If you want to make money as a joint venture "broker" -- setting up deals between two or more businesses and taking a cut of the profits for your efforts -- and if you want to do it fast, and with as little competition and hassle as possible, then this article will show you how.

Listen to this: If you're going to try your hand at joint venture brokering, then you should really try to resist the urge to do it with purely online businesses (which everyone else is doing). And instead, set up joint ventures with businesses in your home town first -- whether online or not.

In fact, I can virtually guarantee you that 99 out of 100 businesses in your Yellow Pages (who are spending an arm and a leg on advertising already) have never even heard of joint ventures. And so, the chances are excellent you'll find at least a couple that are open to the idea.

And besides that, another reason to joint venture with local businesses is because it's much harder for people to cheat you out of money if you know where they live, work and play...especially if you both live in the same town and know the same people.

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