Doug D’Anna’s latest ‘e-Wealth Daily’ article is titled “Just One Victory”. [‘e-Wealth Daily’ Article]


Doug D’Anna’s latest ‘e-Wealth Daily’ article:

Just One Victory

I’ve always had a strong entrepreneurial drive. I am, by nature, a risk-taker and an innovator — and I approach projects as a scientist. I knew at a fairly young age that I would feel “caught” within the confines of the corporate boardroom. It’s not that I couldn’t do it. I am intelligent and quite capable of conducting business matters, but, somehow, parking myself in an office for eight to 10 hours a day, wearing a shirt and tie, and grinding out spreadsheets and reports on a yearly salary just never appealed to me.

I had more of an internal focus on and an interest in people — I would much rather spend my time, I believed, learning more about the people around me and creating cultural and social value than increasing someone else’s bottom line. Little did I know at the time that I could do both simultaneously — and become very financially successful from it!

I am a people person, a behavioral scientist of sorts. I love to converse with friends or strangers, to get a glimpse inside their minds and personalities, and find out what makes them tick. I seem to have an instinct for listening, reasoning, analyzing and interpreting. It’s this knack that I have that has kept my interest, made me successful, and made me a lot of money through the years.

But I didn’t always know that would be the case. And, for many years, I certainly didn’t think of it as my “ability.” In fact, at one point in my life, I couldn’t even get a job. At 26, I graduated from college with a degree in Speech. I seemed to be and felt I was, quite frankly, un-hirable. I had no concrete idea of what I wanted to do with my career. I knew there was something I wanted to create and nurture into fruition — I just wasn’t sure what it was.

Those were challenging times for me. I was restless, sometimes disheartened. But I also knew I had to accept 100% responsibility for my own survival. I knew my future depended on me finding my inner self and using all the motivation I could muster to find my sense of purpose, my sense of self. Literally, one day, I made the commitment to overcome fear and to trust my inner instincts. I knew one thing: if I could talk persuasively to people, I could write that way, too. I connected with my entrepreneurial spirit and contracted myself out as a direct marketing consultant. This was the birth of what is now, 17 years later, a very successful communications business.

Direct marketing is really the art of creating desire. My job was to structure persuasive copy to appeal to both broad and niche consumer markets. And I was amazed at it! I had taken my ability to be influential with people and, before long, was earning four thousand dollars from one client on a job, fifteen thousand from another, and pretty soon hundreds of thousands of dollars were coming in. I took this victory of being able to persuade people and multiplied it over and over again.

I took my most basic quality of being a people person and learned to shine, to become unique. I’ve since created hundreds of ads, sales letters, and info-products in order to cultivate millions of dollars in revenues for some very large companies, but I began at the same point you are at…the beginning. You can be 30…40…50…it’s irrelevant.

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