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Sunday, May 13, 2007

YOUR PRESCRIPTION FOR WEALTH


If a physician prescribed tablets for you that would help you to retire in one year with enough passive income to pay your bills and live comfortably, what would you do? Would you argue with his prescription? Would you say the pills were “Too expensive”?
Or would you mortgage everything you had to buy this “PILL of great price”?

OK. Here’s your prescription:
1. Join the DollarMakers Joint Venture Forum.
2. Attend a Bootcamp or use the Home Study Program.
3. Use our Coaching Service.

Now, what will you do?

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

Take Your Self Out and the Money will Flow In


I received an e-mail from someone in Europe today. His question was why, since he was inexperienced in business and had no contacts or inventory or service to sell, anyone would want to do business with him. My answer was simply, “They won’t want to do business with you. But they would want to GET business from you, and they would send you money.”

See, nobody is interested in you, or who you are, what your product is, or how much experience you have – nobody cares! YOU are not important. What they ARE very interested in is selling their own products and services and making money. THAT is what is important to them. So when you realize that and take yourself and your ego out of the equation, you can start making money. When someone is dying of thirst in the desert and you show up with ice-cold, fresh water for sale, nobody asks for your resume and the price of the water is no longer important to him or her. No selling required.

Successful, properly trained Joint Venture Brokers understand this. They don’t brag about their trumped-up resumes and testimonials or their “qualifications” – they simply concentrate on getting people what they want – linking them up with solutions and customers – and being well paid for it. JV Brokers don’t care too much about details and they certainly don’t waste other peoples’ time with minutiae until the deal is about to go live. They are result oriented. They are problem solvers. They are the conduit, the catalyst, the bridge, the solution, the physician, the broker. When you are carrying gold coins around in a rusty old bucket, what is important? The bucket or the gold coins? The gold coins represent the deal, the money, the solution. YOU ARE THE RUSTY BUCKET.

So when next you leap enthusiastically up from your chair at some local networking meeting, ready to pitch your product or service or litter the table with your little flyers, remember: NOBODY CARES. They simply tolerate you until they get the chance to repeat the foolishness. Still don’t believe me? Try this intricate and intellectually challenging exercise if you dare: Would you rather talk about your kids or my kids? OK, you might not particularly like your kids. How about this one: Would you prefer to discuss your holiday and your goals or mine? That’s right! YOURS. And other people feel the same way. Your background, education, experience, and qualifications are redundant, superfluous. You’re a well-paid channel, is all. You could say, if you were a mystic charlatan, that your job as a JV Broker is to “Channel money”.

By now, I hope your confidence level as pertains to your ability to broker lucrative deals and enjoy the process, has skyrocketed to unprecedented heights. Get rid of that ego – it’s distracting and it will interfere with the success of your Joint Ventures.

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com

“It Doesn’t Work”


I bumped into a fellow who bought a home-based business from me some years back. He whined continuously that the business doesn’t work and that he “lost” his money. I asked him how one of his competitors is doing. This competitor paid more for his business, got far less support, and works in exactly the same market. Oh, the competitor, he replies, is doing just great! Even bought new equipment – business is booming for him! So it’s not the business that doesn’t work – it’s the person.

When I started selling life insurance many years ago, I asked the usual mindless question: “How much money can I make in this business?” My manager took me to a corner office and pointed at the door. “This is where Samuel works, Robin. He makes millions and he loves his work. He has helped many people.” Then he walked me down the hall to another office. “This is where Colin works. He started in this business the exact same day that Samuel started. He is deep in debt, makes no money, and hates the insurance business. You have the choice to be like Samuel or like Colin. You get the same tools, the same training, same products, same market, same pricing. What you do with the opportunity will determine your income. It’s up to you!”

Gloria Steinem said, "The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day." We created the circumstances we experience today, and we are constantly creating the future, which starts today. Success begins with the acknowledgement that I create my life and that if it’s to be, it’s up to me. The blame game doesn’t work in the real world. If you’re unhappy, you became unhappy by choice. If you’re poor, it’s your own fault. If you’re married to a swine, it’s your fault, too – you agreed to marry him. And if you’re rich, happy, and successful, it’s your doing – take credit for it. You can play the victim game all day long, but it’s not going to solve your problems. In fact, what it will do is chase away all the winners in your life. Winners won’t tolerate a victim mentality for long.

Someone told me I’m “lucky” to live in Canada and not in South Africa anymore. I create my own “luck”. I make it happen. I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. In today’s world, many people use the “I was abused as a child”, “my Daddy hit me”, “I was ripped off”, “my wife doesn’t understand me” – get over it. Nobody buys that anymore except people like you. I know some very successful people who had horrendous upbringings and they never complain or even mention it. Winners use those bad experiences as stepping stones, not as trophies and excuses. If you failed, YOU failed. Not the world, not the business, not the market. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, stop whining, wipe your nose, dry your eyes, and get on with life. It’s not too late. It’s OK to fail; everyone does. Did you fall off your bicycle when you were learning to ride it? Of course you did. Does that mean you never learned to ride it?

Today, the world is at your feet. You will never be as young as you are today, ever again in this life. You are surrounded by wonderful opportunities. Get off you tail, get back on your horse, and let’s ride!

Robin J. Elliott www.DollarMakers.com