9 Places To Offer Joint Venture Swaps
There are more ways to build your list and customer database than you can imagine. You are often told something like search for joint ventures... or do an email ad swap for quick list adds.
Well, just doing a straight two way email promotion isn't the only way to venture with viable partners for big big traffic gains. Here are 10 great places in a typical online business sales funnel to offer possible venture partners value in exchange for some traffic.
Straight Email Promo
This is the obvious one and the method that most IMers jump into. It's highly successful and can bring in some big numbers. Depending on who you are working with and what niche you are in, the quality of the traffic could be iffy though. For example, if you have built your list strictly from forum marketing and your venture has used solely solo ads, you're list is more than likely going to be way more responsive.
Blog Sidebar
You always see new bloggers trying to sell advertising space on their blog's sidebar. This is a good way to add some income to your monthly revenue if you have the traffic rolling in. If you don't, it's going to be tough to find people who are willing to invest even $25 month on your blog's sidebar graphic slot.
Why not use this space for a free venture with a related marketer. Offer their freebie through a graphic they made and have them do the same. Make sure the venture partner's site is getting similar traffic viewers as you and you will have a nice mutual agreement for extra traffic.
You can at least build your list until you have the daily traffic to charge for these slots in the future.
Review Page
Reviews are great for getting interested traffic to buy. It's been proven over and over again that creating a review on a product will produce higher conversion rates when targeted traffic is sent to it. Contact possible joint ventures to do a review swap as I like to call them. Send them your freebie or product and have them write up a real review.
If they don't want to review your product but are still willing to do the swap, write the review yourself. Even though it's your goodies you are reviewing, you should be honest about what you are offering. Review pages with hype and sales tactics don't do the trick that honest opinions can offer.
Swap video reviews for even better odds.
Social Media
At this point, everyone reading this has a Facebook or Twitter account. Social media swaps are a quick way to get a boost of subscribers to your list or traffic to your money page. They are simple to arrange since it's really only a small message being sent to the list instead of a direct email or intrusive flashy banner.
Email-a-friend Bonus
I often use referrals to quickly boost my subscriber numbers. To do this, I love Email-A-Friend scripts (free ones all over the internet). To make sure these things convert, you should be offering a little extra freebie just like squeeze page. Why not make this freebie something from your venture partner.
Offering this swap to a venture partner can have a double impact. Not only do you get the traffic your venture partner sends you, but you get the extra referrals that the email-a-friend script provides.
Confirmation/Thank You Page
Autoresponders usually allow you to set up multiple pages for your squeeze funnel. These two pages are great spots to allow venture partners to place their freebies or banner ads. Offering your freebie on venture partner's confirmation and thank you pages will continue to add subscribers to your list for the long run.
Product Bonus
If you create products, you can always contact another marketer in your niche and ask them if they would provide a bonus to your product. This not only adds value to your offer, but it also entices the venture to blast their following to your product offer.
For bonuses, don't accept free offers that are already open on the web. Not much value there.
Download Page
The download page a viewer comes to after purchasing a product is a great place to offer venture swaps. These things are going to have buyers viewing only. So, the traffic is top notch at all times. All that is needed is a small graphic at the bottom of the download page that links to the opt in and sales funnel. Quick and easy!
Duo Product Creation
Don't be shy to contact marketers that are similar in experience to you or more advanced to offer a joint product creation. You may be thinking that you will make less money by splitting a product with someone, but in most cases, this isn't how it works out. Working with a venture partner on product creation also eliminates half the work for you...that's almost worth it alone :p
Set up one of each of these venture types today and I guarantee quality results. Get building those businesses!
Travis
Well, just doing a straight two way email promotion isn't the only way to venture with viable partners for big big traffic gains. Here are 10 great places in a typical online business sales funnel to offer possible venture partners value in exchange for some traffic.
Straight Email Promo
This is the obvious one and the method that most IMers jump into. It's highly successful and can bring in some big numbers. Depending on who you are working with and what niche you are in, the quality of the traffic could be iffy though. For example, if you have built your list strictly from forum marketing and your venture has used solely solo ads, you're list is more than likely going to be way more responsive.
Blog Sidebar
You always see new bloggers trying to sell advertising space on their blog's sidebar. This is a good way to add some income to your monthly revenue if you have the traffic rolling in. If you don't, it's going to be tough to find people who are willing to invest even $25 month on your blog's sidebar graphic slot.
Why not use this space for a free venture with a related marketer. Offer their freebie through a graphic they made and have them do the same. Make sure the venture partner's site is getting similar traffic viewers as you and you will have a nice mutual agreement for extra traffic.
You can at least build your list until you have the daily traffic to charge for these slots in the future.
Review Page
Reviews are great for getting interested traffic to buy. It's been proven over and over again that creating a review on a product will produce higher conversion rates when targeted traffic is sent to it. Contact possible joint ventures to do a review swap as I like to call them. Send them your freebie or product and have them write up a real review.
If they don't want to review your product but are still willing to do the swap, write the review yourself. Even though it's your goodies you are reviewing, you should be honest about what you are offering. Review pages with hype and sales tactics don't do the trick that honest opinions can offer.
Swap video reviews for even better odds.
Social Media
At this point, everyone reading this has a Facebook or Twitter account. Social media swaps are a quick way to get a boost of subscribers to your list or traffic to your money page. They are simple to arrange since it's really only a small message being sent to the list instead of a direct email or intrusive flashy banner.
Email-a-friend Bonus
I often use referrals to quickly boost my subscriber numbers. To do this, I love Email-A-Friend scripts (free ones all over the internet). To make sure these things convert, you should be offering a little extra freebie just like squeeze page. Why not make this freebie something from your venture partner.
Offering this swap to a venture partner can have a double impact. Not only do you get the traffic your venture partner sends you, but you get the extra referrals that the email-a-friend script provides.
Confirmation/Thank You Page
Autoresponders usually allow you to set up multiple pages for your squeeze funnel. These two pages are great spots to allow venture partners to place their freebies or banner ads. Offering your freebie on venture partner's confirmation and thank you pages will continue to add subscribers to your list for the long run.
Product Bonus
If you create products, you can always contact another marketer in your niche and ask them if they would provide a bonus to your product. This not only adds value to your offer, but it also entices the venture to blast their following to your product offer.
For bonuses, don't accept free offers that are already open on the web. Not much value there.
Download Page
The download page a viewer comes to after purchasing a product is a great place to offer venture swaps. These things are going to have buyers viewing only. So, the traffic is top notch at all times. All that is needed is a small graphic at the bottom of the download page that links to the opt in and sales funnel. Quick and easy!
Duo Product Creation
Don't be shy to contact marketers that are similar in experience to you or more advanced to offer a joint product creation. You may be thinking that you will make less money by splitting a product with someone, but in most cases, this isn't how it works out. Working with a venture partner on product creation also eliminates half the work for you...that's almost worth it alone :p
Set up one of each of these venture types today and I guarantee quality results. Get building those businesses!
Travis