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Friday, September 29, 2006

Why You Should NEVER Buy a Business, Business Opportunity or Franchise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Self Esteem = Income

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

Change Lives (and make money) By Giving Away this Powerful E Book

How can you create massive value for others without spending a dime of your own?
Robin J. Elliott’s powerful and popular manual on Joint Ventures, “Joint Adventures”, has changed the lives of many people around the world. It sells online as a download for $15, and we sell many. Now you can give it away! (And, if you’re a Member of the DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum, you can earn generous commissions on all resulting business.)

This is how it works. All you do is to send people this link: www.dollarmakers.com/joint_adventures.pdf
and they can download the entire Joint Venture Manual, free of charge, with your compliments.
This book helps people of any background, in any circumstances, and regardless of their skills, age, financial or geographical situation, to improve their financial situation. When you read it, you will understand what I mean. No selling required, and it can be done full time or part time. People travel long distances and pay up to $1,000 for one day of training to get this information from Robin every month.

Why do we give this e book away? Zig Ziglar said, “You can get anything you want out of life, if you are prepared to help enough other people to get what they want out of life.” So we help a lot of people. Some of those people will join our international Joint Venture Forum, some will buy our products or attend our training, and some will simply read the book, apply the principles, and improve their lives. We have many success stories.

How do YOU benefit? Well, apart from the satisfaction of helping others, you can get onto our commission structure and get paid for all resulting business. How many people can you reach? One of our Members sent this book offer link to 55 (fifty-five) people and one of them sent it out to his database. Within two days, 800 people had downloaded the book! Could you send it out to every Chamber of Commerce, school, university, church, business group, aid society, seniors group, and club in the world? Sure, you could. And they, in turn, would send it out to people whom they know, and their databases, and so on. It’s called Viral Marketing, and it works. If you sent out a customized link that was trackable to you, and you got paid on the resulting business, you could make a serious amount of money. We can arrange that for you quickly and easily. Simply e-mail Robin Elliott for more information. Include "E Book JV" in the Subject Box of your e-mail.

Remember, you reap what you sow. Why not start sowing massively, right now?

Robin J. Elliott www.dollarmakers.com