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Finding Joint Venture partners isn’t an easy task. Finding Joint Venture partners with huge mailing lists is an even harder task.

Here is a very simplistic breakdown of the steps involved

1) Build a relationship with your potential partners
2) Tell them what’s in it for them
3) Provide all the tools (promotional emails, graphics etc) that they can easily copy and paste onto their own website/blog or autoresponder.

(I did say it was simplistic!)

But working with Joint Venture partners can make or break a product launch; it can also bring in far more income than you could by doing it alone.

In this post I’m going to skip over steps 1 and 2 because there are plenty of other online resources available for those subjects, and you could easily write a book on it too.

So the point of this review is to show you that one of the easiest ways to get JV partners is to allow them to see your software/ebook and that one of the eastiest ways to sell a product is to let people see it and try it before they buy.

So what is JV Spawner?

JV Spawner is a software program that creates a secure wrapper around your software or ebook, that allows people to try the product for a period of time. That time can be set to be a number of days or you can set it to be run for a specufied number of times.

During the trial period, every time the software is run, the user will get a message asking whether they want to continue with the trial or buy the full version. And at the end of the trial period the user is informed that the trial period has ended and given the option to be taken to the sales page to buy the full version.

JV Spawner could not be easier to use. It has a simple, one page, dialog box with just six text fields for you to fill in. (see the graphic below).

Once you have created your trial version all you need to do is distribute it all over the Internet, and there are plenty of places to list your Free download, just do a Google search for “free download” and you’ll see.

If you run an affiliate program or have JV partners you can also use the rebranding software that comes with JV Spawner to give them a copy of your trial software or ebook, so that they can add their own affiliate link to it, giving them a greater incentive to promote your software.

What can JV Spawner not do?

JV Spawner is designed to provide trial versions of pre-compiled software, that is software that is in a .exe format. JV Spawner will isn’t very good at protecting PHP or other kinds of scripts, because these kind of products need to let the user see the code for them to use it.

Also, if you have an ebook that you want to promote using JV Spawner it is best to protect your ebook using the features of a .pdf creator, such as making it non-printable and non-editable, rather than relying on JV Spawner to protect it for you. But, you could provide sample chapters, and after the trial period have JV Spawner point the potential buyer to the full version.

All in all, this software could not be easier to use and could help you make a ton of cash with little effort on your part.

So get your product out there!

Click here to find out more.

There is a lot of buzz going on at the moment about Marketing Main Event 3, and as someone who bought Marketing Main Event 1 almost 2 years ago, I would just like to make few suggestions that will hopefully help you make a decision on whether to buy or not.

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A sidenote first though.

Firstly, I haven’t seen inside Marketing Main Event 3, I have only read the sales page. Having bought Marketing Main Event 1 (about 2 years ago now) I know that Simon and Jeremy turn out quality products, so what I am about to say is in no way a slur on them or their products.

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The main product of Marketing Main Event 3 is CMS Infusion, a Content Management System with a whole host of features and plug-ins that make it extremely easy to create and maintain a website or number of websites without knowing or having to write a sinlge line of code.

This product does look great and they are also offering a whole host of modules for you to manage pretty much every aspect of and online business website without the need to know any technical stuff at all.

Also with MME3 you would get a ton of digital products, passes to paid membership sites and these are not to be sniffed at either.

But not only will the package cost you $997 up front, it will also cost an extra $47 for each license should you want to create more than 10 websites using this CMS and after the end of year one $97 per year to have their continued support.

Ok, so whats the alternative. Well as far as the CMS is concerned, take a look at Joomla. Joomla is a full-featured open source CMS. Open source means that it is FREE. Not only that, but it is one of the best supported CMS’s around, with a huge amount of free plug-ins that you could easily add (without any technical knowledge) and a support forum that is full of experienced users who are happy to help others out with problems, and again it’s free.

Also, you can use Joomla on as many sites as you like and for as long as you like without having to pay for support or licenses after a year. And, Joomla is constantly being updated and each update is released free too.

Now if Marketing Main Event 3 were based on CMS Infusion alone, I would recommend that you do not go that route, go the Joomla with plug-ins route. However, you may be basing a buying decision on all of the other products as well.

As I said, I bought Marketing Main Event 1, and was thoroughly impressed by the products within it, I even made a small profit from the Resale Rights to some products. I have also been thoroughly impressed with both Simon and Jeremy and their abilities to create quality products.

But I would also add that you should only buy if you KNOW that

a) you will learn from the products yourself
b) that you will profit from the Resale Rights that come with them

Treat a buying decision like this as an investment, consider your options, and only buy when you are pretty damn sure that you can recoup that investment.

I hope this helps you make the right descion for you.

All the best

Unfortunately, there are many people out there on the Internet who want to rip you off. They want to take your money, they want to get a hold of your digital products without paying for them.

Not a day goes by when I see forum posts that say “my ebook is being stolen” or “I’ve been hacked”.

Because of these wrotten people who are trying get hold of the products that you have invested both time and money in, you need to protect your products.

One of the best ways to do this is to secure your download pages with expiring links… that is a link that after a preset period of time, will no longer work.

Download Warrior is an extremely easy to use, inexpensive, download page protection software that creates expiring links to that page.

To use Download Warrior you initially create your download page, the web page that your buyers will be directed to after thier payment has been processed.

Once your page has been created, save it to a folder on your hard drive.

You then run Download Warrior which has a simple dialog box like interface.

In the dialog first click on the Select File button. This brings up a standard file navigation folder where you can navigate to the folder that you saved your download page to. Once at the folder, select the file you created and then the Open button.

Back in Download Warrior, all you need do is select the number of hours that the link will be valid for and then click on the Update button.

When you click on the Update button, the software will create three new .php files and rename the original download page file. It is the three new files that you need to upload to your website download folder.

Sidenote:, it is always a good idea to name your website download folder with a name that is difficult if not impossible to guess at. Use a mixture of numbers and letters, making it totally random with no whole words in it.

Once you have uploaded your files, navigate to your folder (using your browser) and include index.php (http://www.mysite.com/downloadfolder/index.php). You will be asked to enter your password. This password is the one that you gave Download Warrior when you registered the product, and is shown in the bottom left of the dialog.

You will be taken a page that will show the link that you need to copy and paste into your payment processor that will redirect your buyer to the download page after payment has been made. This link is automatically changed for each buyer and the best thing about it is that the link that the buyer is given is only useable for the amount of time that you set when you create the files (the default is 2 hours). This means that only genuine buyers get to your download pages, and will prevent you from being riped off.

Sidenote: No software is 100% hacker safe, but this software will prevent “casual” theives from taking your products.

Download Warrior is a great tool for protecting your digital download pages and at the price ($27) can save you a small fortune in lost sales.

Take a look: Download Warrior

Have you ever heard or read the phrase “multiple streams of income” before? Do you know what this phrase means?

For many businessmen, creating multiple streams of income online or offline is one way of securing themselves as well as their businesses in the future. They also believe that it can also save them from the so-called famine effect in the business industry.

Once you are engaged in affiliate marketing business, it is advisable to have multiple streams of affiliate marketing income so that if one of those income streams vanished, it will not upset you the way losing your sole stream would.

If you depend on just one source of income and this single stream has been downsized or has lain off, you’ll surely find yourself bankrupted and hopeless. If you ask the most successful online entrepreneurs, you’ll discover that they have established multiple streams of online income.

There is a businessman that said and attested that the very first step you must take in creating multiple streams of income is to assess or evaluate your resources. Start by assessing yourself first. Jot down your answers to the following questions: What are the talents, abilities, strengths and gears that you possess? Are you gifted with excellent and creative writing skills? Can you do well at sales? Are you good in communicating with people? Are you born with an artistic skill or unique ability that other people don’t have? Through this, you can determine the kind of business where can possibly excel.

Next, look around and write down you assets and physical resources such as computer, color printer, scanner, digital camera, cell phone, CD or DVD burner. Write these all down because it can be used as a resource. Consider also your friends and family. Find out what do they possess that you have access to. Remember that no man is an island. You can use the talents, abilities, knowledge and resources of everyone you know.

That’s basically the initial step if you want to create multiple income streams. But if you’re already a webmaster or a site owner, you definitely have an edge. Why don’t you join affiliate marketing business to help you gain extra income out of your own website?

Being involved in affiliate marketing is one of the most desirable ways to make multiple sources of income. It is because affiliate marketing programs come in various shapes and forms. There are a large number of affiliate marketing programs that you can sign on with and start gaining bucks right away. In affiliate marketing, you can make money by promoting and reselling your affiliate products and by recruiting new affiliates. What’s good about this is that you can find widest array of training materials that can enhance your marketing abilities. In affiliate marketing, you can be sure that there are genuine products to promote and sell and there is real income to make.

Either part time or full time, being an affiliate marketer is an excellent way to create multiple income streams by means of promoting products and services from web merchants. Here, you can get affiliate commission without investing big bucks in making your own product and without worrying about book keeping, customer support and ecommerce. All you have to do is to promote and resell the products and services in your site and pass on potential customer’s the merchant’s site.

In affiliate marketing, it is advisable to promote more merchants in your site so that your visitors will have variety of destinations to choose from. Using multiple merchants in the same site or niche means only one thing; you have multiple streams of affiliate income. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this business strategy because this is one of the best ways to protect your business and expanding your horizons. Through this, you can be assured that you won’t experience crisis if ever one of your web merchants closed his/her program.

However, you should choose only those affiliate programs that interest you so that you can effectively advertise and promote them. Don’t ever be tempted into signing up for numerous affiliate programs in the hope that one of them will bring income. Select wisely and don’t be engaged in selling products you know nothing about. Go with the stuff that jives with your enthusiasm; your passion can capture your client by the nose and guide him/her to your affiliate link.

You should also work hard to make your multiple streams of income more stable. You can do this by embracing some strategies and tactics and by developing within yourself, some traits that can help you become successful in any kind of business such as patience, persistence and thirst for knowledge.

Lastly, just remember the adage that says “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” So that if one of them is lost, you can still have some to make omelets. And what do these eggs have to do with multiple streams of affiliate income? Well, it goes without saying that the more streams of income you possess, the bigger and better your money lake becomes.

In addition to having multiple streams of income on a single website, it is also advisable to create multiple websites focusing on different topics, each drawing visitors towards your affiliate links; but done by hand, this is a mammoth task. Multiple websites to design and code, multiple articles to create to populate your websites, multiple hosting accounts, multiple websites to promote.

However, there is a solution that could easily bring you multiple income streams from multiple websites with hardly any work on your part; Article Site Power Kit.

Article Site Power Kit, is a software package that enables you to create content laden websites, complete with Adsense and affiliate links, at the click of a button. All you need to supply the software with is a HTML template, a folder full of related articles and your Clickbank affiliate Nickname.

When you click the create button, the articles are written into the template, and you have all the web pages ready to upload to your web host. It really is that simple.

Check it out at Article Site Power Kit, by the end of today you could easily have 10 or more websites up a running!

Giving away Free ebooks, reports or software is one of the main tactics used by Internet Marketers to build an email list of prospects. To give away a free ebook, you would go in search of a suitable ebook that the writer has provided giveaway rights for, place a autoresponder form on a web page and give the ebook away in exchange for the downloaders name and email address.

The problem with this method is two fold. Firstly, to comply with laws you must give the sign-up the option to opt out of your list by providing an unsubscribe link in you email messages. Secondly, as you are not the original creator of the ebook, and unless the ebook is rebrandable, you will not have a link in the ebook to your website (assuming you are lazy and didn’t write the ebook yourself).

If you didn’t write the ebook yourself, and your prospect unsubscribes from your list, you have lost them. They have the free ebook, but by law you may no longer contact them. They’re gone, and in a short time they will have forgotten where they got the ebook from.

How can you overcome this scenario? By branding the ebook with your own message, even if the ebook is not rebrandable!

A software product called Instant Profit Brander does just that. Essentially, Instant Profit Brander is a wrapper for the free ebooks or software that you give away.

The software has a simple to use, single form, user interface where you fill in a few fields to “tell” it where to find the ebooks you want to “wrap”. The best part is that you can add an advertising message using simple HTML, so that every time someone opens the package they see your message.

Your message could be an advert for your own or affiliate products you are promoting. You can include graphic images or you could include an opt-in form to your autoresponder, the possibilities are only limited by your imagination.

Once you have filled in the form fields, you click a button and the package is created in a .exe format.

When the package is run, the viewer will see a drop-down list of the ebooks or software included in the package. They can then either open the ebooks individual or extract them from the package.

The only downside of using Instant Profit Brander is that the .exe file that is produced can only be run on a computer running Windows. But this limitation isn’t such a problem as most computers are run on a Windows platform.

As an Internet Marketing Tool, a Viral ebook is probably the most powerful tool that you could have in your toolbox. So what is a viral ebook.

Viral marketing has been around for a long time, in the offline world it basically means word of mouth. People see or have a great product and tell their friends about it, their friends tell some more friends and they tell even more friends and before you know it lots of people know about the product and want to find out more about it.

In the online world, telling other people about someones product that you like or would recommend can be done in several ways. If you have a newsletter, you could tell your subscribers about it. If you uses chat rooms and forums, you could tell others about it there, but for those who want to make money from their product recommendations as an affiliate creating and distributing a viral ebook is probably the easiest way to get the message out.

Creating an informative ebook isn’t difficult. In fact it is as easy as typing out something like this, and it could be easily done in a few hours. But how do you get people who have downloaded your ebook to pass it on? Simple, make it rebrandable.

Making an ebook rebrandable give people who have downloaded the ebook a reason to pass the ebook on, because at the very least you could allow people to put their name and website address in it. As these people are always looking for ways to get their own name and websites in front of other people, they will have a reason to pass your ebook along.

Also, for people who are running, or starting their own affiliate program, rebrandable ebooks are a great way to help new affiliates promote your products. If you give the ebook to your affiliate and they can rebrand it with their affiliate links, they have much more of an incentive to pass the ebook on because of the potential of making money from it themselves.

So how do you make an ebook rebrandable?

There are several ebook rebranders available, some are overly complicated and others aren’t that good, but I would recommend Affiliate PDF.

Affiliate PDF, is a rebranding software that takes all the hard work and technicalities of rebranding away from the user. Quite simply, you create your ebook in Word or OpenOffice, placing links to products etc strategically throughout the ebook and then convert it to a .pdf format. In OpenOffice this can be done from within the software, but to convert a Word file to a .pdf file you will need another package such as PrimoPDF.

Once you have created your .pdf run Affiliate PDF and select the file you just created. Affiliate PDF will search the file for all hyperlinks and for each one that it finds present you with three options,

1. Not a brandable link
2. Allow people to replace this with their own link
3. Allow people to enter an affiliate ID to be inserted into the link

If you want to keep some of your own links in the ebook, then select option one.

If you want to allow people to add their own link (in a “brought to you by” field), then select option two, or if you are running your own affiliate program and want your affiliate to only change the ID part of the link, then select option 3.

Once the software has stepped through all the links in your ebook, and you have made any changes that you require, it will produce an executable (.exe) file which you can save to your hard drive. The .exe file will contain both your .pdf ebook and your rebrander.

When people have downloaded this .exe file, all they need do is run the file, make the changes that they want and the software will reproduce your ebook with other peoples links, in .pdf format ready for them to pass your ebook on to others. It’s as simple as that.

Although Affiliate PDF is primarily designed for affiliate program owners, there is absolutely no reason why anyone wanting to use the Viral Marketing power of ebooks cannot use Affiliate PDF to their own advantage, it really does make it easy to create a rebrandable pdf ebook.

The only downside to this software is that when it is run, it creates a .exe file that can only be run on a PC with the Windows operating system. However, as 80% of PC users use Windows as their operating system, this isn’t much of a limitation.

So now there is no reason for you not to start your own Viral Marketing machine with your own rebrandable ebook.

You can try out Affiliate PDF software with a Free trial. Click here to download Affiliate PDF.