Marketing Partnership means joining forces with another company to achieve a mutually beneficial result. The result can be building your list, to sell a product or service, or to increase awareness of your business. Because it is a mutually beneficial result, it is essential carefully selected partners who share your target market and offer a courtesy service.

Joint Venture (JV) Partners

A joint venture is when you and other business develop a program or service that did not exist before, that the market together and share financial results.

There are many reasons for JV with others. You get to share the work, you get the benefit of promoting the two lists that participation increases, you get to solve the problems of your target market in a new way.

Affiliates

Affiliate associations work in two ways. To promote the products of another company and / or promote their products. There is a monetary exchange in the form of a percentage of the sale or a flat fee. The objective of this type of partnership to sell a product or service.

General Partner

Reference sources, list builders and promotions generally fall into this category.

There are many people, their customers, especially those who love to give you referrals without compensation. However, if you have a formal referral program in place, your references are likely to increase dramatically.

Formal business associations

This leads to a legal territory and I am not a lawyer, I will leave it to the professionals! But formally enter the business with another person requires more than a handshake. There are many reasons for doing this and you should be very clear on their reasons before entering the long-term partnership.

Sponsorships

This is where you get to think big! Are you an author or an aspiring writer? Did you know that you can get a sponsor to fund a promotional tour? Are you a motivational speaker? There are companies out there that would like to sponsor your work.

The key to finding sponsorship is to find companies that want to reach your target market. There are great players like Hewlett Packard and Microsoft to promote women in business. If you are a woman and talk about a topic that is of interest to SMEs, who may be interested in sponsoring you. As you can imagine, it takes some time to cultivate relationships with these great players, so do not start this way when 11 hour.

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