After twenty-one years doing Joint Ventures, we have found the key to success is actually quite simple. Yesterday Rika and I watched several fishermen at the lake. Some were seasoned in their craft and others were obviously newbies. Same lake, same opportunities, same fish, yet vastly different results attained – just like business in the real world. And I have no doubt what some of the fishermen’s comments were upon arriving home last night.
- “Damn fish just weren’t biting today.”
- “They never stocked that lake like they said they did – there were no fish!”
- “I knew this fishing pole was junk; that salesman really ripped me off.”
- “Couldn’t find a good fishing spot – they were all taken.”
- “It was too hot / cold for the fish to bite.”
- “There was too much noise so the fish wouldn’t bite….”
Yet there were other fishermen who got home with six plump trout and had a delicious meal. Same lake, same fish, same opportunity, same reaction when people fail: excuses.
Long Term Joint Venture Success
Long term Joint Venture Success is the result of good training, good support, a teachable attitude, persistence, experience, and the removal of the risk, time and cost factors from your Joint Ventures.
The more you learn, the more you earn, if you practice diligently and pay the price. Image two fellows who decide to become Joint Venture Brokers: One reads an e-book, attends a seminar, tries three Joint Ventures, and fails, so he quits and runs off to the next thing. The other one simply absorbs every ounce of training he can, reads, attends Bootcamps, watches videos, listens to Podcasts, gets involved in Membership meetings and conference calls, attends the Convention, builds relationships with the right people, makes mistakes, learns from them, takes massive action, and succeeds.
Along the road to success…
Along the road to success, people fail, get frustrated and angry, make mistakes, and get ripped off. They find out what doesn’t work, meet scoundrels and weasels, and get lied to. But they don’t quit; they hone their skills, persist, improve, and learn to take responsibility for their failures as well as their successes. As time goes by, they catch more fish, until they own fishing trawlers and the processing factory and get rich, then people say, “Well, he’s just lucky”, or the losers say, “He’s dishonest, that’s why he’s rich.”
Here’s the BEST way to get rich in Joint Ventures.
Imagine you wanted to learn how to bake the best chocolate cake in the world. You would seek out the person who is the known expert in that field, and apprentice with that person as an apprentice baker doing exactly what you were told, until you could do what she did.
Find the most successful and honest, influential and professional Joint Venture Broker you can, and do EVERYTHING he tells you to do, in EXACTLY the way he tells you to do it, UNTIL you are successful.
It’s really that simple. Don’t reinvent the wheel, become an eager apprentice, and voila! You catch lots of fat fish while the others go home with a bag full of excuses.
“The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attianed by sudden flight
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.”
There is no limit to the amount of money you can make as a JV Broker.
