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I'm a 37 year old, WAHD(Work at home dad) Not sure if there are any
WAHD groups around, maybe I'll start one. I live with my girlfriend,
Debi and our 3 children. Debi has a
daughter, Casi who is 18 and a son Keith, who is 16.I have a daughter,
McKenzie who is 7.

I first got involved in Network Marketing in 1994. With a small
company called Amway.
Like everyone, I spent a lot of money to buy my starter kit along with
books and
tapes for motivation and to give to prospects. I even bought a suit
and went to all the rah-rah hotel meeting's in my area. I traveled for
days on the road from Wisconsin up to the U.P. of Michigan then down
to Charlotte, NC. There were ton's of people there, I got a chance to
meet a lot of people that had huge houses, boats,
new cars, and a trailer full of money.

Wow, I came home that weekend ready to change my destiny. I was going
to tell everyone I knew about this company and their products. I came
back, sat down and made my List. Everyone I could think of got an info
pack about this great company I'm involved with. I was going to quit
my job and never work for anyone else again! They had the best
products people can't live without. And why wouldn't everyone buy from
themselves instead of going to the store. After all, in a couple years
people were going to have scanners in their homes where they could
just run the bar code and have their groceries show up at their
doorstep.

I was sold on this Amway and the products, not mention all the
little circles that looked awesome on paper. It made so much sense to
me. But for some reason I couldn't get anyone to feel the same was as
I did. Well, I was able to convince a few. And of course Mom loved
L.O.C. and the scrub buds. Eventually I got sick of investing with
very little return and quit.

It was about 4 years before I looked at another opportunity and it was
home phone service. It was the way of the future. Just get some
friends and family to switch their home phone service so you can make
a little commission, very little commission. I quickly realized that
the guys who were in first made a ton of money. Some of them made
enough to start their own companies. Not me. I was already running out
of friends and family and there was no way I was going to talk to a
stranger about this business. With no one to talk to, I was dead in
the water.

I continued to look for a way to make money from home when I learner
people were getting rich from the internet. I've been involved with
several different companies since then, but none of them delivered
what I expected. I was still being taught old school marketing
tactics. Make a list of 200 people, buy leads, focus on the products or the
opportunity, cold calls, etc. Sometimes it worked, but
not like I thought it would.

Enter, Attraction marketing. Could it really work? I waited a long
time and tried to do
it on my own. Finally after being beaten, whipped and bloodied, I
broke down and bought Magnetic Sponsoring. I learned that
people don't
want to get in business with you because of the
product, the company or pay plan either. They get into business with
you, because of value you bring them. It's relationship building.

Very shortly after reading Magnetic Sponsoring, I met a guy that has
the same beliefs in,
giving without want. I've learned to generate my own leads, advertise
and drive traffic
to my website for free. Forget what you've been taught and start
adding value to others.
Start learning how to build relationships instead of spewing your products and
opportunity all over them. Start showing that you genuinely care about
other people by showing them a benefit to doing business with you.

I live by the fact that "You can have anything you want out of life if
you just help enough other people get what
they want". - Zig Ziglar


To learn more feel free to call or email me at:
Troy Krause
troy@troykrause.com
920-265-9819