Have You Ever Thought About How You Can do Joint Ventures “Offline”?

Teleseminars and Joint Ventures are great ways to market your business on the Internet.

But have you ever thought about leveraging those same ideas and activating your ability to do an in-person seminar and have the same great success?

This is yet another marketing channel for you to easily and effortlessly connect to your ideal clients and be a huge revenue producer.

What makes this process so easy is that the principles and formula for the Internet campaign are the same for the in-person seminar.

You get to discover Joint Venture folks who are on-fire to promote your work, as well as give gifts from them to your ideal clients so that you are also promoting them.

This is the essence of the energy exchange.

Connecting with your ideal clients in person this way can actually be easier than something like a teleseminar, because you are really able to tap their different senses.

Awhile back I made a decision to create my own in-person workshop to identify and address a gap that I had in my own life.  I then attracted the “right” business partner and together we created products and services to support others who also experienced this same gap in their lives.

As a busy mother of a young child, I often found myself doing what I called the “five o’clock freezer stare” when it came time to figuring out what to serve my family for dinner after a long day.

I just knew that others shared that feeling of lack of time and energy to cook as well as concern for wanting good, nutritional meals for the family. Therefore, Heavenly Meals was born.

This business was born out of my gap and I was looking for people to support who felt just like me.

For the Heavenly Meals Workshop, I didn’t do any fee-based advertising in the newspapers – it was all Joint Ventures.  My business partner and I ended up having over 100 people at the workshop.

You can always do advertising if you feel led – just remember that Joint Ventures don’t cost you anything, or very little.  And they give you great local connections!

You can keep costs at a minimum and do customized mailers.   I opted to write the copy for the Joint Venture partners to give them an example of an endorsement and just let them sign their name to it.

I simply told them, “I’ll write it for you and you can tweak it to make it personalized from you, but I’ll set everything up to make it totally easy for you.”

In terms of hosting, you can also offer the opportunity that someone hosts your promotional workshop and get 20% of all revenue in return as their referral fee.

I did this for that workshop, and then went out to look for folks for their goody-bag stuff.

So, I did:

• Marketing first to get Joint Venture partners
• Created all the promotional copy that was then sent out to potential ideal clients
• Handled all the logistical set-up
• And wrote the script for the workshop

If this seems like something that is intimidating or overwhelming, remember to always begin any project at an inner level.  Manage your energy around it before taking ANY action.

Before you begin to put together the documents, formulas and outlines that you will need, take an opportunity to activate your connection to Spirit about this workshop approach.  You can use the following Activation Exercise for this purpose:

Relax. Breathe. Feel your connection with your Inner Guidance and with Spirit.

Envision that you’re standing in front of a group of people and you’re looking at their eyes and you see a light in their eyes. You see every one of them smiling, and you feel a connection between your heart and their hearts.

You are sending energy from your heart to their hearts holding the vision for them of what they want. Whatever your topic is, you will walk into that room and hold the vision that the whole group of people can have what it is that they want.

You’re going to hold this very high vibration for them.  I want you to feel the energy coming in from the top of your head as you call in your inner team.

Right before you’re going to speak, you will ask for your team to assist you.  Ask for Spirit to speak through you. Ask for the words that you say to be tinged with the energy of power that will touch the hearts of people who are going to hear them.

Just feel that energy coming in…

Now, imagine that the people in the audience are feeling this electrified energy. It’s sparking off of you – they are taking it in and they’re sending the sparks back.

You can even be very soft spoken because that’s who you are – and still they can feel the depth and power of that energy because they are there to activate a remembrance in themselves of what’s possible for them.

Just feel that you are easily and smoothly going through this whole experience.

This is a co-creative energy.  People are laughing, they’re interacting.  You ask them something and they respond.

You’re feeling this energy connection through the hearts of your audience with sparks going through the room.  You know exactly when to be light and you flow with it.

You have a wonderful template that you put together to work with.  The flow of the template feels natural, easy, and so good for you.  It’s just like walking.  It’s just like breathing it feels so natural.

You can feel your own confidence, the assuredness of how your entire body and container of this energy is completely full, and it’s pouring out of you in a way that is going into people’s hearts and is activating that part in them where they are remembering – where they know that they can have their desires answered.

Now imagine these people, everywhere. They’re giving you their credit cards and they say – “I really want what you have.  This is so awesome.  Thank you for doing this today.  Thank you for bringing this work and making it available to me”.

Feel yourself just looking at the wonderful amount of money that you’re making, and that people are smiling.

Some people are coming up to you after you talk and they even have tears in their eyes.  They say that they were so moved when they heard you. They tell you that you don’t know what it took for them to get here.

They are so grateful.  They can feel how this is a turning point in their lives and you feel the energy of fulfillment as you are really living your life’s purpose.  You feel extreme joy and power.

You feel how the clarity of your guidance is right there with you and you’re helping these people to activate themselves to that extreme power and joy within themselves.

You feel the connection and the joy it feels to assist others in activating.

Breathe that in.  Feel that.  Allow yourself to activate anything that needs to be activated in you for you to step into this power now.

And right now in your heart I want you to hold the intention:

• I step into this power now
• I step into my powerful presentation
  
• I step into my powerful classes
• I step into my powerful interviews
• I step into my powerful articles
• I step into every powerful interaction in every possible way as I now surrender and allow Spirit to flow through me in all these experiences
• I release the attachment to any specific outcome and I know that all details will work out somehow, some way it all works out.

Now feel the energy of that acceptance and that trust.  Breathe it in.  Notice what your feelings are.

What did you notice through the Activation?  Notice how your body is feeling.  Capture what you have noticed and what you feel by writing it down.  Stay with the exhilaration and the “I can do this” sensations.

Ride the wave and feel the sense of being rooted in knowing the power of what you are magnetizing.  If Spirit has anchored certain words or symbols, keep them in your notebook or journal so that every day you are being reminded of this Activation within you.

Now you are ready to move forward with your actions, because you have activated all of the possibilities within you.  Begin to think about opportunities you may have to market your business offline – and continue to manage your energy around each step.

If you want to hear more about this concept and how being a Spiritualpreneur can actually recession-proof your business, listen to the recording of a teleclass I held on this subject recently at:  www.coachingfromspirit.com/SPBlog.

Ken Foster from Shared Vision Network joined me on the call, along with Bill White (the Synchronicity Expert), Debbi Chambers (author of Manifest Success), and Chuck Abbott (Top Marketing Trainer).