Wednesday, January 23, 2008
EcoQuest International Happy Trails
EcoQuest Air Purifier Dealer Dan Graham leads his wagon train to success
What if you lived 150 years ago, and you heard there was gold in California? Not only that, but that the government was giving land to anyone who would homestead it? Would you set off for parts unknown alone, or would you hire the best wagon master you could find?
Dan Graham, Master Manager from Winchester, Kentucky, asks these questions of all his new recruits.
“Chances are the first thing you’d do is find a wagon master who’d been there before,” he says. Imagine that wealth and prosperity is California, the wagon train is EcoQuest, and your upline is the wagon master. “I can relate everything about this business to that wagon train,” Dan says.
“We can show you how to get to California. We can show you where the shallow places are, where you can cross the river without drowning. We can show you where the cliffs are so you won’t fall off and break your neck. When the wheel falls off your wagon—which we know they will—we’ll be there to help you get it back on.”
In other words, follow the proven formula. “EcoQuest wants you to succeed, and will do everything possible to help you,” he says. “We have some of the finest leadership in the world,” so let them guide you.
“The wagon train will be a little bumpy at first because, after all, you’re used to living in the city where it’s all nice and smooth. You’ll be going down a trail that’s unfamiliar to you. There will be some ruts, but we’ll be there to help you. You can be going up a mountain thinking you’ll never get to the next level, and we’ll be there with a helping hand to help you get there.”
For instance, a common pitfall for new Business Owners is that they don’t treat their business like a business, Dan says. “I teach my downline that this is a real business. It needs real business activities to make it happen.”
Reach out, advertise, expose your business to others. Keep track of income and outgo. Have a totally separate business account. “Many people get into this just thinking they can make $270 on a machine. Then they turn around and spend the money rather than using it to promote their business.”
If you don’t know how to promote a business, study. Ask your upline. Get all the training you can. You are running a business now.
“If you are good at following the wagon master, you won’t have any problem getting to California.”
Dan has plenty of business experience. He raised registered Lhasa Apso, Maltese, Yorkshire Terrier, and Shih Tzu dog breeds. At one point, he owned 60 dogs. He learned to groom them himself, and later opened a grooming shop, which he ran for nine years.
Health problems related to lifting heavy dogs forced him out of that business. After two surgeries and a probable third, “my doctor told me to find something else,” he says. His son introduced him to EcoQuest in 1999. Dan turned to Dan and Debbie Gibson as his own wagon masters.
He loves dogs as much as he loves helping people. While much is heard about the benefits of Fresh Air for people, Dan is quick to say that the same technology helps animals.
“There are a lot of concerns about dog diseases like kennel cough, parvovirus, and coronavirus,” he says. “It’s a big plus to take your animals to a shop where Fresh Air is installed. One of my first business testimonies was a lady whose dog had severe allergies. It had sores the size of a softball. It had weepy eyes and running ears. In three weeks when he came back in to be groomed, I didn’t recognize him. All the sores had cleared up but one. The eyes and the ears were cleared up. She said the dog was jumping around like a puppy. She had a bad case of mold in her house. As it turns out, the dog was allergic to mold.”
Dan primarily uses direct mail in his business. A mailing house in Lexington sends out his business testimonial letters in bulk. The return on those letters is the national average of 1-2 percent.
“A lot of my people run newspaper ads and use Internet leads as well as face-to-face retailing and recruiting,” he says. “I’ve done it all except for radio and television. I’ve always felt that if I was going to be a teacher, I’d have to try everything myself and offer feedback to my people.”
Dan and his wife, Margaret, have come a long way. Margaret is a special education teacher. They married at about the same time Dan joined EcoQuest, a second marriage for both. Between them, they had eight children and one and a half bathrooms. To say there was a line at the bathroom door, is an “understatement,” Dan says. Within eight months of working his EcoQuest business, Dan and Margaret bought a new house, “and we now have 4,000 square feet and five baths,” says Dan.
And while the bonus car program didn’t attract him to the company initially, “it sure was nice to walk onto a Mercedes lot, pick the car I wanted, and drive it home that day.”
Dan has won four bonus cars. He and Margaret have traveled extensively with the President’s Club, and do things for their family, church, and charities that they once only dreamed of.
“We took our entire family on a cruise to Nassau and the Keys this year,” he says. “Because of EcoQuest, I was able to pay for the entire thing. My grandkids loved it. I couldn’t have done that on a groomer’s salary.”
EcoQuest is a viable and important opportunity, he says. “People are realizing they can’t depend on corporate America any more. They are doing more and more to secure their future.”
EcoQuest offers that security, he says.
“And when you get to California, you’ll say, ‘what a journey. I’m so glad we decided to come.’”
What if you lived 150 years ago, and you heard there was gold in California? Not only that, but that the government was giving land to anyone who would homestead it? Would you set off for parts unknown alone, or would you hire the best wagon master you could find?
Dan Graham, Master Manager from Winchester, Kentucky, asks these questions of all his new recruits.
“Chances are the first thing you’d do is find a wagon master who’d been there before,” he says. Imagine that wealth and prosperity is California, the wagon train is EcoQuest, and your upline is the wagon master. “I can relate everything about this business to that wagon train,” Dan says.
“We can show you how to get to California. We can show you where the shallow places are, where you can cross the river without drowning. We can show you where the cliffs are so you won’t fall off and break your neck. When the wheel falls off your wagon—which we know they will—we’ll be there to help you get it back on.”
In other words, follow the proven formula. “EcoQuest wants you to succeed, and will do everything possible to help you,” he says. “We have some of the finest leadership in the world,” so let them guide you.
“The wagon train will be a little bumpy at first because, after all, you’re used to living in the city where it’s all nice and smooth. You’ll be going down a trail that’s unfamiliar to you. There will be some ruts, but we’ll be there to help you. You can be going up a mountain thinking you’ll never get to the next level, and we’ll be there with a helping hand to help you get there.”
For instance, a common pitfall for new Business Owners is that they don’t treat their business like a business, Dan says. “I teach my downline that this is a real business. It needs real business activities to make it happen.”
Reach out, advertise, expose your business to others. Keep track of income and outgo. Have a totally separate business account. “Many people get into this just thinking they can make $270 on a machine. Then they turn around and spend the money rather than using it to promote their business.”
If you don’t know how to promote a business, study. Ask your upline. Get all the training you can. You are running a business now.
“If you are good at following the wagon master, you won’t have any problem getting to California.”
Dan has plenty of business experience. He raised registered Lhasa Apso, Maltese, Yorkshire Terrier, and Shih Tzu dog breeds. At one point, he owned 60 dogs. He learned to groom them himself, and later opened a grooming shop, which he ran for nine years.
Health problems related to lifting heavy dogs forced him out of that business. After two surgeries and a probable third, “my doctor told me to find something else,” he says. His son introduced him to EcoQuest in 1999. Dan turned to Dan and Debbie Gibson as his own wagon masters.
He loves dogs as much as he loves helping people. While much is heard about the benefits of Fresh Air for people, Dan is quick to say that the same technology helps animals.
“There are a lot of concerns about dog diseases like kennel cough, parvovirus, and coronavirus,” he says. “It’s a big plus to take your animals to a shop where Fresh Air is installed. One of my first business testimonies was a lady whose dog had severe allergies. It had sores the size of a softball. It had weepy eyes and running ears. In three weeks when he came back in to be groomed, I didn’t recognize him. All the sores had cleared up but one. The eyes and the ears were cleared up. She said the dog was jumping around like a puppy. She had a bad case of mold in her house. As it turns out, the dog was allergic to mold.”
Dan primarily uses direct mail in his business. A mailing house in Lexington sends out his business testimonial letters in bulk. The return on those letters is the national average of 1-2 percent.
“A lot of my people run newspaper ads and use Internet leads as well as face-to-face retailing and recruiting,” he says. “I’ve done it all except for radio and television. I’ve always felt that if I was going to be a teacher, I’d have to try everything myself and offer feedback to my people.”
Dan and his wife, Margaret, have come a long way. Margaret is a special education teacher. They married at about the same time Dan joined EcoQuest, a second marriage for both. Between them, they had eight children and one and a half bathrooms. To say there was a line at the bathroom door, is an “understatement,” Dan says. Within eight months of working his EcoQuest business, Dan and Margaret bought a new house, “and we now have 4,000 square feet and five baths,” says Dan.
And while the bonus car program didn’t attract him to the company initially, “it sure was nice to walk onto a Mercedes lot, pick the car I wanted, and drive it home that day.”
Dan has won four bonus cars. He and Margaret have traveled extensively with the President’s Club, and do things for their family, church, and charities that they once only dreamed of.
“We took our entire family on a cruise to Nassau and the Keys this year,” he says. “Because of EcoQuest, I was able to pay for the entire thing. My grandkids loved it. I couldn’t have done that on a groomer’s salary.”
EcoQuest is a viable and important opportunity, he says. “People are realizing they can’t depend on corporate America any more. They are doing more and more to secure their future.”
EcoQuest offers that security, he says.
“And when you get to California, you’ll say, ‘what a journey. I’m so glad we decided to come.’”
# posted by John E. Quest @ 6:44 PM 
