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Hi! This is Alun Maxwell, of www.MLM-Prospecting-Online.com. I look forward to enjoying being part of this amazing community's abundance. I wasn't always so community-minded though. My background - and I'll come clean - was as a voice on the end of the telephone breaking his 'you know whats' to try to sell you some advertising!

Yes, I spent my thirties and most of my twenties trying to get people to do what I wanted them to do. Guess what I discovered. People prefer to do what THEY want to do. Darn it! I worked in a hard-nosed telesales environment for fourteen years - mostly on 'commission only'. Yes, that's right - chicken one week, feathers the next.

At the same time I was trying to build an mlm business - using the techniques taught to me on the telesales office. You can imagine how well that went down with folks. People would cross the street to avoid me, and these were members of my own family.

When I finally realised that neither of these pursuits were making me happy, I jacked it all in and - spotting a gap in the market! - went to Drama School. I figured an actor's life would be more secure and at least people would stay in the same room at parties when I told them what I did.

I put my mlm aspirations on ice too. My 'warm market' had become colder than my 'cold market' and I'd not yet heard of the amazing ways you could use the internet to build an mlm business......


But this didn't exist in the 1990s! So I fell out of love with mlm, and concentrated on how to become an actor - one that occasionally got paid.

What I then realised is that for every ten actors, nine are out of work. Within a month of leaving Drama School, I was back selling on the phone again - although with slightly exalted office 'cred' as someone who might one day hold a spear behind someone famous.

It's interesting. I must have worked with over 100 different types of organisation and the issues facing staff are 95% identical - dealing with other people effectively. In fact if I had to sum up what makes the most effective people in the workplace (and I would suggest in life generally) it's the ability to 'meet' others at their point of need.

I have been working freelance as a Corporate Roleplayer (which I truly love) since February 2002, and have 'put my phone in the ground. I can't use it any more', as Bob Dylan once sang.

Even better, the internet is delivering the mlm promise in a way that the old methods never could, and the future has never been rosier - whatever the news broadcasts may say. The more the world's economy nosedives, the more that ambitious and entrepreneurial people will find ways to protect themselves and build lifestyle and security for their families.

I salute all those people and trust I shall always remain one of that forward-thinking group. I hope that www.MLM-Prospecting-Online.com will continue to be a helpful, friendly and inspiring resource for folks around the world who need some practical help to escape the effects of the World recession!

I love to meet new people of all interests and backgrounds. As a Corporate roleplayer I get to meet people from just about any business you could name, and I never tire of learning what other people do for a living.

Now the internet has made obsolete all those dog-eared methods of building an mlm business, I am always interested in hearing people's 'war stories' from the bad old days of MLM!

Most of all I like people who are positive, life-loving and see the lighter side whenever possible. I particularly respect people who'll go the 'extra mile' to help others. After all, if we're too big to do something small, we're too small to do something big.

HEY! Follow me on Twitter and I will most certainly follow you!..............

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