I am a bit of a Luddite compared to many people.

Friday afternoon I decided to rent a GPS along with a car to get from Calgary Airport to my hotel. I had never used a GPS before, and I was amazed at how it guided me effortlessly and faultlessly on  35 minute trip through Friday afternoon traffic, rain, road construction, etc., in a city that I had never had the dubious pleasure of driving in before. It revealed an analogy to me…

DollarMakers is designed to be your retirement GPS system. Here are some interesting analogies:

#1 – Linking to Current Conditions

The GPS System is linked to satellites, and has up-to-date information on the roads.

Many so-called “Mentors” and “Coaches” are regurgitating outdated ideas that don’t work. DollarMakers is on the cutting edge of Joint Ventures, partnered internationally with very successful mentors and business leaders, and well aware of current conditions, opportunities, and pitfalls.

#2 – You Are Never Alone

The GPS system talks to you and customizes your route. The voice is impersonal, relaxed, objective, and rational. When, on two occasions, I missed the turnoff route, it simply said, “Recalibrating…” and issued an alternative. I was never alone or left hung out to dry. It was very forgiving.

DollarMakers is a successful, 22-year-old company, and our JV partners are successful people. We’re not scraping the barrel for a quick buck or pressuring naïve and unsuspecting victims for their money. Our motive is to help you achieve your goals by reaching your destination, because, as Zig Ziglar said:

“You can get anything you want out of life if you’re prepared to help enough other people to get what they want.”

#3 – Arriving by The Shortest Possible Route

You can rest assured that the GPS will guide you to your destination by the shortest possible route. Learn from our mistakes, avoid the landmines and the rip-off artists, and fast-track your success. I didn’t second-guess the GPS, believe you me. We have realistic expectations and the experience to guide you.

#4 – A Trusted Partner

You have a trusted partner with you on your journey, not some fool who is holding the wrong,  outdated map upside down, can’t find his reading glasses, and expects you to turn after you passed the turnoff ramp, while giving you conflicting instructions and belittling you for wasting gas and time, and ending up parked in the middle of nowhere, out of gas and in a bad temper, where he picks your pocket and then blames you for his poor guidance.

#5 – Adjusting for Conditions

When the traffic was heavy or I missed a turnoff, the GPS would adjust it’s arrival time accordingly. It didn’t tease me or rebuke me for taking longer than expected – it was patient and persistent.

In life and business, things don’t always work out perfectly – one hits traffic lights, construction sites, accidents, wrong turns, and bad weather, but one doesn’t abandon one’s car in the middle of traffic and flounce off down the road, blaming the GPS system for one’s lack of character and intelligence. That’s what losers do, and we have met our share of them. It doesn’t change the fact that the GPS is correct.

#6 – A Customizable System

The GPS took me to MY destination, not the destination of the GPS – it didn’t have some hidden agenda, and it customized my route specially for me. DollarMakers is a customizable system, with flexible options and multiple opportunities.

DollarMakers is Your Retirement GPS

DollarMakers has all you need to succeed, and we are continually innovating and creating new material, tools, support, and connections for our valued Members and Joint Venture partners. We walk our talk.

If I decided to buy a GPS system, I would buy the most expensive one available, and I would commit myself to following its instructions to the letter, resting assured that as long as I did so, I would arrive, eventually, at my destination.

If you want to retire and achieve financial freedom, and you’re prepared to do whatever it takes and follow a proven system without quitting, DollarMakers can be your personal GPS – your own, personalized guidance system.

Jim Rohn once talked on an audio tape about how one could theoretically complete an entire university degree while commuting to and from work, simply by listening to tapes.

Putting “Time Vampires” to the Stake

If you work out how much time we waste watching mindless TV shows and sport, and listening to brain dead DJ’s and media propaganda on the radio, it’s amazing how much time we waste. And time is our most valuable, irreplaceable resource.

Get rid of what Dan Kennedy calls “Time Vampires”. If every minute cost you $100, would you spend it so easily? Yet it is worth far more than that.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ~ Steve Jobs

Avoiding a Bitter Ending

As we get older, we start to realize the value of time, and how much we have wasted. Kids grow up, we get old and fragile, and time moves inexorably on.

We don’t want to live in regret, like those who wait to enjoy their lives, and when they finally have the time and money, their health is gone. NOW is the time to enjoy your life, because who knows what tomorrow brings?

Before you know it, you’re old and bitter, your strength and vitality is depleted, and your relationships soured. You can avoid that.

Joint Venture Brokers Use Leverage – Not Time!

The big thief of time is working too hard and too long to make too little money. This can be solved by becoming a Joint Venture Broker, where you can leverage other peoples’ time, resources and money in order to become financially free. Work smart, not hard. Instead of selling your time like a paid slave, use your brain and leverage.

“For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.”

Linking Problems with Solutions

Time well spent is a great investment in your future, and in terms of money, the beauty of being a Joint Venture Broker is that you can work any time of the day or night, using the phone and the Internet, while driving or waiting for things.

There is no more excuse for JV Brokers to say, “I didn’t have time”, because you’re not selling time – you’re linking people and opportunities, delegating, introducing, and managing relationships, like  general in the army, rather than a soldier in the trenches.

The meetings you do have in person can be worth a thousand times what an employee or time salesman can earn in an hour.

Break Free with Your Own Joint Venture Broker Business

I can run my JV Broker business from anywhere in the world, in one hour a day. Sure, it takes time and work to get to that level, but isn’t it worth working hard for one year on your brokerage, and then working one hour a day to maintain your freedom? Better, I think, than working like a slave until you drop dead, which is the future for many people, especially in this new economy and with the direction governments are taking us.

You Only Get Today ONCE

Don’t be a clone and a robot – break free, so that you can spend your own time as you wish, where you wish, with whom you wish. Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and it will never return. Life is not a dress rehearsal – you only get today ONCE. One life. One chance. It’s not too late to change.

Joint ventures and Strategic Alliances are vastly different than traditional business. If you are approaching Joint Ventures with the same old habits and mindset, then you’re bound to fail. This streaming Video succinctly lays out the behaviors business people take for granted which may be holding them up in their Joint Venture Success.

This is a must watch for updating your business approach for the New Business Age, and truly changing your business outlook to that of a powerful Joint Venture Broker and Entrepreneur.

A few weeks back, I bought a wonderful, new bicycle. I love riding it along the river and around the lake, and I’m getting fit and losing weight.

I get excellent service from the store I bought the bike at. This store specializes in bikes and has a splendid reputation. I invested about $700 in the bike, and I will buy more stuff as time goes by.

Under Utilized Resources are Everywhere

I took it in yesterday for a complimentary service. While waiting, I chatted to the friendly owner of the store. I suggested that she must have a huge database of satisfied customers, and that she could seriously increase her sales by using a good referral system. I know she does no follow-up at all with her customers, and I wasn’t asking her for any money.

Small Business Arrogance

Her response reminded me why I started the DollarMakers Club. She immediately got a distant look in her eyes, and dismissed me with:

“My family has been running this business for seventy years.”

Her arrogance was typical of the ignorance of most small business owners – they really think they know everything there is to be known about their business.

Opportunity Abounds for the JV Broker

From my limited exposure to this bike store, I assure you that a DollarMakers Certified Business Mentor could easily double the profits in that business. To a Joint Venture expert, there are a number of glaringly obvious opportunities to dramatically ramp up this store’s profits, as well as sales.

Don’t Look Back on Those Who say “No.”

But a closed mind is a sad thing, and I smiled and thanked her for her service and pedaled off into the sunset. She will never know how much money she lost by succumbing to her conceit.

By looking beyond the doors of her store and her inflated ego, and considering the leverage and access she has available to her, she would have discovered a treasure trove of easily accessible profit at no cost or risk.

Taking Advantage of the Recession

The good news is that there are a number of business owners out there who realize that they have to adjust their sails in order to accommodate the new winds of business, and their precarious predicament makes them approachable for and amenable to win/win Joint Venture proposals.

Don’t deal with desperate or cash-strapped businesses, but rather with those who are doing well but have the intelligence to perceive the change in business and the need to consider alternatives to conventional and outmoded, risky, and costly sales and marketing approached that worked in the past (PR- Pre-Recession).

Where to Find Hundreds of Educated JV Partners

DollarMakers has hundreds of Members in nineteen countries, and we continue to grow.

Instead of trying to persuade the unaware, save time and money by working with those who understand the power of Joint Ventures by joining the DollarMakers JV Broker Club. (Or the DollarMakers Women’s Club.)

Start to question, “Are You Happy With Your Life?”

In order to achieve a new situation in life, we have to remember that a mind once stretched will never return to its original dimensions, and that all meaningful change starts with a question.

We have to ask ourselves if the status quo in our lives is what we truly want, and if our present philosophy and world view is going to get us to where we honestly and deeply want to be.

We have to ask ourselves just:

• how free we really are,
• how free we want to be,
• and how our perceptions and beliefs will have to change in order to facilitate the new journey we wish to take.

Beware: We’re Programmed to Not Question

Because the seething herd of humanity is programmed to viciously ostracize those who question the feasibility, indeed the sanity, of blind faith and conformity, we have to summon the courage to ask these questions.

Anything that threatens the current, outdated beliefs of true believers who doggedly hold on to medieval myths, legends, and superstitions is quickly suppressed. You should be aware of this.

The outright rejection of logic and rational, independent thought is the hallmark of the established system of paid slavery, the oppression of freedom, and mass mind control by the media and the mystics, which are owned by banks and managed by their puppet politicians.

Beware:  We’re Programmed to Believe What We’re Taught

We believe what we have been taught to believe, not what we personally, independently  deducted from the facts all around us. We have been told lies to keep us bound, blind, tired, in debt, and afraid:

• “You have to risk a lot to make a lot.”
• “Money doesn’t grow on trees.”
• “The root of all evil is money.”
• “You have to work hard for many years in order to be financially free.”
• “You don’t deserve to be rich.”
• “Keep up with the Jones.”
• “Serve your country.”
• “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
• “Self sacrifice is good. “
• “You need to be educated by the existing educational structure.”
• “Don’t question your leaders. We know what is best for you.”
• “Toe the line.”
• “The nail that stands up gets knocked down…”

Nonsense.

Question everything.

Krishnamurti said:

“All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.”

Dependency, exploitation, and attachment are forms of slavery. Only parasites, sluggards, and masochists revel in slavery.

Question everything.

Don’t wait until you’re too old, too scared, and too weak to change. Question now.

Anyone who says, “Mine not to reason why; mine but to do and die” is already dead. Blind faith is not laudable – it’s stupid.

The Path to Freedom

The path to real freedom is not to be found in a cult or a college. Krishnamurti said:

“Most of us begin with certainty and as we grow older the certainty changes to uncertainty and we die with uncertainty. But if one begins with uncertainty, doubting, questioning, asking, demanding, with real doubt about man’s behavior, about all the religious rituals and their images and their symbols, then out of that doubt comes the clarity of certainty.”

Perhaps it’s your time to question, to rethink, and to redirect your life’s path.

When it comes to money, DollarMakers is here to help you achieve freedom through the symbiotic, synergistic, rational, interdependent system of Joint Ventures.

Those important, turbulent, emotional, exciting, scary, formative years between twelve and twenty – so much changes in those years, and yet it can be easier if you maintain perspective.

This eight-year portion of your life is small in comparison with the rest of your adult life – about 60 years – and here are a few things that will help you cope with the hard times.

Things Will Matter Differently In the Future

In the years from age twelve to twenty, things seem to be magnified, and much more important than they really are. Relatively small things that a mature adult would hardly notice are attributed major significance. A bully or a jock, a rejection or a victory or failure seem mountainous, even though they will be forgotten very soon.

Coping with Bullies

The fact is that 97% of the people you know will never amount to much.

Most of the school bullies will end up in jail, on drugs, working in dead-end jobs, and dead. The reason why they are bullies is that they have emotional and mental problems – it really has nothing to do with you, except that you are a threat to them – they are jealous of something about you, so they attack you. Most bullies have low intelligence and problems at home, and you can use your mind to outwit them.

Things Will be Forgotten… And What to Do in the Mean Time

The key is to try and remain rational and objective about the things in your life.

This is very hard, I know – our emotions are pretty extreme in those years – but it helps a lot to be able to sit down with a wise adult, preferably not a teacher – and discuss your issues, fears, concerns, and dreams with them. They have a mature perspective.

In a few short years, hard as this is to believe, those incidents and people will be forgotten. Most of the things that seem huge right now are in fact insignificant compared to the bright future waiting for you.

Glean the Benefit & Leave the Rest Behind

The trials and tribulations of these years come with great benefits – youth, energy, strength, opportunities, optimism, and an open mind.

By focusing on building an exciting future and realizing that most of the things that upset you are really just barking dogs, life gets easier.

• That teacher that gives to you a hard time – a man amongst boys, but a boy amongst men – will be a joke to you in a few short years. You can easily earn more money than him and put him in his place quite soon.
• That pretty girl that rejected and shamed you in public will soon be fat, pregnant, and married to an unemployed jock.
• And your mistakes will be forgotten.

Do you think Bill Gates was teased at school? Probably. Where are the people who teased him now?

It’s YOUR Life

The only person whose opinion is important is YOU. It’s YOUR life.

Success in life is a choice. We choose how to interpret the circumstances presented to us. We choose how to react. And our choices will determine where we end up.

Your Philosophy is Your Compass

The most important factor in your life is your PHILOSOPHY. With the right philosophy, or world view, life gets a lot easier.

Look at successful people whom you admire, and ask yourself what their philosophy is.

The most powerful philosophy I have found, the one that gives you the most freedom, opportunity, and fun, is that of Objectivism. You can find out more about it here and here, but in a nutshell, it says that you own your life, and you are not answerable to others or responsible for others.

• Read “The Fountainhead” and the “The Virtue of Selfishness” by Ayn Rand.
• Get yourself some good role models.
• Stay away from people who want to manipulate and control the way you think.
• Don’t be a victim, don’t blame others or make excuses.  Take responsibility for your choices now, and life will be good.

Understand Money & Create Value to Make It

Finally, by now you know that 97% of your problems in life will be solved or diminished by money. The good life costs money.

If you understand money and value and how to create wealth, you have control and you can choose any life you want. Your age and circumstances won’t prevent you from making money. You can get rich fast, no matter how old you are, when you know how. Money doesn’t care how old you are!

Learn about how you can do that, starting right away, at www.JVWisdom.com.

Scouts say their motto is “Be Prepared“, and we know that success occurs when preparation meets opportunity. Yet too many Joint Venture Brokers wing it and fail – very predictably.

General Orlando Ward said:

“One of the biggest reasons for failure on the battlefield is not knowing what to do next. This is the result of not having been trained thoroughly in what to expect on the battlefield.”

Let Me Save You Some Frustration

Joint Venture Brokers look for clues and use their experience to detect warning signals and red flags in order to avoid sticky situations. After 21 years in this business, I have developed a sixth sense that usually works, however not in every case. Yet the better prepared I am, the less likely I am to get ripped off or taken advantage of.

Soldiers who are rushed through their basic training and pushed onto the battlefield prematurely are naive and vulnerable to an established, hardened enemy.

While honing your skills and your understanding of JV’s is very important, let me save you a few years of frustration with some pointers right away.

Tip #1 – Watch for Those with No Intent of Reciprocation

One of the things to look out for is people pretending to be loyal, open, and committed to a clean, reciprocal JV, when their true motive is simply to push their own product or business into your organization and database. They’re simply leeches who have smelled some juicy blood, and they hug, promise, smile, and joke their way right into your sleeping camp where they reveal their real agenda of rape and pillage.

The clue here is:

• the fact that they do very little due diligence on your business,
• ask few questions,
• and talk a lot about themselves and their business.
• They’ll tell you anything you want to hear, because they never intend to reciprocate.

We had one like this last year – he ended up spamming our database for ages, and never delivered on his promises. We warn others about you, Larry. Once bitten, twice shy.

Tip #2 – Do You Due Diligence EVEN on Those Who Are Recommended

Another situation that inexperienced or inadequately trained JV Brokers face is people who have no success record, no database, no ability to produce what they promise, and no integrity, yet they have have been recommended by someone you trust. Instead of doing your proper due diligence, you skim over it, touch on a few points, and overlook some important warning signs, to your regret. I did this with two people whom I shouldn’t have touched with a twenty foot pole.

Now, no matter who recommends people to me, I still do my own full due diligence, and the character that recommended these two fools will never get close to my database again. Learn from my mistakes!

Tip #3 – Downsize Those Who Consistently Fall Short

And we all know that people who consistently don’t produce what they promise on time and offer ever weaker excuses are headed for the proverbial scrap heap.

Reduce the business you send them, and replace them as soon as possible. They’re losers pretending to be winners.

Tip #4 – Look Closely for “Contaminated” Partners

Also, look out for contamination.

• A bad home life will affect people’s choices and actions in the workplace.
• Financial stress will skew their business decisions and can cause erratic and unreasonable responses.
• Certain religious affiliations will impact their values and can trigger situational ethics and justify unethical behavior.

Their levels of desperation, confusion, and conflict will impact your JV’s in irrational and sometimes dangerous ways.

Tip #5 – Be Leary of “All Hat – No Cattle” Men

And the worst of all red flags, dear Reader, is the egotistic, pushy, conceited type:

• snappy dresser
• runs his mouth
• lots of flash and show
• bad listener
• usually single
• interrupts you and talks over you
• makes big promises
• talks on his cell phone during meetings
• spends a lot of money on himself
• usually makes little eye contact
• pushes you to make decisions, as well – always a bad sign.

This is not the type of person you want to JV with. If you sit back and let him talk, he will talk about himself and his business for hours, at the end of which he will have forgotten your name. Usually, they’re all hat and no cattle, but conmen have never let that stop them. Voltaire said:

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

DollarMakers:  Where Preparation Meets Opportunity

DollarMakers Members are encouraged to continue to learn, practice, hone their skills, and select only legitimate JV partners. William Shakespeare said:

“All things are ready, if our minds be so.”

When you’re well prepared, you’re far more likely to succeed. Abraham Lincoln said:

“If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first hour sharpening the ax.”

A study by Selling Power Magazine states that:

• 1% of all cold calls turn into sales
• 15% of all leads turn into sales
• 55% of all referrals turn into sales
• 80% of all introductions turn into sales

Successful Joint Venture Brokers can earn an unlimited amount of money internationally without barriers, since we do business with no cost or risk and very little time, leveraging existing resources.

It is said that:

“Poor people work for their money, rich people make their money work for them, but Joint Venture Brokers make other peoples’ money and resources work for them!”

There are no broke JV Brokers. Brokers don’t sell- we SOLVE.

4 Things You Need to Be Successful

Successful Joint Venture Brokers need four things to be successful:

1. Ongoing Business Training and Development
2. The right tools to do the job
3. Support and Guidance
4. Access to and regular exposure to a growing group of the right people (who also understand Joint Ventures)

Giving You the Support You Need

The DollarMakers JV Broker Club (and the DollarMakers Women’s Club) provides all of the above and much more, plus a strict adherence to our Business Code of Ethics is enforced amongst our Members, and Members get fired, applications for Membership get refused, and Membership Renewal applications are rejected when we’re uncomfortable with the ethics or professionalism of Members or applicants.

More Opportunities for You

As DollarMakers continues to grow and educate people around the world, and especially since the introduction of our DollarMakers Certified Business Mentor Training program, we attract top quality people for our Members to work with to accomplish mutual goals.

Our DollarMakers Cancun Members Convention and the opening of DollarMakers UK and DollarMakers South Africa are examples of our aggressive growth and the innovative opportunities offered to our valued Members.

It’s about Making Money… Ethically

DollarMakers is not a networking club or a social club – we’re businesspeople who understand that good business is built on the three legs of:

• solid, reciprocal relationships,
• ongoing education and support,
• and ethical professionalism.

Our mission is to educate millions around the world how to achieve financial independence by working together to create real value.

Your netWORK determines your net WORTH, and together, we do amazing things.