There's only one advanced technique that you can get into right now. The others are very, very expensive and time consuming. These are things like infomercials, telemarketing and direct marketing campaigns. Just hold on to those ideas for when you're making a TON of money and want to make a TON more!
The one advanced technique you can do right now is to start doing joint ventures.
A joint venture is merely an agreement between 2 or more businesses to jointly produce or market a product or service. The simplest joint venture is one where another person has the exclusive rights to be your affiliate. The profits are generally split between the parties in percentages that reflect how much each party puts into the venture.
Honestly, to get a person who has a big responsive list?who can sell a LOT of those dachshund grooming books of yours?will probably take 60% of the profit or more! The fact is that you'll need to do several deals like this before you've built up a list of buyers that you've developed a relationship with?the freebie thing?the good content thing.
You can also set up joint ventures where you supply the book and someone else supplies a video on the subject'or an audio product'or a CD product'or another book that integrates with yours well.
The secret to setting up joint ventures with people who can really help you sell more is to get in personal contact. Emails just don't get it! At the very least, physically write them a letter and a proposal and UPS it to them or priority mail it to them. Then follow that up with a personal phone call. Let them get to know you and don't be disappointed if they either say no outright or don't answer you at all.
If you are diligent at this, you can hook up with a large list owner. It will take some patience, but it's well worth it!
I wouldn't try doing this until you have some concrete figures you can give your potential joint venture partners. Figures like sales conversion and visitor values. And tools like email series, reports and articles?some of the same tools you've developed for yourself.
The best thing to do for your business is to use techniques and strategies that have proven to work for the majority of people over the long-term. Don't think about them too much, don't study them to death?apply them and then test to see if they're working for you.
Copyright (c) 2006 Christopher T Robinson
When a system comes out closing sales completely for you it can sound too good to be true. Yet, The Reverse Funnel System (RFS) is designed to do just this and closes and average of twenty percent on the back end. Meaning if you can get just five people to pay the fifty dollars for the paid survey in a week, you'll be walking out of your home office with a twelve hundred and fifty dollar week minimum, every week.
So how can you get five people to go through the paid survey in a week? Simply send a hundred people through to your sales page, your own personal copy of RFS.
This can be completed in a number of ways. One I find extremely effective is video marketing and the use of YOU-Tube and Meta-Caf?. Video marketing is extremely easy for anyone who has a web cam or a small camcorder. All you need to do is record yourself hyping up RFS, giving out free marketing advice, or maybe even just talking about life. This will drive traffic to your URL and if you can build some conversation, maybe a debate in the comments section of your video, you'll get more views and more traffic.
Now video marketing can also be fun. If you want to spend a little more time than 15 minutes on the video you can design something that will really grab people's attention. Think super bowl. The most appealing things and what sells THE ABSOLUTE MOST for all major corporations is humor and good looking people, combining them just rocks the boat. But as long as the commercial plays into some emotion while exposing the whole money/potential thing, it will be more effective.
If you're not the most video friendly personality there is other things you can do to promote your URL, although trust me traffic will be hurt as the use of video's in cross promotion is one of the most effective free internet marketing methods. Still you can use networking communities to spread the word and well as a number of different written marketing techniques.
But as long as you're driving traffic, your copy of RFS will be working for you and you will be making money. Get to the nitty gritty of internet marketing and do that marketing, drive that traffic and wait for the paychecks.
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Christopher Robinson has sinced written about articles on various topics from Joint Venture, Debt Reductions and Direct Marketing. Christopher T Robinson is a renowned online marketing author. He is the author of his free ebook "Effectively Marketing Your Home Business 2006",