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Joint Ventures Made Simple: Here’s How

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Joint Ventures Made SimpleHow to Create Joint Venture Made Simple

One way to take collaboration to the next level is to find JV (joint venture) partners. You’ll find JV partners by meeting colleagues and your competition. A JV partner is a joint venture partnership that can last for a few months to years. It all depends on the goals of the project. I have had successful JVs with many people over the years and they have all been joyous and success, enabling me to say joint ventures made simple is most definitely a worthwhile endeavor.

* Attend Live Events or Host Your Own Live Events – I met almost all of my JV partners at a live event, with the exception of two whom I met through one of the online courses I teach. Being connected in this way will make a huge difference in the level of success you can expect initially and over time.

* Start an Industry Organization – If there isn’t an industry organization yet for your career path, then start one. If there is one, get involved in it so that you can become one of the officers. When you’re in charge of the organization, you can guide everyone to work together for some common goals, which are to boost profit in your industry and ultimately your business.

* Develop a Facebook Group – If you don’t want to go as far as creating an organization, start a Facebook Group only for your niche or industry. Get to know the people within the group that you started, and you’ll soon find people that will make good joint venture partners to work with.

* Build More Relationships – As you meet your competition focus on building strong and trusting relationships with them. Don’t ask them for anything until you’ve built a good rapport with them. You really want to know as much as you can about them so that they end up coming to you for the JV deal unless you already have a partnership opportunity in mind.

* Bundle Your Products or Services – Once you have identified potential JVs, think of how you can bundle products or services to work together to promote what you both offer. Once you’ve worked out the details, then contact them. You want to make it easy for them to participate, almost a “no-brainer”. If it’s too much work, they probably will say no.

* Share Resources – When you put together a joint venture, you’re just sharing resources; you’re not merging your companies together. So, look at the resources you can offer and what they can offer too. You want to work with someone who has complementary resources to yours so that you both have something to offer.

* Learn from Your Competition – When you enter JV with a competitor, take the opportunity to learn from them. The more you can learn that works well and take with you to your company, the better. Remember, they’re going to be doing the exact same thing with you. You are still competitors, even though joint ventures made simple is your goal.

* Create Additional Value – When you collaborate with your competition, you can create more value for your mutual customers. Think of the show “Shark Tank”. Although each shark is a competitor, they work together sometimes. That’s because they each bring their own individual strengths to each project. Together they create additional value for the business owner asking for venture money.

* Keep Proprietary Information to Yourself – Ensure that everyone on your team knows what information is important to keep away from your competition, including joint venture partners. It’s important that everyone is on the same page regarding that, so that nothing happens to ruin the JV partnership.

Your competition is a great source of new ideas, energy, resources, and customers. You may as well join them and work together for the greater good of your audience. The goal is for you to embrace the idea of joint ventures made simple for your online business.

I’m Connie Ragen Green and I work with new online entrepreneurs to help them get into profit as quickly as possible with information products, affiliate marketing, marketing for small businesses, blogging, authorship, and more. Download your Online Entrepreneur Blueprint and get started right away.

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Joint Ventures for New Online Entrepreneurs

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Joint VenturesJoint Ventures Used Wisely for Online Entrepreneurs

Joint ventures can be defined as a commercial enterprise undertaken jointly by two or more parties that otherwise retain their distinct identities. This business entity is generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance and participation. Many people seem to think of a partnership as a type of  joint venture, but for the purposes of this discussion I’d like to consider these two arrangements – joint ventures and partnerships – as separate entities. You may want to consider these options when you get started as an online entrepreneur, especially if your previous business experience is somewhat limited.

My first experience with a JV project came in 2009 when Dr. Jeanette Cates and I decided to teach an online class together. She had already been working online for about fifteen years when we met, so it did not make sense for us to become partners. There are also legal considerations to take into account, but since I am not an attorney or other professional in the areas of business, finance, taxes, or anything similar I will not share my thoughts and opinions on this part of the equation. Instead, I’d like to focus on exactly how a joint venture can be beneficial to you.

Because of Jeanette’s vast experience, she was in charge of handling all of the behind the scenes pieces. This included using her shopping cart to take orders and her autoresponder service to stay in contact with the people who registered for our training. Once a week she updated the spreadsheets in our shared Google Docs folder so that I could see what was happening.

We shared ownership of the course, meaning that we both worked on the course content, the membership site, and presenting the material to our students. Her tech team completed the work we needed done for this and that worked extremely well. We used Jeanette’s hosting company, while I purchased the necessary domain names.

This was quite a learning experience for me, and being able to work virtually alongside someone of Dr. Cates’ caliber made it possible for me to have some on the job training in my newly founded and conceived online business. If I wasn’t sure of something we were doing, I would simply contact Jeanette to discuss it. In fact, our arrangement progressed so smoothly that we went on to create additional courses and programs, as well as a series of workshops and conferences throughout the next several years.

Then we decided to create a course on exactly how to set up and implement a joint venture as a new entrepreneur. We offered this training for two years and many people told us how grateful they were to learn from two people who had actually been quite successful with this business model.

My primary advice if you are considering this is to make sure you choose a joint venture partner you can see eye to eye with when it comes to specific choices and decisions that must be made. Start with something small, like Jeanette and I did with our first course and then move on to bigger and more sophisticated projects over time as the relationship evolves, You’ll be glad you did and your success will be all the sweeter.

I’m Connie Ragen Green, online marketing strategist, bestselling author, and international speaker on the topics of entrepreneurship and inner game mind shifts. Let’s connect to see how I may best serve you in the near future.

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