Success

I have touched upon my career and achievements in parts in this site and in my timeline but I wanted to paint the picture a little clearer as it has truly been a rags to riches story and one hell of a journey… I promise you my book will amaze you and widen your eyes so wide as to what it really means to be a home-based entrepreneur!!!

Nutrition For Life: 1997 – 1998

I started in MLM because my mum joined a health and nutrition company who sent her an amazing starter kit full of products, training and marketing materials… it looked amazing and I was hooked straight away. I took the brochures into the bank call centre where I worked and sold a ton of product to my colleagues. At one point I had to hide from the bosses as I brought in so many boxes, and after 6 months I quit my job. A bad move in hindsight as I could no longer get access to my customers, and my small little sales business disappeared over night.

Euphony Communications – Principle Consultant – 1998 – 2001

This is where I realised you had to build a network of marketers (a team) not be a salesman. It was my “apprenticeship” in MLM and I reached one of the leadership levels without really making any money. I helped lots of people save money on their phone bills and built a team of around 2000 consultants. This company opened my eyes to Personal Development, I attended many internal trainings across the country, and started to listen and learn from people such as Tony Robbins… it was with Euphony where I met my MLM mentor and future business partner.

Unicity Network – 2001 – 2002

Another US health and Nutritional company, I followed my mentor and built a small team. This was definitely not a financial success but it did expose me to a lot more learning from some major Multi-Millionaire leaders in the US who were part of my upline. A costly experience but met some good people along the way.

EGolf International – 2002 – 2004

An MLM based around online gaming, specifically advertising using a golf game – which I think attracted me due to my love of golf. Again, a financial disaster, I met some good people and continued both my personal development and MLM development during this time. You don’t appreciate it at the time but this was all part of the journey, character building and invaluable in my development.

Fun For Life Club International – 2004 – 2006

A Canadian MLM based around unused timeshare weeks around the world this is where I first made some money in MLM. I have always been passionate about travel which I think helped me attract people to the business and the product offering. I made £20K in one month as I was getting started (a one off figure based on recruitment) which kind of put me back in the black in my MLM career to-date… just. I recognised the potential in “joint ventures” at this time and created the holiday club for major football clubs such as Everton, Liverpool, Wolves, Preston North End and Glasgow Rangers. I enjoyed this period and was even the official match sponsor of a Championship game between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leicester at Molyneux – however as it was just getting started, Thomas Cook did a deal with the Football League and so individual clubs could no longer do their own travel deals… I was devastated. In addition the MLM company was bought by a time share company and was no longer a business opportunity… my time in MLM was over, or so I thought!

Fuel Freedom International, FFi – 2006 – 2009

My first real success. Having had to borrow the $500 to join from my Mum’s friend Doreen I built a team of over 16,000 distributors in over 100 countries making almost $500K with just 12 months full time effort. I was number 3 income earner in Europe and travelled the world attending events and conferences and as keynote speaker around the world!.  Joining in March 2006 I made $2000 in my first month, was making $1k a week after 9 weeks and over $10K a month after 6 months… life was good. However the company was not the best run, could not cope with the demand and did not have the global infrastructure to support the growth we created. In 2009 I quit as a Distributor to focus on a business I had created 2 years earlier with my business partner which was outside of MLM.

Forever Freedom International (Formerly Fuel Freedom International – FFi) – 2009 – 2012

My career to-date had been as a Distributor, now I was a corporate Director of Distributor Development responsible for all of Europe & Eurasia. When I returned there were only a few hundred active distributors spread across a handful of Eastern European countries and none were what you would call a “leader”. The company sales and growth had fell off a cliff but I was given free reign to do what I could to rescue it and increase sales. The first 12 months where just about survival and steadying the ship. After this sales began to grow and we went from a few hundred distributors to over 40,000. I was incredibly proud of my achievements here, especially as I achieved this with just 2 corporate customer service staff who were also my translators. In just 3 years I increased sales by 864%, implemented a whole host of new training programmes and developed a multi lingual team and company training and development website. Unfortunately my time came to an acrimonious end when my contract and renumeration were changed which resulted in legal proceedings.

Greenfoot Global, GFG – 2012 – 2014

I joined GFG as a Distributor and built a team of over 36,000 Distributors many of whom followed from FFi. In my first month I made $35,000 which is not huge in MLM but it is for month one. I had a two year run with this company breaking all growth and commission records. I was the first Presidential Distributor which gave me a $90 coded bonus on everyone who joined my team – so I earned a lot of money 😊. In addition, I created a team website which again was multi-lingual and was subscription based which was very profitable and helped everyone in my team in their daily efforts. Towards the end of my time with the company I explored a take-over with an MLM lawyer friend of mine but this was not to be (thank god) and I went on to build The Travel Franchise & Not Just Travel.

Shopping Sherlock – 2014 – 2015

At this point I had decided to “park” my MLM career as I became Co-Owner of The Travel Franchise and Not Just Travel. Strange I know with my reputation at its highest, well over 7 figures in income, 2 huge “home runs” under my belt but I was tired of the politics and games which go on. I joined Shopping Sherlock as I believed this could be a home for my GFG team. It was a virtual product, had some great field leadership and was already in Eurasia where my team was biggest. I was the fastest Distributor in the company to achieve the Power Rank and built a team of a few thousand distributors which game me a decent income given my involvement. A nice company where I met some great people and is unfortunately no longer with us.

So, as you can see an eventful career which had a very slow start but once started was both lucrative and eventful, to say the least. This period of my life was very character building with the huge up’s and down’s and taught me a lot about business, life and people. I don’t think you should ever look back with regret, in the main my MLM journey was fun and lucrative but the real wealth was in the people I met and the life long relationships which were created. There are many people I can mention but a special thanks to Tony Cheung who was my first ever sponsor and to Cliff Walker (and Bev) who was my MLM mentor, friend and future business partner.