Why You Should NOT Become a Joint Venture Broker
If you were to become a Joint Venture Broker, you wouldn’t have any inventory, because you would have other people selling their inventory while you collected a piece of all the on-going business. That would mean you would lose out on the exercise carrying and stacking and counting the inventory! Also, you would have all that extra money that wouldn’t be tied up in inventory, and you would have to decide what to do with it – what a drag! And, since you wouldn’t be delivering services yourself, you would have all that extra time on your hands while other people did the work and paid you for the privilege. What would you do with all the extra time?
The worst part about being a JV Broker would be getting rid of those employees of yours that show up late, smoke pot, treat customers badly, steal from you, lie to you, threaten you with lawsuits, and call in sick every other day. How boring your life would be without them. And then, of course, you wouldn’t have those exciting lean times or “quiet times” in your business when you use up all the profit you made during the busy times. That’s just no good. And you wouldn’t be able to lie awake at night worrying about not making enough money to meet payroll and pay the lease, because you wouldn’t need an office or overhead! What would become of that delightful Irritable Bowel Syndrome?
When you go on holiday with your family, you would be obliged to choose Club Med or high end cruises, instead of those cozy, two star, fleabag hotel with drunken truckers for company. And you would miss out on those interesting Chamber of Commerce meetings where broke, self-employed salespeople try to sell each other stuff, because you’d be negotiating real deals and making real money, while lying on the beach or next to the pool. And how confusing it be to have multiple streams of residual income instead, of being limited to just one product or service in one geographical area, in a shrinking market. As a JV Broker, you wouldn’t enjoy the privilege of dealing with difficult, unreasonable customers, and you would have to stop that stress medication which you find so tasty.
If you decide to keep your business and apply JV systems to it, you would find it stressful to deal with the lowered risk, increased profit, and the guilt you would feel when you leave all your competitors choking in your dust, the poor things. You’d also feel guilty about having so much more money and free time, while your competitors continued to work so hard for so little – it’s just unfair. And if you made all that extra money, you would be obliged to give more to your church and pay more taxes, and you don’t want THAT. No, sir, Joint Ventures are not for you. Bankruptcy, risk, tension, and fatigue are just too much fun to sacrifice. Who needs freedom, fun, lots of money, and plenty of time, after all?
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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