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Thursday, October 15, 2009

Microsoft, Google seal search deals with Twitter

I found this article that I wanted to share with you.

Alexei Oreskovic of Thompson Reuters has written an article about a Joint Venture you should know about.

Microsoft Corp and Google Inc have sealed separate agreements to access real-time content from Web phenomenon Twitter, intensifying their battle for a search market that Google now dominates.

Google and Microsoft's five-month-old …

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

How can your small business compete against the mega-corporations that cater to the masses?

“Are you ready to become the big fish in a small pond?” asks Scott Gerber of Entrepreneur Magazine. “From aquatic sporting goods for dogs to Michelle Obama-inspired fashion websites, niche products and services have the potential to generate big bucks if they capture the hearts, minds and wallets of a dedicated consumer base.”

As you know, I’m a huge believer in …

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Monday, August 3, 2009

JV Contest Winners

Today is FINALLY the day I can REVEAL the proud winners of the Private JV Club Contest.

Here’s the story:

A few months ago, I asked several of my famous friends to participate in a joint venture contest to help unknowns get a big break.  Many agreed and the JV Club Contest was born.  After 6 weeks of coaching JV Members on how to write a proposal (or more than one), and …

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Saturday, July 18, 2009

10 Words To Help Sales

According to a Yale psychology department study, there are ten words you should be using in your advertising techniques to get the most powerful responses:

New, Save, Safety, Proven, Love, Discover, Guarantee, Health, Results, and You (which was listed as the most powerful above all!)

As a marketer, knowing these types of things always interests me, but as one who’s interested in …

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Sunday, July 5, 2009

How do I Innovate My Business to Grow My Business Without Increasing Costs

If you are like most entrepreneurs, right now you are watching expenses and wondering how to increase sales, get more customers and grow your business in the most cost effective manner you can. Innovation and technology let you open new markets with your business and can foster global business growth easily if you know what to do.

Entrepreneurs and businesses all over the global are learning to …

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Finding Your Passion

Will your life become more blissful if you are spending most of your waking hours (typically your working hours) doing what you love? Studies consistently show that really looking forward to what you do, not only increases your happiness, but improves your physical and mental health as well.

So why aren't we all just going for it instead of continuing to live our lives in a half-zombie like …

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Monday, May 18, 2009

Business Success and Self Command

If you have not noticed yet, the world is changing at a rapid pace. In fact, business systems and technology are upgrading and moving faster than ever before in history. Your business can become obsolete or down graded simply by the development of a new piece of software. How then can you stay on top in your industry? How do you maintain your business for your future?

Relationships are the answer. …

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Looking For Ways to do Really Targeted Marketing?

Who is your Best Client or Customer?

This is an exercise that I give to entrepreneurs to be able to profile their best client/customer and use it as a way to amp up their targeted marketing.

Normally I would have them do this by looking at their past clients and 'profiling' just like on CSI Crime Show, profiling who is their best client, the ones who spend the most amount of money and are the …

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

WHO uses Joint Ventures in their Marketing Strategy to Grow their Business and How?

Ok, the quick answer is probably every major business large or small, that is successful in generating a lot of income.

But let's look at a few examples (the list is simply too long to list them all):

Internet Marketers/Experts: Alex Mandossian, Matt Bacak, Tom Antion, Yanik Silver, Joel Christopher, Lisa Cherney, Armand Morin and countless others.

Many marketers use Joint Ventures to get …

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Saturday, February 28, 2009

5 Joint Venture Blunders you Must Avoid

Joint ventures are the fastest and most effective way to launch your business, explode your sales, and build your business to last. Creating joint venture relationships has many benefits, for instance when your company uses a joint venture marketing model you have low or no risk to your business structure. You can create new products with other companies and bring those products to market. You can …

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Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Finding Joint Venture Partners Just Got Easy

Finding Joint venture partners has not been easy until now. Everyone knows that joint ventures are the number one, fastest growing, most profitable form of marketing strategy in the world, however building joint venture alliances can be time consuming and unproductive if you don't know what to do or where to find them.

In the past, people have hired joint venture brokers, purchased joint venture …

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Planning Your Sales Calendar

This month I dedicated some time planning my sales calendar, that is, my schedule on when my company will be selling what to whom. I find it useful to check in with my plans every quarter. That way I know if I am close to my strategic destination, if I need to re-adjust something or if I am happy as things are. This ?checking in? allows me to recognize my successes as well, something I tend to forget …

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