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Ok, we’re moving away from affiliate promotion in just a moment, but before we do, I want to talk about the reasons you promote other peoples products. In fact this totally applies if you’re promoting your own products too, so listen closely.

So I have a question for you. What was the underlying reason you promoted your last affiliate program? Aside from the product and sales letter being the best thing you’ve seen in years (which should always be the case when you promote affiliate programs – quality) I’m going to guess your answer was for profit. To make a bunch of cash. After all, what other reason would there be to promote other peoples products?

Funny you should ask that, because I have another reason for promoting other peoples affiliate programs. I will warn you in advance, it’s quite a risky one because it’s not guaranteed to work and it could totally waste days of your time, you might only just break even, lose a bunch of subscribers, and get nothing in return at all.

I’m talking about promoting other peoples affiliate programs to make connections. Lets face it, this business is all about making connections. If you don’t have connections, you’re stuck in the mud and your progress is slowed, possibly even halted.

I’m talking about joint ventures. Now we’ve already touched on this, and I’ll talk to you a little more about it later too, but for now, keep in mind that if you head out looking for joint ventures and looking to make contacts before you get your name around, you’ll be avoided like the plague.

Looking at things from another marketers point of view, often you’ll be asking a lot of them. Not as far as money or time is concerned maybe, but trust is always an issue. Every time you persuade a marketer to send an ad out to their lists for you, they’re relying on you to keep your word. They’re relying on your products being quality, and you treating your customers like royalty.

These are qualities that are most often missing from a green marketers arsenal. Think carefully about how many marketers there are out there competing with you. From the multi-millionaires to the first dayers and everything in between. How are you going to get yourself noticed over all of them?

What I’m explaining to you here is one of the simplest ways I find to make myself known. I don’t just promote an affiliate program because I want to meet and possibly deal with the owner of the program of course. Their products have to be good, their sales copy has to be sound and I have to be confident in what I’m promoting first, but if all of those are in place and I had the option of either promoting one from someone I want to JV with in the future, and someone that I didn’t, I would most definitely go with the potential JV.

You see, everyone’s a chancer. I get all sorts of people e-mailing me requesting joint ventures, from complete strangers, unknowns, to blackmailers. I also know for a fact that the majority of people out there are clambering so hard to get rich, they’re not willing to listen, compensate, learn, deal equally, or take action. The common attitude is ‘If I can just get an ad to ‘Insert big name’s’ list, I’ll be rich, and I won’t have to lift a finger. Well, bad news for anyone who’s thinking that, because even the big guys rely on each other sometimes, especially when it comes down to affiliate promotion and joint ventures. No single ad will make your rich.

You’re probably sitting there right now thinking ‘But I’m not like that!’. Well that’s great, it’s a good start, but it doesn’t help if it’s only you that knows you’re not like that.

By promoting affiliate programs for people who you’re going to joint venture with, you can make some sales and immediately jump in. They can check up on you. You’re no longer a stranger or some random wannabe that thinks they can get rich from this persons list. By promoting and making sales you prove you’re a doer and you know a little something about business. This immediately propels you firmly into the distance, miles ahead of the majority of marketers trying to get their hands on a joint venture.

When you approach a JV prospect, you now have something to say and you are superior to the majority of the mails and JV requests they get. Even if you get denied you make a connection, they will remember you. Put yourself around in a specific group of marketers that you know are in league and they’ll inevitably begin to talk.

So there we have it. Once again, think about the future. Don’t just promote something because it’s going to get you a load of cash. Promote it to generate leads, to build trust, or in this case, make yourself a somebody and massively increase your chances of getting in with a group of marketers all working to make sure each other is successful. (So effectively and efficiently there’s not even a word for it).

This has been the most powerful for, of marketing for hundreds if not thousands of trade making years. It isn’t about to change now.

The sooner you get yourself into this position the better.

As an added note, be sure to read the JV section before you even consider heading out to try and secure some. I can almost guarantee devastating long term mistakes will be made if you haven’t JV’d in any serious way before.

To Your Success
Cody Moya

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