The email said:  We're Not Paying You Anymore

I remember it clearly.

It was about a year ago...

Maybe slightly more.

The company I had represented and pretty much been a poster child of for over 12 years sent me an email I didn't expect.

It basically said...

We're not paying you anymore.

We're keeping the customers you sent us but we're discontinuing your check.
 

And then it said that maybe IF I WAS LUCKY they'd consider me to be an affiliate for their new endeavor sometime in the future.

And that was that.

12 years of blood sweat and tears gone in a blink.

Everything I had warned people about had happened to me.

And yeah...it was a chunk of change I was losing but that wasn't my issue.

Business is business.

They had been tanking for some time.

The check was way down...

I'm thinking the concept had run it's course.

And of course I had developed other income to compensate the loss over there so I was good financially...

But it was just the COLDNESS of it all.

No call to me, their number 1 affiliate to give a heads up.

No personal note.

No THANK YOU for all the support.

Just a legal jargon email indicating that payments would cease on such and such a date and a chest beating paragraph about how great that company was.

And that was that.

I know many, many marketers have experienced this type of thing.

I am not the only one.

But this episode in my career hit me hard as I had been known as the QUEEN of a genre that was coming to an end.

Put that together with my kids growing up and moving away and a rough divorce I was just DONE.

I didn't know who I was anymore.

So I walked away.

Stopped my classes, my webinars, my videos, my letters slowed down and eventually came to a halt and I grew QUIET.

It was a dark night of the soul as I examined who and where I had given my time and energy to for so many years.

I examined what I wanted my message and legacy to be and I questioned pretty much the whole home business space.

I still 100% believed in the dream of personal freedom...

I had achieved it.

But I did not believe in taking advantage of people to get there.

In a sea of people who were always teaching faster...

I stepped back and slowed down.

And I looked hard to see if there was anyone out there that had the same values I do.

Anyone that believed in using money...

Not people.

In building folks up and giving them skills and thought processes that would serve them in ALL areas of life.

Not just to make ME bank.

Anyone that believed that all people are good and smart but that some need a little more time to get it and that should not be discarded when they don't move as fast as the industry says we should be going.

Was there a place that put the GOLDEN RULE before money?

Or did everyone just treat people like pawns and paychecks?

My business has always been my MINISTRY.

I'm not a religious person per se but my business gave me a pulpit to share all the concepts I hold dear to my heart and a place to help people learn to BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES.

That was always my favorite part.

The part that kept me in the game for decades.

Being discarded by a place I considered to be my "marketing home" jarred me in a way I can not describe.

And so I sat.

And got quieter 

And quieter 

And quieter

Until my words were but a whisper from the past.

Almost foreign to me.

But I kept feeling a tug at my heart that said 

SAY SOMETHING DIANE

And then one day

I DID

I had been a part of a marketing training company for some time and I knew their stuff was solid and that they had a very lucrative comp plan.

I had referred a few of my loyalists and I knew they were well cared for in that community.

But I didn't really get what was going in in this place until I asked one of the owners of the company if I could serve in some way.

Come out and teach a little bit.

I desperately needed to be with people.

What I didn't expect was to find something special.

So I decided to go to their event.

They asked me to speak...which I did.

And all of a sudden I felt alive again.

Surrounded by beautiful souls in a place that values humans over money.

And in a moment I decided not only did I want to come back but I wanted to share this place with as many people as I could.

Yes...

You can make a wonderful income here...

Up to $133 per person you refer because of it's 80% profit pay plan.

But what's more inportant is that this is a KIND and PATIENT environment where you can TRULY LEARN marketing skills without being pulled around and upsold and manipulated.

That was always the thing I hated about where I was...

The cannibalization of a community.

The idea that you keep selling people stuff until they are broke.

It's commonly taught by gurus.

Sell em until they break through or bust.

And then replace em with another person that you can leach from.

It skeeves me to even think about it.

But it was the status quo in the space.

The good news is that practice is dying a timely death.

The space is more savvy.

New marketers are more educated and have more choices.

There's more ways to make money and more options for folks to find something that lights them up.

So keeping them captive and emotionally manipulating and milking them is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.

Thank God.

With all that being said I am happy to say I have found a new place to HANG MY HAT.

A new home base.

I teach on Tuesdays (Wedesday this week..had to swap)

And I'm about to get back out there in public and DO WHAT I DO.

I launched my new website and I am feeling like I have something to say once more.

I don't know what you're up to these days but if you are also looking for a place to make great money while learning great marketing...

My spot may just be for you.

Heck...you may have even tried it before as they've been around for 9 years ...

But of course...

You didn't do it with ME.

I've missed you.

And I'd sure like to get back out there and do some dancing.

Wanna boogie with me?

I'll be back with details and to talk a bit about my strategy for 2025.

It might serve you as well.


It's good to be back.

And THANK YOU for all the support on the new site.

So many people wrote me about it.

I'll tell you more about that soon too.

Have a great night...


Diane