Five Joint Venture Marketing Skills A Small Business Owner Must Have

Joint venture marketing is a lucrative way of leveraging the assets of two or more businesses. It is the fastest way for businesses to achieve certain business goals and benefit their clients at the same time.

For the joint venture partners, this usually translates into more visibility, more clients and more profits than they could create on their own. For the clients, the benefits include saving time, saving money and getting added value from the businesses. These are the reasons behind the popularity of joint ventures.

For any joint venture project to be successful, the partners must possess certain skills that are required to choose the right deal, the right partners, and to promote the project effectively. I've outlined a basic skill set consisting of the five most important attributes below:

1. The ability to nurture client relationships

People buy only from those that they know, like and trust. You must therefore keep in touch with your clients on a regular basis in order to nurture your relationship with them and turn them into loyal clients. Apart from earning their trust, this will also enable you to determine what offers they'll respond to and when to offer a certain product or service. Without a loyal client base, the response rate will be very low when you endorse a product or service.

2. Creativity, and the ability to "think outside the box"

Every new joint venture project that you initiate will be different, and therefore deserves a different approach. The ability to apply fresh new ideas is very important in making sure you present the joint venture in the best possible light. Creativity comes in handy when creating irresistible offers and proposals, when deciding the compensation plan, and during the negotiation phase.

3. Resilience

Many small business owners don't really understand the benefits of joint ventures and may be skeptical at first. You need the endurance to educate them about the many benefits a joint venture brings, and to put their minds at ease concerning any issues they may have. You will also need resilience and patience after launching your campaign, as results may not be immediately forthcoming.

4. The ability to visualize synergy

Even if you choose the partner with the largest client list in the marketplace, if there's no real synergy, the partnership will not jell. It is critical to make sure that the combination of products and/or services fit together, and are not the proverbial "round peg in a square hole."

5. Effective negotiation skills

From the minute the door is opened to the possibility of a joint venture, serious negotiations begin. Negotiating skills are necessary in making sure that both parties reach a win-win agreement, and also so that you achieve the goals you have set in the planning stages of your project. The ability to present all the benefits of the joint venture to your prospective partner in the early phase of the negotiations is critical to their acceptance of your proposal.

Joint venture marketing is rising in popularity everyday, and is an excellent way for small businesses to springboard their efforts to new success levels. These skills are all acquirable skills, and many resources are available to the small business owner wanting to reach out in these directions.

Copyright © 2005 by Habiba Abubakar and Emprez. All rights reserved.

Note: You are welcome to republish this article as long as the resource box at the end is included fully and unaltered.

Habiba Abubakar, a.k.a. The Profit Diva, specializes in helping small business owners who are struggling to increase their client base and are tired of mediocre profits. The tips in this article have been excerpted from her home-study program, "Joint Venture Profits For Small Business Owners." To learn more about this step-by-step program, and to sign up FREE for her revealing Mini eCourse, "The Easiest Way To Skyrocket Your Profits In 90 Days Or Less," visit http://www.profitdiva.com

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