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Alright, moving on now. You know how to go about finding JV prospects and some of the mistakes the majority of marketers make when they start out relating to who they approach and in what order. I want to re-iterate with that last point too; just because you’re not going for the biggest names first, it doesn’t mean you’re settling for second best. Take it from me, there’s plenty of really successful people out there without the big names.

So we know where to look and who you’re going after, but how do you begin to approach someone? Well first things first. How would you feel if some random person e-mailed and you and said something along the lines of, hey look, I made this new product, and I’m looking for you to promote it for me. Bear in mind the customers and the list you have already took you years to build a relationship with.

This is another thing that gets me. When you request a joint venture and are denied, don’t be annoyed about it. Before I got to where I am today, I used to talk to my marketing friends that were going at this joint venture thing really hard, and they’d message me almost every day and complain about being rejected. Why did he have to say no? It’s only an ad to his list. Two minutes of his time could change my life. How selfish!

Well no, not really. Let me give you a run down of what it looks like from other side when you approach an already successful marketer with a joint venture offer, and how they perceive you, and the thoughts that run through their heads.

First things first, we already talked about the something for nothing, and how there’s masses of people out there that would take you for a ride just for a quick boost of cash, people have even tried blackmailing me before, claiming to know people who are illegally selling my products and demanding an ad to my list in exchange for information. So while you might be the nicest, politest, kindest person in the world, your prospect doesn’t know that, and until your prove otherwise, you’re just someone else wanting something for nothing. I’ll show you how to get over this in a second.

It’s also important to keep in mind where your prospects lists and customer bases have come from. If you’ve been in this game for any length of time, you know how hard it can be to get started, don’t think that just because they’re earning millions and have a list of 100,000 people that they somehow skipped this hard part. They didn’t at all.

The list and customer base that they’ve built is often the foundation of their businesses, and if you’ve ever wondered why marketers turn down JV offers that could change your life, it’s because one slip up, one slight error of judgement and their whole business goes down the drain. Years of work, years of trust building, one dodgy joint venture and they could potentially lose it all.

So you see, a joint venture isn’t something that should be taken light heartedly. When someone denies you, you shouldn’t be offended, but take the stance that I do, and be happy they even considered you at all, develop your business further, and approach them at a later date when you’ve proved yourself.

Alright, now you won’t underestimate the joint venture and have a little sneaky peak into what it looks like from the other side, you should immediately have a much better understanding of things and a better idea regarding how to go about this.

So now we’ve got that important information out of the way, how do you make the connection? How exactly do you go about getting your joint venture prospect to listen to you?

Ok first things first. You are a nobody to them. Unless you change that, they won’t trust you, they won’t read your e-mails, they won’t reply and they most definitely won’t risk their businesses and the trust they’ve built with their customers on promoting your product.

So make yourself a somebody. There are plenty of ways to do this, and each one gives you more ammunition to add to your introduction. The most important part of any joint venture that answers the question on your prospects mind, who is this?

Number one. Remember I told you to subscribe to their list and get active in any forums or community based activities they might be holding? There’s one group of people more important to your JV prospect than the people they hold on their list. Opening up by simply stating you’re a subscriber to their list (remembering to mention their list name) is a great way to make that connection.

Many joint venture offers nowadays are just bulked. You wouldn’t believe how many ‘Dear FNAME’ e-mails I get. Joint ventures are personal deals that often differ from deal to deal. Bulk mail your list, no problem, but bulk mail a generic JV offer and you’ll be ignored for the most part.

The second, and my personal favorite is to actually follow a marketer around. Buy their products, subscribe to their lists, talk to them, attend their seminars, do whatever you can passively to begin with. If they don’t notice you first, you can always contact them with your offer. Chances are they will already know you.

These two methods do so much more than just get you a way in, more than I could ever write in a short section. I wrote a whole book about this previously, but to give you a quick run down of what you achieve from the joint venture perspective just by subscribing and buying;

You get a way in, an introduction. You’re no longer a nobody but a valued customer or subscriber. You prove you’re a doer if you buy their products and follow their guides. No one likes to talk about anything more than themselves, and someone who actually takes action is likely to be considered over a random passer by that’s just after a quick buck.

You get to learn how they do business. You see who they JV with, you see who they promote, what kind of deals they put together. If you’re following the trail like we spoke about earlier you get to see what their JV partner gave in return.

The list goes on. So you see when I say you should subscribe to lists, follow marketers around, buy their products, learn from them and let them know that you learned from them, there’s far more going on behind the scenes than the immediately obvious.

Get out there and make those connections next time you attempt some joint ventures and you’ll begin to learn far more from your experience than anyone could ever cover in a book. Just your introduction will have a profound effect on your results.

Give it a shot and you’ll see exactly what I mean.

To Your Success
Cody Moya

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