Sometimes on the Internet, you wonder how it’s possible to build such strong relationships with people all over the world that you’ve never met in person.This past year, has been one of the most fulfilling for me because I have been traveling more and meeting many of our client base and friends face-to-face.
Yesterday, when I wrote to everyone to apologize for missing a conference call Wednesday night, I was really just writing to let people know how badly I felt about being a no-show.Needless to say I was totally taken back and blown away on the amount of e-mails I got. Never would I have imagined that so many of you would be legitimately concerned about the back pain I suffered.
In reflection, I really want all of you to know that a Ilona, myself, and my staff deeply care as much about you all as it looks like you care about us. I really miss the beginning days of Kiosk.ws when we had about 400 clients. I was able to give the much-needed personal attention to almost all of our clients at that time.Now that we service close to 50,000 people it has become unfortunately an impossibility for me to stay in touch with all of you in this fashion on a regular basis.
So I just wanted to let you all know, that some of you do call me, and yes, I never returned a call.Please know and understand that every morning that I awake and every night before bed the first and last things on my mind are you all.
Back for a moment to the legitimate concerns many of you e-mailed about my health. Firstly, please do not be too concerned.Well before the Internet I have always been a “health junkie” very in tune with my body.I follow a healthy diet religiously, I take plenty of anti-oxidents, exercise at least four times per week, and I am decently knowledgeable about naturopathic and homeopathic remedies.
I will admit, that I push myself to the limit way too often and at this very moment there’s a lot of emotional stress in our business.The cost of opening a satellite office in Texas is going to be astronomically expensive as well as a huge emotional stressor on my family.
So why go?To be honest, from a financial business decision we can not ignore the huge cost in savings primarily in bandwidth and real estate.My goal is to take kiosk.WS, Hotconference.com and other sites that we own to the $100 million per year mark.In order to be able to do so, and to better compete on the international market we need to lower costs.Moving from Canada to Texas will cost us approximately one tenth of our raw bandwidth costs. That is a savings that is impossible to ignore.
So again I just wanted to thank all of you for so many kind e-mails. It has humbled me greatly and I promise to always do my best and always have you in mind as we continue to move our business forward. Have a tremendous weekend!
–Joel Therien
In spanish… you have to translate it:
“Muchos de nosotros pasamos la vida arriesgando nuestra salud para ganar cada vez más dinero, y luego, gastamos todo el dinero que hemos ganado tratando de recuperar la salud”.
Lo importante de vivir la vida equilibradamente es dar a cada parte de ella su lugar y su momento, sin olvidar que lo primero y más importante de esa lista de prioridades somos nosotros mismos y nuestra familia.
Si empezamos a aplazar nuestros compromisos con nosotros y nuestra familia, llegará un momento en que ya nada podremos hacer para recuperar el tiempo perdido…
Que Dios y la vida te premien con salud y abundancia crecientes para ti y los tuyos cada nuevo dÃa.
Que el éxito sea la constante en cada negocio que emprendas.
Que la alegrÃa esté siempre presente en cada minuto de tu vida, para que la compartas con todos los que formamos parte de tu circulo vital.
Saludos desde Caracas, Venezuela.
Pedro
Hi Joel,
I’m a Platinum member and I am COMMITTED to Kiosk’s goal of achieving USD100 million mark.
For a start, remove Bronze & Silver package and remove $1 trial. Let there be only Platinum, Platinum Plus & Dedicated servers. I feel stupid if my upline signed up as Silver or worst Bronze member. If Pareto is right 20% of your members are contributing 80% of revenue/profits. I’m willing to bet that these 20% members are Business Builders and Go Getters that will help Kiosk achieve its objective.
No offence to Silver & Bronze members. If everyone starts at a higher(Platinum) level, its a WIN-WIN for everyone. Do the math, 50,000 members times 24.95(Platinum) = $1,247,500, we are closer to $100 million.
By the way, I’m from Singapore and I always miss the conference call. At the moment I’m doing my kiosk business on a part-time basis. 7pm Eastern is 8am Singapore time, I’m on my way to my full time job. Can anybody record downloadable podcasts? Thank you.
Dear joel and Ilona,
I want to wish Joel a speedy recovery from back pain. I know how difficult this can be on your body and mind and mobility restictions.
God bless you and give you the strength to recover fast.
You have made a wise business decision in providing Platinum services. Everyone needs options, better value for money and tools for marketing that are easy to understand and use. Let us all strive to make Kiosk a better host company. How about a forum where members can add suggestions as to what will help improve Kiosk.
If one exists, please send me details as I want to make sure that when new members join, they can go to the forum and see what is being said, written, or topic discussed about and get a better feel for the excellent work that has put Kiosk where it is.
There may be other prospects who may not be keen with unlimited bandwidth or unlimited domains. Please keep an option for low entry start ups or newbies who may not understand all that jargon (and may not have a need for unlimited domains).
My suggestion is to keeep atleast 2 options, 1 for newbies to get to learn and gain confidence and for those who want to be in Super Affiliate leagues to have option of excellent services with unlimited domains and unlimited bandwith.
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Joel,
Just wanted to thank you for always going above and beyond the call of duty for me and Mike. You are an integral part of our success and we feel so fortunate to have you, Ilona, your company, your staff and your service on our side.
Make Today Great!
Tom Beal
VP of Operations
MikeFilsaime.com
PS – Plus, not many people probably know how well you perform from a cruise ship Vegas style show stage as Ricky Martin. That’s a quality memory for sure…laughing as I type this! Glad I pushed you out of your chair during that karaoke qualifier. 🙂
Muy bueno e interesante artÃculo. Nos vemos!