Hi Paul, It's Brenda...but I bet you already guessed it. 
Good for you all and for doing good things with the Marines, and the fast payments, et al. I salute you and these endeavors and accomplishments.
But, I respectfully submit I do not like that the notaries who chat here and exchange ideas here have been subjectively termed "silly."
Perhaps you need to slide on the NSA's shoes for a moment to see what kind of conversation you have engaged.
The NSA's perspective is different than yours. However, you love your business, and we love ours. I adore mine and I will fight like a tomcat to stay self-employed.
Can we agree that we have at least that much common ground?
What if all of a sudden a very large organization for signing service owners began to extol the wonders of becoming a signing service...and, they said "come join us...we'll show you how to cash in..."
Then, with the money YOU, Paul, have been paying them in membership fees to support the organization they did mass marketing to create competition and train them...while making more money to recruit more members to create more competition for you.
Next, your business dwindled down to nothing because a million people decided to open up signing services and they took the jobs you were getting 125 - 150.00 for, and they got them by bidding 100.00...then 75.00, then 50.00 .
Pretty soon...really soon, you cannot pay a notary, you lose your clients, and the ones you had left do not pay you on time.
Your creditors get mad at you...your equipment breaks and you cannot replace it.
And, then if that were not enough, the organization that did this to you creates an online ordering system and then did mass marketing and consensus building with all title companies and lenders and got them on board.
Now, if you don't drop another 500.00-2000.00 to buy into this ordering system you are told you'll be left behind...maybe even freeze in the dark. YOU will be called a cave dweller.
You probably cannot see this from the NSAs perspective, but we have every right to stonewall against ENJOA...and, if enough of us do...either the idea will be lost...of if the idea prevails, the rest of us may re-invent ourselves into signing services and cash in on those who have purchased ENJOA...never underestimate the power of networking and the spirit of the entrepreneurs like myself and others who are still around on these boards.
It's a nightmare for those who have weathered the storm.
Please, Paul, before you take personal offense at our feelings on the NNA and ENJOA and anyone who promotes this route, if you peer through our viewpoints and see a new perspective you might develop an understanding that you are not endearing yourself to the people you need to put on the ground.
The new ones will be here and then 90% of them will peter out because they have not built a business, but were used by NNA to build bank accounts.
Are the comments here silly?? No. It's a product of our conditioning.
I am hopeful that you will reconsider your remarks. IMHO, we all need each other in this business...and until you recognize you just have not walked in our shoes yet...you are not real clear on the subject you have brought forth.
This is meant most respectfully and I hope you reconsider before you continue to say we are cave dwellers. One reason we all work for ourselves is so that we are not called names because our views differ from a "boss's" opinion.
Thank you. |
