Green With Opportunity

A man walks into a typical commercial office building and looks around. He sees a receptionist at the desk who asks him to sign in before getting on the elevator.

He looks around and sees the normal hustle bustle of the typical business day that it is. He sees people standing around probably on a break just chatting. He sees a man with a mop cleaning the floor. He looks around and sees a water fountain spewing a relaxing trickle of water surround by a nice plant arrangement. Nothing out of the ordinary . . .

He carries on with his appointment in the building and on the way about an hour later looks closer at the vegetation surrounding the fountain and realizes that some of the plants don't look as health as they could. He thinks to himself "Hmm almost a perfect arrangement."

He walks out the door, but stops mid steps and heads back in, being the plant lover that he is, and decides to ask the receptionist at the desk who was taking care of the plants in the building.

She didn't know, but feeling conviction to his curiosity he decides to investigate further.

Finding his way to the management office he asks the building manager the same question he had asked the
receptionist, she said I think the maintenance people take care of that, but I'm not sure.

He asks her further . . .

"Do you have office plant specialist to ensure the proper care of your onsite plants?"

She replies no and that she didn't even know that such a position existed.

He replies that he's actually quite fond of plants and has been so for some time. He makes a few suggestions about how the vegetation arrangement can be approved.

The office manager is floored.

30 minutes later he walks out as the office plant specialist. He's paid $120 a month to take care of all lobby plants.

Fast forward a year and he now has 22 contracts with several office buildings of the same type as wells as 61 smaller contracts he's picked up from the actual professional offices within those buildings.

He loves it. He walks in to each office he has a contract with and spends about 5 minutes taking care of the plants for each account and then finds his way back to doing the same thing on either a biweekly or monthly basis depending on the type of vegetation in the account.

He looks at his financial statement and realizes that he's making a huge sum of money in his eyes, that is over
$112,000 year, just doing what he loves on his own time, and it all started with a little curiosity and the intention to help.

Everyday people walk by those plants and it wasn't until the day that he walked in the door and noticed room for improvement that anyone even took notice of improving the care of those plants.

He does his work with pride and get's paid well for it.

And at the end of the he always seems to ask himself "Why am I the only one doing this? Don't others notice that there are plants in office building that need tending to?"

He shrugs the question off and carries on living the life of his dreams.

Do you now see that there is opportunity everywhere, all it takes is a little curiosity, a keen eye, and a passion to help to see it.

Are there little things that could be done better in your business? That's your cue!

When I saw the opportunity for network marketing on the internet and how little real training on how to actually do it the right way I found my place.

Not by writing a book about it, but rather seeing the value in the opportunity to explore the possibilities. Then
testing them, validating them, and finally teaching them to others.

And now sharing those experiences with you so that you can benefit from the road I've walked. It's your turn for success in your network marketing business as long as you can see it.

This article was originally borrowed from a email newsletter by Daegan Smith