October 17, 2005
A Blog Challenge!
A reader challenged me
After I posted the note yesterday on my blog, one reader wrote with some useful comments - and challenged me to do something.
Carry Out A 5-Figure Launch - Without JVs or Partners
His point was that, like it or not, you NEED JVs to make significant profits online. While in a general way, I do agree that JVs are far easier to profit from, I don't think it is impossible to do it on your own.
How can I say that?
Well, in a sense, I've been doing this for a while now. Most of my projects start out with plans involving dozens (if not hundreds) of partners, but my efforts always seem to fizzle out - leaving me to handle promotions all on my own.
I've been fortunate to learn from close observation some successful launches like John Reese's 'Traffic Secrets', Yanik Silver's 'Underground Seminar' (both involved many affiliates and JV partners) and Allen Says' 'Warrior Alliance' (which was run single-handed, and sold out the limited 500 slots within 24 hours - at $67 a month!)
Plus, recently I had the chance to read the transcripts of Jeff Walker's POWER interview with Frank Kern, Jim Edwards, Yanik Silver, Jason Potash and John Reese - about co-ordinating product launches (it's a lead-in to Jeff's soon-to-release 'Product Launch Formula' package, which promises to be AWESOME!)
Still I thought this would be a good experiment - done in a formal and planned way.
And to make this 'challenge' more meaningful, I'm going to tie it in with my passion and purpose!
So for my launch of Smart Niche Minisites v2.0 I have decided upon 2 things.
1. No launch partners, JVs or affiliates. I'm going it alone
2. All - and I mean 100% - of all profits will go to the Dr.Mani Children's Heart Foundation, and be used to sponsor heart surgery for poor kids (click here for details)
The target will be to fund 4 operations - that's $10,000 in net profit. The deadline for this challenge will be November 30th, 2005.
Let's GO
Every day, several remarkable things cross my desk, my mind and my computer screen.
I love sharing them with you. When I send them by email, filters keep many of them out of your inbox.
That's why you have...
dr.mani says...
Remarkable is in the eye of the beholder. If the target market
wants to hear about it and wants to talk about it,
then it's remarkable. Then it's a
Purple Cow.
- Seth Godin
Almost every link in this sidebar will make me money - if you do what I want you to do after clicking on it! That's because they are 'affiliate' links.
A large part of the money you'll give me will be used to support kids with heart birth defects through my CHD Foundation.
(yes, TWO hyphens after B)
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