Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad):

“Being rich is when your passive income is greater than your expenses.”

Robin J. Elliott:

“Being rich is earning the freedom to buy what you want, do what you want, go where you want, when you want, and live according to your own beliefs and values.”

DollarMakers is dedicated to providing YOU with the tools and support to become rich.

Remember what Jim Stoval said:

“Only take advice from someone who already has what you want.”

We live what we teach. You don’t have to participate in this recession. Freedom is at hand, if you really want it.

Is what you’re doing now really going to make you rich? Will it truly give you the time, freedom,  and money you want? One always has options –

• you could work for a boss and never get wealthy, have all your eggs in a basket held by a skittish sociopath,
• or spend your life’s (or wife’s) savings on a franchise that will prove to be the toughest job you ever had with the lowest return on investment,
• or you can sell your time, as most self-employed, broke salespeople do,
• …or you can get smart.

Here’s why becoming a Joint Venture Broker is, in my estimation, the most lucrative, safe, and fun thing you can do. I’ll save the best till last.

#1 – Unlimited Flexibility and Creativity

First, the nature of the beast is creativity. Joint Ventures that are set up with the right people, and with no cost or risk, allow you unlimited flexibility and creativity. Oliver Wendell Holmes said:

“A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”

Anyone who truly understands JV’s (perhaps 1% of entrepreneurs) knows that it doesn’t get better than this.

#2 -Joint Ventures are Recession Proof

Second, opportunities for Joint Ventures abound in this recession. Someone said:

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”

Right now, people are more open to JV’s than ever before.

#3 -Dynamic, Lucrative Deals

Third, true Joint Ventures are dynamic, synergistic, interchangeable, and malleable. They can mutate into different and more lucrative forms, and one can swap, trade, and reinvent them as one goes along. They’re like a virtual, giant Mecano set on steroids. Ross Perot said:

“Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.”

That applies to JV‘s as well.

#4 -Create Real Win/Wins

Fourth, reciprocation is the name of the game – the ultimate and real win/win/win. Booker T. Washington said:

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else,”

and Mom Mabley said:

“Life is like a game of poker: If you don’t put any in the pot, there won’t be any to take out.”

I recently had a woman call me (I thought it was Winston on the line, so I foolishly answered the phone) and it was like listening to a machine gun. She was such an arrogant, hard sell that I felt quite bilious when I put the phone down. She has no idea what reciprocation is. It reminded me of the saying, “I haven’t spoken to my wife in four months; she doesn’t like to be interrupted.”

#5 – Maximum Freedom and Flexibility

Fifth, Joint Ventures offer the maximum freedom and flexibility.

• Work anywhere,
• with anyone,
• any time,
• in any industry,
• with any products or services,
• with no cost, risk, or limitations.

With the Internet and social networking the way it is, JV Brokers can play the field with gay abandon.

#6 – Unlimited Opportunity

And Sixth, unlimited opportunity. Joint Venture Brokers can happily sow massively, since it takes little time, and they can remove the cost and risk from their businesses. Danny Kaye announced:

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”

#7 -Answer Only to Yourself

OK, and here’s the best part of all: Joint Venture Brokers answer to no one but themselves and their JV partners, and they can pick and choose whom they work with. They truly control their own lives and destinies, and they tale personal responsibility for their own success.

Suddenly, your past, your age, your education, resume, ex-wife, the weather, the government, and where you live DON’T MATTER. You can rise like the phoenix from the flames of mediocrity, fear, frustration, and limitation, and fly as high as you like.

Where do you start? Join DollarMakers, sign up for our Online Bootcamp, and commit yourself to wealth, freedom, and fun. Right now.

Knowledge and skills will always come to your rescue.

In a recession, when advertisers are scratching at the door and losing business hand over fist, you can set up a lucrative Joint Venture with them, as well as with your Joint Venture partners.

Advertisers have space to sell, and it’s a perishable commodity; if it’s not sold, it’s lost forever, whether it’s space ads in magazines, newspapers, or billboards, or whether it’s radio or TV time or banner ads on websites or e-zines.

How to Set Up the Deal with the Advertiser

You simply offer to pay them for RESULTS, not promises. It’s called Contingency Advertising.

It doesn’t cost the advertiser anything, since he or she already has the space, and you only pay for converted leads / sales made. Any set-up fee, artwork, or other incidentals will naturally have to be paid for, but it’s a fraction of the cost of the advertising itself.

This way, even if there are no initial sales, you get great exposure and branding, and, when the advertiser sees this concept working, he will never run open space again.

Only EVER Pay for Results

We have done this for more than twenty years in every conceivable kind of media for ourselves and our clients, and it really is “no money, no risk” – it‘s a win/win.

I never pay salaries or for advertising – I pay generously for results, so I’m not easily disappointed by big promises and BS.

Do the Math and Propose it Like This

First ask the advertiser if he believes advertising with him will make sales.  Of course he will say “Yes” and if he doesn’t, it’s easy to show him the door.

When he says “Yes”, propose something like this: If you pay an average of $100 per sale and a $2,000 advertisement generates 40 sales, the advertiser doubles his money.

Ad responses can go via the advertiser for tracking and spot-checking purposes.

Joint Venture Brokers can triangulate this system to earn residual income from other people’s businesses.

Dr. Gregory Berns is a neuroscientist and a psychiatrist. His research has been profiled in the New York Times, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal. His new book, Iconoclast, was published by Harvard Business School Press. He says, in short:

“Categories are death to imagination… Often the harder one tries to think differently, the more rigid the categories become.

There is a better way, a path that jolts the brain out of preconceived notions of what it is seeing: bombard the brain with new experiences. Only then will it be forced out of efficiency mode and reconfigure it neural networks…

The surest way to evoke the imagination is to confront the perceptual system with people, places and things it hasn’t seen before.”

The More Radical and Novel the Better

And THEN he says:

“It typically takes a novel stimulus – either a new piece of information or getting out of the environment in which an individual has become comfortable – to jolt attentional systems awake and reconfigure both perception and imagination.

The more radical and novel the change, the greater the likelihood of new insights being generated.”

That is why reading new books, traveling to new places, meeting new people, and exposing your mind to unique and formerly unknown concepts and ideas is so important to creativity.

• Push yourself out of your comfort zone.
• Jolt your brain out of its complacency.
• Force yourself to examine alternative approaches and options.
• Learn new skills, both physical and mental.

You have massive, underutilized potential.

Make New Financial Horizons Too!

DollarMakers provides you with multiple options to expand your financial horizons in a risk free environment, since we prefer Joint Ventures that are created with no cost or risk, and little time.

1. Attend our local meetings, our Conventions in exotic places, and our stimulating conference calls.
2. Meet people from widely diverse backgrounds in seventeen countries around the globe.
3. Be at the Bootcamps, discuss creative business solutions, and learn from other Members about their businesses and their lives.

An Attractive Place to Be

At the Mentor Training last week, we had people from very different backgrounds and ages from South Africa, The US, and Canada. If you had been at our Convention in Cancun, you could have meet people from all over the world in relaxed, beautiful surroundings, where you could swim with angelfish and turtles, play with dolphins, and talk with new friends on the beach.

Come Expand with Us

Because of the nature of the synergistic Joint Venture mindset that we teach, DollarMakers attracts visionaries, and remains open and flexible to new ideas and innovations – the perfect place for those who want to work with us to achieve our mission of helping millions around the world to achieve financial independence, while reaping what we sow.

Reboot Your Creativity

Find a way to help many other people achieve their goals, and you can’t help benefiting from the mental, emotional, and financial consequences. DollarMakers is a unique and proven vehicle to reboot your creativity and apply new ideas in a practical and effective manner.

A while back, my daughter took me horse riding. It was a wonderful and memorable day, and we’ll certainly do it again soon.

When we mounted, the leader of the ride told me that when we got to a certain field and we were cantering or galloping, my horse would start to veer to the right as he always did, and she showed me how to get him back on track with the rest of the riders.

Sure enough, as soon as we started galloping out of a canter, he started veering right and pulling away from the other horses. I simply followed instructions and soon had him back with the rest of the horses.

When I rode in Rhodesia, I used to ride a horse that always had to be second or have a horse in front of him in order to feel secure, however when we headed back home to the stables, he would move to the front and gallop like a crazy thing.

As the Arabian proverb goes, “The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears.”

How to Predict the Future of Your Associates

People are also predictable.  If you battle to get a $200 check out of someone, don’t labor under the illusion that they will ever pay you JV commissions. When people reveal who they really are, believe what you see.

• You get to know people when they’re under pressure and on the line.
• Don’t believe their excuses.

You can predict the future by their past choices.

• Watch their choices in small situations to understand what they will do when it comes to real money and important events.

Watch for small clues, take care of the small details, and you can prevent larger problems. Benjamin Franklin wrote:

“For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail.”

Check Out the Spouse Too

When I was selling businesses, I would insist that the spouse was present at the interview. Usually, It was the man buying the business, and I would ask the wife about his habits, while he was present. I would ask her:

• if he had trouble getting out of bed in the morning
• if he did things he promised to do
• if he shaved on his days off

If she revealed that he was a lazy type, unreliable, or lacking in self discipline, I wouldn’t sell him the business.

Behavioral Patterns

Look for behavioral patterns, and do small Joint Ventures with people before going big, so that you can see who you’re really dealing with. Test in a small way before rolling out in a big way.

We often have people trying to JV with us who tell us, “As soon as I get time, I will join DollarMakers”, or “I am considering joining” – how pathetic is that? It takes five minutes to join. That is a sure sign of a liar.

Strong relationship are built on trust, and it takes time to build trust and respect. W.C. Fields said:

“Horse sense is the thing that a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”

Earmark of Success

Successful sports people are usually successful in business, because they are disciplined, reliable, and understand that it takes time to succeed. Farmers also tend to be successful, for the same reasons, they don’t expect to sow on Monday and reap on Tuesday.

Past  choices are usually a good indicator of future behavior, as with horses. The difference is that horses are honest and uncomplicated, but eventually people will reveal who they really are. R.B. Cunninghame Graham, in his  letter to Theodore Roosevelt in 1917, wrote:

“God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.”

Would that people were as honest as horses.

Too many people make Joint Ventures too complicated. They “feel overwhelmed” and “don’t know where to start”, when it’s really as simple as ABC.

When you respond to a need and make a referral, which you do every day, simply monetize the transaction and build in residual income wherever possible. And in many cases, the reciprocal value doesn’t have to be money – you can trade anything, as long as the one making the money reciprocates!

Here is an example of a JV:

We all have tons of books, CD’s, educational programs that we paid too much for at overpriced seminars, DVD’s, and audio programs at home, most of which we will never look at again, if we ever did in the first place. Yet we continue to buy new stuff.

How about twenty friends decided to have a little swap meet, get together for pizza, and swap their CD’s., etc? Everyone would get excellent value, at no cost!

Here’s another example:

Marketing is usually confused with selling. Using attraction marketing is a very powerful and effective way to get more customers. Instead of selling stuff, give stuff away! Especially when it doesn’t cost you anything!

Joint Venture with people who want to get their products and services into the market place by giving away their Gift Certificates for courses, consultations, cleanings, evaluations, samples, reports, conference calls, etc., and everyone wins.

Yet another example:

I was in England last week, and a good friend’s wife is very connected in Africa. I thought of another friend of mine in Canada who can almost certainly do business with her, so I e-mailed him to ask exactly what commissions I would receive if I connected him with my African connection. If I like the commission structure, I will send ONE e-mail to make the connection, sit back, and wait for a check. It’s that easy.

One more example:

JV’s can be TRIANGULATED: Those are the best, easiest, and most lucrative. Connect Tom and Peter, and collect an ongoing commission on any business they ever do, as with my African connection illustration above.

I had a fellow distribute someone else’s complimentary report to his database, and it earned me ten thousand dollars.

• Total time invested: 30 minutes.
• Risk: none.
• Cost: nothing.

Be Creative!

You can trade anything in JV’s – people have traded my JV Broker Bootcamp tickets for beef, pots and pans, advertising, hotel rooms, you name it. You can be as creative as you like!

One caveat here:

You should only do business and set up Joint Ventures with good people whom you know, like and trust, or have been referred to you by trusted friends, hence the DollarMakers Joint Venture Club.

Online “JV’s” with anonymous people can hurt you and your reputation more than you can imagine.

With the right training, access, and support, anyone can make money and even retire through the power of Joint Ventures. I have; twice.

Many years ago, a relative of mine made an appointment to confront an evil church pastor about a serious issue of hypocrisy and double-dealing in her church. She prepared her case very well, and there was no doubt about the fact that the “pastor” was, in fact, a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I’ll never forget what she told me when she got home from that meeting.

She said she felt as though she had imagined the whole thing; he made her feel foolish, he actually laughed at the facts she presented, and she left feeling convinced that she was wrong, that he was right, that she was guilty of being disloyal and negative, and that she actually owed him an apology for wasting his precious time.

The Deceptive Art of Distraction

Politicians and psychopaths are good at diverting one’s attention from the important things and questions they would rather not answer. They know that attack is the best form of defense. Salespeople are singularly adept at sleight of hand or legerdemain:

• Answer a question with a question.
• Baffle with unimportant facts.
• Use complicated explanations and trickery to throw your pursuers off track.
• Make light of exigent issues.
• Brush off serious accusations with a condescending smirk.
• Hug them while you knife then in the back.

Magicians use distraction all the time.

Even Good People Do This to Avoid Responsibility

My point? I used to attend regular, weekly sales meeting with a group of other SMI Distributors. At every meeting, we Distributors would tell our amazing stories to the meeting leader.

We would talk about all the leads we had “in the pipeline”, all the sales we had narrowly missed, all the things we were “working on”, and all the promises we had heard from our prospective buyers. We also spent a good deal of time making excuses, blaming the weather, the competition, holidays, pricing, traffic, the products we sold, the packaging, the economy, and of course our leader.

At one meeting our leader got up before anyone could start mouthing off, and his words have stayed with me to this day. He said,

“Today, I don’t want to hear any stories, promises, excuses, or lies. Don’t you dare say a word, any of you. This is a silent meeting.

Walk up to the board, take the sharpie, and write down the amount of sales you made last week. That means PAID sales. I will check your figures. Then get out of here, and don’t contact me until the next meeting.

I am only interested in results. Next week, I will fire the Distributor with the lowest sales. Now get out!”

We doubled our sales as a result of that valuable lesson.

Shape Up or Ship Out

Losers and underachievers specialize in the deceptive art of distraction. They will:

• ask you irrelevant questions
• create rumors
• seem very busy
• make excuses for everything

If you allow this kind of behavior, you reinforce their failure to take responsibility and you encourage them to become parasites and posers.

When you focus on results and refuse to be distracted, you’ll get them to shape up or ship out. And you’ll save loads of time.

Talk is cheap, and money buys the whiskey.

I just returned from England, where the bite marks of the omnipresent recession are more evident than in Super, Natural British Columbia. Flying home, I was once again reminded of the upside of this recession; the benefits, as it were, of the half-full glass.

For example, the interest in DollarMakers services and products is growing steadily as people suddenly become aware of the value of the information and links we provide.

The flight was only two-thirds full, so I was able to select another seat and escape some precocious, seat-kicking French kids who should have been chained in the cargo hold with a selection of vicious, rabid wolves.

“Will Everything Be All Right?”

Smart people have a good perspective on how to benefit from these recessionary times, while frightened people frighten other people and the enlightened ones get rich.

When interviewed on CNBC, Monday, March 9, 2009, here is Warren Buffet’s response when Terry in San Antonio, Texas, asks, “Will everything be all right?”:

“Fear is very contagious. You can get fearful in 5 minutes, but you don’t get confident in 5 minutes.

Everything will be all right.

We do have the greatest economic machine that man has ever created. We started with 4 million people back in 1790 and look where we’ve come. And it wasn’t because we were smarter than other people. It wasn’t because our land was more fertile or we had more minerals or our climate was more favorable. We had a system that worked. It unleashed the human potential.

It didn’t work every year. We had 6 ‘panics’ in the 19th century. In the 20th century we had the Great Depression, World Wars, all kinds of things. But we have a system – largely free market, rule of law, equality of opportunity – all of those things that cause the potential of humans to get unleashed. And we’re far from done.

Your kids will live better than mine. Your grandchildren will live better than your kids. There’s no question about that.

But the machine gets gummed up from time to time. If you take the bulk of those centuries, probably 15 years were bad years. But we go forward.”

Don’t Let Fear Drive You

Fear drives logic and rational thinking out of the house, and welcomes its friends, apathy, scarcity, depression, and the blind acceptance of socialism – anything to hide from personal responsibility and reality.

While the producers are proactively embracing the situation and finding solutions, scheming collectivists sell filthy, overpriced, flea-ridden, wet  blankets to the huddled morons who convince themselves and others that the end is nigh.

Opportunity is Waiting at Your Disposal

Your concerned competition is so busy cutting costs and reducing value that any thinking entrepreneur can easily scoop away their customers. Instead of fleecing the timid, now is the time to provide real solutions and build lasting and profitable relationships with them, as DollarMakers does.

Look at Wal-Mart and IKEA – they’re thriving! The money in the world has not disappeared or dried up – it’s all still there for the taking.

• Are the five star holiday resorts empty? No.
• Are the expensive restaurants closed? No.
• Did all the money get burnt up in a raging fire?
• Are the resources, equipment, and distribution methods suddenly missing, as in a mythical Rapture? No.

It’s all waiting for you – at your disposal.

The Upside of the Recession

The upside of the Recession is that intelligent entrepreneurs are having a field day, and the scammers and posers are being revealed and removed.

It’s time to learn about Joint Ventures, and use them to have fun and get richer.