I bet you can think of times in your life when you met someone who eventually became very important to you. The same thing happens in business and in my career it has happened many times. - The woman who read my blog regularly without ever commenting only to hire me to provide a training workshop once and then MONTHLY FOR TWO YEARS. - The man I connected with on LinkedIn. Today's meeting will determine if we will be working together on a $360,000 project! - The woman who has supported my posts online for years who invited me to a webinar for the CRM that now makes my life easier every single day. - And on and on. So write and post the blog post ... Post on LinkedIn and connect with people who open the door. Post the content. Every day ... because you never know who is watching and trying to figure out just how they are going to hire you. Food for thought. Love ya! Sandi

Josh's Affiliate program inspired me to 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.