My daddy used to tell me..."Son, you got educated way beyond your intelligence"...

• So, if you notice the certificates on the wall behind me,[in the video], you will see my military certificates to the left, my degrees two bachelors and two masters in the center and my dean's honor list certificates [to the right]...So I guess he was right.
• I am a Viet-Nam Vet... I was a combat medic, and operating room technician, my biggest Viet-Nam accomplishment was that I had a very, very small part in helping to save a couple of lives, and because I repeatedly listened to my "little voice" I came back alive. The Doctors & Surgeons were the Real Heroes, such courage they displayed under fire; I will never forget! And oh yes, I saw the slow-motioned movie, more than once... [Only other "Combat Experienced Vets” will understand these two previous statements]... "Right, C'pn Jeff?" Lastly, I earned an “Honorable Discharge” and I know what a DD-214 is and can put my hands on mine in a "Moment's Notice," if requested!

My Sales & Marketing Career started in the summer of 1976...

• I have sold pharmaceuticals [Ob-Gyn therapeutics], Medical Electronic Diagnostic Instrumentation Systems [primarily Urodynamic and Electrocardiogram types], Replacement Windows and Siding [yes, I was even a 'Tin-Man' for about 2-3 years] and I set the company record for the longest period of time in a home-13.5 hours-Without Making A Sale! My ex-wife just never believed that story; I guess that's why she became my ex-wife.

Because I was in sales for so long, and worked for companies like Holand-Rantos, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, Zee Medical, Life-Tech Systems-International, Thermal-Guard Replacement Windows, I have done a lot of traveling and consequently have become a Retired Road Warrior. I have travelled to Canada, Mexico, and South America and was on my way to the middle-East, when I said: "Enough of being a 'Professional' Road Warrior." Now I do all my travelling with my telephone, computer, internet, website, and email.

When I was in graduate school...

My favorite Marketing Professor gave us (3) points to remember, and besides the German I learned, I think this was the only thing I remember from Graduate School...

• Don't be afraid to fail…

Remembering this: Thomas Edison in his search for the perfect formula for the light bulb, found (8,000) different ways N-O-T to make it.

• Keep Your Options Open…and remember this, it's the guy that refuses to get up one more time [after being hit down ], or to use a tennis example, hit the ball back over the net one time more than his opponent that is the individual that can be truly identified as a "Failure-Quitter."
• "Strive to make yourself a "Self-Generating Profit Center"... Hmmmm, what did he mean by that? We'll come back to that later, in a minute, on another page.
• Finally, and perhaps most importantly, a quote from the movie "Splash Dance"..."Find out what your passion is, or what you can become passionate about, take that passion, and 'start making it happen – Today! If you can do that, then you will be Truly Happy and Completely FR33 and Most Importantly, You Will Never Work Another Day in Your Life!"
• Now, let's go back to this "Self-Generating Profit Center Idea"... Shortly after my graduate school days, I was called by a high-school friend of mine, to talk about a "business opportunity." This was the first time I saw the Amway MLM-Circles and after seeing them, I said to myself... "This is what the professor was talking about." But that was the summer of 1976 which was before computers, fax machines, the internet, email, cell phones, iPods, Social Networking and all of the software tools we have today.
• None-the-less, I subconsciously became a “Student-of-the-Industry” and have had experiences with Amway, Herbalife, Pre-Paid Legal, Rexall, Excel, Video Email-Direct, and now [since June, 2005] Invisus. With Each Company I had a developed a little more experience in building an organization, learning about the kind of people attracted by these kinds of companies, and whether-or-not the products were actually better, and trying to understand these crazy, multi-faceted, compensation plans.
• One Day, I finally realized, it’s not the compensation plans that are important, most all compensation plans, unless illegal from the start will generate a handsome income. What is of upmost and critical importance is whether or not the products work, what is their customer retention rate, is anybody making money on customers or is recruitment the only way to make money; and lastly and most importantly, is anybody actually receiving a residual income check? Here is what you must determine [and what I had to determine for myself in choosing a company]... If you were NOT selling and marketing the product(s) would you buy the products [or services] for yourself and your family, and would you continue to purchase via a monthly basis, regardless of economic conditions - in other words, are these Products & Services you would seek out to buy?
• But I hated hotel meetings [and the modern day version of the hotel meeting-the conference call] and hated "Playing Store." After my last company in 2000, I vowed not to join any more "business opportunities" and began looking for a mail-order / affiliate type of business that I could work via the internet.
• In the meantime...I divorced, worked for some Commercial Loan Brokers, sold oil-and-gas direct investments for almost (6) years,[where I really perfected my telephone skills], two years for a Mobile Office/Container Manufacturer and finally “Hit The Jackpot” when I landed with my last employer, a website redevelopment company from which I retired on 04-03-09. It (www.esxinc.com ) was the kind of job I had been striving for; from the very beginning of my searches going all the way back to the early and mid 80's. Unfortunately, my ex-wife did not have the sustaining power and commitment to stay with me and enjoy the fruits of all of my years of preparation, blood, sweat, and tears. “Sorry Gail, you lost again.”
• Here is where the story ends...After vowing no more “Business Opportunities” I was approached by a lady from Wisconsin, I will call her "Feisty-Bonnie-from-Wisconsin" who told me about a (15) year-old company that was positioning itself to enter the local telephone market. Eighteen months later, the company would fold. But I was motivated once again to make this "thing" called network marketing work; especially, after I saw some of the bonus checks that were handed out at the summer, 2003 Conference. I finally realized later that it wasn't network marketing that wasn't working, it was me.
• So, I began my search for a product that works with emphatic results, had a unique marketing-proposition, price advantage, or other uniqueness and wasn't just another "Me-Too" type of product. Unfortunately, I had a false start with a video email type product and company, but then in January of 2005, Bonnie called me again. You can read my personal experience, as well as that of my two college-aged children, with the Internet-Computer Security Product under the tab "My Story."

So this is what I do now...on a full-time basis since my retirement on

04-03-09.

• I market a product and service for people who are tired of the Anti-Virus/Spyware Software Treadmill...
• For people who are tired of buying renewal software every year...
• For people who are tired of being gouged by their software and local neighborhood computer repair companies...
• For people who are tired and frustrated by the constant Maintenance and Repair that today's sophisticated computers require...
• for people who are exhausted from dismantling their systems, unplugging everything [trying to identify plugs and cables], hauling everything to their local computer store, being without their computer at least (3) days [National Average], and having a repair bill that approximates their car payment, hauling it back to their office or home, finally getting all the plugs lined up and then sadly, once they power up, only to learn that the problem was not repaired!
• And most importantly for people who are just plain tired of buying protection software, repair and maintenance contracts that just do not work...
• So, do you know anybody that your feel should know about the features and advantages of these products and services, and the future potential of this kind of business – or could that person be Y-O-U?
• And more importantly, do you know anybody that is in transition and is considering alternative options for income production?