The book reminded me that often we flinch from just
imagining how bad something will be when those things
often turn out to be nowhere near as bad as we imagined.

In the book, Julien touched upon something I actually
was trained to do back in 1980, when I sold books
door-to-door in Baltimore and Philadelphia, with
Southwestern Publishing Company.

When Southwestern Publishing pulled my team (college
students recruited at NCSU) into their corporate
training centers, one of the things that they hammered
into us was that “Successful People Do Things That
Unsuccessful People Don’t Like To Do!”

What they failed to mention is that successful people
often don’t LIKE doing them either.

Anyway, they taught us to start each day out with a
cold shower… turning on the water, and just doing it.
After a few seconds under the cold water, you quickly
realize that it’s not nearly as bad as you thought it
would be… and that was suppose to suggest that the
inevitable rejections you would get during the day of
trying to sell people your books (for several hundred
dollars) wasn’t going to be really that bad either.

Since The Flinch reminded me of the cold shower
concept, I decided to start forcing myself to be more
proactive, even when it felt unnatural, by actually
taking nothing but cold showers for a full month.

AND I ACTUALLY DID THAT… although I cheated.

You see, I spent 3 weeks of that month in the Philippines
where you simply didn’t have hot running water even
available in the shower in many locations.

In fact, I stayed places where you ran a 10 gallon
bucket full of water, and then you used a smaller cup
or bucket to pour the water over yourself. So, you
splashed some water on you to get wet, lathered up,
and then poured water on yourself to rinse off. At least
that was what I did… I didn’t ask for instructions

As I prepared for these showers, I have to admit that
I anticipated what it was going to feel like having
that cold water running down my back.

In practically EVERY instance, it didn’t feel nearly
as bad as I imagined, and in most cases, after the first
fraction of a second, it actually felt nice.

It was a nice break from the 90 degree heat.

I continued the cold showers after getting back home,
until I had completed the full month… then gave myself
permission to enjoy warm showers again… unless I need
the psychological reinforcement offered by the cold
showers.

After, the month of cold showers, I have now stepped up
to going through a full year of doing things that I know
that I need to do, but also tend to flinch when thinking
about them.

So, prepare to be amazed as I go through The Year Without
Flinching… or better yet, join me

Willie

By the way, you can still get the Kindle version of The
Flinch ** FREE ** here:

This is a frequent topic of discussion as I interview potential
clients to decide whether or not I will accept them, and
orchestrate their product launchs.

In fact, I had a 30-minute discussion this morning with a client
where I made it very clear that I would require a six-figure
commission from him, which he happily agreed to… because he knew
that it would be worth it!

Anyway, you can download that MP3 by clicking here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/1-1/TheMillionDollarJVBrokerMindset.mp3

After you download the MP3, please take a minute to check out The
Ultimate Social Media Challenge. Social media is one of the tools
that I leverage very effectively, and that enables me to deliver
the results that my clients rightfully expect. Please check out
The Ultimate Social Media Challenge by clicking here:
http://TheRealSecrets.com/UltimateSocialMediaChallange/

Thank you,
Willie

I haven’t previously put that on a webpage because it’s
not a mass-market thing.

Here’s…

A Snapshot Of My Joint Venture Broker Training
And Certification

Since 2004, I have earned a major portion of my online
income from brokering joint ventures. What I basically
do is go out and recruit, and motivate affiliates for
other people’s product launches.

I also use my 16 years of internet marketing experience
to review EVERYTHING about the product that I’m helping
to launch including the product itself, the entire
sales funnel, etc.

So, my JV brokering also equates to a consultation. I
do offer regular consultations, on an hourly, monthly
and annual (retainer) basis. You can read a little
more about that on my site at:
http://williecrawford.com/mentoring.html

Before I take on clients as a JV broker, for consultation,
or as a student, I put them through a mini-interview.

That’s because I absolutely insist upon only working with
people that I like and resonate with. Life is too short to
get stuck working with people (or on projects) that you
don’t really care for.

I work as a joint venture broker from my cell phone and
laptop as I travel the world, take several exotic cruises
a year, and enjoying life. For example, this year, I
will take trips to Australia, Hawaii, the UK, Thailand,
and The Philippines (two trips to the Philippines).

I can afford this lifestyle because, as a joint venture
broker, I get paid 10% of the gross revenue generated
by all of the affiliates that I recruit for my clients. I
don’t typically take on projects that I think will make
less than $500,000 in sales, and I focus on projects that
will make several million in sales. So that 10% adds up.

At the same time, I choose to only take on a few projects
per year… based upon how much I want to work.

The reason that a joint venture broker gets paid so
handsomely is that it’s generally a lot easier to create
a product, and sales process, than it is to get large list
owners to promote your product. The large list owners and
centers-of-influence often get approached DOZENS of times
per month requesting that they promote products.

My training teaches you how to identify, contact, and
convince these large list owners, and centers-of-influence
to agree to and then actually PROMOTE your clients products.

I put my students through 60 hours of recorded training
(videos from live training workshops that I’ve taught and
audio from tele-classes that I’ve taught). After the 60
hours of recorded training, then you are ready to begin a
full YEAR of hands-on training.

For the next year, I work hand-in-hand with the apprentice
joint venture broker as you help clients to flow out and
then carry out product launches.

I work with you on as many projects as you do in that year,
but YOU do the work, I don’t. If I’m going to do all of the
work, then I would simply be the joint venture broker for
the launch myself.

In my 16 years as an internet marketer, I’ve seen many more
product launches fail, or succeed only marginally, than I
have seen achieve major success. Most internet marketing
gurus don’t talk about their failures that often, but I’m
friends with most of the old-timers, and we talk about what
has and hasn’t worked among ourselves.

Entrepreneurs who create and launch their own products are
risk-takers by nature, and they don’t realistically expect
everything that they do to succeed massively. Entrepreneurs
realize that you have singles, home-runs, and that sometimes
you strike out. Entrepreneurs earn more than the average
person because they are crazy enough to take the necessary,
calculated risks!

I’ve had behind-the scenes looks at literally hundreds of
product launches. I’ve gone through all of the major
(and many minor) courses on product launches and brokering
joint ventures (deal making) and as a result am a
storehouse of practical knowledge.

I’m trained as a classroom instructor, and in my military
background, I trained as an instructor in a life-and-death
environment. I trained students to navigate aircraft and
do airdrops in an environment where a mistake could
literally kill many people… including the young
paratroopers that I’ve air-dropped tens of thousands of.

As a result of my experience, I understand transferring
practical skills to a student, and stepping them through
handling the stresses of “the heat of battle!” Make no
mistake about it, when you are orchestrating a multi-
million dollar (or even $300,000) product launch, and
you are in the middle of the launch, and things are not
going as anticipated, it’s as stressful as any battle that
I’ve seen.

Soldiers plan things in excruciating detail, knowing that
every plan changes, often drastically, in the heat of
battle, and that there is a reason that they call it “the
fog of war.”

I step my clients through this process, and often things
go exactly as planned, but somethings we encounter
unexpected circumstances.

I work hand-in-hand with my students, as they step their
clients through this process.

The ability to engineer or facilitate a successful product
launch is one that people don’t mind paying 10% (or more)
for. They understand that if their launch fails, 100% of
nothing in NOTHING. Many product owners also understand
the concept of a 2-tier affiliate program, so they also
view your JV broker’s fee as akin to a 2nd-tier commission,
but as a broker, you can also often negotiate an additional
upfront fee. That extra fee is akin to a consultation fee.

If you actually looked at the webpage that I gave you the
url to earlier: http://williecrawford.com/mentoring.html
you’ll see that small business owners who retain my services
pay me $50,000 per year largely to be able to call me up
from time to time (or meet with me face-to-face when they
travel to where ever I am at).

Those who don’t anticipate needing my services for a year
can call me from time to time to discuss projects for $5000
per month. I charge $3000 to review an ebook or piece of
software… and offer feedback on it’s feasibility during
a product launch.

My apprentice joint venture brokers pay me a mere $10,000
for me to transfer my 16 years of internet marketing and
product launch knowledge to them. I transfer that knowledge
the same way that I do to students that I instruct in the
martial arts. I assess where they are, and I move them as
fast as they prove to me that they are ready for. To move
you faster than you are really ready for only does you a
disservice.

I’ve studied, and taught the martial arts for over 30 years,
so I understand conveying knowledge and skill in a practical
manner. I have taken clumsy, fragile kids, and turned them
into amazing, confident, skilled individuals. That’s also
what I do with apprentice joint venture brokers.

I am totally dedicated to your success, should you desire
to become an apprentice, but that also means that I don’t
want to accept you as a student unless you are really,
really serious.

When I first started karate, my instructor had only 5 regular
students. It was at NC State University, and unless I’m
mistaken, I was his only student who was not a graduate
student or professor.

He had one of these students show me ONE “kata,” and then
he required me to practice it for a month before deciding
if I really wanted to join the dojo. After the month, when
he could see that I would be committed to the grueling 4-hour
once-a-week group workouts, plus daily practice on my own, he
accepted me. I’m still his student 33 years later… still
VERY teachable.

I’ve raised the bar as high for apprentice joint venture
brokers because when a product owner comes to you, they
quite literally are trusting you with the success or
failure of their businesses. I won’t put my seal of
approval on anyone who isn’t totally committed to
taking care of those clients… putting the client’s best
interest first.

For the student unable, or unwilling to pay the $10,000
upfront, I offer then the option of paying $997 per month,
for a year. In both cases, my recorded training, and much
of my one-on-one training, and resources (such as example
contracts, swipe files, case-studies) is offered via a
membership site.

After the full year, students who wish to continue under
my guidance, still pay a negotiable monthly fee. At that
point, they will be black-belt joint venture brokers, but
as any experienced martial artist will tell you, reaching
the black-belt level means that you’ve only demonstrated
that you have what it takes for a lifetime of continuing
to learn and hone your skills.

So there you have a snapshot of my training. In-case
you didn’t do the math, with my training, just one $300k
joint venture, properly brokered, will earn you $30k. A
$2 million product launch pays you $200,000. As I’m sure
that you can imagine, it DOES take a lot of skill to be
worth that much to a product owner.

People happily pay me that much for brokering joint
ventures, and I get approached to broker many times more
product launches than it is reasonable for me to even
consider taking on. When I say no, I’m often asked to
recommend someone else. I often recommend one of my
apprentices.

My training and certification does also include handing
you a number of pre-screened joint ventures for you to
broker during the year. After the year is over, I’ll
continue referring projects to you because I will know
beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are capable of taking
exceptional care of the client.

If this sounds like a career that you would like to
pursue, feel free to email me at:
willie.crawford@gmail.com with the subject line,
“Interested In Being A Joint Venture Broker” and I will
get back to you to confirm that I feel we should work
together.

If I decline to take you on as a student, please don’t
take it personally. Life is simply too short to spend
with people who will waste your time. There is a lot
to learn, and much of it will only be mastered through
practical application. So, I’ll be committing to
holding your hand as you master my craft. I don’t make
that commitment lightly.

——————

Willie Crawford, is the 2011 The Winners’ Circle Joint Venture
Broker of the Year. To download a free MP3 audio and PDF
transcript of his insightful interview “Secrets Of A 7-Figure
Joint Venture Broker” please visit:
http://TheRealsecrets.com/InsiderJVSecrets/

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So, this information is my $51,000 gift to you

Below, I reveal how I overcame my single biggest
challenge as an email marketer, namely decreasing email
delivery rates, and lower email response rates… lower
conversions!

Back in 1996 when I first started, there was a tiny
fraction as many email marketers, and they didn’t email
nearly as often, and they didn’t send as many purely
promotional emails. Back then, you really could plan
on earning $1 per subscriber, per month, in the internet
marketing space.

This report reveals how I still connect with my
“subscribers” and get an incredible response rate.

I at one time was going to headline the WSO…

“How I Inceased My Response Rates 10,000%” then I
settled on the title below.

Secrets Of The 7-Figure Month
Copyright 2012 by Willie Crawford

In December 2011, I decided that 2012 was going to be
not only MY YEAR, but also THE Year for anyone who
closely followed my teachings.

I had already discovered that, as trite as it sounds,
95% of achieving world-class success really IS mindset.

So, in December 2011, I decided to simply get out of my
own way, and accelerate the pace of my success to a level
most people wouldn’t even dare imagine.

The necessary shift in mindset was brought about by
some training that I underwent, offered by Brian
Ridgway, where, if I had to condense it down, I’d say
that he explains The Law of Attraction better than
anyone had previously explained it me.

He explained it so clearly, that it all became very
scientific and 98% effortless.

In December 2011, I went on a CEO Mastermind Cruise
with a group of millionaires, and even a billionaire
or two. The group is called, The Winners Circle. That
5-day cruise only served to reinforce what I had first
learned in a free webinars that Brian still offer at:
http://timic.org/How/

By the end of December, my grasp of harnessing The Law
Of Attraction, understanding “how to get out of my
own way” and how to attract practically anything that
I wanted had become so crystal clear that I found myself
going on another cruise in January 2012.

There was a point in my life where I only dreamed of
going on an exotic Caribbean cruise, and the thought of
having a billionaire even acknowledge me, was
“unimaginable,” but not I found myself going on back-to-back
cruises, and having protracted discussions on international
politics and economics one-on-one with multimillionaires
and billionaires.

Many of these world-class, successful business owners now
have MY phone number programmed into their speed dials

Before embarking on my second cruise, I also stepped up
my habit of going for a walk early every morning. I had
discovered that some of the most brilliant minds in
history had this habit. Going for a walk in nature just
seems to stimulate the creativity, and allow you to think
clearer.

On January 1st, 2012, while out for that walk, I reflected
upon the prevailing conversation on the Internet Marketing
Warriors discussion forum. The discussion on the forum
with nearly 500,000 members had turned very negative.

The discussion all seemed to be that no one was making
any real money, and nothing was really working anymore.

I knew that part of the problem WAS the current economy
which IS unlike anything any of us have seen in our
lifetimes. Yet, I understood it 100% because it has been
explained to me in a private lecture. I could/can see not
only what triggered the current situation, but where the
trend is heading… so life/the world no longer feels like
it’s spinning out of control to me.

Everything makes perfect sense, based upon demographics
and decisions that “the powers that be” have made, and how
it will continue to unfold makes perfect sense.

Anyway, that January 1st, I did some deep thinking, and
that continued on January 2nd, when it all jelled and I
decided to post a CRAZY Warrior Special Offer.

I sat down at my computer and drafted a WSO where I offered
to let Warrior Forum members watch over my shoulders as
I generated $100,000+ in sales in the next 30 days.

I gave myself the constraint that I had to only use means
and tools that are available to anyone.

I ended up using social media (which anyone is free to use)
and inexpensive solo ads. I then started keeping a diary
of the things that I did.

For the next 30 days, I literally created a six-figure month
out of thin air. I did it without really having a plan, and
just let intuition guide me. This was actually made 10 times
more complicated by the fact that I WAS on the cruise for
eight days in January, and traveling to and from the cruise
port for another couple of days.

How I managed to do that, is now a product that I’m on the
verge of releasing to the general public, but that’s NOT
what this report is about. The facts shared above only
show how I quite literally allowed intuition to guide me,
and how by just not trying to force the outcome, I created a
$100k month.

My next crazy idea was to create a 7-figure month, something
I had never done or attempted before.

To do that, I removed the constraint that I had imposed upon
myself, which was that I wouldn’t use my large database or
powerful joint venture partners that I had forged relationships
with during my 15 years in business online.

I have actually built a database of over 1.6 million subscribers,
but most of them want absolutely NOTHING to do with learning
how to make money. They want to learn about cooking, fitness,
improving your health, personal development, pets, relationships,
and few other major topics.

Still, I have a large enough list that generating 7-figures
in a month, just from those who want to learn how to start
a business, should have been a piece of cake.

I had one MAJOR problem… the same one faced by most email
marketers. My email deliverability and open rates SUCKED.

It’s a little-known fact that many large list owners have
email open rates of less than 2%, and then only a small
percentage of those who open the emails are going to respond.

Incidentally, small list owners often have the SAME problem.

It’s also a well-known fact that as you do email marketing,
your delivery rates often DROP over time. Part of that is due
to the fact that you will have legitimate opt-in subscribers
who over time become no longer interested, and a percentage
of them remove themselves from your list by clicking the
“This Is Spam Button” in their email client. They find that
more expedient than to click the unsubscribe links for some
reason that baffled me.

ISP’s also score emails based upon a number of criteria
including the “quality” and volume of email from any given
source. Over time, I have found that my quality scores
decreased, and other factors led to me simply having a huge
list but disappointing delivery.

Every one of my peers that I’ve discussed this issue with
FRANKLY, had the same problem.

So, I racked my brain trying to resolve this issue… without
the answer immediately coming to me.

So, I did what my training under Brian Ridgway at
http://timic.org/How/ had taught me to do. I had truly
LEARNED that you can’t force things. You have to
energetically attract the results that you want, but you
do it by detaching from the outcome.

So, in early April, I took a couple weeks vacation to perhaps
my favorite country in the world… the Philippines.

While in the Philippines, how to detach from outcomes and
force results… was reinforced even more. You see, I found
myself in a beautiful beach-side village… where internet
connectivity totally SUCKED

I had intended to relax and recoup, while putting myself back
on track to have a shot at making 2012 an 8-figure year, which
is my financial goal for the year.

I brought along three or four internet-based projects that
I was sure that I could complete while sitting under a
coconut tree, sipping a cool drink (non-alcoholic).

After a VERY frustrating week of practically no internet
connection, I threw my hands up in the air, relaxed, and
said a Tagalog (Filipino) Phrase… “Baha’ullah-na” which I
understand translates more literally as “God’s will be
done.” It’s what the Filipinos say when they mean “since
it’s not something I can really control, why not just go with
the flow.

As I did that, the solution came to me when a friend showed
me a WordPress plug-in that sends/receives SMS text messages
via a dedicated phone number.

The way the plug-in works is that you simply ask people to
send a text message to your number with a codeword in it. That
codeword triggers a pre-composed series of messages from your
plug-in, each in response to messages from the sender.

This tool came out of the idea that a professional platform
speaker might want to ask his audience members to give him
their contact details in exchange for a gift. So he gives
them his phone number, and they use their smart-phones, or
other devices, to send the text messages.

This triggers a series of back and forth messages that
typically ask for things like:

- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Niche

… and then rewards them with a gift.

The responses the audience members send are stored in the
WordPress database, where they can later be downloaded.

You can see, and test the system that I actually use by texting
the word “friends” to my phone number, which is: +19175122996

As I used this tool, first testing it on a few social media
sites, and then using several other methods to build some very
targeted contact lists, another part of the puzzle also came to me.

You see, as I build my email lists, and my Skype contacts,
people welcome communications… IF THEY ARE ABOUT WHAT THE PERSON
GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO CONTACT THEM ABOUT.

With the Skype contacts, when I asked for their niches, in some
instances, I told them that I would follow-up with them on their
topics of interest. I told them that I was a joint venture broker,
and asked for permission to tell them about my (and my clients’)
projects in their niche.

I also asked for permission to find out what they are working on,
because often they will have projects that have a lot of potential
synergy with one of my client’s projects.

I might be able to dove-tail one of their projects with one of
my client’s projects, and use the synergy and momentum to make
a lot more sales and profits for everyone involved, while also
helping out a lot of customers.

So, I built a list of Skype contacts, first in the hundreds,
and then in the thousands.

Now, my only problem was following up with all of these contacts.

The WordPress plug-in allowed me to download the databases
that I build, and by opening them as Excel Spreadsheets, I
could sort that data in various ways.

This made it VERY, VERY easy to generate a list of all of my
Skype contacts who are in a given niche.

That SMS WordPress plug-in by the way can be found at:
http://BuildingFewerDeeperRealRelationships.com

The final piece of the puzzle came to me when a Skype friend,
showed me a Skype add-on software that allows you to send
broadcasts to all of your Skype contacts, or to a list that you
import into the software.

The software allows you to import these Skype contacts via
username or phone number.

I wouldn’t feel very comfortable sending a message to all of
my Skype contacts about anything. I suppose if I were having
a party, I’d feel comfortable inviting them all to it, but
certainly not telling them all about any project that I’m
working on.

However, I feel 100% comfortable telling all of my Skype
contacts in a given niche, they I’ve already told that I’d be
following up with on niche-related projects, a broadcast.

That’s how I now use Skype to send messages to hundreds,
even thousands at a time.

Back in January 2012, when I ran my WSO, I sent out daily
email updates, telling them what I was doing to earn that
$100k in 30 days. That is what I sold in the WSO, 30 days of
daily updates. One problem that I encountered back then was
that not everyone got all of the updates.

I solved the problem of everyone having access to the
updates by eventually putting them inside a membership site.
However, even then, email was not 100% reliable in letting
them know when I added new updates to the site. That WSO
started out as 30 days of updates, but grew to where I agreed
to provide many months of updates as to how I was driving
traffic and sales primarily using social media. After the 30
days, the updates aren’t every day, but I do still post a lot
of updates.

This new Skype software meant that all I needed to do to have
an ultra-reliable backup, was ask my members for their Skype
ID’s. Now, when I update my site, I can send everyone who
purchased the WSO (and also uses Skype and gave me their
Skype ID) a note via Skype.

with this software, you can literally create a list for ANY
purpose, to include:

- List of affiliates/JV partners
- Club members
- Family members
- Classmates
- MLM project downline
- Coaching students
… the possibilities are endless.

For me, this plug-in gave me a way to increase my open and
response rates to important notes by at least 10,000%.

Practically all of the intended recipients receive my updates
now.

At that point, my focus turned to getting as many subscribers
and contacts onto segmented Skype lists as practical.

I don’t abuse this!

I contact these Skype lists/databases when I have a relevant
message to send them. However, now I can compose ONE message
and send it to hundreds, even THOUSANDS of affiliates or JV
partners with the click of a button. This message can be text
or audio.

Yes, I can use placeholders to even personalize these Skype
broadcasts.

If you’d like to check out the software that I use to send the
Skype broadcast, the developer gave me permission to tell you
about it. Just go here:

http://TheRealSecrets.com/GuruSecret/

Now, with open and response rates higher than most internet
marketing experts ever imagined possible, I have absolutely
no doubt that I’ll have an 8-figure year.

The secret was just not trying to force the solution, but to
merely clearly define the problem, and then attract the
solution to me.

That trip to the Philippines turned out to be so productive
that I’m now contemplating purchasing a luxury condo in Makati,
Metro Manila. This will be one of several places that I will
live in as I travel the globe.

I could have that condo completed, and of course outfitted
with ultra-high-speed internet, and all the creature comforts
that I want, before the end of 2012. Perhaps on your next trip
to the Philippines you can drop in and say hi.

Now, you know, the secrets of the 7-figure month, and also
of what should be the 8-figure year

If your messages aren’t getting through, you can only have a tiny
fraction as much succcess!

Willie

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NOTE/Disclaimer:

If you would like to continue learning from me, I encourage
you to join my Skype JV list, by texting the number above,
if appropriate. Otherwise, I encourage you to subscribe to my
free newsletter at: http://WillieCrawford.com

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See if you can spot the similarity.

What do the following three statements have in common?

1. I can’t do it right now, but maybe later.
2. I’ve already got my mailings scheduled.
3. Let me get back to you.

Got the similarity spotted?

These are all typical responses that most people get when asking
partners and affiliates to promote their offers.

Chances are you’ve gotten answers much like these, right?

Don’t despair … there are ways around the barriers of
reluctance and passiveness.

Let me share some simple ideas for getting affiliates to take
action on your promotions quickly. I use the acronym “N.O.W.” to
describe three ways to get others to promote you now…

N – News

In journalism, no one wants to be “scooped” when it comes to
newsworthy items. Sharing some big story that another network or
publication broke days ago is a big “no-no”. You always want to
be first when it comes to getting the word out.

That same philosophy applies to what I’ve labeled “The Principle
of First”. The idea is simple: being “first to market” aids in
responses. Those who let their contacts know about your news
promptly will generate the greatest results. If they wait,
someone else will break the news.

So, to apply this principle, you simply need to create some
newsworthy buzz that your affiliates and partners can’t pass up
on sharing with their network of influence.

**CASE STUDY**

Several months ago I decided that I was going to remove the
archives from one of my membership sites. This announcement
served as a strong motivator to get my affiliates to promote my
site promptly before someone else did. The result was almost 500
new members paying monthly fees!

If you make dramatic changes to your offer, or create some other
kind of “story” or “news” that warrants discussion promptly,
you’ll find you can get many fence-setters active in promoting
you.

O – Occasions

Another great way to motivate affiliates to get active is to use
“occasions” that have a real deadline involved.

Some examples include –

* Product launches
* Firesales
* Live events (teleseminars, workshops, etc.)
* Contests
* Special offers
* Limited quantities

This is what might be referred to as “The Principle Of Force”.
That is, you MUST promote the offer now or miss out simply
because the offer will no longer be valid. You “force”
participation.

For example: If you have a 3-day “firesale” set for a specific
date, then anyone interested in earning commissions for referring
customers to the “firesale” would be “forced” to promote it
during your pre-determined timeframe or they’d miss out because
the event will end.

My recommendation is that you schedule some kind of “occasion”
every quarter. That should give you four significant spikes in
your revenue each year, which can be a tremendous boost to your
bottom line.

W – Wants

What do your partners and affiliates want? Seriously, stop and
think about that for a moment. In fact, go one step further than
that and ASK them a simple question…“What would it take for you
to promote this offer this week?”

Make it happen.

I want you to remember the intangibles here: the sales of your
initial offer aren’t really all that important. (Don’t freak out,
hear what I have to say It’s building a lead list, an
affiliate list and a customer list along with ADDITIONAL offers
over time that makes the real money.

Consider this –

Option A:

Miss Ima Guru ignores your request to promote your offer as it
currently stands.

Option B:

Miss Ima Guru accepts your modified offer which includes giving
her 100% of the revenue she generates. You make nothing off her
promotion…but in the process of her promotion she adds 500 new
subscribers to your list, 75 new affiliates and 60 new customers.

Which would you rather have?

Whatever it takes to get people to promote your offer now, make
it happen.

*** NOTE ***

Now, let me make a simple suggestion here: The deal you make
should be directly proportional to the potential results the
partner represents.

Some affiliates and partners bring more to the table and should
be offered more in order to get them to participate.

That being said, you can get virtually any affiliate to promote
you now if you make it worth their while. So, ask them, “what
will it take?”

This is what I call “The Principle Of Fear”. That is, a feeling
of “This is such a compelling offer, I can’t afford to miss out
on this deal.”

All of this adds up to more involvement and participation among
your affiliates and partners…

N – News +
O – Occasions +
W – Wants =
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Other people promoting you NOW!

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Jimmy D. Brown knows about getting completely free traffic as
he’s been getting it for more than a decade. His groundbreaking
course, How To Get Free Traffic, is a whopping 300+ pages of
step-by-step tutorials, examples and ideas. Never pay for
advertising again! Details at http://TheRealSecrets.com/JimmyDBrown/

There’s no question that building an affiliate program is THE
best way to get a lot of free traffic to your web site.

And, if you spend any amount of time at all reading through the
materials here, you’ll find a lot of useful ideas for finding
affiliates to grow your program.

But, here is an affiliate idea that will absolutely take your
traffic and sales to the next level.

Let me give it to you in it’s abbreviated form first, and then
I’ll explain everything you need to know to quickly get it
implemented.

You ready for this?

Here goes…

“Find a motivated ‘affiliate manager’ and pay them 50% of all
your profits”

Now, I know what you’re thinking – why in the world would I pay
someone HALF of all of my profit?

I’m about to explain it to you. And believe me, this is worth
the read, so pay careful attention to what I’m about to explain
to you.

This is good.

It works like this…

1. Setup a separate website to process orders.

To begin with, you’ll need to setup a separate website to
process all of the orders that your “affiliate manager” brings in
(along with all sales generated by the affiliates he recruits for
you)

In other words, you register a new domain that is similar to the
title of your existing domain, and you host that site.nt for
processing all of the orders and managing your new affiliate
program that your “manager” will be overseeing.

This is a completely separate account from your existing one.
All orders generated through this account will be completely
brought in by your affiliate manager and affiliates / partners he
recruits.

Now, obviously, your affiliate manager will want to monitor
sales stats to see how much profit is being generated to this
Clickbank account. You’ve got two options for how you allow your
affiliate manager access…

Get full access to the control panel. Your first option is to
allow your affiliate manager complete access to the control panel
at Clickbank in order to monitor stats. I highly recommend that
you ONLY do this if your affiliate manager is someone you know
well and find completely trustworthy. Once someone has access to
your Clickbank account, they can, in effect, take control of the
account. Use this option with extreme caution.

Give email access and screenshots. The other option is to setup
a forwarding email address that sends the sales notifications
from Clickbank to both of your email accounts. This will allow
your affiliate manager to get notified when any sale is generated
so they can verify sales and profits. Additionally, at the end of
each pay period, you could take screenshots of the Clickbank
control panel or scan the check you receive from Clickbank when
sending your affiliate manager’s half of the profits received.em
on to your affiliate manager to use with the affiliates he has
recruited for the separate program.

Hint: Encourage him to create his own unique materials,
incentives, and contests for his own affiliates as well!

What an incredible traffic-generation idea!

You get…

* 50% of all profits from this separate site!

* A growing database of affiliates!

* A growing opt-in list!

All in all, this is one of THE best ways to grow your business
… without lifting a finger!

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Jimmy D. Brown knows about getting completely free traffic as
he’s been getting it for more than a decade. His groundbreaking
course, How To Get Free Traffic, is a whopping 300+ pages of
step-by-step tutorials, examples and ideas. Never pay for
advertising again! Details at http://TheRealSecrets.com/JimmyDBrown/

What’s not always obvious is that many of the products
that I promote actually are my own products, or those
of joint venture brokering clients.

When I do promote other products, I am extremely picky!

I choose the affiliate products that I promote based
upon two critical criteria, both of which MUST be in
place.

1) The product absolutely, positively must deliver
results. My customers have to receive tremedous value
from the product. It must work as advertise, and be
structured so that my customer can easily gain that
value.

2) The product must be offered via a sales process
or funnel that CONVERTS. There is absolutely no
point in driving a ton of traffic to a webpage or
webinar that doesn’t convert.

I also like products that are available long-term. Many
of my customers won’t even get around to opening an
email or clicking on a link until many “flash-in-the-pan”
product launches are over. I prefer promoting products
where no-matter when a link is clicked, it leads my
prospect to a way to purchase a product or enter a funnel
where they are tagged to give me credit for future sales!

By-the-way, if you are looking for products that meet the
same criteria, let me know and I can point out some to
you that I absolutely LOVE.

Willie

When I first started internet marketing, back in 1996,
I was taught to build a list, build relationships with
list members, and then sell them solutions to their
most-pressing problems.

That is an excellent business model if you actually
take the time to do that, and use the proper tools so
that the process doesn’t become overwhelming.

Most email marketers understand the process to be:

1) You set up an autoresponder.

2) You offer an ethical bribe (a gift) to get them to
join your opt-in list.

3) You give them the gift and then follow-up via
autoresponder with related information, tips, and
product offers.

4) You post your opt-in form and offer in as many places
as practical.

5) You sit back and collect your fortune, generating a
flood of revenue any time that you want it with the mere
push of a button (sending an email)!

MOST internet marketers discover that it’s not really
that simple, when they notice that no one is responding
to most of their emails. They’ve most-likely MISSED the
part about actually building relationships, and providing
genuine value to their readers.

Around 2002, when I attended my first internet marketing
seminar (one that I spoke at), I learned all about joint
ventures. I learned that if you work with, rather than
competing against, others in your industry, everyone
generally does better.

As I learned more and more about joint ventures, I
gradually developed into a joint venture expert, and then
eventually became a joint venture broker. As a JV broker,
I not only made a lot more sales by working with others in
my industry… I also got paid to orchestrate joint ventures
for others who hadn’t completely mastered the craft.

Today, a major portion of my income is from coordinating
joint ventures for my own projects/product launches, and
for those of my clients.

The email marketing and the joint venture brokering
became really, REALLY successful when I learned “the secret.”

That secret is, you actually need to focus on building fewer,
deeper, real relationships!

You are actually (usually) much better off with a list of 1000
subscribers who consistently look forward to, open, read, and
respond to your emails than you are with a list of 100,000 who
don’t.

As someone with numerous lists, in numerous niches, I have
learned this lesson via “the school of hard knocks.”

I’m not advocating that you stop growing your list. I AM
advocating that you actually get to know WHO your list
members are. Get to know what their biggest concerns are,
and what they really expect from the relationship with you
(as a subscriber).

The easiest way to do this is to set very specific expectations
when inviting them onto your list, so that you and your
subscribers understand the relationship right from the very
start.

Later on, if you find that your list has grown unfocused,
and unresponsive, you probably want to conduct a survey
to find out why. You can use many tools to do that survey,
and my preferred method is via an SMS text message
survey. The reason that I like that method is that it also lets
me build out my database more completely.

You see, when most of your subscribers joined your list, they
probably only gave you an email address, and a name. Many
of them probably even gave you a set of initials, a made up
name, or if the name field wasn’t required… no name at all.

When they first joined your list, they didn’t know or trust you.
Now that they do, you should ask for more data so that you
can better know WHO your customers are, and how you can
best serve them.

By getting them to complete the SMS text message survey
that I use, you now get them to give you their full name,
email address, niche or interests, phone number, or any
other data that you ask for.

You can build your survey any way that you want to, asking
any question that you want, using the tool that I use
called “Profile Builder.”

You can see the system that I use to survey my subscribers,
and actually take it for a test-drive if you simply send a text
message to: 850-396-0016 (that IS my actual number). Just
make the subject “Hi Willie.”

I use this very same system to identify and actually get to
know potential joint venture partners.

When you are planning a product launch, it’s very tempting
to want to recruit as many jv partners (affiliates) as possible.

That is often just a lot of wasted time and effort.

With joint venture partners or affiliates, the 80/20 rule
applies, just as it does with so many other things in life.
Only 20% of those who agree to become your joint venture
partners or affiliates are going to take action, and of those,
only 20% are going to produce significant results.

What I’ve discover, as someone who has professionally
brokered joint ventures for others since 2004, is that the
top 5% of your joint venture partners often produce
30 – 50% of your total results.

I’ve also discovered that that top 5% will often be people
that you actually KNOW. These will be people that you’ve
taken the time to learn what really makes them tick. You
know their hobbies/interests, favorite foods, favorite
places, what causes they are really passionate about, what
drives them to be in business in the first place!

I get to know people on this level by meeting them at live
seminars and conferences. There, I sit and talk to them
face-to-face, and I make sure that I get all of their
contact details.

After I get all of their contact details, I make sure that “I”
follow up to continue building the relationship. You see,
95% of people who attend live events, go home, toss the
business cards that they collected into the back of a desk
drawer, and go back to the life they had before the event.
They never follow-up or take any action to continue building
relationships with the nice people that they met and really
liked… and honestly intended to continue building a
relationship with.

I overcame that very natural tendency by automating parts of
building real relationships. You see, what I now do is ask
them to text me at my number 850-396-0016, and when they
do, they are asked to give me their name, interests/niche,
Skype ID, and any other information that I need to actually
follow-up with them and build real, deeper relationships.

I have different information that I request when they text
me using different “codewords.”

When they text me the requested data, it’s stored securely on
my server in a database where I religiously download the data
and add it to my appropriate relationship management system.

Often, I import the .csv file into my account at Send Out Cards,
another relationship building tool that I have been using since
2004. Send Out Cards allows me to send real, physical greeting
cards (and gifts) right over the internet. I use this system to
periodically reach out to contacts AND to make sure that I never
forget a birthday. The SOC system sends me a reminder of
birthdays, anniversaries, etc.

You can see the SOC system at http://TheCardThingy.com

On that site:

1) Click on the link labeled “Join Now”

2) Click on the link labeled “Preferred Customer”

3) Sign up for the $31 per month plan and that will
allow you to send up to 50 greeting cards per month.
Postage is extra… you pay the actual postage based
upon where you live and if you choose to send gifts with
a given card.

If you don’t feel that you will use that many cards, you
can sign up for the $10 per month plan, but if you’re
seriously building your business, you should be following
up like crazy, and will use the $31 worth of cards each month.
They also rollover, so there is no hurry to use them.

If you study the greatest salesman in the world (according
to the Guinness Book of World Records), Joe Girad, who sold
more cars than anyone in history, I’ve just shared his secret
with you. Joe sent his customers greeting cards on a regular
basis, showing them that he actually cared about them, and this
turned them into VERY loyal customers.

It’s really very simple, you build real relationships by showing
people that you actually want to get to know them, and that you
care about them.

They sense that you really do care, and they like you in return,
and when they need what you have to sell, it’s natural for
them to want to buy from a friend.

When you get ready to launch a product, it’s natural for them
to want to help out a real friend that they also assume would
do the same for them.

It’s simple isn’t it?

Using the system that I just showed you, it’s not only
INCREDIBLY effective, it’s also very inexpensive. The SMS
texting that I do costs me $1 per month for the dedicated phone
line, and 1 penny per message sent or received. The data sent
to me via the SMS text messages are actually stored on my site
via a WordPress plug-in that I use.

You can read all about that WordPress plug-in at:
http://BuildingFewerDeeperRealRelationships.com

Now you know the secrets of a 7-figure joint venture broker.
I actually care about people and take the time to build real
relationships with them, and to reach out to them from time to
time and SHOW that I care

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Willie Crawford has been teaching others to build successful
home-based businesses since 1996. For more tips on how he
builds and runs his seven-figure business, subscribe to his
free newsletter at: http://WillieCrawford.com/

In Part-1 of this article, I suggested to you that having
a very profitable online business can be as simple as setting
up a series of online stores selling your information products.

I also shared that you don’t even have to build your own
websites, you can simple set up your stores on Ebay, Amazon.com,
Facebook, and dozens of other existing marketplaces that
already get millions of visitors per day.

As an example, Facebook has 850 MILLION regular users from
around the world, and an INSANE number of them visit Facebook
EVERY day.

You CAN set up a complete store right within Facebook, and
you can do this VERY inexpensively.

For example, https://s3.amazonaws.com/1-1/FBToolkit/index.html
shows a demonstration of a system that I personally use to
set up Facebook Fanpages for myself and for clients. These
fanpages can sell an unlimited number of products, with my
customers browsing a catalog, adding items to the shoppingcart,
and checking out (paying for their purchases), without ever
having to leave Facebook.

Yes, Facebook has 850 million users, but they all feel safest
on Facebook, and when you try to get them to leave Facebook
and visit your website, they hesitate. Many won’t leave Facebook
to check out your products even if they “sound like” they are
just what your Facebook audience needs. So, the recorded
video above shows you how to set up a store right within
Facebook. That store can be set up for free, and as you get a
little “fancier,” it will cost you a few bucks, with the most
expensive option being only $25 per month. Many of my friends
spend more than that on coffee each week.

In Part-1 of this article, I showed you how to locate and
use public domain content as your products.

However, suppose you want to sell you OWN thoughts?

Well, product creation can be as simple as turning on a
microphone or video camera, and recording an audio or video,
and then uploading these to your virtual vending machines
where they can sell FOREVER!

My dear friend, Mike Steward (who use to be known as The
Internet Audio Guy) has been teaching speakers, authors,
coaches, and internet marketers how to do this for many
years.

Mike taught me how to do this. First he taught me how to
produce a top quality product. He taught me how to get the
very best sound quality using very simple, inexpensive
equipment. He taught me to do the same with video.

I have talked Mike into sharing his years of experience,
as a professional musician/entertainer, and as an expert
in audio and video, with you. Mike has also taught at
countless internet marketing seminars over the years, so
he totally understand the marketing side of the business
too!

You can learn from Mike for free at:
http://timic.org/MikeStewartRocks/

There are numerous options when marketing information
products, and 95% of information marketers that I know
leave most of the money on the table.

Mike taught me that if I can write an ebook, create a
slide presentation, give a speech, or even do an interview,
then I CAN have my own information product selling online.

Mike also taught me that I should be selling my information
product online in as many different formats as possible.

Some of your customers prefer reading the print version,
some want to read it on their Kindles, others want to listen
and learn while out walking or driving, others prefer learning
by watching a video. You can set up your online automated
vending machines to offer ALL of these different versions.

That way, instead of having one version, producing one
revenue stream, you can have five or six… from the exact
same information!

The process is as simple as outlining the product, creating
it, and then uploading it to the recommended online platforms,
in any (or all) of the formats mentioned above, and then you
quite literally could just sit back and collect the checks.

This is possible because sites like Amazon are much more
than stores. Amazon is a HUGE search engine. So, people CAN
find your ebooks, audios, and videos, just by searching on
keywords at Amazon.com… or numerous other similar websites.
I mention Amazon here because it is clearly the largest site
of its type.

We hear people saying all the time that “the secret is working
smarter, not harder!” What could be smarter than doing the
work once, uploading your products to busy online marketplaces
that get millions of visitors per day, setting up direct deposit,
and then spending your time doing things that you really enjoy.

I will admit that if you want to sell a LOT more of your
products, you should personally do things to make the
world more aware of your products. Yes, people will find them
just from doing keyword searches at places like Google and
Amazon, but a lot more will find them if you do simple little
things to get them noticed.

My friend Mike Stewart, and other mentors also taught me how
to do that, and share those tips in their free training.

When I reflect upon all of the things that brilliant, successful
teachers have taught me, the most valuable one is that absolutely
NOTHING will happen until you take action.

Knowing is not doing, and it won’t pay the mortgage!

Let Mike guide you through creating and getting your CD’s, DVD’s,
videos, ebooks, and print books online, in this free video:
http://timic.org/MikeStewartRocks/

Also, don’t overlook Facebook. Facebook is forecasted to reach
1 BILLION registered users by August 2012. That’s almost three
times the entire U.S. population! Check out how to get noticed
in that amazing marketplace by watching the free recording that
I made at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/1-1/FBToolkit/index.html

Ok, I’m off to add a few more items to my online vending machines.
I encourage you to do the same, and then join me on the beach
here in Florida, or out deep-sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Willie Crawford is an internet marketing expert who has been
teaching others how to build successful online businesses
since 1996. If you are not subscribed to his free ezine,
you are missing a lot of great articles like this. Please
subscribe now at: http://WillieCrawford.com/

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My brilliant friend, Yanik Silver, once wrote in a
newsletter that we should set up our online businesses
somewhat like a vending machine route. He proposed
setting up numerous “vending machines” (mini-websites)
that each only had to make a few sales periodically
to give us a substantial overall income.

Consider – if you have 200 soft drink machines scattered
throughout a city, not every one of them will make even
one sale every day. Yet, if you offer a product that people
really want, they will collectively/cumulatively click
along, making a ton of sales, and all that you need to do
is go around periodically and restock them and collect
the money.

The idea of setting up a LOT of websites, doing
essentially the same thing, has always appealed to me,
and to a lot of my friends.

I’ve often written of setting up thousands of small,
simple websites that each make just a few dollars per
day. In fact, that is still something that I’m working
on.

However, technology has changed in recent years making
it easier than ever to set up your own online automated
vending machine route. In fact, you can now do it
without even needing to own the property where the
vending machines are located… just as in the offline
world.

If your product is information (one of the easiest
products to create and sell), all you really need to
do is come up with a LOT of different ebooks, videos,
audios, reports, DVD’s, CD’s, etc., and then offer them
for sale.

You can now also just stick your merchandise on the
shelves in these virtual locations, have them do ALL of
the selling, and have them send you a check (or make
a direct deposit to your bank account) each pay period.

The beauty of selling products from these places, in
the right way, is that you don’t even need to drive
around and service your machines. You just need to
configure them once, add your products, and then “go
fishing” knowing that they are cranking out sales, and
that the commission/royalty checks are flowing into your
bank account.

I find this amazing because what I’m really selling
is nothing more than ELECTRONS. It’s obvious when
you sell a downloadable file that you can sell it
over and over again, and the supply is NEVER exhausted,
hence you never need to even bother restocking the
machines.

When you set up a print-on-demand account, even
physically shipped products can be automated such that
you upload a copy of the product to the system ONCE and
never really need to touch it again.

YES, you can do this with physical books, CD’s, DVD’s,
etc. The reasons that you might want to consider
offering the physical versions as well as the downloadable
versions is that the physical versions usually have a
higher perceived value!

“All of this is well and good Willie, but I can’t create
a product!” you protest.

Not a problem, you can simply find information that is
in the public domain and package THAT into your own
for-sale information products.

The United States Government has spent literally billions
of dollars over the years creating a ton of research and
information that is now “public domain.” That means that
YOU have the right to reuse that material, and to even
sell it!

It’s public domain and YOU are the public.

I’ve asked two friends who are experts on the topic of
locating, packaging, and reselling public domain
information, to teach you all about this topic. You can
tune into this free web-based training that I have set up
for you at: http://timic.org/PublicDomainFacts/

The U.S. Government has published so much information
on hot topics such as health, exercise, weight loss,
finances, education, raising children, overcoming
addictions, consumer safety, etc., that you can quite
literally research, compile and publish hundreds of your
own titles.

In late 2011, I shared with my readers that one of my
goals was to publish an average of one book a DAY for an
entire year. I was very serious about that goal. Now, you
can see why it wasn’t such a crazy goal.

I’m not doing it the difficult way.

I’m simply setting up a lot of simple vending machines.

Since this article is getting a little long, let’s
continue our discussion in a Part-2. For now, check out
the VAST array of public domain information just sitting
there waiting for you to collect it, package it, and then
set up you own virtual vending machine route.

What are you waiting for?

http://timic.org/PublicDomainFacts/

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Willie Crawford is an internet marketing expert who has been
teaching others how to build successful online businesses
since 1996. If you are not subscribed to his free ezine,
you are missing a lot of great articles like this. Please
subscribe now at: http://WillieCrawford.com/

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