//-Alexa

Omarra Byrd

Your video is quite funny. It made me laugh out loud. It’s also quite revealing. It shows your dedication to your business and your willingness to sacrifice sleep in order to grow it. At the same time you are not overlooking other important domestic chores. Good for you!

Now, go get some sleep!

Hermas

Then after my main launch and the first 250 of HTWSSFSG are sold, I plan to wait 1-2 months and then sell TSEG separately.

I’m also going to be giving away TSEG when I participate in promotions where somebody gets TSEG as a bonus for buying another partner’s product.

By not doing a straight “giveaway” I can keep the value of it up. The nice thing is people want to participate because it’s free traffic and exposure.

As far as my primary product HTWSSFSG goes, I’m already giving all of my potential JV partners review copies of all the product + bonuses.

I’m also doing a giveaway – each JV partner gives me a free ebook, then all the subscribers opt-in to get the ebook and also information from me about using story writing as a tool for spiritual growth.

So far my JVs are really interested in two things:
1) Traffic
2) Helping me out

It turns out the commissions is actually mostly irrelevant for many of them. Two of them told me up front they’d promote and didn’t care if I had an affiliate program or not.

I’ve got a lot of reciprocity going on here which is good… I’m trying to over-deliver on the JV so that they all feel like they’re getting more out of this than I am.

In regards to the original idea of giving away physical product to JVs, I definitely have heard of that before and I think it’s something I’d do. When I promote, I like to really know the product I’m promoting. Similarly, when I have people promote for me I really want them to know the product as well.

I figure if I can sell this ebook, I can sell anything. At first I looked at it as a training ground, but now I realize it’s just the start… since I’ve already got the 2nd ebook lined up and ready for what will probably be a quick-launch (and any potential JVs for TSEG will have already seen it since they contributed).

My wife is writing a book in the spirituality niche as well, which lines up as a 3rd product.

I’m lucky to be in a niche where reciprocity and helping people out is the name of the game… makes it a LOT easier to get JVs. Also product reviews… I’ve got half a dozen good testimonials because I just emailed one of my two lists with the subject line, “A unique and free opportunity from me to you” and then solicited their review.

The review has improved the quality of my product considerably, created great testimonials, and made some raving fans on top of that. One person liked it so much he asked jokingly when/where he could buy it. Another person emailed back and asked if he could review it and also told me he wanted to donate money.

Now… I’m going to be interested to see what it takes to turn my list into buyers. The good thing is, they’re a pretty responsive list… 50% average open-rate between both broadcast & scheduled emails, and if I ask them to do something for me, I generally get very good overall response.

So with my internal launch, I’m just going to tell them up-front what I’m doing (giveaway products and provide emails/blogposts/audio specifically about my new ebook) and ask them to opt-in so I can get their honest feedback about the experience.

I’ll bet that many signup just because I am asking for their honest feedback and more will signup because they’re interested in the ebook.

Now… if only I had time while traveling this week to actually watch the PLF2.0 videos! I tell you, being on a plane and in a different state every single week sure puts a damper on keeping up. I wish the catchup week was this week instead of last week!

In the end some promoted for him, some didn’t. But because of his actions he received some reciprocity from some of those who didn’t promote initially. They promoted his product at a later time and he eventually reaped the rewards of his actions in the sum of close to $10,000.00!

Could you maybe do something similar with the bonus?

Omarra Byrd

“If they can get what they want and more, you’ll get more than what you were looking for!”

Reason why is – for a few months I’ve been lining up JV partners. One specific JV partner I wanted to work with didn’t really think that my ebook was a good fit to promote to that list.

Part of the bonus for that ebook is another limited-release ebook (first 250 buyers of my main product) that is a collection of articles contributed by various other people (potential and/or actual JV partners).

Well, I started reaching out to more people this week to see if they wanted to participate. TWO different people on the same day yesterday, one of whom I had never discussed the project with, both asked if they could participate.

The one who previously did not feel my ebook was a good fit for her list, now feels that promoting the bonus to her list would be a good fit.

So needless to say, I think that somebody ELSE mentioned to those two people that I was getting active with this project and they wanted to participate.