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Successful Forum JVs and How to Get them
by Diana Barnum
Published on this site: June 17th, 2006 - See more
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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
.
Diana Barnum, president of Moving Ahead Communications. Get tons of
freebies, tips and help at http://OhioHelpGroup.com
or
call: (614) 529-9459.
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