If you find it hard to get out of bed, watch the clock, and look forward to weekends, you probably not passionate about what you do. And it will be evident in your demeanor, your bank balance, your relationships, and your body.

Racing car drivers know that if they look at the barriers, they will hit them. We tend to move in the direction we look.

I know it’s true – I regularly race along a certain forest path on my trusty bicycle, and at one point I always had to slow down to avoid hitting a particular tree stump. Yesterday, I took my own advice, and instead of looking at the tree stump (where I didn’t want to go) I kept my eyes on the path beyond the tree stump (where I did want to go) and amazingly, I found I could negotiate the same route at twice my previous speed.

How They “Hit the Stump”

Jay Abraham, the multi-millionaire master marketing guru, whom I first met in the early nineties, certainly understands abundance. He says,

“You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence, and success. The problem is you just don’t see them.”

Now Jay isn’t talking about viewing The Secret or chanting positive affirmations. He is a very practical, rational, bottom-line entrepreneur.

What He Means

If They Really Wanted to Work

If these two loafers really wanted work:

1. Why are they not waiting tables, serving in a bar, washing cars
2. Or, better still, offering to work for nothing for two weeks so that a prospective boss can see how great they are and offer them a job?
3. How about working on a commission basis?

Too much like hard work? Don’t like being accountable for getting real results, perhaps?

Few business owners would turn you down if you offered to get paid for results on a part-time, independent agent, basis. Think about that one!

A Sure Way to Stay on That Couch

Businesses receive thousands of resumes, most of which are discarded without even being looked at. In fact, if you want to make sure you can stay on the couch and play video games when you get tired of playing with your kids, just keep on mailing out your resume.

You’re NOT RESTRICTED to a Job

Times have changed. There are thousands of opportunities to get out there and make money, and I’m not talking about “investments” or Network Marketing. DollarMakers presents regular, free seminars, and offers plenty of complimentary information on how to make money with no cost, risk, selling, regardless of one’s circumstances, using Joint Ventures.

Here’s the bottom line:

You make money by creating value. While you’re waiting to get a job, there is no excuse not to work, and there are many opportunities to work. No work is below you, and you never know whom you will meet and what you might learn when you get off your fat ass and go to work.

• Staying at home feeling sorry for yourself and leeching off your wife is not what a real man does. Whining about the economy doesn’t pay for your beer and cigarettes.
• And “going back to school” in order to get better qualified to get a job is the most ridiculous cop-out I’ve ever heard.

Only One Way to Have Money – EARN It!

Increasing the minimum wage isn’t the answer, either, nor is bigger government – that’s just thinly-veiled socialism. Hand-outs, welfare, and protectionism is simply government’s way to imprison the productive population and empower the losers and leeches.

No- the way to make money is to EARN it by creating value, and getting a job is virtually a guarantee that you will never get rich. Take another look at your choices, and take a GOOD look at becoming a Joint Venture Broker. There is no excuse why you can’t make money as a JV Broker, regardless of your skills, education, or background.

Take a good look in the mirror, buddy – be a man! And wives, perhaps it’s time to lock the fridge, unplug the XBox, and send your hapless hubby out to work, or perhaps YOU should fire him, too.

How do you decide which Joint Venture Partner you want to work with? After all, we have literally millions of options, don’t we?

If you agree that basically, people don’t change – we change our choices, but not who we essentially are – then their past track record must, to a large extent, predict their future choices.

• I’m talking about a track record that starts early in life, and consistently repeats.
• Also, small decisions and actions give us clues to who people are.

We want to work with winners, not wanna-be’s. The quality of our network will determine our net worth, and we can’t afford to hook up with losers. That means that 97% of people simply don’t qualify to work with us. Here’s a simple checklist:

1.  Their Track Record.

Talk with people about their successes and failures in their lives, from childhood. Winners and leaders will always, like the proverbial cream, rise to the top – in teams, in groups, in organizations, in clubs, at school – wherever they choose, and wherever their passion is. If a champion believes in something, he or she is going to make it work. They have track records of success in many different areas of life. Ask the hard questions.

2.  Their Daily Choices.

Watch their daily choices – do they deliver on time, return calls and emails promptly, dress professionally, groom themselves well? Are they reliable, punctual, respectful, honest, and straightforward? Are they generous? Do they honor their promises and make good and take responsibility when they mess up?

3.  Their Money.

Have they made money? If not, what makes you think that will suddenly change? If they have money, where did they get it? Inheritance? Are they self-made, or Daddy-made? If the boy lives with his parents, is a stay-at-home-dad, has his wife support him, and moves from one financial disaster or network marketing company to the next, how will you benefit from partnering with him? Ask them!

4.  Their Associations.

With whom do they associate? Look at their friends. Birds of the feather flock together. Losers love to team up with each other.

5.  Their Input.

Look at what they read. BIG clues there. Be careful of “seminar junkies” – they flare up fast and fade away even faster.

6.  Their Philosophy.

Determine their philosophy. Avoid mystics, socialists, and altruists. You will discover their philosophy by observing their lives. Do your due diligence.

7.  Their Involvements.

What clubs / groups / cults / organizations do they belong to?

8.  Their Action.

Are they action-takers or procrastinators? Are they overly analytical? Do they embrace change positively? Are they “big hat, no cattle”, or the real thang?

9.  Their Presentation.

How do they present themselves? Their dress, grooming, business cards, car, pen, shoes, paperwork, binders, hair, (men with nose / ear hairs, women who have unruly, wet, or badly cut hair) nails, jewelry, tattoos, piercings… Everything is a clue. Do the women dress act like flirts / sluts? Avoid smokers and drinkers.

10.  Test Their Metal.

Even is all the above are in line, test your potential JV partners in small matters before opening up the store. Give them enough rope to hang themselves, enough opportunity to steal, and enough time to let their masks slip.

Be patient – it’s well worth it. Remember, you’re looking for 3% of people.

It’s sensible to buy one dollar umbrellas at the dollar store and hand them to restaurant guests as they leave on a rainy night – far better than handing them expensive “corporate gifts” that you have to pay for.

But how much better would it be, how much more attention would you get, and how much more word of mouth advertising would you enjoy, if you handed out $75 gifts to all your customers? And what if it didn’t cost you a blue cent?

What Really Impresses People

Nobody is impressed with discount vouchers, two-for-one, “Buy one, get one” and bulk deals.

What they ARE impressed with is stand-alone, no-obligation, real value, like a gift, as opposed to bait.

Try This

What about handing your female customers a nice Gift Certificate for a complimentary manicure, paid for and provided by the local spa? The spa would get a whole bunch of potential new customers, and they would be happy to pay for the printing and provide the manicures (subject to availability, of course). Far better for them than expensive advertising.

Drive Profit to Your Bottom-line at the Same Time

Naturally, you could negotiate a commission on any sales resulting from said Gift Certificates, as well. That would drive net profit directly to you bottom line with no cost, risk, or time. As long as the Gift Certificates are distributed to the right demographic / psychographic model, it’s a win-win, since you’ll be passively endorsing and recommending the products and services of the vendor providing the Gift Certificates.

The Sky’s the Limit!

How about Gift Certificates from interior designers, home theater purveyors, kitchen renovators, yoga teachers, jewelers, kayak and boating places… provide samples, classes, consultations, reports – the sky is the limit.

Imagine all the possibilities, and consider the exposure and publicity you would get!

• Target your markets.
• Joint Venture with the providers of the Gift Certificates to reciprocate by paying you commissions and / or distributing YOUR gift certificates.
• You could even SELL the Gift Certificates for a dollar each to other businesses.

Think about it…

Imagine a football team of 12 hulking players all chasing one single opponent.  What are the odds of the single opponent surviving?  ZERO!  12 vs. 1 odds are terrible, and the single opponent will surely be destroyed in no time at all.

So why do we do the same thing in our day-to-day life?

We fail to include other people on our success team, and we don’t allow others to help us. So we turn ourselves into the “one single opponent” running for his or her life from our competitors that have full rosters of 12 hulking football players, ready to destroy us.  It just doesn’t make any sense at all!

Work with Like-Minded People to Achieve More

That is one of the main reasons that we’ve created DollarMakers.  To provide a place for like-minded individuals to meet, congergate and produce more profits with no money and no risk simply by taking a cooperative, team approach to making money.  Let’s work as a team – together we CAN achieve more!

If Someone Else Can Do the Job, They Should Be

And while you’re at it, why not consider getting help with your business? Stop doing minimum wage jobs – focus on activities that make money, like Joint Ventures, instead of licking stamps and doing boring things that someone else could do.  Why spend your $500 per hour value on a $15 per hour job?

Consider a VA

Don’t waste your time and money on a secretary that will just sit there and play solitaire because you don’t know how to keep them busy and worth the expense.  And don’t pay the numerous expenses involved with hiring someone – paying for their employment taxes (CPP & EI), taking the time to train them, spending money to get them setup with a computer and work space.

Instead, why not consider a Virtual Assistant (VA)?  You only pay for the amount of time that you actually use, and they can take over many of your mundane, repetitive tasks that take up your time. Time that you would far prefer spending with friends, kids, and family.  IT’s a lot more affordable than you may think, as well! In fact, you can’t afford NOT to try it.

Here’s Where You Can Find One

To find out if a VA can help you in your professional, entrepreneurial, or personal life, get a free consultation done.  Call Tina at 1-877-977-4776, or write her at Info@SaveTimeBoostProfits.com. She will give you a free, 30-minute consultation, and you can decide from yourself if a VA can help you become everything you want to be.

Together we can do amazing things; to your success!

It’s like sugar in your gas tank, poison in your pop, the worm in your apple – the one flaw that can cripple even the best Joint Venture, and something to be avoided at all costs.

The reason why many newbies to Joint Venture brokering fail is their choice of Joint Venture partner. Because of their low self-esteem and confidence, along with their limited belief and low aspirations, they approach people by whom they don’t feel threatened. (This is the same reason why network marketing newbies try to recruit losers.)

Think about it:

When you try to set up Joint Ventures with copycats, counterfeits, wannabe’s, and “managers”, you’re not dealing with real decision makers.  Sycophants, sidekicks, mimics and morons cannot make a JV work – they don’t have what it takes. If they did, they would be the head honchos, the chiefs, the principals. But they’re not. They talk the talk, but they can’t walk the walk. They’re just parasites and pawns, and they with frustrate you and fail you.

Deal with the Top Guy

Smart JV Brokers know that the higher you go, the more you grow. Deal with the top guy, the president of the company, the real deal, and you will find your Joint Ventures flowing and flourishing.

• They make good decisions, which they make fast, and they can pay their way.
• They have a track record of success, and that is a clear prediction of their future with you.

Winners are generally generous and upfront – they will tell it like it is and practice what they preach – that’s how they got to be the owner of the business. The posers and pretenders will sabotage and scuttle your lucrative JV.

How to Access These Winners

The way to get to the top people is to create a really good, complete, professional presentation that requires no money, no risk, and little time from the other party, and pushes all the right buttons. It should be logical, short, and sweet, understandable, and concise.

Most of all. It needs to have high, residual potential. After all, the JV is about money, leverage, and results – it’s not about you, so don’t get your self-esteem or lack of experience slow you down and lower your expectations.

Go to the top dog, not the concierge. Pitch your JV with the focus on the bottom line and his or her interests – not your own. And stop trying to sell yourself – successful people don’t have to convince others that they are successful.

Here are a few red flag words that will chase off any winner:

• “Integrity” the bigger the loser, the more often he will use this word!
• “I am honest”
• “I will try / do my best”
• “If”
• “I hope / I guess”

If you have done your homework and you have the right training and support, you will speak easily and as an equal.

You may feel important by dealing with losers, but you will become important by dealing with winners.