If you have read “The Ominous Parallels” by Leonard Peikoff, or any of Ayn Rand’s books, (Atlas Shrugged, For the New Intellectual) you will probably agree that one’s philosophy of life and his belief system govern his choices, expectations, and environment. Your religious views, political views and perceptions all govern your reaction to the world and the opportunities around you. The circumstances that you have created are simply a mirror of your philosophy.

Altruism, multiculturalism, mysticism, environmentalism, and socialism all reflect one’s philosophy of collectivism. In addition, collectivism is in direct opposition to capitalism. Look at your business and you will see your philosophy. Is it working for you? Our minds are magnets. The Buddha said, “We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart. Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakeable. The Bible tells us, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

The way you handle money and do business is not a random thing – it is in lockstep with your philosophy. Capitalism is the only system that can make you successful in business. Any philosophy that contradicts capitalism will undermine and sabotage your business. Ayn Rand put it this way: “Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say ‘capitalism,’ I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism – with a separation of economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as a separation of state and church.” The root of your business success or failure is your philosophy. Everything else is fruit.

If you want to improve your business, correct your philosophy.

I’ll end off with another quote by Ms. Rand: “The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours. But to win it requires total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is a sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence, which is man, for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the morality of life and yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth.” - John Galt quote that ended Ayn Rand’s last public speech (New Orleans Nov 1981)

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

Every resource you need is already available through Joint Ventures. You make money by adding value and taking a piece of that value as your payment. Think about this. There are thousands of businesses that don’t have e-commerce websites and even more that do not even have a database of their customers. They see hundreds of new customers and never get their contact information. They’re just “too busy”. This is a great opportunity for you.

The business is already running successfully, at no cost to you. They can make a lot more money with your help – money they would not have had without you, so they should be willing to share some of that extra profit with you. You can either Joint Venture with a webmaster to create an e-commerce website, database and ezine for the business, or you can simply do it yourself and make even more money. You offer the business an e-commerce website with a database and weekly ezine, at no cost or risk to the business owner. You gather the data of all their customers (we can show you how to do that), enter it into the database and then sell those customers a huge range of products and services, from the business and also from other businesses, and you share the profits with the business.

Here’s a simple example. You approach a successful restaurant that has 120 guests a day and no database. You can get a very professional e-commerce website, with database, ezine, everything you need, that you can run yourself, for a mere $799 and $65 per month. That’s your entire cost and risk. You give every guest that enters the restaurant a very compelling reason you give you his or her e-mail address and name. (We can show you how to do this.) You pay someone to enter all the names, continually, into the database, or you do it yourself. You arrange affiliate programs and back end options to sell people visiting the website, and you allow guests to book for the restaurant and pay through the website as well. You can sell gift certificates to the restaurant through the website as well as numerous other products and services.

Using Gift Certificates, Vouchers and Coupons from other businesses, at no cost to you, you can entice guests to visit the website to download these gifts, samples and freebies, and while they are on the site you sell them more stuff. In addition, when they become customers of the businesses offering the Gift Certificates (for example for a free yoga class, consultation, hair cut or class) you get paid a commission on all ongoing purchase from that business!

You own the URL and the website, you share the profit with the restaurant owner, and you both make money. I could go on and on but you get the point. If you would like the contact information of the person providing this very reliable and professional e-commerce, self-run website, contact me. By joining the DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum, you get instant access to over 400 Members worldwide who understand these principles and would be happy to provide you with Gift Certificates, ideas and more.

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

If I offered you the opportunity to risk a large amount of your hard-earned money, with an 87% chance that you would LOSE it, what would you do? Well, that’s EXACTLY what you do when you buy a “Business Opportunity”, License or Franchise, no matter what the salesperson tells you.

Now, the reason why 87% of people fail in these “businesses” in the first five years is a statistic. It’s not necessarily that the business opportunity is bad, although in many cases that is the cause; it’s just a statistic. Businesses fail for many reasons – lack of cashflow, lack of skills or experience, lack of support, wrong location, wrong pricing, wrong product – I could list 100 reasons why businesses fail. Here’s the scary part – in the next five years, a further 87% of the remaining 13% will also fail! So you have a TINY chance of success. You might as well go to the local casino.

I sold businesses and business opportunities, franchises and licenses for 18 years, so I should know. I also consulted with thousands of business owners. And before you indignantly cry, “SHAME! How could you?” I must tell you that most people who sell businesses know the statistics and many even tell potential buyers, but we just accepted that “That’s just the way it is.” Until, one day, a potential buyer asked me, “Robin, if this business opportunity is so good, why don’t YOU buy it?” I replied that I prefer to make my money through Joint Ventures. As usual, the buyer, like 99% of small business owners and 99.99% of employees, had no idea what a Joint Venture was. Until I started teaching people how to do what I do. I stopped selling businesses and I started sleeping at night.

No savvy entrepreneur goes out and buys a “Business Opportunity.” And most of those people slithering around in the “Franchise Shows” will tell you ANYTHING to sell you a business and earn their commissions. Not all of them will, but many of them will. I can easily make you a millionaire on paper. People want to believe that the salesperson has the answer to all their financial problems, so they deny their instincts and spend tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars, which they seldom get back. And don’t believe for one minute that franchises are any better. Buying a franchise is simply buying a job and many of them fail. And often, those people who you get to call to ask for references, are PAID to tell you lies.

Instead of shouting and venting about how dangerous it is to buy a “business”, let me rather show you the positive alternative. You can become a fully trained and supported Joint Venture Broker, with unlimited, international earning potential, for under a thousand dollars. No overhead. No risk. No cost. No cashflow problems. No inventory. Nobody to report to. Part-time or full time. Work from home, car, boat, beach, or cottage. All you need is an Internet connection and phone access. In fact, you can even do Joint Ventures without a phone or a computer. Sound too good to be true? I have done it for 19 years.

Can you fail as a Joint Venture Broker? SURE, You can. If you’re lazy, sloppy, arrogant, unprofessional, dishonest, and stupid, you will fail at anything. But if you commit a full working day and if you’re prepared to learn and make mistakes (without the risk of losing money), if you’re open-minded, professional, disciplined and honest, this is the best way I have ever found to make money. But you DO have to work and you will make mistakes. I hate risk. I have never bought a lottery ticket or gambled in my life. I am frugal, careful, and very realistic about human nature. I am a cynic and a skeptic. But I understand business and I know how to remove risk and cost. I don’t do MLM / Network Marketing and I am not interested in schemes and scams. That’s why I love Joint Ventures. No seasonality, no limitations, lots of freedom, no boss, lots of fun and very interesting. And lots of money.

So, put that bankbook away. Keep your savings. Don’t get into more debt. I know the salesman will tell you that you have to spend money to make money. He’s lying. You don’t. Don’t buy a business. Stay away from the sharks and snakes that prey on vulnerable people at the Franchise Shows and have a look at the Joint Venture Broker option. We have put together a complete package to provide you everything you need to succeed at DollarMakers. Learn from our 19 years and instantly get linked up to 445 other Joint Venture Brokers around the world, all for under a thousand dollars. In fact, you can join us for $249.

Joint Ventures are nothing new. 20% of the revenues of the large companies are from Joint Ventures. Now it is time for the average person to take advantage of this amazing money machine. It’s simple, easy to do, and lots of fun. You can broker JV’s regardless of your age, financial situation, skill set or background. You don’t need money or contacts or business understanding. Kids can do JV’s. Prisoners can do JV’s from jail. Seniors can broker deals. ANYONE who has a positive attitude and a good work ethic and is prepared to learn can do this. And so can YOU. You won’t lie awake at night worrying about money anymore. You can achieve financial freedom faster than you think. Isn’t that great news?

But don’t believe me. I could be lying to you. Call the Better Business Bureau. Check the Credit Bureau. Put a private detective on me. Google me, “Robin J. Elliott” and “DollarMakers”, read the testimonials on my websites, check me out – do your due diligence first. Then, visit our website, join the DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum and buy our Home Study Course or attend a Bootcamp. Take action now: visit www.DollarMakers.com and contact us if you have any questions.

Robin J. Elliott
PS We have a lot of international opportunities at DollarMakers. We are looking for Area Coordinators, Chapter Leaders, and Joint Venture Partners. You have to be a trained Member to be considered.

Yes, you earn money in direct proportion to your level of self-respect and self-worth. People who suffer from guilt and low self-esteem will be robbed by self-sabotage, hesitancy, personal limitations, limited thinking, and negative beliefs. This is a fact. The better you feel about yourself, the more you believe you deserve, the more money you will attract. “Good people deserve to be rewarded” happens in your head and then it happens in your wallet.

Instead of trying to deal with guilt, be it false or deserved, or trying to psychoanalyze you, let’s focus on what we can do RIGHT AWAY to radically improve your self-esteem, so that you become the money magnet you want to be. Logically, good choices make us feel good about ourselves, while bad choices make us feel guilty and bad. In addition, it’s good to model your behavior of successful people, so that the believability is higher. When self-esteem is low, we tend to trust others more than ourselves. So let’s model what successful people do in order to achieve and maintain high self worth, confidence and optimism. Let’s use their proven recipe!

Simply follow this simple recipe for High Self-Respect and watch your bank balance grow!

$ Successful people are self-disciplined. They will do whatever it takes to succeed and deliver on their promises. They are on time, in place, reliable and professional. They take responsibility and always do their best.

$ Successful people are focused. They don’t jump from project to project, scheme to scheme and relationship to relationship. They are loyal, dependable, and reliable.

$ Successful people go the extra mile. They always give more than what is expected of them, constantly seek to improve their performance, and never, ever quit.

$ Successful people are helpful. They help others but they don’t allow others to hold them back. They are caring and supportive, humble and direct. They are not usually politically correct – the truth is more important to them than the opinions of the masses.

Now, if you applied these principles in your life, how would you feel about yourself? Easy, isn’t it? Most important of all, successful people only deal with and socialize with other successful people. They don’t mix with losers or whiners. Follow this recipe for two months and watch your bank manager beam!

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

Rika and I were playing tennis yesterday and she reminded me of three things. “Robin, remember to keep your eye on the ball until it hits your racket. Get to the place where the ball is going before it gets there. And your racquet up and ready by the time to get to that place.” How wonderful to have that concise input – my game improved quickly. We tend to forget the basics and it’s good to be reminded. And because I’m always thinking business, I immediately thought of the relevance to business.

In business, these three things are very important. First, keep your eye on the ball. Focus. You can’t be “all things to all men” and expect to succeed. Learn to stick with your core competencies, remember to say “No” and spend your time on the high return, high potential activities. See the deals through, Don’t jump from scheme to scheme. Create a clear identity and position yourself. Don’t get distracted by “Quick Buck” scams and promises. Keep your eye on the ball with laser beam focus and commitment.

Secondly, get to the place where the ball is going before it gets there. Anticipate. Don’t be unrealistic in your expectations and plan ahead. Move fast and proactively. Be flexible, but always think strategically. This is even more important in playing squash than it is in playing tennis. All the angles must be taken into consideration. Treat your business like a chess game. Expect attacks, like any warrior, and prepare for them, just as you would any battle. Build your back end before you’re ready to start selling it. Build in Joint Venture options.

Thirdly, keep your racquet up, so that you are always ready to strike hard and fast. You don’t have time to prepare every detail, so have all your facts and figures and alliances and options in place at all times. Be prepared. And if you’re the analytical type, align yourself with a partner who is able to make fast decisions and take quick action. By the time you recover for your paralysis of analysis you will find the window of opportunity firmly closed on your bleeding fingers while your competition is already on to their next deal.

Any good soldier knows the importance of preparation, just as every athlete does. Train hard, be well prepared, focus and commit. Champions don’t cut and run – they cut to the chase. Winners don’t whine. Successful people will never waste your time telling you about all their private family problems and make excuses. They are goal-directed. Eagles make fast decisions, take responsibility and bounce back to win. In tennis, like any other game, learn from the experts. Get your ego out of the way and you will soon be better than your coach. Sign up for your free, weekly newsletter, The Prophet of Profit, HERE.

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

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If you belong to a business networking group, here is a way for you to start making ten times more money (that’s if you’re actually making any right now), real fast. Most people who attend networking meetings are out there trying to sell their product or service. Good, honest people, working far too hard for far too little. There might be one or two, or even three real prospects for you to sell to. But how much relationship can you really build during that short time, interrupted by a hastily gulped, inferior and overpriced meal, in between listening to a lot of self-employed salespeople pitching their elevator speeches? Business networking is limited, takes a lot of time and usually gets dismal, if any, results. What would happen if you could do business with everyone ion the room? What would happen if you didn’t have to sell anything?

Instead of arriving at a networking group with your business cards and an elevator speech, how about being there to listen to other people and help them solve their problems? Everyone in that group has problems and goals. If you can help them to solve their problems and reach their goals, you can get well paid for it. For example, if I sell insurance and Billy needs a house, instead of thinking there’s no sale there, I can introduce him to John, who is a trusted realtor, and get paid a commission by John if Billy buys a house from him. That commission is 100% profit to me. These deals can get very involved and very lucrative, especially when you triangulate deals and institute back end products and sales. You can create multiple streams of passive income from your networking group.

This is the way Joint Venture Brokers approach networking groups. Everybody is a potential income source. You are perceived as a “Problem Solver” and a “Helper”, instead of a “Pushy Salesperson.” You get paid for linking supply with demand. You leverage all the relationships and contacts in the room, as well as contacts of contacts. And if you’re really smart, you won’t even talk about what you do. Know why? Nobody cares about you or your business! Everyone is really only interested in their own problems and goals, and when you take a sincere interest in assisting them, you get real popular, real fast. Joint Venture Brokers are money magnets. There are only two barriers to effectively brokering JV deals left, right and center: understanding how it works and finding good JV partners.

And we have the solution for you on both counts: join the DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum and get instant access to 440 Member JV Brokers who agree to abode by our code of ethics and who WANT to pay you commissions, and attend our Joint Venture Broker Bootcamps or invest in our Home Study Course to learn how to be a successful Joint Venture Broker. For more information, see http://www.dollarmakers.com/

Robin J. Elliott

My Mom sent me this story from South Africa:

“A man went through the forest searching for birds. He found a young eagle, brought it home, and put it to live among the chickens. It shared their food and learned all the habits of the chickens.
After five years, a naturalist came by. “That is not a chicken”, he said. “That is an eagle. I will show you.” He lifted the eagle in his hands. “Fly” he said. “You have wings for flying.” But the eagle looked down, saw the chickens on the ground, and jumped down among them.
Next day, the eagle was taken to the roof of the house, and again it refused to fly. “He may have a magnificent wing-span”, said the owner, “but he has the heart of a chicken.”
The following day, the eagle was taken far away from the chickens to the foot of a high mountain. “Fly” he was ordered. The great eagle first looked at the ground, and hesitated. Then, raising its head, it saw the sun high in the sky. It spread its wings, lifted itself from the earth, and flew over the mountain towards the sun.
Am I an eagle who grew down to be a chicken?
Have I left unused wings that could take me over the heights to the sun?
Forgive us for the wings we have left unused, for the visions we forgot and the heights we never reached.”

It’s Never Too Late. Join the Eagles of the DollarMakers Joint Vneture Forum and soar to great heights.

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

Yesterday, I said to Rika, “Our monthly passive income jumped by $600 today.” She replied, “Yes, that work paid off.” There are two types of passive income that result from Joint Ventures. The first type is a quick deal, very nice, happens, and is always welcome. The second is the most common, though – it is built on relationships and reciprocity and becomes the proverbial goose that lays golden eggs. Both work. You could arrange a Joint Venture today that pays you monthly/regular passive income for years to come, and other deals take a while, but are generally more stable.

A good example of a solid foundation for a reciprocal JV foundation is the one between DollarMakers and Nathan Gilder, (pictured right) who is also a Member of the DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum. Nathan is a gifted digital animator who would like more business. DollarMakers needs visual depictions to illustrate the process of Joint Ventures. I suggested to Nathan that we consider a JV where he provides us this visual communication in return for exposure via our websites, ezines ad this Blog. This is based on a very successful model that other animators used to piggyback on the exposure well-established political writers. Nathan, being a smart man, agreed. He did a fantastic job. Click Here to see the first animation he created for us with his team at Terrasynth, depicting DollarMakers as a Money Magnet.

And here’s the interesting thing: No money was exchanged, no commission structure is in place yet, and all we’re doing is building the relationship. Passive income is like water running downhill. Money always flows to value. It finds a way to get to you. If you’re creating a mountain of value for others, all the rain on the mountain will flow down to you. The rain represents money. It doesn’t always run the way you expect it to, but it always ends up in the ocean – your pocket. Value creates money. As long as your Joint Venture partners are honest, that is. And that’s why we created the Joint Venture Forum – so that honest, smart people can work together to achieve their common goals.

To feed your passive income, create massive value with the right people. Be patient, positive and professional. What goes around, comes around, and that is a law – sowing and reaping – that is as solid as the law of gravity. Just as you trust the law of gravity to prevent you from floating off across a busy highway, so you can trust the law of sowing and reaping to create multiple streams of passive, Joint Venture income. But it works a lot better when you use exact methodologies and proven Joint Venture principles, than when you just leap about, randomly doing good deeds. You can fast track your passive income by applying the JV technology provided by DollarMakers. Instead of scattering your seeds on rocky ground, you can plant your efforts in fertile ground and work with credible professionals like Nathan Gilder. To learn more, visit www.DollarMakers.com

Robin J. Elliott

The wonderful art of Terrasynth, a group of artists led by Nathan Gilder, depicting DollarMakers as a Money Magnet

(Nathan is a Member of the DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum)

“If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.” Chinese Proverb

Paul J. Meyer tells the story that he bought a beautiful, ornate, antique birdcage, which he proudly hung in his home. Every time people visited his home, they asked him, “Where’s the bird?” Eventually, he went out and bought a bird for the cage. When we prepare to succeed, expect to win and believe in our goals, it’s almost inevitable that we will accomplish them. What we think about comes about. Our minds are mental magnets. It pays to be an optimist.

A good illustration of the power and benefits of an optimistic attitude is that of two wheels rolling over the same, bumpy road. The road represents the troubles and tribulations, which everyone has to face in life. One wheel represents an optimist. It’s a big wheel. The other wheel represents a pessimist. It’s a small wheel. As you can imagine, the big wheel rolls easily over the bumps. While the small wheel (the pessimist) has a tough, up and down experience. Optimists don’t suffer to the same extent as pessimists do, even though they handle the same difficulties.

Life is simply easier when you choose optimism. The sun shines brighter and fear gives way to faith. One has more energy and one certainly attracts excellent people into one’s life. Optimism, like enthusiasm, is contagious; it spills over. Winners don’t hang around with pessimists. Calvin Coolidge said, “If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.” We really do attract things into our lives with our thoughts. In addition, optimism makes it easier to deal with the difficult times, which we all face. Walter Winchell described an optimist as a man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

The easiest way that I have found to remain optimistic is to mix with winners, only allow positive input into my life, and to manage what I say. I focus on what I want, instead of what I don’t want. I believe in myself and my goals and I generously share the benefits I receive with those who work with me. And, of course, it helps to be married to best woman in the world.

I’ll end off with this quote. Dietrich Bonhoeffer said, “The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself, and not to abandon it to his enemy.”

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

I attended an amazing seminar in the early nineties that revolutionized my business and changed my life. One of the other delegates on the same seminar kept complaining that the speaker was making up his own words, chewing while speaking (welcome to North America) and philosophizing. He was so caught up in the imperfections of the grammar and spelling in the materials that we received that he missed the whole point of the seminar (he paid $5,000 for the three days) and he derived no benefit. To this day, he battles to survive financially in his business. He tripped over the stepping-stones to wealth.

Imagine if I decided that I would wait until all the traffic lights between my home and my destination were green before I departed on a trip. Many people use imperfections as an excuse for sloth, whereas winners work with what they have. They don’t wait until things are perfect before taking action. The systems art your disposal will never be perfect. It’s the message that counts. While you’re still grumbling about a website that doesn’t meet your amazing standards, others have made thousands, using that same, imperfect site. While you’re complaining that you’re waiting for your business cards to be printed, the winner next door went out without business cards and closed a deal.

Successful entrepreneurs know that the tools at their disposal will never be perfect. Sure, we continue to improve and perfect, but you have to work with what you have. I had two different people download the same audio book from DollarMakers.com for $27. One of them whined that the sound wasn’t professional enough for her (while her kids screamed in the background of the phone call). She was bitterly unhappy with the quality, she moaned. The other client wrote me a wonderful letter and told me how she had used the same information to make five thousand dollars in a week. It’s not about the delivery system or the person communicating the message – it’s about the content of the message.

Jack Welch, General Electric Chairman and Chief Executive, said, “An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn’t have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.” And Lee Iacocca said, “So what do we do? Anything, something, so long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”

The bottom line is that many people need to justify their failure by blaming someone – they shoot the messenger. In fact, THEY are their own problem. While we welcome suggestions for improvement and acknowledge that we’re far from perfect, we are aware that it’s not about how easy it is to search the website or what time the conference calls take place – it’s about the person who claims to want to use the message to improve their life. The stepping-stones may be dirty or covered in moss, but they can still convey you across the river to your dream home. Focus on getting to Treasure Island instead of complaining that the boat ride is a little rough. That’s what winners do. Work with what you’ve got and fix it along the way. Take massive, immediate, focused, enthusiastic, and passionate action, and leave the whiners in your dust.

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

Many entrepreneurs and Joint Venture Brokers are caught in the trap of stealing one grape at a time, rather than dealing with the owner of the vineyard. They work hard on one deal at a time and then waste a lot of time waiting to see what will happen, while they tread water and run on the spot. (And Spot hates that.) They seem to have forgotten that sales is a numbers game, and that closing ratios are real. It’s time to unleash the power of the Excessive Sowing.

There is a Biblical parable that tells of seeds that were erratically scattered, some falling on the road and consequently eaten by birds, some falling on rock and consequently unable to take root, and some falling on thorns, which choked the seed and the worms ate them. It was, according to the parable, only the seeds that fell on good soil and were able to germinate, producing a crop thirty, sixty, or even a hundredfold, of what had been sown. We would do well to remember that parable. Especially in today’s world, where people are inundated with millions of choices and options.

I once consulted to a realtor who wanted to increase her sales. She told me that she sent out 200 postcards every three months and that it worked well for her. I asked her why she didn’t send them out every month. She replied that she hadn’t yet tried that. So we started sending them out every moneth. Sales increased. Then we doubled the amount that we sent out to 400 postcards. Sales increased. Then we started sending out 800 postcards. More sales! Then we sent them out every week insteade of every month. Another increase! Sales stopped increasing when we got to 1,500 postcards per week (the Law of Diminishing Returns) so I advised the realtor to sell this postcard sending business to other realtors. We started with our own city, and soon she was offering the service nationwide. She made far more money from selling her postcard sendiong business than she ever made selling houses.

How much money do you want? How badly do you want it? Sow excessively, madly, abundantly and consistently. Don’t steal a grape – grab a vinyard. Run multiple Joint Ventures at the same time. Do it all with no cost or risk. Go crazy! Double what you do, then redouble it. As yourself the right questions: “How can I reach ten times this amount of people at no cost? How can I quadruple my sales? With whom can I Joint Venture? What resources can I borrow?” Go big or go home. Think big. Expect success. And mix only with other wild farmers who believe in abundance. Read “The Tipping Point”.

Robin J. Elliott www.dollarmakers.com

These days, we’re inundated with choices. I can view 40 live movie channels on an airplane, 200 TV channels at home. As fast as I can click the remote control or my computer mouse, I can be offered yet another choice. 50 different breakfast cereals, a million realtors, insurance salespeople, restaurants, service providers. How do you choose the right one? Is it really all about price and quality?

I recently had a friend approach me who wants a website. He has very limited money to invest, so I talked with one of the DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum Members who does websites at an unusually reasonable price through his organization. He offers a really great deal. But did I refer my friend because he can get an excellent, e-commerce web site that allows him to make changes, create new pages, change text, add images, add HTML, flash, mp3’s for sound and video with full, free support and 500 mb’s of space, all for just $799 and only $49.99 per month?

NO. I referred him because I like and trust this webmaster. And why do I like and trust him? Because he does what he says he will do, when he says he will do it, on time and in a professional manner. No hidden costs, no nonsense. He has a positive, optimistic, helpful attitude and he knows his stuff. I can refer my friend to him with the peace of mind of knowing that he will be well looked after and taken care of. My choice was based 20% on price, product and professionalism, but 80% on the PERSON whom I chose to refer to my friend.

Relationship comes before business. Joint Ventures should be based on people, trust, integrity and personality, rather than the quick buck. Perhaps we should spend more time on assessing people than on evaluating their products and services. The foundation of a good business choice is a strong, trusting relationship. Perhaps we should get back to basics. That will make our choices easier. Earn the right to doing business. Sow before you reap. Walk your talk. Or your competitor will eat you alive. Find good people who abide by a Code of Ethics at the Joint Venture Forum.

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

Robin and Rika Elliott

As boy, Winston Churchill hated school and came last in his class. He had a speech impediment. And he carried out large-scale operations with thousands of little lead soldiers. He organized wars, battalions were maneuvered into action, peas and pebbles committed great casualties, forts were stormed, cavalry charged. He failed the entrance exam twice at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, and would have failed again, had he not, in a daring maneuver in a game of tag, courageously jumped 29 feet off a bridge into a chasm. He did not recover consciousness for three days, and during the months of recovery he learned just enough mathematics to squeak through. At Sandhurst, he entered at the bottom of his class, but he passed out 8th in a class of 150. As a young soldier, he sought out trouble in the world where he could practice his military skills.

I have been re-reading the Churchill Digest which my Dad gave me when I was twelve years old. The stories of Churchill’s daring, courage and confidence always motivate me. He escaped from a military prison in South Africa, fought in Cuba and India and steeped himself in the “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. His lifelong passion was military and he was a true warrior. He overcame every obstacle that he faced and fearlessly remained true to himself. When the weak, cowardly sycophant, Howard Chamberlain kowtowed to Hitler, Churchill stood up in the House, amid howls and catcalls, to say, “I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore but which must nevertheless be stated…” Would that we had a Churchill in today’s worried world, but I digress.

Churchill’s passion, focus and determination saved the world and will inspire good people for the rest of history. I suspect though, that if we were to ask him about his life, he would tell us that he had no choice; he simply lived his passion and remained true to his own heart and values. It’s easy to live your passion. True happiness and peace of mind are not to be found by hiding from the challenges and opportunities in life, but by living by your deepest passion and according to your philosophy, without compromise. True warriors don’t make excuses or blame others; they take responsibility and use the tools at their disposal to attain success, whatever the odds. They don’t whine; they win. They expect victory and they do not tolerate distractions for long. They practice their passion.

I believe that success, like failure, is a choice. For truly passionate and committed people, there is very little competition. When the sun of your passion burns brightly, the shadows of obstacles are diminished proportionately. Discover your passion and pursue it with everything you have. During the Second World War, Churchill directed operations from the War Room, where Queen Victoria’s words were printed on a sign erected in front of his seat: “Please understand that there is no pessimism in the house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exit.”

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

We have been programmed to believe that we have to work long and hard and take risks in order to become financially free. We were told, “You have to focus on your core business” and “The higher the risk, the higher the return”. So it’s no wonder that 87% of small businesses fail and that so many of us experience the “Feast or Famine”, ‘Chicken or Feathers” ups and downs of cashflow. We’re thinking Industrial Age when we’re really in the Information Age! I have good news for you. It’s time for a change in your business!

The large Fortune 500 companies all use Joint Ventures – Sony, Pfizer, Disney, you name it. In fact, at least 20% of their income is said to come from JV’s. But only 1% of small businesses understands and uses Joint Ventures. You can radically increase your income in a short amount of time with no cost or risk and very little time, using JV’s. And it doesn’t matter whether you have a business or not! You can start earning real money in the real world, real fast, once you understand this mindset.

When you are focused on selling one product line or service, you are restricted to seasonal highs and lows, perhaps geographical restraints, and also market size restrictions. So when you visit a business networking meeting, for example, you have a small number of potential customers and a very limited income opportunity. If you’re selling your time, like a coach or consultant, you’re even more limited. But what would happen if you could make money from every person in the room? What if all geographical and physical barriers were removed? And what if you had no overhead or cost of sales? That’s what understanding Joint Ventures can do for you.

Instead of trying to rewrite my latest book, let’s discuss just one simple JV idea that you can take away and use immediately in your own life. To put the idea in context, imagine if my physician was to call all his customers or spam them and say, “I have a special on hip replacements this week!” He would never do that. Yet, that is what salespeople do all the time! Instead, my doctor is like a Joint Venture Broker: He examines me, asks many questions, and then directs me to a solution to my problem. He doesn’t have to sell me anything. He doesn’t talk about himself. He is paid for solving my problem. And he doesn’t have to do the work or supply the products himself.

So let’s talk about one of my thirty JV systems: Triangulation. Many years ago, I was training hair and beauty salons to use Joint Ventures to double and quadruple their profits. It took me nine months to get four clients and each one paid me a thousand dollars per month. $4,000 per month after nine months. I gave a talk to a large group of hairstylists and was approached by Maxim Krok, who owned the Redken product rights for that country. He said, “Robin, I want to get my hair care products into more salons and you want to train more salons. Let’s Joint Venture. I will promote you though my sales team, and in exchange you must agree to train only salons that use Redken products.” I agreed, and in four days, my income rocketed to from $4,000 per month to $20,000 per month. It would have taken me four YEARS on my own. With a no cost, no risk JV, it took just four DAYS. Win/win.

Here’s the Triangulation option. (We take a full day to teach all these options, plus ongoing training and support – this is just a taste.) Imagine if you were brand new in the country with no database, no business, no money or reputation and no computer. You could have approached me and said, “Robin, if I get you into more salons, would you pay me 20% of the additional gross revenues?” I would naturally have agreed, because 80% of something is worth more than 100% of nothing. Then you could have talked with Maxim, and asked, “Maxim, if I can get your products into more salons, would you pay me an ongoing percentage of all the sales to that salon?” Maxim is a smart man so he would probably have agreed. (If he didn’t, you could approach his competitors!) Then you would have put me and Maxim together and earned yourself $3,200 per month from me and a large amount from Maxim every month, while you sat at home watching the History Channel. Because, to Joint Venture Brokers, hard work is history!

By creating multiple sources of income from different industries, without spending time and money, using the resources, time, money, credit and products of others, your income in constant, growing, regular and 100% profit. You remove all the barriers and income spikes I spoke of earlier, take away the risk and worry, reduce your overhead and have fun. This is the power of Joint Ventures that you can unleash in your life today. There is no limit to what you can achieve once you acquire the Joint Venture Mindset. And we have over 400 Members of the DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum who understand JV’s and are looking for more people to do JV’s with!

If you would like more information, free downloads, podcasts and more, visit my website: www.DollarMakers.com Let’s create the future you deserve. Together, we can do amazing things.

We’re so fortunate to live in the Information Age, where we can create unprecedented leverage though the technology that is so readily available to all of us. That’s how Google started in a garage with no money and was soon worth billions of dollars. Our old Industrial Age thinking was, “You have to risk a lot to make a lot, you have to spend money to make money, it all takes time”, etc. So we spent many hours risking our money on currency trading schemes or we put our savings into properties as “Real Estate Investors” or bought “Business Opportunities” with hard-earned capital that we seldom recovered. Now we don’t have to do that anymore.

When we realize how much money is lying around, just looking for a good place to grow, how many resources are underutilized and how many people insist on selling their time, it’s like being a kid in a candy store, where everything is free! Enter Joint Ventures. A Joint Venture Broker is like a person who sees a community on an island. He understands that the community wants to travel to the mainland, so he gets a construction company to build a bridge and erect a tollbooth on it. Every time someone drives over the bridge, Cha-ching! The Broker makes money and the construction company makes money. And the commuter is ecstatic, because he can now drive to the mainland! Win / win / win. The JV Broker doesn’t spend money or risk money and it takes very little time to set up these tollbooths.

Now some people prefer to work in a tollbooth instead of owning the tollbooth. Brokers own tollbooths. Employees work in them. Employees sell their time, like mercenaries. They might as well go to prison. The Broker uses his brains and leverages other peoples’ time, money and resources with their permission. There are three requirements for successful, moneymaking Joint Ventures. First, we need to understand the mindset. We need to see the links and learn how to articulate win/win offers. Second, we need access to people who understand the Joint Venture principles, and who are honest in their business dealings. And third, we need to take action. Practice makes perfect. The more we learn how to create value with no cost or risk and very little time, the better we get at it. The more bridges we build between supply and demand, always setting up a percentage of the flow to ourselves, (that’s the tollbooth) the more passive income money machines we build. And there is no limit to how many we can create. One simple introduction can earn you thousands of dollars. Introduce the demand / need to the supply/ solution and take a commission.

Here’s a simple idea you can use. I popped into a coffee shop and saw a wooden box next to the cream and sugar. This box was divided into sections, each containing business cards. A sign on the box said, “Advertise here for $5 per month.” Some JV Broker set this up with a number of coffee shops. He gets paid $5 per month, per section, on each box in each coffee shop. And he pays some of that back to the owners of the coffee shops, of course. He is leveraging the coffee shop’s space and customers. This is very little money, but once you have the system in place, you can pay someone to sell the space, fill the boxes, and collect the money. And you can have boxes in many coffee shops. It adds up. And he builds a database of business with whom he is working, that he can leverage. See photo.

Another good example of this leverage is access to databases. This month, one of my 435 Members showed a Vancouver charity how to earn $20,000 in one day with no cost or risk. They are doing it. Everyone wins. They leveraged their existing database and resources and the Member will make around $7,000 just for setting the JV up. I will also make money. And the charity is very happy. They’re offering my $500 JV Broker Bootcamp for $100! Here’s the good news: we will duplicate this little exercise across Canada. And the Member who set it up will sit at home watching the History Channel (because hard work is history) while he rakes in thousands of dollars from his tollbooth every time the machine runs. I love it! He took two hours to set up this cash register. No cost. No risk. It works. I’ve been doing this for 19 years and I have put a lot of free information on my website for you, including podcasts, articles, audio interviews and more: see http://www.dollarmakers.com/

Robin J. Elliott

Only a woman who has been pregnant can fully understand this concept of pregnancy. I saw it in lovely daughter’s life recently: the excitement, serenity, anticipation, expectation - the wonderful aura that surrounds a happily pregnant woman. When your heart is pregnant with expectation, it soon becomes apparent to all. One can only hide pregnancy for so long. I know a few men and woman who are pregnant with their goals and objectives and visions. They are on a different wavelength – their purpose is clear - they see beyond the mundane and they know that their dreams are going to come true. They know that they are going to give birth to their vision. They have no doubt and they are deeply in love with their work.

You can see when someone is pregnant with their goals. Their whole demeanor changes. They become focused and powerful. A pregnant female human or animal will protect her unborn offspring with her life. A developer plans his new high-rise building with his architects and erects a huge billboard with a beautiful picture of what will magically appear on a patch of dirt and rocks. Nobody doubts that they will soon see that building. The builders and developers are pregnant with the idea of the building. They create it. They don’t sit around smoking and hoping that it will somehow build itself. They take decisive, purposeful action. They work as a team. They all contribute to the same objective.

I cannot imagine Walt Disney saying, “I don’t work on weekends” or Donald Trump saying, “I hate my job”. Pregnant people are fully committed, whatever it takes. They don’t quit and run at the first sign of trouble. A pregnant woman doesn’t quit at the first sign of morning sickness. The builder doesn’t burst into tears when a laborer doesn’t show up for work. I have never been involved in construction, but I imagine those hard working construction guys take a regular look at the billboard to remind themselves what they’re helping to create. And I can imagine how exciting and fulfilling it must be for them to see the finished product.

If you’re not pregnant with an exciting dream and vision, I suggest you are missing out on a wonderful experience. A purpose driven life is extremely fulfilling and gratifying. Total commitment is scarce and that’s why the ladder of success is never crowded at the top. Fall in love with your vision and then give birth to it. Live life to the fullest. Join the DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum, where we are creating a worldwide community of Joint Venture winners. This morning I talked with a Member in England and e-mailed another Member in Australia. Then I talked with a Member in Eastern Canada and e-mailed another Member in Florida. We’re all pregnant. We’re all working on the same, exciting dream. See our billboard www.DollarMakers.com

My friend, Klaus, explained to me that there is a very simple way to evaluate a restaurant manager for a job. It was 1979 in the Bulawayo Holiday Inn, Rhodesia. I was the Food and Beverage Manager and Klaus was my head chef. He suggested I place a spoon on the floor and move a few of the utensils on the table so that they were skew. Then, ask the applicant to walk ahead of me through the restaurant. If she straightens the knives and forks and picks up the spoon on the floor on her way, she’s right for the job. If she ignores or, worse still, is unaware of the chaos, she’s a loser. If your account spills tea in your saucer, when serving it and he doesn’t replace the saucer, he’s probably just as lackadaisical when it comes to doing your books.

A large American company used to present the people on their short list for a top job with a trip to Las Vegas, all expenses paid, expense account, three days and only two hours a day of meetings. There was method in their madness; they would very carefully watch the delegates during their stay. The smokers, the drinkers, the gamblers, the promiscuous and the lazy would quickly be removed from the short list. What one does in one’s private life, behind closed doors, is a reflection of who one really is.

If someone’s personal life is chaotic, disorganized and / or badly managed, it will be reflected in his or her business ethics and activities. If they are slovenly, loose, immoral, lazy or undisciplined in their personal lives, you will see a mirror image in their business practices. A meticulous, ordered, and loyal home life will spill over into business. You cannot insulate the two. One will affect the other. If people don’t maintain long-term relationships in the personal lives, don’t expect their loyalty in business. If they cheat of their spouses, expect them to cheat you in business. If they leap from partner to partner, or if they’re gold-diggers or flirts, they are sending you a very clear message. These are not people to joint venture with.

Let me tell you about my best friend, Marnus Roothman. If you have my latest book, you’ll see it’s dedicated to him. I met Marnus thirteen years ago, just before his fiftieth birthday party. He invited me and another 54 people to his party. 52 showed up. He is a highly respected entrepreneur who is absolutely trustworthy. As he is at home, so he is in business. Just like you. Just like me. And just like everyone else. So, if you want to know how someone will behave in business, take a good look at their home life. It’s like a crystal ball, only it works. Business is a reflection of personal. Remember that.

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com