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A Tale of Two Taxis

February 26th, 2010 | Author: John Passmore

Don’t ever get run-flat tyres. The idea is great – you never have a flat tyre.

Or at least the tyre never looks flat and you can still drive to get it fixed. But if it never looks flat, how do you know it is flat… until you’ve been driving on it for so long it’s ruined and you have to buy a new one for £120. I’ve had my free Mini for just over two years and I’ve now had to fork out for three new tyres.

Also the tyres are a bit of a rarity so this time I had to leave the car at the garage while they ordered a new one. Still, it meant that I got to talk to the taxi driver.

Interesting chap: His usual business was harvesting potatoes for Walkers Crisps. He has a huge machine costing millions and he and his sons drive it 24 hours a day throughout the potato season. The rest of the year, he drives taxis.

“It’s not the same any more, though.” he said. “Now the lorries pull onto the field, drive alonside. I shoot the load into the back and they’re off. I never even talk to the drivers.”

“Do you like talking to people.”

“Well it’s what life’s all about, isn’t it – talking to people.”

“You ought to look at what I do…”

He thought it sounded great. So now he’s got a DVD.

Then of course, I had to take another taxi back in the afternoon to pick up the Mini with its new tyre. Now, admittedly the driver didn’t speak very good English but I don’t know if I’ve ever witnessed a greater contrast.

“Nice car,” I said.

“Not mine. Belong to company.”

“Would you like your own car?”

“Yes.”

“I know how you can get one. You could do what I do. Just tell your passengers about our brilliant club that saves them £1000 a year and you get given a free car. How great is that?”

“Free car. They send me free car?”

“Well, you have to go and collect it.”

“Where collect car?”

“London, just at the bottom of the M1″

“No.”

“What, you wouldn’t take a train up to London to collect a free car worth £12,000?”

“Don’t like train. Car is better.”

I like to think there are very few occasions when I am struck dumb. However this was one of them. The rest of the journey was completed in silence.

- until we reached the garage and I paid him. He then looked at me for what seemed the first time: “You give me information about free car?”

Yes, I gave him information about free car. Heck I’ll give anyone information about free car.

But I just hope he never rings. Maybe he has a cheerful chatty friend…

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Here you have a diary written from the coal face. This is network marketing and making money from home in real life... in real time.

I write it because I used to write for a living and find it quick and easy - there is no suggestion that anyone else should do the same.

The daily activity described here deals with what we call in my company The Business Development Plan. This is a sheet of paper detailing the activity we set ourselves to complete each day - with a space to tick it off in the evening.

This activity could involve speaking to six new people, posting 20 leaflets through letterboxes, handing out 50 business cards. You can do anything you like. After all, network marketing is your own home-based business and you can spend as much time or as little as you please on it - just as long as you do something every day and you remember that the more you do the more money you make.

For the fact is that whatever you do, you end up talking to people - which is where we came in.

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About Me

John Passmore
Woodbridge, Suffolk,
United Kingdom

For 25 years I was a newspaper reporter - ending up as Chief Correspondent for the London Evening Standard. Then I gave it all up and, with my wife, set out to live the simple life on a small boat while writing a column for the Daily Telegraph. Five years and two children later we moved ashore - and five years and another two children after that I ran out of money. Nobody wanted to give me a job and I couldn't afford to start a conventional business. Then at a craft fair in our local community hall, somebody showed me network marketing. It was described as a home-based business that would provide a second income for anyone who wanted to work from home. I was sceptical. There were claims of high earnings and something called a "residual income". But what if it did work? And beside what alternative did I have? So I threw myself into it wholeheartedly (which is the only way to succeed at anything). I'm not saying it's easy or that there were never moments of doubt but if you're prepared to learn and determined never to give up, then there is a statistical certainty that you will make money. I started in April 2005. I was broke and embarrassed. Today I have no money worries whatsoever.

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