Blogs by Danny B Part 27
Blogs by Danny B
Part 27
After a little over 1 year in Florida Jamie and I were able to save a lot of money and buy a new Mercedes Benz, we were now in the process of looking to buy a home and start a family..
Most of the guys started getting back to the office the last days of July, others waited to mid August.. John did expand the office and added more sales reps to his money making machine, looking back that was the mistake that eventually lead to our demise...
Our first show of season 2 was a huge success and everyone was making a ton of money out the door including me as I was given a partnership which would lead to monthly bonuses of 25k of more... Most of the staff were young, in their late 20's early 30's .. Crazy cash for guys their age...
I was one of the older guys in the office that now held 15 full time reps and 10 part timers including more girls to answer the phones.. The guys were young and not thinking when they would go out with their fancy cars and buy fancy things like watches, everyone but me had a few Rolex's or something that stood out.. Ft Myers is a Mom & Pop type of place, small and everyone was nosy..
Even though we were all making a boat load of lute there was a lot of jealousy in the office.. Reps fighting over money, clients or who had the nicest car.. it was crazy how greedy we all were.. Our parking lot was filled with fancy rides from Benz's, Hummers, BMW's, Vipers, Lamborghini's, NSX's.. You name it we had it.. Each rep had at least 2 high end rides, some more...
In January of 2003 we signed up a famous Hockey Player named Jeremy Roenick who was referred to us by his plastic surgeon who had success with us betting the games.. This I believe was the first time I thought we were getting too big and making way too much money.. In late 2002 we bought a house that would be ready in March of 2003, this was perfect as we found out in February that Jamie was pregnant...
Another season was winding down and we were in our new house and had saved a shit load of cash, we were on top of the world until the Doctor told us Jamie lost the baby, this was very tuff on both of us...
In late April John announced he was selling the company to his long time friend Rob who was also the office manager.. We all thought he was crazy to sell out since he made over 5 million himself without even making 1 sale in the 2 seasons I was there..
I said to Jamie that day that something smelled fishy and if we did not just buy a house I would move back to New Jersey or Pa.. Turned out I was right... In the next blog I talk about the day our world was rocked!
Danny B