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Sunday, June 25, 2006
Successful Forum JVs and How To Get Them
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Successful Forum JVs and How To Get Them
The forming of common alliances, also referred to as a joint
venture (JV), happens nearly every day in the business world.
One of the most popular means of linking people up online of so
that they can work together on their projects is via forums,
where people of all levels of business and expertise post in
common threads.
Forum threads generally present tried-and-true methods of those
who post, sharing tips about what works and what doesn’t so that
follow readers don’t waste their own time, energy, money or
hair-pulling on them. And the threads also often seek advice
and helpful resources and tips from others. However, regardless
of the focus, many people who interact on the forums often end
up banding together in their common joint interests to help each
other.
Here are several example of successful forum JVs and how to get
them to work for your own projects.
Product / Service Creation
To earn income online, you need to have something to sell. It
can be something of yours, an affiliate product, a product for
which you have resale rights or some other income-generating
strategy like Google Adsense pay-per-click.
How do you now if there is a market for your products and
services? What if you don’t have anything to sell but want to
get in the game? How do you SELL the products & services?
Head to industry forums for help with your questions. Once
there, you may find someone with an ebook he or she created, for
example, but needs help selling. In exchange for writing
articles about the ebook to help sell it, maybe you could get an
affiliate link and earn 50% for each purchase made through the
links in your articles. Or maybe you’ll find someone else who
would like to team up and co-author an ebook AND promotional
package with articles; split the work and the profits.
Value Added Packages
Go an extra step and remember customer service and support. When
people shop online, they do need support at times, too. And
maybe your ebook teaches “how to …” do something, and could be
enhanced with video tutorials. Through forums, you can often run
into people who either provide services or have connections in
the service industry. Service people don’t always have tome to
write their own articles, so you could trade article writing –
and submission services – for video creation to enhance your
product line.
Marketing / Advertising
Many of the people you run into on forums have mailing and
emailing lists, and a variety of other means of advertising and
marketing – not only their products and services, but yours as
well. That can add up to endless marketing strategies all year
long; ad swaps, banner exchanges, article exchanges in ezines,
print newsletters and in online article directories (think: link
exchange, too, in the byline!) Also postcards, emails with sales
messages, autoresponder series, reports, freebies - - all types
of goodies to package and sell or pass along at no charge for
viral marketing. Figure out what you can offer and see what
others on the forums need. Connect!
“It takes a team!”
Sure it’s great to work from home. But successful people credit
their successes most often to excellent team work. So get out
there and meet your team by networking on forums. You’ll not
only get a chance to learn some super tips on how to run your
business better, reaping more rewards for your efforts, time and
money, you might just put together some successful JV deals of
your own in the process along with a super team to make your
operations run in success-mode.
Free Forum Networking Tips
For a 7-minute audio / video / text presentation entitled,
“Forum Networking Tips” click:
http://presssuccess.com/ForumNetTips . The production is
complimentary from Content Propulsion Lab at
http://www.ContentLabInfo.com , a Division of Content Desk,
online at http://www.ContentDeskInfo.com .
-30-
By Diana Barnum, president of Moving Ahead Communications. Get
tons of freebies, tips and help at http://OhioHelpGroup.com or call:
(614) 529-9459. Freebies section at http://presssuccess.com/bookstore
or in print, free of charge, as long as the bylines are
included. A courtesy copy of your publication would be
appreciated - send to: diana@ohiohelp.net
Successful Forum JVs and How To Get Them
The forming of common alliances, also referred to as a joint
venture (JV), happens nearly every day in the business world.
One of the most popular means of linking people up online of so
that they can work together on their projects is via forums,
where people of all levels of business and expertise post in
common threads.
Forum threads generally present tried-and-true methods of those
who post, sharing tips about what works and what doesn’t so that
follow readers don’t waste their own time, energy, money or
hair-pulling on them. And the threads also often seek advice
and helpful resources and tips from others. However, regardless
of the focus, many people who interact on the forums often end
up banding together in their common joint interests to help each
other.
Here are several example of successful forum JVs and how to get
them to work for your own projects.
Product / Service Creation
To earn income online, you need to have something to sell. It
can be something of yours, an affiliate product, a product for
which you have resale rights or some other income-generating
strategy like Google Adsense pay-per-click.
How do you now if there is a market for your products and
services? What if you don’t have anything to sell but want to
get in the game? How do you SELL the products & services?
Head to industry forums for help with your questions. Once
there, you may find someone with an ebook he or she created, for
example, but needs help selling. In exchange for writing
articles about the ebook to help sell it, maybe you could get an
affiliate link and earn 50% for each purchase made through the
links in your articles. Or maybe you’ll find someone else who
would like to team up and co-author an ebook AND promotional
package with articles; split the work and the profits.
Value Added Packages
Go an extra step and remember customer service and support. When
people shop online, they do need support at times, too. And
maybe your ebook teaches “how to …” do something, and could be
enhanced with video tutorials. Through forums, you can often run
into people who either provide services or have connections in
the service industry. Service people don’t always have tome to
write their own articles, so you could trade article writing –
and submission services – for video creation to enhance your
product line.
Marketing / Advertising
Many of the people you run into on forums have mailing and
emailing lists, and a variety of other means of advertising and
marketing – not only their products and services, but yours as
well. That can add up to endless marketing strategies all year
long; ad swaps, banner exchanges, article exchanges in ezines,
print newsletters and in online article directories (think: link
exchange, too, in the byline!) Also postcards, emails with sales
messages, autoresponder series, reports, freebies - - all types
of goodies to package and sell or pass along at no charge for
viral marketing. Figure out what you can offer and see what
others on the forums need. Connect!
“It takes a team!”
Sure it’s great to work from home. But successful people credit
their successes most often to excellent team work. So get out
there and meet your team by networking on forums. You’ll not
only get a chance to learn some super tips on how to run your
business better, reaping more rewards for your efforts, time and
money, you might just put together some successful JV deals of
your own in the process along with a super team to make your
operations run in success-mode.
Free Forum Networking Tips
For a 7-minute audio / video / text presentation entitled,
“Forum Networking Tips” click:
http://presssuccess.com/ForumNetTips . The production is
complimentary from Content Propulsion Lab at
http://www.ContentLabInfo.com , a Division of Content Desk,
online at http://www.ContentDeskInfo.com .
-30-
By Diana Barnum, president of Moving Ahead Communications. Get
tons of freebies, tips and help at http://OhioHelpGroup.com or call:
(614) 529-9459. Freebies section at http://presssuccess.com/bookstore
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