I am drawing a line in the sand. The past three years I have been on a journey of trying to reinvent myself. I have been a certified residential appraiser for the past 22 years an I really enjoyed going out and inspecting and valuing homes and setting my own schedule. In the past 22 years I have made many relationships with banks and lenders and brokers. The problem was in 2008 a new law was passed and that does not allow and appraiser or a lender communicate with one another and all appraisal orders are now given to a management company to deliver appraisal orders. This new law and the state of the lending industry and slow real estate sales has cause my business to slow and my income also. I took a look at where the real estate industry was heading and I thought to myself it would not be bad to have a Plan B. I started to study a varity of different online opportunities to generate additional income. The last two years has been a great learning experience developing online marketing skills, traffic generation skills and local marketing knowledge that I have been using to help several friends who run local small businesses. I have also ventured into the waters on network marketing or better know as mlm.  My first venture into network marketing was with Light Year Wireless a cell phone company which sells phones and plans. This started out great I brought on a good core of people had a great leader as an upline was making some money. Then things change in the economy and business slowed the several upline leaders jumped ship when the company changed comp plans. My upline eventually left  the company I started loosing some down line so packed it in. Now Lightyear is a very good company and there are many people that do well with this company. My next venture was with a nutritional product in a powdered coffee mix which being a coffee lover I did not think this was such a great idea but it was a small investment and I gave it a try but my heart was not in it and I did not even promote the product. I then ran across a guy named David Wood who was spinning articles promoting a lead system My Lead System Pro and a company called I Learning Global. The company promoted self development materials and training which was web based. I started to following  Dave’s training and many a the trainings in My Lead System Pro and  my business slowly started to grow. I was learning a lot about developing a blog, article marketing, video marketing and how to tie all this together to generate leads and grow a business. I head down to Dallas, Texas to the More Heart That Talent Conference. This is where I had the pleasure of Meeting David Wood, Cedrick Harris, Todd Falcone, Norbert Orlewitz, and Brian Finale along with Jeffery Combs and my life began to change. I started to really studying the network marketing profession and my business was beginning to blossom when I Learning Global closed down its Network Marketing Business Model.  Many people followed David Wood over to Numis to sell Silver and Gold Coins, I was thinking a joining but my wife who has had some health issues need my attention so I took a break from network marketing. I then was approached by a close friend who I played baseball with in High School about a company called Viridian Energy. I signed up as an associate and started to build a down line I though this was great we could save people 20 percent on the Electric bill who would not want to save 20 percent on their Electric bill. The biggest problem that  I found with promoting Viridian Electric which is a very good company is I did not like the comp plan. There was no up front money for any one you recruited into the company you would only be compensated $300 if the brought in 15 customers the first 3 months and the fact that it is only in 4 states. There was also some issues with budget billing and  if people were late paying their bills or got behind this affected your commission checks. Again Viridian is a good company with a good  leadership but I found my heart was not with this program. As I stated earlier I have been on a journey with person growth an have been assisted by my friend Jeffery Combs with a big break through which has lead to many more the past two years. Well the other day I was looking through my Email and I received and email from Kenny Gregg about a Nutritional Company named Visalus The is promoting good Health, Fitness, Weight Loss and Nutrition through a 90 day Challenge call Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge. Well a light bulb went off in my head, I just had another Break Through while I have been working on person growth changing my mental out look on life I have been negelecting my body the past 15 years I was a good 40 pounds over weight and I needed make a change. I joined up as a Visalus representative and I started my challenge 3 days ago but I have also Drawn a Line in the Sand. I have been reading about the company and compensation plans, the leadership team, my personal sponsors the fact that if you recruit 3 people your product is free each month and in this economy this is hugh. I also like the fact the we are not really selling a nutritional products we a selling a life style and a 90 Day Challenge to transform your life physically, mentally and financially.

 

I will leave you with a qoute

“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are” Max De Pree