Jeff Wellman http://www.layoffyourboss.com

Where to find Joint Venture Partners in any Niche Market

One of the most asked questions I get during any coaching session is, “How do I get Joint Venture Partners and where do I look for them in my Niche.

Identifying potential Joint Venture (JV) partners is relatively easy online as there are so many places to locate them, and I will get right to revealing some of the many ways.

Here’s a few examples :

Google/Search Engine Strategy

One of the first ways we need to look into is the use of Google or search engine strategy.  Your very first step is one that you have done so many times before, and that is you need to open up Google, or your favorite search engin and type in your niche keyword. Google will search for other Internet marketers and businesses that are in your niche.

Search the paid and non paid listings and find the contact information for each potential Joint Venture partner. Sometimes you can find this information by clicking on the contact links on the website. Remember to collect the information that I told you to collect int he previous post Jeff Wellman’s tips to unlocking the power of Joint Ventures http://www.layoffyourbossmarketing.com/blog/?p=212

Searcfh Whois.net

Another option is to find contact information for a website by running that website through www.whois.net. or you can use http://www.betterwhois.com

Whois.net is a domain-based research center that you can type in the domain name of the website you are on and generally get any contact information you need on the person who registered that particular domain.  At times they may have privacy settings that will not allow you to do this but more often than not you will be able to find good contact information for these site owners.

Find contact information on at least 30 Joint Venture partner possibilities.

Article Directories

Find contact information by following links in the resource box that will lead to the websites of the experts that wrote the article and their contact information, and once again contact the articles author.

Another strategy you could do would be to link your website to the articles you find and then contact the article owner to let them know you have done so.  Now It’s pretty well assumed that no one is going to object to your giving them exposure in this way so why contact them to let them know?

This gives you a reason to call them and make contact.  You just call  the article author and say,  ”I’ve linked to your article is this okay with you?” This gives a great opening to some good old friendly discussion and
maybe the possibility of an exchange of Ideas… if nothing more it opens up a good avenue of relationship building.

Attend Live Seminar Events (Get out and meet people)
 
OK this should have been the first one I started out with because the number 1 way to create a Joint Venture Partnership certainly is meeting people live in person. 

The reason I didn’t start right out with it is because I get the most excuses as to why you cant possibly attend a live seminar event.

Well I am here to tell you one more time that there is no better way to form real partnerships and form relationships than the Face-To-Face meeting…This is where the deals and relationships are made.

I can’t even begin to tell you all of the many ways that attending live events have helped grow my business and my relationships with my Joint Venture Partners.  Without attending a Live Seminar my first product would have fallen way short of what I was able to accomplish with my launch.

I basically was able to create most of the content of product at the live event I attended through interviewing the experts that I found and approached at the event.

Remember you will still need to work on your approach which I discussed in previous post http://www.layoffyourbossmarketing.com/blog/?p=212

Of course there is so much more to just going to the live event as even this can be just  business…

Real JV Partnerships are formed when it actually breaks from the business to, “Hey let’s go have a burger or a drink together,” that’s where relationships are formed.

Whenever I go to seminars and hear speakers being introduced by the host it always starts out I first met This next speaker at a seminar…and one right after another it continues…  “I  met you  at a seminar, I met you at a seminar…” That’s the way it’s done.

To many people just look at live events as a ‘good ol’ boys’ club, and that the Gurus will not be the slightest bit interested in what I have to say anyways. That perception is just totally wrong as I found out very quickly.  I want you to know that  anybody can be a part of this group.

Everybody is welcome to get to know us – we’re very accessible.  You may run across one or two that make you feel like they are better than everyone else there but those are the ones that are not even worth pursuing in the first place.

But you have to do the initiating of the relationship, we’re just not going to do it for you.   I highly
recommend that you go to seminars and get to know myself and other marketers.  Make sure you bring your business cards.

Also another great tactic to use while at these seminars is to have your picture taken with the Gurus you meet.

Get Your Picture Taken With Gurus

I say get a picture with absolutely everyone  that you meet at events and then say, “Can I have your email so I can send you a copy?”  Then I send you back a physical copy of the picture and I sign it.  .

Get an account with sendoutcards.com and create a card and send out to the JV Partner with the picture you had taken with the both of you and let them know what a great time you had.

This is a reminder to the potential JV Partner as to who you are.

As with any of the other suggestions I can give you it is going to take action and dedication on your part.  You can make the decision to use any of these methods, but without action on your part you are like I said before, “dead in the water.”

Until Next post I hope you decide to try out some of these methods.  Please feel free to leave comments or let me know how they worked for you.

To Laying Off Your Boss Together

Jeff Wellman
http://www.layoffyourboss.com

The Joint Venture as Part of Your Product or during the Planning Stage

Most people think a Joint Venture needs to be Partner A has a product, Partner B has a large list and promotes Partner A’s product” – and  joint  ventures are so much more than that if you do them right.

What most people just starting out don’t ever realize is that if they start out bringing their potential JV partners in as part of the project, either in the planning phase of it, or part of the content sch as Interviews or whatever your creative imagination can possibly come up with is huge.  Once you involve your JV Partners into the planning stages or even as content to the product they now have a vested  interest in the success of the product as opposed to… just another product someone wants me to pitch.

To many people get in their mind or are taught that the JV Partner comes in at the end of the process and just promotes the product.  Get the JV Partner involved before the end of the process and watch the true power of Joint Ventures reall.y begin to take hold.

I have partnered with different JV partners on many of different products and it has brought amazing results to not only to my online business but to the JV Partner’s Business as well.

Each of us have different talents and strengths that we bring into a partnership that will create a Win-win situation for everyone involved including the customer that ends up with more value in the end.

I often think back to my first Online Product that I generated over $104,000 in just under 30 days  http://www.layoffyourboss.com

What would it have done if I would not have involved Joint Venture Partners in my product as content?

I interviewed 8 different Internet Marketing Experts; Frank Sousa, Ken McArthur, Keith Wellman, Heather Vale, Simon Leung, Gary Ambrose, Sterling Valentine, Harris Fellman, each provided content for my package through a recorded interview.  Without them I would have had a 64 page ebook which would not have supplied the customer with enough value to make my product take off as well as it did during the launch.

But each one of these partners that I interviewed now had a vested interest in my product succeeding because they were part of the product and they helped promote it in the end.

Are you tapping into the true Joint Venture Partner Power?

Look for ways to find JV Partners in my next couple of posts coming soon.

To Laying Off Your Boss Together

Jeff Wellman
http://www.layoffyourboss.com

Passion to Profit-Finding your Passionate niche Market

WHAT’S YOUR PASSION? You must find your true Passion… Turn your passion into profit…

No matter what way you have heard it I am sure you have heard this  more times than you can count.

What is it that gets people stuck with this step more than almost any step that needs to be taken when trying to start up your online business.

I have coached several new marketers and each time It seems that the majority end ups frozen in place the minute I ask the phrase…what is your Passion.

Well I have decided that I do not agree that you have to start out passionate about what you are doing to make money.  But you need to become passionate about what you are doing.  So for now on I am not going to start out telling my coaching students to find a Niche that they are passionate about when they first start out.

If they can figure that question out and it works out that they are passionate about the Niche they start in great… But if not oh well… let’s just get started moving forward in something that is going to be profitable and then discover what our passion is as we go.

When I first got my start online I do not think I could have answered this question right away either.  My passion was God and my family.  But ask me how in the world would I ever be able to monetize either one of those subjects and I would have stared at you with a blank look on my face.

My son Keith Wellman did something very smart with me.  He offered me a choice of 5 categories that he knew was profitable already and he said pick one that you know nothing about and let’s get started.

Well it was easy as I knew nothing about any of the 5 topics he gave me to pick from.  Most certainly there was no passion involved with the choice I made either.

I picked Affiliate Marketing and within 3 weeks I put together a product which I called  Layoff Your Boss http://www.layoffyourboss.com and launched a very successful launch that generated over $100,000.00 in just under 30 days.

Ths was fantastic but as time went on something began to happen.  I began to lose interest in what I was doing and I found myself procrastinating and not wanting to even keep going.  Even though I knew I was doing something that had the possibility to generate more money than I would even know what to do with, I just had no drive to keep doing what I was doing.

I was ready to go back to work for someone else…UNTIL something amazing happened.

After my second product I began to start coaching and mentoring the customers that had just bought my product and doing everything I could to help them get started online.  I began to build tremendous relationships with those I was helping and I started seeing results happening in the lives of those I was coaching. 

My students began to thank me for taking the time to actually care about whether or not they succeeded.  Every little success I seen one of my students make drove me to do more and soon I found myself waking up in the morning ready to go.  Ready to find out how I could help someone else that day.  When I went to bed at night I felt a sense of gratification that what I did during the day was something of value and made a difference in the life of someone else.

What happened that made the difference of wanting to quit and give up to feeling motivated and empowered, and ready to succeed no matter what it took? 

I found my passion.  My passion was there waiting for me to discover what it was…and it was right there in the middle of something I did not start out enjoying at all.

Yes you must discover what your passion truly is but don’t get so caught up on the word Passion that you never find out what it really is.

What am I passionate about?

Answering this question honestly is the only way you’re going to make a go of things. No matter what your ultimate goal is, if you are not interested in what you wake up each day to do, you will not keep at it, and you will not be successful.

You must find it if you don’t know it. It will empower you to attain your dreams faster.  It will keep you going in the bad times, It will keep you motivated in the sluggish times, It will keep your dreams alive and keep you on track to achieve your goals.

Just don’t let it stop you dead in your tracks before you find out what your true passion really is.

I recently have joined forces with one of my mentors Ken McArthur… This man is one of the most giving men I know and he truly has found his passion in life and it aligns with mine totally.  It is helping others see and live their dreams.

We have joined together along with my amazing partner Dixie Brown and we have recently opened a brand new coaching and mentoring program called IMPACT 101.  Our focus is helping the online beginner finally get started achieving the success they have only dreamed about until now.

The New Impact 101 Mentoring System is 100% Customized To Your Abilities So You Succeed Even Faster!  We realize that success is not a one-size-fit-all and therefore needs to fit you as an individual.

If You Are a Beginner Wanting To Reach Millions With Your Ideas, Products and Services Right Now — We Have Something Designed Especially for YOU!

Would love to have you drop by and check us out right now…If your still unsure this might not be for you,  we would love to set up a time to just talk to you on the phone (our dime) and let you get to know us and us get to know you to see if there is anyway we can make something work.

Check out IMPACT 101 right now.  http://www.theimpactfactor.net/impact101

Have an amazing Day

Jeff Wellman

30 Days…Amazing Results…Amazing IMPACT

If someone was to tell me that just a handful of ordinary people could accomplish such IMPACT in just 30 days I would have really had my doubts. really did not know what to expect when I jumped on board with the rest of the IMPACT team. But it has been an amazing ride.

What it proved to me is that my theory is correct…Everyone no matter who you are has so much value to give and amazing potential…Believe me when I say you have magic within you… 18 average pople from all different walks of life, each with our own little quirks and differences stepped up to the plate and made a difference in this world.  we had IMPACT.  We stood up in the middle of a big old noisy world and were noticed… Kind of sounds like a title of a book to me. 

Guess it is already taken by Ken McArthur; IMPACT: How to get noticed, Motivate millions, and Make a difference in a noisy world.

Here is what we did in 30 days.

In the last 30 days the Impact Action Team has been able to get out our G-I-V-E message to over 19 MILLION people, via radio, television, teleconferences, events, blogs, social media, newsletters, speaking engagements, one-to-one relationship building and more.

That’s one heck of a success story!

Just in Long Beach ALONE we were able to find an audience 1.9 MILLION people that we can spread our message to.

Take a look at this video of what happened in Long Beach from the the Impact Action Team:

Now that is how to create Impact…You can be part of this amazing team right now…to find out how check out this URL… http://learningfolder.net/blog/?p=217

Isn’t It time you had Impact?

Jeff Wellman

I am standing in a circus tent at Brendon Burchard’s Life’s Golden Ticket event today with Ken McArthur and the rest of the Impact Action Team members and we are asking 2,000 people to spread a message of hope to teenagers who don’t think that life is worth living.

I think it’s a great message of hope for anyone and would love to see all of my readers think about spreading it today.

Here’s th Impact Action team’s simple message for for giving hope (and maybe saving someone’s life!):

   G – Greet and meet: talk to others, smile, say hello, ask someone how they are doing

   I – Involve yourself and others: find a cause you can support, volunteer, pledge resources. Get the people around you involved, especially if you see someone beginning to withdraw. Invite them to participate in some activity, to  ”get out” of their comfort zone

   V – Validate others: tell others that they matter – especially family members and friends that you tend to see daily but may take for granted, give genuine complements

   E – Empathize: be a listening ear, take time to be fully present, don’t try to solve – just acknowledge someone’s feeling/hurt

You can find out more about the Impact Action team’s wonderful project at:

http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=AQ0Em&m=1cD3X5pVjpOv_r&b=RporB3_5ICVEsm.UKJDLmw

Spread this message today!

And if you send it on let me know how many you sent it to!  We are looking for measurabe results so please leave a comment and let me know how many people you can spread the message to. If it is to a list let me know how many you have on your list that you can reach. if it is through radio or blogs, let me know how big of an audience you will reach.  We want good measuarable results.

All the best,

Jeff wellman