My name is Troy Allen and I am a former
Marine Mustang. I enlisted in the Marine Corps on my 17th birthday after
graduating High School, because I wanted to fly fighter jets for the Corps. I had no money for college, and you must have a
degree to get a Commission in the Marines to qualify to be a pilot. I was quickly promoted to Corporal, and as a Non-Commissioned
Officer I qualified for the various commissioning programs offered by the Corps. During the first
Gulf War,
I was one of the elite few selected for the highly competitive Marine Enlisted Commissioning Education Program (MECEP).
I went to the University of Washington to earn my degree in Human Centered Design & Engineering, and then earned my
Full
Commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps.
I was leading my class at The Basic School (TBS) for Officers in Quantico, VA, and I had been selected for
Flight
School. Everything I had been working for 8 years was finally coming together. Then the wheels started to fall off:
During a routine physical for flight school, it was discovered that I had Reactive Hypoglycemia. Although this is usually a
minor medical issue that can be controlled with diet and exercise, it meant there was no way I could fly for the Corps.
I was devastated.
The Navy doctors initially said I could still serve the Marines as an officer, so because of my technology degree, they made me a
Computer and Communications Officer in Quantico. But within a few months, it was clear that my minor medical condition was not
compatible with even the everyday rigors of Marine Corps life. After over a decade of faithful service, I was given an
Honorable Discharge from the Marines for medical reasons. I was married with two young children, and had
no idea what I was going to do for a career now that my service was over.
Being a Marine, I of course did not spend very long pondering my future. I charged out into the world ready to make my fortunes.
It was the late 90s, and the Internet was just beginning to explode. I had seen the actual birth of the Internet while in college
in the early 90s, and knew the incredible potential it had to completely change how business was done. I very rapidly ascended to the
Senior IT Executive level at an Internet-based company, and my income was already twice what I had been making as a Marine Officer.
I was then hired to be the
Chief Technology Officer of a start-up
Network Marketing Company, with
a starting salary of
$150K per year! I was blown away by how quickly I had achieved a Six-Figure income, and it
seemed like it would just keep climbing.
I spent five very good years as the CTO of that MLM company, and helped grow it from $0 to over
$50 Million in
revenues. I learned firsthand, from the
MLM COMPANY INSIDER'S viewpoint, the extreme power of the direct sales model.
But I also learned that the power benefited primarily the company itself, and a very small percentage of the total number of Independent
Representatives of the company. Only the true Super Stars ever really made it big, and most of those got involved very early in the
life of the company. I knew I had the skills, knowledge, and
PERSONALITY to succeed at any MLM opportunity I joined.
But I also knew in my heart that I could not duplicate myself and those qualities to everyone on my team, and my integrity prevented
me from telling people that I could. So I decided to leave network marketing behind and continue my career at the top echelons in
Information Technology.
Because of my history in MLM, and the large network of marketers that knew me as a successful hard-charger, I received offers to join a
new MLM company at least weekly. There were some interesting companies, and even some interesting products.
But I turned down
every single MLM opportunity for two main reasons:
- I was making multiple six-figures per year in salary, so I was NOT
ABOUT to pester my warm market with sales pitches for long distance
service, the latest diet pill, or membership to
a "travel club" (and I was certainly not going to try to
sell them Berry Juice dressed up to look like a bottle of Wine).
- None of the
companies were using the Internet or technology to create a truly
measurable, repeatable system that would work for ANYONE, regardless
of his or her skills, knowledge, or personality.
Frankly, I was starting to get really
frustrated by the lack of anything truly exciting in the Internet Business arena.
Sure, I was making great money at my job, but at the end of the day it was just that:
A Job. I was simply
trading my hours for dollars, and I had already reached the top position in my field. The only way I could increase my pay was to
move to bigger and bigger companies, and take a few steps back each time. I knew there was a way for me to build an Internet business
that would allow me to
create multiple streams of income, replace the income from my job, and stop trading my time for pay.
I just had to keep searching until I found it.
Then I started hearing about a
former Muffler Salesman who had made
more than my annual salary in a single
month after only 10 months, and over half of a million dollars in his first year in the business! His name was
Jay Kubassek, and he had set for
himself a mission of creating
100 Millionaires by 2012 by teaching people how to do exactly what he had done. After
learning the details about what his company was offering, I knew I had finally found the right opportunity. What made this business different
from all the others?
