A couple of years ago someone suggested I become a Notary Public and service the title business as a mobile Notary. I thought why not, I was working at Clear Channel as an Ad Exec, I could use the extra money. But little did I know Q3 2008 would be a time when everyone's nightmare of financial stability (including mine) would come to a screeching halt.
I lost half of my client base and half of my income...scary. Fortunate for me I had a back-up plan. I started working part time as a mobile Notary making a few extra dollars on the side. As I began to see the potential I reached out to more clients to broker closing outside of my area. I thought, what a great idea, you mean I can schedule closing and make a little extra for facilitating the deal? I was great, I went from 5 closings to 80 in just a short while.
Well, as anyone who knows me, can attest to one thing...I'm not afraid to take the ball and run with it. The problem I faced was that I grew way to fast and tried to expand without considering the financial risk. As I looked at ways the be technologically advanced I ended up robbing Peter to pay Paul and hurt some people along the way.
Well what can I say, except I'm a little embarrassed... So why am I righting this blog? I guess its because I want people to understand the power of the internet. Did you realize that if you publish something negative on the internet that it NEVER goes away. Much to my surprise, the people I owed $100 or even $200 posted information about me that I can never erase. I got slammed for $100 wow... And now even as I begin to pay people back those people can NEVER retracted their statements or post a positive comment.
Oh well, I'll just keep doing the right thing and hope the name Mark Freatman has a positive comment next to it.
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