You can get a
joint venture. I am not saying that this is a prize that is out of your reach
now or that will always be out of your reach. I AM saying that getting a joint
venture deal is almost as easy as catching that golden ring on the
merry-go-round was when you were a child. It can be done...but not without a
lot of stretching and practice. Here are the
hard cold facts about getting your first joint venture. In order to get an
established Internet marketer to join you in a joint venture, you will most
likely have to give him or her 100% of the profit on a product that you have
produced or had produced for you. This product will have to have a value of at
least $100 to attract a marketer who has a substantial opt-in list. The only
thing that you will get out of your first joint venture, most likely, is a big
increase in your own opt-in list.....which is very, VERY valuable but the bank
won’t credit it to your account. Now, you do need
to know how to approach established Internet marketers. You do need to know how
to structure joint venture agreements and how to build squeeze pages whereby
you capture the names and email addresses for your own opt-in list. If you work
hard, follow the rules and pay your dues, someday you will be that well
established marketer who will GET 100% of the profits but it won’t be
today...or even next week. They Will Offer to Show You
the Shortcut Have you ever
noticed that every time you have ever tried to take a shortcut, it always ends
up taking longer or costing you more money in the long run? It seems like that
is always the way a shortcut works out...at least for me. One of the
shortcuts that these less-than-friendly natives will offer is a way to get an
opt-in list with out having to do all of the heavy lifting. They say that they
can show you a shortcut...a way to get an opt-in list the ‘easy way’. “Oh, no”, they
say. “You really don’t have to offer a nice incentive. You don’t have to do all
that work.....like writing and marketing articles and ebooks or posting to
blogs and forums. There is an easier way....and I just happen to have it handy.
For a small price it can be yours.” Since building
an opt-in list really does involve a lot of ‘heavy lifting’ so to speak, you
might well be tempted to take the shortcut that they are offering. Here is a little
piece of very good advice. Don’t! The shortcut
they will be offering to show you for that ‘very small’ price is to BUY a list.
You will see advertisements all over the Internet for companies who will sell
you an opt-in list that they say contains names and email addresses of people
who have already opted in....some of them twice. The monetary
cost of these lists is usually anywhere from 3 cents per name and email address
on up to and about 30 cents per name and address. The price mostly depends on
whether the lists contain names and addresses that are of the single opt-in
variety or the double opt-in variety. This is a
tempting shortcut but it is also a situation where you need to take a deep
breath, a giant step backward and take a good clear look at exactly what you
will be getting if you buy a list.
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