About Shaun
Name: Shaun Hailes
Birthday: June 2, 1969
College: TAFE SA
Major: Network Engineering
Favorite Colour: Blue
Favorite Food: Korean
Favorite Movie: Mad Max 2
Favourite Quote: Lay down with dogs, you get fleas
Interests: Music, Fitness, Internet Marketing, Taekwondo, Pilates, Surfing, Travelling
Surfing
My twenties were spent travelling, working as a traveller and surfing. I suppose my life changed direction the day I learned I was going to be a dad.
Suddenly I discovered I needed stability and money to survive in the real world. Damn… but I just wanted to surf!!
My ‘Stroke Of Genius’ Number One…I decided to do Taxi driving.
“I know”, I thought, “I’ll drive people around for 12 hours at a time and keep only 50% of the crumbs thrown my way in the form of fares. I’ll drive during the night shift, finishing at 6am or I’ll drive during the days and start at 4 am. I’ll be too tired to spend decent time with my family, which now also includes child number two, but I’ll keep driving around in circles literally and metaphorically until I finally realise …this is shit !!!!!”
Unbelievably I did this for a couple of years until finally I had…
My ‘Stroke of Genius’ Number Two….I decided to get into Info Tech.
While driving around drunks, prostitutes, the elderly, the young, office workers, party go-ers, the self employed, the poor and the upper class turds who refer to you as ‘driver’, I asked questions such as… “So, what do you do?”.
Just as an aside, I could write a book on the conversations I had. People often use taxi rides as their own mobile confessional. Anyway…no vocation stood out to me until one guy, with a body covered in piercings and tats said “I’m in I.T”….. “Excellent!” I thought, “That’s the job for me”.
Enter study…
I majored in IT (Network Engineering) with two children, a cat, two crap cars and no money (Austudy and a Student Loan). Brooke was studying at the same time so between us we didn’t have a bean.
Years of financial struggle and long hours in front of the computer finally paid off. I completed my Network Engineering major and thought, “Right, where’s my job?”
Well, it turns out it had been taken by the multitude of other students who had also just completed their studies and who also thought, “Right, where’s my job?”
After 3 months of being completely ignored I finally got employed… Excellent!
…Working for an American company…
…supporting America and Canada…
…during their busines hours, ie: the night shift!!!…
…Total Arse !!
Again I was finishing at 6am and again I was too tired to spend decent time with the kids.
Enter Property…
Brooke and I read a book or several about property investing and wealth creation, Kiyosaki etc, and so we decided to invest. We purchased a house in the lowest socio-economic suburb in Australia! We are geniuses!!
Even after two renovations (needed due to the high standard of living adhered to by our quality tenants), five murders in the street, plus the neighbours in the street destroying our property, robbing us whilst we were there renovating and breaking every window on our house…we persevered. We scraped yet more excrement from the floors, we filled yet more skips with the squalid contents of a yard knee deep in rubbish and we successfully renovated for a third time. You can still see the crap stain under the varnish but no one will ever know… it’s just part of the “character” and “charm” of the polished floorboards.
The brilliant part is that we still made money! From the growing capital, we managed to buy a Land Rover, a car we both wanted and loved and pay for our kid’s private school fees.
Our next investment purchase was an apartment block. This block of flats provides us with great rental income and grew in value faster than most people could ever earn in a year. This gave us a taste for residual income.
Enter the greatest business opportunity the world has ever seen… MLM…
Yes we “drew a line in the sand” – it was all gonna happen
…we went to the training,
…sat in on the training calls and attended all the major events!
…and we were poised to “take our business to the next level”.
The only problem, was that everyone we hounded or invited to a “home meeting” or met in some pub or hotel wasn’t at all interested. They didn’t seem to share our enthusiasm or recognize it as the greatest business opportunity the world has ever seen. In fact they thought we were “scamming” them with our “pyramid scheme”. I find this amusing because it either means that they thought I was dodgy, or that I thought they were dodgy.
Either way we eventually found customers who bought. We eventually signed reps who joined. And we eventually got people who avoided us at parties because of that “pyramid-scheme” we were involved in. But we weren’t completely deterred. We knew we had found a legitimate and really smart business. We just had to tweak our business building strategies.
The reality is I don’t want to harass the girl at the checkout, or the plumber, or the carpet cleaner, or the girl from the telemarketing company who’s ringing me to sell me something. I don’t want to invite people, who have no business being in business, to a meeting to discuss them joining my business.
I don’t want to make a list of everyone I know who’s heart is still beating, whom I haven’t seen or spoken with in 20 years and ask them to come to my home so I can invite them to join my MLM simply because I didn’t know a better way.
There had to be a better way…
…There is a better way
…I found it.
Enter Internet Marketing
Today people are contacting me …
Today people are asking me if they can join my business…
I no longer chase, I no longer harass, I no longer “ride the emotional rollercoaster” doing crappy things I don’t enjoy.
Today life is easy and enjoyable.
Today we have our third and our fourth child welcomed to the family…and I spend quality time with all of them.
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Regards,
Shaun
Very interesting article, glad i found you by mistake