I have been involve with Internet marketing for the past 3 years, and sales for the past 8. I have learned tons of lessons involving trial and error while participating in various home business ventures. Today, I am proud to say that I've escaped that rat race of the home business rat trap. You may be wondering what this is, and I will tell you in a second, but first just a short summary of my life over the past 21 years. I was born in Tucson, Arizona and lived here my whole life. I attended one school district my in my school days and graduated right on time. After graduation, I began working full time at Wendy's Old Fashion hamburger, the job I had held for two years before starting at age 16. I recall before that at age 13, I was selling candy door to door for a company called Youth Solution. We were a non profit organization that gave teens job training and kept them out of trouble such as drugs and gangs. Our goals was to take a trip to Six Flags, so inorder to raise funds we sold $7 boxes of candy door to door, and also asked for donations. I worked for about 3 weeks till I quit, so I never got to go to Six Flags. Just for the record, I haven't been out of the state of Arizona. After I worked at Wendy's I worked a Water Restoration job where we would drive around town in a box truck going to appointments at peoples houses where they recently had water damage. Our job was to rid the water from all areas in the home such as dry wall and carpet, and treat it for mold. I worked there for about 9 months, but gained customer service experience along with viral marketing and business card advertisement by speaking with customers in their homes, face to face, and watching my boss generate jobs day in and out in order to keep the cash flow rolling. I stopped working there, because there were less jobs coming in, and little money to pay everybody, I had to move on to something. That something else was a telecommunications call center for Qwest here in Tucson called T.CI.M. After a 30 day training on the products and services, my job was to take inbound calls as a representative for Qwest. I would deal with issues of disconnection, saving the customer from disconnection with a discount, investigating billing issues, taking credit card payments, transfering calls, explaining customer service contract agreement and terms of violation, setting up new records, and changing data within records. Adding credits to peoples billing accounts, and providing some of the best customer service a person could offer over the phones. There was a high turn over rate at that job, and I was layed off due to being sick for three days in a row without a doctors note.
During that time I was living in my own apartment paying my own bills. Since I did not have a job anymore, I was doomed for eviction shortly. It was around July 2008 and I decided to post some ads on Craigslist to generate some landscaping clean up jobs for myself. I had experience doing this when I was about 10 years old, so I knew what I was doing, and had the endurance to pull weeds, and trim trees. I managed to get enough jobs to pay my rent for just a few more months. Unfortunately I had to close down the landscaping service, because I did not have a truck or trailer, nor did I have the tools to complete jobs. In October 2008 I was evicted and homeless on the streets. I had moved in with some random stranger that had let me move some of my stuff into his garage and stay with him for 3 weeks after a response from an ad that I posted on Craigslist, but after that I was cold and hungry lonely with nobody to help. During my time at this persons house, I started the landscaping services up again, just 2 months later. This time I took a different approach. I decided since the problem before was the truck, trailer, and tools, that I would hire somebody off of Craigslist that had these items. I met two guys at the local Mc Donalds and hosted Interview. I was able to generate a few jobs for both guys on different days and split the profits 50/50. This all worked out great until I was told I had to leave.
From there I spend the week homeless, but then moved in with my Parents in the tiniest trailer ever. This was from November 2008 to March 2009 that I spent there trying to find work. I managed to work a temporary warehouse position for the Christmas holidays but that was only for 3 weeks. In February I put together a street door to door sales team for Dish Television, but when everybody quit on me I decided it was enough, plus I wasn't making any sales. Up until July 2009 was it that I found a job from a resume that I posted on Craigslist.
I was contacted by the publisher of Arizona Tourist Newspaper and the T.U.S.D. Focus Magazine. These were both monthly print publications that targeted a special audience. Arizona Tourist News targeted people who were traveling within Arizona as well as outside travelers coming to visit Arizona. Arizona Tourist News would bring the latest events, best restaurants, cool attraction areas, and hotels and Lodging areas. T.U.S.D. Focus Magazine was a free magazine published for the Tucson Unified School District here in Tucson. It's purpose was to write about events going on in all T.U.S.D. schools so that the Elementary schools, Middle Schools, and High Schools would stay updated on whats going on within the district. Each month 60,000 copies of Arizona Tourist News would be distributed through out Arizona and left at tourist attraction spots. T.U.S.D. Focus Magazine was distributed directly to Teachers and Administrators in about 150 schools in the district. 5,000 copies per month with a readership of 7,500 readers. My job was to contact businesses who would benefit from being listed in either of these publication. We had various ad sizes to choose from and whether it would be in color or black and white. I was selling advertisement, but I was not doing any of the advertisement. What fun is that? At first, I was making some sales, but after 2 months and only makine $600 I had to toss in the towel, and fire my boss. Plus my boss was ragging me for not updating the database. I figured that If I was going to do all that clerical work, then I should be getting a base hourly pay instead of 20% commission.
The day I fired my boss was September 9, 2009. When I went home I developed my own advertisement service where I can apply all my Internet marketing skills. From early 2007 I've invested tons of income into Home business programs thinking that I was going to escape the rat race. Really I wound up in a completely different rat race, but I hadn't a clue of what it was about. As I struggled to learn, I would continue spending money sometimes reaching $1000 per week. This was not the way to be successful, I decided that I would stop buying to educational learning programs, and just place in a program and market it. I did that about 5 times until I realized that it's not the program or compensation plan that you have, it's the fun in participating in these programs that has a person sign up and join. It's the value that a person knows they will get after they've used your service or joined and worked your program. So with all this experience that I've accumulated over the years, I am able to use my time and effort now days to help home business owners reach incredible amounts of highly populated Business entrepreneurial communities, and turn their opportunity into a real success. Right now I am marketing for a few companies, and the amounts of numbers that they are seeing are incredible. Contact
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I am interested in helping home and public businesses build their company by teaming up as their advertisement solution. i do advertisement on the Internet, and am interested in hearing from those who need this service. People who are trying to make money with their home based business, but don't seem to be able to get a firm grasp on the marketing concept. Individuals who want to to pay somebody to do their work from them , but keep all the profits for themselves. Somebody who would like a person handling their advertisement, so they can free up some time to focus on more important aspects of their business. Entrepreneurs who understand investing and Return of Investment (ROI) so they can foresee a great profitable opportunity coming. Anybody who is tired of being take for all their money, to place in programs so they can learn. With my marketing techniques, I provide you with updates and at the same time give you ideas, and teach you how to market your business, so that one day you won't need my help anymore, and will be able to generate your own income easily. There is only one time to get this ball rolling, and that time is now. If you are interested in building your business into profitable regions, then get in touch with me by either message or phone and lets discuss setting you up with a campaign.
Music:
I am listening to Pandora Radio, which in my words is a non-edited radio station that plays your favorite music according to artist selection. All free 100% quality, no skiping.
I seldom listen to YouTube, and Napster but they have their fair share of great hits. Tight Beatz dot com has the best original instrumentals, created by talented artists who compose and upload beats constantly. Wide selection of style including Commercial, South, Eastcoast, Trip-Hop, R&B, and Westcoast.
I enjoy techno, rap, country, rock, heavy metal, african drums, chinese windchimes, Indian flutes, instrumentals, R&B, Jazz, Classical, Symphonic, Acapella, and much much more.
Movies:
I enjoy wating rated R movies. Most recent movies are Body Count, Higher Learning, Love and a .45, American Gangster, New Jack City, Paid In Full, State Property, Super Size Me, and many many more. I've found that HULU provides the best movies with limited comercial interuptions.
TV:
King of the Hill, CSI MIAMI, NCIS, Family Guy, Cops, The Simpsons, The Office,Southpark, Easy Money, Numbers, American Dad, Prison Break, Futurama, Law & Order SVU, The Cleavland Show, Americas Most Wanted, CSI NewYork, Southland,and many more shows.
Books:
The Bible, Letting Go Spiritual Guidence, The Dynamic Universe, Pro Gear, U.S. Government, How to manuals, Idiots guide for dummies, and many more forms of literature.