Residual Income Business to Business - Continued

Residual Income Business to Business - Continued

The Residual Income Opportunity For Everyone Who Hates Network Marketing

 

Welcome back! We are going to get right to the point…

 

But first it important to review one of the key faults of traditional network marketing opportunities, and that is the PRODUCTS!

 

As we previously discussed, the worst feature of network marketing is called “auto-ship”.

Auto-ship requires every independent representative to ALSO be a customer. You are REQUIRED to buy a certain amount of products – automatically billed and shipped to you – EVERY month.

Very few companies allow you to promote the product line without also being a paying customer. Network marketing is not the same as being an “outside sales rep” for a company. You are REQUIRED to buy and use all the products AND pay for the next shipment every month or you will not qualify for commissions.

In addition, if you want to move up to higher commission levels you are REQUIRED to buy more and more.

Even worse, your commissions are calculated on an artificial value called “business volume” that is often 20% to 30% less than the actual retail price. It is a fact that most companies short-change you by paying commissions on a sales number that is less than your true retail volume.

You usually start at about $100.00 in auto-ship product purchases per month. You will feel pressure to buy more and more, even if you are selling nothing and can’t use the products fast enough. You will put more pressure on friends and family, and eventually spam everyone on Facebook to try to sell something. And you need to keep recruiting more and more to fill the holes in your organization or downline or you won’t get paid this month.

 

But the fact remains that in every network marketing company, you are trying to get people to buy something new – often at a premium price. This is like always pushing a huge boulder uphill. It is hard, painful and ultimately not worth it.

All of this gives network marketing a deservedly bad name. So let’s eliminate ALL these negatives.

 

Here is how we are going to turn a negative into a POSITIVE. In our company:

1. We are going to ONLY offer our products to people who are already buying. They don’t need to do anything different.

2. We are going to ONLY offer our products to people who are spending MORE than our products cost. We will save them money.

3. In addition, we are going to offer products that generate income. That means our customers will happily use our products month after month, year after year. Stopping our product buys will cut off their income streams. And, of course, this means that you get paid every month, year after year, for the work you did just ONCE!

4. We are going to pay you for referring others who are also looking for a residual income opportunity. There are no monthly quotas. No purchase requirements. No “breakage” because of unbalanced downline legs, etc. Instead, you get paid an immediate bonus, and then you get paid a recurring, residual monthly commission on THEIR sales volume for life!

How can we do all this? Sound too good to be true?

It’s true! And the reason ALL of this is possible is because we DON”T sell consumer products – we sell to businesses, also called business-to-business or B2B

Businesses have a built-in profit motive. (I admit that while all businesses are prospects, all business owners aren’t tech savvy. Sadly, some business OWNERS are not sharp business MANAGERS…)

Secondly, almost every business – regardless of what kind of business – is already spending money on marketing and advertising. Some of this money is spent on their website. But most websites are like billboards in the desert that no one will ever see.

Everyone knows how to search the web using Google. But 99.5% of businesses do not have a website that is optimized to take advantage of Google search requirements.

a. They don’t know, or haven’t taken the time to optimize their website for the terms their prospective customers type into Google.
b. If they search Google, their company’s website doesn’t appear on the first page of the results.

 

People are searching Google and wanting to buy. But their website is invisible. We fix this! We GUARANTEE FIRST PAGE placement in the organic search results for the keywords they specify.

Help Businesses Work WITH Google!

* And NO ONE does what we do for the same low price. Our price is FAR LESS than what they are currently spending on Yellow Pages advertising, pay-per-click, or other web services. We GUARANTEE FIRST PAGE placement in Google – and that is over 90% of the search market and is making most other advertising obsolete and a complete waste.

Even better, search engine optimization (SEO) is an ongoing process. This is a monthly subscription service that the customer NEEDS to continue – and that means you get paid Residual Income EVERY month!

** We also limit this service to ONE business per category per ZIP code. This means you have all the businesses in that sector competing to see who will receive our exclusive, guaranteed local SEO program.

*** If the business is one of the few that doesn’t yet have a website, we will build a simple one-page website and place THAT on the first page of Google!

Next, at least 50% of websites are not optimized for viewing and usage on mobile devices including tablets and smart phones. This is a HUGE issue because starting in 2013 the number of Google searches from mobile devices EXCEEDED searches from computers for the first time – and this proportion is growing beyond 50% rapidly.

Most websites appear on smart phones as a miniature version of the desktop version. You have to “pinch and squeeze” to read the text and view the graphics. Videos don’t play. Hyperlinks don’t work. Directions are unreadable. Phone calls to the business are not possible.

When people do a search and then select a result, if the website doesn’t load quickly and isn’t visible from their phone, they click away in a few seconds. This is a disaster for businesses because mobile searches are followed by either a visit or a phone call – assuming that the website is mobile-friendly.

We fix this, too! Without changing a word or a single image on the customer’s website, we create a mobile version that is detected if the search originates from a mobile device – automatically. Images are resized, and the text font is increased with fewer words per line. The viewer only needs to scroll down, not side to side. Links are converted to buttons.

Before Mobile optimization

After Mobile optimization

 

 * This is a low, one-time charge for the customer. Just one lost sale will pay for this mobile website optimization FOREVER! And every future update to the customer’s desktop website will automatically be reflected in the mobile version.

But we don’t stop there. We also create customer mobile “apps” for the customer. This is essentially a stand-alone, mini-mobile website that the customer can use for special promotions, loyalty programs, VIP clubs, etc.

Everyone wants exclusive offers. Businesses give these apps to their customers. Customers download these to their phones and then receive “insider” special offers. The app allows the customer to tap for directions, tap to call, tap to view the latest specials, etc.

With the mobile app, the business is also provided with UNLIMITED free access to our text messaging service. They can send (FREE in the U.S.) text messages to their entire base of customers daily, if they choose, with coupons, specials, and new product offers. And you know that text messages get opened right away – typically within five minutes or less. This blows away direct mail and even email!

Local Marketing Phone Apps

Customers and website visitors download these apps simply by viewing a QR code provided to the business. There is a second QR code to register for the special offers – and opt-in to the text messages.

But QR codes can be used for many other marketing efforts. So we provide our customers with unlimited free QR codes for any website page or link.

 

Unlimited FREE QR Codes

Finally, most business owners have enough to do with daily operations. They not only don’t have time to mess with SEO, they can’t be wasting time on Facebook – even though Facebook is where their customers hang out.

So we also offer a Facebook Management service. Our software scours the web for articles and videos related to their business niche. Then it makes up to 10 posts per day to their Facebook page to keep their audience engaged. Like all marketing, Facebook helps build familiarity and trust, and that leads to increased sales. When we increase sales, we create a very satisfied and loyal customer!

Facebook Page Management

 * Like SEO, Facebook Management is an ongoing process. This requires a monthly subscription, meaning you also get paid residual income EVERY month!

 

I hope you agree that you could generate a sizable income promoting any ONE of these services. After all, you have NO territory restrictions – nationwide (and even into Canada). But when you can offer a business a whole menu of profit-generating services and products you have an unlimited income potential! And most of your income comes from residual commissions, some on sales completed years ago.

There are other ways we are paid, but that’s enough for now. And we haven’t even discussed the referral bonuses that are paid if and when you introduce others to this opportunity – because there is room for everyone, even in the same town!

Have questions? Add a comment and I will contact you to answer your questions.

I am a real person and I will be happy to call you back. I sell these same services. I use the company’s resources for marketing, plus I have developed many more that are based on over 30 years of sales experience. I can train you and help you get started fast, if that’s what you want. Or you can build this business slowly. No pressure.

Your next steps:

1. Follow this link to the company website with more details about the independent rep opportunity, and the residual income compensation plan. Don’t get bogged down. You already know the key points. Go to http://www.randyreek.biz

2. While you are on the website, go back to the Home screen and then look through the other tabs as if you are a prospective customer. See my name at the top of the page. When you become a rep, you will get this same website – and YOUR NAME will be at the top of every page. (If you join as a Founder, this marketing tool is free to you for LIFE! Otherwise, it costs $29.95 for monthly maintenance and updates, which is a necessary business expense. All reps also get a FREE mobile app and unlimited QR codes).

3. After you have looked at all the pages, give me a call. I won’t push you – I will wait for you to call me if you are interested. I have a business to run, too. I only carve out time to work with new reps that show some initiative. I will answer all your questions and help you decide which level (IR, SIR or Founder) makes sense for you. (You can always upgrade later, if you wish. But I may be able to keep you from making any mistakes upfront).

 

Residual Income Business to Business

Residual Income Business to Business

#1 Residual Income Opportunity For Everyone Who Hates MLM

Six Reasons To Run Away From Network Marketing – And A Very Profitable Alternative
You will never get rich working for someone else!

Your employer “buys you” at wholesale and “sells you” at retail. After paying you and all the other operating expenses, he hopes to have a little profit left over…

So why not start your own business? Well, that’s really expensive and often complicated and slow. Many, many people have invested in expensive franchises to escape the corporate world. But most soon discover that they have spent thousands (often HUNDREDS of thousands) and only bought themselves a new JOB. Many end up making less and the failure rate is very high, costing the franchisees everything.

Business to Business Sales

Network marketing is a concept that has promised to level the playing field.

In networking, you earn a commission on what you sell plus an override commission on the sales of the new reps that you “sponsor”. This is the double promise of direct sales commission income and residual income from the efforts of others. Plus, these residual commissions can accumulate from sales reps many levels deep, and this is why network marketing is also accurately called multi-level marketing (or MLM). Anyone can join a network marketing company and let the company take care of the operational details like product production and labeling, order processing, product shipping, accounting, and commission payments.

Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, reality doesn’t often match with the promises of network marketing.

First, nobody gets paid until someone sells something! Despite the claim, “You don’t have to sell anything, just share the products,” selling is REQUIRED! You NEED to convince people to STOP buying what they are now getting from WalMart, Target, or Amazon and buy from YOU. Or you need to convince people to START buying something in addition to what they are now buying

In truth, you need to do some HARD SELLING to get people to change their buying habits. In addition, you NEED to sell others on the opportunity to also spend money to do the same thing and become sales reps, too.

Network marketing has been correctly called the SALES BUSINESS for people with no SALES or BUSINESS experience. Is it any wonder that most people in MLM never make a dime, and ruin their relationships with friends and neighbors?

Other problems with most MLM opportunities lie deep in the details. Look carefully at the “compensation plan” of your chosen company. Beware of these gotcha’s:

1. Having to recruit a number of people BEFORE you qualify for any commissions. This may also be seen as having to “pass up” the first few sales to your sponsor, or every other sale, etc. In either case, you don’t get paid for everything you do.

2. Having to achieve and maintain a certain volume of sales before you qualify for commissions. Miss your quota and you earn nothing. And since the reps you recruit and the customers that you accumulate are continually cancelling, you need to fill these slots first to get paid every month. Only a few “super-salesmen” can sustain this constant sales pressure, and even these don’t succeed because they never create any depth in their downline.

3. Having a limit on how many people you can sponsor. This is described as “width”. Some companies force “break-aways” or other methods to push recruits to lower commission levels. If you have any limits your earning potential is also limited.

4. Being required to build a downline with a number of “legs”. In other words, any diagram with right, left, center, etc. positions for the reps you sponsor and the reps that they sponsor. The ONLY reason for these legs is that most companies require that you balance these legs – or they only pay commissions on the sales of the SMALLER leg. This means that only get paid on less than half of your sales that month (even if the sales volume of the other leg gets carried over sometime into the future).

5. Having to increase sales and the numbers of recruits in order to move up in the commission payout scheme. Obviously, the first in are buoyed by everyone that joins after them. These are the “gurus” that are featured on stage at the glitzy events you are forced to pay to attend. They have achieved their success largely on the efforts of wannabees way down the line. In reality, it is next to impossible to catch them much less pass them. Most people never make it past the second or third level in any organization. Actually, as many as 90% of people will quit without making any money or even making it past the second level.

Just like in a casino, the “house” always wins as long as people are playing.

Do you also understand why network marketing “gurus” are continually jumping to new companies, just so they can start the recruiting process (and bonus payments) over again with a new crop of suckers?

 

6. But the worst feature of network marketing is called “auto-ship”. This requires every independent representative to ALSO be a customer. You are REQUIRED to buy a certain amount of products – automatically billed and shipped to you – EVERY month. (Very few companies allow you to promote the product line without also being a paying customer). 

You better find a way to use all the products and pay for the next shipment every month or you will not qualify for commissions. In addition, to move up to higher commission levels you are REQUIRED to buy more and more. Even worse, commissions are calculated on an artificial value called “business volume” that is often 20% to 30% less than the actual retail price you paid. (This is just another way the company short-changes you on the sales you make.)

Of course, you are encouraged to buy and use ALL the products of the company. The auto-ship is typically about $100.00 per month of products. But you could easily buy hundreds of dollars per month. Now if your products are so beneficial, why wouldn’t you want everyone in your family to participate. Why should only one person be healthy, happy, trim and youthful? So now a family of four needs to spend at least $400.00 per month. Where does this money come from if you aren’t earning commissions? How long will you keep this up?

For all the reasons above, most people quit their MLM within 90 days, often less.

What’s worse, most blame the company or the product or their sponsor – instead of the built-in MLM deficiencies. They look for a new pre-launch opportunity, or they are recruited by their prior sponsor who has already jumped to a new life raft…

Sound familiar? Are you squirming as you read this? If you are like me, you have been unsuccessful in network marketing in the past despite expensive and sincere efforts. Ready for a change? Ready for a residual income opportunity that has NONE of the structural defects of traditional network marketing companies?

Then request more information, follow this link. Then send me a comment and I will connect with you to tell you more about this refreshing alternative. Learn how to get paid four (or five or six!) ways, including weekly bonuses for referring new reps plus residual commissions on their sales – for life with NO quotas, forced matrix, or legs to balance. You will also be paid monthly residual commissions on products that satisfied customers will HAPPILY continue to buy for years and years!

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The U.S. Tax System Explained

The U.S. Tax System Explained

See if this makes any sense to you...

An Example of the U.S. Tax System – Explained In Beer!

How messed up is the U.S. tax system? Maybe this example – using beer to represent tax payments – will illuminate the “injustice”!

The following example of the U.S. tax system was written by David R. Kamerschen, Ph.D., Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia. The original example contained only numbers so I have added my comments…

Suppose that every day after work, ten men go out for beer. For this example, let’s assume that the bar bill for all ten comes totals $100.

If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes in the U.S. it would be divided like this:

- The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. They would drink every day, day after day for free. The cost would be assumed by the rest of the group.
- The fifth man would pay $1.
- The sixth man would pay $3.
- The seventh man would pay $7.
- The eighth man would pay $12.
- The ninth man would pay $18.
- The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

Doesn’t seem fair, does it? But that is what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement. But then one day the owner of the bar threw them a curve. He said, “Since your group are such good customers I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20. From now on, your group tab will cost just $80.00.”

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes…

So the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free, day after day.
But what about the other six men – the paying customers? How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his “fair share”?

(Note: this example is about a bar tab. When finished, re-read this example and imagine tax cuts – either in the form of increased deductions or newly created "free" benefit programs.)

The paying customers realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted $3.33 evenly from the share of the six men, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each actually BE PAID to drink his beer

So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill on a “progressive” basis, with the lower income men receiving a greater discount. He proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay:
- And so the fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
- The sixth man now paid $2 instead of $3 (33% savings).
- The seventh man now paid $5 instead of $7 (28% savings).
- The eighth man now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
- The ninth man now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).
- The tenth man now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

EACH of the six paying customers was now better off than before. And the first four continued to drink for free. Neither their costs or benefits changed at all.

But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings…
“I only got a dollar out of the $20!” declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man, “But he got $10! That’s not fair!”

“Yeah, that’s right!” exclaimed the fifth man. “I only saved a dollar, too. Why should he get ten times more than me?”

“You’re right!” shouted the seventh man. “Why should he get $10 back when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!”

“Wait a minute!” yelled the first four men in unison. “We didn’t get anything at all! The system exploits the poor!”

The nine men surrounded the tenth man and beat him up. The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks.

So the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors, this is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.*

For those who understand, no explanation is needed.

For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.

* Or, as Ayn Rand writes in Atlas Shrugged, the producers may just retreat from the economy. 

Can the government force employers to hire and/or prevent them from firing? Can the government force (via the tax code) the most productive in society to support and subsidize the unproductive? At a rate all out of proportion to common sense and all the rules of capitalism? Can the government forbid investments outside of the U.S.? Can you find ONE socialistic society that works?

As Margaret Thatcher is quoted, “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples’ money.”

You better check your facts when you claim “the wealthy” need to “pay their fair share”!

Fight Back Against The "Second-Handers"

Are You Willing To Fight Back Against The "Second-Handers"?

The "takers" now outnumber the "producers" in the U.S. society.

Have you read “The Fountainhead”, the novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1943? “The Fountainhead” was Ms. Rand’s third novel, and was a spectacular and enduring success.
However, Ayn Rand is best remembered for her next work, “Atlas Shrugged”, which was published later in 1957.

I loved both books because they made me mad! (Although I do not agree with Ms. Rand's atheist worldview.)

The setting of “The Fountainhead was the Depression era, with “Atlas Shrugged” set decades later. But both speak directly to the same issues that our society is still facing today.

In both books, fictional characters fight against the masses of humanity, unions, and the regulators. The main characters of these novels are in the tiniest of minorities. They are achievers, productive contributors to society who are forced to struggle against the majority who are consumers. The consumers do not value the contributions of the producers, they despise the producers. They support any means to bring the producers down to their level – and these means equate “morality” simply because of the intention to achieve “collective good”.

These views are even more widespread TODAY than they were during the 1940′s and 1950′s! And they are just as cancerous and invasive.

The main character of “The Fountainhead” is Howard Roark, an architect. Roark is driven by his quest for perfection in the form and function of his buildings. He continually battles incompetence that seeks to compel him to compromise and weaken his designs. He refuses to achieve acceptance at the cost of mediocrity.

The culmination of his career is the destruction of a public housing project that was being built contrary to his specific and painstaking designs. The project had been taken over by a series of parasite designers, bureaucrats, and others who all imposed their selfish desires – none of which added anything to the project but were simply the result of the meddlers’ personal corruption and greed. The project thus evolved into an unrecognizable and uneconomical abortion. Roark’s only defense was to blow it up! 

The following are excerpts from Roark’s self-defense at his trial. Read these words and compare the atmosphere of the day to our current economic and social environment – remembering that Ayn Rand published these words in 1943, almost 70 years ago!

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was the first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response the received – hatred.”

“They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.”

“No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers rejected the gift he offered and that gift destroyed the slothful routine of their lives. This truth was his only motive.”

 “The creators were not selfless. It is the whole secret of their power – that it was self-sufficient, self-motivated, self-generated. The creator served nothing and no one. He lived for himself.”

“(E)verything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.”

“But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. We can divide a meal among many men. We cannot digest it in a collective stomach. No man can use his lungs to breathe for another man. No man can use his brain to think for another.”

Hyperinflation: Think It Can't Happen Here?

Hyperinflation: Think It Can't Happen Here?

How much are you willing to BET hyper-inflation can't happen in the U.S.?

100 TRILLION Dollar Note

We are already in the presidential election cycle for 2016. Yuck, I know!

Please take my advice and listen carefully how each candidate proposes to reduce the national debt and return the U.S. to a balanced budget.

By the time the next President is elected, the U.S. will have accumulated over $20 trillion dollars in debt (NOT counting unfunded payments to Social Security, federal pensions, Medicare, and more totaling another $100 trillion...)

How much is 20 trillion? 20 trillion is 20,000,000  million dollars. If a stack of $1,000 bills 12 inches tall equaled 1 million dollars, it would take a stack of $1,000 bills 1,000,000 feet high to equal ONE trillion dollars. That's over 173 MILES high!!!

Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Italy have been bankrupt for several years. Russia is teetering on insolvency, as is Venezuela and Argentina. The U.S. economy is in terrible trouble, but it STINKS LESS than other economies around the world. That is what is saving us (the U.S.) - so far!

Here are some historical comparisons of the result of over-inflating the economy and currency:

1. In 2008, the socialist dictatorship of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, created an annual inflation rate of 11,250,000% resulting in currency that was basically worthless. At independence in 1980, 1 Zimbabwean dollar was worth approximately $1.25 in U.S. dollars. By mid-2008, one U.S. dollar was worth 688 trillion Zimbabwean dollars. The government was forced to print a $100 Trillion Dollar note - see above - that had the value 14 U.S. CENTS!!!.

2. In 2007, Turkey had been suffering from chronic inflation for decades. In 1980, one U.S. dollar was worth 90 Turkish lira. By 2004, a U.S. dollar was worth 1.3 million Turkish lira. As a result, in 2007 the government simply declared a “revaluation” of the Turkish lira. One million Turkish lira would henceforth be worth only 1 lira.

3. In 2005, Romania devalued its currency: In 1998, the highest printed denomination in Romania was 100,000 lei. By 2005, it began printing 1 million lei notes. The Romanian government then devalued its currency, declaring that 1 new lei would be worth 10,000 old lei.

4. Argentina devalued its currency previously back in 2001: Overspending by the Argentine government resulted in massive inflation in the 1980s and 90s. By 1992, one new peso was worth 100 billion pre-1983 pesos. Had you stuffed cash in your mattress during one of Argentina’s many recessions, not trusting their shaky banks, you would have ended up with nothing but waste paper.


5. Russia faced a collapsed economy previously back in 1999: Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the new Russia saw annual inflation of between 2,500% and 8,500% a year. The value of the ruble declined from 40 rubles to the dollar in 1991 to 30,000 rubles to the dollar by 1999.

Of course, that kind of hyperinflation ONLY occurs in other, backward countries! It could NEVER happen in the good, old U. S. of A

How much are you willing to BET? Try EVERYTHING!

The Recession Has Hit Everyone

The Recession Has Hit Everyone

I was rereading some old posts from 2011 and came across this article from Casey's Research by Vedran Vuk, Editor of Casey’s Daily Dispatch.

It's not funny how little has changed since 2011. Here is the article:

The Recession has hit everybody…..

• I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.
• CEOs are now playing miniature golf.
• Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 of its congressmen.
• I saw a Mormon polygamist with only one wife.
• If the bank returns your check marked “Insufficient Funds,” you call them and ask if they meant you or them.
• Angelina Jolie adopted a child from America.
• Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children’s names.
• A picture is now only worth 200 words.
• The Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas is now managed by Somali pirates.
• Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal. Oh great! The guy who made $50 billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $1.5 trillion disappear!
• And, finally…

I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, wars, jobs, my savings, Social Security, retirement funds, etc., I called the Suicide Hotline. I got a call center in Pakistan , and when I told them I was suicidal, they got all excited and asked if I could drive a truck.

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