JV’s From The Other Side
You’ll also see why we always ask ourselves one question about the person that we’re talking to if it becomes obvious they’re looking for a joint venture. Once you can see how this works, and understand why we’re always asking, you should be able to eliminate all doubt from your joint venture prospects mind about what you’re there for and score even more successes. Before I tell you what the question they’re asking and you’re answering is though, let me give you a run down of the first time I experienced something that I’m starting to see more and more regularly, the more sites I launch.
The Dreaded JV Approach.
*Ping* Up comes a message from someone I haven’t spoken to before on one my instant messengers. (Granted I don’t give me instant messenger address out anymore unless I’ve spoken to the person directly, but the same is true when this happens via e-mail). Anyway, a conversation ensues. Hey, I’m a member of your site, and I’m launching my own product soon, I wondered if I could ask you some questions seeing as you’ve already done your own. Of course I agree, I’ve always got a couple of minutes to spare to answer some quick fire questions, as long as it doesn’t progress into something that would turn into consultation length and impose on the services I’m charging for.
The conversation continues, and after spending a few minutes talking about both of our sites, the real motivation comes through. How big is your list he asks. Of course at this point it’s obvious he’s looking for some sort of joint venture. Not a problem I think, I’ve never been approached for one before, I’ve always been doing the approaching, so this might be a good chance to practice. We continue talking for a few minutes, until it becomes clear what he thinks I’m going to do for him with the most irrelevant things being given in return, he even tried to spruce it up by asking the phrase that he repeated so many times it’s embedded in my head now. Do you want to be my marketing manager?
After a little bit of a conversation, it became clear to me that not only did this person want to joint venture, but he wanted me to make his site successful for him. He started talking about how much an ad to my list would earn him. So what was he going to give me in return for an ad to my list?
Let me tell you, he wanted to grant me a whopping one dollar per sale commission, on a twenty five dollar product but only when I’d sold a hundred copies for him as the sole promoter of his product that wasn’t actually his. It was an un-brandable resale product on top of it.
Anyone can see that this was the worst deal ever, but it got even worse. He wouldn’t let me have a look at the product. When I asked him to send me it, even before he told me what his offer was, I was pointed to the sales letter and told to buy it.
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