Why Can’t We All Just Be Friends?
Posted by peter on April 9, 2008 |
I was wondering about something the other day, and that was “Why can’t we all just be friends?”, or more specifically, why can’t we join together and help one another succeed, not just on a forum sharing comments, but really work together.
You might be someone that doesn’t have the resources to get fancy graphics, or you might be someone who doesn’t speak English well enough to write a good salesletter…why are people like this not getting together and helping one another?
The concept that I had in the back of my mind is fairly simple…
Get a group of people, internet marketers to be precise, that are struggling to make money either through lack or resources, lack of education or a mind set that says ‘I can’t do that because of this’.
Maybe have around 4-5 people in the group and one person who has the time resources to act as the project manager. Ideally the group would be compromised of a group of people with complementary skills, ie. copywriter, graphics, jv (people person) skills, email marketing, affiliate manager, the money man etc.
These groups of people interact with one another and create a framework:
- What theme a product is going to be created on
- What format the product is going to be delivered in (ebook, audio, video etc)
- The name of the product
- The features of the product to make it unique
- Whether to create and upsell and downsell
- Whether to outsource the work or create it within the group
- The road map to launch (what work needs to be done and by when)
- Creating the buzz about the product
- Identifying and contacting potential JV partners
- Which account the payment goes to and what payment processor to use
- Affiliate system
- The email marketing followup series
There’s probably a whole lot more that I have missed, but I’m writing this off the top of my head.
So, how about a website that is specifically designed for internet marketers looking to collaborate on projects? So you might not have the confidence to go it alone or the experience, or you are putting off doing a task because it seems like too much of a big chore.
Like I said, it’s just a post musing about how we can help one another.
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Comments (3)
ken winston caine
May 29th, 2008 at 6:05 am
This is a very cool — and wise - idea, Peter.
Ideally we will see a number of these collaborative mastermind groups spring up in various planet-serving niches.
I hope so. And am inspired to seed a couple myself. Remind me to check back with myself in a month and see how far along I’ve gotten with this. I’ve had a couple similar projects in the works for YEARS due to my innate and sometimes crippling perfectionism. And that’s exactly what the collaborative spirit resolves!
Plus the synergy of a committed group of bright minds always produces something greater than what any one of us would produce in isolation.
peter
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Exactly my thoughts. Some people, like me, have no problem when it comes to writing, infact I could do it in my sleep, my weakness lies in taking action once the product is complete
I came across this site: http://bubbl.us and that seems to be pretty awesome, although needs a few extra features to make it really useful online collaborative tool.
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