Well, they’re wrong. And they’re so surprised when I tell them that it would take me days to struggle through launching a website and all the paraphernalia of links and autoresponders that go with it. I’d far rather spend my time doing what I’m good at and leave the techie stuff to others. Now, that’s fine when you’ve got a couple of businesses up and running and you can afford to pay a techie nerd to do the difficult stuff. But when you’re just starting on the road to Internet Success, you probably can’t afford a luxury like that.

I’ve given a lot of thought to this problem and yes, YOU CAN get ahead as an Internet Entrepreneur without knowing the first thing about authoring websites, HTML, uploading, downloading, hosting, FTP……… the list of technical mumbo-jumbo terminology is endless. So are the skills you need to master to get a website on line. Then you have to drive traffic to it, collect money from customers, have follow-up products to sell to them and continue to promote your product for as long as you want to stay in business.

OK, so there’s no doubt about it, there are guys out there making big bucks using this sort of set-up. If you’re like me, you’ve probably helped their bank balances grow by buying their ‘simple’ anyone-can-do-it how-to books and courses and then drowning in the techno-babble and giving up, probably just after the guarantee period expires and waving good-bye to another 97 bucks.

Now I’ve found a way round all that. If you can surf the web and send simple emails, you’re on your way to a handy second income, or even sacking the boss forever, if you really get stuck in.

There’s not just one but two really great things about this business.

ONE Yes, it’s not at all technical and just requires a bit of looking things up on the Internet and then sending emails.

TWO It’s low maintenance, by which I mean that each deal you set up will run by itself, bringing you in cash every month, for months if not even years! So you can use most of your time to find new deals and make your business grow and grow.

Have you guessed yet?

The online business I’m talking about is brokering joint ventures. Now that may sound a bit serious and frightening at first, but really it’s as simple as I’ve already said – a bit of research and some emails.

Let me explain.

Selling a product successfully on the Internet – be it a doghouse, an ebook or a membership site – requires a huge number of people seeing your offer or sales page. That’s more difficult than you might think. Remember, there are millions & millions of websites. When you look for something on Google, how often do you look past the first couple of pages? Do you ever look at page 20? Or page 57??

So it’s a problem for entrepreneurs, showing customers what they’re selling. There are lots of ways of overcoming this and serious Internet marketers will use lots of methods to promote each of their sites. The method we are interested in is called Joint Venture Marketing.

A joint venture is when someone says ‘I want to sell this product. If you can sell it for me, I’ll share the money we make with you.’ So if they were selling doghouses for $200, they might offer you $50 for each doghouse you got an order for.

‘No sir’ I hear you say ‘how do you expect me to sell doghouses?’ Answer: I don’t.

Now, before we go on, let me tell you a little more about Joint Venture Marketing. Quite often, an entrepreneur offering a Joint Venture will offer two levels. What that means is that, as well as offering you $50 for each doghouse you sell, if you then recruit a bunch of people to sell doghouses, they get paid $50 but you still get paid, for example, $10 for each house your recruits sell.

That still sounds difficult and anyway, who do you know who could sell lots of doghouses?

Well, unless you’ve a relation with a petstore, probably no one. But you can easily find people who would just love to have an extra product to sell, especially if someone else (like the original supplier) is going to do all the hard stuff like collecting the money, shipping the product and dealing with any aftersales problems. And those people are sitting there on the Internet just waiting for you to offer them this great opportunity. Try searching for Petstores, Dog training, Puppy sales, Dog breeders – there are loads of similar keywords you can use in your search.

If like me, you’ve always hoped for Internet success, but been stumped by the technicalities, now’s your chance to become a successful JV Broker and make those extra $$$s that will make all the difference – all it takes is some research and a few hours emailing.

© Richard J Collings 2007 This article may be freely reproduced either electronically or as hard copy without alteration and on condition that the appended author’s note and link are included. The author will be pleased to review any proposals for editing the article. Such editions may only be published with the author’s written permission. The author may be contacted at rjc.traders@ntlworld.com.