A joint venture is simply a partnership between two or more people, web sites, or companies that are working towards a common goal. And your main goal is to get some targeted traffic.

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Joint ventures are agreements. The term sounds fancy, but that’s really all it’s about. When two or more businesses form a partnership, and agree to work together for a certain period of time on a project, that’s a joint venture.

The benefits of joint venture marketing are almost too numerous to list. The relationships you build and the resources you gain access to can skyrocket your business from ground zero to wildly profitable in record time.

JVs typically don’t require a lot of up front investment of hard cash. That’s the beauty of the method. If you’re stuck in your business due to lack of capital, a JV can give you the leverage you need to move ahead.

This is because JVs hold shared, future profit as their focus. It is to the benefit of both parties to contribute the resources they have available.

Let’s say you have a great product, but no list and no experience generating traffic. You can find a JV partner who has a list and plenty of traffic-pulling know how that would love to endorse and promote your product for a share of the sales.

Both parties win in that scenario. The list owner generates extra profits for himself without the hassle of creating a product, and you generate profit without paying for traffic or spending month’s building a list.

The scenario I just described to you is one of the most common types of joint ventures among information product marketers. You aren’t limited to endorsement based JV’s, though. Anything of value can be exchanged in a joint venture.

Here’s a quick list to get you thinking about creative JV scenarios and how they can benefit your business:

• partner up to reach new markets
• partner up to crush your competition
• gain new leads and subscribers
• sell off excess inventory
• test out new ideas and special offers
• reduce overhead expenses
• start a new business with little up front investment
• outsource your work or find a partner who can “fill in the gaps” in your areas of weakness (e.g., copywriting, site design)
• Improve your offers (more products, more bonuses via your jv partner)
• JV partners can be counted as ’super-affilates’ and resellers
• create long-term relationships (business relationships, or ‘network’, are one of the major keys to truly profiting online)

Several ways in which you can utilize joint ventures to your advantage of achieving your main goals are to send out personal requests to web site owners of similar sites and through ezine ad swaps.

In both scenarios, you will need to personally contact either the web site or ezine owner. This is the best way to receive a reply. However, I must warn you now, be prepared for rejection. But don’t take it personally. Lots of internet marketers are extremely busy and may take up to an entire week to check their email messages. Some might get back to you, and some might not. It’s nothing personal against you.

Here are a couple of sample email “templates” you can use when requesting a joint venture:

Dear [First Name],

I have a wonderful proposition that I believe you would be very interested in. I am in the process of promoting [Your Site] and would like very much if you would consider joining me in a lucrative partnership that will earn us both steady stream of web site traffic. [Your Site] is experiencing a high rate of incoming traffic at the moment and I am certain yours is as well. If we pool our sites together through some type of reciprocal link this would successfully funnel my site traffic to yours and vice-versa.

I have a plan that we could each write up a special article pertaining to the resources available from our sites respectively by endorsing one another’s web sites including a link for our current site visitors to use. If you are interested, shoot me an e-mail and I will send you a copy of my personal endorsement I plan to post prominently on my web site so you can examine the quality of the content for yourself and send any revisions you would like to see implemented.

I look forward to hearing back from you at your earliest convenience. Please do take a moment to review [Your Site] to familiarize yourself with the excellent content I offer there.

To Our Mutual Success,

[Your Name]
[Your Email]
[Your Site URL]

I just stumbled across your web site [Site URL]. I just had to write you to let you know how much I enjoyed it! It is full of fantastic content and I have certainly bookmarked it. I run a web site, [Your Site URL], that provides very similar content. I believe my site would compliment yours very nicely and would like to suggest that we partner up to increase our traffic rate to generate more profits.

All that would be required on your part would be to list a link back to my web site and recommend it to your visitors. I in turn would do the same for your site from my own. I believe that by combining out sites in this fashion would mutually benefit the both of us.

If you would like to participate in this with me, please do send me an email as soon as you get the chance. I am very excited about the possibilities this joint venture could produce for the both of us!
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[Your Email]
[Your Site URL]

Now before you start sending off emails to ezine owners, it’s a really good idea to be a subscriber first. This way, they’ll know that you are an active subscriber to their mailing list.
Also, be sure that the ezine discusses a topic that relates to what you have on your web site.

It wouldn’t make too much sense to send a request to someone that has an ezine about pet care when your site is dealing with health products. Unless of course your health products are for pets. Then you’ve got a good combination. It could mean the difference between having your proposal accepted or rejected.

Here are a couple more sample email templates to use when requesting a solo ad swap:

Dear [Ezine Owner],

I just wanted to send you a quick note to let you know that I really enjoyed your last email. It was very informative and covered a topic that I am extremely interested in learning more about since I also run my own ezine that discusses this very thing! Thank goodness you decided to write about it! I cannot tell you how much it has helped me gain a clearer understanding of [Topic].

In fact, it inspired me so much that I have a proposal for you. I would be willing to swap solo ads with you inside my [Your Ezine Name] that currently has [Number Of Subscribers] subscribers. I believe that a joint venture such as this would be of great benefit to us both.

Please take a few moments to consider my free offer. I hope to hear back from you very soon!

Your Loyal Subscriber,

[Your Name]
[Your Email]
[Your URL]

Hi. My name is [Your Name] and I have been a loyal subscriber of yours since [Date]. I wanted to send you this email to let you know how much I respect your writings and learn so much from the outstanding information you send out each [Time Frame].

I too run an ezine that covers some of the same subjects as yours. I would like to propose a mutually beneficial solo ad swap to you. I will happily run any solo ad to my subscriber list of [Number of Subscribers] that you wish to run in exchange for the same within your ezine. I am ready to run the solo ad on any date you would like to, so please do get back with me as soon as you can. This is sure to benefit both of us!

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[Your Email]

Everyone always wants to hear how great they are. And being nice is certainly the best way to go when sending out proposals to people. Especially those that don’t know you from Adam. And, before you send anything off, be sure you have the correct contact email address for your potential JV partner.

You wouldn’t want to send off your proposal to the wrong person. You’ll also want to be sure you tell them who you are, not just what you’re doing. Including your full name when writing to others for the purpose of joint venture proposals is hugely important.

The best course of action when it comes to participating in a joint venture is not to focus in the beginning on your main goal of getting the free traffic.

That will simply follow. Let me explain. If you were to send out a request to do a free ezine solo ad swap with another ezine owner, you would want to create an add that would get the subscribers of that particular ezine to click on the link leading to your “target” page. Or the page you want them to go to. That’s how you will achieve your target goal of generating the free traffic.

So write up your ad very, very carefully. You want to create as much interest as you can so that people reading it will want to visit your web site.

Related URL(s):

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To Your MMO Success,

I know some of you want to jump right on to eBay and want to get into the big pool and earn some cash when the global economy is walking down. I commend you for this type of spirit but urge you to look at the big picture. Sure, we can find small deals to make a couple hundred easy dollars a week, but wouldn’t you rather focus your time on making the BIG deals that could bring you thousands of dollars for years to come? I hope you understand what I’m trying to say. With that said, I understand how it is sometimes to be strapped for money. Bills to pay, unexpected expense, etc. For this reason, this post is all about easy and fast ways to make money on eBay.

1. Selling Unwanted Items In Your House

I know this method seems obvious but honestly I believe it is not utilized as much as it could be by many business minded people. Walk into any of your friend or family member’s house and I guarantee you can find items in their garage or closet that could be sold for immediate cash on eBay. Chances are the owners of the items have not used these items in years and have no plans to use them in the future. Why not sell them! If you’re friend does not have an eBay account, even better! Tell him you will sell it for him for a percentage and you will take care of listing, taking pictures, communicating with buyers, and shipping the item. If you’re friend is smart, he will happily oblige knowing that if he does not have you sell the item, chances are it will get thrown away or just collect more and more dust.

2. Buy underpriced items on Craigslist, Sell on eBay

I actually created this method in my days as a college student out of utter desperation. I couldn’t afford to eat, take my girlfriend out, or do anything! My parents said “Get a job!” but I being the stubborn entrepreneur I am said “No way! I’ll find something to do on my own!” and I did. I started to realize that sellers on Craigslist are COMPLETELY different then sellers on eBay.

How are eBay and Craigslist different? (In Malaysia www.Mudah.com.my is just like Craigslist)

• Craigslist sellers are local
• Craigslist sellers NEED the cash much more then the sellers on eBay
• Craigslist sellers ONLY want cash (no PayPal fees!)
• Craigslist sellers ALWAYS want a quick sale
• Craigslist sellers are EASY to negotiate with
• Craigslist can be compared to a newspaper classified, while eBay is an auction marketplace.

What I started to realize is that many times there are items listed on Craigslist such as cell phones, PDAs, digital cameras, laptops, and computers that can be bought for much below what they are selling for on eBay.

Here are the steps to making quick cash using the power of Craigslist and eBay:

• Locate an in-demand electronic item on Craigslist
• Search eBay completed auctions to see what the item is selling for on average on eBay
• Call the seller on Craigslist and tell him you are willing to pay $X amount of dollars for the item. Be sure to tell him you can meet him today and you can pay cash. (very important to mention)
• Only make deals that will bring you $30-$40 profit or more
• Sell the item on eBay
• Find more and more deals

Now this method isn’t going to make you rich, but I can honestly say this method brought me $500 or more CASH in a week of really looking for deals. Every once in a while you are going to not get as much profit as you expected and then there will be other times where you hit the jackpot.

A couple of words of caution, a market place like Craigslist can bring out some very shady individuals. Always meet the person in a public place such as a mall, gas station, or fast food restaurant. Never invite the seller into your home or meet them at their home. Always look the item over very carefully before purchasing. There have been times I have walked away from deals simply because the condition the seller described the item over the phone does not match the description when I see the item in person. Yes, it’s very frustrating, but just walk away and tell the seller you are sorry.

That’s it guys. If you need to make quick cash, this is my favorite way of succeeding using eBay and Craigslist. I achieved most of my profit and success by performing this method in the cell phone category.

3. Sell items in SEASON

I hesitated putting this section in the “quick cash” chapter because I know many sellers that have turned their “in season” auction business into six figures a year businesses. The whole concept is selling homemade items for what’s going on in the world right now. Okay, first, let’s go over what I mean by selling “in season” items. By positioning yourself in “hot, current markets” you can really bank quick money.

If it’s nearing NFL Super Bowl time why not sell t-shirts, stickers, sweatshirts, tickets to the game, and more?

If it’s nearing political season, why not sell bumper stickers for all the candidates?

If it’s nearing baseball season, why not sell t-shirts for everyone’s favorite team?

Get the drift? Good!

Market’s change guys and the smart marketers are the ones that adapt to changing markets.

You can get setup with a homemade t-shirt press for less than $300 dollars and you can find many sources online to get bulk t-shirts, bumper stickers, and much more.

Here’s an excellent resource many of my friends and I use to keep up to date on the latest technology in the custom t-shirt printing industry:

http://www.t-shirtforums.com

A quick search on eBay or Google can put you in touch with many places to buy a t-shirt press and materials for your business. Use Teflon transfer paper! I’ve tried many different types of print technology and have had the best success with Teflon. Mingle around in the forum above and get a full education in custom t-shirts before you even think about selling on eBay.

Be creative and you can do VERY well selling custom homemade items on eBay. The business of custom created items can be very time consuming and labor involved. For this reason, I suggest hiring an employee or taking on a partner once you get this business up and going and understand exactly how it works. That’s what I did and it has allowed me to focus on bigger and better things while I still have that constant cash flow coming in.

To Your MMO Success,

If you aren’t producing and distributing any article yet, what are you waiting for? Articles meet a number of important business objectives, and they do it for free. It’s targeted, fast traffic and it’s free.

The concept of using articles is similar to that of creating a free product.

The main difference is that you’re not giving away a pre-built product. Rather, you’re creating a free information source through an article on a particular subject that should directly relate to the content found within your site.

The beauty part of using articles is that you can generate and submit as many of them as you can to as many different article directories as you can find that offer free submission.

A well-written article earns you major credibility points.

It enhances your expertise in the eyes of potential customers. Articles give you a chance to shine and really show off the fact that you know your stuff.

Articles are also super traffic building tools. Each article that you write and distribute, while granting others the right to re-print it, has a viral effect on your traffic. Your reach is expanded into corners of the web you may never have discovered on your own.

Articles have a cumulative effect on your link popularity, and on the number of keywords that pull up your site in the search engine listings.

If you can’t write a complete sentence to save your life, or if you’re simply too busy to write, don’t worry. You can hire a ghostwriter to produce your content on the cheap. There are plenty of hungry freelancers to be found at places like Elance (http://www.elance.com ).

When you submit an article to a directory it’s important that it have some specific meaning to the content provided by your own web site. Then you can slip your link into it seamlessly and have a better chance of generating more traffic.

And the more articles you submit to different article directory databases, the more chances you have of getting higher rates of traffic into your web site.

One last thing to really be sure your articles get placed inside the directories you submit them to is to write up your own original articles. Not only that, you could also post them directly onto your web site, and offer your site visitors the opportunity to reprint them for free on their own web sites.

Don’t forget to include a link back to your own site inside the “Resource Box” that is placed directly at the end of the article which I’ll be explaining to you in just a few moments.

You can also include a link from your name in the “written by: Your Name” area that goes right to your web site too. Don’t be afraid to use all the available advertising space you can from within your articles. The more you use, the better chance you have of getting that traffic to your web site.

One crucial element:

There is one thing you must include with every article you release, and that is: a byline.

Go take a quick peek at any of the articles at ezinearticles.com and you’ll see each author’s byline at the bottom of the page.

You’ll sometimes hear people refer to the byline as a “resource box”. They’re both the same thing, but I think the phrase “resource box” describes the content with more accuracy.

Your resource box contains a very brief summary of your business history and areas of expertise, along with related resources like a link to your site or your autoresponder address.

This resource box is your ace card. You grant other web publishers the right to reprint and distribute your article at will on the condition that your resource box remains intact and unchanged.

So, your link travels with your article everywhere it goes. Here is a quick example of a good resource box:

About The Author (Resource Box)

One last thing to really be sure your articles get placed inside the directories you submit them to is to write up your own original articles.

The only limitation to using articles as promotional tools is how many topics you can dream up. If you’re profilic, you can write an article to suit most every need – be it preselling your product, building your credibility, or even promoting an affiliate product.

One of the easiest and most effective ways to market your articles is by using the services of article submission sites like http://www.submityourarticles.com  and http://www.ArticleMarketer.com .

These submit your articles for you to thousands of article directories and sites so you can free up your time to concentrate on your business.

Important Link:
http://www.elance.com
http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlecity.com
http://www.isnare.com
http://www.amazines.com
http://approvedarticles.com

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Maybe you had heard about Yuwie.com from your friend, or maybe you had received an invitation asking you to join Yuwie.com, or maybe you are already a part of Yuwie.com.

I just joined Yuwie, but this is not my first time visited Yuwie.com. My first visit for Yuwie.com was 6 months ago when someone recommended Yuwie.com in a forum. Honestly speaking, at that time Yuwie.com didn’t attract me much and I didn’t discover much about Yuwie.com and leave it. When my second visit on Yuwie.com on 1st November 2008, oh my god! I had missed out a good opportunity 6 months back.

Yuwie.com is another social networking website launched in May, 2007. What’s the different between Yuwie.com and other social networking site is Yuwie.com paying its users just for using it and it’s totally FREE to join. That’s why their membership count is shooting fast like the rocket. On the date of 3rd November 2008 (the date of writing this article), Yuwie.com has 775,733 registered users in total and 1698 new members from 1st to 3rd of November 2008.

Yuwie.com is easy to use. If you had experienced Myspace then it shouldn’t be any problems for you in Yuwie.com.

Yuwie really pay it users, but please do not expecting a big amount from Yuwie. You can accumulate your earning through:
1. getting page views
2. browsing other members’ profiles, pictures, video, blogs.
3. making changes on your profile
4. posting items in your profile

It’s all depending on how active you are in Yuwie. So, please don’t be surprise that if you had 20 friend requests from other members in your first day signup.

Please do not expecting big amount from Yuwie. The earning is not very much, you may probably get 15 cents for 3000 page views. Anyway there is still good news. You will also get credited with a percentage of the page views of any other members you referred to Yuwie. More than that, the referrals of your referrals, and their referrals, for up to 10 levels down. This is what makes people love it so much.

If you are just using Yuwie alone, it never earns you a good amount. But if you refer to your friends and your friends refer to their friend, their friends refer to others, etc then you have the chance to build up your “referral tree”. With the combination of your referrals and their referrals for up to 10 levels down, the potential is there to earn up to hundreds or even thousands per month.

This is the projection of Yuwie income.

LEVEL / REFERRALS / IMPRESSIONS / MONTHLY EARNINGS
1 …………….. 3 ……………… 3,000 ………….. $0.15
2 …………….. 9 ……………… 9,000 ………….. $0.45
3 ……………. 27 ……………. 27,000 ………….. $0.54
4 ……………. 81 ……………. 81,000 ………….. $1.62
5 …………… 243 ………….. 243,000 ………….. $4.86
6 …………… 729 ………….. 729,000 …………. $14.58
7 ………… 2,187 ………… 2,187,000 …………. $43.74
8 ………… 6,561 ………… 6,561,000 ………… $328.05
9 ………. 19,683 …………19,683,000 ………….$984.15
10……….. 59,049 ………..59,049,000 ………..$8,857.35 (Yes, that’s per MONTH!?)

Yuwie.com is not just a social network for you to earn money by viewing pages and refer friends to signup. The scene behind Yuwie.com is your network. People will just come to join your network easily become of the reward. If you are in Internet Marketing arena, I’m sure you agreed that a strong network is important for the growth of your business. In Yuwie.com you will get good, experience, mature, business minded friends. And these can be converted into your quality potential prospects and become your customers.

Is that Yuwie.com really that good?
It’s Free, so there is no harm to join. But, the payment term for Yuwie is 60days and the minimum payment is $25. So it may take quite awhile for you to reach that minimum.

If you are looking for a social network site to build up your network, then Yuwie.com is right place for you. It’s easy to build up a large network in Yuwie, people will just come and join as your friends.

If you are looking for something fun and make friends, then you must join. It’s really no catch, it’s free to use and you use and earn.

At the end…..

There is something special about Yuwie.com. You can always check out their site and watch the introduction video before joining Yuwie. This is what you may not found in others social networking site.

Everyone is being paid for both viewing and being viewed. As the results, almost everyone being more than happy to exchange comments and messages – and friend requests are hardly ever refused. Many members even encourage each other in their blogs to always accept friendships from anyone who requests, since it benefits both parties anyway.

Almost all friend requests are approved, often right away, followed by a “thanks for adding me” comment posted in return.

I’m in Yuwie.com, I hope you’ll join with me and together we make some money with this interesting social network-Yuwie.com

P.S: View my Yuwie Profile at http://www.yuwie.com/allychan/

To your success,

The meta tags are placed between the of your page’s HTML code. It usually look like this :

<HEAD>
<TITLE>your DESCRIPTIVE KEYWORDS title goes here</TITLE>
<META NAME=”DESCRIPTION” CONTENT=”Your keyword rich marketing sales-pitch meta description goes here“>
<META NAME=”KEYWORDS” CONTENT=”your keywords,go here,separated by a comma,but not a space“>
</HEAD>

In today’s SEO, your meta tag have no more effect in your Search Engine ranking. This is the fact that you must accept. Due to the abuse of keyword meta tag, many search engines are actually ignore them in their ranking algorithms.

Let’s see how powerful is the Meta tag in past……

Meta tags are actually the hidden content in a webpage. You can’t see the meta tags in your browser, however you still can view it in your source code.

Long long time ago, Search Engine actually use the meta tag to indexing a page. By including the main keywords in the keyword meta tag, the webmaster actually build an easy way for the searcher to find relevant pages in the search engine. But when it’s so convenient for webmaster to index their page in the search engines, some of the webmasters start to abuse it.

For example, in few years back ‘Britney Spears’ is one of the top search words in majority search engines. Some webmaster included ‘Britney Spears’ in their keyword meta tag, when user search for ‘Britney Spears’ their page will be indexed by the search engine. Sound good right? Generating a lot of traffics to your site. But it’s unfair for the searchers, because this is not what they want and it’s wasting band width. The innovation of search engines had improved the search quality. Meta tag had NO TOTAL EFFECT on search engine’s ranking. However, meta tag still play some role in effecting the page ranking.

How to make use of meta tag effectively in today’s SEO.

Step 1 : List your keywords

• List down the relevant keywords for your page.
• Maximum of 13 words.
• Do not repeat the same keyword with the same spelling more than 3 times.
• The place your keywords in your Keyword Meta tag.
• The search engines don’t mind about comma.
• Keywords Meta tag without comma opens up for the search engine for new keywords combination. For example: “make money online tips” will come out with a new keywords of “make money” , “money online”, “online tips”.
• If you choose to separate it with comma, make sure there is no space within 2 keywords. For example : make money online,internet marketing,search engine optimization,traffic strategy,per per click

<META NAME=”KEYWORDS” CONTENT=”your keywords go here, can separate by comma, but not a space“>

Sample 1: with comma

<META NAME=”KEYWORDS” CONTENT=” make money online,internet marketing tips,search engine optimization,traffic strategy,per per click“>

Sample 2: without comma

<META NAME=”KEYWORDS” CONTENT=” make money online internet marketing tips search engine optimization traffic strategy per per click“>

Step 2 : Write a good description

• Write a good description with your keywords.
• Maximum35 words or 255 characters.

Example:
Keywords: make money online internet marketing tips search engine optimization traffic strategy per per click

Description:
Explore make money online secret and discover more tips in Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization strategy and web traffic. See how I use pay per click technique to pull huge traffic to my site.
(words count: 34 words ; characters count–with space: 202 )

• Place your description in your Description Meta tag.

Sample:

<META NAME=”DESCRIPTION” CONTENT=” Explore make money online secret and discover more tips in Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization strategy and web traffic. See how I use pay per click technique to pull huge traffic to my site. “>

Step 3: Write your “Keyword-Rich content”

• Write a “Keyword-Rich content” for your site.
• Make sure your keywords are visible for both users and search engines. Bold and underline it if necessary.

Tips : Don’t need to spend much time in your keywords listing, but spend more in composing your description and title.

With the 3 simple steps above, you can easily create a good and content relevant meta tag. This will help in improving your page ranking in the all major search engines.

To your Success,