The day the Sheriff padlocked the front gate was one of the worst days of my life
With two kids in college, single again after a sad and bitter divorce, a mountain of medical debt from my youngest daughter’s bicycle accident (that put her in emergency brain surgery for 6 hours), it was beyond devastating to see the business I’d worked at building 24/7 for five years get shut down.
Having been one of the top 5% of portfolio managers on Wall Street, I knew what success felt like. I was recruited away from Wall Street to help take a visionary environment remediation company public. We did a very successful round of funding.
Then the first nightmare struck
We discovered the man who’d been appointed as President/CEO had misappropriated some of the corporate funds for a personal business project. Overnight, I went from Chief Financial Officer to the top spot and our next round of public financing went forward.
After five long years of the hardest work I’ve done in my life, we turned our first quarterly profit. We were on the verge of setting up two additional factories – one in LA, the other in Oklahoma City – when the bottom fell out. A Federal law that mandated the use of our product in all Federally funded highway projects was changed.
Suddenly our product was no longer in demand sufficient to keep the doors open and the lights on. At 46 I was broke, unemployed and deep in debt.
Thank God
A few years earlier I’d been introduced to a business concept that would salvage my life, enable me to get out of debt and climb back up the hill to financial freedom.
It was like a light switch got turned on and a spotlight illuminated a path for me to follow. I had a clear vision of a track to run on and I knew exactly what I had to do.
Albert Einstein was no slouch. So, when I heard what he called man’s greatest invention, I knew it held the key to my future.
Here’s a clue
If Christopher Columbus had invested $1.00 in 1492 at 6% annual interest and just left the money in the bank, it’d be worth $1,842,679,000 (1.8 billion dollars) today.
You guessed it. Compound interest.
Compounding is the key to freedom
Take one penny and double it everyday for 30 days.
At the end of week one, your penny’s worth $.64
By day 14, it’s worth $81.92
After another week it’s up to $10,485.76
By day 28, the end of the 4th week, your penny is now worth $1,342,177.28
In just two more days in a 30 day month it’s now worth a whopping $5,368,709.12.
Incredible.
There are only two ways to make money
One is money at work like Einstein talked about. The other is people at work.
I knew there were ways to get a compound return on the efforts of others, just like there’s a way to get compound interest on your money. The trick is to find something everyone’s interested in for their own reason. Something they want, need and will buy, regardless of where they get it.
If you can give people a way to buy something they want and get a personal financial reward for buying it from themselves, 9 times out of 10 they’re going to do what benefits them the most.
I put this to work and sure enough, three years after starting my current venture I broke above the $10,000 per month mark and never looked back. Over the following 10 years I earned over $5,000,000.
I built a $60,000,000/year network marketing business
I used the old standard “belly to belly” sales methods to build it, then watched it decline slowly year over year.
I became passionate about discovering the best practices of internet marketing to build online
That lead me on a search for the best value for Internet marketing training. It seems like everyone wants to get online, build a business and become free. Naturally, when demand is high, so is the supply of people, products, systems and companies claiming to be your best ticket to a magic carpet ride to wealth and freedom.
Servant leadership has always been the model I subscribe to
The best way to help others is to put them, their goals, needs, wants and desires first. Figure out the best way to be of service to them. Give them the most service for the least investment. Add value, go the extra mile. Do that and your reward will rich.
That’s what lead me to Wealthy Affiliate. After spending months looking at other programs and platforms and investing thousands to look at what others were offering it became apparent that the best value is with WA.
In addition, the founders, Kyle and Carson are cut from the cloth of servant leadership. This is my number me recommendation for anyone with the desire to build an online business. Period.
I highly recommend you join us.
Here’s a link to get started
Just one last thing. I’d like to know about you! Please tell me something about you. I really want to know. Thanks
Onward
John (Your Partner in Success) Rogers