What’s Your “Cred” Rating? Part 2
Here we go with Part 2….
The newbie may have a killer info product. He or she may have it listed on Clickbank or PayDotCom and it is selling well. It may have a sales page that converts fairly well. Newbie is making some money.
So he goes about sending emails to the big guys that he ‘knows’. This email with the joint venture proposal may highlight a higher than normal commission and great incentive package.
Guess what? It’s still possible that it may be deleted without a second look by the guru that it has been sent to.
Why? Simply because the newbie has no credibility.
The newbie Info Marketer most often fails because he or she doesn’t realize the importance of establishing their own credibility before they even begin to approach the top guns with joint venture proposals.
They haven’t done their homework and they haven’t paid their dues.
Newbie hasn’t had any articles published. Hasn’t posted to blogs or forums. He may have a list, but it’s not very large and probably isn’t too responsive.
They haven’t taken any of the steps required to even begin establishing their own online credibility…and then they wonder why the guru’s aren’t interested in a joint venture.
The Powerful Benefits of Having Credibility
Think about credibility like this: Would you personally hire someone to babysit for you who had several references and lots of experience or a kid down the block who will be babysitting for the first time and has no track record that you can check?
Wait…don’t decide yet!
Let’s say that the babysitter with the references and the experience charges twice as much as the one with no experience. Hmmm…you’d probably still opt for the experienced one, right?
OK, let’s say that the kid with no experience as a paid babysitter has been reading everything he could find about babysitting and has taken a babysitting course. This kid doesn’t have references as such but he does have letters from prominent people stating that he is a responsible and mature person.
He has written articles for the school paper about the responsibilities of baby sitting. Remember, the inexperienced one charges a lot less. Now the choices are getting a lot more even.
At this point, you might remember how hard it was for you to get your first job and, because this kid has taken the steps to gain credibility by reading, taking courses, and writing articles you decide to give him a shot.
The above example is very much how the world of Information marketing works. The websites are full of experienced marketers who have a ton of references. One of the few ways that newbies have at breaking into the market and getting a joint venture with an established marketer is if he/she is willing to put in the effort to establish some credibility.
Yes, it’s true that a joint venture with an established marketer can and does provide a new marketer with some credibility, but more than likely it isn’t going to happen if the new marketer hasn’t already established some credibility for himself.
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Until next time…
Here’s to YOUR Successes.
Ron
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Think you are missing part of the equation here. Articles and forums are great traffic sources but the real key to getting and achieving joint ventures is having a relationship first.
Most of the people that have helped me in this area has come about from meeting them, interacting with them and most importantly helping them FIRST.
Credibility helps but the relationship and interaction first are much more important. You need the credibility to leverage the latter.
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Mike,
Thanks for the feedback and yes, relationships with those people are very important.
Thanks for pointing out something that I missed.
I appreciate it.
Ron
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Ron,
Still have some good information to share. It is good to know someone out there is thinking about the little guys.
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