With no real idea about referral marketing, I took up my Telecom plus business on a full-time basis!

I live in Sussex and was in the rat-race for the first half of my working life. I have a sales and engineering background, was successful and earning good money. I regularly used to drive 40-50,000 business miles a year, staying nights away and enjoying little personal or social life.

In 2003 I had the opportunity to leave the rat-race and spend more time at home. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do but I knew I wanted to work from home. I had one false start but then almost by accident, I came across Telecom plus.

I had no real idea what Referral Marketing was, or what was involved in becoming successful in network marketing, but as with anything I set my mind too, I threw myself into it with a huge amount of energy and enthusiasm.

I had a full-time self-employed job when I started, which meant I could initially only spare a few hours a week, but I found it really easy to encourage my warm market to try the services and save money. With determination I received around £1,000 in bonuses in the first two months.

Unfortunately (as a result of an argument with four speed cameras) I was unable to drive for 6 months. This forced me to focus on my Telecom plus business. So I resorted to the push-bike to gather some local customers and the results persuaded me that my best option was to take up my Telecom plus business full-time.

I set up my Command and Control Centre at home where I developed my sponsoring skills. I was then fortunate (and you have to make your own luck) in being able to encourage some extremely talented people to join this great business and things started to grow quickly. I now concentrate primarily on introducing the business to other entrepreneurial people and if they decide to join us then I take great satisfaction in showing them how to gather some customers quickly and introduce some of their warm market to this great business opportunity.

Success with Telecom plus revolves around creating Independent Senior Executives (SE’s) who are the cornerstone of the network. For any new people in this great business I would encourage them to work with their sponsor and up-line Independent Senior Group Leader to get themselves to SE as soon as possible. Leaders in the business want new people, who are determined to succeed and they do this by asking and then continue to ask for support and input. The task is then to help the enthusiastic members of the team to get there as well. To achieve Independent Senior Group Leader, all you have to do is help 16 Distributors in your team to reach SE, in the right locations for the MD structure, and the necessary customer numbers should follow. I found it much easier and less of a massive mountain to climb when I focussed on helping to build SE legs than considering reaching MD as a whole. With determination, anyone can definitely get to MD, like I have done, by helping others to do the same.

I have made some great friends in Telecom plus in a relatively short period and I would particularly wish to thank Steve Critchley for his help and guidance in becoming what I am advised is the fastest ever MD in the company.

One golden secret I have learnt for success in Telecom plus is to never give up. You have got to be in it to win it. We are involved in a successful company that has barely started. Ignore ‘Neg Ferrets’ like the plague, always focus on the positive side of things and you will get there in the end.

I am confident that I can build complete financial freedom in the future and I am supported in this by my partner Kate. Some people have suggested that I would go to any length to sponsor another Distributor but there is no truth in that whatsoever!