Job Done!

by John Passmore

9.30 a.m: This afternoon I’m off to Berkshire to see the great network marketing guru Ed Ludbrook. It means we’ll be getting back after midnight and I can’t see myself sitting down to write this blog at that time.

More to the point, I asked myself, how was I going to talk to my six people so that I could be sure of saying my 30 second thing to at least one of them and getting their name, address and phone number into my recruiting schedule (because that’s how you end up with a big business).

Then I looked at the post – actually it was yesterday’s post. I’d already opened the household insurance proposal from the Utility Warehouse and their ClickCover partners (£359 compared to Saga’s £800!) but I hadn’t looked at something with “Teach me to Trade” on the envelope. Now this intrigued me because before discovering TelecomPlus, I tried my hand at commodity trading on the internet. I made a fortune and promptly lost it all which tends to be what happens. This outfit promised better. Frankly I was sceptical but then I reasoned that if they had a lot of people going to their free seminars, then there would be a lot of people who might be prepared to look at a risk-free – and much better - opportunity to make a lot of money.

I rang up to book my place. The young man who took my call was called Oliver. He had a pleasant telephone manner (of course he had, that was his job). I complimented on his telephone manner. I asked him if anyone else had said that (of course they hadn’t, they never do). I said I was always on the lookout for people who had a pleasant telephone manner – particularly people who wanted to make some extra money and I wondered if he might be one of those.

Two minutes later I had Oliver’s email address and phone number. Then I asked him if he wanted to know what it was all about – and 30 seconds after that he had the bare bones of the TelecomPlus business. There is now an email in his inbox with a link to the website and a note in my diary to call him tomorrow.

Job done - and all before 9.30 a.m. All I need to do now is talk to another five people – and the wonderful thing is that it doesn’t even matter what they say…

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1045: Just did a complete re-run of the Oliver story with a woman called Denise who rang to sell me a bed and breakfast website. It's a good, good day!