About Julieanne and John
G’day, I (it’s Julieanne writing this:-) hope you’re having a fantastic day or evening! It’s funny when writing about “Who you are”, because all of us are really lots of different personalities all wrapped up in one physical parcel:-) I’m a mother of 2 lovely grown up daughters, a wife to a man named John, who is my favorite Rock ‘n Roll singer, a grandmother to 2 very gorgeous and cute little beings – one is a little boy almost 3 years old and the other a little girl who just had her first birthday!
We live in a city in Australia, called the “Gold Coast”, where it’s sunny around 98% of the time. The Gold Coast has a real holiday type atmosphere and attracts thousands of tourists from all over the country and the world because of the climate and the 70 miles of golden sandy beaches.
Below is a video of John and I, on one of the Gold Coast beaches at Burleigh Heads, just saying hello. Click play below if you want to meet us, this was taken in about 2007, and was one of the first videos we made!
Our Passions
We’re both Scuba Divers, something we learned about 8 years ago. I LOVE the feeling of Being underwater and swimming with the fish, and looking at those magnificent underwater gardens, that are sooo different from anything you see above the ground!
Here’s a video I took of us diving on the HMAS Brisbane, a big ship that was sunk about 5 years ago, and is now a very popular with divers. You won’t see much of John or me, but you can certainly see the exciting stuff we see almost 30 metres underwater.
Another thing we love is to travel, and over the last 10 years, have travelled to many different and exciting places overseas, like Slovenia (my favorite), Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, and in the United States, Las Vegas, San Diego and Palm Springs.
We also love learning about the Law of Attraction, and follow the teachings of Abraham Hicks closely. I listen to Abraham Hicks for hours and hours!
And, John’s greatest passion is singing, he does a great job impersonating Mick Jagger in his Rolling stones Tribute Band.
Our Journey as an Online Entrepreneur
Back in the year 2000, I was getting a bit too serious about work and missing out on a lot of fun! After getting Honours in a computer science degree, I found myself engrossed in studying for a PhD and also teaching Computer Science at a University in South Australia. I thought the study would be really exciting, and it was at first. However, while sitting at my desk for more hours than I care to remember, I started to realize I wanted to do other activities in my life!
At one time, I was looking to earn a bit of extra money because I was going overseas for a convention and couldn’t teach while over there. So John and I responded to an advert that said “Use your computer to earn income”!
Funny because it turned out to be a network marketing opportunity, and John spent most nights on the phone doing half hour sales calls (that was way back in the year 2000). The best part about that business was that we fell in love with the idea of getting residual income and we started dreaming again!
A couple of years later, we were introduced to a more automated Internet Marketing system, and we used a Face Page and photos on the internet, so people could get to know us. This was the beginning of what’s now called “Attraction Marketing” although we called it “Relationship Marketing”. Those days, we mostly purchased leads and got to know people in internet discussion forums. We started doing a lot of fun and adventurous stuff like learning to scuba dive and we travelled to Hawaii one year and to San Diego a couple of times.
We learned about the Law of Attraction, which has shown us that the most important thing in life is to FEEL GOOD!
The Internet marketing system we were using worked so well for us, that we left our jobs (I’d given up my PhD by then, and had a job as a computer science lecturer by that time) and moved from Sth Australia up to the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. The Gold Coast was where we’d been dreaming about living for quite awhile!
However… a couple of years after moving cities, the internet network marketing system we’d been using was immobilized and our network marketing downline almost completely disintegrated.
Needless to say, we were forced to start over again. We were fortunate to be introduced to the Vemma nutritional company, which we’ve been with ever since. We started off using our Relationship Marketing strategies and attracted powerful leaders into our business. It’s very exciting when you start getting large weekly checks, wait until it happens to you! We’ve also had some exciting holidays in Slovenia, Holland, Germany and in California and Vegas over the last few years.
I also built an online store for the products, learned a lot about search engine optimization, and article and video marketing. For a couple of years we focussed almost entirely on attracting customers online.
We still get a steady amount of customers.. However, I wouldn’t recommend ONLY using this strategy for a number of reasons. The main reason is that customers don’t build your business for you, so it’s much quicker to work with business builders.
We’re now focusing entirely on showing other network marketers how to use relationship marketing online, in their business. And, while we’re doing that, we’re also building our own business online. Finding business builders is much much faster way to achieve success, as we can show you.
We look forward to hearing your your story, and helping you in your journey towards achieving your dreams!
Here’s some photos of us from the last several years, to show you some of the things we’re passionate about.
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