Promoting an unproven product

[Chris Douthit]

Hi Charles,

I must of missed your product out their the first time. I just signed up.

[charleskirkland]

Chris

Cool I would love to have you as a JV. Let me know what you think of the vidoes.

Charles

[stiqan]

Hey I'm new here and I read this first as I was interested in this topic and I'd GLADLY share a review copy of my e-book anytime for JV's etc. That's what I came here for... giving away stuff =)

- Chris

[Chris Douthit]

Hey Charles, how did the launch last week go? I was considering adding some prizes for my next launch and was curious of you thought it added a few more jv partners?

[charleskirkland]

Chirrs


Not nearly as welled as I had planed.
First I had some technical & health issues at launch.

But one of the biggest problems is getting people to mail. I called a number of JV’s who were committed but when I came down to it only a few people really mailed. I had about 199 JV’s signed up. Most of them were freeloaders who only after launch admitted they didn’t have any list at all.

I had one JV give me a call to let me know that he posted his 2nd tier JV invite link in to a free traffic exchange and a few safe lists and that I should be getting a flood of “JV” signing up under his down line and he wanted to make sure he got his 10% commission for all the new people he was going to bring to me and how thankful I should be to him.

So the 2nd tier did not play out as well as I had hoped for.

But it was a learning experience that I’m going to take with me for the next product.

[charleskirkland]

Chris

But one thing I had working againt me was timing. Most of the JV' that did not commit were going to be mailing for Frank just 2 days after my launch date.

Even Harris Fellman told me I might be lost in the wave of that Frank had.

But to me it was a success in a number of ways.

Thanks
Charles

[Chris Douthit]

Sorry to hear you didn’t get the results you were expecting. But I can tell you I blasted for you and not Frank, oddly enough the blast I did 2 days after did far better than the one on launch day.

So far I have I have gotten through topics 1 and 2 and so far I think the product is quite good. Ill get your banner up on one of my higher site later this week. Thanks for the input Charles.

[ExMachina]

But one of the biggest problems is getting people to mail. I called a number of JV’s who were committed but when I came down to it only a few people really mailed. I had about 199 JV’s signed up. Most of them were freeloaders who only after launch admitted they didn’t have any list at all.

I know what you mean. I have a new e-book coming out next week that has had some excellent reviews. So I contacted a cross section of JV partners I have a relationship with from previous ventures and new partners... I have had 1 reply!.

I could understand if I hadn't worked with some of these people in the past but 2 I contacted earned around $80,000 from a previous JV with me last year. It's amazing how quick you can go off of people!!

I explained when i contacted some of the new potential JV partners that I didn't mind if they only had a small list as i appreciate that we all have to start somewhere but so far they haven't even acknowledged receipt of the book...

Back to doing my own promotion i think!

[charleskirkland]

Mark

I right along with you on that. But I have seen a number of higher profile launchs over the past 4 months that did not do what everybody expected.

A number of bigger name marketers are telling me things are very different from just 1 or 2 years ago.

Are product launchs are dead?

NO!

It just means we all need to start taking a different look at how we do them and the partners we have on board.

Mike might argree or disagree with the above statement.

But I think there are so many proudcts coming out that it is hard to get traction in the market place. For every launch that is posted on the front page there are lots of smaller launchs going on that you never hear about.

This makes getting people attention much harder today then ever before.

Thanks
Charles

[Scott Soloff]

I don't see anything wrong with that.

I wouldn't expect to anything less.

Best,

Scott