09.27.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:00 am by Robin J. Elliott
There are only two basic responses you get when you offer people a business opportunity. They both tell you in advance whether or not the person will succeed or not. Yes, you can predict their success by the questions they ask you. I am called the Prophet of Profit. I can predict wealth or want when I hear you speak. Your questions reflect your self-esteem, self-respect, beliefs, expectations, values and track record.
Whether you’re promoting Network Marketing, selling a business, or looking for a JV partner, this insight will help you avoid selecting the wrong people to work with and guide you to the right people. That’s a small percentage of people - quality is costly, but the return on your investment of time and energy is well worth it.
Let’s start with the losers. Their questions will be something like this: ” What if it doesn’t work? What are you making? What are other people earning in this venture? How do I know I will succeed? How can I get it cheaper? What’s the catch? Why does it seem so easy? How do I know you’re telling me the truth? Can I wait a while? Why do I have to make a decision now? Is this Network Marketing? Why did John fail doing this? How much can I lose? What will other people think if I fail?” They think in terms of negative expectations, failure, scarcity, fear, and distrust. Avoid them like the plague. They will fail and blame you. They will waste your time and frustrate you. They will contaminate your team with the cancer of pessimism.
These are the questions that winners will ask you: “When can I start? What are my limitations? What stops me from going straight to the top? What awards can I win? When do I start getting paid? Can I do this faster?” Successful people have a track record of success. They believe in themselves and they expect to win. They respect themselves and their time. They are strong enough to say , “Yes” or “No” and make a quick decision. They are used to succeeding. They are self-motivated. They don’t quit easily and they attract good people because of their high level of confidence. These are the people you should choose to work with. Invest your time and energy with them. Put up with them, because they will make you richer. They communicate, confront issues, and get back to you fast. They come from a place of abundance, optimism, courage and strength, so they win.
Listen to the response, categorize, and make your on decision. Decide who you want on your side, in your team, in your platoon. Would you choose a deserter or a coward to go into battle with you? I think not. Choose the best warriors.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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09.26.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:31 pm by Robin J. Elliott
When you hear people say, “I can’t afford it”, or “I don’t have the time”, it means you have not made the sale. You have failed to show them enough compelling value. They don’t want what you’re selling. Because they CAN afford it. And they DO have the time. Your idea is just not important enough for them to allocate the time or money resource to it. They have more pressing priorities.
The reason why they claim not to be able to afford it or not to have the time is that they are too gutless or politically correct (same thing) to tell you they’re not interested. The average nicotine addict spends between $300 and $400 per month on his addiction. People DO have money and time, but they will not allocate a resource to something they don’t really want or need. When we realize this, we can either walk away or try to show them more value. Frankly, when someone doesn’t get it the first time around, I refuse to waste more time with them. I don’t like dealing with stupid people. The average IQ on a bell curve is only 100, so there are plenty of idiots around. Find the smart ones and you’ll save time and be less frustrated. But do not beg and discount and persuade. Don’t cheapen yourself. Simply seek someone else to pitch.
My point is that we all spend time and money on things we like and love. People can afford your stuff and they can make the time available, as long as you can persuade them of the value. Don’t blame price, competition, or anything outside of YOURSELF. Get better at presenting your stuff, and you will find that it has little to do with time of money. I just met a man who paid $20,000 to learn to become a COACH! I know, crazy. But he wanted it, so he paid.
Think about that one.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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09.23.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:55 am by Robin J. Elliott
We teach people around the world to accomplish financial freedom and quality of life through the use of Joint Ventures. By learning how to become a Joint Venture Broker, anyone can radically improve their financial situation, whether they have a business or no not. This is a portable skill that can be used anywhere in the word, by any person, regardless of their circumstances, background, education, or age, as long as they are prepared to learn and apply the skill. No selling, risk, or cost in involved, except the cost of our training. We provide all the support you need to succeed, based on our twenty years of international experience with thousands of people and businesses.
Jim Stovall said, “Don’t take advice from anyone who doesn’t already have what you have.”
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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09.18.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:57 pm by Robin J. Elliott
I was recently given the DVD of the movie, “300“. I loved it. I will watch it again. It’s wonderful, in a world of wimps, wannabe’s and wankers, to see real men, real warriors, albeit in a movie, insisting upon victory, laying down their lives with unerring commitment.
”When your need exceeds your fear, you will move forward and take the necessary action to attain your goal.”
Think about that one. Make pictures in your head of all the hideous, negative consequences of NOT achieving your goal within the prescribed time. Many think they can get away with procrastination, weak excuses, and slovenliness, until the opportunity they once had is unceremoniously ripped away from them and presented to a more deserving and motivated individual. Everyone is replaceable, my friend. You only really appreciate something when you lose it.
Focus so intensely on what you want that the light of your passion allows for no shadow of a doubt. Create such a vivid picture in your mind of EXACTLY what your successful goal attainment looks like, that your Reticular Activating System has no option but to move you inexorably in the direction of of goals. Make no choice and allow no thought without first evaluating its impact upon your success.
What is your promise worth? Do people believe you when you make a commitment to something, or do they automatically set up contingency plans since they expect you to renege on your commitments once again? When you let others down, you let yourself down. Perhaps you assocuite with people who overlook dishonesty and accept second best. In that case, change the group you’re in. Join a group that does not tolerate mediocrity. Force yourself to greater heights of achievement. Remember that every action is either taking you towards or away from your goals.
If I could share two words with the average man, I would exhort him to “Get serious.” Stop playing at life - it’s the real thing, and it’s running out. Before you know it, you’ll be older, with less energy, less power, and less influence. Today you’re the youngest and strongest you’ll be for the rest of your life. Take advantage of that, and set your eyes on the prize. Never look back. Commit to your magnificent obsession. The stronger your convictions, the more people you will attract to help you achieve your objectives. And they will know the level of your conviction and where your loyalties lie by the daily actions you take.
Robin J Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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09.14.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:12 pm by Robin J. Elliott
For most thinking people (that’s probably about 5% of the population), we have the option of perceiving most of our circumstances, opportunities, and challenges from a dualistic perspective.
I say most, because some things simply are what they are, and only a psychotic would assume the existence another potential reality. For example, “Randomly beating people up is not a good thing.” The vast majority of situations and choices set before us, however, (and we all have many choices of which we are simply blissfully unaware) can be viewed either from a positive or from a negative perspective: “What’s good about, why will it work, what do I have to gain?” or “What’s bad about it, what can go wrong, what do I have to lose?” Before you jump to the confusion that you know where this argument is going, bare with me.
While every opportunity and challenge has both positive and negative elements, and because our self-esteem, conditioning, and belief systems will to a large extent preempt and dictate our choices, we need to create a situation where we will not continue to run in the wheel of habit, unless it’s a habit that is helping us to be the best we can possibly be. This is quite easily done in three basic steps. If you want the proverbial scales to fall from your eyes to allow the possibilities for magnificent increase in your wealth and success to increase exponentially, you will do well to consider these steps.
Now before you take another sip of your Kool-Aid or tighten your cilice, before you write down the name of another planet you intend to populate after your death or place a call Tom Cruise, may I suggest you remove the judge’s robes and open up your mind a wee bit? I know it’s hard and sinful to consider alternative options, and we all live in cults that strictly discourage that, but it is worth the effort. See, everything you believe either hurts and restricts, or strengthens and liberates you. Every belief ultimately results in a choice which will either help or hinder your progress in life. Accurate perception of the situation, the consideration of your real options, and the strength to make the right choice, is what is at issue here.
Your philosophy will guide everything you do, as will your values. In order to cast aside those muddy spectacles for a short while, and see your options for what they really are, these steps are important. Let me share a quick and simple example with you. If you believe your spouse or parent doesn’t love you, does that help or hurt you? Can you find evidence that provides proof that he or she does, in fact love you? How would that change your life? In some cases, this shift in perception can have spectacular results, fast! Could you suspend your pigheadedness for long enough to even consider the possibility of the alternative reality? What about your other disempowering beliefs about yourself, your worth, your life, your religion, your options, your relationships and your business? (Y.A.H.O.O.! - You Always Have Other Options.)
Naturally, I could waffle on and philosophize about this all day, so let’s get right down to the point and use a less emotional hypothesis: Business. When it comes to religion and politics, many sheep have their egos and sense of security so bound up in their illusions that their fear of being wrong is far stronger than their wish to be free of the mediocrity and desperation with which they exist. I will avoid the use of the word, “live”. Their security blanket, though it stinks to high heaven (couldn’t resist that) and is frayed to bits by common sense, remains their security blanket.
If you honestly and sincerely want to evaluate a business opportunity, choice, or challenge, follow these three simple steps. Before you do, set your compass by your highest values. In my case, they are FREEDOM and RESPONSIBILITY.
1. Remove risk. I do this through the liberating and unlimited power of Joint Ventures. That helps remove the paralyzing and limiting effects of fear.
2. Surround yourself with advisers and mentors who are far more successful that you are and have already accomplished in their lives what you wish to attain in your own.
3. Write it all down and view it in relation to your values and goals. See your business as a monopoly game, or, more accurately, as a game of chess. By involving others and removing the risk, you can maintain a semblance of objectivity and courage.
And here’s a bonus. I use this system to free myself of tunnel vision, conditioning, entropy, and decay. Read the work of smart people who believe the opposite to what you believe. If you’re a theist, read Richard Dawkins. If you’re a capitalist, read Naomi Klein. If you’re socialist and/or lefty, read Mark Steyn. If you’re an atheist, read Bonhoeffer. For a reality check, read Ayn Rand and Buddhism. If you’re prejudiced against a certain race, befriend one of them. I honestly believe that most of what we all believe is mostly inaccurate.
And if this article makes you very angry, remember that anger is usually the result of fear, (”Maybe what I believe is WRONG!”) so you’re getting closer to the truth, which will, my friend, set you free, and that freedom will always come with a price. Don’t worry - the return on investment is exceptionally good.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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09.13.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:13 pm by Robin J. Elliott
Millions of people lie awake at night, staring at the ceiling, tossing and turning, plumping their pillows, eventually falling asleep in front of the TV so you don’t have to think, worrying about money. Been there, done that – many times. I know what it’s like. It eventually taints everything, affects relationships, your health, your whole demeanor. You start living in a fog of tension and quiet desperation. Desperate people do desperate, irrational things and grab at straws. Everything seems to be about money. You become consumed by it. People commit suicide about money problems. They start taking drugs and drinking to escape. Marriages break up. Some get lured into gambling and lose everything. We blame, we fight, and we worry. It’s time to stop.
Stop being afraid and stop worrying, because there is a solution for you, whether you have a business or not. Most of us are locked in to a paradigm that is self-defeating; it involves the usual traps – credit card debt, paying your Visa with your MasterCard, loan sharks, banks, Get-Rich-Quick schemes, borrowing, refinancing and then re-refinancing again, using up the equity in your home, borrowing from family, second jobs, a never-ending downward spiral. If we do what we’ve always done, we’ll get what we’ve always got. If we do what average people do, we’ll get exactly what they get: debt. And entrepreneurs are even more at risk. I’ve been in my own business for twenty years and I have been through this stuff. I nearly went bankrupt once. I’ve seen it all. Ninety percent of peoples’ problems are related to money in some way.
You say you can’t buy health or time. Well, I have news for you. With money, you can improve your health, avoid illness, get the best treatment, “suffer in comfort”. You CAN buy time by paying other people to do things for you, pay for services that save time, fly instead of traveling by car, and when you fly, fly first class. When you have money, everything changes. Your self-esteem and peace of mind increases. You are relaxed, confident, and generous. Your dignity is restored. You can afford the good things in life. You have many choices. You can self-actualize and spend your time doing what you love doing, help less fortunate people, provide education for your children, become all you were meant to be. Enjoy life and live your dreams, while helping others to do the same. Let me ask you this: On a scale of one to ten, one being “I don’t need money” and ten being “Whatever it takes, walk naked and barefoot across broken glass with my hair on fire in public”, how badly do you want to change your financial life? I’m looking for tens.
I teach people how to achieve wealth with no cost or risk, using existing resources, regardless of their age, background, circumstances, education or connections, by becoming a Joint Venture Broker. I know it sounds involved, but it’s really easy and simple once you understand it and learn the skills. There is no selling involved. You don’t have to persuade anybody or be a public speaker or even articulate. We have done this for twenty years, so we know exactly what you need and we provide the training, connections, and support you need. All you have to do I step up, buy the training, and take action. The more motivated you are, the faster you can start earning real money and change your life. You can earn an unlimited amount of money, and you can tart making money fast – IF you take action and apply the training.
Right now, you can start changing your life. Join Success University with us. This is your opportunity to break free from the chains of debt, money worries and desperation, regardless of you circumstances, and become financially free, happy, relaxed and fulfilled. Jim Stovall said, “Never take advice from someone who doesn’t already have what you want.” Well, I have done it, and I can show you how to do it, to. I look forward to working with you.
TAKE ACTION NOW! Join the DollarMakers Joint Venture Club - join the winners.
Robin J. Elliott.
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09.12.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:43 am by Robin J. Elliott
People do business with you and help you to succeed because they like and trust you. Every interaction with them is either a deposit or a withdrawal in your TRUST Bank. If you focus on making deposits, you will get rich and build good relationships with winners. This is how to make withdrawals and deposits:
Withdrawals:
Don’t return e mails and phone calls on time. For every day you don’t return a call or e mail, your bank balance goes down. It diminishes right along with your reputation. It’s an insult to the other person.
Don’t do what you promise, when you promise to do it: BIG mistake – big withdrawal. (People don’t believe your excuses, even if they’re valid!)
Don’t acknowledge peoples’ contributions to your success – it’s like not sending them their paycheck!
Be negative, whine, focus on what can go wrong, and complain. Pessimism will drain your bank balance faster than you think. You may even be running on empty…
Deposits:
Pay them genuine, specific, and sincere compliments.
Deliver on time. Go the extra mile. Talk in the interests of the other person.
Be positive, enthusiastic, upbeat, and encouraging. Expect to win.
Return phone calls and e-mails promptly. Pay your bills on time.
Be reliable and committed, loyal and available.
Every interaction, every phone call, every meeting and e-mail, is an opportunity to build your TRUST account. It’s easy, it takes little self discipline, and it works! People work with those whom they like and trust. I may like you, but if I don’t trust you, we will never do business.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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Posted in Uncategorized at 8:36 am by Robin J. Elliott
No matter what business you’re in, or what you’re selling, let me ask you this simple question:
What would happen if you knew for certain that you would be killed if you didn’t achieve a certain financial goal by the end of the month? If you knew without a doubt that if you did not achieve a certain goal by the end of this month, you would DIE? What would you do differently? What would you stop doing? What would you immediately start doing? “When your need exceeds your fear, you will move forward”. Will this impending death force you through the fear barrier, out of your comfort zone, and into massive, focused action?
What would happen if you were prepared to do whatever it took, 24/7, until the end of the month, without any excuses, reluctance, timidity or compromise? How many phone calls could you make? How many people could you see? How easily would you quit? How productive would you be? What sort of impact would this have on your life and your finances? If you knew that your children would be killed if you didn’t achieve your goal by the end of the month, would you reach your goal? You know you would. You know you could.
The reason why most of us do not achieve our goals is not because we don’t have the tools, opprtunity, or support; it’s because our level of commitment and motivation is simply too low. We allow our fears, our addiction to comfort, and our negative attitudes to rob us of success. A fear can only be eclipsed by a greater fear, hence this hypothesis of being killed. When the consequences of not achieving your goals are sufficiently significant, you will do whatever it takes and achieve those goals and you stop making those weak excuses that nobody believes anyway. You will stop justifying your lethargy and burn through any obstacle like a fireball.
Sit down and make a very frightening picture in your head of what will happen if you DON’T achieve your goal this month. People will do more to avoid pain than to experience pleasure. Use the expectation of pain and fear to blast yourself to the next level of success. Get serious - very serious. You’ll be glad you did. Join the eagles who don’t compromise, complain or cringe. Become a success warrior. Insist of achieving your goal.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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09.09.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:47 pm by Robin J. Elliott
My Dad lives in South Africa. On the phone the other day he told me, “The avo’s are falling fast and furious, Boykie.” My family moved into that house in 1968 and almost every year without fail, the avocado pear tree has borne huge amounts of huge avocado pears. These are enormous avos - at least the size of two baseballs each, (three cricket balls), they come crashing down from a tremendous height. At times, we actually erected nets to catch them and prevent them from splitting open on the slate below.
My family has given away thousands of avos to the poor and needy, family and friends, and of course we love eating them ourselves. I said, “Dad, that tree must have borne literally millions of avos by now, and it all started with one avo pip. Amazing!” One seed sown. Millions continually reaped. Thousands of people benefited. One of those avos is almost a complete meal to a beggar. My Mom puts out huge bags of avos that poor people take. She distributes them to old age homes, too. One seed.
It’s the same in business. One idea, nurtured and fed over the years, yields millions of dollars. But only to those who believe and are prepared to work and persist. Thousands of people can benefit. But the dishonest and lazy ones will soon lose interest and move on to get-rich-quick schemes. They think the spring follows the summer. They believe in instant gratification. They don’t understand success. They want to ride on the backs of those who toil and pay the price, but it doesn’t work. They want to reap without sowing. That’s called “theft”. Ask successful people and they will tell you they agree with the following poem:
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upwards in the night.
Successful people don’t buy lottery tickets and hope to succeed; they create their own success and they make good choices every single day UNTIL they succeed. And because they understand that a price is to be paid for success, they don’t allow others to leech off their labor. If you want to understand the mindset and philosophy required for real, lasting success, read “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand. Then you will understand why Atlas sometimes has to shrug.
The real reward of success in business is not the money; it’s what you become in the process, the character and strength you build in the process. The understanding you attain. The friends you make. Sidney Sheldon put it this way: “The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle’s wings are silken, but it’s claws are made of steel.”
There are no guarantees in life, but of this I am certain: If you persist and believe, if you refuse to quit or compromise, and if you insist on the same qualities in your business partners, success is a slam dunk. It all depends if you have what it takes. There’s very little competition when you acquire this philosophy: “If it’s to be, it’s up to me.”
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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09.05.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:17 am by Robin J. Elliott
In 1979 I was catching fish with a friend in the Matopas National Park in Rhodesia. We used a throw net to catch the bass, and afterwards we would go up to the hotel and the hotel manager’s wife would cook the fish which we would all enjoy with a few beers.
A Joint Venture Broker is like a fisherman who catches fish with nets. The more nets, the bigger the nets, the stronger the nets, the more fish he will catch. Your Joint Venture Nets are a very important aspect of your business. Here are a few important criteria for your JV Nets, or JV Opportunities:
- The more good JV’s you have in place, the more fish you will catch, the more money you will make. If you don’t have a solution for someone with one JV, you might have it in another. The more problems you solve, the more money you make. I personally currently have 20 JV’s in place - 20 nets.
- The nets have to be good nets - good, solid JV’s, with honest, professional partners, who can deliver what they promise, who are on time, and whom you don’t have to run after to get them to do what they so sincerely promised to do. Your JV partners should be reliable, available, successful, and selective.
- Work with PROVEN JV’s - the nets should be tried and tested. No start-ups, scams, weird or iffy nets. Only work with people you know and whom you’ve checked out very well. Beware of Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, and unknown quantities. Get things in writing. Do your due diligence and withdraw at the first sign of dishonesty.
- Don’t reinvent the wheel. At our Bootcamps we give people seven or eight proven JV’s (nets) to implement immediately, yet the very next day they’re e mailing me to ask about some off-the-wall scheme they want to leap into.
- Distribute your cash-flow - 80% short-term, 10% medium term, 10% long term. And make sure your JV’s reach the same target market in order to optimize the opportunity to cross sell and upsell.
Become a strategist; plan your JV Broker busunes carefully. Align yourself with winners. A solid foundation with multiple, solid nets will make you rich.
For my Free Joint Venture Report that contains more information and TEN simple, carefully selected, proven JV income opportunities (nets), e mail me and ask for the JV REPORT: robin@dollarmakers.com
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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09.04.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:19 am by Robin J. Elliott
A “Hot Button” is what someone really, really wants - something that will get their undivided attention - something that will make them love you should you provide it for them. When you know what someone’s Hot Button is, be assured that you can almost guarantee reciprocity when you push it. (With my funny accent, I have been accused of saying “Hard Bottom”…)
A few examples are in order. I grew up drinking tea, not coffee, in South Africa, with a Mom who used a tea cosy and a teapot. In North America, they fling a heavy ceramic mug at you with a teabag and tepid water in it and pretend they’re serving you tea. I was in England this weekend and our Director for the DollarMakers Women’s Club (formerly Mom Comes Home) for the UK and and Europe, Justine Robson, very kindly pushed my Hot Button by presenting me with a lovely tea cosy made by her mom.
When I was a child, my mom used to read me Just William books by Richmal Crompton. I tracked a copy down at a bookshop in England this weekend and spent a happy half hour reading excerpts. I don’t want a copy of the book, but it was great reading it! I played the drums in a rock band when I was a teenager, so DollarMakers Coach Brandon Roe bought me a wonderful set of drumming CD’s.
Pushing the button is generally cheap and easy, but it takes a little time to find out what those hot buttons are. It requires listening skills and the ability to shut your mouth about how smart you think you are or how great you imagine your service is. Become a detective, delve down and find out what makes someone tick. Find the Hot Buttons. Give them what they want. Look for emotional, sentimental connections. Show that you care enough to respond.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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