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Let me provide a little background about myself. Hopefully this will you relate to me and where I am coming from. If I was to go all the back this would not be a little background but a lot so let me jump ahead. 1992 will be our jumping off point. I had been in sales for awhile and a friend of mine worked at Motorola. He was able to get me an interview with someone and the long and short of it before long I was in the communications industry. It was not long after that they shut down their national sales force so I went to work for a couple of different dealers and was very successful at it. In 1996 a friend and I decided to start our own company selling communication equipment and it was about this same time that Nextel was launching in California.
So being the smart business guys we are we became authorized dealers and did very well so well actually that it was decided we would open up a new office in Austin, TX. Considering it was me that had moved from Austin it was me who moved back to setup shop, hired outside sales people and went to work. Again we found ourselves doing very well with the location still in California and now one in Austin.
Around the year 2000 we opened up a brick and mortar retail store in Austin and our business was called Wireless Innovations. We were selling every major carrier, accessories and actually had one of the first Bluetooth speakers in North America. It was around 2001 that customers started asking about being able to use their phones when they were traveling out of the country. Did my research and found that this was a great niche because no one in Austin was doing it and the carriers were charging outrageously for people who had a GSM phone and used it overseas. That is how the name Globile Wireless came about. Truthfully I wanted Global Wireless but it was not available so trying to think out side the box I went with the spelling used today for this blog. We started renting international phones on a regular basis, worked with some travel agencies and things were starting to roll. Well at that point as we are about to expand 9/11 happened and travel pretty much stopped as you may well remember. Things just became difficult, carriers started cutting commissions, free phones became the rage etc .
Let me skip ahead to 2004 which is the year I decided to get out of the wireless industry all together. I Took some time off and decided on a somewhat different career path in the Corp. world with one of the largest computer companies in the world and discovered pretty quickly it was not my cup of tea as they say. Was doing again well but only stayed there for a little over two years and left and basically have been doing a lot of different things since then.
Obviously we could go on and on but hopefully that gives you a feel for what I am about. I am an entrepreneur and always looking for the next trend.Things are constantly changing around us and we need to realize that some of those changes spell opportunity. We need to know what is and will be changing to be ahead of the transition. One sure way to great wealth is to put yourself in front of a powerful, emerging shift. Most people want change in their lives but the question is are you willing and ready to do something different? You cannot continue to do today what you did yesterday if you want to have different results. Having spent years in sales and the communication industry I am aware of the changes there. You no longer have an analog cell phone, in 09 you will not have analog TV signal and at some point you will not have analog landlines either. That is why today I am involved with a company that is on the leading edge with a cutting edge technology that has to do with VoIP. You have to be willing to change and adapt.
Some people are afraid to start something new because they may fail, well here are my thoughts on that.There is a difference in quitting and failing. Quitting is a lot of things but giving up before you start is one them, could go on and elaborate on that but wonʼt. Failure only comes from trying and no one can fault someone for trying. It is the quitter who is at fault not the person that tried but did not get there. It is the quitter that has a hard time starting something new because they have a history of quitting.
The person who starts and fails has no problem getting up and going again knowing eventually they will win. Just because you may have failed in the past does not mean you are a failure it simply means you tried. You need to make that distinction between failing and being a failure. I don’t believe in hype but help, don’t believe in recruiting but do believe in sponsoring. If you happen to be interested in more information contact me.
