When you become a known internet marketer you begin to get Joint Venture (JV) invitations from other marketers.

Here are a few mistakes I’ve seen people making recently when approaching me for a JV partnership.

1. Not giving me enough information…

It’s great to approac me 1 month early, but you’re making a mistake by not giving me enough information between the original announcement and the launch. You’ve got to set a hard and fast deadline and you’ve got to keep feeding me information about your launch to keep me hungry. JUST like you’d do a member of your mailing list.

2. Approaching me to help you launch your web site, BUT you launch your web site first before you let me announce it!

Yuck! So you want me to promote your site for you, AFTER you’ve already announced it all over the place? I’m going to have a hard time making sales that way because some of my list will already be exposed to this idea!

3. Asking me to PAY to become a JV partner.

Ok you approached me! How dare you charge me! That’s ROBBERY.

On one hand I understand that you want JV partners who are going to be legit and send you some sales, but yeesh. I got invited to a JV partnership the other day where they wanted me to pay $99 or $499 to join! $499 to join a JV partnership? That seems kind of crazy. What am I going to get for that $499?

4. Giving me ebooks for becoming a JV?

I don’t need your freaking ebooks on marketing. You chose me as a JV because you knew I could help you sell a couple hundred accounts. Now you want me to pay $499 and as a bonus you’ll give me a bunch of crappy ebooks? Come on man!

Yikes, what do these people think they are doing? Don’t they know they are shooting themselves in the foot?

Regards,
Ben Fitts

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