Christine Morrison
This was a really interesting one. Let me back up a little. I had met a man named Jim Giblin from a company called The Entrepreneurial Source. We had discussed the G&I Program, and I told him about Quixtar/Amway. He said it was a good business, and that we could probably work off each other...people who wanted a biz but didn't have the capital he could refer to me, and people who weren't interested in my biz, I could refer to him.
So I get a referral from him. A woman named Christine Morrison. She is a Jamaican woman who lives in Paterson, NJ. Anyway, we talk on the phone, and she wants an Internet business. But she is not sure about products, demographics, advertising, etc, and really doesn't have any capital to speak of.
She is out of work right now. She used to be a social worker, but they closed down the place. She tells Jane and I about how serious she is, and that she really wants a biz. She doesn't want to have to work for someone any more.
When we talked about the Primary Motivating Factors, she had a lot to say and that she wanted to make 1.5 million dollars within the next 5 years! Pretty big goal, and she again said that she was willing to work really hard.
So she is tracking with us all through the plan. Jane and I were really developing a great raport with her. She has the business conference for the next day in her hand, and is coming. At the end of the plan she tells us that she doesn't want to do it. I tell her that it is irrelivent, but ask why.
She (a person who wants to own and operate a business) says that she doesn't want to be "Lovey Dovey". She doesn't want to meet with people, and she doesn't want to have to look for other people. I couldn't believe it! I told her that she better not own a business then. I asked her if she though that if she had a business, that she would have to talk to people, and have meetings. I suggested to her that she simply come to the BDS tomorrow, and then make an intelligent decision. She agreed.
Anyway, I gave her the biz conf ticket, and she shook my hand and promised me that she would come. I told her that I wanted her to promise me because I knew that over the night she would talk to herself. Even though I gave her the first night pack, I felt that if she just came to the conference, it would help.
Saturday Morning I get the call that she changed her mind, and wasn't coming. I asked her why and she said that she felt that the biz would be monotonous, because she would be doing the same thing over and over again. I explained to her (in a not-so-lovey-dovey-way) that she had never better try to either own a business or even be an employee...because she would have to do all of these things. But here, if you don't want to work with someone, you don't have to.
We met and I got my materials back, and I told Bill. He said that she sounded like she was a lunitic.
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