Born and raised in Southern California, I currently live in Ventura County, with my youngest daughter. I also have two other children who attend college and both have a job.
I graduated high school, then went on to Pasadena City College for a few years and got my AA degree. I wanted to be a dentist…but that didn’t work out for various reasons and I found myself working at a warehouse in downtown Los Angeles for about 3 years. The money was good, but it was definitely not a career. So, one day I walked in the office, gave my 2 weeks notice as was out of there.
So…fast forward a few years and I got my real estate license…at a time interest rates were above 12%…nobody was buying houses…and I mean nobody…so now what?
Time for a career change…
The computer industry sounded good…so I went to a vocational school for about nine months. I got my first job and thought this was going to be a great career…and it was…for a while…
After a few years I realized that I just didn’t like working for other people and wanted my own business. I started a computer consulting business and it was going OK for a year or two…but I wasn’t going to retire any time soon doing this for a living, basically I had created a J-O-B for myself; long hours, lots of stress.
I started a business with a partner…
It was a mail order software business and we were at the right place at the right time, it took off like a wildfire…and the first few years it was a like a money machine. But…that was all about to change…with the onset of the Internet and a few wrong turns; that business was dead roughly two years later…and I had to go bankrupt.
So, it was back to a J-O-B for me…argh!
At least I had learned a lot about computers so I got a job in that industry with little effort and I hung up my entrepreneurial hat for a while in favor of a steady paycheck. After a few years and a few job changes, I found myself burnt out from the stress of this industry. I’ll never forget that day…I was sitting traffic on the 101 freeway in downtown Los Angeles…I could see my office a mile away and it took me over an hour to get there in the rush hour traffic.
As I’m sitting in traffic, I’m thinking…there has to be a better way…
Is this how I’m going to spend the rest of my life? Sitting in traffic for 2 hours per day…going to a job that I don’t care about…to work with people that I don’t want to be around…to a boss that doesn’t appreciate me…are you kidding me? I was living the rat race…
I thought to myself, there has to be a better way to make a buck than fighting traffic and working 12 hours per day. I never got to see my family (married with 2 kids) and when I did, I was too tired to do anything. And I was really tired of seeing other people having the things that I wanted; the most precious of all was time…time to do the things that I wanted to do…more family time…more free time…more fun time…
So…I started actively looking for some type of home based business…
I wanted something that I could start slowly, maybe 5 – 10 hours per week and eventually get out of the computer business. I couldn’t just up and quit now, I had a family to support.
It was at this time a friend introduced me to the network marketing industry. I didn’t know anything about it, but the leveraging of time vs. money sounded good; I could start slowly and build a business over time and create a residual income stream.
My entry in this industry was the old favorite…Amway. I followed the advice of my upline…made a list of friends, family, and acquaintances, bought leads, etc…I think you know the end of this story…I changed companies a few times, but the ending was always the same…a few sign-ups, but no real money.
I soon realized that I couldn’t sell ice cubes to people in the Sahara Desert in the middle of summer. I thought it would be easy, but…
So I went back into the computer consulting business again…but never gave up on having another home based business that would create the residual income stream that I wanted. So…let’s fast forward a year or so.
Combining the Network Marketing Industry with the Internet…
I then decided to get some real training and coaching from some of the best Internet marketers in the industry. I came across what was to be the turning point for my business, a product called Elite Marketing Pro. Within a few months I started to see some real success and because of the training I received and a commitment to success, my business is growing steadily.
Internet Marketing is really about Building Your Own List, creating a Brand…(YOU, Inc.), and your own personal following. It’s also a commitment to your own personal growth and development.
Network Marketing is a people business…people helping people. It’s a business that is designed as a win-win, because I only succeed if you succeed. In Corporate America it’s just the opposite…if I were your boss, do you really believe that I’m going to teach you to be better than me so you can take my job…not likely!
If you’d rather be here…
than here…
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