Let’s look at some FREE options for promoting and selling services and products.

Remember, you don’t even have to own a business to make money from Joint Ventures, but it does help to have one.

1. Use your own, or others’, E Newsletters (e-zines). My e-zines reach over 8,000 people internationally every week. My cost to have an e-zine sent out every week is only $50 per month! Regular information that is actually READ, is a powerful communication and selling tool.
2. Use others’ e-zines – I write for someone else’s e-zine that reaches 20,000 people per week. That’s great free exposure for me. Other people use my articles free of charge, in exchange for displaying my contact information and giving me credit for the writing.
3. Use a BLOG – mine works well for me, and I use my e-zine articles on it. It’s FREE!
4. Use a website. Mine have made me hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales.
5. Give away free reports and e books like this one – free advertising and you get to create massive credibility. (Given that you know what you’re talking about.)
6. Give away or sell audio CD’s, or have them available free of charge in audio streaming on your website.
7. Give away free CD’s and charge for Shipping and Handling to cover your costs and even make a profit. Team up with others who already have CD’s made. Use my CD’s to market your business. I can show you how to do that. Use other peoples’ skills, competencies and resources.
8. Offer to convert other people’s inactive customers into active customers for an on-going piece of the action. This idea, alone, can be worth a fortune to you, when you consider the amount of customer attrition going on.
9. Piggy-back your product or someone else’s product, on to existing sales streams and have someone else’s sales team sell your products and services as an add-on to their existing sales.
10. Convert unconverted leads or triangulate the deal. Switch leads between two realtors and take a piece of the action.
11. Find people who have products they can’t move, get the products on consignment and sell them through other people distribution channels – on consignment! No risk.
12. Create multiple add-on sales options – wedding planners, lube centers, webmasters, courier services and home improvement services are great for this.
13. Buy and resell advertising space and/or services.
14. Offer Free Seminars – either you do them or have someone else present them.
15. Sell Bill’s CD’s on consignment through Jack’s gas stations.
16. Free Conference Calls are very powerful selling tools. Interview experts and they will help you sell. You don’t need any skills or money – use other peoples’ skills time, energy and money.  Bundle your products with someone else’s – every time they sell a course, they can include your CD’s!
17. Join forces with your competitors – together you can accomplish a lot more.
18. Share advertising space, mailings, seminars, radio and TV time and database communication.
19. Use Gift Vouchers – give away samples of other peoples’ services and take a piece of the resulting, ongoing business. Carpet cleaning, accounting, consulting, car services,

Always ask yourself, “What does the other party REALLY, REALLY want? What is his or her HOT BUTTON? And always ask them, “What will it take?”

If you want to open the door to Joint Ventures with successful people, you have to differentiate your approach. They’re being hit on multiple times every day, but few if any are using this approach. Do your homework; study their websites, Google them, do your research and due diligence and be well prepared for your meeting. Forget about what you want and concentrate on looking for ways to benefit them. You will definitely get their attention.