“I have always been a positive thinking individual, a big dreamer and a planner. However, after being around Mark Victor Hansen and reading the One Minute Millionaire it was like obtaining permission and rocket fuel to REALLY think big and outside of the Box. I never had given much thought to really establishing several Multiple Streams of Income. Also, because of Bob Allen’s' mantra of "Each of you has a book inside you!!" I wrote the complete outline for 2 books and have created titles for 13 others! The books will ultimately be the tools for my speaking career in addition to my other endeavors in business. ”--Louis V - Total Gain: $13,332,628
“In the middle 1980’s, after graduating from USC I became a stockbroker. I was quite successful but got very burned out and tired of the drag. I was a sales manager of a boutique municipal bond firm in Beverly Hills. I invested money into real estate and a half ownership of a real estate brokerage. I also started a med-legal marketing services company and did quite well. In the early 1990’s I had a meltdown in business, and encountered many legal woes and problems. I received a visit from the SEC and as a result I lost it all: home, business, savings, and investments. In early 1998 with no money, bank credit, and with a terrible/ruined credit, I deployed my marketing idea for a healthcare reimbursement company. The marketing & business plan was good that my then employer decided to be involved on a limited basis. In late 1998, I went out on my own and rented a small cubicle as an office and that was the beginning of what became a successful enterprise that collected money from state programs for hospitals and doctors!!! ”--Louis V - Total Gain: $13,332,628
“In 1996 I was pretty much broke. I had made a million in real estate. I had made a million as a securities stock broker-dealer and was living pretty good. In the early 90s I had investment properties (houses and a multi-units). I had a business that grossed into the mid six figures, then it all came crashing down. Foreclosures, lost business, lost my home, no money, bad credit, problems, problems. I spent a 4 year hiatus with nothing. I went to work for a friend in late 1996 making $1,200 per month. I did that for almost two years out of gratitude and while I planned my plan and then in 1998 I executed the plan with the financial backing of my friend. Looking back GOD got me through it all. He gave me patience, strength and, above all, HOPE and RESILIENCE. In 2001, I came across books by Mark and Bob. They added new insight and my plan was refined. Thanks, thanks, thanks.”--Louis V - Total Gain: $13,332,628
“Thank you Mark & Bob for throwing gasoline into the fire!!! Your continued persistence in diversifying and having multiple streams of income has been a great lesson and, once placed into practice, a wonderful catalyst to more amazing success. I am now a co-founder of Strategic Marketing & Media Corporation [SMM], the fastest growing immediate response advertising agency & ethnic marketing firm in the USA. Revenues for 2007 year end are projected to be between $16-20 million. We are at a fiscal year end pace of $7.5 million in our very first year. Though not a novice to sales and marketing, your input has been helpful and an added boost of ideas. SMM will be launching some Business Coaching & Marketing products as a result of tutelage I have received through the EMI/EWI program. Projections are that this will add an additional $500,000.00 to the bottom line. Lastly, a book on immediate response marketing will be due in 2007 that will further position me and SMM as the experts in sales and marketing to the general and Hispanic market place. ”--Louis V - Total Gain: $13,332,628
““It was only a few years ago that I was going on my tenth year in a row of making thirty to forty thousand a year. When my wife became pregnant we decided that we wanted her to be able to stay home to raise our child. I had nine months to figure out how to double my income. I became a sponge for learning. I took in books and audio seminars from Mark and Bob and others, spending two to four hours per day learning. “Today, I own several investment properties I purchased with none of my own cash, a multi-million dollar distribution company for GameTech International, I’m helping pioneer interactive entertainment in movie theaters with TimePlay, my partner, John Rose and I are launching a series of small casinos in the Caribbean, we’re taking that company public, and I’ll be releasing a book in the fall. My son’s toy room is bigger than the apartment we used to live in, and we’ve been able to give thousands to causes we believe in. I have to thank Mark and Bob for sharing their ideas freely.””--Mark D & John R - Total Gain: $11,634,500