Robin J. Elliott: Joint Ventures with the Prophet of Profit, Training, Strategic Alliances

Use Hot Buttons to Drive Successful JV’s.

Let me ask you this: What do you really, really, really want? If you say, “Money”, what does that translate into for you? Control? Power? Security? Dignity? Freedom? How much money? If you say. “Health”, what does that exactly mean to you? How will you know when you’re healthy? What has to happen in order for you to declare, “Now, I’m healthy!” What is “Success” to you? How would you measure it? I once consulted with a client who wanted to start a trans-Africa transport airline service. When I dug deep down, what he REALLY wanted was to fly an airplane! Much cheaper, methinks, than starting an airline, wouldn’t you agree?

I like this question: “What is your NUMBER?” The “number” is the amount of money it will take you to do something. “Everyone has his price”, they say. And they’re right. What will it take? And sometimes it will take a lot less than we might think. When you know someone’s real Hot Button, you gain control beyond your wildest dreams. Instead of mouthing off about yourself, your product or service, ask intelligent questions. Find out what pain the other person is currently enduring. Find out what keeps him or her awake at night, worrying – their greatest fears.

I know a fellow who continually tries to recruit me into his business. But he’s so arrogant and egotistical that he never takes the time to find out who I am or what I want. The more he runs off at the mouth the more I lose interest. Instead of enticing me, he bores me. I want to know everything about the people I choose to do business with because knowledge that can be applied is power. It sometimes takes a long time to discover the Hot Button, but when you do, it’s worth the effort. When you think you’ve found the Hot Button, test it. Don’t jump to the confusion that you’re right. When you find the pain, turn the knife in the wound and then offer the solution, remedy and escape, in the form of a Joint Venture.

Understand your potential JV partner and get to know what their How Buttons are, and you will create a great JV. Watch them: what do they look at, what do they read, where do they go, what do they talk about the most, what do they spend time and money on, whom do they spend time with? Do personality assessments. If you know I’m a High D, INTJ, you know more about me than most. Take the time and spend the money, do your homework. It will pay off in spades.

“I Owe Everything I Have to Joint Ventures”, he said. And he meant it. Geoff had been watching his business slide down into a neverending cash flow crises for months. We’ve all heard the old, “Feast or Famine, Chicken or Feathers” saying. Well, Geoff had been eating feathers for so long he’d nearly laid an egg. The future looked dismal and he felt terrible.

Then he learnt about Joint Ventures. The scales fell from his eyes. He stopped thinking about selling and started thinking about what other people wanted. He started looking at the big picture and forgot about the old desperation tactics. All of a sudden, he relaxed and saw potential under every tree and gold in the streets. He started asking, “What will it take?”, “How can I help you?” and “What do YOU want?” and the attitudes of other people changed. Now they wanted to talk with him and started returning his calls!

Two simple win/win deals in which Geoff worked with strong JV partners doubled his business in a week. He could hardly believe it. And he never looked back. He started carrying business cards with just his name and contact information on them and he stopped delivering his little “Elevator Speech” sales pitch. He became a confidante, a helper, a friend, instead of a salesman. People started to seek him out – after all, he provided solutions to their problems – why wouldn’t they look for him?

Many people think JV’s are “Networking” or “Paying a commission for leads” or “Referrals”. Joint Ventures are much more. They can be triangulated, include barter, you name it. Simple. Quick. Safe. Easy. Fast. No money or risk. Huge ROI. For more information, visit www.DollarMakersJVForum.com

Remember that “Financial Planner” who calculated that a loaf of bread would cost $1,000 by the time you retired, and that you would need at least two million dollars in the bank to be able to stop working? And how you could invest in the stock market to achieve that weighty goal, which meant a hefty commission for this financial genius who had less money than you had?

Remember how scary that felt, and how daunting the monthly payments would be?

Remember how North Americans lost up to 40% of their savings in the last stock market crash?

And we continue to get pitched by schemers and scammers, because they know that we don’t want to work until we drop. They know we want to retire with enough money to maintain our dignity and freedom in our most vulnerable years. They know that we want to be able to enjoy our autumn years with security and peace of mind. So they continually try to sell us dreams that turn into nightmares.

The GOOD NEWS is that you DON’T need millions of dollars in the bank. What you do need is a regular, passive income that exceeds your needs. Then you can retire. And it doesn’t have to take years to accomplish. And it’s not rocket science. If you need $5,000 per month and your passive, residual income (ideally from different sources – not all your eggs in one basket) is $6,000, you’ve got it made in the shade!

How to do that? Joint Ventures. I have been doing Joint Ventures for eighteen years. You don’t need a business, a product or a service to do JV’s. All you need is to understand them. For more information, send me an e mail to robin@dollarmakers.com and ask me for more information on JV’s I will send you free e books and more information. And if you have a business, check out www.DollarMakersJVForum.com

This could be one of the most articles you’ve ever read, no matter how old you are or what your circumstances are. Financial freedom is within your reach.

Dr. Bill Nieporte usess the folowing illustration to describe the power of Joint Ventures:
Fact: Two Horses Can Pull About 9,000 Pounds

Question: How many pounds can FOUR horses pull?

If you are like me, your initial response was to say that four horses can pull 18,000 pounds. Sounds reasonable–but its wrong! Four horses can actually pull over 30,000 pounds. What’s the difference? It’s something called synergy. Synergy is the energy or force created by the working together of various parts or processes. Synergy. That’s the power behind what is commonly called Joint Venture Marketing.

One plus one = three, four or seven! Together, we can accomplish our dreams very fast. The key is to find honest, capable and successful people to work with. Where does one find good people to appraoch for Joint Ventures? See www.DollarMakersJVForum.com

Entrepreneurs have received many messages in the past that have had the cumulative effect of hoodwinking us. We have put blinders on by accepting certain “Solutions” from the Gurus. The purpose of an Entrepreneur is to make after tax profit. We use business as the vehicle. But we heard that we need to be “focused” and that we need an “Elevator Speech” and similar concepts that can effectively lock us out of tremendous wealth opportunities. This short article is intended to impart and share a JV Mindset that can liberate us from restrictive assumptions and perceptions.

When I visit my doctor, does he immediately suggest a special on hip replacements or hair implants? Does he urge me to consider a heart transplant, perhaps, (early bird special) without even examining me? No. He looks for problems and then suggests solutions, and I buy every single time. Does my doctor need to specialize in orthotics to prescribe a orthopedic footwear? No. He refers me to someone who does that. He doesn’t need to be an anesthetist or a surgeon in order to offer me that service. He examines me, asks me questions, LISTENS, and offers solutions. He doesn’t talk about himself.

Go to any “Business Networking Meeting” and you’ll find dozens of wanna-be entrepreneurs, usually self employed salespeople, who thrust their business cards at you, talk at you, pitch you, and then leap up to enthusiastically deliver the predigested, prepackaged, boring “elevator speech” that they paid someone who lost their job and now calls themselves a “coach” to create. And while they’re giving their elevator speech, what art h rest of the people at their table doing? They listen long enough to decide whether or not the speaker will buy their product or service and then promptly lose interest. They waiting to give THEIR speech. You know this is true. Just look at the audience – they’re bored stiff. Everyone is there to sell, sell, sell.

When you go back to your office, you send e mails to all the people you met at the “Networking Meeting”, saying how nice it was to meet them. Most of them don’t even return the e mails. And so it goes. Everyone is out to sell, everyone is only really interested in themselves, and nobody gives a damn about you or your amazing business, flashy brochures or scintillating elevator speech. Perhaps it’s time to reconsider things.

See, it’s not about you at all. Nobody cares about your packaging, website, qualifications or incredible accomplishments. Most people whom I meet that insist on telling me about all the things they have accomplished, are simply HAS BEEN’S. I don’t care hat you did in the past. I want to know what you will do in the future, because that’s where we’re going to live! People don’t care about your qualifications – they want to know one simple thing: “What can you do for ME?”

How about this elevator speech?
“My name is Robin Elliott. My job is to help you achieve your business goals with no money and no risk. I would like to find ways to apply my rather extensive resources, contacts, skills and connections to your business challenges and help you to achieve your goals – at no charge. To see if you qualify for this service, call me.”

The Right JV Mindset:
I’m like a plumber coming to fix your problems at your home. You don’t care about my background or how many kids I had. You just want your problems solved.

My contacts and Joint Venture Partners are my Tools. I walk in to a meeting with a toolbox full of really great, professional, honest, competent, experienced and trusted business associates and all their products and services. I don’t care which tools I use – I will always get paid for my services. I don’t have to have a business or products or services of my own in order to solve your business problems because I understand business. I have been doing this for 18 years. I look for the problems, discuss the solutions and introduce you to the person who will apply those solutions to your business. And I will get paid by the people whom I refer to you, while I’m at home with my wife and everyone else is working hard, creating multiple, diverse, passive income streams for me.

Joint Ventures:
If you know John needs what Paul is offering, you introduce them and get paid. You’re a middleman, a tollbooth, a facilitator. You connect the right people.
And when a few people have a common goal and wish to share their skills, resources and abilities, you can help them form a syndicate or a team.
If someone has excess resources, underutilized inventory or assets, you can show them how to optimize their resources through JV’s.
You can facilitate the sharing of sales staff, employees, distribution, advertising space, retail space, warehousing, transport, skills, reputation, access and databases. And get paid for the value that you create.

Most of the JV stuff out there is related to internet marketing and affiliate programs. But most businesses are more interested in real time, real money, real people and touch-and-feel business. The internet is great and we all use it, but there needs to be balance.

The KEY
The key to successful JV’s is to find the RIGHT PEOPLE. In fact, if there were twenty good people in a room, and all we did was mastermind, brainstorm and create JV’s for five days without leaving that room, we would all double our wealth.
It’s hard to find good people who will honor their commitments, do what they say, deliver the goods and take responsibility. It’s not easy to find honest people who will pay you and reciprocate.
That why I started the DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum. Visit our website and see if you think you’ll qualify to join this elite group of successful JV winners. It’s By Invitation Only, but people can apply to join and we will consider them (reference checks apply.)
When you link up with like-minded, successful people, the sky’s the limit.
When you think about what you can do for others, you differentiate yourself, get attention and make money.

The attitude is, “What can I do for YOU? How can I help you achieve your goals, relieve pain, save time and make more money? How can I use my resources for your benefit? What do you want? What is your pain? Your goals? Talk to me; I’m listening!”
Joint Ventures only work when the right people are involved. Hence the unprecedented success of the DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum.

Robin J. Elliott.
www.DollarMakers.com

Business Opportunities and Joint Ventures.

Robin J. Elliott – President, Elliott Enterprises Inc.Vancouver, British ColumbiaTel. 604.945.5754 Toll Free Tel and Fax: 1.866.746.0631 (North America, Hawaii & Alaska) PST