Create 10 new profitable JVs by 6/08
Double the number of other business owners on "my team" by 3/08
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I have just done a JV with an online service business owner (strategist, coach and trainer, just like me) whose ideal clients are my ideal client. And even though we have the same ideal clients, our specialties are different. I'm the planner, stream-liner, resource queen
He's the ad, sales, direct mail specialist.
What we did, was send a solo ad to each others subscribers that was linked to a promotional page with gifts in return for them subscribing to our ezines. We each have 2500 subscribers. In one week, I received 250 new subscribers and new ones keep coming in even after two weeks. Same thing happened to his list.
And he and I noticed some patterns that we hadn't seem before. Like a majority of my subscribers live on the west coast (where I live although I'm a long time NYer) and are woman. Most of his subscribers are men, and live on the east coast, where he lives).
If things go as they have gone, we'll do a bunch of other things, and possibly he'll become one of my team members. (My team is made up of other business oweners who work with my ideal clients and who do not do anything that I do. My goal is to have 3 team members in each important area -- like three business lawyers, three copywriters, etc )
Next we're working on promoting an ebook to each others list using our affiliate links.
I'm having such a great time doing this and watching my ezine grow, which I cleaned out a while ago, grow again with pre-qualified subscribers! And I'm looking forward to the $ coming in from this venture, too.
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I'm betting that there are many other business owners on this BB and on the web whose specialty has something to do with providing a service or product to either business owners or independent professionals working in the financial services arena (from financial planners, to insurance brokers, to book keepers). Your clients would have to be in business at least 3 years (5 is best), live in the USA, and their desire is to build a business investment (I don't work with the self-employed. Nothing wrong with the self-employed, I do have them as clients from time to time, however, my clients have bigger goals - like 500,000 to 20 million in sales now or at some point in the future)
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So I'd like your help in two ways.
1) If you already work with my ideal clients, I'd love to talk with you, join your blog or ezine or both. I'm big on developing an off line relationship to see if we're a good match for a JV. The JV I mentioned above took 3 months to develop. (mainly because we both understood that when we recommend someone and it doesn't work out, it's our reputation that gets stomped on)
2) If you know of web sites that have my ideal clients, I'd love to know about them. Like I just found a site that sells postcards geared to my ideal client! Pretty kewl.
And I'll add a third way you can assist me....
3) I'm open to your ideas. I know that people who read this post will see things I don't. OR you'll have some ideas of your own. And I'm all for receiving what you have to share!
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Thanks so much for being willing to assist me.