Great Story (in the making)

by John Passmore

Just back from the COP and we had 88 people in the room. So all the phone calls, all the texts and emails paid off.

And my friend Nick the mortgage advisor turned up as my guest, true to his word. So as of tomorrow it’s back to the six a day.

The funny thing is that, even if you’re not planning to do six on a particular day, the effect of having done it for so long spills over.

So this morning I had two people ringing me saying they’d received texts from me some days ago and what was it all about.

Then, driving to the COP one of the people I’d invited rang to ask what it was all about – it seems we’d spoken so long ago he’d forgotten. So even though, technically speaking, he wasn’t hearing it for the first time, I reckon that counts.

And then, in the bar afterwards, I suddenly had a thought: More than 60 distributors in the room, I wonder if anyone had given a card to the barmaid?

“Has anyone told you what we’re all here for?” I asked her.

-No

“You mean, nobody’s given you a card? You’d better have mine. In fact, better than that, why don’t I tell you what we’re doing. It takes 30 seconds. Would you like to hear it?”

So now she’d got a card and I’ve got her name, her email address and her phone number.

Now, I know it would be really tiresome if all 60 of us had pressed our cards on the poor girl. But what seems to have happened is that every single one of us had assumed that somebody else had.

Well, now somebody has. I do hope she goes on to make it to Marketing Director. It will be a great story.