Let me tell you about two entrepreneurs, Douglas and Sally - both of whom work very hard and see results from their efforts.

Douglas is a self-employed salesman who likes to think of himself as an entrepreneur. He sells his products and services, employs two people, works hard, and pays the bills. He belongs to the local Chamber of Commerce and a service club and pays for T shirts with his business name on them, which he gives to the local baseball club. His market is limited to certain people within a certain geographic area, he has a 16% net profit margin, and his competition forces his prices down, which directly affects his bottom line. He finds himself spending more on advertising for less return, and he has less time than ever before. He is affected by the weather, the economy, the interest rate, and business trends. He works harder for less, and as he gets older he finds he has less energy, less patience, and less security.

Sally is a Joint Venture Broker. She is a real entrepreneur with no overhead except her computer connection and  telephone, and she runs her entire business in two hours a day. She has JV partners around the world and she can easily add additional income, all of which is 100% profit. She has a portable skill set which works anywhere in the world under any economic circumstances. She is involved in different industries, so she doesn’t experience the usual ups and downs during busy or quiet times - her cash flow is regular, being residual income spread over different industries in different geographical areas. She has a very low risk, high return business, and she sleeps well at night as she becomes increasingly more wealthy.

Douglas has all his eggs in one proverbial basket. He works harder and harder for less and less and is impacted by things beyond his control. He worries about losing his customers, the competition, being incapacitated and unable to work, the economy, and local politics. He is at risk, and he knows it. Sally easily increases her profits, diversifies at will, and has no inventory, employees, overhead, advertising or marketing budget or capital investment. She has both time and money, freedom, and fun. She is in control of her own life and time.

Douglas could use Joint Ventures to double his profits in short order with no cost or risk, reduce his risk and overhead, and create more time freedom. Or he could just continue the way he’s going… Sally can increase her net profit quickly by simply enhancing her existing JV’s and adding more. Both these entrepreneurs can dramatically improve upon their situations with the magic and power of Joint Ventures.

Jim Stovall is blind. He has been a national champion Olympic weightlifter, the President of the Emmy Award-winning Narrative Television Network, and a highly sought after author and platform speaker.  He is the author of the best selling book, The Ultimate Gift, which is now a major motion picture starring James Garner and Abigail Breslin. Steve Forbes, president and CEO of Forbes magazine, says, “Jim Stovall is one of the most extraordinary men of our era.” For his work in making television accessible to our nation’s 13 million blind and visually impaired people, The President’s Committee on Equal Opportunity selected Jim Stovall as the Entrepreneur of the Year.  He was also chosen as the International Humanitarian of the Year, joining Jimmy Carter, Nancy Reagan, and Mother Teresa as recipients of this honor.

Mr. Stovall says, “VISION is more important than sight.” He should know. We say, “I’ll believe it when I see it,” whereas the truth is that you will only see it if you believe it to start with. “Without a vision, the people perish”, goes an old saying. I once spoke to a group of psychologists at a hospital in South Africa that specialized in helping people deal with stress – most of their patients were police officers – and they agreed with me that the best antidote for depression is hope. Without a vision, there is no hope – only the bland and tiring expectation of more of the same frustrating mediocrity, the same struggle for mere survival.

If you feel you’ve lost your mojo, your edge, your enthusiasm for life, that excitement when you wake up in the morning, your sense of eager anticipation, you don’t need doctors and drugs. You don’t need drink and dope. And you won’t solve your problem by attending multiple motivational talks or sermons. What you need is a magnificent obsession, a vision, a goal that will not be denied, which your can commit yourself to. You will be amazed what will happen to your levels of creativity, happiness, energy, self-esteem, income, drive, clarity, and joy when you get a real vision for your future.Perhaps you’re battling to find or define a vision, a purpose, a raison d’etere for your life? No problem – hitch your wagon to a star! I’m not talking about joining the local religious cult or working for nothing for the local snake oil salesman who poses as a motivational speaker, or working your tail off for a charity – I’m talking about participating and enjoying the fruits of your labor in hard cash. I’m talking about a mission with a commission, where you share in the spoils and you don’t simply become a lackey or a foot soldier to pad someone else’s bank account – that’s like getting a second job. No – I mean getting a real vision, creating something of value, building and producing and pioneering a wonderful project.

DollarMakers has an unlimited vision to help millions of people around the world to achieve financial independence and the resulting freedom, dignity, personal growth, choice, and the ability to live and love according to their core values. We agree with Zig Ziglar who said, “You can get anything out of life, if you’re prepared to help enough other people to get what they want.” With the dynamic, committed DollarMakers Team and our DollarMakers Certified Business Mentor program, as well as over a hundred websites, our products and technology, hundreds of Members in fourteen countries, and our DollarMakers Joint Venture Broker Bootcamps, Joint Venture Broker Home Study Course, Member activities, meetings, conference calls and Conventions, our eight ezines and our solid business and Joint Venture Partners, DollarMakers UK, DollarMakers South Africa, and very soon DollarMakers USA, we are finally about to reach our tipping point, and we are looking for the right people to work with. The field is ripe unto harvest, and millions of people need what we have to offer more than ever before. We’re not short on vision, but we need more visionaries to join us on our exciting mission.

To whom much has been given, much will be demanded. Faithful in little, faithful in much. My personal motto is that of Paul J. Meyer, who taught me, “Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come to pass.” Together, we are doing amazing things, and we’ve only just scratched the scratch! We’re locked and loaded and we’re on the move. Join us.

In any business, Sales play an integral part in their success.  Sales Managers often have trouble getting their sales team to deliver on expectations or promises.

Some Sales Managers experience the following challenges:

• Unproductive salespeople who specialize in whining new tunes
• Salespeople complaining that the customers can’t afford their products and services
• Economic downturns
• Absenteeism and showing up late
• Salespeople that are not loyal and leave for the slightest pay increase or incentive
• Salespeople that make excuses and are lazy
• Strong competition
• Hard to find and keep good salespeople
• No new information or tools to motivate their salespeople - they’ve heard it all before.

With our Joint Venture Broker Bootcamps and upcoming JV Broker Home Study Course, we turn those on their head.

We offer Sales Managers the following tools for their beloved sales teams:

• Create unlimited streams of eager, qualified, and primed prospects
• Differentiate yourself from the competition by creating massive added value at no cost
• Offer huge, compelling incentives, bonuses and premiums to prospects for making a buying decision, at no cost to you
• Learn how to get the prospect’s undivided attention and lifelong loyalty
• Stop selling, and start solving
• Increase sales closing/conversion ratios through the roof  by using our proven systems
• Offer your salespeople exciting and valuable sales target bonuses at no cost to you

Our customized, in-house, 5-hour Joint Venture Bootcamps turn snailspeople into salespeople.

We’re all about working smart and getting results.

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 again.) 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.

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 small business owners 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. 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.

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, and what you might want to consider if a few lungfuls of water is not your cup of tea: Find the most successful, competent, insightful, straight-talking people you can, and give them a vested interest in helping you out of your hole. Follow their instructions to the letter, or they’ll throw you back like the minnow you are, faster than you might imagine.

I Listened To Every Word My Friend Said

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, an the way I teach Joint Venture Brokering is based in part on avoiding that kind of deep, dark hole.

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…

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.

Robin J. Elliott describes what you need for your Joint Venture Jet Fuel - the ingredients to a powerful JV!

 

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The DollarMakers Credited Business Mentor Training Program

• Become a Certified Business Mentor (CBM)
• Learn how to Double the Profits in virtually Any Business
• Earn real money getting real results for business owners

As a Protégé of Robin J. Elliott and Patrick Giesbrecht, get five days of personal, hands-on coaching in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia

For 18 years, I consulted with the owners of small and medium sized businesses to dramatically increase their profits. As I got more involved with the DollarMakers Membership and traveled around the world more frequently, I stopped the consulting. My fees ran from $500 per hour to $1200 per hour and my monthly retainers were $5,000 plus profit sharing, but my heart was in the Bootcamps and my Joint Ventures.

I continually get requests from business owners to help them grow their businesses through my business mentoring, and there is nobody I would recommend to do that. After seeing how many “Coaches” and “Consultants” out there cost a small fortune and do more damage than good, I don’t know one person who can do what we do. OK, I know one person who can do it: Patrick Giesbrecht, the fellow who retired within seven months of attending my Bootcamp, but he doesn’t do mentoring either.

And so we came up with a solution: We would offer personal, intense, hands-on training to a few, carefully selected, qualified Protégés so that we can turn them into Business Mentors who are equipped to go into virtually any business and double or quadruple its profits, and get very well paid to do so. We created a five day, focused program, during which Patrick and I will personally coach and train these few, selected people and duplicate our skills in them. They will learn directly from my 21 years of experience and Patrick Giesbrecht’s business genius.

We will accept only a limited amount of Protégé’s per group, and we will include their accommodation, meals, and a professional city tour of our home, Vancouver, the most beautiful city in the world. Spouses and life partners can attend the training as well, at no cost, and their accommodation and tour will also be included (with the exception of their meals).

If you are interested in applying to be a Protégé, you can complete an application form on this site. We reserve the right to accept or reject applicants without an explanation, and since we will only accommodate a few people over five days, there will be very few slots to fill and we are already inundated with applications. If you’re interested in applying to be personally trained to be a Business Mentor, click here.

Read what you get and what investment is required before completing this Application.

“Vertical Thinking” is analytical, focused, left-brain, binary (black or white) and narrow. This is the way most of us in the west have learned to view life and business. Horizontal thinking, on the other hand, is creative, right-brain, lateral, open, inclusive, synergistic, and strategic. Joint Ventures utilize and optimize both these approaches perfectly.

Edward DeBono , author of 62 books on creative thought, said:

“Some people are unhappy about lateral [horizontal] thinking because they feel it threatens the validity of vertical thinking. This is not so at all. The two processes are complementary, not antagonistic. Lateral thinking enhances the effectiveness of vertical thinking by offering it more to select from. Vertical thinking multiplies the effectiveness of lateral thinking by making good use of the ideas generated.”

The Wedding Planner, for example, is good at providing all the services and products related to weddings and the immediate events, even going as far as the honeymoon arrangements, and she gets paid a commission on all referred business within that limited time realm.

A good Joint Venture Broker, on the other hand, will see well beyond that to a strong mailing list that builds an ongoing, long-term relationship and proceeds to mutually benefit both parties over the years; that married couple will breed, buy houses, furniture, cell phones, and holidays, and fifty percent of them will get divorced. All those services can garner serious income for the broker and the service providers, while at the same time providing massive, additional value for the couple. The joint venture broker thinks out of the box.

A Joint Venture Broker is Focused on Back-End Income Sources

The traditional business owner is focused on his own products and services, to the exclusion of multiple additional sales and service opportunities. This myopic approach explains why, in my opinion, the average small and medium-size businesses out there only operate at about 10% of the potential net profit. A lateral thinking, Joint Venture approach can set up numerous back end income sources, all at 100% margin (we like to call them DollarMakers) within hours, days or weeks, thereby turbo-boosting income and differentiating the business from it’s competition, whose blinders keep them working too hard for too little.

Leverage and duplication can be systematically applied to virtually any business when the JV Broker applies this open mindset to the business services, focusing on providing the optimal ease and value for the customer and getting paid on all resulting transactions, much like owning multiple Toll Booths on thousands of bridges across the world.

Best of all, this can be accomplished with no money or risk, and surprisingly little time, since this involves leveraging existing resources. The Joint Venture Broker looks for links and partnership opportunities, and specializes in building a congruent flow of business.

When you think out of the box, you get out of the box, and unlimited opportunities suddenly start appearing all over.

Successful Joint Venture Brokers have the ability to remove their own egos, products and services from the picture when they create Joint Ventures. 99% of people that attend my Bootcamps are there to find a way to increase the sales of their own product or service, using JV’s. That’s fine, and it’s easy to double the profits in your own business using JV’s, but it’s not the JV mindset that makes the big money.

By focusing on connecting others, solving their problems, and helping them reach their goals, you insert yourself effectively into their cash flow. You get invited to participate in their profits. You become important in their lives. They like you and they reciprocate if you have set the JV up correctly.

You should remember that other people don’t care about you, your products or services, or ego; they care about themselves first. Give them what they want and you’ll get what you want. You’ll become an integral key to their future success.

Be a good listener: look for clues and Hot Buttons, values, beliefs, and a track record. Decide whether or not you actually WANT to get involved with the person. Is this someone you feel comfortable promoting and associating with, or not? You’re mentally qualifying people for a JV partnership - you’re not a desperate salesperson. A JV Broker who is good at his or her profession is a very valuable asset to any business partner, and you can pick and choose from millions of businesses to work with.

You’re in the pound seats, and it’s your decision whom you choose.

As a JV Broker, I decide whom I will work with, and my attention is on them, not me, because I have access to all the resources they need or want. I evaluate the person and the potential, and it’s always based on my level of comfort and their level of need. I only work with motivated, sincere, and professional people. I can afford to be very selective, and so I am. But I don’t go about talking about myself, simply because nobody gives a damn. Remember that - focus on others, be a catalyst for cash, and a middleman that multiplies the moola, not a self-employed, desperate, broke salesman, urgently touting something that people can buy on any street corner.

Now go forth, as Patrick Giesbrecht is wont to say, and JV!