Today I want to talk to you about another Internet Marketing concept – that of the Joint Venture Giveaway, or more commonly just referred to as JV Giveaways.

WHAT IS A JV GIVEAWAY?

Basically, a JV Giveaway is a script that allows a marketer to invite a lot of other marketers to a web page to share their products in an event whereby the contributors (ie marketers) can offer their wares (e-books, reports, scripts, memberships etc) free to members (“customers”) in exchange for a person’s name and email address.

The marketer gains the subscriber and adds his or her name and email address to his list. The member gets whatever items they like the look of and can learn from for free. It’s a two-way exchange.

ONLINE JV GIVEAWAYS ARE LIKE REAL WORLD TRADE EXHIBITIONS:

Here’s a good way to conceptualize it if you are still wondering…

In essence, online JV Giveaways are like those big offline (real world) trade fairs we see from time to time where exhibitors put up their stalls and members of the public (and other exhibitors) get to wander around looking for items of interest.

WHAT’S THE BEST WAY OF GETTING STARTED IN JV GIVEAWAYS?

If you are new to Internet Marketing then the best way to understand them is to start out as a member and just go and have a look at how they work. There are a lot of details that I could add but it would probably only serve to confuse you. So, I encourage you to check a few out.

NOW TO ONE INCREDIBLY POWERFUL GIVEAWAY…

If you are an experienced Internet Marketer and you have a product that you would like to promote to build your list then you won’t find a better or more profitable Giveaway than the 100% Giveaway being conducted right now by Rodger Hyatt and Ryan Bessling.

It runs from 13 November 2009 to 30 November 2009. As at today (1 November 2009) in ONLY its 4th day of opening for the contributors to place their gifts (and text ads and special offers) at the Giveaway, there are already 916 contributors who have joined. That’s incredible! This event is drawing contributors like a magnet. And it will draw members the same way.

For any contributor wanting to join this HUGE JV Giveaway Event, you can get in on my invite link HERE: http://100percentgiveaway.com/go/35/jv

The free option gets you ONE gift to offer. But…

… an upgrade which costs only $9.97 (a mere pittance as opposed to the $27 or $37 in most other Giveaways) and it allows:

THREE gifts, two text ads, one promo page and your first gift up on the Random Hot Downloads page. These are tremendous advantages over the free offer.

The 100% part means that 100% of the sales you generate come to YOU – and that’s regardless of whether you upgrade or not. But… DUH! For $9.97 who wouldn’t upgrade?

So, check that Giveaway out. It’s the biggest and best I’ve seen all year! Well done to Rodger and Ryan for this.

PS1: If you want to know how to participate in JV Giveaways to build your list or sell some products then get my Adswaps report (available right here on my blog). The Appendix explains the procedure in quite some detail. I know it works well because several beginners have already used my instructions to enter their first JV Giveaway events.

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Today, I want to talk to you about the cornerstone of everything we do online in our Internet Marketing endeavors. Indeed, it’s the cement that holds all business together. In fact, it should be the way that you operate your life.

I’m talking about honesty.

I’m writing this in the wake of some very heavy-duty action taken against a very well known Internet Marketer who has been forced – through his own actions – by the US legal system to get out of everything to do with Internet Marketing.

You probably KNOW who I am talking about. Sadly, he is a person possessed with extreme talent and great charisma. Look, he could sell ice to Eskimos. I wasn’t gonna mention his name coz I don’t want to add to his grief. But, having complimented his talent and charisma then hopefully, it will balance out. It’s Perry Belcher.

OK, I KNOW he did some bad things and he’s admitted it and he’s been severely punished for it. I have read a lot about it and I’m aware of most of the material facts.

What saddens me is that now that he’s been outed and convicted so many nasty, negatively-programmed and hateful people have taken it upon themselves to attack him personally over all manner of things including his physical appearance. How low. They are like rabid jackals and vultures all wanting to take a bite. If I were Perry (and I don’t know the man personally – only what I have seen of him in videos and forums and blogs etc) then I’d be “collecting” all that information and using it in a defamation lawsuit. A lot of what I have seen is hideous and a real good indicator of the lives of the individuals mouthing off. In short, it’s idiotic and shameful.

Seriously, I don’t think these haters should be adding to his problems. The guy got caught and he’s suffering for his actions. And NO – I definitely don’t agree with what he did AT ALL! It was wrong. But people make mistakes. He’s suffering from the indiscretions he committed (and YES, they were serious errors of judgment and he should have known better).

What I lament is the fact that he could have had a fantastic Internet Marketing career if only he’d followed the honest path right from the start. And now the Internet Marketing world has lost a serious talent.

Anyway, enough about Perry Belcher. I wish him NO ill-will at all and I hope he is able to recover and use his obvious talents in a positive manner for the betterment of his future and that of his family.

Moving right along…

The US Fair Trade Commission (FTC) is now planning a slew of legislation governing Internet Marketing, principally false testimonials and “misleading” testimonials designed to trick people into buying something through false recommendation. It is also talking about jumping all over blogs that are set up principally to support goods and services where kickbacks (aka slings, hidden commissions and bonuses etc) are given in return for glowing endorsements. Clearly, this is misleading and deceptive conduct designed to elicit a response from the masses reading or listening to these things. And that is WRONG. It’s bloody dishonest!

But, I wonder how long it will be before the medical profession gets kicked in the guts for recommending pharmaceutical products and medicines solely because the doctors recommending these “products” are being wined and dined and holidayed (you thought I was gonna say 69’ed, didn’t you? LOL) at all sorts of resorts for “favorable” recommendation of those products. After all, what’s good for the goose should be good for the peacock. (Sorry, gander is so clichéd!) But, there are huge companies with massive vested interests in this industry. And they can afford outrageeously expensive lawyers.

Back to the FTC…

I won’t go on about all the intricacies of it here because Frank “Mass Control” Kern has done a very good job of explaining it all on his blog. You can read about it here: http://masscontrolsite.com/blog/?p=59

(Incidentally Frank, get those damn permalinks sorted out will you? While I’m on that, can everyone see how a person’s “mass control” ability and reputation and standing in Internet Marketing is more important than having properly structured permalinks? Oh well.)

My point today is that if all Internet Marketers behaved honestly then none of the forthcoming restrictive legislation would be needed. But we all know that the Internet is an absolute HAVEN for dodginess, false claims, outright lies, deceit and general shitty behavior. That is why the bulk of Internet users now believe almost NOTHING of what they read and see from Internet Marketing types. Quite simply, we have all been lied to and had our credit cards spat upon so often that we are now skeptic extraordinaires, hardened to any and all marketing pitches – even the HONEST ones.

Ten times bitten, twenty times shy… does that ring a bell with you?

With what crooks and scumbags can now do on the Internet – sitting safely behind a keyboard – why would any of them need to put on a balaclava and use a shotgun to rob a bank? Some criminals, like some honest people, are VERY clever. Only the real dumb ones use the balaclavas and firearms now.

So, my message to you today is this:

Be HONEST!

Be honest in your Internet Marketing activities, be honest off-line (sadly life is littered with dishonesty offline too and I have been the victim of this too many times myself) and be honest to yourself. If you can’t or won’t do that then brace yourself for that “knock on the door.” The trucks will be in the driveway and the folks in forensic suits will start transferring your computers and other “evidence” out to them.

Final comment… don’t promise your customers the world and then only deliver up an atlas.

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Hello,

Well, I hope you have been enjoying my Internet Marketing tips from Las Vegas. This one is about getting yourself a mentor.

Now, I’ve been hinting about the existence of this video (and others) for a while now. You are in for a surprise here – oh yeah! Here I am in the spa at my luxury apartment suite at the Luxor Casino. The luxury Luxor. Oh, watch for what I do at the end… (You know something? … I can hardly believe I do these things myself *sigh* I mean – seriously – I don’t know what possesses me sometimes. Or where these dopey ideas even come from.)

Enough said. Watch it and see for yourself…

If you haven’t watched the other 7 Internet Marketing videos then they are here on my blog. In all of them I manage to say something at least half-decent about Internet marketing. (Maybe this one is half-INdecent – LOL!)

PS1: Who else do you know who would have the audacity to do this? Oh yeah, maybe the Gangsta would – Alex Jeffreys.

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Hi,

Well, my Internet Marketing topic for today may be a little boring for you but…

… this is just SO important. In fact, I have been thinking about it off and on most of the weekend. I wasn’t even gonna write it. Then I thought – yeah, it’s boring to me and it’s obvious to me but then I have been around the block a few times with this Internet Marketing caper. I’ve seen a lot in Internet Marketing stuff in my travels and what may be blatantly obvious to me and even boring may, in fact, be a revelation to others. So, here it is…

BE YOURSELF.

Startling stuff hey? Well read on, I have some ideas and observations to throw at you and maybe a little bit of humor too…

Don’t be a clone of Alex Jeffreys or Mike Filsaime or Stephanie Mulac or Rich Schefren or John Thornhill or Dave Nicholson or Paula Brett or Omar Martin or Rosalind Gardner or Maria Andros or Garry Parkes or Dean Holland or even me for that matter! (heaven help you!)

WHY?

Because YOU are UNIQUE. There is NOBODY exactly the same as you in the entire world! You have unique talents. You have a unique way of expressing yourself. Some people will find you hideously irritating. Some will find you arrogant. Some will find you boring. Some will like you. Some may even find you enchanting. Some might even get so fixated on you that they will stalk you. Yeah, it happens. Social media networking is a real tutti-fruiti haven for cyber-stalkers. But that is a subject I will cover a bit later on. Back to the subject at hand…

… It’s horses for courses.

Don’t sacrifice YOUR uniqueness by copying what some other dude does. That would be false and it would be wrong and it will kill your own WONDERFUL UNIQUENESS!

I was discussing this on a forum recently with several people. Josh Bartlett and I took the lead and we really went to town on copycats. That is, people who cross their own lines of decency, morality, humility, standards and/or character to emulate somebody who they want to be like. Put simply – it’s dumb! Yep! It’s a really dumb move.

At this point, this let me ask you this… do you think that even your HEROES have their own unique weaknesses and faults. They do! Nobody is a tower of strength in everything. Even the mighty have their Achille’s Heels.

In its most amusing and aggravating form I have seen people even take on the laugh of a boss or person who impresses them. This is really pathetic – especially when the person being copied has a quirky or weird laugh. All of a sudden instead of having one hyena we have a pack of guffawing, snorting wannabes all parodying the “leader of the pack’s” jack-ass type laugh.

I am quite an observer of this and I have studied it a fair bit through the teachings of Allan Pease the body-language expert. I have been to some of his seminars and have a few of his books (of course!).

If you ever get the opportunity to see Allan Pease live then I recommend that you go. Pease is a scream and he can teach you a LOT! In fact, check out his website in that link I just gave you – when I looked there was a very funny but, at the same time, educational video there about an orange tie. WHOA! Not yet! Finish reading what I say first. You can always come back to that link.

Back to emulating others… what if such a person has a distinctive tattoo? Do all the clowns clones then have to go out and get similar tattoos, or piercings, or whatever? What about a favorite saying? Does everybody have to turn a cliché into such an obvious hackneyed, copycat parrot call? What about a distinctive walk? Do we all need to walk like a homey?

I have seen this behavior with monotonous regularity over the years. Don’t be a “monkey see, monkey do” type. Forge your own personality and maintain your OWN uniqueness and character.

Like I said, YOU are UNIQUE. Keep it that way. You will always have your detractors but you will also have your followers – IF you blaze your own trail and be true to yourself.

One of the examples that Josh gave that made me smile was that of Internet Marketer Frank Kern – you know, “Mr Mass Control” – the guy with the surfboards who wears the grass skirts and who says “dude” a lot. Now there are some people so enamoured with Frank that they too wanna be seen with surfboards and be known for goofy-footing and hanging-five and talking surf-dude talk (eg “smokin hot left-hander” and “rantry” burble, burble, burble). Uh-uh! Don’t do that shit!

Heh… heh… now I’m starting to sound like the late Gary Halbert, copywriter extraordinaire. Hmm, maybe it’s a Gary thing. (It’s odd, most Gary’s I know do swear a bit – but only one R Gary’s. Mr Parkes does not swear. But he’s a two R Garry. I do admire that in you Garry. Maybe I need to take a leaf out of your book on that Parkesy – LOL!) Sidetracked again…

Just be YOURSELF!

Having said that, you can always follow the METHODS of a mentor or mentors. That is actually a SMART thing to do. Just stay away from copying the personal mannerisms – especially if that person has unique or quirky traits but even more especially if the things you are copying hold no interest for you or, even worse, go against what you stand for or believe in. In other words, don’t be an obvious copy-cat. Be TRUE to yourself!

I once knew a Premier of the State of Western Australia who had a penchant for the “F” word. Guess what? Almost every person in his office used that word liberally, even the women. I found that incredibly crass. Watching and hearing otherwise lovely women say things like: “Get effen John on the effen phone and find out what he’s effen doing with that effen report I need.” That disgusted me (And yes – “darn it” – I swear!). It was so incredibly FALSE! I wonder if they really knew how pathetic they all sounded. All because their illustrious leader, the number one ticket-holder in the State, swore like a trooper. Unnatural. Unnecessary. False. Ridiculous. Pathetic.

Copying the exact traits of others will lead to the destruction of your own uniqueness and will therefore lead to your demise as a person worthy of taking notice of. You have to be known for being YOU, not a clone of somebody you admire, adore, look up to, wanna be like or whatever.

There is only ONE you. And, fortunately, there is only one me.

Just be yourself!

PS1: Whenever I see this sort of behavior employed I automatically think of one word – suckhole. Sorry, I know that kinda detracted from my message but I HAD to say it. That’s one of my faults – I say things I shouldn’t. It’s got me into a LOT of trouble in the past and it will undoubtedly get me into strife in the future. Anyway, don’t be a suckhole. (yeah, yeah, yeah… I know… I said it again… BAD me.)

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Improving yourself will enable you to fulfill your DESTINY.
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