How do you enter a joint business venture quickly?

Find a business or company in your target market that has a website or ezine. Ask them if they want to join your affiliate program. Also ask if you can promote your products or services on their site or ezine.

In exchange for this, extend an offer to give them your product free of charge. Should you have an ezine or website of your own, then offer to promote something of theirs, too. Try to find that sweet offer they will consider irresistible.

Make use of your very own subscribers and visitors. Nothing like giving out something for free to make them come running to your site. In these freebies, put your advertisement. It does not have to be too obvious. A subtle ad that has a link back to you is more than enough.

Using this technique, you will have an advertisement of yourself spread everywhere. Both you and your visitor get to benefit from this style. By giving some of your own, you will get more than what is expected.

Don’t fight a battle you can’t win. Since you can’t be triumphant all the time, how about just going along? Contact some of your competitors and create a partnership. With your combined financial and database resources and your greatly increased client list, you can certainly defeat your larger rivals together.

The ‘team’ can even cross-promote each other’s products and services. This will not only lessen the expenses you have to endure but it will also bring you more profit compared to having done it all by yourself.

Find ezines that cater to your target market. Tell them you’re partnering with other ezine publishers and that you will give a bonus to the ezine publisher gets the most results for your discounted offer.

You have to ensure that your bonus is great. Aim to make it one of a kind with a little small personal touch. You may not be close to the person but there are many advices you can research regarding what men and women like better as gifts.

Hold further contests. Contests are more than just an effective marketing strategy; they also allow you to cater to different sectors of the market. Contact a website owner within your market niche: recommend holding a contest and offer as prizes some of your products.

In return for what you have done, ask them to run your ad or place your ad on their website. If the contests you are offering is good enough, you can ask for a solo ad. Or they can put them in prominent places on their web sites.

A “contest swap” is another type of contest that many people find effective. The concept involves someone else promoting your products while you promote theirs. In the case of finding someone who wants to contest swap but does not have an item to promote, you can pool your ideas together to come up with something.

Let them know all the advantages this offers for them as well as for you. It will be the basis for forging a close rapport and a solid partnership. And, when you come to them again with a different suggestion for a new joint venture, they will want to participate since you have already gained their confidence.

Columns are another joint venture idea. You can write your own column and offer it to a website owner or a publisher. The more unique your content is, the better. The ones you are offering them into will be more than glad of an opportunity to have something that is not so ordinary. It is a fact that website owners are always on the lookout for fresh and original contents to be exchanged for advertising.

Be sure to make your business card work for you in a joint venture. Exchanging cards with other companies and businesses is a great practice, and it’s as simple as handing yours to them while receiving theirs back.

The traditional way of advertising is by word of mouth. This is considered one of the best ways to get the word out, about you and your business.

Now that you know all about these joint venturing ideas, you have no excuses to wait any longer. Join one now.

Alex Perez-Prat is the webmaster and owner of Resale Rights Kingdom Dot Com. To find out more e-marketing tips, resources and tools go to Resale Rights Kingdom

- Alex Perez-Prat