There is a well known Internet marketer by the name of Eben Pagan and one of his best known ideas is the concept of “moving the free line”. In short, it means giving more stuff away to your potential customers as a means to make a sale down the road. It means giving really good stuff away – stuff your customers might expect to have to pay...

One of the secret weapons of internet marketing is the joint venture partnership, often called simply “JV”. A JV partnership is where you work in conjunction with another person to promote a product on the Internet. It allows you to take advantage of the resources built up by another. For example, let’s say you have a product you would like to...

Obviously, you can always sell products on the Internet. But, what about selling a service? A lot of people maintain websites in order to be a public face to services which they offer, whether offline or online. This is always great because the web can put your offering in front of the eyes of many people easily. More and more, people are turning to the Internet...

On Day 6, I talked about using social media as the spokes of a wheel and at the center of that wheel is your blog.The fact that I made a blog the hub of the wheel should tell you that, yes, the blog is important. Even if your business centers around an online ecommerce store, you should still have a blog. Why? As I also said in Day 6, anonymity and impersonal...

Have you ever wondered how a useless bag of crap like Paris Hilton manages to make a fairly significant income? Or Britney Spears? It isn’t because of their talent (obviously). What is it? Because they’re interesting. But, how does that translate into dollars? Because they attract ATTENTION. A club owner in Las Vegas, for example, wants to generate...

Making money on the Internet, to many people, conjures up images of the gold rush. You put up a website and out pours money. This was, no doubt, the image conjured up in the 90′s with the dot-com boom. Today, this attitude has evolved into one of skepticism with a little dose of confusion mixed in. The thought of making money in your pajamas on your...

If you could make your living online, would you? If you could actually use your computer to produce an income, would you? How real do you think making money on the Internet is? PCMech is all about technology. We used to be all about tinkering with the insides of your computer. There are still many who enjoy doing that, but the emphasis has moved on. The emphasis...

By now, if you’ve read through the previous sections, you know how to find and grow your list of joint venture prospects and you know how to watch them like a hawk and select the ones that are appropriate to your business. You know when, and how, to approach them and not get your offer deleted right away and how to put your offer forward in a beneficial...

Alright, we have gone over the following:How to find your target market through lists. How to start gathering prospects to approach with JV offers Most importantly, the beginnings of a very personal e-mail where you created a link to your prospect by showing them recognition, and you got yourself noticed without being chucked into the “Deleted...

There’s a couple of instant rejection lines that seem to happen quite often. So, lets look at what to avoid. [hidepost=1] First, if you want to get anywhere you have to be a little personal about it. Unless I’m specifically on someone’s list, seeing ‘Dear friend’ or ‘Dear Joint Venture Prospect’ or ‘Dear Online...

If you want this to be a big part of your marketing, you have to do it right. It’s especially hard to make contact with someone again if things go really bad the first time around. Although all is not lost when you get denied, it sure makes things more problematic in the long run. Get it right and you’ll have great ammunition for future promotions, a...

So, what is a joint venture? It sounds simple enough taken at face value. It’s a task that you undertake with other business owners to achieve a goal that’s beneficial to both parties. But I really want to spark your imagination here about the type of things you can get into and the type of deals you can strike with other online marketers that allow you...

OK, we’ve talked about getting into the mind of your potential JV partner. We’ve talked about offering something that will make them want to pay attention. [hidepost=1] In this section we’re going to take that a little further. You may remember the example from part one where we looked at someone who had approached me and received a no answer....

What A JV Attempt Looks Like From your prospects point of view. Let me give you an insight as to how this kind of thing happens and how JV deals usually come together. This is an example of an incoming approach for a JV deal. [hidepost=1] So here I am sitting at my computer at three in the morning. The milk float woke me up so I decided to grab breakfast and get...

There are many ways to do business with others and no two will ever be the same. Keep this in mind when looking at how you’re going to go about each joint venture. Some common mistakes people make when trying to pitch a JV deal are:Contacting people in markets not compatible with your’s Offering things in return for a JV deal Sending bulk,...

Even if this is your first day The two main problems that we’re going to be solving are:You’re new to marketing You’re new in your marketSo, just what do you give to a marketer who has everything? [hidepost=1] I often found myself in this situation and you may just be there right now. It’s hard to find something to give someone that...

The other day, I met with Kyle Graham of Ambidupdate.com. We were meeting to talk a little business, but he had asked me ahead of time if he could do a quick interview. Of course I said yes. He used his new Flip Video to record this interview of me outside of a Chili’s in Tampa, FL. Now, Kyle’s service allows people with little to no experience...