I was inspired share with you one of the most successful methods I've used to build relationships, my database and my client base. I was introduced to Joint Ventures (JV) by Alex Mandossian who had just left his high six-figure income at at mega marketing firm in New York. He made it so easy for people to learn quickly, how to generate the level of business we had always wanted to create. My first JV was with a newbie to the speaking world. He didn't have a database, no clients and no concept as to what he wanted to do. After talking with him about what industry he thought he wanted to concentrate on, I came up with Singles Spotlight, a program featuring those who had anything to do with the singles market. We both found 11 people from Facebook who were authors, speakers, TV, radio & talk show hosts. We arranged for each of them to promote to their database the time and place they were to be interviewed by us. Their clients signed up to listen free the day of the interview by signing up through our website so we could capture their details. At the end of the 22 interviews we had about 8,000 people in our database for people who were interested in the singles market. The set up was fairly easy and of all the people we asked to participate, only one turned us down. After the project was complete, he had a foundation to base his new business on. He continued to do interviews and packaged the interviews in audio programs he could sell digitally. If you're interested, I produced an audio program detailing all of the steps to create a successful JV program.