allow people to use your online discussion board for their own web site. Some people don't have one. Just include your banner ad at the top of the board. 4. Allow people to sign up for a free web site on your server. Since you are giving away the space, require them to include your banner ad at the top of the site. 5. Allow people to add their link to your free web site directory. Just require that they return a link back to your web site, advertising your directory. 6. Allow people to provide your free online service to their web site, visitors, or e-zine subscribers. They could be f.ree e-mail, e-mail consulting, search engine submissions, etc. 7. Allow people to give away your free software. Just include your business advertisement inside the software program. 8. Allow people to give away your free web design graphics, fonts, templates, etc. Just include your ad on them or require people to link directly to your web site. 9. Allow people to place an advertisement in your free ebook if, in exchange, they give away the ebook to their web visitors or e-zine subscribers. 10. Allow people to give away your free ebook to their visitors. Then, their visitors will also give it away. This will just continue to spread your ad all over the internet. Quote of the Day: "Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb." -- Stephen Covey|W|P|112844299682461020|W|P||W|P|webmaster@24hourwealth.com