The reason is that I believe that you can do as I say other great speakers and writers, so I can do it. There is no secret in all of this success, just getting there is a correct attitude and follows the program (step by step). It really means, as I am saying "there." There is no debt of your credit and you can save and invest for the future. Do you work for yourself, you own a business and do not step on your watch. He is a successful investor. I do not care what others think about it.
I got a new marriage. We needed a place to live. In a few hours of local newspaper, I found that the owner carries with $ 5,000. We did not phone the phone at first, we quickly jumped to the address.
When we arrived home it was perfect. Owner David said that he needed money on that night, closed the deal and made a contract to go to the title the next day. I of course listened and talked and talked about business ideas that came out of my mind over the past few years. David was fascinated with my story and told me that he should read this book by Robert Kiyosaki "Rich Dad, Poor Dad".
I was listening to the radio talk show while I was working, after David said that I had business sense talent. I began purchasing several books on talk show hosts focused on business and money, but I found that it was a bit confusing. I thought this confusion was due to the lack of fiscal education I gained from many parents and public schools.
Three months later my wife bought a book for me because of Christmas. I read that book and I began thinking hard. As a truck driver, the many ideas I thought encouraged me to leave this mission away from my employees and kept only about half of my annual salary. You own a business and you do not have to work at all times.
Well, how did this happen, letting the trucks and trailers enter and go into the garden, meeting guards at the gate of our company, making mini CD ROM for me, said he was business. I went home the next day to find out what happened to this disc and how his website was. The program on the disc was wonderful. There are these special effects, graphics, and links to his website. His web site was amazing until the computer crashed several times. So I returned to work the night that he told him what was going on and he said that he will come back to me in a few days. I was thinking about all the companies that would benefit from this cool technology soon. Over the next few weeks to a month, we became partners. I was paying for my system upgrade to make my website better and work without crashing. I worked as a truck driver all night, worked another 4 or 5 hours on the phone and went home and investigated the way and people to sell this wonderful idea. I cease to watch my favorite TV program and borrow a few more videos. Heck, if we thought they were with a great demonstration, we all wore clothes, went to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and showed them to all the stores. We must have seemed fed up, but we did it! On this trip, we met some nice people and booted. However, because nothing of this adventure came, I called the company, went to the marketing director and sent what we did and packages we could offer. They were competent people trying to do this at the same time. A couple of weeks later, nothing happened except my legal contract from my father, so we began to be discouraged.
After listening to the radio listening to the radio from LA and Orange County, I was discussing the Daniel Van Dam Missing child case in San Diego in 2002. I could not wait to speak back to Frank whether I could write this identity card for my child. He said that he could do it and soon began working to build a program for this.
A few weeks later, it is fun to see things and people in order to accomplish things. My wife showed what we made to the criminal lady and deposited her sample so she had several demo CDs sitting on her desk in the place of her Curves . The criminal went back to work and when I called the next day, we were invited to the city safety plaza.
A woman walked on the same day and was seeking money for financing that she had found. She looked at the CD ID and nuts and asked how she would be involved. She was the first computer program system we sold together. Then, the water deliverer walked the next day, saw this product, nuts became a salesman, I thought that I could sell this product all day.
Remember that at the time we had the best program and gum to make all things happen. Since we could not ask fancy questions, we had a document of 3 pages of stapled words. As we can only buy one luxurious laptop system, at the mall, we will drink medication with monster monitor and everything on this large home computer system. The shopping mall was not so bad. We broke the fee there and even the safety fair we made at about 400 dollars a day.
Then Bob had a crowd of people who wanted this system again in Pennsylvania but again they were asking questions like you, what is territory that you have a deal with? So, Bob asked several opportunities that he met in Oregon and began talking about the Federal Trade Commission on business operations and franchise contracts. Bob went to the show owner, asked about this and gave the phone number to the contact writing the contract etc. Meanwhile, there were four groups of people who wanted to really make the system worse for us. We had to just tell them that they had just finished the contract, looking at the response. Also, a couple from the state of Oregon was called and wanted a system, but I had to say that I had a contract with him since I went to that show.
Returning to the front of the house, I am curious about studying all these new terms, calling attorneys biz opps and franchising contracts that need to be sold to these groups. Since we had a business name and provided support, we definitely entered the franchise group. The problem is that they want all 50,000 dollars, produce this and register in California. This is the place we operated.
When studying all of this, when my new salesman went home after a busy weekend, he gave me this phone number. I think that the price is cheaper than the lawyer this woman called last week. To my surprise she was very nice and I loved my mission and products, but she was still around $ 14,000. I had about half of the commission. And, we need to audit and founded a corporation to register in California. It took more than 3 months. I was shocked and I was surprised at which of the four people I wanted to wait for how long. We sent a letter and immediately called about what to come. I thought they were ahead of waiting.
We launched Wyoming Corporation, asked the accountant to audit a single deposit to a new account, and got the details of the work of the woman who wrote our paper. I decided to put a license agreement together. This did not protect me much, but it was legal to sell. I had several sales to pay this because my wife and I were paid out with credit and I had to pay back the debt. After all, we incorporated a large part of the farm into a group of women in Pennsylvania, and they agreed to sign a franchise agreement at the end of registration. Others were bound by the rules of contract, shaken, and slowly they took other ways.
While the road to registration was taking place, we were busy acquiring employment, designing the area, developing business plan, and completing the business system. My salesman started booking day care and school to make our system a bit more trustworthy when asked "What did you do?" We could not afford to buy another laptop system yet and we could not love so we were hooked on setting up a huge home computer. My wife 's friend went to school and was talking to people using a mobile system.
I got a local driving route again and I was able to work extra for about 5 hours with a safe kids card, but I am tired like hell. When I began to burn out, I had to decide just to stop and go to it, or just knock a bit. More than 2 million readers posted 1 inch x 2 inch ads on USA Today. We assumed that at least 1% will contact us. There were 90 contacts to us, but sales did not occur and there was a loss of $ 1000.
Although the LA County Fair appeared, nothing remained when registering. My legal father saw what I was doing and went to the last hour to find out if it was too late to reserve it. We missed it in 4 hours, but I signed up for Arizona State Fair the next week and quit my job. I thought that I was able to sell 1 ton of Identification CD with the amount of fair brochure traffic. Justin decided to go for it and quit his job as a security guard so as not to look back.
We were planning a week for the event, but we went to Arizona. We had a wonderful place at the entrance and foot traffic was worse than a weekend swap meeting and we did not buy anything from anyone. The Oriental Massage Table was taking the only action, but it was not yet busy. I told other vendors that I did a lot of things in LA County Fair in a day since 8 days when we were in the 17 - day Arizona Fair. For fair kinds, there was a bad taste in the air, so there was police patrol just to control the gang to exceed it. This was not fair I remember from four years ago when I went to the weekend.
My computer Justin and I started fighting about going home and I threatened to get on the bus. Despite having sold us only everyday to help pay for the hotel to buy food, I was trying to stick to it, despite selling us only everyday. The next day, we went home and never go fair again. So, as I returned home, I did not find a job, so we became busy. At last we concluded a contract and registered, we went to the Pennsylvania women group for sale. They purchased an extra territory to help complete the invoice, such as a franchise document, but after 6 months from conception, I worked at day care and small school and regained cash flow again from the loss.
We had a business revelation, had a business plan, knew how to sell it now, so we needed to raise parliamentary funds to go to the International Franchise Show in Washington, DC. This seemed to be a show we made. And in the brochure, more than 25,000 people were saying that they were looking for business. I printed the business plan and deposited it with all my family and friends and we sold the company's stock certificate for about $ 20,000. This is a show, travel expenses, PVC pipes paying our booth display and stitching the background and the table skirt by ourselves. I think all the work is growing up. I was able to tackle something. We have signed a two-year contract with the International Franchise Association and received further discounts at this event. Another organization that we participated in is the Vet Frans group, which offers all the participating franchises to the Internet site and offers discounts if you purchase the franchise business.
Justin has finished the CD ROM ID program for adults and pets for this event with more hours to work. Also, over the past few months I got some newspaper articles and letters from California State Senator and said that she loves our products. We planned to have a special room for a mini presentation after a show for those seeking more information and hand it over to more than 10,000 flyers. The first day was packed and there was a cotton swab badly, but the reaction was wonderful. I met a lot of people selling franchises and learned more about business and how it works.
We delivered the invitation for the night presentation many times and thought that we did the right thing, only one person appeared to us. That poor man. We just beat him to buy his business. We must have looked desperate, we were scared of him. That is not a good start. The next day, a competition that sells plastic IDs hurt us, and the show organization had to warn them about bad business practices. I learned that learning something that will come back long ago could not be successful and we made it worse for all parties so we left a show dealing with them. The rest of the show seemed smooth, but there was no doubt that we were standing for 8 hours a day.
When we looked at the contact list and asked something collectively what they thought, there were no more than 25,000 people. We inquired and finally learned that only 6,000 people will come out. Shop producer & # 39; I thought it was a wonderful voter turnout, but there was an excuse that the increase in US airline and travel threats is the cause of low traffic. Asking other franchisors, they said that it was a good result. I got confused a bit because this was the first big show over $ 13,000.
We went home and repeated the leads over and over. My salesman Bob was disappointed. And sold two franchises from over 300 leads. So we gained the benefit and went to more shows that sold about two franchises per show. There was really no rhyme or reason. I had to find someone who wanted to enter this industry. The show circuit is expensive and you compete with quite a business operation (a business with little or no support after purchasing with your own name).
So, over the next two years, we developed selling franchises so that industry experts will show us through mini weekend presentations and meetings. Although these events were not entirely cheap, especially after a one year business, we went to San Francisco with about 30 other franchises. I went to this half-day event and I took quite a long franchise for a while. I was asked because one co-founder Brian knew how much franchise I had, because I knew new things throughout the industry. I thought later I told him that I had 9 and some nearby and I was not growing fast enough. When I heard about the postnet, he listened to me how long ago I remembered, and he hugged me. I said about five years ago. He then informed me that he actually was around for over 14 years and that I was shocked that I did a lot in the first year. He also told me that it took me ten years out of that decade to earn money by getting really good mood. After this conversation, I felt better about how I was growing as a company, focused more on the dynamics of what we can provide and build, and also on increasing the number of merchants. In the following year we will add more than 20 franchises and in the following year we boosted by adding an international master license.
I have always found a way to change the direction of product development by changing what the traditional market is doing. The competitors are leading about six months. It is a compliment, but I found it to be exciting. I felt I spent a lot of time and energy on new processes, web designs or products and found that competitors were trying to copy us within the last few months. I advertised them at a very expensive fee. Even if I did not even do another show, I did not do anything for us, so I did not go out to another trade show.
Our marketing skills have improved considerably as we turn about half of our earnings into the scope of that business. Here I tried one advertisement and I tried one advertisement in another publication, but always told that I had to put it in at least 13 times to get answers. You have to have at least $ 12,000 per publication to accomplish it, it's for 3 x 4 inch advertising, black and white is for booting. Every time we tried to publish, the final result was always the same, with 1 or 2 calls or leads. This was not exactly a good return on investment (ROI). When you start and place an ad on a publication, everyone calls you (even on the radio). So, we tried the radio, and it was also a bomb. You can be pretty creative when spending hard-earned money you did not grow up with money trees.
I learned that there are free posts on some Liao's websites attached to national magazines. After doing one of these free placements, suddenly we loaded some of our online information and they were doing a part of your work. A magazine with influential franchises in each industry. We were one of the four in our section. I got an excellent lead of about 100 people and finished with three people. This was about 1 to 2 hours preparation and about 4 dollars postage without spending most of our expenses. I also started looking at what my competition is advertising and I found that based on competitors' advertisements, websites were getting traffic and placed search engines. For example, someone reads Small Business Magazine magazine, watches advertisements, accesses the Internet, and conducts surveys on child identity confirmation as a whole. We also started an interview to the franchise's potential franchise. Where did they hear about us?
I sent an event invitation in Los Angeles just as I was getting more Internet response through keywords and search engines. I developed in and around LA, not listening to past experiences, I signed up for the event. This was still a $ 10,000 event, but in my backyard that beat down the new business concept, I felt that he might sell at least four or five franchises in the third year. Your thought is that I never forget to go to another show and learn from all this my mistakes. Well, it was a very busy show and it was appreciated as how many people actually came. In the show, more visitors than the show requested information from their website. I was disappointed with the decision of what I did but we sold four franchises then, that was not bad.
This was it, the last straw, I already said the show, only the Internet and referrals had gone to me. Well, while staying at a hotel near the convention, together with the majority of other show people. I met an owner of a PR company who is using PR company to make me do good things. She said the normal fee is $ 3,500. Because she liked me and my products, she told me that I only charged $ 3000. As I was okay, except for the free ones, I pledged not to go to the show, I switched all print ads off, so let's do it.
So, the show ended, we gathered leads, and in a week I received an invoice via e-mail. Oh, I was $ 3000 a month. I wrote the fact that she was shy and could not pay such kind of monthly fee. She quickly called me and guaranteed this was the best thing happening to our company. So, after three months in favor of the bullets, I forgot to mention the small magazine for the accountant, the answer to the question of another little magazine, and the speaker precisely forgot my company's name on the radio show Make sure that the listening audience can even find and call me where I can. I was used and broken, I felt all of the above. I called the PR company and told me that I could not hang up with just such a bill with no response. I was collecting good leads on search engines and the Internet, but I got a fraction of the cost.
After that, a senior author of the Wall Street Journal called me and got an interview with the article. There was a wonderful idea. I thought that this is the most wonderful thing they chose us, how many story ideas I know everyday. The story was half the full page and it was pretty cool for it to happen. They accidentally posted my personal mobile phone number on the article, so my ears hurt a few weeks of calling. We had not gotten a lot of leads from those who were trying to open a home based franchise. Most of their readers were lawyers, doctors, influential, we were marketing middle and high-rise people. I still had not sold many franchises to cover the high cost of this end cost so I had to cancel the contract with the PR company. I received a follow-up article of Small Business Opportunity Magazine after that. It was my target audience, but my personal phone number was issued again, my ears hurt. In that year (2005), we went to a total of 62 franchises with 4 international master licenses.
I have read more books about successful business practices and encountered a novel idea (common sense) to band with us to find other companies and organizations that might be connected to each other. I was carrying out my duty but in 6 months I gained a relationship with the best safety video, internet amber alert, talented nonprofit organization that promotes safety. Some of these companies had something struggling and some making it, so this was good for all of us. Scheme of helping each other to make it a better place does not actually make sense.
We had a major photo studio plan to provide really cheap additional services for photo service, but this has hurt not only us but also this. Change was a desperate requirement for how to do business and how to succeed in the long term. This was an important point for us and the industry as a whole. There were quite a few companies that are about to enter this area of child safety and the free market was a bit bigger with this cheap alternative.
The way to stay in existence is to go ahead looking ahead. Market trends, statistics, competition, marketing, and economics.私たちはサービスを構造化して製品にしなければならなかったので、私のプログラマーJustinはそれに取り組みました。私はとても近かったですが、フランチャイズを訓練するために南アフリカに行き、私がプログラムで遊んでいたときに何かが起こり、ジャスティンを見つけるためにメールを出さなければならないまで、コードを分解してDo-it-Yourselfキットにすることはできませんでした何が起こったのか。彼は非常に興奮していた。なぜなら、彼はプログラムを台無しにしてしまったので、すべてのことを実現するためのプロセスを開けたからだ。 3ヵ月後、フランチャイズの販売を中止し、代理店チャネルの販売ネットワークを構築しました。 6ヶ月が経ち、すべてのプログラムが完成しました。私たちはこの製品をマルチユースで設計し、市場でこれを行う唯一の製品となっています。
私は、多くの喜んでいる人々の才能がすべてそれを実現させるものであることを発見しました。私は、成功したアイデアを取るのではなく、自分が貢献したすべての苦労を分かち合うために、私の最高のフランチャイズの一部と契約しました。私はこの道を去り、最後には光がなくてもほとんど挑戦して壊れてしまった。私たちは、存在しない故障率で新製品を独自に出し、昨年開発した安全パートナーとの製品を含む募金パッケージを構成しています。
私は未来が企業として何を保持しているのか分かりませんが、私は神に信じます。彼は私たちにはふさわしくないものや、私たちが処理できない機会を与えません。
これは、私と長い時間働いているだけでなく、それが達成された信念を立てている素晴らしい、愛情のある妻を持たなければ起こり得なかったでしょう。私たちは素晴らしいチームであり、自分たちのために働き、子供を育てることができてとても成功していると感じています。
2006年から2008年にかけて、私たちはこの新しい業界でかなり速く下降し、（無料の）
2009年：新しい始まり
Chris Srigleyの "Safe Warriors"と私の会社Safe Kids Cardとの新たなパートナーシップを開始し、子供たちの安全教育と拉致防止のための次世代プログラムをまとめました。すぐにあなたに話してください。アイデアのお手伝いが必要な場合は、私に連絡してください。
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