The Burrito Story

The MLM Genie Tells His Story...

Hi this is Phil Correia and I have to be brutally honest, I'm a lazy Genie and I don't really feel like positing a bio and blabbering on and on about my professional accomplishments - who the hell wants to read my resume anyways!

What I will tell you is that I like many of you, I also got involved in MLM through a friend who didn't know jack crap about making money online and neither did his sponsor (i.e. the upline) and by the time it ended, I had over 50K in credit card debit. My first introduction to this amazing, rewarding and life changing industry damn well almost proved lethal and nearly cost me everything dear to me; my family, my friends, my career, my savings, my spirit, and at one time almost my life. Yes I did get so depressed that I serious considered quiting life. So when I say I can help you go from a MLM loser to winner I say so because I did it! When I hear people talking about quiting - I think about the night I almost did exactly that...

That night has a story behind it since it transpired in a distant corner of some parking lot at a Taco Bell in Elgin, Illinois. All I can say is that today my life is a success, and after reading my story if you still don't feel I'm qualified to speak about success - well google yourself up a list of success coaches and gurus. I tell it straight, I tell it true, and I tell it as it is...

THE BURRITO STORY:

In 1996 I was sturggling to make it in Network Marketing, I had bounced from company to company marketing everything from vitamins, water filters to electronic home alarms. When I say failing, I mean doing everything my supposedly "all knowing" upline was instructing us to do - only to keep falling behind. If I did get a check, it was immediately used to buy more leads, pay phone bills, or buy more product to qualify for another check. Looking back on it, I think I was in some kind of self induced MLM haze.

It was about this time that I lost my only lifeline, my full-time job with AT&T. I quickly found myself with no job, on unemployment, and trying to keep my truck payment made, as well as gas in the tank so I could go on interviews; all this while keeping my 600 sq ft townhome out of foreclosure. I found myself borrowing money from one credit card to pay another. In short, I was approximately 50K in credit card debt (dream destroyers is what I now call them) and I had only enough money to buy one Taco Bell Bean Burrito (no onions) and a large water for lunch and the same again for dinnner. I was so humiliated, that I would drive between four different Taco Bell restaurants just so the people that worked there wouldn't realize how pathetic I had become.

I spent my days listening to motivational tapes, calling prospects and my downline trying to land that one person who would help me turn things around, but things only got worse. I was overweight, emotionally drained, and spiritually broken.

Then one very fateful night, I had just picked up my bean burrito and had parked my truck in the back corner of the Taco Bell parking lot. Everytime I think back to that night, I can feel a tightness in my chest, and my eyes begin to well up with tears.

So anyways...there I am sitting in my truck, it was a cold windy October night. My sole dinner compaion that night was a tattered dumpster gate that banged and squeaked in the cold wet night winds, all while I listened to yet another self help audio tape. As I sat there chewing on my burrito, I caught my reflection in the rear view mirror. I saw a face in the mirror that I no longer recognized. How did this happen to me! At that moment I realized that I had become the very thing I always swore I would never be - a failure in every sense of the word. I literally broke down sobbing like a baby, alone crying in the dark night,under the cold sterile parking lot lights. I was for the first time in my life truly terrified...

This was the moment where everything changed for me. I looked at the face in the mirror, and yelling back at it, I roared... "Either start working this business as a business instead of as a part-time hobby, or quit, and get your fat ass a job - enough is enough!"


That night, I went home, opened the sliding door to my second floor deck. and threw every thing out into the night. I decided right then and there that everything had to change. Everything from my past went over the rail that night. Old company literature, old leads, old notes, even old clothes - I cut myself off entirely from my past experiences.

The next thing I did was to look for a product that would help me with my health. I found such a company called Life Force International. Their flagship product was a liquid supplement called Boby Balance. Within days of taking that product my health started to change for the better, I then learned of their amazingly profitable, and simplistic compensation plan, called a Uni-Level. I was shocked to learn that while I was trying to make money on 5% of my sales, this company was paying its distributors a whopping 40%.

I was still massively in debt, but I knew in my gut that I was on the right track. I started shopping for an upline team to work with and thankfully, I found a gentleman out of Texas by the name of David Borque. It was through him, that I met the team that would play a major part in my success. I then called the company to inquire about getting a product catalog, and how much it would cost. Again I was surprised when they told me that they would mail the catalogs out to anyone I wanted at no cost to me - FREE!!!

In the first few days I had catalogs sent to my warm market, and I called and shared with them how this liquid had changed my life physically and mentally. No Internet, No Instant Messenger, No Email Blasting - just a simple phone call and my own heartfelt personall story is all it took. I then had the catalogs sent to all of my previous distributors, again I shared my story with them. Then an amazing thing started to happen, people were ordering the product, and having catalogs mailed out. My first check was for over $100.00 and I couldn't believe my eyes.

In the months that followed, my organization grew from a handful, to hundreds, to thousands of people. In fact, my organization had people winning company trips, and bonues and my organization alone was generating nearly half a million dollars in annual sales volume. My checks were in the thousands of dollars - I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming! I was able to pay off all my debt, purchase a new home, furnish the home and pay for everything in cash.

I will never be able to thank everyone that made it possible for me to go from the parking lot of Taco Bell to the life I now live. Looking back on that night, it was the power of a decision, and the willingness to start again. So when people tell me that Network Marketing (MLM) is a scam, a joke, or that it doesn't work; I just tell them the Burrito Story, because I am living proof that Network Marketing is for real, and can and does change lives for the better - when treated like the business.