What is a Joint Venture?
What is a Joint Venture? The truth is people make it far more complex than it needs to be. Here it is in the simplest terms.
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The Joint Venture Mindset
Want to know the #1 reason that people have trouble getting joint ventures to work? It is their core beliefs about the world… it is their core motivators of fear, scarcity, and lack. It is DEEPLY, DEEPLY encoded in us as human beings (if you question that read Influence by Robert Cialdini). The GREAT NEWS […]
Find Your Place on the Assembly Line of Clients
Your business is perfect for certain people at a certain moment in their lives. You have an ideal customer avatar, with a certain set of challenges that you are uniquely qualified to tackle. You already knew that I hope. But what many entrepreneurs miss is that there are so many other entrepreneurs out there who […]
You Are Irrelevant to Your Clients
If you’re going to be successful in the joint venture game, you need to intimately know your client journey. That all begins with realizing the truth that you’re not at the centre of your client’s universe. They will appreciate you for the problem that you solve (hopefully!), but you need to understand that all of […]
Go First and Provide Value
What can you do to establish a joint venture with a bigger player than you are? The first thing you have to do is become relevant. No matter how big or small your business, no one will be willing to JV with someone they don’t know. You have to establish a relationship first. Once they […]
You Don’t Need a List to Joint Venture
One of the most common mistakes entrepreneurs make about joint ventures is assuming that they need a massive e-mail list in order to find people that they can JV with. If you learn nothing else from Jay Fiset, learn this: joint ventures are about relationships. It’s not about leveraging assets for a return. Is that […]
World Building
I’m going to re-brand “content marketing” as “worldbuilding.” Each of the people who experience your content experience a completely different world in their minds’ eye. That storytelling is something that we can become a part of, if we choose to be, as marketers. We have the opportunity to build a sense of culture and a […]
Help People Decide
When you ask someone who isn’t ready to make a decision to make a decision … they freeze. Decisions carry weight. Don’t put people into fight or flight by inappropriately making offers to them when they aren’t ready to decide. People need bite-sized steps. Help them get to know you first. Any transaction represents a […]
You are not Obvious
“I’m actually a genius!” This is how you’re going to feel once you give yourself permission to produce content and put yourself on camera. Producing content marketing is going to cause you to learn about yourself in ways you never imagined. You’ll manifest these amazing moments where someone notices something that you thought was obvious […]
Capturing Attention
There are stages of awareness you need to be aware of when you’re building an audience by producing content. First, they become aware of you. Then, if you’re lucky, they realize they have a need you can help them with and they become in-consideration of you. An even smaller number of those in-consideration of you […]