| Joe Fires His Boss At Age 33... | | | | You see, I officially QUIT my job two weeks ago. |
| "Dear Jen, | | | | I made a decision a few months back that I would |
| A year and a half ago, I was neck-deep in my first | | | | replace and surpass the six-figure income from my |
| stab at the networking industry. In spite of my best | | | | job, set a date for doing so, and even wrote a |
| efforts, (or now looking back more because of them), | | | | farewell email to the 200+ people I had worked with |
| my experience was no different from that of 97% of | | | | over the 12 years I spent with my employer. |
| networkers out there. | | | | That email sat in my "Drafts" folder for the last several |
| I had a few successes in my warm market, but was | | | | months, as I worked out how to apply to my business |
| quickly becoming the pariah of family and work | | | | the many concepts I've picked up from your training. |
| functions as I indiscriminately approached them about | | | | Using those concepts, it wasn't long before I ranked |
| my newfound road to riches. | | | | among the top producers in my company, |
| The shocking truth, which I didn't learn until later, was | | | | ...and by my planned date was earning multiples of the |
| that they just plain weren't looking for that road. | | | | six-figure salary I was used to in my job. |
| No matter how many "rah-rah" training events I went | | | | When the day finally came, I have NEVER had as |
| to... | | | | much satisfaction clicking the "Send" button as I did |
| No matter how many sets of promotional materials I | | | | with that email. |
| passed out... | | | | Within seconds of sending it out, I had dumbstruck |
| No matter how much of my warm market "list" I went | | | | people running to my desk asking me what I was |
| through in confidence-shattering personal business | | | | doing. |
| pitches... | | | | My boss in all fairness was pretty cool about the |
| ...NOTHING that I was being told to do was working | | | | whole thing, but in a company and industry where |
| effectively, and after several months of dutiful effort I | | | | people VERY seldom leave to strike out on their own, |
| was starting to wonder whether this was all just a | | | | he was still visibly shell-shocked when I handed him my |
| pipe-dream that would never materialize. | | | | resignation letter. |
| That's when I came across an ad that led me to a | | | | It was a long-anticipated day that I will never forget. I |
| page featuring a picture of this twenty-something guy | | | | am now looking forward to a life that all of us start out |
| claiming that he could show me a way to become a | | | | in this business hoping to attain but few accomplish. |
| prospecting "magnet". "Become the hunted instead of | | | | And one of the best parts is that I now get to plug my |
| the hunter", he was telling me. | | | | growing team right back into the same techniques that |
| Not only that, but what he was saying was WAY | | | | got me here, empowering them to create the same |
| different from the conventional wisdom of networking | | | | experience for themselves. |
| I'd been hearing up until then. | | | | Jen, I don't know if you set out thinking that you would |
| It was refreshing, to say the least. | | | | forever change the networking industry. But that's |
| So within about ten minutes of landing on that page, I | | | | exactly what you've done. |
| had bought my registration pack. | | | | I shudder to think what kind of potential I might have |
| And little did I know how much that would change | | | | been giving up had I made the decision not to join |
| things for me.. | | | | Mums Home Biz a year and a half ago. |
| Fast forward to today… | | | | Hopefully without sounding too cheesy, the course of |
| I'm writing this letter as I fly back to oz with my wife | | | | my life and that of my immediate family HAS been |
| after spending a week and a half at an incredible | | | | significantly altered as a result of that decision, and I |
| event in Europe with my company. | | | | had to take a few minutes to thank you for that. |
| A year ago, I probably would have been stressed | | | | You have proven your commitment to providing value |
| about expenses, and about the work piling up at my | | | | in every one of your products that is several times |
| demanding job in the investment industry. | | | | what you charge, and I'll be looking forward to seeing |
| But not this time. | | | | what you come up with in the future. |
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