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Crabs are among the most succulent and delicious seafood eaten today. Whole crabs, crab legs, crab cakes, alaskan crabs, stone crabs, and even other tiny crabs are served across the nation. Some like it with sauce, others are contented to steam it and pick the meat out. More adventurous people would include crabs in soups, salads, and even sandwiches. Crab cakes and crab fritters are also popular choices. Crabs are even included in pasta sauces and omelettes.

But before making crab dishes it is necessary to get really good crabs and crab meat. It doesn’t matter if you’re going to prepare whole crabs, crab legs, crab cakes, alaskan crabs, stone crabs, or some tiny crab, they key here is freshness. It is better and advised that you get live crabs. Pick crabs that are lively or aggressive. Sick or dead crabs would only ruin your dish and could even be a cause of sickness. Also, crabs are sold by bushels. Insists to inspect or choose your own crabs before putting them in bushels. To ensure freshness, befriend your fish person and ask them to keep you informed when the next batch of crabs would be in. Fresh crabs taste juicier and more succulent than stale crabs.

Now that you have your crabs, it is important to remember some guidelines in preparing them. You would not want to waste quality crabs by careless cooking, would you? It doesn’t matter if you want to cook crabs, crab legs, crab cakes, alaskan crabs, stone crabs, or some tiny crab dish, cook your crabs as soon as you got them. I assure you they’ll taste better than if cooked on a later time. For steaming, get a wide rack and steaming pot so you can steam the all crabs at once. This way, crabs are steamed evenly and you can prevent earlier steamed crabs from cooling. Make sure that your rack has enough height for your crabs to stay well above the steaming liquid, too short racks will give you boiled crabs instead of steamed. Another trick is to add beer to your boiling liquid, it will give your crabs outstanding flavor. Crab cakes are trickier. It is important to control your seasonings so as not to overpower the subtle flavor of the crab. Avoid over-frying or your crab cake will dry out. The color of stone crab claws and most crabs will change to a bright shade of orange when cooked. Do not overcook your crabs, as soon as they signal you with their color change, remove them from direct heat. When your crabs are cooked, keep your sauces or condiments to a minimum, after all, it is the crabs that should be the star of your meal. Call your friends and family to share your crab feast. But on the other hand, they’ll taste so good you might want to enjoy them by yourself.

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Many people are apprehensive about approaching other businesses to suggest a joint venture. They are concerned that they might be asking too much, or that they might offend someone. You can’t think like this! Remember that joint ventures are win-win deals that give all parties involved an opportunity profit!

Simply follow these easy steps, and setting up your own joint ventures will be a breeze…

1. Contact potential joint venture partners personally.

This is one situation where an e-mail just isn’t going to do the trick. A personal phone call or meeting will be more effective. You’ll be taken much more seriously, and you’ll be able to answer their questions right on the spot. Plus, it’s much more difficult to say “No” to someone you’re speaking directly with than it is to reply “No” to an e-mail.

2. Explain to potential partners exactly how they will profit from this relationship.

Here’s another situation where focusing on how your proposal will benefit the prospect is going to be what closes the deal. If the potential partner can’t see how doing business with you is going to increase their sales and profits, why would they bother? And remember, when negotiating a joint venture, it is important to educate the potential partner on the value of backend and residual sales, so you can claim a larger percentage of the profits.

3. If appropriate, offer them a sample of your product.

Once potential joint venture partners have experienced your product or service, it will be much easier to sell them on why they should promote it to their customers and subscribers. It will be easier to explain to them why their customers and subscribers will view them as a valuable resource, and how they will not only enhance their image, but also increase their profits by getting a cut of the additional sales.

4. Offer them a special discount to give to their customers.

It’s good idea to emphasize that while your product or service is already excellent value, you know that your partner will want to give his/her customers and subscribers a “special deal.” So tell them that you’re willing to make your product or service available to their customers and subscribers at a special discounted price. That way, the partner can approach their market as a “hero” who fought to get them this extra special deal. This will work in both of your favor to increase sales and profits.

5. Take away all of the risk.

This is really important. While you’re emphasizing how your partner will benefit from the deal, you should be removing all of the risk… explaining that they have absolutely nothing to lose. Tell them that the worst thing that will happen is that they will experience an increase in their sales and profits!

6. Make it financially appealing.

Don’t be stingy. While it’s important that you claim as much of the profits for yourself as you can, if the deal isn’t financially appealing to potential partners, it’s going to be nearly impossible to get them to sign on the dotted line.

7. Make it extremely easy for them to do.

Be prepared to do the majority of the work yourself, if not all of it. The more work you do, the easier you make it for them. And the easier you make it for them, the easier it will be to close the deal. Best of all, though, by emphasizing how you’re going to do almost all of the work yourself, you make it much easier to claim a larger percentage of the profits. They’ll be more likely to accept a small share because you’ve made it so easy for them anyway.

8. Get a signed contract that includes the commission terms and everything that you have agreed on.

Before you start to reveal the really critical money making details, be sure that you have everything signed and in writing. Don’t share your most valuable tidbits until you’ve done this, or your potential partner may just steal your ideas and use them him or herself to claim 100% of the profits.

I hope this tips can help you setting up your own joint venture.

Copyright 2005 Syahriansyah

Syahriansyah is the owner of http://www.advancetactics.com. His website offers an idea for home based businesses. Feel free to check all the guides and articles.

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