LT 1: Who is Lawrence Tam?
Episode 1 General Recap Of Lawrence Tam
Hey, hey, hey. This is Lawrence Tam. I just wanted to welcome you to episode one of my podcast. This is Project Mayhem, and I wanted to just, you know, do a quick introduction of who I am, and you know, why you should listen to me if you’re looking to build a business from home and how I can help you, right?
You’ll hear more about my story along, as we go into the podcast. I’ll be interviewing a lot of different people on my teams, guests, and basically just walking you through the process of how, basically, in 2007 I just made a change and, you know, today being 2013, you know -- why did it take five years to kind of do the things that I want to do?
The numbers that I’ve done has been nuts. So let’s start from, let’s just start real quick -- why you should listen to me and what I can bring to the table, you know. We’ll bring on some more podcasts, right? Some more episodes for you to dive into.
So number one, my name is Lawrence Tam. I am a full-time internet marketer. I used to do mechanical engineering for over a decade -- 12 years. I actually retired -- early retirement because I was laid off back in April 30th, 2012. I got laid off, and you know, I was working in oil and gas, making about $80,000 a year and I thought that was my life. Basically, at that point, right?
But luckily, I had a side business, right? My side business, I’ve been running since 2007. 2007, my dad actually brought me into network marketing, saying, “Hey son, you’re not going to be making a ton of money.” He’s in sales, he’s in real estate, and he’s like, “You know, why don’t you just supplement some of your income -- help your kids pay through college, pay college,” because college was … I think we had a financial advisor tell us, you know, “You’re probably going to need $150,000+ per child to go to a public school like University of Texas, or something.”
So, you know, my journey was through networking marketing in 2007. In 2008, I stumbled upon something called “affiliate marketing” in sponsoring. That led me to trying to build my network marketing business on the Internet. In 2009, I went to my full-fledged first Internet marketing company to learn funnels and counter pages with My Lead System Pro, where I became, you know, one of the top producers -- I think I was #2 in there for a very long time.
Now, fast forward to 2011. For the first half of its existence in Empower Network, I was
