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.

How’s your ‘Cred’ rating? Get my Knowledge-Application-Results newsletter (with some cool bonuses for subscribing) and I will give you some ‘inside’ info on how you can raise your rating more quickly. Sign up in the upper right hand corner of the page….

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Until next time…

Here’s to YOUR Successes.

Ron

How’s your online relationship building going?

NO, I don’t mean dating sites or things like that, I mean your Information Marketing relationship building.

Did you know that to make any real income with Information marketing you not only need to establish a relationship with your readers/subscribers/customers, but also with some of the big gurus? The guys who have already made a name for themselves and can generate a tidy sum in their bank account in a matter of hours or days.

Did you know that the big guns in the Information Marketing world are extremely busy people?

You know the guys and gals that you want to eventually joint venture with?

I don’t think they haven’t been sitting around waiting for the day that you and your info product land on their doorstep (or inbox). Do you?

They all work long hours and their quitting time is when they just can’t seem to keep the eyelids open anymore, or go one more step, or answer one more question until they grab a few hours of sleep.

Believe me, I chat with a couple of them on a daily basis and still have a hard time comprehending the hours they keep.

And you thought the Information marketing world was full of glamour? Work a couple of hours a day, make a couple hundred bucks? Do whatever you want the rest of the day.

Seriously, that really is the way that most of the top guns work. They have a phone stuck to one ear and another call on their speakerphone most of the time. Follow some of them on twitter and find out what they are doing daily

Their inboxes are flooded with joint venture offers as the song says… once a day… everyday… all day long.

Those who don’t work like that are not on the top of the hill.

In order for a newbie to get the attention of one of these top dogs, not only must they have a great product and a great package of commissions and incentives to offer, they must have developed some credibility themselves or their offer won’t make it past the first cut.

A newbie sometimes tends to think that because he or she has been blessed with a boat load of charm and the ability to be able to sell icemakers to Eskimos that they pretty much have it made in the world of Information marketing.

Boy are they in for a rude awakening!

Unless you are an expert copywriter, your charm, engaging smile, firm handshake, and honest face (remember, you’re online) mean less than nothing in the biz.

Those characteristics might make you your mama’s little darling and the apple of your daddy’s eye but they aren’t worth squat on the net.

Credibility is all that really matters when you get right down to the nitty-gritty of Information marketing.

Without credibility, the newbie marketer will quickly turn into another statistic. A skeptic that will be barking in the forums that Information marketing doesn’t work.

So many times newbies enter the world of Information Marketing with guns ablazin’, fully believing that the only thing that he/she has to do to make their first million dollars is to persuade one of the guru’s to promote a product (a joint venture) with them.

Well, newbie has one part of the equation right.

Getting a top Internet marketer to joint venture with him/her would surely help… I’m just not so sure about the ‘million’ part.

Say this 3 times fast: ‘get a top Internet marketer to do a joint venture with me’.

Sounds pretty easy, right?

Well, it ain’t.

First off, as I mentioned earlier, the top guns are extremely busy people, as well as, having their inboxes overflowing with joint venture proposals every day.

Second off….well, they’re very busy…nuff said for now.

Stay tuned for Part 2 of ‘What’s YOUR ‘Cred’ Rating’ tomorrow.

For now, go and pick up a copy of ‘Three Steps to Newbie Success’ as a ‘thank you’ for signing up for the ‘Knowledge-Application-Results’ newsletter. You’ll find the form in the upper right hand corner of this page. I share many more ‘insider’ tips on how to make this wacky world of Information Marketing work for you.

Til tomorrow….

Here’s to YOUR Successes!

Ron

Internet Marketing doesn’t have to be hard, but there are wayyyy too many people that make it that way.

Why? Probably because there are soooo many different ways to make this business work.

Have you decided which direction you want to go? That is the biggest obstacle that most people have a hard time overcoming.

Affiliate marketing? Creating your own info product? Pay Per Click Advertising? Joint Venturing? Social Networking?

The list is endless, but the ONE biggest thing that every guru out there has?

A LIST.

Not just A list, but a responsive list of people who are willing to purchase from you.

In my opinion, if you don’t have a list, spinning your wheels trying everything else can lead you to the poor house relatively quickly. I will expand on list building in another post.

Now, not to change the subject, but if you look at the header of my site, you will see my ‘motto’ if you will….it’s what I call the K.A.R. system and it’s what I truly believe will lead you to be prosperous as long as you don’t get distracted by everything else.

What is K.A.R?

KNOWLEDGE–APPLICATION–RESULTS

It’s the ’system’ that I am going to using through this vehicle to teach others how to start creating an income doing this wacky thing called Inernet Marketing.

Knowledge–You must acquire some sort of knowledge of what you are going to be doing to create that income before you start doing it. Reading. Sitting in on teleseminars. Listening to mp3’s on your Ipod. However you acquire that knowledge (hopefully through my site) of what you are going to be doing.

Then……..

Application–How do you apply that knowledge that you have acquired. What do you do? Where do you do it? THAT is probably the area that most people, me included, struggle.

You have questions–how do I do it? Where do I do that? How often do I do that?

Results–What does the application of the knowledge that you have acquired bring about? Does it bring in more subscribers to your list? Does it bring in more affiliate sales? Sales of your own info product? Whatever it brings, you need to track it and change it if necessary to bring about the desired results. Or if it gets the results that you are looking for, tweak what you have done and do it again to make the results improve.

So, back to my post title: How Can I Help YOU?

What do you want to learn about? What would you like me to write more (or less) about?

Your successes are tied to me….if I can’t be successful, how am I supposed to show you how to be successful?

You are here to track my results and I am going to be sharing with you my acquired knowledge, how I apply it, and what my results are, so that YOU can duplicate it! How’s that?

My personal assignment to myself is to post here at least 3-4 times a week and share with you what I know, apply and what that brings about. What is your assignment to YOURSELF going to be?

Leave a comment and let me know.

Until next time…..

Here’s to YOUR success…

Ron