I just returned from England, where the bite marks of the omnipresent recession are more evident than in Super, Natural British Columbia. Flying home, I was once again reminded of the upside of this recession; the benefits, as it were, of the half-full glass.

For example, the interest in DollarMakers services and products is growing steadily as people suddenly become aware of the value of the information and links we provide.

The flight was only two-thirds full, so I was able to select another seat and escape some precocious, seat-kicking French kids who should have been chained in the cargo hold with a selection of vicious, rabid wolves.

“Will Everything Be All Right?”

Smart people have a good perspective on how to benefit from these recessionary times, while frightened people frighten other people and the enlightened ones get rich.

When interviewed on CNBC, Monday, March 9, 2009, here is Warren Buffet’s response when Terry in San Antonio, Texas, asks, “Will everything be all right?”:

“Fear is very contagious. You can get fearful in 5 minutes, but you don’t get confident in 5 minutes.

Everything will be all right.

We do have the greatest economic machine that man has ever created. We started with 4 million people back in 1790 and look where we’ve come. And it wasn’t because we were smarter than other people. It wasn’t because our land was more fertile or we had more minerals or our climate was more favorable. We had a system that worked. It unleashed the human potential.

It didn’t work every year. We had 6 ‘panics’ in the 19th century. In the 20th century we had the Great Depression, World Wars, all kinds of things. But we have a system – largely free market, rule of law, equality of opportunity – all of those things that cause the potential of humans to get unleashed. And we’re far from done.

Your kids will live better than mine. Your grandchildren will live better than your kids. There’s no question about that.

But the machine gets gummed up from time to time. If you take the bulk of those centuries, probably 15 years were bad years. But we go forward.”

Don’t Let Fear Drive You

Fear drives logic and rational thinking out of the house, and welcomes its friends, apathy, scarcity, depression, and the blind acceptance of socialism – anything to hide from personal responsibility and reality.

While the producers are proactively embracing the situation and finding solutions, scheming collectivists sell filthy, overpriced, flea-ridden, wet  blankets to the huddled morons who convince themselves and others that the end is nigh.

Opportunity is Waiting at Your Disposal

Your concerned competition is so busy cutting costs and reducing value that any thinking entrepreneur can easily scoop away their customers. Instead of fleecing the timid, now is the time to provide real solutions and build lasting and profitable relationships with them, as DollarMakers does.

Look at Wal-Mart and IKEA – they’re thriving! The money in the world has not disappeared or dried up – it’s all still there for the taking.

• Are the five star holiday resorts empty? No.
• Are the expensive restaurants closed? No.
• Did all the money get burnt up in a raging fire?
• Are the resources, equipment, and distribution methods suddenly missing, as in a mythical Rapture? No.

It’s all waiting for you – at your disposal.

The Upside of the Recession

The upside of the Recession is that intelligent entrepreneurs are having a field day, and the scammers and posers are being revealed and removed.

It’s time to learn about Joint Ventures, and use them to have fun and get richer.

How can you turn your business into a “Customer Magnet?” How can you create rushing rivers of qualified, eager prospects? The key is not:

• better packaging (that’s what your printer sells you)
• a better website with “higher conversion ratio” (that’s what your Web person  – I hesitate to say Web Master – sells you)
• learning to close more sales, seeing more people, or better salespeople (that’s what “sales trainers” sell you)
• or more advertising (that’s what ad sales reps sell you.)

– it’s by changing the way you look at the market.

Most “Entrepreneurs” are Self-employed Salespeople

Most broke, self-employed salespeople who call themselves “Entrepreneurs” are legends in their own lunch times, and the only ones who are convinced they’re the cream of the crop with products and services nobody can possibly do without, are their doting dogs. Their arrogance is exceeded only by their ignorance.

Most are hard-sell, cheap, arm-twisting, desperate pushers of their products who make it abundantly clear that they don’t give a damn about you. They do not understand that they are a dime a dozen, unimportant, and irritating.

The Difference of People with a Joint Venture Attitude

People with a Joint Venture Attitude understand capitalism, value, reciprocity, and human nature.

• They’re in business for the long term.
• They see the big picture.
• They actually THINK.
• They act strategically (think chess game) instead of tactically.
• They are proactive as opposed to reactive.

Would you get more attention if…

At our DollarMakers Joint Venture Broker Bootcamps, we share the most powerful referral system I have ever found. I used it to personally train an elite team of Million Dollar Round Table Insurance Salespeople, and they loved it.

But for the purposes of this article, let me ask you a few questions to which DollarMakers provides the answers:

1. Would you get more attention if you were introduced to a prospect by someone whom they liked and respected?
2. Would you get more attention if you could GIVE AWAY valuable sales incentives and gifts, complimentary holidays, useful items, and massive added value, at no cost to you?
3. Would you get more attention if you stopped bragging about yourself and started talking about the other person’s needs wants, pain, and goals? (You might think this question is superfluous, but 98% of salespeople don’t do it!)
4. Would you get more referrals if you knew how to make your offer so attractive that you had people BEGGING for the opportunity to help you?
5. Would you get more attention if people were convinced beyond all doubt that you genuinely cared about them?

The common thread running through these questions is what we teach people – and it works, long term.

Creating a Golden Goose money machine (DollarMaker) that is carefully programmed to consistently spit out qualified, interested prospects is a smart strategy. And it’s not what you will learn from your sales manager, upline, “coach”, or “consultant”.

Based on your present conversion ratio, work out what a qualified, pre-sold customer is worth  to your bottom line, and consider whether or not you should attend a Bootcamp – either online or in person.

In our society, people tend to blame their tools when they don’t succeed. Right, now, socialists and collectivists are blaming the bad economy on the capitalist system, which is ridiculous.

Losers blame the wind; winners adjust their sails.

You Gotta Have Staying Power

People who attend our Joint Venture Broker Bootcamps and don’t consistently implement the ideas and systems they learned, fail, and guess what? They blame the Bootcamp (and me.)

The fact that they don’t have the intelligence, or the motivation, or the staying power to persist until they succeed is too hard for them to accept, so they blame the system, while others, who attended the same Bootcamp, make a lot of money in the same economy with the same system, but with a different attitude.

Now’s the Perfect Time to Position Yourself!

The Joint Venture Broker systems we teach work, and we have abundant evidence to prove it. The capitalist system works, and just because some people abused it, doesn’t mean it isn’t still the best system in the world.

The looters and parasites will use the recession to try and undermine capitalism, redistribute wealth, and sabotage the success of the western world, but you can’t keep a good man down for long, and I have absolutely no doubt that the economy will rebound magnificently – the spring always follows the winter, and smart people will position themselves to take full advantage of this fact.

• Now is the time to become the best Joint Venture Broker you can be, because the world is full of great opportunities offered by this recession.
• Now is the time to grab hold of the opportunities available to you through DollarMakers and get wealthy.

Seize the day – the window of opportunity is wide open for capitalists who understand the power of Joint Ventures. DollarMakers is an idea whose time has come, and I invite you to join us as we ride this wonderful wave to Treasure Island.

Here’s a great book which I recommend:

“End of Prosperity – How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy -If We Let It Happen.”  by Steve Moore

“At a time when economies around the world are going wobbly, this insightful and timely book reminds us of the principles and the policies which America will need to employ to restore stability and prosperity.”

- Lady Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979-1990

“Fair warning! No one can say, ‘No one told us this would happen.’ Art Laffer, Steve Moore, and Peter Tanous have done just that with this brilliantly insightful book. Read it — and act!”

- Steve Forbes

Joint Venture Brokers focus on solutions, instead of sales. They use their creativity.

A Million Dollar Business Making Dogs

What would you say if a friend of yours decides to start a business based on creating life-size models of pets? Craig Jones, a former emergency response instructor sensed a business opportunity after completing a pet first-aid class with the American Red Cross. He discovered that the unrealistic dog manikin they used for training was offered by only one company in the U.S.

Rescue Critters has since moved from its garage location to a storefront and now sells its manikins to customers worldwide, including veterinary technician programs, fire departments, U.S. Army canine hospital units and police department K-9 units. With 20 to 25 requests per year for manikins and projected sales of $1.3 million, it seems like Jones’ idea wasn’t so silly after all.

Necessity Motivates Creativity

In 2006, the USSR was in a deep depression: empty shelves in shops, no basic goods on sale, etc. This motivated people to become creative, and they started to invent things instead of buying them. For example:

• Women used sweet water (250 ml of water + 1 tea spoon of sugar) as a hairspray to fix the hairdo.
• Others used onion to polish the furniture (it made old wooden cupboards and night tables shiny and new).
• Women even knew how to make a sieve out of thin nylon tights!

Solve a problem and get paid for it – ease the challenges and pain in someone else’s life, and make money. Think outside the box.

Whether or not you have a business or a job, you can choose not to participate in this rushing, rampant recession. Desperate people will do desperate things.

• Marriages will crumble under financial stress…
• Health will decline…
• Bankruptcies and suicides will increase…
• Net worth will fall dramatically…

… for some.

Some Will Win.  Some Will Lose.

Those who prospered by default in the good times, in spite of their lack of professionalism, ability, or integrity, will be scraped off the bottom of the business world’s shoe. Smart companies will use the recession as an excuse to clean house and fire losers and parasites.

…And those who know how to ride this mighty wave of change will ride it all the way to Treasure Island.

Seeking Recession Solutions

The advice being offered on TV shows and in the media to those suffering from the recession is pathetic.

Some people will hide from reality by enrolling at colleges and universities, convincing themselves and their families that “more education will get me a great job.” What a joke. You don’t need a job; you need more money.

Business owners that were previously too arrogant and egotistical to consider alternatives to their present, limited business models will start to open up to solutions they wouldn’t consider learning about before.

And suddenly, some people will learn that most of what we have believed about money, security, value, business, and the way to create wealth is simply not true.

This is a wonderful time for dispelling myths and setting people financially free, regardless of their ages, backgrounds, circumstances, or education.

Now’s the Time to Harness Leverage

We don’t have money problems; we have thinking problems, and when you understand the power of leverage as it is available through brokering joint ventures, you suddenly have multiple, unlimited, international options that you never knew about before.

Business owners have a huge amount of hidden assets and resources that they can leverage. And smart brokers don’t need a business.

Earn from Multiple Income Sources

After 22 years as a Joint Venture Broker, I know how to run a business with no overhead, little time, no employees, no investment, costs or risk, no selling, and 100% profit on everything I earn from multiple income sources – most of them residual.

Most entrepreneurs, professionals, and the owners small and medium sized businesses are, in reality, simply self-employed salespeople. They might have money, but they don’t have the time to enjoy it, or they have neither time nor money. And most of them operate, in my opinion, at about 10% of their potential net profit. Employees are in an even worse position.

Become a Money Magnet

By linking supply and demand, being the middleman, and solving problems through other peoples’ businesses, products ad services, you remove all limitations from your earning potential.

By removing your ego and realizing that you’re in business to earn the maximum net profit with the least amount of time, cost, risk, effort, and stress, you become a catalyst – and a money magnet.

What Joint Venture Brokers Do

Joint Venture Brokers understand how to convert access, perishable resources, unconverted leads, reputations, excess inventory, relationships, and common sense into hard cash, fast. They see the connections, and they solve problems. They demand that they are paid, on an ongoing basis, for business that they create, and they understand how to set up joint ventures (we call them DollarMakers) and strategic alliances that operate on a capitalistic, win/win/win basis. They get paid for results, not promises, and all the parties involved are better off.

Create More Qualified Leads Than You Can Handle

Entrepreneurs who understand how to use joint ventures easily differentiate themselves from their confused competition by simply adding massive value, at no cost to themselves, which in turn spawn loads of back-end income. They know how to create more qualified leads than they can handle, and why they make more money by sending those leads to their competition.

They live in a world of abundance and opportunity, and they see the recession as a wonderful gift.

Who Are You Listening To?

A smart man once said:

“Only take advice from someone who already has what you want.”

Talking advice from bankers, consultants, coaches, “financial planners”, employees, and accountants about how to make money is ridiculous. They’re all selling their time, and all have a vested interest in telling you blatant lies, many of which they, themselves, believe. Taking advice from people who are more screwed up than you are is just plain silly.

Rich people understand things that poor people don’t – that’s why the rich get richer. It’s not magic, and it’s never too late to learn.

Brokering joint ventures provides a fast track to real money in the real world. While many will become the victims of seminar con artists, ponzi schemes, and snake oil salespeople, DollarMakers offers a practical, proven, creative, legitimate, safe alternative with a 22 year track record.

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.

Flying somewhere in the world almost every weekend, I have learned an important lesson:

Don’t talk to the person sitting next to you!

Why this anti-social choice? On a five or eight hour flight, even on a two-hour flight, you run the real risk of being locked into a one-sided conversation about the other person.

It’s like attending a “Business Networking Meeting”:

Ask someone, “What do you do?” and be prepared for a torrent of verbal trash and unadulterated BS that only stops when the other person decides that you’re not going to buy from him, at which time here turns you off fast, turns his back, and turns on his next unsuspecting victim.

People are Not Interested in You

You should realize that when people ask, “How ya doin’?” they really don’t want an answer. When they inquire about your business, they’re only trying to find out if you will buy their products or services – they’re looking for sales signals or buying signs; they’re prospecting. They are not interested in you, your welfare, or your opinion – unless it leads to buying their stuff.

Why This Poor Behavior is GREAT for You!

Sell, tell, push, and pressure – it’s amazing how so many broke, self-employed salespeople, has-beens and wanna-be’s, think that if they inundate you with enough egotistical, boring, self-aggrandizing information, you’ll eagerly whip out your check book and buy from them. And that, dear reader, is excellent news.

Why?

Because it gives you the opportunity to benefit from this mindless and desperate behavior. It offers you the lucrative opportunity to get people to send you more business than you can shake a stick at, using a simple, yet highly effective approach.

OK, so here is your action plan:

#1 – Only talk with successful people.

First, only talk with successful people who are capable of sending you lots of business, and many, qualified prospects.

#2 – Don’t talk about yourself.

Second, don’t talk about yourself, your products or services, your needs, opinions, or family. Nobody cares. Get used to it.

#3 – Recognize and drop losers fast!

Third, if the person you’re talking to looks at his Blackberry, interrupts you, or answers his phone, drop him like a hot cake. If he’s badly dressed / groomed, or appears arrogant or distracted, move away fast. If he’s a loser, he will refer you to losers.

#4 – ONLY talk about the other person.

Fourth, only talk about him:

• his products
• his family
• his goals
• his challenges
• his pain
• his needs
• his dreams
• his hopes

Dig deep with open-ended, strategic questions to find his Hot Button.

• What keeps him awake at night?
• What are his secret desires and fears?
• What does he want, or want to avoid, most of all?

Sincere, focused attention on him will make him like you and feel connected. Match and model his movements, speed, tone, and personality type to get in harmony with him, without going over the top (he sneezes, swears and burps, so you do, too).

#5 – Find solutions to bring relief for him through other people or their resources.

Fifth, find solutions, bridges, and relief for him through other people or the resources of others. That’s what Joint Venture Brokers do, and we get paid by the businesses providing those solutions. (This is what I specifically teach at our DollarMakers Bootcamps or through the Home Study Course.  You can read more about that here.)

We like people who help us, relieve our pain, and protect us, don’t we? We tend reciprocate when people do us favors and make us feel good about ourselves. The more value you can create for the other person (while getting paid for the referrals, of course,) the more likely he is to want to reward and repay us.

#6 – Set up reciprocation (that is also in his favor).

Sixth, after solving his problems, (not before,) alleviating his pain, and making him feel like a million bucks, show his specifically and exactly how he can reciprocate and return the favor, and how that will earn him generous commissions and favors from you that can be applied directly to his previously revealed Hot Button.

This is where you can set up a Referral System, Piggyback Mailing, Host Beneficiary Relationship, Endorsed Mailing, or other Joint Venture, again speaking specifically in the interest of the other person, never your own.

Solve More Problems = Get More Business

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.”

He didn’t say, “Run your mouth, blow your own trumpet, bore them with your false promises, and they’ll buy from you just to get rid of you.”

Solve the problems of good people and they will send you more business than you can shake a stick at.

Joint Venture Brokers get paid for solving, not selling.

We see every problem and goal as an income source, or dollarmaker. We understand that knowing what someone’s Hot Button is and knowing how to release the resources required to help others get what they want, with no cost or risk, is the way to wealth and strong relationships.

I regularly speak to large groups of people in seminars, talks and my Joint Venture Bootcamps. I know that, while I am speaking, my audience are internally talking to themselves at something approaching 600 words a minute. They’re either saying to themselves:

• “Wow! I can do that! Yes, this is a great idea I can and will implement. That sounds exciting to me!”
• OR they are saying to themselves, “YES, it all sounds great, BUT…“

What we say to ourselves about opportunities, challenges or options that we are confronted with or offered, means a lot. How we interpret those inputs will determine to a very large extent how we react and what choices will result.

Your Interpretation is Based on Past Experience

Usually, we interpret our input by comparing it with the information we have gathered in our lives: our experiences, learning and exposure. It’s almost like we scan our frame of reference, looking for a fit.

And this is the dangerous part, because if I hear the adjective, “Ex Wife”, I might have a negative reaction based on my past experience and prejudge the person it is being applied to. If my ex wife was a demon, guess how I will tend to evaluate someone else’s ex wife, IF I don’t stand back and get objective?

Look for This Red Flag

If you’ve been educated to believe that all businessmen are bad and dishonest, it might be hard for you to succeed as an entrepreneur. Your self-talk will hobble, distract, sabotage and undermine your success, because your belief in business and your entrepreneurial aspirations will not be congruent. So we need to be very open minded, non-judgmental and objective about new information that we’re exposed to.

When you hear yourself saying, “Yes, BUT” or prejudging new information, it’s time to give yourself a “Check-up from the neck up” and decide not to deny yourself the opportunity to positively benefit from this input.

A Technique to Remain Open-Minded

One of the ways I have found to make this work well is to take a lot of notes or record the seminar, and to make the decision to be completely unemotional about evidence I receive that conflicts with my present belief system. I use this affirmation:

“I know that I have a lot to learn and that not everything I believe is true, so I choose to be open to new options and opportunities.”