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When you want to grow in your business there is only so much you can do on your own. That’s why you might want to reach out to others and see if they can help you - or better yet, if you can help each other. You could consider outsourcing, hiring staff or doing joint ventures with other people. If you want to do JVs you could try co-registration (if you have a mailing list), mailing list “swap” (where you send your mailing list a promo for their product and they do the same for you), or join forces with one or more partners on a project (big or small) - even a simple link exchange can be considered a JV.

You might not even have to reach out to other people - sometimes you just have to keep your eyes open. I was checking out Douglas Karr’s blog a couple of weeks ago and noticed that he was looking for contributors to a contest he was holding. Doug was looking for 10 partners where each partner contributed $100. That’s why you can now…

Win $1,000 Cash!

..plus, other cool prizes. Contests are always fun so I decided to contribute to the contest. I also thought this was a great opportunity to get some extra exposure. Doug has over 1000 RSS subscribers - which is a pretty big audience. I have 100+ RSS subscribers and in the first contest on this blog I gave away $25 (or a featured link) and a website review (which took a lot of time). So, spending $100 to reach a 10 times bigger audience looks like a pretty smart move ;) Not to mention, I don’t have to worry about managing the contest and all the extra things that take time.

Just for fun I decided to on top of the $100 to throw in some extra prizes:

• A copy of the A Pound A Day Diet eBook
• A copy of the eBook Confidential Internet Intelligence Manuscript Volume II: Your Business Battle Plan and Your Life on Fire
• 3 Month Membership to Affiliate Booby Traps

Those extra prizes are valued at $103,85 on their own.

How to enter

Oh, you want to know how you can win the $1,000? Well, all the details are over at Doug’s blog but basically you have to write a blog post with a reference to each sponsor and a couple sentences about their site, product or service. You can combine all sponsors in one post - or do a post for each sponsor, giving you 10 entries into the contest (10 times better chance of winning!). The deadline is November 25th, 2007 - so you have about 6 days. You better hurry… just head on to the contest post for the details, write your post(s) and submit your entry through the form. On last count there were 32 entries in the contest - which means that if you write a post for each sponsor you’ll have about 1/4 chance of winning $1,000 cash!