First: The Hotdog Story

Once upon a time, a man decided to start a hotdog selling business. He wanted to provide the best quality, so he bought only the best quality buns and sausages, gave excellent service, and never cut corners.

He became well known, and soon he had many hotdog carts with employees running them for him. He paid for his son to go to college, where the son learned about business from academics who didn’t have successful businesses.

One day his son came home and told his dad, “Dad, don’t you read the newspapers? There’s a recession on, and according to my business knowledge, you should cut back and start saving. Things are tough out there. People can’t afford your expensive hotdogs!”

The man didn’t have time to read the newspapers and his business was flourishing, but since his son was “educated”, he thought he had better take his advice, so he cut back on carts, quality, and ultimately, customers. When he had lost everything, he said to his son, “Son, you were right! There IS a recession!”

Second Story: “It’s Not Going to Work”

Recently, we presented a Women’s Extravaganza event in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A woman who owns a singles club told the organizers that nobody would be interested in attending the event, entitled, “How to Find the Man of Your Dreams and Marry Him in Six Months.”

The organizers, Bob, Clara, and Kathy Lauze, are positive, responsible, proactive winners, and they took no heed of this loser with a flair for despair. Instead, they went boldly forward, worked hard, and kept smiling, and they packed 72 women into the successful event, to be followed up with a Women’s Wealth Workshop.

Refuse to Allow Others to Drag You Down!

How many times have winners been told to quit, to “take it easy and not work so hard”, to lower their expectations and drop their prices by losers?  Ignore those ankle biters and parasites and insist on success. Whatever the mind of man can believe, it can conceive, and successful people are not slowed down or sidetracked by pessimists and doom and gloomers.

Words to Live By:

A smart man once said, “Don’t take advice from people who don’t already have what you want.” Another said, “Don’t take advice from people who are more screwed up than you are. “ I say:

“I can’t learn from someone who teaches what they haven’t done, and always check their motives.”

Remember: The media makes money from bad news, not from good news.

The media makes money from bad news, not from good news.

• They would rather tell you about soldiers getting killed than about successful elections in Iraq.
• They focus on bankruptcies and recession instead of business success stories.

And the seething herd of sheeple believes most of what they get fed from the media. So we believe what the media tells us, and then seek evidence to support those beliefs – a self-fulfilling prophecy. Social evidence. Sad.

12,000 cars cross the Port Mann Bridge into Coquitlam every day. Nobody mentions the 83,999 cars that crossed successfully last week, but three radio stations and two newspapers announced the one car that stalled on the bridge.

Time to Choose

There are two approaches – two choices you can make in this recession – get richer or get poorer. To get rich:

• Get the right advice from the right people.
• Take massive, focused action.
• Don’t follow the sheep.

You can be like most people – reactive, scared, pessimistic, lazy, and cheap, or you can be proactive, courageous, optimistic, innovative, and successful.

When the masses run west, Champions run east. You don’t see Rolex dropping their prices or having a fire sale, do you?

DollarMakers is the Home of Winners. We teach people how to use duplication, innovation, and leverage to create wealth internationally and them we show them how to grow that money and protect it. While most people are losing money on their investments and RRSP / 401K money, we show them how to make money with no cost or risk, and very little time.

Join DollarMakers and make all your dreams come true, regardless of the recession, or what other people may say, think, or do.

We all have walls in our lives.

• Walls between us and our dreams.
• Walls between us and people we love.
• Walls between us and happiness, peace of mind, security.

A wall is whatever is between you and what you want. Much of the time, we like those walls, but in some cases, we want to tear them down.

Some Walls are Better Left Alone

Before we go any further, we have to decide whether we really want the wall torn down or not. The grass, they say, is always greener over the cesspit.

For example, do you really WANT that wall torn down so you can have a relationship with someone who resents your success and happiness, sabotages your peace of mind, badmouths you to all and sundry, and does their best to guilt you into their own, selfish agendas? That wall seems to be a good one – add a few brinks! You definitely want a wall between you and parasites, losers, and people with a burning victim mentality.

Release the Past

Next, let’s decide that it’s not important what or who built the wall in the first place. That’s history, and we’re dealing with the present and the future here. Casting blame and making excuses won’t tear down any walls.

WHY Do You Want the Wall Down?

Most importantly, you have to make a very clear and realistic list of WHY you want the wall down, the pros and cons, the costs and rewards. What is your real level of motivation?

Without a strong commitment, that wall isn’t going to come down, especially if it has been up for some time.

Take Responsibility for Your Wall… and What Happens with It

Finally, understand that “If it’s to be, it’s up to me” – you have to take full responsibility for tearing that wall down, whether it is a wall between you and financial freedom, a happy relationship, health, or emotional strength. Once you have decided that you want the wall down, you have to accept that only YOU can do it, and that you can’t lie to yourself or make excuses.

Here are the simple facts about tearing a wall down:

1. Accept that it will take time. We overestimate what we can do in the short term, and we underestimate what we can do in the long term.
2. Accept that there is a price to pay – emotionally, financially, or time wise, or all three. Valuable things are not free or cheap. Be prepared to pay the price and put in the work.
3. Get the TOOLS you will need to break down that wall – the jackhammers you will need are the right information, resources, tools, leadership, and support. Educate yourself. It’s no good having a map of New York City when you’re in Miami, or trying to use electric tools with no power. If you’re after financial freedom and you want to break down the wall of scarcity, fear, mediocrity, and shortage, DollarMakers has everything you need.
4. Realize that most walls stay up simply because people quit too soon. It is ALWAYS too soon to quit, and as long as you have the right advice, and the right tools, the right leadership and support, it’s simply a matter of time. Imagine yourself with a large hammer, trying to knock down a brick wall. It will take time.
5. CONSISTENCY is the key. Regular, consistent, focused action will tear that wall down. Every day, take action, follow your action plan, believe in your dream, and never quit. Nothing can withstand a consistent barrage – look at the Berlin Wall. It took years and many people to get to a point where it was torn down. A great price was paid.

Recently, we visited Cuba. They say over 53,000 people have died trying to get to America in boats from Cuba. Many others have crossed that “wall” of ocean to realize their dreams.

When we immigrated to Canada from South Africa in 1997, we had to break down a wall between us and a secure future in a civilized, safe country. Many people rejected that opportunity, and now that wall is too big for them to get over. DollarMakers specializes in tearing down the wall of financial insufficiency, and helps hard working, motivated people to break free into the land of financial well-being and security.

You CAN tear down those walls.

Paul J. Meyer said:

“Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass.”

He wasn’t talking about a quick fix, instant gratification, fast food type of success – he talked about the reality of success. It’s not too late – start now.

People get into business and the most time they spend on planning is arranging and designing their letterheads, signage, business cards, and offices.

Many of those who do have a business plan had it done for them by some con artist who specializes in pulling the wool over the eyes of bankers so that you can get a loan (the blind leading the blind), or through some government self employment program, being lead by a bureaucrat who is a serial business failure.

The plan you have for succeeding in business is very important.

Plan Like Your Life is at Stake… Because It Is!

If you were planning a trip across the Arctic Circle, would you study every detail of the environment and weather before leaving? Would you create an intricate plan, and make sure every person on your team is very carefully selected? After all, your life is at stake!

I’m sure you would learn as much as you could from experts who have done the trip before, and find yourself excellent guides to accompany you.

What’s at Stake

When people fail in business, they usually lose a lot of money, in many cases the money of aged relatives and good friends, perhaps lose their homes, go bankrupt, their marriages sometimes fail, they can lose their health, and sometimes they never recover. Running a business with the wrong advice, wrong guidance, wrong people, and a bad plan, is a disaster waiting to happen.

Why 87% Fail

The reasons for the failure of most businesses are:

• insufficient cashflow
• competition
• acts of God
• bad planning
• unexpected change
• ignorance
• arrogance
• the inability to sell
• bad choices
• lack of experience
• And of course having all your eggs in the one proverbial basket is also often the cause of failure.

87% of new business start-ups fail in the first five years, and most of the rest of them merely survive.

• How can we plan in such a way that we don’t fail?
• How can we strategically plan for success and avoid the pitfalls and landmines?

A Plan that Eliminates Risk

DollarMakers offers you the way to put a business together strategically that works with no cost, no risk, no overhead, no selling, little time, and no limitations. As a Joint Venture Broker, you can earn an unlimited amount of money from multiple income sources around the world, and all you pay for is your training. No overhead, no payroll, no royalties, licensing, premises, rent, auto-ship, inventory, or travel required. You can stay in your pajamas all day, or travel the world – your choice.

This is not Network Marketing / MLM – although that can be one of your income sources if you wish – and our tried and tested systems are the result of my 22 years of international experience and success. This is strategic planning – carefully removing risk, limitations, and danger, while optimizing the potential through leverage, duplication, and understanding, and providing you all the support, access, tools, packaging, and training you need and want, at a very low cost.

If you want a business that is strategically designed to succeed, as long as you do your part and follow the recipe, you have found what you are looking for at DollarMakers.

A lot of people are cutting costs and cutting back during this recession, which can make it harder to recruit the right people. 2009 can be a time of famine, drought, and scarcity in your Network Marketing / Direct Marketing / MLM business, or it can be the year you get stinking rich.

But first, we need to agree on one important thing, and that is that this is not a time to recruit desperate people. They say, “Desperate people do desperate things”, and that is true. You want to be recruiting successful, influential, Centers of Influence.

Recruit Leaders

When you recruit a Center of Influence correctly and manage that relationship, you will be amazed at how you can rocket your Network Marketing through the roof. They can sign up their leaders and use their existing communication and resources to build your business.

Follow Through

Most Network Marketers drop the ball after signing up a Center of Influence because they’re too obsessive, desperate, and self-interested. They follow what they are taught by their company, and they forget about the fact that they are, in fact, involved in a Joint Venture.

This is the difference between what you will learn from DollarMakers and what you will learn from your Network Marketing company. I have been recruited to join Network Marketing companies as a Center of Influence myself, and I have also recruited Centers of Influence, and in most cases I made a lot of money, so I know whereof I speak.

What is a REAL Center of Influence?

Now there is a reason why you haven’t recruited a Center of Influence before, and if you have, why they’re not performing. We’re not going to discuss that here. What I want to discuss is HOW to recruit busy people who have access to many other people who will do what that Center of Influence suggests they do.

• A Center of Influence is someone who influences many people who trust, respect, and like them, and who follow their suggestions.
• A real Center of Influence communicates regularly with his or her people.

Just to be clear, there are a lot of people who SEEM to be Centers of Influence and CLAIM to have large databases, but usually those databases are simply people who once opted into their database to get a free gift, and they don’t even know who the Center of Influence is, much less open his e mails or read them or follow his advice. I’m talking about a real Center of Influence

• who cares about her people and has a relationship with them.

Your Approach Must be Based on a Relationship and Reciprocity.

The Joint Venture Mindset that we teach through DollarMakers is that you should build business based on a relationship and reciprocity. I don’t do business with people I don’t know or respect, and who haven’t built some kind of trust relationship with me. I don’t even consider promoting people or products who have not contributed to DollarMakers or been involved with us. It is dangerous to work with unknown people.

This needs to be remembered when you approach a Center of Influence.

• You have to earn the right to talk with them or pitch them.
• You have to show them that it is in their own best interest.
• First, you have to know what they want, and what their “Hot Button” is.

Remember, Centers of Influence are being pitched almost daily by MLMers who do it all wrong. If you do what everybody else does you’ll have what everybody else has. Using the Joint Venture approach, you can differentiate yourself from all the others.

Tips for Top Notch Recruitment

In a nutshell, here are the simple points to follow in order to recruit a Center of Influence into your Network Marketing business:

1. Earn the right. Create reciprocity. Build a relationship. Contribute. Become known and respected. You have to put wood on the fire before you get the heat.
2. Position yourself. Look and act successful. Dress and groom yourself appropriately. Package yourself for success.
3. Find out what the Center of Influence’s Hot Button is. You need to understand his pain, problems, challenges, hopes, dreams, goals, and secret wishes. This takes work and research, but it’s well worth it. Be clear about what he wants, so that you prepare the bait / prize / incentive correctly.
4. Prepare your offer properly. Customize your presentation and be sure that it’s all about the Center of Influence to show her how she will benefit by joining you.
5. Make your offer in such a way that it is hard to refuse. Remove time, money, risk, inconvenience, and irritation, and add massive value and substance. Push the Hot Button effectively.
6. Close and sign him up.
7. Follow-up and management – this is the most important part. If you stop putting wood on the fire, it will go out, and you will be replaced.

Finally, remember this:

The Center of Influence you are going to recruit is not going to be doing your business on a full time basis – she already has a successful business, and you are simply an add-on. By neglecting this fact and assuming you and your products or services are the center of the universe, you will very quickly lose the relationship and commitment of that Center of Influence.  That’s what DollarMakers teaches.

If you want to acquire the Joint Venture mindset that will make the above possible, I suggest you join DollarMakers, get involved, and learn from about reciprocity, value, commitment, wealth, and Joint Ventures from us.

Big business understands the leverage and reach available through Joint Ventures.  Don’t create a competency or distribution channel – borrow one! Share the love, as it were.

H&R Block and 7-Eleven

H&R Block Inc. and 7-Eleven Inc. signed a three-year agreement Wednesday that enables Block customers to cash refund loan checks at 1,100 7-Eleven stores in the United States.

Yahoo! and Starbucks

Online dating is growing in popularity. And people who meet online typically like to meet for the first time in a coffee house like Starbucks. Armed with that data, Starbucks teamed with Yahoo! Personals to produce an “Espresso Dating Guide” that can be found exclusively online. The guide offers advice such as what to wear on a first date, what to talk about and, if necessary, how to end the date gracefully. Starbucks is running a print ad campaign to support the online site.

Time for small & medium business to get in the game!

The ego-driven, “Lone Ranger” mentality of the typical small to medium business owner is expensive and risky. Big business has been using Joint Ventures for a long time because they have the ability to be objective, bottom line oriented and unthreatened. Now it’s time for small and medium businesses to benefit as well.

After the Joint Venture Broker Bootcamp I presented in Toronto on Sunday, one of the Delegates, the owner of a well known eatery on Bloor street, reacted fast and immediately started arranging Joint Ventures that will bring him serious profit with very little risk and negligible cost.

You don’t even need a business to JV!

The good news is that you don’t even need a business to benefit financially from brokering Joint Ventures. It’s just a matter of seeing the opportunities, much like the stereogram analogy. At first, a stereogram looks like a nonsensical arrangement of patterns, but when you look long enough, a 3D picture magically emerges. Joint Venture brokers simply link supply and demand and take a piece of the ongoing action. There is literally no end to the opportunities available and the potential income, especially since it’s all 100% profit to the broker.

Got a database?

When I hear of a person who has a good relationship with a large number of other people, I see massive opportunity. By providing all those people with what they want, value is created. We get paid in direct proportion to the value we provide. The more people you help, the more money you can make.

Linking 1,000 people with solutions and being paid on every transaction is great, especially when you don’t have to provide the services or carry the inventory – you simply link A and B and become a little tollgate. You stand on the money bridge and collect. No cost or risk to you, and very little time.

Rats!

Years ago, a pilot was attempting a world record long distance flight. He was nearing the end of his journey and was two hours away from the next airport and his final target, when he heard a frightening sound. He heard the distinct sound of a rat gnawing at something. The adventurer knew that this could spell disaster; the rat could chew through his control lines or the fuel line, and cause him to crash into the mountains below!

At first he started panicking, but then he started thinking about a solution. At last it came to him: rats can’t handle high altitudes! Don’t ask me how he knew that, but his knowledge solved his problem. He started climbing higher and higher, until the gnawing sound ceased. The rat had died from the high altitude. When he landed his plane, he found the dead rat.

Three lessons:

1. You can panic or you can think. There is a solution for every problem.
2. Knowledge without action is useless. Had the pilot not flown higher, knowing about the solution wouldn’t have helped one iota.
3. Bad things don’t last in the high altitude of high ideals, lofty goals and soaring aspirations. Rat ideas die where eagles soar.

What’s Rubbing Off on You?

Evidently a Jerry Seinfeld TV comedy show recently featured a scenario where the valet who parked Jerry’s car had very bad body odor. When Jerry and his friend got into the car, the BO stuck to their clothes and resulted in her boyfriend rejecting her because she smelt bad! When we mix with negative, pessimistic people, their attitudes tend to stick to us like BO and sabotage our success. But when we mix with positive, enthusiastic people, that motivation rubs off on us as well and we achieve our goals even faster.

Your thoughts determine your attitude, your actions and the result you experience. Manage your thoughts and your input and soar with the Eagles!

Joint Venture Success Depends on Analysis!

We need to know what’s going on in our businesses if we intend to follow Michael Gerber’s famous advice and “work ON our businesses, instead of IN our businesses”. The biggest enemy of objective analysis is EGO. We want to be right, we don’t want to admit to our fears, mistakes and failures, and we want to look good. Successful entrepreneurs:

• Forget about popularity, being politically correct or their own egos.
• Are self confident & strong.
• Are objective and measure the bottom line.
• Are proactive and fast moving.

Top 10 for Making the Most of Your Efforts

Joint Ventures are the most effective business tool available. They allow us to build massive profits, overnight, with no money or risk and very little time, by leveraging existing resources. After 21 years of Joint Venture experience, I have come up with a few questions we should ask ourselves and standards by which we should measure whether or not to accept or institute or continue with a Joint Venture.

1. Is this the best use of my time and resources, or do I have a better alternative? (If another alternative is better, cut bait.)
2. Am I spending my own time, money and resources, or am I using other peoples’ time, money and resources? (We should use other peoples’ resources.
3. Am I acting as a salesperson / hired gun? (If so, walk away immediately.)
4. Is this deal as good as I thought it would be? Is the other party doing what he or she said they would? Am I still comfortable with this, or should I drop it?
5. Is this win/win and does every party benefit, or is someone being taken advantage of?
6. Are my partners ethical, honest and professional?
7. How can I add a back end, further leverage this situation, increase profits and/or distribution, or sell the deal?
8. Where can I learn more about Joint Ventures?
9. How can I meet better JV partners and find better deals? (My NetWORK determines my NetWORTH).
10. Are my resources being optimized? Do I have underutilized resources?

One of my wise mentors told me about the time he needed the advice and assistance of a well-known business expert. This expert charged very high fees and produced amazing results.

He was well known and very busy. My mentor was convinced that he could never afford the fees required, however he is a highly motivated and courageous entrepreneur, so he approached the business expert with the following proposal, which I think may be of value to you, should you wish to use it.

“I can’t afford your consulting fee, but I have a way to pay you even more. I have a solid business and, in return for your consulting, connection to your contacts and training of my salespeople and employees, I will happily pay you a generous percentage of my increased profits. I will pay you every single week, and my books will be open to you. You can spend as much or as little time as you like working on my business, as I am paying only for results. It is easy to track sales and results in my business so you are not at risk. Yes or no?”

Well, the business expert took a good look at the business, made a few adjustments to the tracking process and then accepted my mentor’s proposal. Sales skyrocketed and both my mentor and the expert made serious money. Eventually, the business expert accepted shares in the business.

Remember: Everything is for sale.

Everyone has his or her price. Everything is negotiable. It’s not always about money. The best words to use are, “What will it take?” And, it’s easier than you think. If you don’t ask, you won’t get. I once heard of a man who owned a car dealership, who gave a business guru a car in return for his services!

When next you tell yourself that you can’t afford something, think again. There is always a way when you think out of the box. We don’t have money problems; we have thinking problems.