Most Valuable Intern Procedures
I’ve been running my current intern program since the beginning of the year and it has been a wild success. Every week I’m getting messages from interns who have completed the program, thankful for everything they’ve learned throughout it.
At times I’ve been asked which procedures do I see as the most valuable ones in the program.
I consider them ALL important. For example, I have incoming links to this blog all the time because of our blog carnival submissions. Look at how many of the “comments” are actually from blog carnivals on the Internet Scams post.
Other procedures involve writing and video projects, which all produce content along with more incoming links for my business. Submitting to social bookmarking sites gives more traffic.
I originally had more procedures I was running in the program, but I deleted a few of them to only highlight the most important traffic steps.
But I still haven’t answered the question, which procedures are the most important?
I don’t feel that question can really be answered as they’re all valuable.
If I could only choose a few though, it would have the be the JV ones.
On several of the procedures I have interns tracking down potential JV partners and affiliates for my products. Even though they are only following the strategies I gave them, they’re often finding potential partners I haven’t contacted before.
This list of potential partners is handed off to a virtual assistant to go back through and contact or we send out a card by mail to these contacts (since we collect address information whenever possible).
I generate visitors through the free search engines, through Google (especially through site targeted advertising), and other bloggers.
If you haven’t guessed from my previous posts, JVs and affiliates are my favorite traffic generation method. If I was limited to only using one form of marketing, it would be JVs.
Think about it. If you find one partner who has a 100,000 person list, all they have to do is a promotion for what you’re offering and instantly you’ll generate thousands of prequalified visitors. Your cost – zero until sales are made. You’re simply sharing in the profits you never would have had anyway.
You can build your list with JVs.
Create products with JV partners.
Sell your products through JVs.
Earn backend profits to your own customer list through JV offers.
Whenever I do a survey (to my list or live at a conference), the most popular subject is ALWAYS how to build an opt-in email list. We’ve all had it drilled into our heads for years that a list is the way to generate profits (and it is). Yet it’s not that large list that’s important.
The money is the relationship you build with your list through providing content, personal stories, and integrity. If you say something, you do it.
Do you realize the relationships you build with other people in your market are just as important if not more important?
How much time do you invest in finding these potential partners and building your relationship with them?
Here’s a quick strategy you can apply in any market. Pick out the 20 biggest influencers in the marketplace (this could be any number from 10 to 100 or more). Then make it a part of your marketing plan to contact them every month.
One month you send them all a thank you card. Another one you send them a copy of your new product. Maybe you offer them exclusive content. Another one you send contacts for interviews. Each month you follow-up in an effort to grow your relationship personally with each of them.
Your investment will be very small compared to other forms of advertising, but it will be building your relationship with the people who can influence your marketplace. And it only takes one promotion from them to equal advertising you would have spent thousands of dollars on.
That’s why I consider tracking down potential JV partners are one of my most valuable intern procedures.
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If you’d like to purchase a copy of every procedure in my intern program, plus all the procedures my virtual assistants use, and my complete affiliate training series, check out the Internet Lifestyle Retirement System. Not only do you get access to all the procedures, you also get to use them to train your team members.
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Terry, your relationship building idea is intriguing.
Your JV focus perhaps points to the single biggest obstacle most webmasters face, everybody is trying to make it on their own?
The independent minded nature of the webmaster community seems both it’s most wonderous asset and it’s biggest problem.
As example, the vast majority of webmasters would be in far better shape if they came together in communities and worked on a “group site” combining their talents and energies in a single much larger and better publication which might actually be able to compete.
But the ego overhead involved in “herding cats” in this manner will likely pretty much erase the benefits.
So, JV’s is probably the best we can do.
I like your idea of reaching out to potential partners in a determined organized way.
But, must admit, I’m a bit short on ideas of what to send along that won’t be received as spam or intrusion.
What could potential partners send you that would cut through the overflowing inbox, get your attention, provide value, and till the ground for a real relationship?
I am a proud graduate of your intern course, Terry, and I can say unequivocally that the Lifestyle Retirement System and the Intern Course gave me every single thing I needed to know about internet marketing.
Now I am 4-1/2 months into internet marketing, have experienced the information overload, signed up for way too many affiliate programs and believe I’m now beginning to narrow my focus in order to put the things I’ve learned and the systems I’ve set up into place, including my own website which I’ve wanted for years.
I have a tiny list, but treat them like the gold they are. I just inundate them with freebies of all kinds. No one has bailed!
I was blessed to have found you right at the beginning of my journey. I can’t say enough about the quality and value you give to people. Thanks once again
Carole
Terry,
You’ve always been the person I admired most in internet marketing. Your style is integrity…and that’s what I like most about you and your products over the years. I’m following in your foot steps and in the process of creating my first infoproduct in the internet marketing field (I’ve been in the magic tricks market for a while now and took a break to perform semi-pro ’till I realized how bad everyone wanted to know the secrets to mind blowing magic).
It’s all about creating your own high quality infoproducts that you can truly be proud to put your name on. I think you’d be very proud of me and I can’t thank you enough. Also, I should be doing my first teleseminar here shortly where I will be the featured expert showing others the path to online success (much of which I’ve learned from you over the years).
Look for my interview at talkwithexperts.com. Let me know what you think
Awesome post! Love the intern idea. I think I will take it just to see what you did with it.
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