Bill McRea

A joint venture is when two or more businesses agree to work together on a specific project. One of the most exciting aspects of the world of Internet Marketing is joining up with other marketers to help expand you reach and get exposed to new ideas and strategies. A joint venture could be something as simple as a list swap, or as involved as launching a product together. But if you are new and just getting started with Internet Marketing, or if you aren’t well connected with other marketers, there are ways that you can find a JV partner to work with on your next project. In this article we’re going to look at some ways to find joint venture partners for your projects.

Wikipedia defines a joint venture in this way, “A joint venture is a business agreement in which parties agree to develop, for a finite time, a new entity and new assets by contributing equity. They exercise control over the enterprise and consequently share revenues, expenses and assets.”

Now that we’re clear on what a joint venture is all about, let’s take a look at how you might find a JV partner.

International Association of Joint Venture Brokers
Nick-named the “Joint Venture Capital of the Internet,” the IAJVB is an organization that was founded by veteran Internet marketer, Willie Crawford. The nexus of this organization is a live database where members enter their product and project launch dates. Members can then search this database either by date or niche so that when they are planning to launch their product, they can choose a time when it won’t get swallowed up by a ton of big launches.

International Marketing JV partner and Mastermind Group
This group can be found on meetup.com, and it is a resource for finding potential JV partners all over the world so that you can actually meet them in person and develop a working business relationship.

JV Alert
Ken McArthur hosts a members-only joint venture program where you can meet other Internet Marketers who are looking for NV partners. He also hosts an annual conference each year called JV-Alert Live, where you can network and broker deals with other marketers in person.

Private JV Club
Founded by marketing consultant Stefanie Hartman, the Private JV Club is a monthly membership club where you can network with other business people, find joint venture partners and learn new marketing strategies to help you leverage your resources in the most powerful way possible.

JMme.com
This free to join joint venture network looks and feels like a social media website where people can join, create a profile, add friends and join and create groups.

These are just a few of the established websites online where you can find joint venture partners, but you can also take the informal route and simply ask marketers that you meet and interact with in online forums such as the digital point forum, the warrior forum, or more niche-specific forums that you are active in. You could put out a request on your Facebook profile when you are looking for a JV partner.

Joint ventures are a powerful way to gain exposure to new markets, build valuable business relationships and make more money without spending more on advertising.

If you want to learn more about how to leverage joint venture relationships along with many other Internet marketing strategies, visit, http://mcreasite.com/blog today.

Human beings are visual creatures. When it comes to the Internet, which is a purely visual medium design is a vital element to consider when you are building your website, which is your virtual representation in a digital world.

Think about your favorite brands that you always choose over whatever else is available. What is the first thing that comes to mind? Most likely, it’s the design of the logo, those familiar colors, or the famous lettering that stands out in your mind. Think about brands that have withstood the test of time such as Ford, Coca-Cola, and McDonalds. You could argue that the distinctive design along with the value reputation of the company makes it stick out in the mind of the public.

Because your website will take its place in the crowded field among billions of other websites on the Internet, and the hundreds of other sites within your industry or niche, you must find a way to differentiate yourself from all of the other options your prospective customers might have. Your website’s design must serve to help you to stand head and shoulders above the crowd, grab and hold the attention of your audience long enough for them to explore what you have to offer.

Choosing a website designer

Keep in mind that website designers are not marketers. Their strength lies in delivering a visually appealing website with optimized load times, efficient navigation and user-friendly design features.

Ask for referrals from your colleagues who have a website that you like. As you browse the web, make note of the websites that have a pleasing design scheme. Scroll to the very bottom of the page and you might see the name of either the designer or the design firm.

Once you have narrowed down your search, ask for references from your short list of designers and contact these people. Ask how pleased they were both with the final website design and how easy it was to work with that designer.

The impact of design on conversion rates

Entire books have been written about conversion optimization because you can make a change as seemingly insignificant as the color of your ‘Buy Now’ button and get vastly different conversion rates. Website design plays a significant role in your conversion rates. It’s worth investigating what changes you can make to your existing site, or if you are planning a new site, how you can find out what the most effective elements are for your website.

This article barely scratches the surface when it comes to all of the various aspects of how your website’s design will impact your ability to succeed online. Try doing a quick split test of some of the elements of your website and see what kind of results you get. Often you may not need an entire site re-design in order to see higher conversion rates, but you would be amazed at what a difference making small tweaks to your site’s design can have on your bottom line.

Your website’s design has a major impact on your ability to make money online. If you’d like to learn more about Internet Marketing, please visit, http://mcreasite.com/blog, where you’ll discover a ton of tips and strategies for making money online.

Above the Matrix is a software app that promises automated affiliate income even for those who have yet to earn any income online, but how does it do that, and is it really possible to automate the Affiliate Marketing process? Let’s take a look at what ‘Above the Matrix’ is, and what it does. You will be the judge when you try it if it really works.

Affiliate Marketing is an simple, low-cost way for people to get started making money online. Marketers sign up with product merchants to sell their products in exchange for a commission. There are all kinds of ways to do affiliate marketing online, but the bottom line is that no matter what approach you take, you will be required to invest a lot of time and effort before you start seeing an income in return.

Here are some of the steps that you will have to take when setting up your affiliate marketing empire:

Keyword research

Your first step will be to decide on a niche. You will begin this process by doing keyword research. There are lots of keyword research tools available both free and premium tools that can help you narrow down a list of viable keywords that you can focus on to get rankings in the search engines.

Choosing a domain name

Once you have selected your niche and your list of primary and secondary keywords, you will then choose a domain name for your affiliate marketing website. This can be quite challenging as you’ve got to find a domain name that contains your keywords, is easy to say, easy to spell, and is as short as possible.

Creating content

Your next step after you have chosen a domain name and set up your affiliate blog is to create lots of SEO content. The content is what is going to get your website or blog found by the search engine. The majority of the traffic that your site will receive will come from the search engines, so you must have a consistent flow of keyword relevant content on your site to keep both the search engines and the visitors coming.

Website monetization

This is where it gets interesting. Now you will choose the products that you will be pre-selling to your visitors. You will choose products that appeal to your visitors who are interested in the topic of your niche. After your site has built up some consistent traffic you can also monetize your site by selling advertising space.

Building traffic

In the world of Internet Marketing, traffic equals money. You can’t sell anything or earn any commissions if you are not getting a decent amount of traffic to your website. You’ve got to put in the time to build lots of quality, relevant back links to your site to make sure that you will receive the traffic you need.

Above the Matrix automates all of these processes for you saving you time and effort making sure that you start earning an income from your marketing efforts quickly and effortlessly.

Above the Matrix includes a hosted website and all of the following automated tools:

• Keyword research
• Domain finder
• Content posting software
• Website monetization tool
• Automated link building

Finally, there is one piece of software that can automate your affiliate marketing tasks. Now it up to you to decide if you would like a tool to handle these tasks, or if you would prefer to continue to do them all by hand.

Above the Matrix is just one of the many automated traffic tools available that can transform your Internet marketing business. Visit http://mcreasite.com/blog to discover lots of other tips and strategies for growing your business online.

Building targeted back links for your blog is a crucial activity that helps drive traffic to your blog and boost your SEO. blog commenting is a great way to build those back links, and if your blog is new it’s also an effective way to get some good exposure for your blog with the readers of other popular blogs in your niche.  When you leave a comment on another blog, it includes a link back to your blog. If the blogs you comment on have a higher page rank than yours and the blogs have do-follow links, this boosts your blog’s SEO because all of the relevant, incoming links make your site look more relevant to the search engines.

Unfortunately, many unscrupulous marketers abuse the practice of blog commenting and they use software to massively distribute spam comments on blogs unrelated to their topic or keywords. If you are a blogger, there is no doubt that you have spent your valuable time deleting those undesirable spam comments from your blog.

Here are five tips that will help you launch your blog commenting campaign, but they will also help you avoid looking like a spammer on other people’s blogs.

1. Choose blogs that are relevant to your topic and keywords

Create a list of the top blogs in your niche and make it a point to visit and comment on them regularly. Blog commenting is a win-win because the blogger gets user-generated content on their site, a bit of social proof and engagement, and you get a quality, relevant link back to your site. Just leaving comments on any blog regardless of the topic can look spammy.

2. Leave comments that add value to the blog and show that you actually read the blog post.

Yes, it takes time to think of a valuable comment, but what you write is a direct reflection on you and your blog.  Give it some thought and take the time to engage with the blog’s author. You will be creating a  valuable relationship, and maybe even pave the way for future guest blogging gigs for you.

3. Don’t stuff the ‘Name’ field with keywords

Type your name first and then your keywords in the ‘Name’ field, which creates an anchor text link back to your site. Stuffing this field with keywords is a good way to get your comment deleted as spam.

4. Format your comments with HTML

Blog comment boxes allow you to customize the format using a few HTML tags. This will make your comments stand out from the rest and make you look like a pro.

1.  <strong>bolds a sentence</strong>

2.  <em>italicize your sentence</em>

3.  <blockquote>include a quote</blockquote>

4.  <ul>

<li>Make a list – point 1</li>

<li>Make a list – point 2</li>

<li>Make a list – point 3</li>

</ul>

5. Use commenting software wisely

There is software available that can cut down on a ton of the work involved with blog commenting, however, you must take care in how you use it so that your efforts are not wasted when your comments are all deleted as spam.

Blog commenting is an effective way to build a ton of relevant backlinks to your blog quickly. Try these five tips today and get some fresh traffic and a SEO boost for your blog.

For some  blog commenting software that will save you time and effort and help you get a ton of targeted backlinks to your blog, visit, http://commentlinks.ebacklinktool.org/, where you will discover lots of other ways to build backlinks and drive traffic to your blogs.

With the advent of the whole web 2.0 movement of a few years ago when the Internet ushered in the era of full engagement, user-generated content, and the proliferation of social media, social networking is something that most people who work online do every day. Social networking is a prime opportunity for you to build your brand and manage your reputation. You can use social networking to establish yourself as a subject matter expert, and become a resource to those within your network.

Social bookmarking is one aspect of social networking that allows users to share favorite links to their favorite website and blogs. Some of the advantages of social bookmarking includes:

• It increases your online presence outside of your website
• Give you favorable exposure within your niche
• Has the potential to bring lots of traffic to your website
• Brings greater exposure to your content
• Portrays you as a trusted authority

When you participate in social networking and social bookmarking, your goal should not be to sell yourself or your stuff rather it should be to contribute and add value wherever you can. You should strive to inform and educate your network, and share links that will assist them in achieving their goals.

When you share a valuable resource the person you are sharing it with appreciates your efforts and they can begin to see you as a trusted authority in your niche making sharing good content a win-win.  The general rule-of-thumb for sharing content is that you should share 80% other people’s content and 20% your content. That way you are not seen as someone who is just looking to constantly promote themselves without adding value.

Here are just a few of the hundreds of social bookmarking websites:

• Digg.com
• Diigo.com
• Del.icio.us
• Furl.net
• Multilply.com
• Blinklist.com
• Linkagogo.com
• Stumbleupon.com
• Faves.com

Twitter is a social networking site that uses the format of micro-blogging to share short, 140 characters of text and links among a network of users. Twitter is a great way to connect with people, and get lots of targeted traffic to your website. With Twitter you definitely have to balance how much self-promotion you do because people will quickly un-follow you if it seems like you are just spamming your links.

There are some cool, free tools that you can use to check where you stand on these social networking sites.  This website, which features several free social web tools is where you can type in your website’s URL and find out how many links you have from one of the sites listed to yours: http://www.ebacklinktool.org/tools/cat/social-web-tools/

Another cool tool that can help you save time and energy is socialposter.com. from this one website you can post your links to dozens of social networking websites.

Social networking is something that you should set aside some time each week to focus on. When your prospective customers see you sharing good content, adding value and interacting with your market you will stay top-of-mind with them and make them more likely to buy from you and be loyal customers.

For more information about social networking and how it can increase your online exposure, you are welcome to visit, http://www.mcreasite.com/blog, where you’ll find lots of tips and strategies for making money online.