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Distributor/Network Marketing success stories & testimonials
 In any network marketing
business, joining the right team and upline can greatly help. If you are
reading this page, I'm guessing that you are already aware of this and that you
might be looking for the right team to join. My name is Jez Tromans, I've been
involved with the Utility Warehouse for a number of years and I secured
promotion to Marketing Director on Christmas Day 2008. Further down this page
is an article that I wrote shortly after recognising the true potential of this
business, along with 'introductions' to several key members of my own upline
team, the team that you would be joining, should you opt to
join
as an Independent Distributor through this web-site.
Whilst
Lil McLoughlin is my personal sponsor, over
the years it has been Wes Linden (Senior
Marketing Director), who has acted as a personal mentor, along with the ongoing
support of our upline National Marketing Director,
Steve Critchley. Please
read their testimonials below and for a broad overview of how the Utility
Warehouse business works, with many other testimonials and a flavour of the
culture of the Company's Distributor Network, could I please encouarge you to
watch the 'What's
It All About?' video (hosted by Wes
Linden).
The
stories below are of ordinary people from around the UK, who with anything from
a couple of hours a day, to a couple of hours a week, or more, have employed
the Utility Warehouse business opportunity to generate an additional
income...and in many cases, have built serious life-changing residual incomes
within a few short years.
 Its taken Wes Linden
just a few short years to change his life, I was studying to become a teacher
and was preparing to take the normal work until youre 65 path. I thought that
working the Telecom plus / Utility Warehouse opportunity part-time would
be a good way to help me repay my huge student debts, overdrafts, and credit
card bills plus I felt it would pay for my beer in the student union!
After a few months of introducing customers and sharing the business
opportunity with others, Wes started to see that Telecom plus was
actually a way to have some control over his life, I took the radical decision
of dropping out of university as it became obvious that if I continued working
my Telecom plus business from home, I would not have to worry about
getting up at 7 oclock every morning and working in the bureaucracy driven
education system. [read more]
 In business start-ups,
the stakes are high and therefore out of reach for most people. I risked close
to £50k when I set up my own recruitment agency a few years back. This I
found to be even more demanding than my previous career in pharmaceutical
sales, where my boss owned my time and called the shots. The Utility Warehouse
(Telecom plus) offers a level-playing field for all and what I really
like is that you dont have to re-mortgage your house, leave your safe salary
and job, nor do you need to sacrifice your life savings to get started.
The Utility Warehouse business opportunity requires just £200,
some part-time effort and a willingness to learn. With such a negligible risk,
what has amazed me is that the potential rewards, resulting financial security
and freedom of time can far exceed what can be achieved in a traditional
business or career. [read more]
 Over five years ago, Lil
McLoughlin became the Company's first female Independent Marketing Director.
She built her business during a period in the Company's history when the only
service on offer was the humble Smart Box. I'm not sure that Lil would ever
claim an easy road, but she would clearly testify to it being a very worthwhile
journey. Lil is the lady, walking the beach on the 'What's
It All About?' DVD and has enjoyed the complete freedom of a substantial
residual income for many years.
If Lil and many like her were able to
forge such remarkable stories of success during times when the winds were
against them, where could our modern day Telecom plus take us, if only
we had the courage to weigh anchor and to boldly set sail like never before.
After a few months of introducing customers and sharing the business
opportunity with others, Lil started to see that the Utility Warehouse was
actually a way to have some control over her life. [read more]
 One of our goals when we
first joined the Utility Warehouse (Telecom plus) was to make a million
from the business. That was rather laughable at the time - especially when we
received our first commission cheque for 60 pence! We looked at each other and
thought are we setting our sights a little high?
However, over the
following six years during our climb to National Marketing Director, our
monthly residual income cheque rose steadily. Promotional bonuses were
introduced which we happily accepted. Incentives were brought in, such as
double Customer Gathering bonuses, extra CVC, etc, etc, which we again
gratefully received, and the share option scheme gave us, and thousands of
other Distributors the opportunity to own a part of the business. We have
received in total, almost 150,000 share options. We also received several
fabulous holidays worth oodles of money, tons of awards, plus lots of prizes
scooped up at the various Express Days etc. [read more]
 I absolutely and
unequivocally love the Utility Warehouse and in my opinion, this is by far the
best network marketing business in the UK! This one actually works and I have
been very happy with the results so far. Recently, the Company rewarded my
efforts with a BMW Mini One, which I am very proud to drive. At the time of
writing, I have gathered over 100 personal customers, from which I benefit from
a growing residual income, plus further income streams from my team.
To
say that training is good is an understatement. One of the main ingredients for
a sucessful network marketing business is the training - lots of it! Attending
Telecom plus Distributor training on a regular basis is the key to
growing a huge business. I attended getting started training again last month
and was priviledged to learn direct from one of the Company's top Distributors.
I returned home later and booked eight customer appointments that evening. The
incredible thing is that Utility Warehouse/Telecom plus Distributor training is
mostly free of charge and with no limits on how many times a Distributor can
attend. [read more]
 As with so many
occupations, the acting profession can leave you with many quiet periods
between jobs. So what does one do? Tristan from West London has performed in
the theatre and on television, has starred in panto, and regularly works as a
singer and dancer.
Show-business can be an unreliable profession and
I'd found myself having to work in restaurants and relying on temp agencies in
between roles, which is far from ideal as the pay is usually poor and if you
want to go to auditions you need to take time off which means paying the bills
becomes difficult. Since being introduced to the Telecom plus business
by a friend, I have built up a repeating income that pays my rent, and bills
every month, from just a few part-time hours work a week. Plus I've been given
one of the great free company cars - a BMW Mini! It is not difficult to
recommend the terrific Utility Warehouse services to people and neither is it
hard to find others who want to earn extra money, especially with the free
training and support that Telecom plus provide. [read
more]
 Fun, independence, being
with other people, helping people, achieving results, being worry-free, money,
recognition, self respect... were not unique, and we want the same things as
most people, but we were struggling to find the time or lifestyle to achieve
most of these.
We work this business every day, and every day we are so
pleased that it found us at the right time. We both had corporate careers
(Shannon was Sales Director for the education division of a major US IT
company, and Peter was Managing Director of retail banking for a major
consultancy firm). Despite each of us having six-figure salaries, great company
cars, expense accounts and a host of executive-level benefits, our time and our
lives were not our own; with crucifying pressure and huge stress. We were the
living embodiment of the work-life balance gone wrong! [read more]
 This opportunity has
allowed me to design a life of choice for my family and I. It's a wonderful
feeling to support your children through University without them having to
work. In the past year I have been skiing in Austria, enjoyed the sun in
Cyprus, bought a £1million house in Surrey and drive a new Mercedes. I
say this not to impress you but to impress upon you that with a little bit of
self-belief, ambition and a willingness to learn you could have the freedom to
choose your own lifestyle, like I do.
P.S. In case you're wondering, I
was expelled from school at 15, hence no qualifications and I am now
semi-retired, working a 20 hour week, after just a few short years. [read
more]
My background is that of teaching. For over
20 years I taught PE and sport has been a huge part of my life both as a
participant and a teacher. I tend to relate everything I do, and values that I
hold, to sport. I have two major goals in my business.
My first major
goal has been to build a team, with the kind of energy that can "move
mountains" or make the impossible, possible! A team where there is as much
genuine pleasure for the new Distributor who gathers their first six customers
as for the Distributor who reaches the top of the ladder.
Some time ago
I played in a Ladies' tennis team. As we had no matches in the winter we
decided we'd form a squash team and enter the league. None of us had played
squash before. We had a couple of lessons to learn the basic skills. Come our
first match and we were wiped off court. We were used to success in the tennis
league and this was an unpleasant experience for us (our business equivalent -
the successful business person who is not immediately successful with the
Utility Warehouse). [read
more]
 With a background in IT sales, Gail was
used to a great salary, but lots of stress. Demanding targets meant that she
was aware that she was only as good as last month's sales
figures.
Husband Grahame also has a demanding job, as a medical product
manager and explained, as we continued life in the fast lane, we were becoming
increasingly frustrated that Gail couldn't afford to give up work to have a
baby and start the family we badly wanted.
Something had to change, so
in 2003 they started working part-time with Telecom plus, fitting it
around their existing work committments. Then in 2005, daughter Teah was born.
I went on maternity leave, explains Gail, and it was a great feeling when
Grahame and I could decide that I didn't need to go back to work full-time
because of the additional income we were generating from our Telecom
plus business. [read
more]
 Originally from Ayrshire in Scotland I
now reside in beautiful Kent with my husband and two children. When my children
were born I chose to give up work to become a full-time mum and, to be honest,
the years when the children were young were the happiest of my life. Once the
children started school I became restless and looked about for something that
would be challenging but also totally flexible. I wanted the work and I wanted
the money but most of all I wanted to be a mum, and that meant I had to be
available whenever the children needed me. Therefore I needed an activity that
I would be able to pick up and put down to suit the demands of my family.
It was at this point that I stumbled across network marketing. I had
studied marketing as one of the subjects for my degree so the concept did not
scare me in the way it does some people. I saw it for what it was a very
powerful concept that requires the right vehicle to realise its full potential.
[read
more]
 We are Rishi &
Marina, based in Warwickshire and have been Authorised Distributors with the
Utility Warehouse for just over 12 months. Our reason for joining the Telecom
plus business was to find a financial vehicle that will give us what we
want from life. Rishi was made redundant 18 months ago and our world was turned
upside down in an instant. Now we want to be in control of our own lives. Not
to work for someone else who has control over what we do, and how much we get
paid.
Before we became Distributors we did our own research on the
Utility Warehouse and Telecom plus PLC, this took several weeks. We were
trying to find a fault with the Company and a reason not to join. Strangely
enough we couldn't find any. We decided to join the Utility Warehouse business
for various reasons. Firstly, it was a win-win situation. People want to save
money, we needed to make money and this business combines the two. We also
needed a business that we could fit around our day jobs, and didn't involve
going door to door. [read
more]
 Cindy & I live in
Sale, Cheshire and until very recent times I was involved VERY part time with a
beauty business in Knutsford, Cheshire.
We joined Telecom plus
in 1997. We had just closed our menswear business in Knutsford and we were
victims of the mid 1990s recession. I was 46 years old, owed £130k+, in
danger of losing our home, our cars, our lifestyle and in particular; my
pension. I had no-where else to go. My belief in me was zero!
I was
working from home, trying various things to make ends meet but mainly
increasing my costs. My telephone bill was going through the roof; so when I
was approached I was very receptive to saving money. When the concept of this
business was explained to me I realised; bingo! I had a solution to our
problems. If I wanted to save money why shouldn't other people want to do the
same? If they save money they will be happy and because of the system I'll be
happy. [read
more]
 Formal background; First
11 years of my economic life as a blue-collar worker. Past 13 years involved in
aviation as airside safety officer. I loved the job, unfortunately I didn't
like some of the people I worked with, no choice I guess I came to the
conclusion my particular career ladder was firmly leaning against the wrong
wall!
A time for change. I was looking for something I could do for
myself and a friend of mine told me about Telecom plus, he told me to
keep an open mind at that point. I firmly closed mine! I was naturally
sceptical, had heard it all before, read the book, seen the film, its not for
me. I had already pre-judged, but because I knew this person I decided to
logically check it out. I got a bank manager friend to do some checks on the
company, to my astonishment everything checked out and I must admit the timing
was right for me to take a serious look at creating a second income stream. [read
more]
 I am an Independent
Financial Advisor and Jackie is an Interior Designer/Specialist Painter. When I
first looked at this opportunity I loved the concept of referral based
marketing but I was too busy, already working 60-80 hours a week and had no
spare time at all. However I realised that if I really wanted to do this, I had
to find the time needed to fit this other business in. My hobby was sailing the
coastal waters of North Wales, where we live, and I loved it so I made the
momentous decision to temporarily give it up to release some time. Why not? I
knew that if I just gave it up for a while, then later I could sail as often as
I liked and in warmer climates too.
Prior to joining the financial
services profession I qualified in Hotel Management and I was a Restaurateur.
However, I had previously tried many things including being a Meat Pie
Manufacturer, Labourer, Crane Driver. I knew absolutely nothing about
telephony, broadband, mobile phones or the other Utility Warehouse services.
[read more]
 When
Jimmy was forced to leave the police service in 2004 due to an injury, he was
sad to leave a job he enjoyed, "I loved being able to help and serve other
people. I was proud of the job I did." However, Jimmy was confident that his
future was going to be bright, "I'd already started working my Telecom
plus business in my days off from the police and I knew it had the
potential to support my family.
"Many other people in my position would
have been forced to take menial jobs they didn't enjoy, but I can spend time
doing what I love; helping people to save money on their essential household
services, and if they want, helping them make extra money too.
I went on
over 20 trainings in my first year and the days following training I was in
such a high that I couldn't fail to sign lots of customers. people buy from
people and when you are so enthusiastic about what you are talking about,
people can't say no." [read
more]
From saving people's lives to
saving people money!
 When Keith was offered the chance to become a Utility
Warehouse customer and save some money on his BT phone bill he never realised
the effect this would have upon his future. "My bills were about £200 per
quarter and becoming a member of the Utility Warehouse Discount Club saved me
about £70 in the first 3 months. Naturally, after I told a few friends
about these savings, and then learnt I could earn an income for doing so, I
knew I needed to do something different if I wanted to earn any real
money.
I left school without any qualifications and worked two jobs at
the same time to scrape a living as a French polisher and an on-call fireman.
When I found out it was possible that I would earn some money with the Utility
Warehouse every time someone switched on a light, boiled a kettle, made a phone
call or sent a text message, I realised this could give me the chance to start
working towards a financially secure future.
 I cant tell you enough
what a phenomenal business opportunity this is. I left work when my daughter
was born because I didnt want to have to make the choice between her sports day
and the wishes of my boss. Although this wasnt my first business opportunity,
being blind, this was the one that made most sense for me. Product-based
opportunities not only meant that I had to sell month upon month but also that
I had to rely on someone who could see helping me to pound the streets with my
catalogues and to deal with the orders. That wasnt what I wanted. I needed
something where the service delivered itself and the team support from the
Company down understood my specific needs and challenges. This is most
definitely itand the Utility Warehouse has delivered well is every
respect.
I shudder to think what I would be doing now if I werent a
Utility Warehouse Distributor and involved with this business - probably
sitting on the breadline or claiming benefits or doing some job that someone
who didnt have a clue about my situation, thought that I was capable of. [read more]
 After going through
numerous examinations, coursework for A-levels and a Degree at University, up
until the age of 22, I was more frequently being asked the question of what job
are you going to do after University? So after much thought and consideration
of the dream jobs that I wanted in the ideal world (i.e. Working in Promotions
for a Big Sports Company or Team travelling around the World, or finding a
three hour-a-day job with massive amounts of pay and time off!!) I soon
realised that having a Business Honours Degree doesn't at all guarantee you a
job or any job that would interest me. This I certainly did not want as I want
to enjoy my life just as much as I did before I left University.
I had
heard about the Utility Warehouse business before and it sounded brilliant but
for a person my age to start a business was going to be hard, as I had no
experience whatsoever. I also thought it would be very hard convincing older
people to save money or make money. However, my father suddenly (or finally)
realised the potential of it and he was hooked as well, therefore he decided to
do it along with me to help me out and make money for himself! [read
more]
 I joined the business with a plan to
get to Independent Marketing Director. I am delighted that I achieved that
before the end of 2008. Running my own organic food business, playing
drums/percussion with a band and having a busy family life, may leave an
impression of a life too full to develop another income stream. However, this
business is perfectly suited to busy people. Tailoring it around everyday life
enables you to start developing a team which then contributes many hours to
your business while you may be occupied elsewhere.
One thing that I have
come to appreciate since becoming a Distributor is the huge impact that our
everyday thoughts have upon our business. After all, as Jeff Olson so
eloquently puts it: "Our thoughts affect our philosophy, our philosophy will
affect our actions and our actions will determine our future".
I am now
becoming much more aware of whether my thoughts are empowering me or holding me
back, and there doesn't seem a great deal of point in having a mindset that
holds me back. [read more]
I trained as a PE teacher and after
experiences teaching and traveling in South East Asia and Africa, I became
passionate about overseas development issues. I returned to the UK to complete
a Masters degree in demography/ population policies. I then worked in the
charity sector implementing projects in Africa.
In 2003 I became a
Utility Warehouse customer and was impressed with both the savings and
efficiency of the Company. I wanted to tell my friends and family about it so
that they could benefit too. By this time I was at home, full time, with three
children under five. I saw the Utility Warehouse business as an opportunity for
a challenge. Right from the start I had a good feeling about this venture; my
long-term goal was to reach Marketing Director and retire! [more]
 A couple of years ago a friend of mine told me
about a business where I could get paid every time a customer turned on a
light, but it wasn't until September 2004 when I was looking for cheaper phone
calls that the light went on in my head, and I realised exactly what she was
talking about.
I retired as a Police Sergeant in 1992 and joined the
ranks of the self-employed as an aromatherapist, which gave me more time at
home with my children. Unfortunately, after a rather bloody divorce, I became a
single parent with 2 children, a large house miles from the bus stop, and an
unpredictable income. My Police pension was slowly falling in value, and I was
turning into a taxi-driver for 2 teenagers. So we decided to move to a smaller
house, nearer school and civilization, and it was when I was looking for ways
of saving money that I found I could make money too, with a range of essential
services that everyone already used. [read more]
Just 12 months part-time work
to create a pension
 Peter first discovered The Utility Warehouse and
Telecom plus Plc when he was buying some shares in the Company and then
became a Utility Warehouse Discount Club Member. When I looked properly at how
Telecom plus did business using ordinary people working from home, to
introduce customers through word-of-mouth, I decided to try it for myself. I
was tired of nepotism, frustrations and the politics involved in corporate life
so at 50 I decided to leave the rat-race to try and do my own thing.
After just 12 months of working part-time with Telecom plus and
promoting The Utility Warehouse Discount Club, Peter had a very pleasant
surprise: My monthly commission had grown to overtake the pension I had spent
nine years of employment working to build, which of course I can't touch until
I'm 60. My goal now is to own a 38-foot catamaran and to share sailing and
exploring the world with my partner Conny, my family and friends, which this
business will give me the time and flexibility to do.
 Getting started in this
business nine years ago, the goal was to find an opportunity to earn a
significant income without the confines of a 20 hour a day job and a boss
breathing down my neck. I didn't know a lot about network marketing, even less
about the Utility Warehouse and didn't have the slightest idea that it was
going to provide me with a secure income and a truly happy life.
In the
early days I worked so hard for very little reward and one of the hardest
things was to keep going without the evidence that I was ever going to succeed.
At that time there were no role models, none that had gone before me, that I
could look up to and get advice from and there were a few times (actually many
times) when I doubted that I would earn enough to feed the cat, let alone
myself and the idea of being able to eat in the world's top restaurants was to
say the least remote. But, as my wife will tell you, I am a determined so and
so. [read more]
 When Mark left school at
16 with no qualifications, he began work as a building site labourer, and also
spent some time as a factory worker. He managed to save up to buy his own
property and made a quick profit from this and so began to buy others houses to
rent out. It was at this stage he found the Telecom plus (Utility
Warehouse) opportunity.
At first, I just wanted to find cheaper services
for myself and was amazed to find that Telecom plus offered a Discount
Club via the Utility Warehouse, that offered all the household services on one
convenient bill. Then I found out they had an income opportunity too, and
thought I might as well get all my rental properties on the services and make
some money from this!
Mark found that things grew from there, Without
really going out of my way, I was signing up customers and distributors. I'd
just mention the cheaper services on one bill and people would be interested,
as indeed they would when I shared that there was a way to make extra income
too. I now have a monthly income that grows each month from Telecom
plus. [read more]
 I live in Sussex and was in the
rat-race for the first half of my working life. I have a sales and engineering
background, was successful and earning good money. I regularly used to drive
40-50,000 business miles a year, staying nights away and enjoying little
personal or social life.
In 2003 I had the opportunity to leave the
rat-race and spend more time at home. I wasnt sure what I wanted to do but I
knew I wanted to work from home. I had one false start but then almost by
accident, I came across Telecom plus. I had no real idea what Referral
Marketing was, or what was involved in becoming successful in network
marketing, but as with anything I set my mind too, I threw myself into it with
a huge amount of energy and enthusiasm.
I had a full-time self-employed
job when I started, which meant I could initially only spare a few hours a
week, but I found it really easy to encourage my warm market to try the
services and save money. With determination I received around £1,000 in
bonuses in the first two months. [read more]
The stories above are of ordinary people
from around the UK, who with anything from a couple of hours a day, to a couple
of hours a week, or more, have employed the Utility Warehouse / Telecom
plus business opportunity to generate some extra money...and in many
cases, build a serious life-changing residual income.
If you are curious
enough to find out more and how this can work for you too, then please
contact me or register
for further information.
Jeremy Tromans
Independent Marketing
Director, Telecom plus
0800 458 0623 / 07957 822 103
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