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Not long after, I quit to attend school full time and stayed in school until I received an AA in computer science in Spring of 2000. Right around this time, I went back to work for the same company that I had worked at previously mentioned above. Steve Morris had left the company not long before I got there. I was doing the same thing as before, handling the computers and the telephones and the leads. The small telemarketing room had grown quite a bit since I left. Well, after working in the timeshare telemarketing business for a little while, I decided to start my own company providing services to other telemarketing companies, such as phone, computer and lead services in early 2002. Around mid 2002, Steve Morris contacted me regarding leads and I began generating leads for his telemarketing purposes. I supplied Steve with leads for close to a year until my Internet business model stopped working effectively and I could no longer produce cost effective leads. So in July of 2003, Steve Morris and I joined forces to create a marketing company based on a concept Steve had of marketing vacations in a slightly different way. You see, in Florida, in order to sell vacations over the phone, you need to either:
Instead of selling the vacations, Steve Morris wanted to give them away and instead charge the customer a registration fee. The registration fee was for membership to the website, www.amerigreet.com. By charging the customer a 'registration' fee of $39-$69, Steve effectively bypassed the Florida laws designed to regulate timeshare telemarketing companies. The vacation itself was paid for by the timeshare resort, which was either a 3 day 2 night vacation or a 4 day 3 night vacation. This also usually included 2 tickets to Universal Studios. Steve Morris was working with two companies to provide the tours for the vacation: Summer Bay Resorts E Tour and Travel Once the customers were signed-up...they were subscribed to the Amerigreet Website which included a $5.95 per month subscription fee. This subscription fee was supposed to be split between Steve Morris and myself...but Steve grew greedy. In order to get everything started, I provided all of the startup funds and equipment. I provided over $50,000 in investments and equipment. I spent several more months designing and programming the marketing application. I built an integrated sales and human resources application that automated practically everything. I had no help with this and received no payment. At the time we started, Steve Morris told me that he would be running the marketing room and at the time he was a pretty good manager, and since we were just getting this thing started and needed to keep costs down, it just made sense to have him in the room running it. Well, he did for the first few weeks, but after that, all he wanted to do was sit in the back office and act and feel like 'the boss'. Well, through the better part of a year, the marketing room struggled and Steve did not want to run it. Instead, he found solace in the fact that the monthly subscriptions were rising steadily (if not quickly) and that before too long the monthly rebills would be able to easily handle the shortfalls in the marketing room. Steve had proposed an illegal scam to raise a large amount of cash (Read more about this here). I refused and just two months later, Steve locks me and keeps all of my equipment. Click Here to Read More About This To be continued... |
