On today’s segment of Authority Masterminds on Blog Talk Radio, we had as our expert authority, Willie Crawford discussing Joint Venture Brokerage.

Willie is a very well known JV Broker who has connected many businesses, product and service owners, affiliates and Joint Venture partners together.

We began our discussion with Willie describing exactly what a Joint Venture is. Generally, when we think of a Joint Venture, we think of a product launch.

Actually, a Joint Venture is when any group of people gets together for a product promotion, a product creation, combining or associating products or services or even to promote a cause, such as a particular event or charity.

Then Willie went on to explain the role of a Joint Venture Broker. Suppose that you have a product or service that is a good one, but, you do not have the resources to make it viable. A JV Broker will go out and suggest your product or service to potential Joint Venture Partners and Affiliates.

Once these partners and affiliates have agreed to promote your product, then a product launch is set up. You, the product or service owner, would pay a commission to the promoters. And you would also pay the broker a commission for putting this all together.

Good Joint Venture Brokers are in high demand. Skilled joint Venture Brokers may often receive an upfront fee for the project and a percentage of profits from a successful promotion. That is what makes this business model not only attractive, but also, potentially very lucrative.

There are several ways that a JV Broker can apply their skills. Not only in the online world, but in offline as well. For example, bringing together an offline business and an online business, to complement their particular products or services.

Another example would be connecting an offline business with an online local business promoter. Producing increased sales for the offline business and providing word of mouth expert status for the online promoter.

It’s really about having the vision to see the possibilities and putting the business owners together, either online or offline, and because you are able to do that, then you get paid a commission for doing it.

Willie and an associate, Sohail Khan, will be holding a 5 day workshop in Atlanta, Georgia in early May. However, they will accept only a limited number of students. And, as you will see on the website, potential students must schedule a call with Willie or Sohail to qualify for the workshop.

Be sure to listen to the call recording and, as always, be prepared to take notes and listen several times. Willie always over delivers on these calls and there is a lot of good info, if you are a good listener.

While you are here, I encourage you to pick up your free Internet Marketing report. This report is filled with information useful to both online and offline businesses. And is not the same old blah, blah, blah that you’ve heard a hundred times before.

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Thanks so much for your time and participation.

Until next time!

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Our Guest for our next episode is Joint Venture and Joint Venture Brokerage Expert, Willie Crawford.

Willie will share with us exactly what Joint Venture Brokerage is and how you can become an expert in putting together Businesses and Business owners through Joint Ventures and be rewarded handsomely for your efforts.

You will not want to miss this!

Legendary publishing and marketing expert “Uncle” Alan R. Bechtold announced some time ago that he was basically retiring from the “biz-op/make-money-from-home” market to settle back into publishing.

He’s done just that, turning all his energies into a new publishing venture about – you guessed it – publishing! Now, about the only way to find Alan and tap his immense wisdom is on his blog, Uncle Alan’s Information Publishing and Marketing Portal.

You can find the Portal here:
“Uncle Alan’s Information Publishing and Marketing Portal”

On his blog, the central topic is publishing for profit – and the marketing you need to know to make a profit publishing today. He also takes frequent looks into utilizing publishing as a form of marketing.

Alan’s pouring everything he’s learning today, as he discovers it, into his Portal. He’s also digging through his archives of more than 35 years’ worth of his writings and recordings on the subject of publishing for money, and bringing it on board — revised and updated as needed.

It’s better than his best courses that used to sell for $997 and up each. And there’s no charge at all.

Again – you can check it out here:
“Uncle Alan’s Information Publishing and Marketing Portal”

Plan to visit often. Alan’s just about to start a special new series he says will become his next book. It will appear, as he’s writing it, in the Portal! The book, he says, is all about his entire life of learning and publishing – how he made millions in the “bizop” market, then went on to make more millions in the “Internet marketing” market. And he’ll explain, through his fascinating story, exactly why he’s leaving such a lucrative enterprise, and what it means to you.

This is can’t-miss stuff and you’ll be in for the start of it if you visit the blog and bookmark it now, then check back often!

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As Internet marketers, we are faced at some point with not only creating web pages, such as a sales page or opt-in page, but also complete websites either static or on a CMS platform such as WordPress.

This work usually involves time spent in your HTML editor creating the pages, adding images, an opt-in form, ad boxes and other elements that will make up the website. Then you put all this information into folders, log into your webhosting account, and FTP everything up to your server.

A question is, when would be the best time to do this work that someone might not see all this construction when your site is online 24/7.

What if you could create an environment similar to that of your web server on your local computer, do all the work on your site and when completed, FTP to your server as a complete site.

Well, to do that, you need a WAMP! No, it has nothing to do with ‘Work At Home Moms’ or something you drive your car up on. A WAMP is an application the runs in a Windows Operating System. The acronym is Windows Apache MySQL and PHP or Perl or Python.

This is where the first note comes in: You should be at least an intermediate level computer user to use these types of programs.

EasyPHP is one such program. Actually, it was the very first WAMP, developed in 1999 and licensed under the GPL. EasyPHP is a WAMP package that includes the scripting language PHP, the web server Apache, the SQL server MySQL, as well as the database manager PhpMyAdmin and the debugger Xdebug. There is nothing to configure by the user, it’s already done by the application!

EasyPHP is portable as well. You can install it on your system or on a USB drive and develop or present locally your PHP code, projects, websites, scripts, applications, etc.

And yes, that was a tip for those of us doing local business promotion. How powerful would it be for you to be able to not only give a customer a view of their proposed site, but have them locally involved in its creation?

EasyPHP is simple to install and is a very light weight application. Theonly real limits to it are the size of the databases you create. And that, of course,  is subject to your machines capacity. But, this is a development, not a production, application.

EasyPHP has pre-configured modules available for it. It has the CMS platforms WordPress, Joomla and Dupal; Prestashop, an ecommerce storefront that is also free and open source software; SPIP, a CMS oriented toward online collaborative editing. Soon there will also be modules for Phorum and phpBB, the online forum platforms.

Personally, I have only used EasyPHP for WordPress site building. However, I do not use the WordPress module. I just downloaded the latest version of WordPress and placed the unzipped WordPress folder inside of the ‘WWW’ folder of the EasyPHP program files and run from that.

You just add your theme and plugins folders to the wp-content folder, just as with your server. Then create your site as you like and when complete, just take all of your theme folders and upload to your server. Hook up and configure the plugins and test your links. That’s about it!

I run EasyPHP on Windows XP, however, it will run on Vista and 7. If you have a 64bit system, you will find EasyPHP in your X86 program files.

Like I said earlier, EasyPHP is not a tool for everyone. But, it really is easy to use and a serious time saver in terms of site development. And as Internet marketers, anything that saves us time is a plus.

This brings to a close our series on ‘Internet Marketing With Free And Open Source Software’.

I hope that you have found it useful!

Till next time!

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