From the Desk of Bert McClure
Date – “A Moment in time”
Hello Friend!
My name is Bert McClure
I’m the Author & Creator of
www.BertMcClure.com
The reason why I have created this informative site is simple. It’s to help you relate to me, my past, and current status so as to inspire you and make you realize most dreams are possible to achieve.
I have always been tired of seeing people unhappy with their current lives thinking “is this as good as it gets?” This is usually the result of limited thinking which had previously “brainwashed” my mind and I didn’t even know it. So in telling you my story and what I have gone through, I hope that you will become inspired and believe that you can live out your dreams, no matter what they may be.
You See, If A 38 Year-Old Former “Burned-Out” Insurance Broker ,Who Knew Nothing About Business On The Internet Could Change Gears & Became A Top Rising Money Earner On The Web, SO CAN YOU!
~~~ In The Beginning ~~~
So let’s go back a few years so you know where I’m coming from.
I was raised in a military family with siblings and moved around almost every year growing up. I was accustomed to sharing, change, discipline, and adapting. As a kid I never had a real at “job” at McDonald’s or the local grocery store because I couldn’t stand more authoritarianism in my life. So I rustled up about 6-10 lawn jobs a week to put money in my pocket on “my terms”. Once I grew out of the lawn service business and enduring the 110 degree days in Phoenix, AZ, I took on more conventional jobs were I actually worked for someone. So I have done my own thing and worked for someone else at an early age.
I was pretty big into playing sports starting at 6-7 years old. My dad had me in either a little league baseball team, a soccer team, tennis, racquetball, swimming, or golf team to keep me active and away from the Atari 2600 video game. Boy could I “kill it” on Asteroids and Space Invaders though.
One of my favorite “fun things” to do since I was very young was going camping. Not camping out of an R.V., but carrying everything on your back and going into the mountains for a few days. Now that’s camping! My entire family loved the outdoors and I was fortunate enough to experience Yellow Stone National Park, Yosemite, the Superstition Mountains and many more. “Roughing it” was a challenge that I thrived on that helped me build character.
So completing college and moving on into the real world proceeded, however, I still felt that being an entrepreneur was the “only way” for me long term. I can’t stand trading my time for dollars, working for people I don’t like and getting paid less than what I am worth with no end in site. I always hated begging for time off, crossing my fingers that I get, when most times I didn’t.
I couldn’t stand hearing the “electric heart shocker”(alarm clock) shock me into consciousness to get me to go somewhere I didn’t want to go and give my time too. Have you ever noticed how tired and unmotivated you can be when your going to a job you can’t stand?
Moving on....
In 1997 I began an 11 year insurance sales career that taught me a lot about the conventional sales world. I used old school prospecting methods(cold calls, buying direct mail leads,calling lists) to find clients ready to buy my insurance products. I then had to chase them until they either bought from me or told me to go to drop dead. I was either making 100 phone calls a day, or on a “face to face” appointment across town on most evenings and weekends.
Sounds like fun huh?
I was fortunate enough to consistently make over 100K a year doing it this way. But I gotta tell ya, after 11 years of doing it that way, it didn’t matter how much money I was making because I was burned out and needed to make a change. I had zero “time money freedom” and had to give up too much of my life to grit out that income.
The Problem…
Don’t get me wrong, I do believe in a good education. Unfortunately, your average college education teaches very little about running a profitable business. The standard education system teaches you to have a great resume to be employable. Therein lies the problem. As long as you are an employee, you are trading “time for dollars” and have a ceiling on your income level. You cannot use LEVERAGE when you work for someone. The great Robert Kiyosaki explains that people who have true wealth are not employees, but are investors and business owners utilizing the power of LEVERAGE.
Case in point: Even though I have a bachelor’s degree, and have had a few regular jobs before my insurance career, all those experiences never prepared me to build my own business AT ALL.
The second part of the problem is the amount of bad information & biased uneducated opinions of people that really know nothing about this industry. It never made sense to me how my broke uncle kept telling me I was in one of those “pyramid” schemes while he lived paycheck to paycheck with no retirement.
Yes I started my network marketing career in an MLM pitching nutritional products. Although I still believe in the value of nutritional products don’t ever believe the saying that “great products sell themselves” because it is a lie.
I did everything my up line told me to do:
- -made my warm list of 100 people
- -passed out business cards
- -dragged people to my home meetings
- -did “one on one” presentations
- -called random business “cold” out of the phone book
- -lost a few friends in the process
I had a small amount of success, but no one in my team would duplicate that so my attrition rate was too much to bare. I wasn’t until I discovered simple duplicable system that anyone could follow, that I started having real success.
Finally, most of the business skills being taught today is outdated & worthless!!!!!!!!!!! I’m here to tell you from experience that passing out business cards and putting up fliers DOES NOT WORK.
The Solution…
These are the rules I followed to go from networking mediocrity to rising top money earner in just a few months. I consider these things absolutely essential, meaning if you don’t follow them all, you will ultimately fail…..
1. I made the decision to never quit. I can’t overstate this enough, but making a solid commitment to change your situation no matter what challenges you face is key. You must think like and entrepreneur and not an employee. You will definably be tested, I can assure you.
2. I searched for other top earners who were getting the results I wanted. I learned that they were building there business empires a completely different way than 97% of everyone else who was failing. So I duplicated what they were doing. Wow was this an eye opener!
3. Once I figured out how other top earners were making the “Big Bucks” I did one thing and I did a lot of it, I took MASSIVE ACTION EVERYDAY. This is where most people fall short. Picture a train just starting to move from a dead stop. It takes a lot of energy just to get it to start moving down the tracks. But as the train gains momentum, it doesn’t take as much energy to keep it moving. Your business will act the same way.
Your probably wondering why I am so passionate for other people to succeed? Well, it’s pretty simple, I get a huge “positive-kick” when someone who has failed before, finally makes a profit and calls me overjoyed with excitement. I also hate to see people fail, because I have and I know how how frustrating it is.
Who I'd like to meet...
I want to meet people that want success and abundance in life and think like WINNERS.
I tend to stay away from people that complain about their situation and do nothing about it, play the “victim” role, and try to bring others down to their level so they can justify their failures.
So…
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If you meet all of these requirements then I know you are the type of person who will actually *apply* these things and put them to practice. If you do this you will reach the ranks of the top earners, it’s just a matter of time!
Your friend on “the inside“
Bert McClure, LLC
