11.17.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:31 pm by Robin J. Elliott
Citibank lays off 23,000 workers, then 53,000. Japan declares that they are officially in a recession – opportunity, opportunity, opportunity. Where there is a need, where there is change, where there is a challenge, there is an opportunity. As long as you have a solution, that is. When rats invade a city, the exterminators make money.
John F. Kennedy said, “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis’. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.” Those with no solutions have nothing to offer and nothing to gain, but those who can provide solutions during difficult times can get rich. “The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity”, said Ayn Rand. When people are losing their saving, their jobs, their livelihoods, and their hopes and dreams, they’re looking for a low risk or no risk solution that will cost the minimum and bring them a fast, strong income. And they don’t want to have to sell things. That’s where DollarMakers is perfectly positioned with the ideal solution.
Jim Rohn said, “An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.” DollarMakers is an idea whose time has come, and as the recession deepens, reality sets in, and panic increases, we’re ready to provide the solution. But we have one problem – we will need help, and those who are well positioned within DollarMakers, including, of course, our Certified Business Mentors, will reap the benefits.
Sun Tzu: “Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” Joint Ventures provide the ideal, fast, real solution to business owners and those without businesses (or even jobs). DollarMakers is the world leader in JV’s for individuals, professionals, and small and medium sized businesses, and we continue to improve upon our products, services, and offerings. The only investment required is a small amount for training and Membership, and intelligent, motivated, and hard-working people can immediately start making the money they need, with no selling, risk, or cost., regardless of their backgrounds or circumstances.
Here’s a simple example: you can instantly leverage introductory credit card offers, equity, your line of credit, savings, or credit into monthly cash flow, profit income by investing it at 12% per year, paid out monthly. And you can get your money back in 6 months. Minimum investment $20,000. You can earn instant commissions by simply linking people up and introducing them to the solutions they seek. You can create multiple, ongoing income flows with no risk and very little time. You can double the profits in your business fast. Only Joint Ventures offers this remarkable opportunity, and DollarMakers is the very best at teaching people how to do it, with access to Members in eighteen countries and full support.
Join us as we step in to help people weather this storm. Zig Ziglar said, “You can get anything you want out of life, if you’re prepared to help enough other people to get what they want.” DollarMakers needs more leaders, Mentors, and Members to handle the coming load. This is your opportunity. Don’t say you didn’t know.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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Posted in Uncategorized at 9:36 am by Robin J. Elliott
Do you have trouble convincing people to buy / accept your idea, product, service, Joint Venture, or suggestions? Do you find your offers and proposals being rejected too often? Is it hard for you to get appointments and time with successful people? Is your closing ratio / conversion ratio too low? Do you want more access, acceptance, sales, acknowledgment, and buy-in?
First, recognize that if someone else in the same area, industry, and environment, with similar products, services, and offers, is doing better than you are, then there is definitely something you can do about it. That’s good news. So here are some pointers that will work for you:
1. Your level of enthusiasm and belief will open many doors. Enthusiasm is contagious, and if you don’t believe in yourself and your offer, nobody else will. The higher your confidence level, the more impact you will have. How can you increase this? The word “Enthusiasm” ends with the letters IASM – I Am Sold Myself. You have to believe in, buy, and use your own product or service. You have to be “a product of the product.” You increase your confidence and self-esteem by knowing everything there is to know about what you’re selling, the benefits, and the details, so training and learning about what you’re selling is essential. The more you learn, the more you will earn. Disciplined learning will increase your self-esteem and expectations.
2. Your personal presentation is important. If you’re badly dressed with bed head, sleep creases on your face, cat hair on your coat, and unshaven, no winner will want to talk with you. BO, halitosis, showing up late, not delivering on your promises, and a bad haircut will simply destroy any credibility you might have had. You have to look successful and act successful in order to BE successful. Look like a million dollars before you can earn it. BE – DO – HAVE. Remember that. People DO judge a book by its cover, and first impressions are lasting impressions.
3. Talk in the interests of the other person, get your ego out of the way, and don’t waste your prospect’s time. Be very well prepared with a specific sales strategy. If you have anything in writing, keep it concise, to the point, professional, bottom-line oriented, and on good paper. You will be judged by your written material, hand-outs, and spelling mistakes. Your prospect is looking for clues, so make sure the clues he finds are good ones.
4. Self-respect, selectivity, and setting the bar high will label you as a professional to be taken seriously. If you’re desperate, needy, broke, and tense, you will frighten any winners away fast. Be relaxed, well prepared, and ready to walk away from any deal. The more prospects you have, the easier this is, so use Joint Ventures to procure on-going streams of qualified prospects. See yourself as your prospect’s equal. Be strong and focused. Choose the environment in which you present yourself carefully – the Four Seasons is better than a Mac Donald’s.
5. Make sure your offer is genuinely win/win – think about what’s in it for the prospect, his return on investment, and his goals. Try to remove the risk and cost from both parties as much as possible. Sweeten the pot through the use of Joint Ventures, by adding massive value – “an offer too good to be refused” – this takes preparation and thought, but you can differentiate yourself from your competition by adding four times the value, at no cost top yourself, through Joint Ventures.
6. Stop blaming others and the economy for your poor ales - take personal responsibility - that is the mark of a winner.
7. Finally, be sensitive – when someone makes it clear they’re not interested, walk away fast – there are many fish in the sea, you have many options, and walking away from uncooperative prospects will increase your self-esteem and therefore your income. DollarMakers provides on-going, ever-improving training and support, access and information on how to be a successful and professional Joint Venture Broker, based on our own experience and the changing marketplace. JV’s will help you to increase sales, whether you have a business or not, and we’re here to help.You can also consider using the services of a DollarMakers Certified Business Mentor.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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11.15.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:05 am by Robin J. Elliott
In our society, people tend to blame their tools when they don’t succeed. Right, now, socialists and collectivists are blaming the bad economy on the capitalist system, which is ridiculous. Losers blame the wind; winners adjust their sails. People who attend our Joint Venture Broker Bootcamps and don’t consistently implement the ideas and systems they learned, fail, and guess what? They blame the Bootcamp (and me.) The fact that they don’t have the intelligence, or the motivation, or the staying power to persist until they succeed is too hard for them to accept, so they blame the system, while others, who attended the same Bootcamp, make a lot of money in the same economy with the same system, but with a different attitude.
The Joint Venture Broker systems we teach work, and we have abundant evidence to prove it. The capitalist system works, and just because some people abused it, doesn’t mean it isn’t still the best system in the world. The looters and parasites will use the recession to try and undermine capitalism, redistribute wealth, and sabotage the success of the western world, but you can’t keep a good man down for long, and I have absolutely no doubt that the economy will rebound magnificently – the spring always follows the winter, and smart people will position themselves to take full advantage of this fact.
Now is the time to become the best Joint Venture Broker you can be, because the world is full of great opportunities offered by this recession. Now is the time to grab hold of the opportunities available to you through DollarMakers and get wealthy. Seize the day – the window of opportunity is wide open for capitalists who understand the power of Joint Ventures. DollarMakers is an idea whose time has come, and I invite you to join us as we ride this wonderful wave to Treasure Island.
Here’s a great book which I recommend:
“End of Prosperity - How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy -If We Let It Happen.” by Steve Moore
“At a time when economies around the world are going wobbly, this insightful and timely book reminds us of the principles and the policies which America will need to employ to restore stability and prosperity.” - Lady Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1979-1990
“Fair warning! No one can say, ‘No one told us this would happen.’ Art Laffer, Steve Moore, and Peter Tanous have done just that with this brilliantly insightful book. Read it — and act!” - Steve Forbes
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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11.14.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:30 pm by Robin J. Elliott
I grew up poor, and I have made money. I have been both sides of the fence. After 22 years in business and 55 years in life, I have arrived at some conclusions about money. When you have enough money, you relax, enjoy life, and focus on contribution, health, relationships, balance, and quality of life. When you don’t have enough money, everything is seen through the prism of money. In my experience, money will solve, eradicate, or seriously reduce 97% of your problems. A shortage of money affects your health, relationships, self-esteem, peace of mind, choices, quality of life, and temperament. Enough money, or an abundance of money, makes a dramatic difference in every area of your life.
You say we can’t buy time? You can. You can travel faster and in comfort and hire the help you need to do most things for you. You say we can’t buy health? You certainly can, with great food, medical attention, assistance, equipment, technology, drugs, and peace of mind. And you can “suffer in comfort”. Money is extremely important, and most people know this, even though they don’t all admit it. The problem is, how can we make more money so that we can enjoy the benefits? The first and most important obstacle to making money is mental conditioning and attitude. For this, I wrote my book, “Break Free!” I won’t address that foundational issue here, but suffice to say it is an essential read, as is Ayn Rand’s book, “Atlas Shrugged” in order to clear away any mental barriers to becoming wealthy.
And so here we are. We decide that, instead of tightening our belts more and spending less, depriving ourselves of the things we want and need as we try to live within our income, we should go out and make more money. And so we look at Robert Kiyosaki’s Four Quadrants. The first one is the E – Employee Quadrant – you have a job – that’s where you sell your time, which is your life, sacrificing yourself for a paycheck, compromising your values for a boss, making sure you won’t get rich. Your boss pays you just enough to keep you, and makes you work as hard as possible, with as little freedom as possible. Real wealth is having more monthly residual income than you need to live comfortably – enough time to enjoy your money. So we won’t waste our time on that quadrant.
The second quadrant is the S Quadrant – Self Employed – you own a job. Here, you’re also selling your time, and most so-called “business owners” are really just broke, self-employed salespeople, and they would do better getting a “real job.” Very little security, except that you can’t be fired, and usually no time to enjoy any money you make. Very limited potential. One product or service, one geographical area, one focus, big ego – “big hat, no cattle”. And if you’re making a lot of money, you have less and less time and more and more problems as your business grows.
The third Quadrant is B – the Business Quadrant – you own a system, and people work for you. Interestingly enough, this is where Network Marketing (MLM) fits in, except that it takes a long time to start making you money, and again, it’s all your eggs in one basket – a very dangerous place to be. Many MLM companies fail. There is only one that I use and endorse, after trying many over the years and making good money. But it takes time, and we want money fast, don’t we? So we look at Franchising – very expensive and risky as well, requiring massive capital, and you’re simply buying a job. You have no freedom, no time, and it takes ages to make money. Or we buy a conventional business – again, risk, overhead, no free time, massive failure rate (87% fail in the first five years of new ownership or start-up) and frustration.
And then we get to Quadrant Four – the I or Investing Quadrant, where we have our money work for us. You have to have money to invest, and many investments are not what they seem to be. We all know what has just happened to the stock market. There is only one investment that I recommend, and it works very well – even if you don’t have money to invest! More later.
Let’s tie this up. After 22 years in business, conducting seminars for business owners, professionals and employees across North America and in Africa and the United Kingdom, and after working with tens of thousands of people and seeing many opportunities and options, the best solution to wealth that I have found incurs no risk or cost, no overhead, no licenses, leases, inventory, employees, or selling, and takes little time once it’s set up and working. I run my business with no overhead, employees, inventory, or any other costs except my telephone (I seldom use a cell phone) and a computer connection. Everything I earn and bank is 100% profit. And 90% of my income can be maintained and grown in one hour a day from anywhere in the world.
This may sound too good to be true, but it is, and I am living proof of it. You don’t need education, resumes, the old boys network, connections, a database, or business experience. Your age, circumstances, background, and whether you have a business or not, is irrelevant. You can retire within one year of starting off as a Joint Venture Broker, with more residual income than you need to live comfortably on. As a JV Broker, you simply link supply and demand and get paid an ongoing commission on all resulting business. You can be involved in multiple business transactions, products, services, and industries, in numerous geographical areas, simultaneously. You can have multiple income pipelines feeding money into your bank account while you sleep, as I do. And one of them can be Network Marketing.
Spreading your risk across many industries and geographic areas gives you unlimited income potential and security, peace of mind, and many options. You can be as sophisticated or as mundane and simple as you please, but the more you learn, the more you earn, because your discipline and education improves your self esteem and confidence, and you attract larger JV’s and more money. By cross promoting and linking your various JV’s, your income can grow exponentially. And you can do this from home if you like – you never have to set foot outside your door to get rich doing this. Stay in your pajamas or wear a $1,000 suit, or wear jeans for the rest of your life – your choice! You could even do this from a prison! And you don’t need to be computer literate or technically savvy – your JV’s can be high tech, low tech, slow tech, or no tech. There is no excuse not to succeed and make money, except your own beliefs and the amount of work you do.
As a Joint Venture Broker, you can use the JV mindset to invest, make money on other people’s money, grow your MLM business, and have other people doing all the work. I have successfully run my business remotely from Cancun, Hawaii, England, the US, Canada, Africa – no more barriers, no more restrictions – every resource you need is freely available through JV’s.
DollarMakers was created to provide you all the training, connections, JV partners, ready-made JV’s, and support you need, from Members in 18 countries just waiting to write you a check, to conference calls Bootcamps, online training, newsletters, ezines, Members Meetings, Conventions, and much more. We are the world’s leading experts in our field with small and medium sized businesses, professionals, and individuals, and we have the structure and systems you need to make it happen. We are your ladder to lots of money and your bridge to a burgeoning bank account. We are your way to wealth and your ride to riches.
How soon do you want to be financially free? Say “Goodbye!” to scarcity, fear, insecurity, sleepless nights, and limited options, and say “Hello!” to freedom and joy. What you sow, you will reap, and we’re waiting to work with you. We agree with Zig Ziglar, who said, “You can have anything you want out of life if you’re prepared to help enough other people to get what they want.” Jump on board the DollarMakers Train to your Dreams!
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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11.12.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 11:16 am by Robin J. Elliott
Imagine you’re in New York City with a map of Edmonton. Or you have an outdated map, or a map without street names, or a map in a language you don’t understand. A good map is essential if you want to reach your destination, just like the blueprints and architect’s designs that are used to build a giant skyscraper. Imagine building a ridge that will transport thousands of cars a day – how much planning do you think needs to be done? Building a bridge between you and your goals takes solid planning and good advice from experts. Many people pay a lot of money to buy maps that simply don’t work. Or they buy investments that are scams. You need a solid set of directions.
Imagine walking through a minefield. An anti-personnel mine is a scary thing. They are designed to injure (as opposed to killing) as many victims as possible. When a person steps on a blast mine and activates it, the mine’s main charge detonates, creating a blast shock wave consisting of hot gases traveling at extremely high velocity. The shock wave sends a huge compressive force upwards, ejecting the mine casing and any soil covering the mine along with it. When the blast wave hits the surface, it quickly transfers the force into the subject’s footwear and foot. This results in a massive compression force being applied to the victim’s foot. In most cases, the victim’s foot is blown off by the blast wave. You need a good map, designed by someone who has successfully traversed the minefield of business and life before you, if you want to avoid injury or death.
You wouldn’t take important medical advice from someone without the appropriate training and licensing, would you? How about having your gardener perform heart surgery on your child? Smart people learn from people who already have what they want. They don’t try to reinvent the wheel. They learn from the experiences and mistakes of others. And they don’t take advice from conmen or people who are more screwed up than they are. They spend good money on the right maps, GPS, blueprints, recipes, and prescriptions, and they follow those directions meticulously. They don’t second-guess the experts.
I created a blueprint, based on 22 years of business success, that can show you how to retire in one year with more residual income than you need to live on, with no cost, risk, or selling. My question to you is this: Will you follow that plan exactly, and do whatever it takes, in order to retire in one year? How badly do you want to reach your destination? Follow this recipe - you CAN have your cake, and eat it too… but you have to bake it first.
More information here.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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Posted in Uncategorized at 10:30 am by Robin J. Elliott
“I want multiple pipelines of 100% Pure Profit gushing continually into my back account while I sleep. But do I have to WORK to make this happen? Or can I simply attend a seminar or read a book, and then go home and start getting rich automatically?”
That is a stupid question, but it is exactly the attitude of many people. Read the article below for more information on getting rich.
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Bear with me – read about this Alaskan Pipeline, and then see the valuable lessons below.
There are a lot of oil deposits in Alaska. Oil was discovered in Prudhoe Bay in 1968. Because Prudhoe Bay is located north of the Arctic Circle, they knew that they would need to find a way to get the oil to a port that was ice-free during the winter. They chose Valdez to be the end of the pipeline.
Before they could start building the pipeline, they needed to make a road because the pipeline was going to be built in the wilderness. They needed to be able to get to different places along the pipeline route. The road that they made was called the haul road. It is 360 miles long. It cost 150 million dollars to build the haul road. There were 29 camps along the road, and each was like a little city. 19 of the camps were major sites for the construction.
Building the pipeline was really hard because of the weather and the insects. The temperatures in the winter can get as cold as -60 degrees Fahrenheit. When the wind is blowing it can feel as cold as -115 degrees Fahrenheit. Also, there is no sunlight in the Arctic for 56 days. During the summer it can get warmer. It can get up to 70 degrees Fahrenheit and it will be light for 24 hours a day. However, the mosquitoes and other insects can swarm around and annoy people.
Another problem that they had was the ground. The parts of the pipeline that go over permafrost had to have special supports to make sure that the pipeline wouldn’t wiggle or move around when the ground thawed out in the summer. They also had to make sure that the parts of the pipeline under the ground would not freeze up. They made the pipeline in a zig-zag design to help keep it from cracking in case of earthquakes.
The Alaskan pipeline runs from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Valdez on Prince William Sound. The highest point is 4800 feet. The pipeline is 800 miles long. 11 pump stations were built to move the oil through the pipeline. There are 9.04 billion barrels of oil under the ground at Prudhoe Bay. Each part of the pipeline is 40 feet long. It weighs 1400 pounds. The pipes were made in Japan.
Joint Venture Brokers understand that they need to build pipelines of income, but they forget that it takes a little time to build those pipelines. Now read this excellent article below:
Building a Pipeline to Wealth
(The Four CASHFLOW Quadrants)
By Robert Kiyosaki
Each of us resides in at least one of the four quadrants of the CASHFLOW Quadrant. Where we are is determined by where our main source of income comes from.
Many of us rely on pay checks and are therefore employees, while others are self-employed. Employees and self-employed individuals reside on the left side of the CASHFLOW Quadrant. The right side of the CASHFLOW Quadrant is for individuals who receive their cash from businesses or investments they own.
My Rich Dad told me a simple story when I was 12 years old that has guided me to great wealth and financial freedom. It was Rich Dad’s way of explaining the difference between the left side of the CASHFLOW Quadrant, the ‘E’ and ‘S’ quadrants, from the right side of the ‘B’ and ‘I’ quadrants.
It goes: “Once upon a time there was this quaint little village. It was a great place to live except for one problem. The village had no water unless it rained. To solve this problem once and for all, the village elders decided to put out to bid the contract to have water delivered to the village on a daily basis.
Two people volunteered to take on the task and the elders awarded the contract to both of them. They felt that a little competition would keep prices low and ensure a back-up supply of water.
Self Employed Thinking “The first of the two people who won the contract, Ed, immediately ran out, bought two galvanized steel buckets and began running back and forth along the trail to the lake which was a mile away. He immediately began making money as he labored morning to dusk hauling water from the lake with his two buckets. He would empty them into the large concrete holding tank the village had built.
Each morning he had to get up before the rest of the village awoke to make sure there was enough water for the village when it wanted it. It was hard work, but he was very happy to be making money and for having one of the two exclusive contracts for this business.
Business Owner Thinking “The second winning contractor, Bill, disappeared for a while. He was not seen for months, which made Ed very happy since he had no competition. Ed was making all the money. “Instead of buying two buckets to compete with Ed, Bill had written a business plan, created a corporation, found four investors, employed a president to do the work and returned six months later with a construction crew.
Within a year his team had built a large volume stainless steel pipeline which connected the village to the lake. At the grand opening celebration, Bill announced that his water was cleaner than Ed’s water.
Bill knew that there had been complaints about dirt in Ed’s water. Bill also announced that he could supply the village with water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Ed could only deliver water on the weekdays–he did not work on weekends.
Then Bill announced that he would charge 75% less than Ed did for this higher quality and more reliable source of water. The village cheered and ran immediately for the faucet at the end of Bill’s pipeline.
In order to compete, Ed immediately lowered his rates by 75%, bought two more buckets, added covers to his buckets and began hauling four buckets each trip. In order to provide better service, he hired his two sons to give him a hand for the night shift and on weekends.
When his boys went off to college, he said to them, “Hurry back because someday this business will belong to you.” For some reason, after college, his two sons never returned. Eventually Ed had employees and union problems. The union was demanding higher wages, better benefits and wanted its members to only haul one bucket at a time.
“Bill, on the other hand, realized that if this village needed water then other villages must need water too. He rewrote his business plan and went off to sell his high speed, high volume, and low cost and clean water delivery system to villages throughout the world.
He only makes a penny per bucket of water delivered, but he delivers billions of buckets of water, and all that money pours into his bank account. Bill had developed a pipeline to deliver money to himself as well as water to the villages.
Bill lived happily ever after and Ed worked hard for the rest of his life and had financial problems forever after. The end.” That story about Bill and Ed has guided me for years. It has assisted me in my life’s decision making process. I often ask myself, “Am I building a pipeline or hauling buckets?” “Am I working hard or am I working smart ? ” And the answers to those questions have made me financially free.
The CASHFLOW Quadrant is about the four different types of people who make up the world of business, who they are and what makes individuals in each quadrant unique. It will help you define where you are in the Quadrant today and help you chart a course for where you want to be in the future as you choose your own path to financial freedom.
While financial freedom can be found in all four of the quadrants, the skills of a ‘B’ or ‘I’ will help you reach your financial goals more quickly. A successful ‘E’ should also become a successful ‘I’.
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Learn how YOU can build pipelines of pure profit wealth, whether you have a business or not, by visiting www.DollarMakers.com
Robin J. Elliott
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Joint Venture Brokers focus on solutions, instead of sales. They use their creativity. Here is a great Blog about people finding solutions.
What would you say if a friend of yours decides to start a business based on creating life-size models of pets? Craig Jones, a former emergency response instructor sensed a business opportunity after completing a pet first-aid class with the American Red Cross. He discovered that the unrealistic dog manikin they used for training was offered by only one company in the U.S.
Rescue Critters has since moved from its garage location to a storefront and now sells its manikins to customers worldwide, including veterinary technician programs, fire departments, U.S. Army canine hospital units and police department K-9 units. With 20 to 25 requests per year for manikins and projected sales of $1.3 million, it seems like Jones’ idea wasn’t so silly after all.
In 2006, the USSR was in a deep depression: empty shelves in shops, no basic goods on sale, etc. This motivated people to become creative, and they started to invent things instead of buying them. For example, women used sweet water (250 ml of water + 1 tea spoon of sugar) as a hairspray to fix the hairdo. Others used onion to polish the furniture (it made old wooden cupboards and night tables shiny and new). Women even knew how to make a sieve out of thin nylon tights!
Solve a problem and get paid for it - ease the challenges and pain in someone else’s life, and make money. Think outside the box.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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11.11.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:51 am by Robin J. Elliott
There’s an old story of a man who heard about a flood on the radio, so he prayed to his god that he would be saved and continued to read his newspaper. Then his neighbors came by to warn him, but he simply prayed again, and had lunch. The water rose and the cat climbed gingerly onto the cupboard, but the man refused to accept the fact that the flood had arrived. Eventually, he perched precariously on the roof of his house, surrounded by surging flood waters, and a boat came by to rescue him, but he refused, stating that his god would save him. Then a helicopter came by to rescue him. Again, he declined their help. Finally, he drowned, bitterly blaming his god for his demise.
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” ~ Sir Winston Churchill. Ignoring reality and denying the truth might prolong your false sense of comfort and security for a short while, but the consequences grow exponentially over time. Dealing with festering conflict is not something the passive aggressive types like, but the benefits of facing your fear and confronting issues is increased self-esteem and the peace of mind that follows that brave choice.
Here’s a question to ask yourself: “If I continue going the way I am going now, what will my life look like in two years? Am I moving in the direction of my goals, or away from them? Am I getting wealthier, happier, healthier, and more successful? What are the consequences of my current choices?” Then, shout, “YAHOO!” (You Always Have Other Choices.) Winston Churchill also said, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
And when you understand that taking action to change your direction is the way to go, be careful whose advice you take. The blind are the first to step up and offer to lead the blind - empty men with empty promises, who wish to fill their empty pockets with your hard-earned money. Those parasites will lead you down the road to destruction while telling you how much they love you. They are the bloodsuckers and the looters who sell nicely wrapped, glittering garbage to the unsuspecting and naive. “Don’t take advice from anyone more screwed up than you” is valuable information, but don’t confuse money and fame with integrity.
In a nutshell, wake up, smell the coffee, and turn your horse in the direction of the treasure.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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Posted in Uncategorized at 9:41 am by Robin J. Elliott
What is it that dilutes, undermines, and sabotages one’s success as a Joint Venture Broker? What subtle poison will attenuate, enfeeble, and warp your progress? The malignant venom that is so popular in our compromised and weak society that is corrupted by politically correct, creeping collectivism is so pervasive as to be almost invisible; we don’t see the proverbial wood for the trees.
Ayn Rand declared, “I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.” She saw that mediocrity is the poison to avoid if one wants to reach the summit of success. The majority chooses the colorless, humdrum existence over real success. The first question I am asked by those who would aspire to become Joint Venture Brokers is, “Can I do this part time?” This is a world in which we celebrate the undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable, and unrepentant pursuit of concession, comfort, and corruption.
“Don’t work too hard” – “Don’t be a fanatic” – “Don’t pressure me” – “Don’t be so idealistic” – DON’T SUCCEED. Don’t become a threat to the seething herd of sheeple. The tall tres catch the wind. The nail that stands up get hammered down. If you’re successful, you become a mirror in which the losers see their own miserable faces, and they have to break the mirror and attack your virtue. You cannot allow their fear to stop you. Ayn Rand said, “Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.”
Eagles don’t flock. Warriors don’t flinch. And winners don’t forsake their goals or forfeit their dreams. Real men don’t sacrifice their values or surrender. They don’t desert and they don’t decamp – they attack and they demand success. The insidious poison of popularity and insecurity will steal your success as surely as the sun will rise. Think of champions like Patton, Thatcher, Churchill, Rand, Hitchens, and the like; they never hesitated to do what they believed in and they never left a back door open. General Patton said, “Don’t Delay: The best is the enemy of the good. By this I mean that a good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week. War is a very simple thing, and the determining characteristics are self-confidence, speed, and audacity. None of these things can ever be perfect, but they can be good.”
Full time, full throttle, total commitment, no compromise, whatever-it-takes, 24/7/365 is the mark of a winner. Scrape the opinions of the masses off the bottom of your shoe and courageously force your way through every barrier on your way to realizing your magnificent obsession. By all means, become a fearless fanatic; you’ll be in good company.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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Every time I saw Patrick, he was laughing or smiling. Every time I talked with Gwen, she was bubbling with happiness and anticipation. Pratima and Kumar were their usual caring, solid gold selves, with an aura of peace and purpose. Winston was reliable, strong, and focused. And everyone loved Justine. Happy, secure people, enjoying life. And that went for the majority of the Members, under differing circumstances, over a week. We just got home from the DollarMakers Fourth Annual Convention. The previous Conventions were Vancouver, Edmonton, and a Caribbean cruise, and this one was the best yet, in Cancun, Mexico. (It will be surpassed only by the next one – an Alaskan Cruise in August, 2009.)
You get to know people, not over a coffee in Starbucks, or in a “Business Networking Meeting”, but in the real world, when they’re sharing the load as they reel in a seven foot shark, vomiting over the edge of a boat, controlling their six children, enduring driving rain on a choppy sea, dealing with difficult and divisive people, or simply the way they treat their spouses over meals and on the beach. You see the soul of people by the way they handle their in-laws and the serving staff in hotels, and how they respond to mundane irritations, glitches, and challenges when you spend a week with them. You see how they handle money, and you watch their manners and interactions.
I expected nothing less than the best from the DollarMakers Directors and Mentors and their respective spouses, and of course I wasn’t disappointed with this elite group, and there were some Members whom I know are champions, but it was interesting to observe those whom we hadn’t previously enjoyed the privilege of knowing personally. Once again, I was grateful to see the high quality and integrity that makes DollarMakers Members so different from the seething herds that populate many other groups, and I feel very fortunate to know these wonderful people.
Winners have a Conquering Spirit. They are self-assured, humble, caring, strong, determined, and goal-directed. They are concerned about the well-being of their friends. They contribute more than is expected of them. They never even consider the possibility of quitting or letting you down. Steve and Sandra, Sally and Kevin, Keith and Nadia – you could absolutely rely on them under any circumstances. You would know that Rob and Clara would never let you down or disappoint you. You could trust Lynnette and Rob with a million dollars - and all your travel arrangements! Those with a Conquering Spirit insists on integrity, and they will never allow divisive losers to undermine or dilute their rectitude or sabotage their success. I could name names all day long, but you get my drift.
What you read, whom you spend time with, where you go, and your input will help you build that powerful Conquering Spirit and guarantee your success in every endeavor in life. Winners who join DollarMakers and get to know our wonderful Members never leave us, but the losers do leave, or we get rid of them, and so we maintain this environment of ethical behavior and build this success incubator on strong, caring relationships. I encourage all the DollarMakers Members to get more involved in this group of winners through our Members Only Conference Calls, Meetings, Bootcamps, Conventions, and events.
The Conquering Spirit: “I am unstoppable, bulletproof, productive, powerful, poised, patient, professional, positive, caring, strong, and determined. I am fearless, focused, generous, and relaxed, and I achieve my goals regardless of my circumstances, challenges, or what other people may say, think, or do. Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better. I take personal responsibility for my choices, actions, and achievements, and ultimately, I always win.”
Finally, a special word of thanks to Rob and Lynnette Peter, our DollarMakers Directors for Conventions and Travel, who are the epitome of people with a Conquering Spirit.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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10.31.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:03 pm by Robin J. Elliott
“WHAT? At $400 an hour? $6.66 per minute? You have to be crazy! That will bankrupt me! I would be terrified at what his bill would be. I would rather risk losing money, getting sued, and not knowing my rights. I’ll take my chances, thank you.”
Only if you were paying $400 per hour. I called my lawyer four times yesterday – once about a copyright issue, then about my home alarm contract, then about my rights to add a wall in my garden, then about a business issue in the United Sates, even though I live in Canada. In fact, I can call my lawyer as many times as I like, have him review an unlimited amount of contracts / documents, call him 24/7 if I need to in case I get arrested or in an emergency, and it costs me $36 per month. Oh, and that includes ID theft protection and restoration! I save a fortune, and I sleep well at night.
That’s right - I have joined the wealthy elite who have a lawyer on retainer, except that I have clear access to the best legal firms in every state in the US and four Canadian provinces. You’re twice as likely to land up in court as you are in hospital, and $36 per month is a lot cheaper than medical insurance. And did I mention that I get paid a commission, on an ongoing basis, for everyone that I introduce to this opportunity? Working with a 36-year-old NYSE company that pays ME thousands per month to get this kind of value for $36 per month is the best Joint Venture I ever found.
When I joined, I also got my will and my wife’s will, plus our Living Wills and Power of Attorney, done at no charge. I already had a will that I paid $500 for ten years ago, and this lawyer told me that one clause in that cheap, $500 will would have caused it to be contested, and my estate to be tied up in court for years! Boy, was I glad I had it reviewed and renewed. Justice is available to the average person, but at price so steep as to be almost unaffordable. Now, it is affordable, and in my estimation, it’s a priority right up there with life insurance, medical insurance, car insurance, and home insurance – just much cheaper. $36 per month – that’s 9 lattes – and it covers my entire family.
America is the most litigious nation on earth - with an estimated 50% of the adult population involved in some legal issue at any time, and 7 out of ten adults without a will.
(For more information, contact Anthony and Crystal Obey info@dollarmakersusa.com)
Robin J. Elliott
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10.30.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:07 am by Robin J. Elliott
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10.29.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:20 pm by Robin J. Elliott
I went to the jewelry store to buy my wife a piece of jewelry. The sales clerk showed me the cheapest item in the range to start with. I said I wanted to see the most expensive item, since my wife deserves only the best. When I had purchased the item, I asked the clerk why she offered me the cheapest piece, and she replied that she would rather have a bird in the hand than two in the bush. She didn’t’ understand how to “drop down”, but she also didn’t understand that you get what you ask for, and you will be surprised what you will get, if you just ask for it. Think abundance, not scarcity.
You can go to the beach with a teaspoon and a cup and get some seasand, or you can go with a forty-gallon drum and fill it with sand. Or you can take a dump truck and fil that - the sand won’t run out. You can take a train and fill it with sand. San respesents, in this case, money. You can make as much as you like if you simply offer a great product and service and then go ahead and ASK. Be audacious, be courageous, and expect great wealth.
“I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store.
For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have willingly paid.”
Bamboo grows more rapidly than any other plant on the planet. It has been clocked surging skyward as fast as 47.6 inches in a 24-hour period. We’ve all heard, “First year it sleeps, second year it creeps, third year it leaps.” Bamboo trees grow very little for the first 4 years. But then, suddenly in the 5th year, they grow 80-90 feet tall. We tend to overestimate what we can do in the short term, but we vastly underestimate what we can do in the longer term. Be the bamboo!
I once had a life insurance salesman ask me how he could double his sales. I answered, “If you’re presently asking people to buy $200,000 worth of life cover, start asking them to buy $400,000 worth of life cover. It’s that simple. But you should start off by making sure that YOU personally have at least $400,000 worth of life cover.” Think BIG. Expect great things. ASK.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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When you make good business decisions, you get rich. Alan Greenspan says in his latest book that Ayn Rand has been the most important influence on his philosophy, and his philosophy drives his decisions. There are only two kinds of decisions: Those based on emotion, and those based on fact or rational objectivity.
Here is one of the most important quotes you will ever read:
“An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man’s value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man’s reason and his emotions—provided he observes their proper relationship. A rational man knows—or makes it a point to discover—the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come; if his premises are wrong, he corrects them. He never acts on emotions for which he cannot account, the meaning of which he does not understand. In appraising a situation, he knows why he reacts as he does and whether he is right. He has no inner conflicts, his mind and his emotions are integrated, his consciousness is in perfect harmony. His emotions are not his enemies, they are his means of enjoying life. But they are not his guide; the guide is his mind. This relationship cannot be reversed, however. If a man takes his emotions as the cause and his mind as their passive effect, if he is guided by his emotions and uses his mind only to rationalize or justify them somehow—then he is acting immorally, he is condemning himself to misery, failure, defeat, and he will achieve nothing but destruction—his own and that of others.” ~ Ayn Rand.
When your business decisions are driven by need, fear, arrogance, pride, greed, envy, or revenge, they are emotional and irrational. We have all compromised our values and overlooked important red flags to make a buck. The result of compromise is guilt, and guilt causes self-sabotage. In other words, you will lose a lot more than you gain. Ayn Rand: “A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man’s emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel–until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.”
When you do business according to your philosophy and remain true to your values and philosophy, you’ll be happy and you’ll get rich, as long as you have the right philosophy. When your philosophy is one of collectivism or mysticism, your business decisions will be flawed, and they will undermine your business. “The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.” ~ Ayn Rand.
When business owners sell their souls for money, they start to become conflicted about money. So they start projecting their dishonesty and condemning the very purpose of their business: “Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.” (Ayn Rand).
Good business decisions are the result of careful, level-headed thought. Ayn Rand again:
“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” Choose your philosophy very carefully, if you want to succeed in business. You have to learn to say “No”, even when it costs you money. The more defined and sophisticated your philosophy, the more selective you will become, and the more success you will enjoy. A good analogy is a cheap watch versus an expensive watch. When you buy an expensive watch, you make sure that the person working on or servicing it is well qualified and licensed or authorized to do so. You don’t take your Rolex Presidential to someone who is not an authorized Rolex dealer, any more than you would take your Rolls Royce to a backyard mechanic. Your business is a reflection of YOU. Who you are, your values, your philosophy – everything that you are is reflected in the way you do business.
Every decision has ripple effects and long-term consequences, so it is important to think about the base and foundation of your business decisions and to determine to disciple yourself to live strictly according to your objective philosophy. Compromise and concession are the cancer that kills businesses.
Those who use their minds to make good business decisions find it easier to operate when supported and surrounded by like-minded, ethical Joint Venture partners, hence the importance in DollarMakers to attract and retain only those whose integrity is beyond question and whose philosophy is one of capitalism. Your mastermind, your inner circle, your team, and your family, affects every business decision you make. Be aware of that.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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10.28.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:53 am by Robin J. Elliott
One of the devastating revelations that people have when they finally understand money and business is that the academics, mystics, politicians, and 97% of the people they know have been lying to them. The myths and fables about creating wealth, retiring, and financial freedom have distorted the truth to the extent that academic institutions, “financial planners”, conmen, “consultants”, mystics, and casinos make a fortune. They do not want you to know the truth about money, because they will lose money if you find out. They have a vested interest in your ignorance.
We are taught by people with no money how to make money – teachers, academics, and government employees who are paid measly salaries to “lecture” people on how to start their own businesses – “Self Employment Programs”, often run by employees who failed in their own businesses and had to get a government job - the blind leading the blind. We are conned by mystics and those who sell us mutual funds, stocks and bonds, and seminars that teach us things that simply don’t work. And we depend on the government to support us. That’s like asking a hungry wolf to come and baby-sit your week-old offspring. Jim Addison said, “Don’t take advice from people who are more screwed up than you are.” But there is a higher way. And I don’t mean dragging your spouse off to the local “Franchise Show” where you lose your life savings to some smooth talking salesman who tells you wonderful stories. Did you notice that he doesn’t personally own on of the franchises he’s selling, or were you dazzled by his lies and whitened teeth?
By now, you’re wondering if this recession will confirm your fear that you’ll never be able to retire, and that you’re condemned to shortage, scarcity, and despondency, and to live among those whose quiet desperation and passive aggression turns them into sports fanatics who live vicariously through violent hockey players and football stars. You realize that nothing has worked for you so far, and you’re ready to roll over and quit the idea of ever being financially free. Your dreams haven’t just been shelved – they’ve been cremated, and the you’ve lost the ashes. And you find yourself hating those who are rich, secure, and happy. So you vote for socialists and collectivists, hoping the government will end up helping you out, since your adult kids are living in your basement, smoking pot, and breeding. Woe is you!
When next you sit yourself down in front of a real entrepreneur, you should understand a few things about where he’s coming from. First, burn your resume – it’s the sign of a has-been that thinks he can coast on his questionable and useless past. Keep the fact that your daddy spent too much of his hard-earned money on your education to yourself. Your academic parrot learning is an affront to any real entrepreneur. The more you talk, the less interested he’ll get. He may not say it, but believe me, he’s thinking: “I don’t care about you or your MBA or how much you sucked up to your previous boss. I just want to know how much money you can make me. And I don’t want you to tell me, because I don’t believe a word you say. SHOW me.”
And now comes the good news. All is not lost. It’s not too late. You CAN get financially free and make your dreams come true, regardless of your age, financial status, weight, circumstances, education, background, connections, whether you own a business or not, whether you have a job or not, and where you live. And you can do it fast, with no risk. Yes, you can start part time; you don’t have to quit that job. The only cost is the investment in your education. And you CAN AFFORD it. Jim Stoval said, “Only take advice from someone who already has what you want.” There is a proven formula that you can use to simply reach out and take your financial freedom. And you can do it in ONE YEAR or less.
I know this sounds too good to be true, and you’re naturally wondering, through a swirling mist of doubt, fear, suspicion, cynicism, and well-earned pessimism, what the catch is. Well, there IS a catch. In fact, there are TWO catches, and only two. These are the only two barriers that can prevent your financial freedom within ONE YEAR, given that you have normal intelligence.
1. You need the training and support that DollarMakers offers. Without that, you will fail.
2. You need to WORK hard for up to one year. That’s the tough one where most people quit before the even start. Your motivation needs to be high enough to keep you working in spite of any detours, resistance, barriers, disappointments, or obstacles.
How badly do you want to be free, so that you can join us on the beach in Cancun or Hawaii, and afford whatever you want for yourself and your family? How important is your peace of mind, security, and health? How much do you love your family? Talk is cheap, so I don’t want to hear your answer, because I’ve heard it all before. I will simply watch what you do. DollarMakers is your golden key to freedom. Take it, or leave it.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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10.27.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 7:21 am by Robin J. Elliott
The recession is a great excuse for many well-known international magazines, blogs, mystics, the liberal media, and politicians to push their socialist agenda. They’re talking about a “kinder, softer, gentler America” (a great source of relief for the enemies of freedom) they’re encouraging people to “expect less, give more, and live frugally”, perhaps worst of all “spread the wealth”, and this is straight out of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”. You will see the gradual glorification of the working man, the unemployed, and the illegals, along with the demonization (which has already begun) of the laissez faire capitalist, and the denouncement of business owners who insist on profitable businesses.
Business Week’s headline is “The New Frugality”. A mountain of undeserved guilt is being heaped on Americans in general, instead of the few who deserve it, and this guilt by association must be punished. How? By imposing the lash of privatization and all the other lethal elements of Marxism and collectivism to undermine that great country. Pandering to socialist organizations like the United Nations, following in the steps of Europe and the UK, who are reaping the crushing results of this poison, and befriending terrorists, could the stark reality following the November 4th US election. Disarm and disempower the producers and creators, and give their wealth to the looters and parasites, and you’re living in Atlas Shrugged.
The environmentalists are patting themselves on the back, the Jihadists are partying (read Mark Steyn’s “America Alone”) and the entrepreneurs and capitalists know they’re in for a tough time. Undermine business by overtaxing it, and people will lose their jobs. The self-fulfilling prophecy will work as people blame the business owners for firing them. Attack Atlas, and he will shrug. We should remind ourselves what money and wealth is really all about, and regain our perspective before we lose the world’s last bastion of capitalism and freedom. Read “The Money Speech” right here or here. The truth will set you free.
For those entrepreneurs who stand to lose their conventional businesses under this flood of thinly disguised socialism and , and for those employees who will lose their jobs under the whip of collectivism, DollarMakers offers an alternative means of creating wealth and value and regaining your freedom through Joint Ventures. It is our stated and uncompromising vision and mission to help people gain and retain their financial and moral freedom, regardless of the political environment in which they find themselves. Seize your freedom.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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10.23.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:35 am by Robin J. Elliott
We had a problem in DollarMakers. We were growing too fast, and we needed trained leaders to help carry the load. Our regular Members weren’t equipped to deal with the kinds of leadership opportunities that arose, and we needed a solution. Presenting a Bootcamp every weekend gets a bit much, and our DollarMakers Directors were working at full tilt. As the economy staggers drunkenly around, causing painful collateral damage, more and more business owners need trained Joint Venture experts to help them weather the storm and not only survive, but thrive.
Losers don’t understand how winners think, or what makes them “tick”. Winners actually can’t help themselves – they HAVE to be the best, they HAVE to accomplish their goals. They are driven to insist upon success. It’s who they are; it’s in their DNA. When a winner joins an organization and likes it and believes in it, it is the natural thing for that winner to rise to the top in that organization. But there was no training available to DollarMakers Members to move up into Leadership.
And so we created a program to train the leaders among our Members that want to move up an take more responsibility (and make a lot more money) as we grow, and we put a strict selection process in place. There is a need for people to understand a lot more about Joint Ventures and the application to business, as well as handle all those business owners who want mentoring and guidance by an expert. We have tried recommending “Business Consultants” and “Business Coaches” in the past, but it was disastrous – they had no idea how to use Joint Ventures, and in many cases they were useless in business as well, so we decided to personally train our own people. We get to know our Members by what they do, not by what they say, so when we select someone for our Mentor program, we have a good idea of who they are, and they are subject to the same high standards and Code of Ethics that all the other DollarMakers Members and DollarMakers Women’s Club Members are.
And so the DollarMakers Certified Business Mentor training program began, and we have so far trained six Mentors (plus their spouses) who are just wonderful, successful people. One has subsequently become the DollarMakers Country Director for the USA, and another the DollarMakers Director for Global China. The Mentors have even formed their own DollarMakers Mentors Club, exclusive to trained Mentors, where they mastermind and interact with their peers. This is a very exciting and important phase in the growth and development of DollarMakers, where we insist on quality above quantity and demand excellence and integrity, especially from our Directors and Mentors. The Cream of the Crop has a home at last, a facility to rise higher.
If you’re interested in applying for the prestigious qualification of DollarMakers Certified Business Mentor, you’re welcome to apply at www.BusinessMentorTraining.com – we have two spaces left in our December training, and the next session will only run April 2009. You have to be a Member of DollarMakers who has either attended at least one JV Bootcamp or used the Home Study program in order to be accepted. No financing is available.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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10.21.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:54 pm by Robin J. Elliott
According to Sigmund Freud, PROJECTION is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one “projects” one’s own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings onto someone else. It is a common process that every person uses to some degree. Let’s take it a bit further and assume someone has just lost $30,000 in a business venture. They now believe that anyone who gets into business will lose their shirt. Or they lost money in a dumb investment, so now “there are no good investment opportunities”.
Let’s test this on YOU.
Ask Ellie Giesbrecht how she turned a one-time $10,000 investment into a $10,000 per month income. She will tell you she was open-minded enough to evaluate the opportunity in a clear-headed, objective manner, work hard, and accomplish her goal. She had the support of her husband and they made it happen. Now, Ellie is offering the same opportunity to others. And guess what the response she will get from some of them? “It’s too good to be true! It must be a scam!” Well, those people are projecting their past disappointments and failures onto a perfectly good opportunity that I personally endorse.
But there is another reason why people smirk at solid, real opportunities, and that is the fact that they know they are bone lazy losers. They know they have a personal track record of quitting at the first sign of work or adversity. The weak and indolent hate the idea of hard work and personal responsibility, so they blame the world for their miserable lives.
My accountant suggested that I invest in RRSP’s (mutual funds) a while back. I would have lost a lot of money had I taken his sage advice. Instead, I get 12% on my money from an extremely safe and liquid investment, and so can you. Now, what did you say to yourself when you read that line, telling you that you can earn 12% on your money? Your response will be a pretty clear indication of how open your mind is right now.
Try this one: You can get 24 hour access to a $400 per hour lawyer, unlimited calls on an unlimited number of legal questions, plus an $800 will, and full restoration of your identity if it ever gets stolen for $36 per month. Did you ask, “Where’s the catch?” Actually, there isn’t one, and I have saved and made a lot of money using this 36-year-old NYSE company’s service. See what I mean? The poison of projection can steal your dreams, empty your bank account, and keep you poor and struggling.
I know someone personally who rose like the phoenix from a burned-down house, job loss, bankruptcy, a dying child, and a pending divorce, to earn three million dollars in six months, and she can show you how to do the same, regardless of your present circumstances. How did you respond to THAT?
If you ARE interested in any of the above four opportunities, by all means e mail me: robin@DollarMakers.com, put “Opportunities” in the Subject Box of your e mail, and tell me which ones you’re interested in.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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10.20.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:48 pm by Robin J. Elliott
In January of 1979, I was promoted to Food and Beverage Manager of the Bulawayo Holiday Inn in Rhodesia. The country was enduring a prolonged war, so I was privileged to work in a country at war for a year. There are a remarkable amount of similarities between a war and a peacetime recession that we can benefit from understanding. I arrived in the country with my young family, and instantly noticed a huge difference in the mentality and approach of people in a warring country. Most of us were armed most of the time, and we saw opportunities that would not normally be evident in a peacetime or relatively affluent society. We had to become very creative in order to make it in business.
During a war, there is a heightened sense of awareness, and people live on the edge. Our women and children were sent out of the country to safety during the transitional time when the terrorist Mugabe was put into power, and men kept trunks with guns, grenades, and other useful items under their beds. People were tough and serious about life and business. We didn’t take customers or luxuries for granted, and relationships were regarded as being very important. Thinking “out of the box” was what kept people out of other boxes, called coffins. People had to be resourceful and reciprocate when they received value, as opposed to the lackadaisical, lazy, and selfish attitude of entitlement that pervades a well-fed and spoiled society.
Sanctions had been imposed on Rhodesia, so in order to provide shellfish, imported alcohol, cutlery, and many other commodities that are usually easily available and readily accessible to our hotel guests, we had to buy them on the black market or have them smuggled into the country. We had to bargain and wheel and deal to get good cooking oil, silver foil, and other regular things. Local businesses manufactured products we couldn’t get. One company created drinking glasses out of ketchup bottles. (Those glasses lasted forever!) Tourism all but collapsed. Barter and the trading of commodities, resources, products, and services, was the norm. We traded and sold financial currency, gold, antiques, food, and gasoline coupons, which were restricted and valuable. I traded a diamond ring for the deposit on a house, and swapped that house for a car when we left the country. That sounds crazy now, but the relative values at the time made these deals good. People cut down on luxuries, and acquiring and keeping customers was not an easy matter, when many of the smart ones had already immigrated. Customers carefully considered the value they were buying before opening their wallets.
At the end of my year-long contract with Holiday Inns, I resigned from the company and returned to South Africa, little knowing that it was destined to follow in Rhodesia’s footsteps. I will always have great respect and affection for Rhodesians of all races - I wouldn’t insult them by calling them Zimbabweans – and I learned a great deal about Joint Ventures and creative solutions to real business in the real world in that short and exciting year. Sadly, the country has been ruined by its savage leadership, but the lessons learned there from those wonderfully creative and disciplined people have always been a benefit to me.
These were my most important lessons:
1. Appreciate the customers and business you have, and realize that you have to work on continuing to earn their business by creating added value. You can lose them in a heartbeat.
2. Be creative, and leverage resources through trade, barter, Joint Ventures, and alternatives to money.
3. Focus on integrity, loyalty, and candor. Relationships is everything in business. Passive aggression, entitlement, and mediocrity, so evident in North America, is poison.
4. Diversify, spread your risk, run clean, lean, and mean, and focus on profit instead of products. Remain liquid and ready to fold camp at any time.
5. Always carry a (figurative) gun, and be prepared to use it. There are people that will steal the milk out of your tea with a smile, if you let them. React hard and fast.
6. Think big picture and long term, and don’t sell your soul for a bowl of soup.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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Posted in Uncategorized at 8:31 am by Robin J. Elliott
When things are going well, business owners snuggle down in their comfort zones, eat ice cream, get fat, and smirk condescendingly at offers to increase their profits. Times are good, sales are great - hell, they can hardly keep up with the demand. They increase their overheads. They sashay around their Chamber of Commerce meetings like obese royalty, big fish in small ponds, impressing others who don’t care, with their leased cars and bling. They wallow in the warmth of the summer.
Then fall comes along, and things get slightly tighter (this is where we are now, literally and figuratively), but they travel along on the momentum of the good times, carried on their past profits, turning a blind eye to the flashing lights and warning signs on the dashboards of their leased lives. Leaves change color, CNN blasts information about collapsing economies, but they arrogantly ignore it all. They have been building fragile businesses with 95% of their income coming from just one source, 95% of their marketing in one system, focused on one major product or service, in one geographical and demographic area – all their eggs in one basket, and the fingers holding that basket are getting cold and painful, but they party idiotically on.
Before they know it, the ripple effects of the recession, (which has hardly started, as we know,) start rocking their overloaded little boat. Waves of unexpected costs splash cold water of doubt and fear onto their podgy, exposed feet, sales start to plummet, and people start cutting costs. Winter is coming, and it’s an ice storm, baby. Now the banter and the bravado dry up like leaves on the sidewalk, and reptilian reality reaches up out of nowhere and nips a good piece of soft, pink flesh out of their unsuspecting and unprotected buttocks. The boat is sinking fast, they can’t bail the water out fast enough (cash flow), and they can’t divest themselves of the overhead they so gleefully accumulated during the summer. Winter is here. Many will drown, clutching the newspaper advertisement for the DollarMakers Joint Venture Bootcamp that they derided and mocked.
Squirrels are smarter than most entrepreneurs, since they understand the cycles of weather. They know that the fall always follows the summer, so they are prepared. Entrepreneurs who create multiple streams of income at 100% profit from diverse sources in multifarious markets and keep their overhead down easily ride out the inevitable storms of life and business. They have strong boats that easily ride the waves. Joint Venture Brokers don’t go broke. They don’t have all their eggs in one basket, and they know how to weather any economy. Business that are built on the firm foundation of Joint Ventures survive while the others, built on ego and fast cash, slide down the sandy cliffs into the wild ocean.
The Chinese say, “Dig the well before you thirst”. While we don’t celebrate the inevitable financial failure of foolish entrepreneurs, we have no pity for those who rejected the opportunity to use our services to strengthen and weatherproof their businesses with Joint Ventures. I talked with a woman last week, who told me she has lost $40,000 in the market, because when I told her how to make a safe 12% return on her investment, she thought she knew better. Arrogance is expensive. Those who are strong will benefit in hard times, like Warren Buffet, who is picking up some real bargains at the moment. Like Conrad Hilton, who bought his hotels during the depression, and others who understand economics and business. The posers and parasites will perish, the wind will shake the tree and the monkeys will fall out of it, and the strong will get stronger.
You still have a little time. It might not be too late for you. Whether you have a business or not, Joint Ventures is a safety net, a life jacket, a life boat, and a ladder to secure wealth that DollarMakers offers. We are the world leaders in JV products, services, and training, and what we offer is both affordable and real. No hidden catches, 24 karat reality.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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10.19.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:56 pm by Robin J. Elliott
Many years ago, a relative of mine made an appointment to confront an evil church pastor about a serious issue of hypocrisy and double-dealing in her church. She prepared her case very well, and there was no doubt about the fact that the “pastor” was, in fact, a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I’ll never forget what she told me when she got home from that meeting. She said she felt as though she had imagined the whole thing; he made her feel foolish, he actually laughed at the facts she presented, and she left feeling convinced that she was wrong, that he was right, that she was guilty of being disloyal and negative, and that she actually owed him an apology for wasting his precious time.
Politicians and psychopaths are good at diverting one’s attention from the important things and questions they would rather not answer. We know that attack is the best form of defense. Salespeople are singularly adept at sleight of hand or legerdemain. Answer a question with a question, baffle with unimportant facts, use complicated explanations and trickery to throw your pursuers off track, make light of exigent issues, and brush off serious accusations with a condescending smirk. Hug them while you knife then in the back. Magicians use distraction all the time.
My point? I used to attend regular, weekly sales meeting with a group of other SMI Distributors. At every meeting, we Distributors would tell our amazing stories to the meeting leader. We would talk about all the leads we had “in the pipeline”, all the sales we had narrowly missed, all the things we were “working on”, and all the promises we had heard from our prospective buyers. We also spent a good deal of time making excuses, blaming the weather, the competition, holidays, pricing, traffic, the products we sold, the packaging, the economy, and of course our leader. At one meeting our leader got up before anyone could start mouthing off, and his words have stayed with me to this day. He said, “Today, I don’t want to hear any stories, promises, excuses, or lies. Don’t you dare say a word, any of you. This is a silent meeting. Walk up to the board, take the sharpie, and write down the amount of sales you made last week. That means PAID sales. I will check your figures. Then get out of here, and don’t contact me until the next meeting. I am only interested in results. Next week, I will fire the Distributor with the lowest sales. Now get out!” We doubled our sales as a result of that valuable lesson.
Losers and underachievers specialize in the deceptive art of distraction. They will ask you irrelevant questions, create rumors, seem very busy, and make excuses for everything. If you allow this kind of behavior, you reinforce their failure to take responsibility and you encourage them to become parasites and posers. When you focus on results and refuse to be distracted, you’ll get them to shape up or ship out. And you’ll save loads of time. Talk is cheap, and money buys the whiskey.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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10.14.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:11 am by Robin J. Elliott
You can use Joint Ventures to expand and grow your business at no cost or risk, and When Wal-Mart wanted to expand into Mexico, they Joint Ventured with an existing distribution chain that was already well established in Mexico. DollarMakers uses Centers if Influence with existing database to expand internationally, hence DollarMakers USA, DollarMakers United Kingdom, DollarMakers Canada, DollarMakers South Africa, and DollarMakers Global China (to launch December 5)
You can also expand into niche markets (DollarMakers Women’s Club) and create elite, or special levels of service or clubs – see BusinessMentorTraining.com and DollarMakersBusinessMentors.com. And you can expand on the Internet through the use of e-newsletters and Blogs (RobinJElliott.com, RikaElliott.com).
Partnering with Centers of Influence, piggybacking on existing brands and distribution, sponsoring events and newsletters, creating complimentary e-books and reports, making e-cards available, Podcasts, Membership, and conference calls and seminars are all tools and techniques for viable expansion, and all can be created with no cost or risk through Joint Ventures, as we do at DollarMakers.
You can also use affiliate websites and partner with webmasters to create new sites.
When people say, “Work smart, not hard”, they really mean “Joint Venture”. At DollarMakers, we practice what we preach, walk our talk, and lead by example. Most important of all, we only partner with ethical people.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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10.13.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:25 am by Robin J. Elliott
Dr. Gregory Berns is a neuroscientist and a psychiatrist. His research has been profiled in the New York Times, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal. His new book, Iconoclast, was published by Harvard Business School Press. He says, in short, “Categories are death to imagination… Often the harder one tries to think differently, the more rigid the categories become. There is a better way, a path that jolts the brain out of preconceived notions of what it is seeing: bombard the brain with new experiences. Only then will it be forced out of efficiency mode and reconfigure it neural networks… The surest way to evoke the imagination is to confront the perceptual system with people, places and things it hasn’t seen before.”
And THEN he says, “It typically takes a novel stimulus – either a new piece of information or getting out of the environment in which an individual has become comfortable – to jolt attentional systems awake and reconfigure both perception and imagination. The more radical and novel the change, the greater the likelihood of new insights being generated.” That is why reading new books, traveling to new places, meeting new people, and exposing your mind to unique and formerly unknown concepts and ideas is so important to creativity. Push yourself out of your comfort zone. Jolt your brain out of its complacency. Force yourself to examine alternative approaches and options. Learn new skills, both physical and mental. You have massive, underutilized potential.
DollarMakers provides you with multiple options to expand your financial horizons in a risk free environment, since we prefer Joint Ventures that are created with no cost or risk, and little time. Attend our local meetings, our Conventions in exotic places, and our stimulating conference calls. Meet people from widely diverse backgrounds in seventeen countries around the globe. Be at the Bootcamps, discuss creative business solutions, and learn from other Members about their businesses and their lives. At the Mentor Training last week, we had people from very different backgrounds and ages from South Africa, The US, and Canada. At our Convention in Cancun next month, you will meet people from all over the world in relaxed, beautiful surroundings, where you can swim with angelfish and turtles, play with dolphins, and talk with new friends on the beach.
As DollarMakers expands through DollarMakers Global China, DollarMakers United Kingdom, DollarMakers USA, DollarMakers South Africa, and DollarMakers Canada, our Leaders, Directors, Mentors, and Country Directors are opening new doors, and you can be part of this exciting, pioneering adventure. Because of the nature of the synergistic Joint Venture mindset that we teach, DollarMakers attracts visionaries, and remains open and flexible to new ideas and innovations – the perfect place for those who want to work with us to achieve our mission of helping millions around the world to achieve financial independence, while reaping what we sow.
Find a way to help many other people achieve their goals, and you can’t help benefiting from the mental, emotional, and financial consequences. DollarMakers is a unique and proven vehicle to reboot your creativity and apply new ideas in a practical and effective manner.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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10.12.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:37 pm by Robin J. Elliott
This morning I was listening to 790 AM on the car radio on my way to a meeting with our Director for DollarMakers Global China. Ken Oplinger, President/CEO of the Bellingham/Whatcom Chamber of Commerce & Industry was talking about the effect of the recession on his Chamber Members. He said that during tough economic times, many Members terminate their Chamber Membership and stop advertising, and he encouraged people to make use of the Chamber’s sponsorship opportunities and to remain involved. I concur, however there is a lot more they can do if they remain involved with their Chamber, especially one as dynamic and professional as the Bellingham Chamber. I know; I have had the privilege of visiting that Chamber.
When Chamber Members understand the power and leverage available to them through Joint Ventures, they can turn their Chamber Membership into a veritable goldmine. Instead of loose, “when and if I think about it” business referrals, they can create effective, paid referral systems and lucrative, 100% margin back-end income streams. They can set up Joint Ventures that feed them qualified leads, leverage their existing resources, and allow them to piggyback on the resources of other businesses, all with no cost or risk, and very little time. They can put their bottom line on steroids and their minds at ease.
The good news about recessions is that it forces people to become creative and think outside the box. During easy times, we get fat and lazy, coast languidly along, and take things for granted. When times are tough, we’re more open to new ideas. Joint Ventures can be used to dramatically differentiate yourself from your competition at no cost, cut attrition rates, build loyalty, cut costs, increase transaction amounts, and create multiple back-end income flows of pure profit. By adding value at no cost, we can raise prices and garner new customers.
If you’re a Chamber Member, consider adding a dose of the most powerful formula available to entrepreneurs, and that is Joint Ventures.
Robin J. Elliott
www.DollarMakers.com
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10.11.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:17 am by Robin J. Elliott
Knowledge and skills will always come to your rescue. In a recession, when advertisers are scratching at the door and losing business hand over fist, you can set up a lucrative Joint Venture with them, as well as with your Joint Venture partners. Advertisers have space to sell, and it’s a perishable commodity; if it’s not sold, it’s lost forever, whether it’s space ads in magazines, newspapers, or billboards, or whether it’s radio or TV time or banner ads on websites or ezines.
You simply offer to pay them for RESULTS, not promises. It’s called Contingency Advertising. It doesn’t cost the advertiser anything, since he or she already has the space, and you only pay for converted leads / sales made. Any set-up fee, artwork, or other incidentals will naturally have to be paid for, but it’s a fraction of the cost of the advertising itself. This way, even if there are no initial sales, you get great exposure and branding, and, when the advertiser sees this concept working, he will never run open space again.
We have done this for more than twenty years in every conceivable kind of media for ourselves and our clients, and it really is “no money, no risk” – it‘s a win/win. I never pay salaries or for advertising – I pay generously for results, so I’m not easily disappointed by big promises and BS. If you pay an average of $100 per sale and a $2,000 advertisement generates 40 sales, the advertiser doubles his money. Ad responses can go via the advertiser for tracking and spot-checking purposes. Joint Venture Brokers can triangulate this system to earn residual income from other people’s businesses.
For help with implementation and negotiation in your own business, talk with a DollarMakers Certified Business Mentor.
Robin J. Elliott www.Dollarmakers.com
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10.10.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:31 pm by Robin J. Elliott
A few years ago, I was walking along Georgia street in Vancouver, when a young bum on a gleaming bicycle slid up alongside me and starting begging me earnestly for money to buy himself breakfast at MacDonald’s. In spite of the fact that I ignored him, he persisted, until I stopped his bike and told him, “You’re worse than the prostitutes on Hastings street.” He was righteously indignant at this insult. How could I compare him, a wise and respected street beggar, to a lowly prostitute?
My answer was, “You offer me nothing, not to clean my shoes, get a ride on your bike, wash my car, or even carry this briefcase – you want my hard-earned money simply for being around. The prostitute at least offers me her body in exchange for money. She is a capitalist, and you are a parasite, and a socialist. I have respect for those who wish to offer something in return for my money. I have no respect for you.” Ayn Rand’s words ring in my ears as I recollect this sidewalk chat: ”The actual performance of men in society is a constant, fierce, undefined struggle between the genius and the parasite. . . . The genius must have his freedom and his independence. . . . But he is crippled, hobbled, tied, held back constantly by the encroachments and restrictions of the parasites who get their unearned sustenance from him.”
Who is Ayn Rand? In Alan Greenspan’s new book, “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, he mentions Ayn Rand six times, and declares that she is one of his greatest two teachers, and that she had the greatest impact on his philosophy. More here.
As Canada and the United States both teeter on the brink of embracing socialist governments, I thought relating this little exchange on a wet, West Coast city street might be pertinent. When you pander to the collectivists, there is a dire consequence. When you sell your soul for a bowl of soup, expect to reap what you sow. Understanding money and value will prevent a society, indeed a country, from selling itself into slavery.
I’ll end off with Ayn Rand: “The creator stands on his own judgment. The parasite follows the opinions of others. The creator thinks, the parasite copies. The creator produces, the parasite loots. The creator’s concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite’s concern is the conquest of Man. The creator requires independence - he neither serves nor rules. He deals with men by free exchange and voluntary choice. The parasite seeks power. He wants to bind all men together in common action and common slavery”.
Don’t forget to vote.
Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com
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10.09.08
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:30 am by Robin J. Elliott
Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad): “Being rich is when your passive income is greater than your expenses.”
Robin J. Elliott: “Being rich is earning the freedom to buy what you want, do what you want, go where you want, when you want, and live according to your own beliefs and values.”
DollarMakers is dedicated to providing YOU with the tools and support to become rich. Remember what Jim Stoval said: “Only take advice from someone who already has what you want.” We live what we teach. You don’t have to participate in this recession. Freedom is at hand, if you really want it.
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