Welcome to this video where we’re going to be talking about building JV Buzz. Here’s the deal, I’ll say it until I'm blue in the face. You’ve got to be in their face everywhere they go if you expect them to remember your launch and to promote for you. Building JV Buzz is something that you need to dedicate some time to. A lot of people ask me this question so I decided to just create this quick little video just to help you and point out a few sources, a few places that you can go to build buzz with your JVs when you're planning a launch, when you're planning a product release. 
        First and foremost, let’s start with this opening statement. If you want to attract the big JVs, then they have to know about your launch. You simply can’t just think that the word is going to get around by you telling one or two people, it’s not going to go viral like that. The word will not just get around, you literally have to spread it around yourself. Then, you have to keep reminding them about it after you’ve spread it around. Here’s the mentality behind that. You might think—“Oh no, Omar, I'm just going to let people know on Facebook and then everybody will rush to promote my product.” No. 
        McDonald's is a huge company and everyone knows who they are, everyone knows they make hamburgers and cheeseburgers, yet they keep advertising to us every single day. Every single day. Why is that? Because it’s not just to be branded and to be known as the hamburger place, because you got to keep putting it in people’s face so that when they get hungry, that’s the first thing that comes to mind. If you want to attract the big JVs, you’ve got to make sure they know about your launch and then you got to make sure that you keep reminding them. 
        Here’s how, I'm going to talk about three ways that we do that. First one is you want to post on every single calendar. Did you know that? Did you know that there are calendars out there, they’re actually JV Launch calendars. There’s hundreds of these things out there, heck maybe even thousands. I definitely know that there are at least a dozen that you should be posting your launch in and I'm going to tell you which one those are. 
        I do want to preface this particular thing by saying don’t let a calendar site dictate your launch date. A lot of people make this mistake. A lot of people say well, oh my god, I noticed that this day, it’s already got two launches on it and there’s three people. Oh my god, even next month is full, and oh my god three months from now, how am I? Okay look, you are never going to have a week all to yourself. You're probably never going to have a day all to yourself. The industry is just too big now. There are simply too many product launches or product releases—whatever the heck you want to call them—happening every single day. 
        You have to consider the reality that other people will be releasing their products on the same day. The best that you can do is post way in advance on all of the product calendar sites so that people know about your product launch. Again, if they don’t know, then they don’t know. If they aren’t reminded, then they won’t promote.
        Regardless, you should pick the date, set the date, and stick to the date. I like to pick the date and put it on the calendars at least 60 days in advance. I like to spend the 30 days before my launch just building buzz and reminding people. It’s worked out very well for me.
        There are hundreds of these JV Calendar sites all over the web and all you gotta do is some creative Googling in order to find them. If you literally type in JV Calendar, launch calendar, affiliate calendar, JV launch calendar, JV affiliate calendar, if you type in a few of these keyword combinations, you're going to find dozens, hundreds, and like I said maybe even thousands of these sites out there. They come about—it’s kind of funny the way they come about. 
        Usually, as you start promoting products, you're going to develop a little clique with people that promote for you, JVs that you like promoting for, and so on. You guys are going to kind of go up through the ranks together. You're going to build your list and eventually you're going to be doing product launches and each one of you will be supporting one another. Some cliques are as big as five people, some as big as ten. What happens is these guys end up creating a calendar, so they don’t step on each other with their own launches, some of these calendars become adopted in the community and they just become bigger sites. I'm going to share a few of those with you right now. 
        Here’s some of the sites that I’ve found in the past. Some of these are very, very popular. Some of the launch calendars out there that you might find are free to join, some of them you have to pay to be a member, some of them even have pretty strict requirements like you need to be at a certain level with your launches. 
        One of the most popular ones because it’s probably been around the longest. It’s owned by a guy named Mike Myers and it’s called JVNotifyPro.com. A lot of people post their launches on here and Mike Myers offers a really good service. He has several different packages that he offers, but you can also pay to advertise on that site, you can also pay to have him email all of the members of that site. And trust me, there’s a lot of them on there. We’ve done very, very well by hiring Mike Myers and advertising on his site.
        Another one, WarriorJV.com. Specifically for those that are in forum launches but even people that are doing self hosted launches, we’re seeing a lot of that more and more at places like WarriorJV and MunchEye. Here’s the deal, WarriorJV.com, this is run by a super cool guy. His name is Kenster and again, he also has packages, he does have some requirements. You need to be at a certain level in order to be in this group, so you need to befriend him, talk to him, and he will tell you what those are. I believe the rules for joining are on his site, but that’s another one. 
        A very popular one, one that’s—I don’t wanna say very popular one, that’s grown in popularity quite a bit at the time that I'm recording this video is by Chris Munch. The name of the website if MunchEye. MunchEye is a pretty cool place to see a whole bunch of different types of launches from different platforms. There’s JVZoo launches on there, Clickbank launches on there, Warrior Plus launches, all kinds of stuff on there. MunchEye is also a good place for you to list. 
        This next one has been around for a very long time and it initiated as a Skype group, and then branched off into two Skype groups because there was too many people on it. It’s actually run by a girl named Cindy Baddy and the name of the site is IMLauncr.com. It’s spelled a particular way, it’s IMLaunchr.com and you could see all the big guys on that one as well.
        Here’s another one that I saw, JVLaunchCalendar.com. That’s one that—I'm actually not 100% sure who owns that one, but that one has been around for a little while. I know a lot of people post on there, there’s usually openings on there.
        LaunchRR.com is another one, ProductCalendar.com is one by Matt Haslam, I know he used to be real active with it a couple of years ago. I'm not sure how active it is to this day. 
        This used to be a cool one, run by Chuck Mullaney, JVMe.com. He sold the site and I know that the people that bought it have been revamping it and actually turning it into a JV Social Network. JVMe.com might already be up and running by the time that you watch this video, I'm not sure if it is. But these are just some that I wanted to mention. 
        I’ll show you some of these sites and keep in mind that regardless of whether or not I mentioned it here, you should do a search for JV Launch Calendar or the like in Google in order to find a whole bunch of these launch calendar type sites.
        


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        Real quick, just wanted to cut away to show you some of these launch calendar sites in my browser. Here’s the IMLaunchr one, this is Cindy Baddy’s website that I was talking about. You can actually become a member here and this is one of those banners that I was talking about. Here is a banner ad for a product launch on a calendar site. You can click on the dates and see those specific products that are launching and information about them. This is the way most calendar sites work. Some are a little bit more elaborate than others. 
        


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        Here’s another one. This was Matt Haslam’s calendar, it was pretty active a couple of years ago. I'm looking right now and just scrolling around, there really isn’t a lot of stuff listed here. Not sure about this one.


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        This is JV Notify Pro, this is probably one of the most active, most popular ones out there. I definitely recommend that you go and check this one out. 




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        Warrior JV, this is Kenster’s website. You could submit your launch here, you can become a member here, this is a list of all the upcoming launches obviously on those specific dates. A link to the JV Page for those launches, here are all the different members, here’s the power product vendors, and obviously there’s one of the top guys right there at the top of the power product vendors. Then, there’s the regular members.




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        Anyway moving on, here’s MunchEye. MunchEye, also very popular one. You have premium launches here and then you have all regular launches. I'm sure you can list your launch as just a regular one or you can some premium member, Believe you can pay to be a premium member, not really sure exactly how you get on the premium site but you have to come here and read the information. 






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        Here is JVCalendar.com. This is another one, again, this says right here get more exposure for your product launches, free listing on our JV Calendar, and here’s some information for you. 
        I just wanted to show you a few of them and remember, you can just do a search in Google for JV Launch Calendar, Affiliate Calendar, and you’ll find all kinds of stuff like this.
        You need to post your launch way in advance on as many launch calendars as possible. And, with that said, make sure that if you post a launch, you're going to launch that day. Don’t just hold days, you need to make sure that you fulfill it because that’s one good way to piss people off is post all over their launch and then hold that date and then move the date and all that. Don’t be that guy.
        Buy some Ad Space. That’s another thing that you can do. There’s a lot of places that you can buy ad space, I'm going to point out three main ones. 
        First of all, Facebook Group Covers. Most groups owners rent their cover space for small daily fee. That’s the space up on top, the image that you see at the top, the header image at the top of a Facebook group. You may try to dismiss this, but make no mistake about it. There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of JV Facebook groups out there. It’s where your affiliates are, it’s where they are everyday. If right now you said to me, “Hey, I need an affiliate, I need to find a JV that can—I need to talk to someone right now.” I would say go to Facebook. That’s where you can find them. Most group owners will rent their cover space for a small daily fee. 
        Think about that, let’s say there’s a Facebook group that has a couple of thousand JVs, a couple of thousand JVs. Let’s say maybe 20%, 25% of them log in every single day. That’s a good what, I don't know, 250 to 500 affiliates that log in everyday. When they log in and click to see in that group what’s been posted, or to post something themselves, they’re going to see your banner ad advertising your upcoming launch at the top of that group. They’re going to know that you're a player because you paid to advertise your launch, right? It’s a lot different than just posting in their group, but Facebook Group Covers are a good way to go. 
        Calendar banners, those calendar sites that I just mentioned earlier? Most of those calendar site owners who also sell you space on their site bar. You know, website has a sidebar with widgets, and opt in forms and things like that? A lot of these, they actually have a space there for you to buy a banner ad. You can buy it for a week, you can buy it for a month, but you can advertise on these calendar sites as well. 
        And, you can also get some solo ads. You can buy a solo ad which is basically an email sent to a JV list from another product creator. Many product creators will be willing to mail their JV list for you for a price, for a fee. Just like you get solo ads for customers and for opt ins, you can get solo ads for JVs. 
        You know at the end of the day, it doesn’t hurt to just inquire. It doesn’t hurt to just ask someone. If you're not sure whether or not this Facebook group that you're a member of, if you're not sure whether or not they would let you put up a banner or if  they would sell you the banner space, it doesn’t hurt to ask. Send the admin a message and say hey, do you guys rent out this banner space? Can I pay you to put a banner up here? 
        The same thing with the calendar site, the same thing if you've got a product creator that you know, ask and say, “Hey, would you be willing to mail your JV list for me?” He says, “Uh, that’s not something I do all the time.” Then say, “Okay, how much can I pay you to do it then?” It doesn’t hurt to inquire. It might be affordable, it might just be a couple of bucks, and you get a bunch of JVs to promote your product. It might be worthwhile for you.
        The third thing that I wanted to tell you about is to join some of those JV Groups. There’s several of them. Facebook groups I just mentioned, there are hundreds if not thousands of these groups out there. You got to find them and you got to join them. Now, Facebook actually recommends groups. If you're in one or two of these groups, you’ll see similar ones being recommended. How do you find Facebook groups? Well, how do you find anything on the internet? You use a search bar. You can use Google, you can use the actual Facebook search bar now, they actually have a full search engine built into Facebook now. You literally type in keywords in there. JV, Joint Venture, Affiliate. All of this kinds of stuff. This is how you're going to find these groups. Then, request to join. 
        Some of them might be closed groups, some of them you might need an invite, some of them you might have to do some networking, and some word of mouth. You might be led into one of these groups by two or three degrees of separation, you might know somebody who knows somebody who’s a friend of somebody that can get you into the group. Again, Facebook groups, there are hundreds if not thousands of these and you should seek them out and join them.
        Okay, now similar to Facebook groups, there are Skype groups. These are more private and they require an invite. Naturally, you have to be added to the Skype group. Again, this is something that you network. Once you're in some Facebook groups, you meet some JVs, you network, you send some private message, you're saying, “Hey man, are you part of any Skype groups that perhaps you can add me into? I have a lot of value that I can provide in these groups and I’d love to be a part of it if you’d invite me.” 
        And then, you’re actually having somebody vouch for you. You need to make sure that you don’t go into these groups and just spam all over the place. “Hey, promote my crap, promote my crap.” Don’t be that guy. You want to provide value, you want to get to know people, you want to build relationships before you just go and start asking people to promote for you.
        Finally, I want you to consider masterminds. There are paid masterminds out there, and there’s also some free mastermind groups. Mastermind is generally a group of professional, group of marketers, or maybe newbies that are starting out, that are either emailing one another or maybe they’re actually in a formal group or forum somewhere and they’re communicating regularly and helping one another build their business. There are mastermind groups out there that you can also inquire about. You might be able to join a Mastermind group, I know that Mike Filsaime has a really, really popular Mastermind group with thousands of members. That might be a very useful group for you as far as recruiting JVs and getting to know JVs. 
        In closing, what I want to leave you with is this. At the end of the day, it all comes down to networking. You’ve got to build relationships with people, it all comes down to networking. When you meet one person that’s a potential affiliate, he can always introduce you to another affiliate. You’ve got to do the work. You’ve got to do the leg work, you’ve got to do the networking, you’ve got to go out there, you’ve got to meet people, you’ve got to be in forums, you’ve got to be active in Facebook groups, you’ve got to literally be doing this every single day like it’s your job because it is your job.
        You need to dedicate ample time to this, at least 30 days. Don’t blame your lack of launch success on anything other than the actions that you failed to take. These are important steps in releasing a product, it’s not just about creating the product and opening up the doors and hoping that people find it, and hoping that people actually—just because you posted your product on Clickbank, doesn't mean that you're going to have affiliates rushing. There aren’t people sitting at their computer right now waiting for you to post your product so they can start promoting it, it doesn’t work that way. You need to dedicate ample time to this, at least 30 days. You need to go and network, recruit, talk to people, get in their face, make sure that they’re seeing your product, your launch announcement over and over and over again just like McDonalds advertising their hamburgers every single day. 
        I want to thank you for watching this video and I will see you in the next video.