Most Network Marketers rely on trying to recruit:

• unsuspecting waiters in restaurants,
• fleeing family,
• captive audiences in gas stations and supermarket lineups,
• and those attending business networking meetings,

to build their business.  After recruiting three of four people, who in turn use the same, silly recruiting techniques, they quit, disappointed and frustrated, and lose an excellent opportunity to use leverage and duplication to build real wealth.  Warren Buffet bought a Network Marketing company, after all.

The key to success in this business is recruiting more than four people.

You Might Say:

“But it’s so hard! Nobody listens to me! They’ve heard it all before! Who can I talk to? They don’t understand! I worked so hard and I didn’t get anywhere! I was right – this doesn’t work.” Precisely – the system that you use doesn’t work, but that doesn’t mean there are no alternatives. I can only tell you what works for me, which doesn’t mean that others systems don’t work.

Let me share with you what WILL work for you, given that you don’t get negative and quit like most well-meaning people.

One Qualifier Here:

I’m not talking about MLM’ers who sell lotions, potions, swills, or pills; I’m talking about legitimate, professional, necessary services that no reasonable person will stop paying for.

1. Learn the “Compound Interest” Concept & Set a 3 Year Goal

Understand the “compound interest” concept that we learned about in Jeff Olson’s amazing book, “The Slight Edge” – you need to set a three year goal and be aware of the process of time and return on investment. That keeps you motivated, consistent, and persistent.

It’s worth conceptualizing the timeline and realizing that this is not a quick fix, but a real wealth building process that makes some people a million dollars a year. That doesn’t mean you can’t make real money fast, but it keeps things in perspective and show us why things DON’T work.

2. Understand Your Product or Service.

I focus only on services marketed via MLM, since that is, in my opinion, the most viable, lucrative and long-term option. Know what you’re talking about and be very well prepared and equipped.

If you’re new in the business, make sure you have a reliable, professional upline support system in place.

3. Create a “FEEDER SYSTEM” like we have done with DollarMakers

This means getting the people coming to YOU, instead of hunting them down, cold calling, and generally irritating strangers. This can be done through Centers of Influence, group meetings, and the Host Beneficiary process.

Sign up strong, influential people that actually understand business and leverage. This is the part where most people fall through the cracks; they know their service, they’re in it for the long run, they show up at meetings, they’re committed, but they have nobody to recruit.

Two words will change your life: “FEEDER SYSTEM” – something that is created to feed you with qualified prospects on an on-going basis.

Two Final Points:

1. I talked with a woman who was bewailing the fact that she had nobody to talk with about her MLM business, and I gave her three specific things she could do to create a Feeder System. She never did anything about it. If you’re not prepared to work hard and do what it takes, it’s either because you don’t believe in the system or in yourself, or because you are simply bone lazy. There is no excuse.

2. If you’re communicating with losers, the above will not work. Find people with successful track records, achievers, and leaders to work with. These are the ideal people to incorporate in your Feeder System. And the Feeder System can be set up in such a way that you never mention your MLM business – that’s the Joint Venture approach in action.

When I talk with my incredible wife, we describe people to each other in terms of three descriptions:

1. DISC, or the four personality styles.
2. Commitment – people either have it or they don’t. This goes along with “Staying Power”
3. Do they have a Killer Instinct?

Aspects of a “Killer Instinct”

• People with a killer instinct are fearless closers.
• They don’t understand how to quit.
• They don’t back down, roll over, or wallow in the fetid swamp of politically correct, passive aggression.
• They are loyal soldiers, and they’ve got your back when you’re in a jam. Unlike pansy parasite posers, who will stab you in the back and steal the milk out of your tea with a permanent smile on their faces.

Trump Has Killer Instinct

Donald Trump is a real man. He said this of Revenge:

“There are a lot of bad people out there… if you have a problem with someone, you have to go after them. And it’s not necessarily to teach that person a lesson, it’s to teach all of the people that are watching a lesson, that you don’t take crap.

And if you take crap you’re just not gonna do well. So Be sharp, Be Smart.

It’s all about this (points to his head/brain) you have to have this to start off with. But you can’t take a lot of nonsense from people. You have to go after them. I have always believed it.

When a person screws you, screw them back 15 times over.”

Killer Instinct.

The Difference Between Someone with a Killer Instinct & a Pansy

Pansy: We knew someone who told us how he was going to change the world and create massive wealth. (Perhaps he thought he was his rich daddy.)

Anyway, his very first seminar was a failure because he teamed up with a loser, and he quit almost immediately. At the very first bump in the road, this pansy tucked his scrawny tail between his legs and ran for the hills!

Powerhouse: Winners don’t take “No” for an answer. They hardly even hear it!

I went on a sales call with one of my salespeople years back. We traveled for two hours to get to the prospect’s house, and at 7pm, after listening to our entire presentation, the prospect and his wife told us in no uncertain terms that they would definitely not buy our product. My salesman kept of selling. He closed the sale at 9pm.

When I got home at 11pm, my phone was ringing in my office. The customer wanted to cancel the sale. At 12.30am, and hour and a half later, I had closed him again. He stayed closed after that.

THAT, dear reader, is a Killer Instinct. No excuses, no turning back, no fear.

What kind of people do you have on your team?

The wimps will sabotage your success and undermine your efforts, while frustrating and irritating you.

The winners will make your life easy. They will motivate, encourage, and inspire you with their courage and innovation.

Losers say things like, “I couldn’t help it, it wasn’t my fault, I’ll do my best, I don’t have the time / money, people can’t afford it, times are tough, it’s the recession, my wife won’t let me, I don’t want to offend people, I need my rest…”

Winners take responsibility, seize the opportunity, and make it happen, whatever it takes, no matter how long it takes, 24/7/365.

Read “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand, and see an example of a powerhouse who doesn’t compromise, carp, quit, or crawl.

Read this fascinating information from www.Sheep101.info and decide for yourself if you’re a sheep, or dealing with sheep.

Follow the Leader, Wait for Me

Sheep have a strong instinct to follow the sheep in front of them. When one sheep decides to go somewhere, the rest of the flock usually follows, even if it is not a good “decision.” For example, sheep will follow each other to slaughter. If one sheep jumps over a cliff, the others are likely to follow. Even from birth, lambs are conditioned to follow the older members of the flock. This instinct is “hard-wired” into sheep. It’s not something they “think” about.

Safety in Numbers

Sheep are gregarious. They will usually stay together in a group while grazing. A sheep will become highly agitated if it is separated from the group. It is the banding together in large groups which protects sheep from predators which will go after the outliers in the flock.

Social Animals

Sheep are a very social animal. Animal behaviorists note that sheep require the presence of at least 4 or 5 sheep which when grazing together maintain a visual link to each other.

Flocking Together

Flocking instinct is strongest in the fine wool breeds, but exists in all sheep breeds, to some extent. It is the sheep’s flocking instinct that allows sheep herders to look after and move large numbers of sheep and lambs.

Flee, not Fight

Sheep are a prey animal. When they are faced with danger, their natural instinct is to flee not fight. Their strategy is to use avoidance and rapid flight to avoid being eaten.

Safety in Numbers

After fleeing, sheep will reform their group and look at the predator. They use their natural herding instinct to band together for safety. A sheep that is by itself is vulnerable to attack.

Never a Straight Line

Sheep tracks are never straight. The winding of trails allows sheep to observe their backside first with one eye, then the other. Sheep can spot dogs or other perceived forms of danger from 1,200 to 1,500 yards away.

Pain

Sheep have an amazing tolerance for pain. They do not show pain, because if they do, they will be more vulnerable to predators who look for those who are weak or injured.

Leaders are not sheep.

• They are eagles, not ducks.
• They take responsibility and control.
• They lead the pack.
• They fight for their rights, and make no apologies for their values, beliefs, or choices. They confront issues and tell it the way it is.
• They have no need for the endorsement of others and they refuse to work with sheep.

Eagles don’t flock. They don’t live in fear and compromise, and they don’t sacrifice themselves or allow themselves to be taken advantage of by predatory mystics, politicians, parasites, or bureaucrats.

If you wish to be a leader, adjust your philosophy, remove the sheep from your life, and learn from eagles. You can soar to unprecedented heights and enjoy a good lamb stew with mint sauce.

Now I have the attention of tens of thousands of people who have their equity and savings tied up in real estate, and they’re worried if their cash flow is flowing too slowly.

If you’re not liquid, your options are limited, unless you make use of the one thing that will save you from selling your real estate at bargain basement, or even fire sale prices, and losing a heck of a lot on the bargain – IF you can sell them, that is… The best thing to do, as you very well know, is to hold on to those properties.

But the seminars and workshops and clubs you joined to tell you how to buy real estate never taught you how to do Joint Ventures.

Now before you indignantly leap off the couch and yell, “But we real estate investor geniuses do JV’s all the time!” let me qualify what I mean.

True Joint Ventures

I’m not talking about getting dumb people to put up their money and take all the risk while you blithely choose properties and play with their hard-earned cash, calling it a “Joint Venture”.

I’m talking about “No money, no risk, little time” JV’s that don’t involve the extreme risk of real estate, tenants, landlords, and things beyond even your control. And I’m not talking about real estate – I’m talking about leverage, and access in any industry, anywhere in the world, around the clock, to develop multiple income sources that produce 100% profit.

3 Steps to Get Turned in a Healthy Direction

1. The first step is to admit you have a problem before your bank manager calls you and says ominously, “We have to talk”.
2. The next step is to forget about real estate and take off the blinders. There are multiple alternative options.
3. And, thirdly, you have to learn what a JV is and how to do them.

That’s where yours truly comes in.  At Dollarmakers:

• we teach you how to leverage resources, access resources, create on-going value, and get paid for it, with NO risk or cost.
• we provide you with access to people who actually understand the process and are willing to pay, as well as the support you need.

Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket

Don’t get me wrong, now. I love real estate. It has made me a lot of money. I own real estate. I’m not stupid.

…But I learned a long time ago not to put all my eggs in one basket or give away financial control to market and political forces and acts of god. Remember, I come from Africa, a very volatile continent, where we’re used to sudden change, crises, upheaval, and surprises.

You’re Already Perfectly Positioned to Broker

With your real estate business experience, you are well positioned to start brokering Joint Ventures immediately, thereby creating the cash flow to sustain and maintain your real estate holdings and wait out the storm. After all, those are the ones that get truly rich.

Parading around telling people that you’re a real estate millionaire is fine, given that you can actually sell your properties for what you believe they’re worth and that you can carry yourself during uncertain times and the inevitable cycles in the market. Pride comes before the fall.

Prevent the fall by diversifying quickly into a few solid yet lucrative, no cost, no risk JV’s, and before you know it the cycle will have turned, and you will be stronger than ever. More information at www.DollarMakers.com

When you’re in a deep, dark hole with slimy, steep, slippery sides, and the water is pouring in, you usually only admit that you have a problem when the water touches your nostrils. Until then, you:

• live in denial,
• hope for the best,
• write pathetic “business plans”,
• hide,
• and make weak excuses that nobody believes.

Many flock to “business networking meetings” where they desperately try to sell stuff to other broke people, or dig their hole even deeper with ineffective advertising.

Worse still, they hire unemployed business failures who label themselves “Business Consultants” or “Coaches” and charge an arm and a leg to steal the last money you can borrow. (They’re also in a debt hole!)

Some people have lots of money, but they have no time and their debt is time.

How a Bad Situation Turns Worse

Either way, when your money, credit, or time is flowing out faster than it is flowing in, the murky, smelly water rises until it’s high enough to get our attention. At that point, we try to make a logical business decision while in a state of panic.

That’s when we start to understand the old saying, “desperate people do desperate things”. Situational Ethics kicks in faster than a speeding bullet.

And I am now addressing the people who are in this very situation, or who have the courage to see that it is approaching like the proverbial oncoming train.

What Do You Do?

When you see you’re finally about to drown in the hole you so carefully dug, who do you call?

• A three-year-old with a pink, plush toy?
• Do you call over to the “life coach” in the hole next door?
• Do you invite an advertising salesman over to pour a few extra barrels of water into your hole?
• Or sign up to sell real estate or life insurance?

I know this sounds familiar to some of us, since I have been there myself. How did I very narrowly avoid certain bankruptcy on one scary occasion? Not by doing what I had always done, I assure you. Not by second-guessing people who were capable of saving me, and not by resorting to the arrogance born of fiery fear.

Here’s What I Did

Here’s what I did, and what you might want to consider if a few lungfuls of water is not your cup of tea:

1. Find the most successful, competent, insightful, straight-talking people you can, and give them a vested interest in helping you out of your hole.
2. Follow their instructions to the letter, or they’ll throw you back like the minnow you are, faster than you might imagine.

My Story

I was in bad trouble. I was about to lose everything, and those I had expected to help me (family) were not coming to my rescue, in spite of the fact that I had never approached them before (and never will gain.) The bank was about to pull all of my credit, and things looked darkish. My panicked decision was to sell my house and rent in order to get out of debt, so I called in on my smart, successful friend and asked for his advice.

Help at Last

Gerald Voutsas took an objective, relaxed look at my ridiculous plan, showed me that it definitely would put me deeper in the hole, and offered an alternative solution as quickly and easily as passing me another ginger biscuit. I did exactly what he told me to do, and he saved my asset.

It took a few months, and lots of hard work, but I learned my lesson and I never put myself into that situation again. I avoid those dark holes like the plague, and the way I teach Joint Venture Broking is based in part on avoiding that kind of deep, dark hole.

“But where do I find these experts?”

OK, I know you’re going to ask me, “But where do I find these experts?”

That’s why we created DollarMakers. I wanted a decent financial planner, so I went to a very good friend who is also my Joint Venture Partner, very wealthy, and a successful lawyer, and asked him whom HE uses for his financial planning (insurance). Now we use the same insurance guy. Birds of the feather. Successful people know other successful people.

And only someone who is happily not in a hole can help you out of the hole. “The blind leading the blind” is an everyday occurrence in business, masterminding with the mindless…

Bottomline

Elicit, then follow the expert advice of real experts to the letter. And don’t you dare second-guess, question, or slack off. I listened to Gerald, and I didn’t drown.

What ten things should you look for to determine whether or not you should consider accepting a Joint Venture proposal? What criteria should you consider?

Here are some guidelines that I have used successfully over 22 years as a Joint Venture Broker.

1.    The Person:

Your potential JV partner needs to be thoroughly checked out and investigated before you JV with him or her. Look for clues and do your due diligence. Look at:

• whom they associate with,
• their level of professionalism and punctuality,
• their dress and grooming,
• preparation,
• philosophy,
• understanding of JV’s,
• and attitude.

Don’t be afraid to decline any JV at any stage – the more selective you are, the more money you will make.

Be sure who the real decision maker is – often it’s a spouse or lover or business partner behind the scenes, making the bullets for the front man to fire. ALWAYS, Only deal with the top guy, and never with the minions, managers, and puppets.

Don’t deal with new entrepreneurs who still have an employee mindset if you can avoid it.

2.    The Product of Service:

Avoid products that are really trends, fads, gimmicks, or new on the market, since these are usually vastly overpriced and will soon appear in Wal-Mart at a fraction of the price, which will embarrass you and diminish your reputation and status as a JV Broker.

They usually have a short lifespan, and people make money on the front end and pay for years on the back end for the damage done.

3.    The Past (history) of the Person and the Product or Service:

Past behavior predicts future behavior.

• How long has this person been doing JV’s?
• How long has the company and product been around?

Google, Google, Google, talk with their competition, and use a private detective if necessary.

Watch out for people who arrive new on the scene from far away – they’re often running away from something, or too many people know them in the town they left.

4.    The Pressure:

• Are you being pressured to implement it?
• Is your JV partner under financial pressure?

These are signs of desperation, and red flags to any JV Broker.

NEVER deal with a JV partner who has financial problems or is cheap (tight-fisted). You need confident, secure, relaxed, professional, mature JV Partners.

5.    The Potential of the JV Financially:

• How much money can you make?
• Is it really worth your time and effort?

Always include the back end and new relationships when evaluating the financial potential of a JV.

Look at the big picture, but also the time required and the cash flow component.

6.    The Potential of the JV Timewise:

• How long will it likely last?
• Is it a flash in the pan?
• Will it take ages to take off and then die a fast death?
• What is the track record, if any?

Avoid new inventions and start-ups like the plague.

7.    The Positioning or Fit within the Whole:

That means how it fits with your:

• other JV’s,
• database access,
• interest level,
• gut feel,
• your existing JV Partners,
• and experience.

You should feel comfortable, confident, excited, and secure with your new JV partners and the products / services involved. There should be a natural fit, especially on the back end.

8.   The Complexity:

• How Problematic is it?
• How complex, involved, convoluted, and abstruse is it?
• Or is it simple, straightforward, easy to implement and track?

Keep it very simple – often, the more complex, the more problems are being hidden. Complexity is often the sign of hidden dangers and agendas.

9.    The Pace:

• How quickly can you implement and integrate it with your other JV’s?
• How soon will it make you money?

Be realistic about your predictions.

10.    The Progress:

Once you have implemented the JV:

• …is it making progress?
• …are your JV partners doing what they said they would do?
• …is it working as well as you expected it to, or does it need to be either fixed or ditched?

Don’t be afraid to walk away at any time – you have millions of JV opportunities out there.

In today’s world, it is more important than ever to determine who is behind the book you’re reading, the course you’re attending, the event you sign up for.

When people can steal any information off the Internet,

• copy anyone else,
• plagiarize the writing of others,
• and buy impressive websites and claim titles,

…you’ll often find yourself dealing with someone who is not capable of supporting you or steering you in the right direction.

Who stands behind the screen?

I have just spent some time on a website all about Joint Ventures, offering memberships and chat rooms and you name it, but one thing has been carefully and strategically omitted from the site – the name and description and contact information of the PERSON behind the site.

There is no information on the JV’s that person has created – only rave reports about the book he completed with plagiarized writings, and I suspect he wrote most of the testimonials himself, using the names of non-existent people.

Shyster or Sage?

I don’t buy information – I buy the BASE and the philosophy behind that information, which comes in the form of a real person, not a twenty-something who lives in his mom’s basement and plays computer games all day. I like to learn from people who have actually done the things they teach and have proof of it.

Conmen and tricksters abound in this world, and there are a lot of seminars and courses being sold to vulnerable, desperate people who don’t take the time to do their due diligence of the leaders of those programs.

Red Flags

When you’re hiding, you usually have something to hide. When you’re not available, your name isn’t even a real name, and you don’t supply physical addresses or telephone numbers, I know there is something wrong, and I don’t accept what you have to teach.

What My Finely Tuned “BS Detector” Tells Me

I live in the real world and I make real money, doing Joint Ventures with real people, and after 21 years of doing this, my “BS Detector” is finely tuned. I always look at the man behind the screen before buying his snake oil or urgent, time-sensitive, one-of-a-kind, discounted, priced to sell, buy-one-get-one-free, “available today only” deals.

My Advice to You

Get to know the man behind the BS screen before you open your wallet, click the BUY NOW button, or run to the back of the seminar room to buy his trash or join her club. Who is John Galt?

Your Future

Your future will be whatever you decide it will be. In four years time, you will look back on today and know that your decisions determined your destination.

It is YOUR future. You can have whatever future you want; you don’t need to beg, plead, manipulate, or make excuses. You don’t need permission.

Your future is like a buffet table with a huge selection of foods – take what you like. You are the master of your fate, the captain of your soul.

Exactly what do you want your life to look like in three or four year’s time?

It’s Cheaper to Pay for the Perfect Lifestyle

When I am in a strange city and I have a destination, I call a taxi and tell the driver where to take me. Then I sit back and relax.  I do have to pay him, though – there is always a price to pay.

What price will you pay for your goal life?

Guess what? You’ll pay a price for NOT achieving that lifestyle, too!

So either way, whether you design and create a wonderful lifestyle or submit to a life of compromise, pain, and frustration, you will pay the price.

So you decide what price you will pay, because it’s cheaper to pay for the perfect lifestyle. Why? In four years, after paying the price and achieving the lifestyle, it gets much easier. If you don’t, and your life stays boring, painful and scary, you keep on paying!

Which Rower are You?

Think of the man sitting in a rowing boat, working hard, rowing around in circles, going nowhere fast. That represents the average person in this world – 97% of people, statistically. In four years time, he’s older, weaker, and even more depressed, but he’s working just as hard, if not harder, to keep on going around in circles.

The other rower in the other boat heads for his Treasure Island. He works just as hard, but in four years he is resting in luxury.

Your choice. This can be your defining moment, if you want it to be.

A Blueprint for Reaching Your Destination

DollarMakers is designed and continually evolves and improves, to offer people around the world the means and the guidance to reach their financial life goals. I know that 97% of your problems will be solved or severely alleviated with enough money.

We have the blueprint, the systems, and support, and the tools necessary for you to use to reach your destination. Where will you be in four years? Your taxi is waiting…