A few years ago my life was very good. I was riding the crest of a great new market called the Video Industry. In 1978 I opened the 6th video store in the nation, learned the business and sold my expertise to people who didn't want to make the same mistakes I had made. After I spent the $150,000 to open each store and the $5,000 to advertise the opening, people were introduced to the way we did business and they continued to come back to spend money. I made a one-time presentation and I continued to get paid every time somebody came back to shop at my store. I had found a way to earn Residual Income without selling insurance. The money was rolling in, we lived in a beautiful home on a white sandy beach with palm trees and the appearance was that we would never have a problem. My goal had been to find something that would carry me and my family to and through our retirement.

In my search to find and live the Great American Dream I found myself in the middle of a recurring nightmare called being your own boss. If you've ever been in your own business you know the rest of the story. You work a part time job by just figuring out which 12 hours @ day you're going to be tied to your business. Because the business looked so lucrative EVERYBODY decided to open a store. The market was saturated and I was ready for a change so I started looking for a way to earn some additional income without giving up my life in exchange for money. At that point a friend came into my store and told me he thought he had found a way to make an extra $1,000 a month. I loved what I did for a living, but there was "too much month for the money" so I asked the same question everybody asks: "What is it?" He told me he thought it was Multi-Level Marketing so I told him "Get out of my store."

I had already seen the MLM industry up close and personal and was of the opinion (and I still am) that MLM's don't work! Sure a few people wave big checks, but they only succeed because hundreds or thousands of others invest their time and money in buying, warehousing, selling and delivering overpriced products of a nature that they never used before and that none of their friends had ever heard of either. I saw companies make outrageous and ridiculous claims. Why is it that someone will always answer the ad that promises "no work"... and "no selling". Doesn't it seem obvious that if your only role in a company were to provide a convenient place to send money for no reason, very little money would be sent? But we've just stumbled onto several of my pet peeves, which you'll learn all about if you stay tuned.

I knew I wanted nothing to do with any business where I had to: (1) inventory and deliver products, (2) I couldn't be proud of the company name and (3) where people would get hurt so that I could win. I asked my friend to sit down and answer a few questions I knew were going to "sink his ship" so he would quit bothering me. I asked all the right questions that I knew would trap him and reveal the "problem" with his great idea.

What did we need to be successful?

I have a fundamental belief that no matter what a company representative will tell you about a company, the Marketing Plan and Product Catalog will tell you exactly what you have to do and how a company demands you to behave in order for you to make any money. Plus for any business to succeed there must be certain success factors in place or the business is doomed from the start. The marketing plan has to provide a BUSINESS MODEL that anybody can follow and succeed. In short the company, products, services and plan have to Just Make Sense.

I asked my wife to be open-minded and try out the products with me for 60 days. I told her if we weren't totally satisfied with what we had purchased I would send it all back and get our money back. We both agreed to take the company for a "test drive" before we would talk to anybody. After about 8 weeks we decided we liked what we tried so we shared what we found with a few of our trusted friends. It made sense to them too, so now it's time to see if it Just Makes Sense to you. It's been nine (9) years now, and our goal of working at something to carry us to and through retirement continues to be the same. Only now we've found a vehicle that can actually get us there. We decided that it would make sense and be fun to use the internet to get the word out to people just like us who are looking for more than they've got but haven't found the vehicle to get them there. You got to this site because a local to your area person recommended that you spend 18 minutes to see if this Just Makes Sense to you. We'll explain how we can help you do the same in your area. Not because we're philanthropists, but because we'll have a vested interest in your success. You see, what we found out was this company based our success on how much we assisted others to succeed.

What a concept... getting paid every month to help people reach their goals.

That's my story, and of course it's far from over. Now my local business partners and I are looking to build a highway to our futures using the tools of today and tomorrow. We're looking for some people who have the desire (the KEY) to change their future and are searching for the opportunity, team and tools (the VEHICLE). If you can relate to sections of My Story, you may have just found what you've been searching for. Keep on going, the best is yet to come.