I recently tweeted this: “As recession shrinks the official economy, the informal one is growing. http://bit.ly/55zJrt “- a very interesting article, and easily understood by many immigrants, but not by the average local.

I lived in Africa for 45 years – I understand the underground economy – the “black market” – the alternative, informal economy. Ask yourself why so many Chinese stores accept “Cash Only” or why so many people run their businesses only within their own ethnic community. Do you think people who run flea market booths all pay taxes?

In a world where socialism is growing by leaps and bounds, headed up by Comrade Obama and his gang, and the government resembles the Mafia more and more, it’s no big surprise to me that people are waking up. The banks are simply a giant, legal Ponzi Scheme. (Read Kiyosaki’s Conspiracy of the Rich.)

Trading and Bartering

I lived and worked in Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) during the war there for the year of 1979 on a contract as a manager for Holiday Inns.

Serious sanctions imposed by South Africa and England were crippling the economy by design. (South Africa reaped what it sowed in due time, and England is in a worse state than the US – the chickens have come home to roost.)

We traded everything from foreign exchange to

• gold,
• diamonds,
• antiques,
• gasoline coupons,
• foreign exchange,
• whiskey,
• shellfish,
• cutlery,
• and cooking oil,
• knitting machines
• and hotel rooms.

I traded my house for a Ford Escort when I left. When I meet some of the “Trade and Barter Experts” here, I just chuckle quietly to myself – they have no idea how far this can, and does go.

An Attack on Capitalism

In an increasingly Collectivist, Statist society, in which real, law-abiding producers are drained to feed the sick, lame and lazy, their hard-earned taxes stolen to set up needle centers for drug addicts, parks for walking dogs, housing for those who have decided to “work the system” and illegal immigrants who claim “sanctuary”, and to feed those who choose not to work, business owners start to consider their alternatives.

Anyone who has read “Atlas Shrugged” knows the route we’re going. And they know the system is designed to empower the criminals and the collective, while undermining the creators, the thinkers, and the innovators.

The bigger the loser, the more the churches and government will do for him. It’s an attack on capitalism.

The Benefits to Being A Joint Venture Broker

That’s why I tell people to consider creating their own Joint Venture Broker business. Run your business with

• no cost,
• no risk,
• no selling,
• no inventory,
• no employees,
• no licenses, fees or royalties,
• no limits,
• and no overhead or premises.

I’m not suggesting we don’t pay our taxes or that we do anything illegal – I would never suggest that – but I am suggesting that you wake up and smell the burning Constitution.

Smart squirrels plan for the winter, and hyperinflation, massive taxation, restrictions on medical care, free speech, and the Internet, and a police state suddenly doesn’t sound like a conspiracy theory anymore.

It’s Time to Get Picky

Now, more than ever, real relationships and confidentiality is crucial to business success.

Savvy entrepreneurs are planning ahead. We’re finding out who our friends and enemies are, and we’re cutting costs and risks.

Start getting lean and mean, and consider learning to understand alternative compensation and reciprocation – you’ll be glad you did.

Where will you be when Atlas shrugs?

This morning, while the make-up artist desperately tried to improve my ugly face for the nervous TV cameras, I heard an interesting story from a woman who was hugging a clipboard and a stopwatch and getting information about the Five Myths I was about to reveal on Breakfast TV.

My seminar, “How to Find the Man of Your Dreams and Marry Him in Six Months”, always gets me radio and TV time; it’s controversial.

Seems this woman has a friend who morphs into exactly what prospective suitors want in order to drag them to the altar. Like a chameleon, she “becomes” what they want, in one case even converting to Judaism and pretending to be the real thang.

(I love Jews, and my opinion, you can’t become Jewish – you either are or you’re not, though many don’t agree with me. But I digress.) Naturally, after a while, the mask slips, and her deceived husbands divorce her. Evidently this happens regularly for this woman, but she keeps repeating the charade.

Life Is About Being Happy

Sounds familiar? Like the fat woman who grows her hair and loses weight for the wedding, and then she cuts her hair, loads on the lard again, and wonders why hubby loses interest. Men do the same thing, of course.

But this isn’t about getting married; it’s about being happy. How happy can this woman be who thinks she has to be false and deceptive in order to land the big fish? Living a lie – a refined kind of prostitution – mercenary behavior won’t make us happy.

Steven Covey taught that we need to live according to our values in order to be happy.

We Have to be Real to be Really Happy

Doing a job you hate and smiling at a dimwitted boss, bowing and scraping, genuflecting and licking muddy boots, and dealing with people you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole had you the choice doesn’t bode well for inner peace and joy.

I know we often don’t believe we have a choice in the matter; after all, we need the money, don’t we?

We have to do what it takes, and money accounts for the resolution of 97% of our problems, makes dreams come true, and at the very least allows us to “suffer in comfort.”

You Have A Choice!

Fact is, if you did what you really loved and believed in:

1. You’d be really good at it,
2. Enjoy it,
3. Be much more productive,
4. And stand to make real money,

- instead of the slave wage you gratefully accept in cupped hands, while lying awake every night hoping you won’t be the next one to be “downsized” or replaced by someone half your age with less brain cells than a Twinkie.

Sounds good, doesn’t it? More money and happy earning it?

You Can Make Lots of Money and Be Happy

The good news is that you don’t have to:

• Bend over for some slimy sycophant who skips around posing as a manager.
• Accept bad treatment, long work hours, commuting with smelly members of the rat race, and painful separation from your loved ones as your kids are parented by people who shouldn’t be allowed to raise pet vipers.
• Shop in Thrift Stores or miss your daughter’s ballet, hide from creditors, or sacrifice your values and standards on the decaying altar of a job.

I found this out the hard way – it took me 32 years as an unhappy employee to realize that I could make lots of money working for myself, without compromise, frustration, scarcity, and falsehood.

You Can Hold Your Head High

I created DollarMakers to provide people with the opportunity to create financial freedom without concession – you can hold your head high and tell it like it is – you can be yourself, not an actor or a fall guy for some jerk who thinks she owns you because she pays you a little money every month.

You can be a great role model of integrity for your family, and you can work on your own time, and on your own terms.

Happily married people didn’t get that way with lies and distortion – they found people who loved them for who they were.

“I yam what I yam” works for me – and people can take it or leave it.

If you want the freedom, pride, and peace of mind that comes with creating your own financial future on your own terms, DollarMakers has the answers for you. You don’t need a job, and you don’t need to pose and pretend. And I don’t need makeup – “I yam what I yam”.

• Bored with your job and boss?
• Tired of working too hard, for too long, for too little in your business?
• Unemployed?
• Weary of financial woes and turbulence?
• Skeptical of big promises and scary scams?
• Irritated with MLM B.S.?
• Do you want real financial freedom, security, and peace of mind?

Check this out

You Don’t Need A Job

Some people have money, but no time to enjoy it. Others have time, but no money. Many others have neither, and some are losing what they have.

People are losing their jobs and houses, losing hope, and generally losing it, as they see things changing faster and faster in an increasingly socialist world.

The only people who are happy are the parasites: the losers, the lazy, the liberals, and the looters. They’re waiting for handouts as your hard-earned wealth gets redistributed to them and you get to sink down to their level.

It doesn’t have to be like this for you. You don’t have to lie awake at night worrying about your financial future. You don’t have to take a second job – in fact, you don’t need a job!

The Solution Is Easier Then You Believe

After 23 years of working with tens of thousands of entrepreneurs in different countries, I have seen a lot of people enslaved by Network Marketing cults, dead-end businesses, and mind-numbing jobs. I have seen financial problems cause divorce, depression, and suicide.

I have learned why businesses fail, and why the average small and medium-sized business operates at about ten percent of its real potential. And the solution is easier and better than you might believe.

Patrick Giesbrecht used our systems to retire with more residual monthly income than he needed to live on within seven months. Dick Low did it in five months. Too good to be true? Only if you don’t understand how they did it.

Let’s Play a Little Game of “Imagine”

Imagine you had a real business (as I have – I practice what I preach) that operated with:

• No overhead,
• No royalties,
• No selling,
• No employees,
• No risk,
• No inventory,
• No cost,
• And only took you two hours a day to run from anywhere in the world.

Imagine if it had multiple income sources from:

• Diverse economies,
• People,
• Businesses,
• Products,
• Services,
• And geographic areas.

And imagine if it had unlimited potential. Best of all, imagine if anyone, regardless of their age, background, circumstances, education, or skills, and whether they had a business or not, could do this.

Now that REALLY sounds like a scam to someone who doesn’t understand how this works, right?

Our Misson

Well, that’s exactly what we do, what we teach, and what our mission and passion in life is – to help millions of people around the world to use this proven, tested system to create financial freedom. There are only three requirements to qualify. If you have them, you can create a lean, mean, money machine for yourself and your family. Only you know whether or not you have these essential qualities:

1. You have to LEARN how to do it. Are you prepared to learn, or is your cynicism and skepticism too great? Are you prepared to be open-minded and teachable?
2. You have to be seriously MOTIVATED – hungry – or you will quit at the first sign of difficulty, as many do. On a scale of 1 – 10, one being, “I don’t care”, and ten being, “Whatever it takes – seriously”, where do you stand?
3. You have to WORK, consistently, to create your DollarMaker Money Machine, until it sets you free. Are you prepared to work hard, in all your spare time if you have a job or a business, UNTIL you get it, and the money starts flowing in? It can happen fast if you have the right motivation and attitude.

All your excuses will be taken care of with this system –

“Not enough time, new in the area, don’t know people, can’t sell, too old, too young, shy, no money, no credit, no business experience”

– none of these will make a difference – we teach our students how to leverage other people’s resources and to think correctly about money and value and business. We don’t have money problems; we have thinking problems.

We think strategically and we create wealth.

With A 24/7/365 Attitude – You Will Succeed!

When I got into business 23 years ago at the age of 33, I had never owned a business before, and I was DESPERATE to succeed in my new business, so I did everything I was told to do.

I was prepared to work 24/7/365, without questioning, second-guessing, or compromising. My mentor was strict and serious about success.

With that attitude, you WILL succeed. But if you’re a lazy quitter who blames others for your bad choices, this is not for you.

Here’s the training we offer: Pick what you want, pick all of them, if you like, and get going.
1.    Attend a seminar: Click here
2.    Do our Online Joint Venture Broker Bootcamp: Click here
3.    Attend JVU: Click here
4.    Use JVWebPartners: Click here

You don’t need a job; you need DollarMakers.

“The foolishness of that comment is so deep, I can only ascribe it to higher education. You have to have gone to college to say something that stupid.”

– Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated radio talk show host and columnist, talking about a comment by a PETA representative.

There are many organizations and groups who have a vested interest in keeping the unwashed masses dumb, hungry, short of money, unhealthy, desperate, tired, and uninformed.

Academic and financial institutions, drug companies, the media, politicians, teachers and preachers in many forms, and your own boss (if you’re unfortunate enough to have one) provide information that is carefully designed to deceive, undermine, and manipulate people in order to achieve specific goals.

Anyone who watches CNN or attends meetings by “gurus” knows this.

Education Disinformation

If I took the advice of my:

• Accountant,
• Bank,
• Local politician,
• Neighborhood preacher,
• “Financial planners,”
• “Business coaches,”
• And itinerant seminar leaders,

I would be an uninformed, poor, guilt-ridden, hopeless, desperate smoker, and probably even a follower of Obama.

Just like most other people. I would be:

• In debt,
• Confused,
• Worried,
• Politically correct,
• Passive aggressive,
• And concerned about saving whales.

But I’m not, because my education is not disinformation.

Education That Sets One Free

Penn and Teller, Fox News, and the writings of the likes of Ayn Rand, John Stossel, and Robert Kiyosaki all provide education that sets one free mentally and financially.

As adults, we are free to question whether or not we are being hoodwinked by the cults we were pushed into by well-meaning but deluded parents and friends, whether the myths we accept as true are, in fact, true, and whether the information by which our choices are made is helping us or hurting us.

Are You Blissfully Unaware?

I’m not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch of the imagination, but dispelling myths about the creation of wealth is my life work, and when money is involved, one faces the strongest efforts by the powers that be regarding conditioning and coercion.

The mystics of mind and muscle put a lot of effort into blindfolding the average man so that their extortion goes unnoticed and is even welcomed, so a lot of the “education” we buy into is carefully designed to control and enslave.

The naïve, the stupid, the vulnerable and the slothful are blissfully unaware of what’s going on, and most of them can’t be saved, however those who have a decent IQ and the nerve and motivation to question and work are people whom we can help.

Get Perspective of How Things Really Work

The task is great, and the greatest tool I have found in my life to help people who are about to go over the waterfall into the bleak, churning waters of debt, despondency, and delusion is Ayn Rand’s masterpiece, “Atlas Shrugged” and we provide our own training, information, and support through our little business, DollarMakers.

We help people get perspective of the way things really work.

We see how “Dhimmitude” is destroying Western civilization. William A. Jacobson speaks eloquently about his word, “Ghimmitude.”

Well, I am creating a new word: “Gimmetude”. This is an attitude of “Gimme (give to me) everything I want – I have an attitude of entitlement, I don’t want to work, I’m a lazy parasite, and I deserve what you work for.

Sieg Heil Obama.

”This pervasive attitude of entitlement comes as a severe a culture shock to anyone with a responsible work ethic, but we get used to seeing it, and we realize that it is good news for the producers and creators among us.

I have a relative who always whines about how much money her bosses and the owners of the business she works for are making, compared with her income as an employee. I respond, “Did you apply for that job and gratefully accept the salary they offered you, or were you forced to work for them? Is there anything to prevent you from starting your own business like they did? Can you quit and go get a better job? Without them, you wouldn’t have an income. They created the business, and they are entitled to any money they make – it‘s called Capitalism.”

But she doesn’t get it; she has a Gimmetude.

Winners Never Quit

We recently received an e-mail from a loser who had committed himself to achieving financial freedom in six months, using our JVWebPartners system. He didn’t manage six months, though – he quit, according to him, after a mere twelve hours of work. At the end of twelve hours, he didn’t ask for help, correction, or direction – he simply quit outright. TWELVE HOURS!

I couldn’t believe it, but those were his own words. If you look at his life, you will find he has always been a quitter, and that he always blames his tools, other people, the weather, the economy, or the mirror that shows him how pathetic he is. He has a Gimmetude.

His “commitment” and his honor and self-respect are worth nothing. Winners never quit.

Moving on to Newer And Better Things

People with a Gimmetude want everything for nothing, and they think they will prosper off the backs of the producers, but of course they don’t. Atlas always ends up shrugging them off, and they always end up blaming Atlas, who has moved on to new and better things.

We can either get upset at these slovenly slaves of state succor, socialism, and instant gratification, or we can celebrate the fact that they are here to make us rich. They want to work for minimum wage, so let them work for us.

Those with a commitment to success and production, the three percent of people, have less competition than ever before. That’s good news!

2010 is The Year of the Producers

It will be the year when people will get dramatically richer or poorer, FAST, and most people will get poorer.

Those with a Gimmetude will find themselves in deep trouble. We get paid for what we produce, not for attending seminars, playing the Cash Flow Game, or running our mouths.

The posers and parasites are going to get a serious wake-up call in 2010, while those of us who are prepared to work and commit will succeed beyond our wildest dreams.

Atlas Shrugged is happening right now in our lives. If you haven’t yet read this book, read it now, and if you have read it, read it again – it’s 100% better the second time around. Read it so that you can be prepared. Make DollarMakers your Galt’s Gulch.

It’s smart to take a few minutes to give yourself a status check.

Get into a quiet place and ask yourself some serious questions.  Here are fifty questions that will make you think.

1. What does your life look like, right now?
2. What will it look like in five year’s time?
3. How happy are you?
4. What is stopping you from being happy?
5. Why not get happy sooner?

If you read Kiyosaki’s “Conspiracy of the Rich” and realize that the world has changed dramatically, now is a very good time to take stock of your life.

It’s Time To Get Rich and Have Fun

Those who stumble along blindly from paycheck to paycheck, sinking deeper into debt, numbing their senses with tobacco and booze, living vicariously through sports teams, avoiding reality, and channeling their passive aggression into liberal politics, are in for a sudden and rude awakening.

You don’t have to join them in squalor and servitude. It’s time to get rich and have fun.

It’s Not To Late

Most people only make changes in their lives when they exceed their pain threshold – the pain of remaining where they are is exceeded by the pain of change – or when forced to do so by external circumstances.

But the frog in boiling water never looks at the temperature as it rises, and he cooks before he can escape.

He misses the train to success. You don’t have to miss the train. It’s not too late.

When Is It Too Late?

It takes guts to leave the ruts, to walk away from the comfortable, the familiar, the “safe”. It’s easier to stay aboard the Titanic than to leap into a bobbing lifeboat in freezing seas. Easier to deny reality and “hope for the best”. Problem is, when it’s too late, it’s simply too late.

25% of the white population has left South Africa since 1995. When we left, friends said,

“We’ll see how it goes – we’ll wait a bit – we’re comfortable.”

Now it’s too late for them – they’re too old, their world is crumbling around them, and they’re stuck on the sinking ship.

Others viciously attacked us for leaving; they accused us of taking “the Chicken Run”, and stopped talking to us when they heard we were immigrating (this only happens in South Africa – not in other countries).

Now they’re living in one of the most dangerous third world countries and regretting their choices.

You Need Four Things to Change Your Life:

1. You need to objectively and rationally evaluate your options and circumstances. Get advice from people who have already created what you want, not those more screwed up than you are. Fat fish in small, stagnant ponds can’t tell you what it’s like to fly freely in the mountain air – in fact, they think it’s impossible. So talk to eagles. Life is short – you deserve the best.
2. You need to do due diligence before making changes. Take time to do this, but don’t wait until it’s too late!
3. You need mentoring, guidance, support, and a clear action plan. My support system was Rika, and hers was me. YOU are your best, ultimate support system, but the more successful people you have helping you, the better. Learn from their mistakes. Find people who are richer, smarter, and more motivated than you are.
4. You need serious motivation, which means you burn your bridges, close the back door, and commit unconditionally. Create a bulletproof mindset. The only South Africans who return to South Africa after immigrating are those who couldn’t make it in their new homes, and most of the time they kept property or money in South Africa – they “kept their options open” – they never really committed. Small wonder they failed.

Your Best Option is to Use Joint Ventures

Ninety-seven percent of our problems, pain, and restrictions can be solved with money.

When we realize how much we can achieve with money, and take into account the way the world is changing, the best option is to use Joint Ventures to acquire financial freedom.

I just noticed that a fellow with a massive database is following me on Twitter. He knows who I am. I could show him a system that is:

1. Simple
2. Proven
3. Safe
4. No-cost
5. Risk-free

- that he could introduce easily to his database.

Conservatively, it would earn him $5,000 per month in passive income within three months. (No, it’s not Network Marketing.) Yet I can virtually guarantee that he won’t even consider it. Why? His giant ego.

Seminar leaders, “gurus” and “trainers”, much like many of the owners of small and medium-sized business, allow their egos to steal massive potential profits from right under their noses.

The Most Sophisticated Tools In Business

We’re not in business to feel important or to impress people; we’re in business to make the most possible after-tax profit, with the least cost, time, risk, and effort.

The fact is that most “gurus” and “entrepreneurs” are not really entrepreneurs – they’re really just slick salesmen and pitchmen.

Anthony “Sully” Sullivan, the well-known “Pitchman”, says, “Life’s a pitch, and then you die.”

Smart entrepreneurs understand that Joint Ventures and strategic alliances are the most sophisticated tools in business –

• They are strategic,
• They employ leverage,
• They are scalable.
• They are not based on ego, but rather on profit.

Get Your Ego In Check

Look at the people who make the really big money, and you’ll find that they seldom sell their time, they actually prefer not to be on a stage unless they have no other option, and they evaluate business opportunities objectively and rationally.

When we get our egos under control, we suddenly see new options opening up. But for that, we need to understand the back-end, leverage, and positioning. Calvin Coolidge said,

“Civilization and profit go hand in hand.”

Most wanna-be business owners are simply broke, desperate, self-employed salespeople, whose arrogance is exceeded only by their ignorance, yet these are the very people who allow their egos to dictate their business choices.

A big fish is a small, rancid pond is only impressive to those even more pathetic and needy than he is.

Focus On The Bottom Line

The most successful businessman with whom I was ever privileged to work, partnered with me in my business and taught me a very important lesson. He said,

“Robin, it’s all about the bottom line. If you maintain your integrity and sublimate your personal feelings and pride, your profits will soar. There is always going to be someone richer and smarter than you are – don’t try to be a legend in your own lunchtime, don’t believe your own PR and BS, and focus on the bottom line.”

He was a very wealthy man, one of the most humble, soft-spoken people around, and very strong and disciplined.

If you want to feel important, act in a pantomime, join a service or fraternal club and rise in the ranks to get a title, or teach kids.

If you want to get rich, focus on the bottom line.

I spend a lot of time in hotel rooms, since I travel to present training seminars.

In most places I stay, there’s a safe in the room. It has a ten-digit keypad combination lock, one through nine, plus zero, laid out like a telephone, that you program yourself. Those ten digits present a possible three million, six hundred twenty-eight thousand, eight hundred (3,628,800) variants.

At the bootcamps I present to train business owners and individuals how to use Joint Ventures to double and quadruple their profits and crate financial freedom, I skim over 29 systems that present more than a few million variants / possibilities.

Leverage The Possibilites

When you take into account the fact that one can work simultaneously in a variety of industries, and demographic, psychographic, and geographic areas, with little time, no cost, and no risk, the possibilities tend to multiply even further.

And the limitations and barriers finally disintegrate like morning dew on a hundred degree day in Arizona when you realize that Joint Ventures leverage the resources of:

• Others,
• Existing and perishable resources,
• Excess resources,
• And existing distribution and business.

No Limitations – Expect for The Ones in Your Head

The Joint Venture approach is the most sophisticated and scalable way to create wealth, because it uses leverage and intelligence. The only limitations one encounters are in one’s own head;

• Understanding
• Motivation
• And philosophy

And the Joint Venture mindset is all-encompassing as it:

• Includes
• Enhances
• Supports any business transaction or situation, since it is:
  • Synergistic
  • Inclusive
  • Value-based
  • Complimentary
• Offers a way to create multiple additional income flows, all at 100% profit.
• And most of all, is profit-oriented.

It truly allows almost anyone, under virtually any circumstances, regardless of one’s background, age, education, or experience, and whether one has a business or not, to create wealth.

Joint Ventures Are Nothing New

In a cynical, skeptical, battered, fearful, and increasingly socialist world, this sounds, as one draft-dodging, mystic, serial loser I once knew put it, “Pollyanna”.

One would be tempted to perceive it as the ultimate con job, until one realized that Joint Ventures are nothing new to large corporations, only to most small and medium sized business and professionals, and, of course, to people who don’t own businesses, which includes those broke, self-employed salespeople who pose as entrepreneurs.

The Joint Venture Philosophy

This is what I have learned about Joint Ventures (I have made a business of Joint Venture’s since 1987, but I have been doing Joint Venture’s since the age of thirteen without knowing it, and I’m 56): When one truly understands the Joint Venture philosophy, one will never again:

1. Sell one’s time / work as an employee,
2. Buy a business or franchise,
3. Carry overhead,
4. Accept financial risk or limitations.

Period.

It’s NOT Too Late!

Having said all that (I think my teapot is calling to me), there is simply no reason why anyone can’t use Joint Ventures to create more monthly residual income than one needs to live on, within a year. And no reason why the average business cannot double and quadruple its profits with this understanding.

I have seen people do it and I have done it myself. That means that it’s NOT too late for you to retire, to succeed, to get rich, to break free, and to live a happy, secure, peaceful and fulfilled life.

It is my mission in life to share this knowledge and the specific Joint Venture systems and information I have with as many people as possible. I want to share the combination of that money safe with everyone possible.

If you’re interested, you can start right now, here and here.