If you receive information, which, if applied, can earn you an unlimited amount of money, what is that information worth?

• The information on the Bootcamps makes David Dubeau $84,000 per month.
• It saved Kumar Ramlal $145,000.
• It allowed Patrick Giesbrecht to retire in seven months with more residual income than he needed to live on.
• It allowed me to retire twice.

It has made people millions of dollars.

Why Even Smart People Object to the Deal of a Lifetime

Would you pay $5,000 once, to be able to earn $10,000 and more per month for the rest of your life? Of course you would.

Let me tell you why certain people balk at the measly $500 we currently charge for a seat at a Bootcamp – two reasons:

1. First, it’s too cheap, so they think the content can’t be worth much. They don’t realize that we make it cheap so that we can reach and help more people.
2. Second, they don’t believe in themselves: they know they’re lazy and weak, and that they never follow through on things they start. Winners know that they always succeed in everything they do.

You Can Apply This & Make Money Too!

A winner will never ask, “How much did YOU make from the Bootcamp?” or, “How much did others make?” Why?

Because winners know that most other people fail most of the time, and they know that they are not most people. They know themselves. They know they always rise to the top. They have a track record. They know how hard working and disciplined they are.

If they evaluate the Bootcamp and believe the information works, they will pay for it and apply it and get rich.

Winners will take action and MAKE it happen, while losers and parasites will pose and procrastinate and analyze and make excuses until they find another seminar to attend.

What’s It Worth to You?

• How much is the security, retirement, peace of mind, self-respect, adventure, freedom, time, and happiness afforded by having enough money worth to you?
• What would you pay to be able to live your dreams, help others financially, travel to exotic places, and be free of fear and stress?

You will learn proven, tried and tested technologies and skills that you can use to create wealth anywhere, under any circumstances, regardless of your background, age, or education, or whether you have a business or not.

What is that worth? Ten thousand, twenty thousand dollars?

You’re learning from people who actually do what they teach.

This is not some seminar by a conman that has you running to the back of the room to buy the “real, meaty stuff” at ridiculously high prices. This is the real thing. Get it while it lasts. Whatever you pay for it, it’s too cheap.

• Gambling addicts gamble until they lose everything.
• Alcoholics drink until they pass out.
• Certain entrepreneurs feel most alive when they are in a tight financial corner.

So they subconsciously have to create that level of threat, pain, and danger in order to be forced to use their creativity to work their way out of the problem. That way, they escape boredom, and the challenge and the overcoming of that challenge puts them on a high. It tests their skills and mental strength, validates their ability, and makes life interesting. It’s the game, baby.

Usually, those entrepreneurs are not consciously aware of what they’re doing. They’re blissfully unaware of their self-sabotage and self-made cycles.

Fortitude – “Consistency Under Difficulty”

At some point in my entrepreneurial life, I recognized that I was partly subject to this insidious and subtle affliction. Success for the sake of success has its downside. Money can be very tedious.

(It can also run hand-in-hand with the avoidance of success when success would mean contribution to a hated cause or despised person, or create a situation that is more uncomfortable than the lack of success, however that is not for this discussion.)

Self-discovery takes testicular fortitude and incurs emotional pain, however the results are well worth the private confrontation.

Recognizing the root cause is one thing, however replacing it is quite another. Artificially exceeding the pain threshold by reinterpreting your circumstances and the ramifications is a smart choice.

How I Broke Free

In my case, I disciplined myself to accept the success, recalibrate and re-engineer the internal meaning and consequences thereof, and supplant the boredom with massive and intense innovation, creativity, and expansion.

The benefits of replacing the challenge in a more positive way surpassed the discomfort of recognizing a dangerous and elusive pattern that took a lot of introspection and detachment to unveil, and strict personal discipline to overcome.

Entrepreneurs have the freedom to create massive wealth, however they must first create the foundational, personal freedom that will release that wealth. My book, “Break Free!” may help a bit in that regard. (More on this later.)

Live LARGE!  …or suffer deadly boredom.

Obsessive compulsive behavior, perfectionism, high expectations, extreme sensitivity, and self-destructive tendencies often point to extreme entrepreneurial potential. Finding a way to channel the creativity in real entrepreneurs is fundamental to optimal achievement, and running the local sandwich shop or selling tires will simply drive the true entrepreneur to practice the cycle mentioned here. “Let me see if I can still do this job while I’m drunk.”

That’s Why The Truly Bold Use Joint Ventures

The most effective, powerful, unlimited, creative, and synergistic business model I have found is Joint Venture Broking – that’s why I do it.

It offers total freedom, massive contribution, and the opportunity to be true to yourself.

By tying your work to your vision and values, and attaching a serious personal cause, especially one that attacks that which you hate, one can, in my opinion, create a much higher high.

A while back, my daughter took me horse riding. It was a wonderful and memorable day, and we’ll certainly do it again soon.

When we mounted, the leader of the ride told me that when we got to a certain field and we were cantering or galloping, my horse would start to veer to the right as he always did, and she showed me how to get him back on track with the rest of the riders.

Sure enough, as soon as we started galloping out of a canter, he started veering right and pulling away from the other horses. I simply followed instructions and soon had him back with the rest of the horses.

When I rode in Rhodesia, I used to ride a horse that always had to be second or have a horse in front of him in order to feel secure, however when we headed back home to the stables, he would move to the front and gallop like a crazy thing.

As the Arabian proverb goes, “The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears.”

How to Predict the Future of Your Associates

People are also predictable.  If you battle to get a $200 check out of someone, don’t labor under the illusion that they will ever pay you JV commissions. When people reveal who they really are, believe what you see.

• You get to know people when they’re under pressure and on the line.
• Don’t believe their excuses.

You can predict the future by their past choices.

• Watch their choices in small situations to understand what they will do when it comes to real money and important events.

Watch for small clues, take care of the small details, and you can prevent larger problems. Benjamin Franklin wrote:

“For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail.”

Check Out the Spouse Too

When I was selling businesses, I would insist that the spouse was present at the interview. Usually, It was the man buying the business, and I would ask the wife about his habits, while he was present. I would ask her:

• if he had trouble getting out of bed in the morning
• if he did things he promised to do
• if he shaved on his days off

If she revealed that he was a lazy type, unreliable, or lacking in self discipline, I wouldn’t sell him the business.

Behavioral Patterns

Look for behavioral patterns, and do small Joint Ventures with people before going big, so that you can see who you’re really dealing with. Test in a small way before rolling out in a big way.

We often have people trying to JV with us who tell us, “As soon as I get time, I will join DollarMakers”, or “I am considering joining” – how pathetic is that? It takes five minutes to join. That is a sure sign of a liar.

Strong relationship are built on trust, and it takes time to build trust and respect. W.C. Fields said:

“Horse sense is the thing that a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”

Earmark of Success

Successful sports people are usually successful in business, because they are disciplined, reliable, and understand that it takes time to succeed. Farmers also tend to be successful, for the same reasons, they don’t expect to sow on Monday and reap on Tuesday.

Past  choices are usually a good indicator of future behavior, as with horses. The difference is that horses are honest and uncomplicated, but eventually people will reveal who they really are. R.B. Cunninghame Graham, in his  letter to Theodore Roosevelt in 1917, wrote:

“God forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses.”

Would that people were as honest as horses.

In January of 1979, I was promoted to Food and Beverage Manager of the Bulawayo Holiday Inn in Rhodesia. The country was enduring a prolonged war, so I was privileged to work in a country at war for a year.

There are a remarkable amount of similarities between a war and a peacetime recession that we can benefit from understanding.

I arrived in the country with my young family, and instantly noticed a huge difference in the mentality and approach of people in a warring country. Most of us were armed most of the time, and we saw opportunities that would not normally be evident in a peacetime or relatively affluent society.

We had to become very creative in order to make it in business.

Things to Learn from a “War-time Mentality”

During a war, there is a heightened sense of awareness, and people live on the edge.

Our women and children were sent out of the country to safety during the transitional time when the terrorist Mugabe was put into power, and men kept trunks with guns, grenades, and other useful items under their beds. People were tough and serious about life and business.

• We didn’t take customers or luxuries for granted, and relationships were regarded as being very important.
• Thinking “out of the box” was what kept people out of other boxes, called coffins.
• People had to be resourceful and reciprocate when they received value, as opposed to the lackadaisical, lazy, and selfish attitude of entitlement that pervades a well-fed and spoiled society.

Getting Creative to Survive

Sanctions had been imposed on Rhodesia, so in order to provide shellfish, imported alcohol, cutlery, and many other commodities that are usually easily available and readily accessible to our hotel guests, we had to buy them on the black market or have them smuggled into the country. We had to bargain and wheel and deal to get good cooking oil, silver foil, and other regular things. Local businesses manufactured products we couldn’t get. One company created drinking glasses out of ketchup bottles. (Those glasses lasted forever!)

Barter as a Way of Life

Tourism all but collapsed. Barter and the trading of commodities, resources, products, and services, was the norm. We traded and sold financial currency, gold, antiques, food, and gasoline coupons, which were restricted and valuable. I traded a diamond ring for the deposit on a house, and swapped that house for a car when we left the country. That sounds crazy now, but the relative values at the time made these deals good.

Where Customers are Coming from… And Still Are.

People cut down on luxuries, and acquiring and keeping customers was not an easy matter, when many of the smart ones had already immigrated. Customers carefully considered the value they were buying before opening their wallets.

After that Year

At the end of my year-long contract with Holiday Inns, I resigned from the company and returned to South Africa, little knowing that it was destined to follow in Rhodesia’s footsteps. I will always have great respect and affection for Rhodesians of all races – I wouldn’t insult them by calling them Zimbabweans – and I learned a great deal about Joint Ventures and creative solutions to real business in the real world in that short and exciting year.

Sadly, the country has been ruined by its savage leadership, but the lessons learned there from those wonderfully creative and disciplined people have always been a benefit to me.

These were my most important lessons:

1. Appreciate the customers and business you have, and realize that you have to work on continuing to earn their business by creating added value. You can lose them in a heartbeat.
2. Be creative, and leverage resources through trade, barter, Joint Ventures, and alternatives to money.
3. Focus on integrity, loyalty, and candor. Relationships is everything in business. Passive aggression, entitlement, and mediocrity, so evident in North America, is poison.
4. Diversify, spread your risk, run clean, lean, and mean, and focus on profit instead of products. Remain liquid and ready to fold camp at any time.
5. Always carry a (figurative) gun, and be prepared to use it. There are people that will steal the milk out of your tea with a smile, if you let them. React hard and fast.
6. Think big picture and long term, and don’t sell your soul for a bowl of soup.

The key to being a successful Joint Venture negotiator is to have the ability to walk away at any time during the negotiations, and if you threaten to walk away, you have to do it.

There is also a spirit to negotiating – if one party is continually taking and not giving, unreasonably inflexible, arrogant, or “talking down” to the other party, the JV will never work.

Changing the Agreement is Dishonest

Also, remember that changing the rules or moving the goalposts, in other words not honoring what you previously agreed to, is not negotiating, it’s simply being dishonest. Anyone who promises and doesn’t deliver isn’t negotiating; they’re stealing and lying. And if they can steal a few hundred dollars, they will steal millions, too – it’s who they are.

Watch out for cheap, tightfisted people.

Only Talk to the One in Charge

Negotiating with a middleman – especially one who hides behind the authority which they represent, seldom works; try to work with the person who actually has the authority to make decisions, instead of a puppet.

Look for Clues

During negotiations, you can get an insight into the character and values of the person you’re dealing with. Look for patterns, clues, honestly, small lies, and passive aggression. Con artists use greed (the big carrot), threats, bullying, and lots of details to confuse honest people.

Watch Your Emotions

Remain objective and emotionally detached during negotiations. Maintain a healthy dose of skepticism. Business, after all, is a game. You can remove the two emotional issues – risk and cost – with good negotiating skills. Watch your own “Greed Meter” carefully.

Walk Away When Your Gut Says

When you get a negative gut feeling about the other party, don’t bother to continue with the negotiations.

I recently made that mistake by getting involved with religious fundamentalists – they proved that they were totally irrational, and could justify the most ridiculous assumptions and blatant dishonesty by hiding behind their religious delusions. I will be more selective next time. One’s philosophy will drive ones choices and actions. We continue to learn. You can learn from my mistakes.

ALWAYS IN WRITING!

Finally, JV’s should be comfortable, fun, profitable, and very clearly communicated, which means IN WRITING. After a meetings, send the agreements in writing and make sure everyone understands the terms and conditions.

Months down the line, people get selective memory and amnesia. Each party is solely responsible for themselves, and the “blame game” can be avoided if these responsibilities are clearly defined – in writing.

You have millions of options in the world of Joint Ventures – be selective, because you can afford to be. An ounce of discipline is better than tons of pain down the line.

If you’re unsure about how to do this, read this page about how to write a Memorandum of Understanding, otherwise known as MOU, which is a basic Joint Venture agreement.

Why It Pays to be Generous

If someone is comfortable with 10%, don’t try to negotiate 15% – they will be uncomfortable and sabotage the deal or undermine it. And if they’re happy with 10%, offer them 12% – the pay-off to generosity can be massive when dealing with the right people. Test your deals in a small way before launching them in a big way – “Take time to know her”, as the old song goes.

You Can Make More Money Walking Away Sometimes

Remember: You make more money by walking away from money when it’s “dirty” money. By that, I mean you can only earn dirty money by compromising your values and overriding your better instincts. If you’re not comfortable, don’t walk away – RUN – towards better deals!

I knew a jeweler who attended a Dale Carnegie management training program with me  and returned to his business a changed man.  Suddenly, mall security guards started arresting thieves in his store.

When he remarked to one of the security guards that it seemed that crime was increasing in the mall, the security replied that the crime rate hadn’t changed – the guards had simply started intervening and arresting thieves, whereas before, they had turned a blind eye. They were rewarding my friend for his change in attitude towards them. But I digress…

What REALLY Motivates Employees

In his book, “Persuasion IQ”, Kurt W. Mortensen discusses a working paper by Kenneth A. Kovack of George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Kovack researched the differences between what motivates employees and what managers think motivates employees. Here’s the data:

What Motivates Employees as Ranked by Employees

1. Interesting work
2. Appreciation of work done
3. Being well informed
4. Job security
5. Compensation
6. Growth and promotion opportunities
7. Good working conditions
8. Personal loyalty to employees
9. Tactful discipline
10. Help with personal problems

What Motivates Employees as Ranked by Managers

1. Compensation
2. Job security
3. Growth and promotion opportunities
4. Good working conditions
5. Interesting work
6. Personal loyalty to employees
7. Tactful discipline
8. Appreciation of work done
9. Help with personal problems
10. Being well informed

“Shared Ownership”

One thing that I believe will cover many of these requirements is “Shared Ownership”. I’m not talking about giving your staff shares in your company.  I’m talking about profit-sharing Joint Ventures, where employees get compensated in direct proportion to the value they add as measured in profit.

Front line employees are often to privy to information of which management is blissfully unaware, and many times by design. Empowering your employees by partnering with them:

• gives them an “ownership mentality”.
• reduces absenteeism, laziness, and shoddy work.
• increasing motivation, loyalty, productivity, interest, enthusiasm, and innovation.

Managing the Potential Downside

Opening opportunities to your staff has its downside and risks, and therefore should be carefully managed, watched, and controlled, while allowing enough freedom and accepting enough damage through honest mistakes and inexperience to remove fear and hesitation.

Clearly defined boundaries, regular, open communication, and quick feedback, and awareness of the power of operant conditioning, with it’s requisite fast reinforcement, is essential.

As “partners” (without legal implications, please), most of the above motivational factors (we should also be cognizant of Hertzberg’s Hygiene Factors here) will be more than adequately addressed, indeed enhanced, and your bottom line will see the results.

I grew up poor, and I have made money. I have been on both sides of the fence. After 22 years in business and 55 years in life, I have arrived at some conclusions about money.

• When you have enough money, you relax, enjoy life, and focus on contribution, health, relationships, balance, and quality of life.
• When you don’t have enough money, everything is seen through the prism of money.

In my experience, money will solve, eradicate, or seriously reduce 97% of your problems. A shortage of money affects your health, relationships, self-esteem, peace of mind, choices, quality of life, and temperament. Enough money, or an abundance of money, makes a dramatic difference in every area of your life.

Why You Deserve to Be Wealthy

• You say we can’t buy time? You can. You can travel faster and in comfort and hire the help you need to do most things for you.
• You say we can’t buy health? You certainly can, with great food, medical attention, assistance, equipment, technology, drugs, and peace of mind. And you can “suffer in comfort”.

Money is extremely important, and most people know this, even though they don’t all admit it.

The problem is, how can we make more money so that we can enjoy the benefits?

The first and most important obstacle to making money is mental conditioning and attitude. For this, I wrote my book, “Break Free!” I won’t address that foundational issue here, but suffice to say it is an essential read, as is Ayn Rand’s book, “Atlas Shrugged” in order to clear away any mental barriers to becoming wealthy.

Don’t Shrink – Expand!

And so here we are. We decide that, instead of tightening our belts more and spending less, depriving ourselves of the things we want and need as we try to live within our income, we should go out and make more money.

And so we look at Robert Kiyosaki’s Four Quadrants:

The E Quadrant – Employee

The first one is the E Quadrant – Employee  – you have a job – that’s where you sell your time, which is your life, sacrificing yourself for a paycheck, compromising your values for a boss, making sure you won’t get rich. Your boss pays you just enough to keep you, and makes you work as hard as possible, with as little freedom as possible.

Real wealth is having more monthly residual income than you need to live comfortably – enough time to enjoy your money. So we won’t waste our time on that quadrant.

The S Quadrant – Self Employed

The second quadrant is the S Quadrant – Self Employed – you own a job. Here, you’re also selling your time, and most so-called “business owners” are really just broke, self-employed salespeople, and they would do better getting a “real job.”

• Very little security, except that you can’t be fired.
• Usually no time to enjoy any money you make.
• Very limited potential.
• One product or service, one geographical area, one focus.
• Big ego – “big hat, no cattle”.
• And if you’re making a lot of money, you have less and less time  and more and more problems as your business grows.

The B Quadrant  – Business

The third Quadrant is B – Business – you own a system, and people work for you.

Interestingly enough, this is where Network Marketing (MLM) fits in, except that it takes a long time to start making you money, and again, it’s all your eggs in one basket – a very dangerous place to be. Many MLM companies fail. There is only one that I use and endorse, after trying many over the years and making good money. But it takes time, and we want money fast, don’t we?

So we look at Franchising – very expensive and risky as well, requiring massive capital, and you’re simply buying a job. You have no freedom, no time, and it takes ages to make money.

Or we buy a conventional business – again, risk, overhead, no free time, massive failure rate (87% fail in the first five years of new ownership or start-up) and frustration.

The I Quadrant – Investing

And then we get to Quadrant Four – the I or Investing Quadrant, where we have our money work for us. You have to have money to invest, and many investments are not what they seem to be. We all know what has just recently happened to the stock market.

Joint Ventures – The Best Solution I’ve Found & Why

Let’s tie this up. After 22 years in business, conducting seminars for business owners, professionals and employees across North America and in Africa and the United Kingdom, and after working with tens of thousands of people and seeing many opportunities and options, the best solution to wealth that I have found incurs no risk or cost, no overhead, no licenses, leases, inventory, employees, or selling, and takes little time once it’s set up and working.

1. I run my business with no overhead, employees, inventory, or any other costs except my telephone (I seldom use a cell phone) and a computer connection.
2. Everything I earn and bank is 100% profit.
3. And 90% of my income can be maintained and grown in one hour a day from anywhere in the world.

This may sound too good to be true, but it is, and I am living proof of it.

• You don’t need education, resumes, the old boys network, connections, a database, or business experience.
• Your age, circumstances, background, and whether you have a business or not, is irrelevant.
• You can retire within one year of starting off as a Joint Venture Broker, with more residual income than you need to live comfortably on.

What You Need to Set Up

As a JV Broker, you simply link supply and demand and get paid an ongoing commission on all resulting business. You can be involved in multiple business transactions, products, services, and industries, in numerous geographical areas, simultaneously. You can have multiple income pipelines feeding money into your bank account while you sleep, as I do. And one of them can be Network Marketing.

Spreading your risk across many industries and geographic areas gives you unlimited income potential and security, peace of mind, and many options.

You can be as sophisticated or as mundane and simple as you please, but the more you learn, the more you earn, because your discipline and education improves your self esteem and confidence, and you attract larger JV’s and more money.

By cross promoting and linking your various JV’s, your income can grow exponentially.

Succeed from Anywhere

And you can do this from home if you like – you never have to set foot outside your door to get rich doing this. Stay in your pajamas or wear a $1,000 suit, or wear jeans for the rest of your life – your choice! You could even do this from a prison! And you don’t need to be computer literate or technically savvy – your JV’s can be high tech, low tech, slow tech, or no tech. There is no excuse not to succeed and make money, except your own beliefs and the amount of work you do.

As a Joint Venture Broker, you can use the JV mindset to invest, make money on other people’s money, grow your MLM business, and have other people doing all the work. I have successfully run my business remotely from Cancun, Hawaii, England, the US, Canada, Africa – no more barriers, no more restrictions – every resource you need is freely available through JV’s.

That’s Why I Made DollarMakers

DollarMakers was created to provide you all the training, connections, JV partners, ready-made JV’s, and support you need, from Members in 18 countries just waiting to write you a check, to conference calls Bootcamps, online training, newsletters, ezines, Members Meetings, Conventions, and much more.

We are the world’s leading experts in our field with small and medium sized businesses, professionals, and individuals, and we have the structure and systems you need to make it happen. We are your ladder to lots of money and your bridge to a burgeoning bank account. We are your way to wealth and your ride to riches.

How soon do you want to be financially free?

Say “Goodbye!” to scarcity, fear, insecurity, sleepless nights, and limited options, and say “Hello!” to freedom and joy. What you sow, you will reap, and we’re waiting to work with you. We agree with Zig Ziglar, who said,

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

Jump on board the DollarMakers Train to your Dreams!

From a perfectly objective perspective, it makes sense that one would rather spend $100 on each of ten carefully chosen and selected, high potential business Joint Venture prospects that one dollar each on a random selection of a thousand unknown people. Why is it, then, that we waste so much time talking with unqualified prospects, instead of the people that could literally change our lives? I’ll tell you why.

#1 – You Run Into More Losers Than Winners.

First, it’s easy to talk with losers.

When I had an 800 number, 95% of the people that called me were bored losers who couldn’t get anyone to talk to them.

I had two old women that would spend hours on the phone, purportedly discussing Joint Ventures, when in reality they were business has-beens with time to waste. I stopped the 800 number and saved a lot of time. Anyone who can’t afford a long distance call doesn’t qualify for my attention.

It’s easy to get appointments with broke, desperate people. They will rush to meet you, hoping to somehow make a quick buck off you. So lazy people take the easy way out and talk with the wrong people. Disciplined people won’t have any problem working hard.

#2 – Losers Seeks Out Losers

Second, people with poor self-esteem usually seek out people who are even more pathetic than they are – that way, they get to feel superior and they avoid feeling threatened. People with high self-respect seek out people who are more successful and driven that they are.

#3 – It Takes More Work to Approach a Winner

Third, you need a pretty compelling offer to get the attention of a winner, and that takes a bit of work and preparation. When you’re strategizing your presentation to a real center of influence, you know you had better have a real deal that is well packaged and credible.

If you’re pitching snake oil vitamins, questionable investments, property in third world countries, or start-up business deals, you know the winners will not waste any time with you.

When you want big results, you have to go after the big players. It costs money, it takes time, discipline, persistence, and preparation, but it takes less time (winners have the ability to make a decision and tell you what their decision is) and it’s a lot more fun than shaking the hands of broke salespeople who are convinced that their magic juice cures everything from Halitosis to Hypoplasia.

Get More Selective and Work with Winners

Every time my business has jumped to the next level, it has been as the result of a good connection with a big player. My Joint Ventures flourish when I work with winners. And the more selective I get, the more successful my business becomes. Learning to say, “NO” is crucial to your success. Spend more on less people, be focused on high class, high returns, and high standards, and you will bag the big game that brings you the big bucks.