First: Who am I?
This will tell you how I got in this business.
Simple: I could not find a job even though I have plenty management/sales experience and speak 4 languages ! I have a MBA and am from The Netherlands live in the US and the only jobs I could accept were sales jobs (sales rep insurance cars salesperson Yaagk! Sorry guys and girls ) Also as a former CEO I was often told:" Overqualified" or some said: "A threat to whomever may hire you" HUHH?Oh, the list goes on, but that didn't help me. And all the quick rich schemes and scams out there I simply do not believe in.( MLM etc.)
Then I came to a point where I said: "Hmmm, I am running out of money, so better find something quick."So my search started:
Here is the first tip: Do or find something you know about. Why? Usually what you know, you usually find interesting, what you find interesting is what you like doing or knowing. That! you learn the quickest !!! Makes sense no?
One day I was talking to one of my collegues and friends in Europe. He had just started a business on the internet, comparing Health Care companies like "the Lending Tree" for Mortgages and selling the names and lists of potential customers.(then new to Europe). I had made a suggestion about adding a legal aid plan to the products he compared. To me that sounded good for him as 80% of some of the countries populations have it, so he could compare those plans as well.
After our conversation I sat down and I asked my wife. "What is legal aid and where do I get it?" Well, she had no idea. Then I called around some of my friends, same answer. But I also asked what if.... ( sued,accident, disagreement, scammed etc.)Always the same answer GET A LAWYER. Yeah right and how much does that cost? Cause for a simple, less then a $500 matter of some sorts you will be paying your lawyer more then the case is worth. (happens to everybody, just think for yourself)
Moral of the story: You let it (these legal challenges or issues) go by and swallow the cost or loss.
Now, I used to be a CEO of a Financial Consultancy Agency (my licenses are useless in the US) and at times legal questions which clients had came up. We as a company provided names of companies where they could get help with a legal aid plan.(we did get paid for that too by those companies)
So I kinda knew about the idea.DING DING DING ! wakey wakey ! What is out there?What people want or need? What is affordable and gives me an income?(preferably residual)What do I know about it? Has an absolute minimum investment (less then $100) and makes me feel that I am doing something useful at the same time? Well I found my answer in Legal Aid!!! ===>
1. Less then 3% of the populations in the USA have Legal Aid and that in the most litigious society in the world!!!
2. It is affordable.
3. It is needed or wanted (see 1.).
4. I know about it(and used it several times myselfin Europe)and think it is an interesting product.
5. It provides income.
So I searched the net that evening and made some calls the next day and weeded out company after company until I had one left: Prepaid Legal !
Why?
1. Well, the company is 35 yrs old, so they musthave been doing something right.
2. It is on the NYSE (symbol PPD at about $45 ashare) so it is ligitimate.
3. They offer a residual income and pay immediatly.
4. There pay scheme is one of the best in thecountry.
5. They have good support (for me that is) and havea good internet website.
So I found it. Hallelujah..... not !!!Oh Oh, selling it , no no no, not for me . I am not going to cold call family friends and so on.
Guess what? I listened to a CD of one Mr. Olsen, and that made the second "click" in my mind.
HE SAYS: Do not sell. "You are the Messenger not the Message"
In a nutshell:
1. Talk to two people a day (I don't always)
2. Hand them a magazine (forbes, money mag, etc.with artcles about Prepaid legal)
3 Or hand them a CD/DVD4. Or just a business card
5. Expose ( whatever that means) the person to theproduct. In other words tell them( less then 3to 5 minutes) what you do and basically leave itat that
.6. Send info to 2 persons not in you neck of thewoods( thank you email/internet or even snailmail) a week.
See what happens. HUH ???? That's it ??Well guess what, I did do what he "preaches" and surprisingly people started asking questions( interest/curiousity kills the cat), ususally within a week or so. Some about getting a legal plan some wanted to know more.
So bottom line is. It actually workes. Not fast or like an explosion, but trickling in one after the other. So little by little I actually got money coming in.
Is it enough? No, no yet, but there is growth ! And growth means expansion and that keeps the meter running.
By the way: If you have a LENS, use it, just like I did ( yep you made it all the way through, so something must be right)
Work on your internet skills, blogs, social networking( zubby.com. facebook, myspace) and so on.
HERE IS MINE: RATE IT, PALEEZE http://www.squidoo.com/legalaid/
just click on the stars, top of the page
It is free so why not?
Another way which helped me is read everything that is free about network marketing and USE everything that is free.
Surprising how many tips and "doable" ways there are to get your promotion out there FOR FREE !
Do not pay for any of itHere is one and the how to:Set up another email address ( you will get a lot of emails)
Sign up for: TheMillionaireLeague.com.t2000ultra.com
You will probably find a few others , just read them get the newsletters and filter through them.
This is how I got here.Well i hope me rambling on will give you some insight what it can and is like to be selling( hate that word) your stuff. But if you haven't got one yet. GET ONE
Definitely find out about prepaid legal here is where to go:
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Have fun good luck
Edgar
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