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Ex-CONservative, History on a sleeve.

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:41:25 +0000

I was 35 years old, selling memberships at International Fitness Centers in Tucson Arizona. Having been challenged in my earlier years of finding myself it was this three years that allowed me to discover the business world and evolve into what I believe of myself as a top flight journeyman marketer.
My mother did all she could to raise three boys on her own, while holding down three jobs. Her example is what drives me today. I certainly did not want to work as hard as she did. I was determined to find my way, but never quite knowing what way that was.
With no guidance, my Mother did not make it through high school. So, in her eyes, it was great of me simply to graduate and earn that diploma my mother was proud, indeed.
At age 17, I enlisted in the Army in 1968, and found myself in Vietnam by age 18. It was my first look at the outside world. The trouble 1960′s notwithstanding, I found myself lost and bewildered.
One day I found myself at the health club, working. I would always say I had great communication skills – I could always sell, never knowing really just the talent I had- creativity and a niche for marketing. Selling was something I could finally sink my teeth into and it was not really work ! (My definition of “work” is when you prefer to be doing something else.) I don’t work; I make money at what I have fun doing. There are responsibilities that may define it as work in the general sense, but that is a small price to pay for “no one owes us a living.” This is what my mother really drove home to myself and my brothers.
I found creative ways in which to market the health club. Distributing a neighborhood flyer to businesses near the health club, and they would in turn participate by giving me their flyers. It was a simple concept and one that involved “cross marketing.” I simply found neighboring businesses that like me were tired of getting pitched to by advertising people so we created our own flyer with all ten of us equally sharing the total cost, divided by ten, the distribution, divided by ten, etc. I put it all together. Though I didn’t know it at the time, I was getting into the publishing business.
One day, when what I was doing wasn’t working I decided to go to Tucson’s largest employer and see if they had something I could print at no cost to them and something that would contain advertising. I discovered they had a newsletter…well, that is how it really all BEGAN.
I kept this brochure flyer going every week for 9 months while still working at the health club. It was time for me to make a decision, based on the fact that I could no longer do both, so I went to Hughes Aircraft .I had to take a chance. I went from a 35k stable position to I don’t know if I can pay my rent or car payment unless I MAKE it happen on my own. I remembered how hard my mother worked for little reward. I decided to go for it, and quit the fitness club.
Now I was working out of my house, and taking care of my mother. I made phone calls and sold advertising. I was still working with an outside printer. I quickly became frustrated, having to use them for my design and printing; always wondering over the first 9 months, wouldn’t it be great if I could do my own printing. What I didn’t know at the time was that day was not too far away.
One day, I saw an ad in the paper for printing equipment that was for sale. Not having any money, something nevertheless told me to go see this equipment. It was old. Worse, I had no experience at what this stuff even looked like, except with my own printer for almost a year. I blew the dust off the press and smiled at the guy (my famous “salesman’s” smile). I said, “You are never going to sell this. I’m sure it works great, right?” “Of course it does,” the man replied. I then said, “If I agree to your price, will you let me make payments?” I brushed my finger over the press, and let the dust hit the room. He looked up and said, “Sure!” He either knew or feared that I would walk out and he would lose the sale. I said, “Can I make the first payment next month? I have a print job to do, but I can’t get paid for that job unless you allow me access to the press so I can make the money to pay you with. He agreed. I still had no where to put the equipment and no one that knew how to run it! I said, “What would you say if I paid you a few hundred dollars a month to allow me to keep my press (see it was mine already) here and hire my own press man, but allow me use of your other equipment like your cutter, your folder, for $5,000 in payments to make after I start making money?” I was now in the printing business. I couldn’t wait to sell printing to my advertisers and advertising to my print customers – it was a beautiful thing. It was no time at all before I was printing and publishing all under one roof – my roof – as Access Marketing Systems. I would specialize in guerilla marketing tactics in a way most have not seen. I would sell logos for as little as $99. I knew full well that they would have to put that logo on many things, the least of which is their business cards, letterheads, envelopes, – not to mention brochures. I discovered a niche that propelled me forward –newsletters.
I was publishing upwards to 30 monthly newsletters. We would turn these around in 72 hours from raw copy to printed word. The interesting thing is how I marketing. I would publish these newsletters totally free of charge and I would retain their advertising rights. I would always explain that their interests are my only interests as I would never sell to anyone that would be conflicting. Of the 30 newsletters only half dozen or so I did simply for the advertising revenue. I would work the other accounts as a print job.
Necessity has been the mother of invention throughout the history of man. The history of Access Communications Team Innovation is how I often handled the needs due to lack of resources. I learned how to work smart.
For the last 10 years, we have been using our own “Bizgenerator” Data base management system. This data base – developed by myself – simply started out as a more evolved way to handle my tickler file. Most publishing houses have to dictate to their sales people a territory or a category that is theirs specifically. They do this for one reason – so people don’t step on others toes. A data base, not just for customers, but also for prospects allows you to capture information and utilize it well beyond the time that the salesman who initially entered the information has left. The information stays with us; it helps us work smarter. Because of this data base I have developed a 10,000 name list of relationship related businesses broken into 40 address books.
What a change! My past work experiences on the run that included, creating and performing in Male Exotic Dancers on my own shows in over 3 clubs weekly; Female wrestling; performed in Porn; worked in the seedy side of sex trade in Los Angeles. All during a 5 year period with breaks to go back to jail for one reason or the other, most of which were parole violations from constant and ongoing drug use. (Heroin primarily, or opiates in general, cocaine, and virtually everything else, this all done mainlining…I was addicted to the needle as much or if not more than the drugs.)
This is rough, but does give a glimpse that contrasts greatly with my new reality. Who can say what I’m saying without having anyone “put me on trial?” I have done what few have; it is that simple. Still no one wishes to tell my story, or give me credit for what I have accomplished, and all that I have earned through sheer preservation, perseverance, and a determined will to get out of life what it has to offer, if you just work for it!

Parents- Missing in Action….MIA

admin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:42:52 +0000

The grandchildren of the “me” generation have one refrain. “I want to do what I want, when I want, and I want it now!”
First fermented in the home of the upper class, this seed of contempt was first seen in the “me generation” of the 1950’s. Thus started the slippery slope.
The generation I chose not to participate in gave birth to the “Who, me?” generation. As the slope grew more slippery, they, the Me generation were provided with their first grandchild; the “Not Me!” generation.
We can only anticipate that the next group will be known as the “Not Me Either” generation. It is this that I hope to intercept, and impact America.
There is no time to lose. If we hesitate, it will be forever too late, as it was in Rome, and all that fell with it.
In the rush to “keep up with the Jones,” the need for a two-income family became paramount, and children were shuffled to second place. The world that evolved after the World War II victory has become the world of Visa and Mastercard. The compensation for the lack of parental love and devotion came in three forms.
1. Material things.
2. No boundaries.
3. No expectations.
Because of this, many points of view, from cultural, political and social elements have been stifled. What needs to be said by someone is not being said by anyone! Modern-era parenting of “when I have time” has defined our youth of the past, breeding contempt for authority. Today’s behavior is modeled for the children of tomorrow. The lack of boundaries demanded by parents is a direct result from the guilt felt when things are given instead of love.
The “Gotcha Media” provides pointers to the legal community, creating what has simply become an on-going, and continuously growing litigious environment, precluding positive and cooperative interaction (and yes, civilized!) with those who disagree, regardless of which side of the issue they’re on.
Add the dynamic of enabling the performance-lacking citizenry and what has been created, but for survival alone, is a politically incorrect environment.
To me it is Un-politically correct and it is the basis of the thesis for “Beyond Puke.” http://www.beyondpuke.com

A Conservative as Opposed to a Liberal, Command vs Demand

admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 03:01:03 +0000

Liberals Demand RESPECT, Conservatives COMMAND respect.

Liberals are Enablers, Conservatives are PERFORMERS

Liberals care about how GOOD THINGs are NOT, then complain

Conservatives focus on how BAD THINGs are NOT and act on making them better

Liberals, glass is half empty, Conservatives, the glass is HALF FULL.

Liberals have CONTEMPTpt for Authority, Conservatives have RESPECT for Authority.

Liberals REJECT Responsibility, Conservatives, ACCEPTS Responsibility

Baby Boomers, Unintended consequences squared. Take a bow!

tony — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:52:19 +0000

The begining of the end to our culture. We have you to thank, my generation. Post WWII. Veterans whose sacrifce saved us from needing to speak a language other than English.

Our evolved Family with Vanity, Narrissism celebrated have negatively impacted our tradional values that society’s life blood. Unfortunate for us many with misguided thinking, now identifying with the “Jones” gave birth and became parents

Welcome to the world of Me, and mine….We as a generation, my generation did not mean to totally mess things up, it was simply these ”unintended consequences.” So much for vision, and prudent civic responsibility. We didn’t want to just exist anymore, our Parents didn’t want us to either….our parents were trained and marketed to to believe that their role was to make life better, and for the generation after that for them to have it better, so on and on. With this logic…one day no one will never have to do anything anymore, because less is falure.

What was it, …I mean, really, everything we are about for hundreds of years, generation after generation, really when, how and why have we LOST of Family tradition. I don’t mean just the “American Family” I mean the core, foundation of what constituted life, period!

This is family. You know..children, Daddy, Mommy, and children, with all one thing in mind…to live a just and fair life…so really what this starts with is the breakdown of family and all that came with it. Values.

Where did society, our government and our values all begin their downward cycle?

That my friends is what this is, a cycle…going down now and eventually our children’s children will have enough smarts to change the direction of the pendulum…maybe even stop it for a while at its zenith.

I am speaking in generalities here, but bear with me.

It started to go wrong after the ‘50’s when families needed two incomes to keep their heads above water never mind “keeping up with the Jones.” We needed bigger houses, two cars, and lots and lots of toys that American manufacturers provided and marketers became sophisticated.

The priorities our leaders demonstrated were often misplaced. Greed now taking root in our culture, moral relavance close behind, after all we have to “make it right” in our head.

The guiding light of human behavior often were religious based. Secular values by definition invalidates our traditional religious roots, fundamental of our culture. This secular movement I was aware of as a child. Attending Church, I often would skip, and noting, that I was doing wrong, but more and more were doing it, Always comfortable with doing what was wrong, I saw many didn’t, they would rather, …change things, so that wrong or right was no longer an issue, it simply didn’t apply. How convenient. I saw at this age of 7, 8 or 9. I saw it, first hand…and it all grew worse

For Every Action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Now where could I have gotten that?

Every coin has two sides (don’t forget the edge, making it three). Those with vision see the “unitended consequences” (or price), using “natural laws,” logic, deduction, and reasoning…a requirement when looking at the logical progession of thought.

Our price was the loss of family values, more specifically quality family time, not only between entire families, but also between Fathers and Sons, and Mothers and Daughters.

We chose to replace that time with gifts and trinkets to our children to keep them happy, TV’s and electronic games to keep them busy having fun because we didn’t have as much time as we wanted to be with them……not really, many of you didn’t. My Mother, bless her soul she gave me MY Identity. SELF Image sustained me, not Image, Image lacking the fuel now has their vanity to feed as well.

Think of the lyrics from the Harry Chapin song from several years ago, “The Cats in the Cradle”:“When you coming home, dad?” “I don’t know when,  But we’ll get together then.  You know we’ll have a good time then.”

Of course they never do, and in the end, when the father is old and his son is grown, he tells his father the same words and the father realizes, “he has grown up just like me.” ..aahhh..the down hill slope….

In the “wink of an eye,” our own children grew older, AND they found something missing in their lives that they could not understand. They didn’t know how to define it, and we hadn’t given them the gift of introspection to figure out what it was. …

But, others came along and provided them with answers, but wrong thinking answers that our kids bought into. (see below-Alinsky Rules)

Like, nothing is ever right or wrong; only degrees in between…or perception is reality and other such garbage.

With this kind of logic, we can justify everything we do…every evil deed can be justified and rendered as even being OK. (Arguments of Moral Relevancy speaks to this concern)

Everything can be justified by saying it is not our fault and we are all victims. But, if you think this kind of perception is reality, then you are living an illusion!

This kind of reality and morality is more than an illusion. It is garbage!! Think of a UFO coming to our planet for the first time. He knows nothing about us, so he sees things as if he were a child…no point of view, no perspective other than what is. What reality does he see? Not the same one as our children who are being “spun” a reality that isn’t real. (Remember Universal and Natural Law say there is only one reality).

Simply put, the one reality has been replace by indifference to “what is.” It’s been replaced with ifa, coulda, woulda, shoulda, thereby invalidating the rules of nature and he universe that we should be following. And we as the older generation have said nothing, which means we have given it our blessing.

Our children, today’s active young and middle age adults, grew up lacking respect for their parents. Yes, EVEN contempt for them… The toys we exchanged for love and attention, simply weren’t enough…..Dah!….. We left out the most important part of parenthood. As such, we earned their CONTEMPT!

(You made the bed, now sleep it it.)

And sadly that contempt flowed over into all aspects of their lives, including people in their own generation who feel the same way.

Good God…If you don’t at least respect your Mother, then you are in trouble. ”Show me how a man treats his mother and I will tell you how he treats all the women in his life.”

This contempt I speak of didn’t stop there…oh no, it went on to a complete contempt of authority, of values, of reality and most of society. Negative energy, is to Nature what Hate is to Religion.

Part Two to follow