Introduction to Becoming a Joint Venture Broker

Below is the first chapter of the "Secret Gold Rush" E-Course explaining what the course will achieve. Please leave any comments.

Before I show you exactly how to broker deals between product owners and marketers let me tell you exactly how this works. I'm going to be writing this course in simple to understand techno free language so as to cater for everyone of differing experience levels.

Online there is such a thing as an affiliate programme. This is where a site owner will pay an affiliate a commission for sending him/her visitors to their site who buy something. This can range from a few percent all the way up to 50% or more.

There is also something online called a two tier affiliate programme. Whilst some people may be aware of this they won't be aware of the specific way to go about making money from it and lots of money at that.

Here's a definition of a two tier affiliate program from Marketingterms.com.

"In a two-tier affiliate program the first tier of commission is the same as in a regular affiliate program. The only difference is the additional tier(s), whereby marketers also earn a commission on sales generated by people they referred to the program".

In plain English this means that let's say you signed up as an affiliate to promote a site selling golf clubs. Well you could promote that site yourself, and earn 50% of whatever sales you make through promoting it. You will be a first tier affiliate in this case.

On the other hand you could go out and locate other site owners with large email lists or web sites with good traffic (visitors to their site) related to golf, and you could introduce them to the site and explain they can make money from promoting the other sites golf clubs to their list/visitors. If this person then promotes that site after signing up through you, you get 10%, for example, of whatever they sell.

Read that paragraph again to make sure it makes sense.

There are two main ways the marketer you find can promote the site you are brokering the deal for:

1) The marketer can add a banner advertisement to their site. Each time someone clicks on the ad and buys a product from the site you are brokering for, you earn your commission. As this ad may stay on the marketer's site for years to come, you can earn a residual income for doing little more than a bit of research and sending an email!

2) The marketer may have a large email list of customers or leads interested in the market you are brokering for. They may then send out an email to that list promoting the product, and for every sale they make you earn your commission.

Again your work was nothing more than finding a site owner looking to sell more products, and then finding a marketer capable of selling more of that product.

So you haven't promoted a product, you haven't created a product, you haven't done any marketing. All you've done is found a site with a two tier affiliate program, found another site with a ready made large email list or decent traffic, and brought the two together through one simple email. Hard to do? Nope it's extremely easy as you're going to see.

Throughout this course I'm going to refer to the person we are brokering for as "the site owner" (ie:the person with the product and the two teir affiliate program) and the person we are looking to promote the products as the "marketer" (ie: the person with the web site and decent traffic or email list).

Important: At this point in time you're probably thinking to yourself "well couldn't the person who has the large email list just cut you out and go and sign up to the site themselves? Well yes, in theory. But for three reasons the majority of them won't do this because:

a) We're going be making it a lot harder for them to do that as you'll see and

b) It won't make any difference to their commission anyway. Whether they sign up through you, or directly through the site itself (and therefore "cutting you out" as it were) their commission will still be the 50%, whether they are a first tier affiliate like you are, or a second tier affiliate. This means that IF they understand the whole brokering business plan (and most won't due to the way we set it up) they probably wouldn't bother trying to cut you out anyway as it has no effect on their commissions.

c) We're going to be very, very clever. We're going to make it incredibly easy for them to promote, and show them how much money they can make from a simple email blast to their list or ten minutes adding a graphic to their site.

I hope you're starting to get a bit excited about this. Essentially what you're going to be doing is finding a large amount of money ready to change hands, and then falling in front of it. It really is that simple. You find someone wanting to sell more products, and you find someone with the capabilities of selling more of that product, and you broker a deal between them via one or two emails. It's simple, it's easy, and most importantly it can make you a lot of money starting from today.

Top Tips For Securing Joint Venture Partners In Any Niche!

There are a number of different ways that you can go about finding joint venture partners, as well as some very specific strategies that you can use to find and convince your niche markets top marketers to promote your products and website.

A joint venture is where you contact a marketer in your niche market who has an email list of subscribers who may have an interest in your product. They can be the lifeblood of your business. Just five decent joint venture partners who promote your ebook to their email list in exchange for a commission can put your current income through the roof. Read this newsletter and go out and take action. I assure you your results can be life changing.

Know Your Conversion Rate

Don’t make the common mistake of many newbies and start contacting JV partners here, there and everywhere before you have even made a sale of your ebook. This is very, very wrong. You must be able to tell a possible JV partner how well your site is converting.

Site conversion is simple. It’s the amount of visitors to the amount of visitors who buy. So for example if one hundred people visited your site and two bought your conversion is two percent. You want to get at least one thousand visitors before you know your conversion.

To work out how your sites converting download the software from www.statcounter.com. Don’t worry it won’t cost you a penny.

Offer Large Commissions

Once you know how well your sites converting (if no one’s buying don’t even bother contacting marketers. Improve your sales letter, change your headline, whatever it takes) you can start contacting JV partners. Offer them more than your regular affiliates. If you offer your affiliates fifty percent commission, offer your JV partners seventy five percent.

You may be thinking “wait a sec those commissions are huge? I won’t make any money myself”. This is where so many go wrong. If people are sending you tons of visitors you can build your email list and offer them other products in email promotions, and you can also make money selling back end products.

Return The Favour

Offering high commissions is not enough. Tell them that you’ll add a message into your auto responder set up so that you’ll market their products via an affiliate link in your back end. Explain that you’ll be setting up joint ventures with other marketers in the niche so that they’ll get visitors to their site without spending a dime.

Using Clickbank

The first thing to understand is that you are ONLY contacting marketers who sell products aimed at your niche market and therefore have an email list or customer list of people who may have an interest in your ebook. If you are selling an ebook on snowboarding then don’t start contacting marketers who sell diving products.

Bearing this in mind start at www.clickbank.com. Click on “promote products” on the home page and then search the marketplace for products in your niche. Contact the product owners and try setting up a JV.

Google “Ezine” Trick

This is a great way to find marketers with ready made email lists they can send a promotion to and sell tons of copies of your ebook virtually overnight.

Go to google and type in “(niche) ezine”. So for example if you were selling a bass fishing related ebook you’d type in “bass fishing ezine”. What you’ll get is a huge list of results of web sites in which people have a bass fishing email newsletter (or ezine). Obviously they won’t all have one, often you’ll get millions of results, but you can spend a few hours going through the results and get more JV contacts than you could ever hope for!

Google “Allintitle” Trick

Here’s another cracker. Do you think web sites that have your niche market keyword in their domain name might be great potential JV partners? Of course! Go to google and type in “allintitle: (niche)”

So for example if you were selling an ebook on song writing you’d type “allintitle:song writing” into google.

Go through the results contacting marketers and setting up hugely profitable joint ventures.

Leverage Results

Setting up just one profitable JV allows you the opportunity to use the results to start setting up even more joint ventures. You can say things like “Joseph Bloggs from domain.com made X amount of sales and earned Y from just one mailing to his list”. This is really powerful as it shows marketers that you know what you are doing.

Now get out there and take action. You really can set up joint ventures with the top guns in any niche market if you actually go and give it a try!

3 Simple Steps To Building An Affiliate Empire

If you have your own product or service on the Internet today then you will know that the way to explode your profits is to have your very own, successful affiliate program. The problem is that most people do not have their program set up in the right way resulting in low traffic counts and therefore poor sales from their affiliates.

In this article I am going to outline some tricks and strategies that anyone with their own affiliate program should use in order to take their online business to the next level.

Encourage People To Sign Up

This is where most people start to go wrong. They set up an affiliate program, stick up a link that says “click here to sign up” and leave it at that. You need to sell your affiliate program. After all there is an incredible amount of competition out there.

Have a mini sales letter that explains the benefits to people signing up. Tell them their commissions and how they can earn an income without having to worry about creating a product or having a website but from promoting your products instead.

Provide Affiliates With Marketing Materials

Here’s another big one. Site owners get people to sign up their affiliate program and then just leave them to it. It’s like they’re saying “thanks for signing up, now go and make me some cash”. That’s ridiculous. To start earning the big bucks, you need to do all the hard work for your affiliates. If you don’t, somebody else will.

Provide your affiliate with email promotions, articles, press releases, pay per click ads, banner adverts and whatever else you can create that will enable people to promote your site to the masses with as little work as possible.

Here’s the thing. You could write an article and submit it to article directories all over the Internet and do very well for yourself. However if you just had one hundred affiliates blasting that article all over the net you’ve just multiplied your marketing power by one hundred. This is the key to making massive mounts online.

If you can’t write articles etc yourself hire someone to do so from www.elance.com but do provide your affiliates with marketing materials or your just setting yourself up for having a very mediocre Internet business

Have An Affiliate Only Newsletter

Here’s a real cracker. Have an email list of only your affiliates. Each week send out a mini blueprint on how they can market your products and earn a commission. Inform them of new products you’ve just launched or new marketing materials you’ve just added to your affiliates area.

Another great method you can use with this is to have a weekly completion. Each week your affiliate who earns the most gets an extra one hundred dollars or whatever you can afford. Mention the winner in each week’s newsletter and say things like “who thinks they can overtake Joe Bloggs as being my top affiliate? Come on guys I know I’ve got some great marketers signed up as my affiliates prove it and I’ll mention you in next weeks newsletter”.

This is great. Psychologically you are motivating your affiliates to promote your products like crazy to get recognition as being your “top gun”. Often ego trips are just as motivating as money.

Motivate Your Affiliates And Explode Your Profits

In this article I’ve been taking about what you need to do in order to earn a serious living online through having your own affiliate program. Done properly this could earn you more money than you could ever have dreamed of. The methods in this article outline what you need to do to in order to overcome the three barriers of starting an affiliate program

You need to:

Persuade people to sign up

Make it easy for them to market

Motivate them to market fast and market hard.

Do these three things and you will be able to create a massively successful affiliate program and you will sell buckets of your products, and build a huge list without any real hard work or costs.

Take my word on this; if you implement these simple strategies today then you will see a marked improvement in both your affiliate sign ups and your affiliates marketing efforts. Go on. Give it a go!

A 5 Step Guide to Producing Quality Info Products!

Are you looking to create a hot selling info product? What if I told you that you could do it in one day? And you only have to write five paragraphs! Anyone on the planet can do this. So without further ado let’s get started.

Now what we’re going to do is use other people’s hard work to create our very own unique products. Sounds too good to be true doesn’t it? However this is a very real opportunity that the top gun ebook publishers use time and time again to create products in lightning quick time.

Go to www.goarticles.com. In my previous article we looked at how to find niche ebook ideas in article directories. Well today we’re going to use the content in them to create ebooks.

You see web site owners write articles and submit them to article directories so that they get free publicity for their sites. At the end of each article is a link back to their web site with a bit of information about their site for example. These site owners want people to take that article and market it to people so they get visitors to their site without spending a dime on marketing. This is perfect for savvy entrepreneurs who are willing to spend a few hours of their time in order to profit for many years to come.

What we can do at go articles.com is type in a niche in the search bar at the top right (make sure it’s on “article content” rather than search by author). Type in your niche market. So for example type in “dogs”. You’ll get thousands of results related to what you have searched for. Now what I want you to do is simply go through the results finding at least seventy quality articles related to the dogs market and copy and paste them into word or some kind of word processing application.

As I’ve said make sure they are quality articles. If you create an ebook using rubbish you’ll just get a sky high refund rate and it will all be a pointless exercise. Do it right from the off and you’ll set yourself up for success.

If you can, try and tie all the articles together in one sub niche. For example a sub niche of dogs might be training your dog. So you could find articles on stopping your dog from barking at night, toilet training that kind of thing. Use a bit of imagination when using this method.

Email Article Authors

You don’t want to use any articles without the authors permission. Remember the majority of articles will have been submitted so the author can get visitors to their site without spending a dime. However you never want to breach any copyright laws. To avoid this email the authors of each article. Explain to them that you are creating an ebook aimed at their niche market. You’d love to include their article in your book and you’ll include a link back to their site and information about them. Also ask them if they have any other articles you could include.

I would expect about 70 percent of authors you contact will be over the moon to approve the use of their articles in your book. After all it will give them increased exposure and potential sales. Then you just need to discard the articles from authors who haven’t replied or who have declined the use of their articles.

Put the remaining articles in an order that makes sense and create a contents page. Use the titles of the articles as contents topics. You could even create chapters aimed at solving certain problems people in your niche have. So for example if you were creating an ebook on golf you could create a section on improving your golf swing, a section on the mind game of golf and so on. All articles would make up separate chapters.

Now if you remember at the beginning I mentioned writing five paragraphs. Well this is it. Write a short introduction and conclusion. These only need to be a few paragraphs telling people what they can expect to learn in the introduction and a summary of what they have learnt in the conclusion. And make sure that you sign off with your name! This will instantly establish you as an expert in the field. Another tip is to link to your back end products at the end of the book or add a link to your sign up page in order to increase your sales.

Finally you need to turn it into an ebook to sell. Go to http://www.primopdf.com/ and download the software. Don’t worry it won’t cost you a dime. Once downloaded all you need to do is in your word software hit “file“ and then “print” and then select “primo PDF” as your printer. Voila. You’ve just created an ebook using other people’s hard work. This whole process can be done in just a few hours. Obviously you may need to wait a day or two for the article authors to get back to you but apart from that you’re all set! Anyone can use this method to create more ebooks than you’d ever be able to sell.

Didn’t I tell you that anyone could do this? Just think, you can create a product without spending a single cent yet you could sell hundreds or even thousands of copies and you get to keep ALL the profits. And all from other people’s hard work! What a great method, right?

How To Find Unlimited Niche Market Ideas To Profit From

If you are unsure where to start, then finding niche markets for info products can be an absolute killer. Whilst publishing niche ebooks is a proven business model that can earn you a lot of money, finding niches to exploit can be time-consuming as well as disheartening if you struggle to find any good markets.

But thankfully, there is hope on the horizon. In this article I am going to show you a simple strategy that you can use for finding as many niche markets, as you could possibly want.

Now this is an amazing resource that will not cost you a dime to sign up to.

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

Go to the above site and start typing in niche markets that interest you. If you had an interest in cats, you would type in “cats”. Then all you need to do is to make a list of all the sub niches that fall within the general niche market of cats. These will all be potential niches that you could exploit.

www.amazon.com

A terrific resource for finding niche markets that you would never have thought of entering is Amazon, the bookselling giant. Go to the website and in the search bar select “books”. Then type in a niche you would like to create a product around. For example, type in “snowboarding” or “weddings”. Go through the results and start taking a note of all the niche markets that jump out at you.

When many people hear about this technique they immediately think, “hold on, how can I possibly compete with Amazon?” Of course you will not be in competition as you will be catering for a different market. This method lets us check if there is a market for our ebook already established. Also when people buy a book from Amazon they have to wait days for the book to arrive. As ebook publishers we can offer the customer instant gratification as we send the info products straight away as a download.

Another great thing about downloadable products is that, strangely, they are seen as having a higher perceived value. You may be able to charge twelve dollars for a book selling it via Amazon but as a download you can charge anywhere up to fifty dollars. Crazy, but true.

www.dummies.com

This is another fabulous niche market research tool. You can find a wide range of topics across all of the “…..For Dummies” books. The Dummies company has made an art form out of creating niche products. Search through their titles in general niches that interest you and jot down potential ebook topics.

www.goarticles.com

In my eyes, article directories are the absolute best way to find ideas to create ebooks around. The GoArticles directory is just one of many in which you can go to the site, type in a niche subject idea in the search bar and receive, literally, thousands and thousands of ebook ideas.

The secret when visiting these sites is just to make up a huge list of potential topics, and then when you’re done, go to http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ and type in your topics. If there are people searching for information on the subject (at least five thousand a month) you have just found an ebook topic that you could turn into a very lucrative home business.

I would like to take this opportunity to dispel a myth about the Internet. You will not be able to just throw up a site, sit back and become rich. Many would have you believe that the Internet is just one big get rich quick scheme. This could not be further from the truth. Done properly ebook publishing can change your financial situation drastically but there is still some work to be done.

We are not aiming to become millionaires here. We want to build a network of mini sites that each make about 1k a month. Being able to come up with an endless amount of niche product ideas is the key here, then all you need to do is to create the product.

And yes, I know that you are thinking, “ALL you need to do!” is create a product. “Ha, easy for him to say. They are hard to create, right?” Well, no actually. You don’t need to write a single sentence of your info product. You can hire people to do so at elance.com. For around five hundred to seven hundred bucks a freelance writer will create the entire book for you.

You are an Internet marketer, not a writer. Get a product created, set up pay per click campaigns, write a press release and blast a few articles over the net on the topic of your ebook. Then you have another one created, do the same process, and just rinse and repeat.

Around the globe, wealthy entrepreneurs know that multiple streams of autopilot income is THE secret. Now thanks to the Internet and ebooks, anyone can set up streams of income that sends money into their bank account even whilst they sleep.