Time Off

by John Passmore

The weekend is time off – but time of in this business is not the same as time off in a conventional job. For one thing, with a conventional job it’s unlikely that you feel you just can’t wait to get started again.

But they say you don’t get into network marketing until network marketing gets into you. And that tends to happen once the money kicks in.

So when the phone rang on Saturday afternoon and a voice said: “I hope you don’t mind me ringing at this time but I work on Saturdays and I thought maybe you did too…”

I went back to work.

It turned out to be someone returning my message. On Friday I’d seen this extraordinary little vehicle; even smaller than a Smart car – just a cab at the front and a billboard at the back with an advert offering advertising space. What intrigued me more was the website address painted across the door: a leafleting company.

“Right,” I said. “Now I left you the message because I had a question to ask you: Would you be interested in an extra income alongside your present business?”

- - - Of course, I’m always interested in income.

“OK then, what I suggest I do is take 30 seconds to tell you what it’s about and you can tell me if you’re interested, is that OK?”

- Yes, go ahead.

“Well, I’m in the utilities business, that’s gas, electricity…”

When I’d finished he asked me how it worked so I gave him “What we’ve got here is a club. It’s called the Utility Warehouse. Have you ever heard of it…”

He thought for a moment and then said: “You know this could work very well with my business. I deliver 35,000 leaflets a day.”

“Now there’s an idea,” I said.

So he went off to look at it – and I went back to my weekend.

+++ STOP PRESS +++

Another bit of weekend stuff:

A call from Lee who I first spoke to back in March and who now wants to come and see me, bringing his wife who is a travelling hairdresser and therefore a brilliant prospect.

It seems Lee has been talking to his friends because one of them who had lost his job practically grabbed poor Lee by the throat, wanting to know about this home business he was looking at.

Of course Lee didn’t have much to tell him, so he wanted to know: would I give this guy Simon a call.

I did and sent him an email. Both phone calls took a total of five minutes in between laying the table for lunch. Now I’ve checked and found that the friend has opened the email and clicked on each of the two links three times – so he’s obviously worth talking to again.

The interesting thing now is that Lee must sign up before Simon, otherwise Lee will be in Simon’s team rather than the other way round.

I don’t like to pressurise anyone into joining but sometimes it just happens…