The most lucrative Joint Venture one can engage in usually involves a Center of Influence.

• This is a person who has the respect, admiration, trust, cooperation, and attention of a large group of people with whom he or she regularly communicates.
• This database of people is strongly inclined to follow the directions, instruction, advice, and suggestions of their leader, and they often do so blindly, as do most sheep.

And herein lies the challenge:

There are some dishonest and psychopathic centers of influence that misuse and abuse their power and their people, selling their loyal followers pigs in pokes, and taking advantage of their position of power to the disadvantage of their flock. One wants to identify and avoid these centers of influence like the plague.

You will be judged by your associations and the company you keep, and aligning yourself with con artists is financially tempting, but is as unwise as eating chocolate cake doused in strychnine.

The Most Valuable Activity of Any JV Broker

Seek out the honest and sincere centers of influence.

I would rather spend $2,000 working on a relationship with one genuine center of influence who has integrity, than reach hundreds of individuals who are not centers of influence. Those who have successfully Joint Ventured with good centers of influence know how valuable those relationships are. This is BY FAR the most valuable activity of any JV Broker: finding and pitching centers of influence.

7 Pointers for Gaining Top Notch Associates

Here are seven pointers that you would do well to be aware of:

#1 – Not everyone who has a large database is a center of influence.

There are characters lurking on the Internet who have plagiarized lots of information and built large opt-in databases under false pretenses – those databases are usually low quality, and your hit rate and conversion rate will be very low, while those you do convert will be low quality, too.

You want a high quality relationship between the center of influence and his or her people, and a high quality person in the database. Quality is more important than quantity.

#2 – Centers of influence can lose their credibility…

…with their flock as the products, services and investments they sold their followers prove to be scams at worst, and empty promises at best. The chickens come home, as it were, to roost.

Be on top of things and be current in your information about your target centers of influence. Things change, and there are a lot of posers and has-beens out there. Some centers of influence are on their way out.

#3 – All centers of influence are busy

…and what we hate more than anything else is an MLM type that sells lotions, potions, swill, and pills, snake oil and weight loss products, magic drinks, and overpriced vitamins and placebo effect products.

Realize that JV’s that involve the aforementioned and start-ups, unproven, miracle investments, gold mines in far-away places, and property/real estate “investments” in volatile, unstable third world countries are not JV’s most intelligent and honest centers of influence will even consider. We hear a lot of hype, and we have “BS Detectors”.

#4 – Don’t be intimidated by a center of influence.

They all want more money, and they all realize they can leverage their database. And they’re all looking for good, solid, lucrative, and viable JV’s that don’t involve cost, risk, or time.

#5 – Your Presentation:

Look, act, groom yourself, dress, and present yourself at least at the same level of professionalism as your prospect.

Showing up badly dressed, unshaven, covered in cat hair, answering your cell phone in the meeting, surreptitiously  glancing at your Blackberry or cell phone every few minutes (usually the sign of a lack of discipline and/or desperation), being unprepared, or smelling of tobacco, will simply irritate your prospect and end the meeting before it begins. And if you’re overdressed (glitzy, embroidered French cuffs, bling, big mouth, loud, ostentatious, aggressive and egotistical), you simply reveal that you’re intimidated, nouveau riche, or stupid. (Or all three.)

Be demure, professional, high quality, self confident, relaxed, and focused.

#6 – Your Offer and Approach:

Your offer has to be sufficiently financially rewarding to get the avid attention of your prospect.

• Get it in writing.  Click here for information about writing up an MOU, otherwise known as Memorandum of Understanding.
• Run it by your lawyer. I use Pre-Paid Legal and save a fortune on lawyers.
• Be very specific.
• Be concise and to the point, and remember that you have little time and only one opportunity to make a good impression. Talk about the bottom line and the time it will take to deliver the profit.
• Also mention who will control the money. This can easily be a deal breaker.
• Do your homework and position yourself.

#7 – This is a JV between equals.

…and you’re not a sales person or employee, so don’t act like one.

Be prepared to walk away from the deal. No center of influence wants to deal with someone who is in financial distress or under pressure to make money.

By seeking out solid, professional, and honest JV partners, you build your financial future on a firm foundation. Be selective, patient, and focused, and the sky’s the limit when dealing with centers of influence. DollarMakers is built on JV’s with good people.

• Bored with your job and boss?
• Tired of working too hard, for too long, for too little in your business?
• Unemployed?
• Weary of financial woes and turbulence?
• Skeptical of big promises and scary scams?
• Irritated with MLM B.S.?
• Do you want real financial freedom, security, and peace of mind?

Check this out

You Don’t Need A Job

Some people have money, but no time to enjoy it. Others have time, but no money. Many others have neither, and some are losing what they have.

People are losing their jobs and houses, losing hope, and generally losing it, as they see things changing faster and faster in an increasingly socialist world.

The only people who are happy are the parasites: the losers, the lazy, the liberals, and the looters. They’re waiting for handouts as your hard-earned wealth gets redistributed to them and you get to sink down to their level.

It doesn’t have to be like this for you. You don’t have to lie awake at night worrying about your financial future. You don’t have to take a second job – in fact, you don’t need a job!

The Solution Is Easier Then You Believe

After 23 years of working with tens of thousands of entrepreneurs in different countries, I have seen a lot of people enslaved by Network Marketing cults, dead-end businesses, and mind-numbing jobs. I have seen financial problems cause divorce, depression, and suicide.

I have learned why businesses fail, and why the average small and medium-sized business operates at about ten percent of its real potential. And the solution is easier and better than you might believe.

Patrick Giesbrecht used our systems to retire with more residual monthly income than he needed to live on within seven months. Dick Low did it in five months. Too good to be true? Only if you don’t understand how they did it.

Let’s Play a Little Game of “Imagine”

Imagine you had a real business (as I have – I practice what I preach) that operated with:

• No overhead,
• No royalties,
• No selling,
• No employees,
• No risk,
• No inventory,
• No cost,
• And only took you two hours a day to run from anywhere in the world.

Imagine if it had multiple income sources from:

• Diverse economies,
• People,
• Businesses,
• Products,
• Services,
• And geographic areas.

And imagine if it had unlimited potential. Best of all, imagine if anyone, regardless of their age, background, circumstances, education, or skills, and whether they had a business or not, could do this.

Now that REALLY sounds like a scam to someone who doesn’t understand how this works, right?

Our Misson

Well, that’s exactly what we do, what we teach, and what our mission and passion in life is – to help millions of people around the world to use this proven, tested system to create financial freedom. There are only three requirements to qualify. If you have them, you can create a lean, mean, money machine for yourself and your family. Only you know whether or not you have these essential qualities:

1. You have to LEARN how to do it. Are you prepared to learn, or is your cynicism and skepticism too great? Are you prepared to be open-minded and teachable?
2. You have to be seriously MOTIVATED – hungry – or you will quit at the first sign of difficulty, as many do. On a scale of 1 – 10, one being, “I don’t care”, and ten being, “Whatever it takes – seriously”, where do you stand?
3. You have to WORK, consistently, to create your DollarMaker Money Machine, until it sets you free. Are you prepared to work hard, in all your spare time if you have a job or a business, UNTIL you get it, and the money starts flowing in? It can happen fast if you have the right motivation and attitude.

All your excuses will be taken care of with this system –

“Not enough time, new in the area, don’t know people, can’t sell, too old, too young, shy, no money, no credit, no business experience”

– none of these will make a difference – we teach our students how to leverage other people’s resources and to think correctly about money and value and business. We don’t have money problems; we have thinking problems.

We think strategically and we create wealth.

With A 24/7/365 Attitude – You Will Succeed!

When I got into business 23 years ago at the age of 33, I had never owned a business before, and I was DESPERATE to succeed in my new business, so I did everything I was told to do.

I was prepared to work 24/7/365, without questioning, second-guessing, or compromising. My mentor was strict and serious about success.

With that attitude, you WILL succeed. But if you’re a lazy quitter who blames others for your bad choices, this is not for you.

Here’s the training we offer: Pick what you want, pick all of them, if you like, and get going.
1.    Attend a seminar: Click here
2.    Do our Online Joint Venture Broker Bootcamp: Click here
3.    Attend JVU: Click here
4.    Use JVWebPartners: Click here

You don’t need a job; you need DollarMakers.

We see how “Dhimmitude” is destroying Western civilization. William A. Jacobson speaks eloquently about his word, “Ghimmitude.”

Well, I am creating a new word: “Gimmetude”. This is an attitude of “Gimme (give to me) everything I want – I have an attitude of entitlement, I don’t want to work, I’m a lazy parasite, and I deserve what you work for.

Sieg Heil Obama.

”This pervasive attitude of entitlement comes as a severe a culture shock to anyone with a responsible work ethic, but we get used to seeing it, and we realize that it is good news for the producers and creators among us.

I have a relative who always whines about how much money her bosses and the owners of the business she works for are making, compared with her income as an employee. I respond, “Did you apply for that job and gratefully accept the salary they offered you, or were you forced to work for them? Is there anything to prevent you from starting your own business like they did? Can you quit and go get a better job? Without them, you wouldn’t have an income. They created the business, and they are entitled to any money they make – it‘s called Capitalism.”

But she doesn’t get it; she has a Gimmetude.

Winners Never Quit

We recently received an e-mail from a loser who had committed himself to achieving financial freedom in six months, using our JVWebPartners system. He didn’t manage six months, though – he quit, according to him, after a mere twelve hours of work. At the end of twelve hours, he didn’t ask for help, correction, or direction – he simply quit outright. TWELVE HOURS!

I couldn’t believe it, but those were his own words. If you look at his life, you will find he has always been a quitter, and that he always blames his tools, other people, the weather, the economy, or the mirror that shows him how pathetic he is. He has a Gimmetude.

His “commitment” and his honor and self-respect are worth nothing. Winners never quit.

Moving on to Newer And Better Things

People with a Gimmetude want everything for nothing, and they think they will prosper off the backs of the producers, but of course they don’t. Atlas always ends up shrugging them off, and they always end up blaming Atlas, who has moved on to new and better things.

We can either get upset at these slovenly slaves of state succor, socialism, and instant gratification, or we can celebrate the fact that they are here to make us rich. They want to work for minimum wage, so let them work for us.

Those with a commitment to success and production, the three percent of people, have less competition than ever before. That’s good news!

2010 is The Year of the Producers

It will be the year when people will get dramatically richer or poorer, FAST, and most people will get poorer.

Those with a Gimmetude will find themselves in deep trouble. We get paid for what we produce, not for attending seminars, playing the Cash Flow Game, or running our mouths.

The posers and parasites are going to get a serious wake-up call in 2010, while those of us who are prepared to work and commit will succeed beyond our wildest dreams.

Atlas Shrugged is happening right now in our lives. If you haven’t yet read this book, read it now, and if you have read it, read it again – it’s 100% better the second time around. Read it so that you can be prepared. Make DollarMakers your Galt’s Gulch.

It’s smart to take a few minutes to give yourself a status check.

Get into a quiet place and ask yourself some serious questions.  Here are fifty questions that will make you think.

1. What does your life look like, right now?
2. What will it look like in five year’s time?
3. How happy are you?
4. What is stopping you from being happy?
5. Why not get happy sooner?

If you read Kiyosaki’s “Conspiracy of the Rich” and realize that the world has changed dramatically, now is a very good time to take stock of your life.

It’s Time To Get Rich and Have Fun

Those who stumble along blindly from paycheck to paycheck, sinking deeper into debt, numbing their senses with tobacco and booze, living vicariously through sports teams, avoiding reality, and channeling their passive aggression into liberal politics, are in for a sudden and rude awakening.

You don’t have to join them in squalor and servitude. It’s time to get rich and have fun.

It’s Not To Late

Most people only make changes in their lives when they exceed their pain threshold – the pain of remaining where they are is exceeded by the pain of change – or when forced to do so by external circumstances.

But the frog in boiling water never looks at the temperature as it rises, and he cooks before he can escape.

He misses the train to success. You don’t have to miss the train. It’s not too late.

When Is It Too Late?

It takes guts to leave the ruts, to walk away from the comfortable, the familiar, the “safe”. It’s easier to stay aboard the Titanic than to leap into a bobbing lifeboat in freezing seas. Easier to deny reality and “hope for the best”. Problem is, when it’s too late, it’s simply too late.

25% of the white population has left South Africa since 1995. When we left, friends said,

“We’ll see how it goes – we’ll wait a bit – we’re comfortable.”

Now it’s too late for them – they’re too old, their world is crumbling around them, and they’re stuck on the sinking ship.

Others viciously attacked us for leaving; they accused us of taking “the Chicken Run”, and stopped talking to us when they heard we were immigrating (this only happens in South Africa – not in other countries).

Now they’re living in one of the most dangerous third world countries and regretting their choices.

You Need Four Things to Change Your Life:

1. You need to objectively and rationally evaluate your options and circumstances. Get advice from people who have already created what you want, not those more screwed up than you are. Fat fish in small, stagnant ponds can’t tell you what it’s like to fly freely in the mountain air – in fact, they think it’s impossible. So talk to eagles. Life is short – you deserve the best.
2. You need to do due diligence before making changes. Take time to do this, but don’t wait until it’s too late!
3. You need mentoring, guidance, support, and a clear action plan. My support system was Rika, and hers was me. YOU are your best, ultimate support system, but the more successful people you have helping you, the better. Learn from their mistakes. Find people who are richer, smarter, and more motivated than you are.
4. You need serious motivation, which means you burn your bridges, close the back door, and commit unconditionally. Create a bulletproof mindset. The only South Africans who return to South Africa after immigrating are those who couldn’t make it in their new homes, and most of the time they kept property or money in South Africa – they “kept their options open” – they never really committed. Small wonder they failed.

Your Best Option is to Use Joint Ventures

Ninety-seven percent of our problems, pain, and restrictions can be solved with money.

When we realize how much we can achieve with money, and take into account the way the world is changing, the best option is to use Joint Ventures to acquire financial freedom.

I just noticed that a fellow with a massive database is following me on Twitter. He knows who I am. I could show him a system that is:

1. Simple
2. Proven
3. Safe
4. No-cost
5. Risk-free

- that he could introduce easily to his database.

Conservatively, it would earn him $5,000 per month in passive income within three months. (No, it’s not Network Marketing.) Yet I can virtually guarantee that he won’t even consider it. Why? His giant ego.

Seminar leaders, “gurus” and “trainers”, much like many of the owners of small and medium-sized business, allow their egos to steal massive potential profits from right under their noses.

The Most Sophisticated Tools In Business

We’re not in business to feel important or to impress people; we’re in business to make the most possible after-tax profit, with the least cost, time, risk, and effort.

The fact is that most “gurus” and “entrepreneurs” are not really entrepreneurs – they’re really just slick salesmen and pitchmen.

Anthony “Sully” Sullivan, the well-known “Pitchman”, says, “Life’s a pitch, and then you die.”

Smart entrepreneurs understand that Joint Ventures and strategic alliances are the most sophisticated tools in business –

• They are strategic,
• They employ leverage,
• They are scalable.
• They are not based on ego, but rather on profit.

Get Your Ego In Check

Look at the people who make the really big money, and you’ll find that they seldom sell their time, they actually prefer not to be on a stage unless they have no other option, and they evaluate business opportunities objectively and rationally.

When we get our egos under control, we suddenly see new options opening up. But for that, we need to understand the back-end, leverage, and positioning. Calvin Coolidge said,

“Civilization and profit go hand in hand.”

Most wanna-be business owners are simply broke, desperate, self-employed salespeople, whose arrogance is exceeded only by their ignorance, yet these are the very people who allow their egos to dictate their business choices.

A big fish is a small, rancid pond is only impressive to those even more pathetic and needy than he is.

Focus On The Bottom Line

The most successful businessman with whom I was ever privileged to work, partnered with me in my business and taught me a very important lesson. He said,

“Robin, it’s all about the bottom line. If you maintain your integrity and sublimate your personal feelings and pride, your profits will soar. There is always going to be someone richer and smarter than you are – don’t try to be a legend in your own lunchtime, don’t believe your own PR and BS, and focus on the bottom line.”

He was a very wealthy man, one of the most humble, soft-spoken people around, and very strong and disciplined.

If you want to feel important, act in a pantomime, join a service or fraternal club and rise in the ranks to get a title, or teach kids.

If you want to get rich, focus on the bottom line.

Here’s a simple formula to predict someone’s future choices and actions.

This virtual crystal ball has helped me significantly over the years to save time and money and allocate my resources more accurately.

Here’s How To Do It – Quick and Easy!

Sit down and do a spot of goal-setting with them, including the creation of an Action Plan.

There are really only two responses to this activity.

Winners who intend to produce will set goals with an Action Plan to Support them that are:

• very specific,
• realistic,
• measurable,
• time-related,
• and significant.

Those who do not intend to produce will set vague, mediocre goals that focus on activity rather than results, and are hard to measure and check.

Clues: What Winners and Losers Say

For example, the winner writes:

“I will make four paid, $2,000 sales by November 1st.”

The loser writes:

“Contact fifteen new prospects, advertise in the newspaper, ask for referrals from existing customers, read ‘Think and Grow Rich’ again.”

You get my drift.

How do I know he/she called fifteen new prospects or read the book, and how does reading the book put money in the bank? Did he/she really ask for referrals? It’s easy to advertise in the newspaper, but that doesn’t create sales.

Also, listen to their words:

• Winners says things like

“I will, I commit, definitely, exactly, certainly, I know.”

And they will put themselves on the line, invest, and face the consequences.

• Losers will use words like,

“I guess, I hope, I’ll try, IF, it depends on, maybe, I can’t control the future”, etc.

They will deflect blame.

Have Something to Show For It

When November 1st rolls around, the Winner will either celebrate their success, or they will have to explain why they didn’t attain their four sales, because it will be plain to see whether they succeeded or not.

The loser has protected them self by insulating them self from criticism; they will claim that they achieved their goals by reading the book, contacting people, asking for referrals, and advertising, yet they made no sales!

So he/she feels very successful with no sales, while the Winner, who in fact made three sales, determines to do much better next time by applying more self-discipline, something which the loser knows nothing about.

Motivation for Losers Vs. Winners

Losers (parasites and moochers) are motivated by:

• being busy,
• feeling important,
• impressing others,
• and teaching others (the blind leading the blind.).

Winners (producers and creators) are motivated by:

• results.

The way they set goals is the first way to predict their futures. The second way is to listen to what they say after their results are revealed.

Losers will:

• make excuses,
• blame others,
  • the economy,
  • circumstances,
  • their tools,
  • products and services,
  • pricing,
  • the market,
  • you name it.
• be “offended” if confronted with the fact that they failed to produce.

Winners will:

• take personal responsibility and
• resolve to do better by
  • changing their action plan,
  • working harder,
  • honing their skills.

Before you commit time and resources to working with someone, apply this simple formula – it could save you a lot of time and money!

This article is important to those who want to achieve great things.

Any successful athlete will tell you how important momentum is in ther training. Consistency, focus, momentum – you can’t serve two masters,

“because you will love the one and despise the other”.

Compromise and distraction, laziness and pride all decrease momentum. An aircraft requires 95% of it’s power to ascend, but only 65% while cruising.

Build Momentum to Build Real Wealth

Many so-called “entrepreneurs” spend their time swinging between feast and famine, chicken and feathers. They spend their money in the good times and suffer in the bad times, forgetting that business is cyclical.

Joan Welsh said,

“If you’re coasting, you’re either losing momentum or else you’re headed downhill.”

In order to build real wealth and get to a place where you can cruise, you have to build momentum in the right areas.

Business Is A Relationship With Money

Anthony Robbins said,

“The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.”

And you have to keep on taking that positive action. Business is a relationship with money, just like your relationship with your spouse – remember that.

Build A Bullet-Proof Mindset

At any given point in your day, on a regular basis, ask yourself,

“Is what I am doing now taking me towards my goal or away from it? What is the return on investment from this choice?”

It’s sad to see many people join DollarMakers and take off in a flurry of promises and activity, and then to see them quit at the first sign of difficulty. Others get overconfident and sit back, riding on the backs of others, and before they know it, they’re cut loose.

The smart ones build a bullet-proof mindset and are consistent, disciplined, focused, and reliable. They build relationship and momentum, and they get rich.

Time – Your Most Valuable Resource

Michael Korda said,

“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”

By building relationships with strong entrepreneurs whose goals are aligned with yours and with whom you have “overlap”, you will find yourself staying on track.

Once you lose momentum, it’s hard to build it again, especially since one often loses credibility in the process, and that diminishes trust and closes previously open doors.

Sporadic, emotional bursts of ego-driven activity seldom achieve long-term results. You can’t chase two rabbits or ride two bicycles.

Manage your time carefully – it’s your most valuable resource.

Consistency and Momentum  - The Essential Components of Success.

Set your goals and action plans carefully, remain flexible, continue to add income streams and dollarmakers, and remember who your friends are.

Consistency and momentum are not options – they are essential components of success.

Winners hang in there through the tough times, make the hard choices, apply self-discipline, and get rich.

Wikipedia tells us,

“A blind spot, also known as a scotoma, is an obscuration of the visual field. A particular blind spot known as the blindspot, or physiological blind spot, or punctum caecum in medical literature is the place in the visual field that corresponds to the lack of light-detecting photoreceptor cells on the optic disc of the retina where the optic nerve passes through it. Since there are no cells to detect light on the optic disc, a part of the field of vision is not perceived. The brain fills in with surrounding detail and with information from the other eye, so the blind spot is not normally perceived.”

Psychological Scotoma – The Inability to See Clearly

Try this interesting, fun exercise.

Psychological scotoma, like ophthalmological scotoma, is an inability to see or notice, or correctly interpret situations that are often obvious to objective observers.

All of the following can contribute to the establishment and maintenance of a psychological scotoma:

• ignorance,
• greed,
• wishful thinking,
• fear,
• denial,
• comfort,
• a vested interest in the existing situation

A popular example is men and women who don’t notice that their spouses are having affairs and flirting, while everyone else does.

Another is the behavior and choices of cult members, ranging widely from religious to political to financial; one can see a highly intelligent, politically savvy, wealthy, connected TV host performing brilliantly and winning tough arguments, while at the same time wearing “Holy Undergarments”.

The Purpose of This Article

But the purpose of this little article is to ask you,

“Is your scotoma preventing you from succeeding financially?”

Is this why you hook up with losers, waste money on scams, refuse to stop financially draining activities or withdraw from dead-end MLM schemes?

I have seen many women with massive financial potential get involved with men who are basically parasites and who not only leech all their money away, but prevent these smart women from reaching their full potential.

Has your conditioning  and “education” created a blind spot that prevents you from making heaps of money?

Reality Check on Your Financial Blind Spot

In our society, many of us have been exposed to conditioning without even being aware of it.  Banks, employers, politicians, educational institutions, mystics, and others have a vested interest in our financial ignorance and enslavement.

It starts when we’re young children.  Having said all that, it’s time to give ourselves a “check-up from the neck up” as Zig Ziglar used to say, and take a good, hard look in the mirror.

Here are a few questions to ask yourself that might establish the fact that you have, indeed, succumbed to a psychological financial scotoma:

1. Is it possible for you to retire within one year with more passive monthly income than you need to live on? (It is.)
2. Is it possible for you to become a millionaire? (It is.)
3. Is it possible for you to create wealth with no cost, risk, or selling? (It is, and this isn’t Network Marketing.)
4. Is it possible for you to be happy, financially free, and fulfilled person? (It is.)

What We Believe is Usually Not True

Our perceptions of life and our options and the way things works are simply a chosen interpretation.

We tend to believe the stories we tell ourselves about the meaning of our circumstances. To get outside the proverbial box, we need to talk with people who are already outside the box.

When I was poor and I wanted to get rich, I found people who had created wealth and learned from them. I continue to find people smarter and richer and more successful than I am, and I learn from them, often through the books they write.

It’s Never Too Late to Break Free

There is a lot of valuable information for you on our Websites and Blog, including thousands of articles, Podcasts, videos, and audio clips, but the best way to break free is via the training we present.