The Internet Marketing “Secret” That Gurus Don’t Tell
It’s time you understand that the absolute easiest and most profitable way to get things done in business is to get help. It’s all about the contacts you make.
Trying to make it alone and fighting against the odds is what you’ve been taught, but it’s wrong. You need help. How often do you take the time to build relationships online?
The answer to that question will determine how far you get.
I constantly search out new friends and business associates because I know that there will come a time when I will need or want their help and vice versa.
YOU CANNOT LIVE IN YOUR OWN WORLD.
That’s why over the recent years, you’ve heard a lot of marketers are involved in ‘mastermind groups’. As a matter of fact, one of the marketers I know were able to connect with Richard Branson because of this.
When you actively seek out relationships with others in your market you automatically open yourself up to opportunities that the average businessperson would easily miss because they’re out of the loop.
This also puts me in a position to work with these same marketers on future projects, which is always a good position to be in.
Joint Ventures are extremely easy to get going because I can always contact the people I’ve worked with in the past to do more deals. Having to constantly search out new people to work with costs you time that you could have been using to make money. But of course you need to consistently do this as well.
The right relationships mean more money for you. If you want to have a million-dollar product launch, then you better start spending the time to build the relationship – not just improving your product and salesletter.
At the same time, having contacts just for the sake of having them is worthless. You need to make the *right* contacts. You need to build relationships with people who can help you get to where you want to be.
But… in order to do that you must have something valuable to offer in return. There’s only so much a friend will help you do. You will need to offer a valuable service in return for the one you want from your contact. That’s just the way it works.
If you don’t have the money to get things done then you need to get creative. You don’t have to do everything yourself. Search for people who know how to do what you want done and strike up a conversation with them.
With people, you get to LEVERAGE. Letting other people help you multiply your efforts on any project you create. Never create a project that other people can’t help you promote. It just doesn’t make sense to do everything on your own when 100’s of other people can pour thousands of combined hours into building your business for you.
Have a clear picture in mind ahead of time and incorporate other people and what you need them to do into your overall strategy before you begin. Have a plan to reach your destination and of course, part of your plan should be how you’re going to build the right relationship for your business.
I have relationship with marketers who I know will 99% promote for me and marketer who still haven’t promote for me yet until today. But there are many more other benefits from a relationship than just promoting because a good relationship will refer more contacts for you.
And weird enough, your competitors are the first group of people you want to be in your contact list.
You’ve got to get it out of your head that everyone is your competitor because competition is not really an issue once you understand that if you’re willing to go above and beyond what everyone else is willing to do for their customers, competition is extremely light.
Bottom line: Once you have good contacts in place you can easily get projects off the ground while those who are trying to do everything themselves struggle for months if not years.
If you find value in today’s post, please feel free to leave your comment below. Thanks.
I was at a Mastermind group the other night. It turns out that the guy with the most experience was the most quiet. It was only when I started talking to him that he talked about himself and what he did. As it turns out he was the most advanced marketer there with the most information and experience.
Since he was so far beyond the rest of us, I wonder if he show at the next group meeting.
You never know who you will meet at a group like this.
As usual, it is a great post, Patric.
I personally start to make more relationships with good marketers,
and the results are very good, in fact.
Thank you for these valuable information.
Hilal Abdelwali
CPAMoneyMagic.com
Definitely a great thumbs up for this post. Been in the internet marketing field for a few years and it’s only this year where I grow massively through the building of joint venture and working with different people.
I would add that even if you just started, you can easily JV with people of similar size. The power of coalition can bring a lot of differences to your profits.
Today i got the difference between competitors and friends who can help online and the power to grow fast – Unity is strength.
thanks for the post
raj
Hi Patric
I entirely agree, although some people may see this as a bit nepotonistic. To me it’s part of the ‘abundance mentality’ and true Jv-ing. It’s like my dad used to tell me “If you want to be better at playing Chess – play Chess with people better than you. It’s not always about winning a game – (or beating the competetion) it’s about learning how to play the game better.
Yes no doubt relationship is very important in business.It’s a core business.
Thanks Patric for great advise
Hi, Patric
I agree with your points that we need to build good relationship in order to achieve greater success in our business.
The more difficult part is to get enough trust from others in order to JV with us, especially when we are still new.
This is really the ‘secret’ that other marketers don’t share with us.
Elvin
Patric Hi.
I have been following you for quite some time now. This post is great as usual. You know as a newbie, I certainly need people like you to succeed online. Thank you once more for this post.
Abraham
Hi Patric,
Great wisdom in this short post. I have a question though, how do you start to build relationships as a newbie after you have mapped out your plan?
Employee always say the boss doesn’t need to do anything but they never know Boss work is not do operational task but to seek opportunity, expand business network, get relationship, plan it and let employee do it.
In the Internet field, I believe JV is the way, at least for now.
My question is when you are just attempting to start working on the internet, you would love to be able to participate with all these JV opportunities, but one of the requirements is that you also have to promote your list to all the offers of the JV listing. Well, if you are a newbie and just starting out, then you don’t have a list (yourself, yet) so how can you work into getting in with a JV opportunity where you could start building a list even though you don’t have any list (yourself, yet) to promote to?
Thanks for all of your comments!
To Penny:
That’s a very good question. Building relationship online is the same as offline – how do you build your business relationship is the same, the only different is the platform you’re using right now. I would’t be able to provide the “blueprint” answer because it’ll take an entire course to explain just about joint ventures or relationship building. You can search in Google.com to find relevant courses which may help you to explore further. But the MAIN FACTOR is always this – how you can create a relationship where your partner wins MORE THAN YOU?
To Buddy,
Almost similar to Penny’s case, you can explore further courses to teach about joint ventures. Just keep in mind – all of the gurus have also been in a newbie and started from the position of nothing to offer. Therefore, this ‘secret’ is definitely something you want to explore because it’s possible for you to achieve success with it.
Let me repeat this – what you can do for others before asking others to do things for you and you’ll strike a fortune. If you can’t promote, THINK HOW YOU CAN PROMOTE or other means of adding value to your partners.
Patric Chan
http://www.youchandoit.com
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