Consider this – you're scouting around for home business ideas. You have access to a computer and internet connection, but you don't really want to go through all the hassles of an online marketing – namely finding a niche market, developing a product, setting up a website and so on. So is there some kind of automated cash formula by which you can make money online? Yes, there is and it is called Joint Venture Brokering.To become a Joint Venture Broker you don't need to worry about product development, getting customers or developing a mailing list. Instead, you become adept at finding great products made by someone else, sign up on their affiliate programs – and here comes the exciting part – find someone to promote your affiliate link. You cash in on their subscriber email list to get your customers through the marketer's efforts.

At the end of it, you benefit through commissions; the business offering the product enjoys sales and the marketer who promotes it for you also earns a commission. This is why joint venture brokering is a lucrative home based business. Just to match a product and a marketer, you can earn a huge income when you do it right.

To explain it a little more clearly, lets say Mr A owns a product that he wants to sell. But he has no email lists. Now we have Mr B who has a targeted email list that will match A's product. And then comes you -the joint venture broker who connects A to B, making a deal so that B markets A's product to his list. In this sequence of events Mr A benefits by selling his product. Mr. B shares the profits, too. You benefit by getting a percentage of the sales as the dealmaker.

Another scenario is where you, as the joint venture broker bring two people – A and B who have complementary products. You can help these two people expand their business by introducing them to each other so that they promote other's products to their subscriber list. Both A and B benefit through the sales of their products and you earn your commission for being instrumental in setting up the deal.

By the way, you need not restrict yourself to just two parties in joint venture brokering. You can be involved in making deals with more than two businesses and earn your commission from all of them.