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MEET PAUL HINES - Featured member for November 2009

How do you describe your business?

My Business with Traverus/Televerus can best be described as a full service business opportunity that provides the needs of 3 businesses in one. We sell travel and a travel opportunity for people to become travel agents, we have a health and wellness line of products called the Verus line and we have a wireless cellphone and home plan, not to mention the Timeshare Travel Club program.

How did you come to be in your business?

I got tired of all the scams and promises that I was involved in due to the fact that I was a newbie until I found Traverus/Televerus.

What are the three best things about doing the work that you do?

The freedom that it affords me, helping people just like me who have aspirations of getting a business, and not having someone defining what I should or could make.

What has been your biggest frustration in creating your business?

Trying to help people understand that nothing happens overnight and learning how to effectively manage my time.

How do you view the question of spending time working on your business... as distinct from working in the business?

Easy, working on your business is the heavy lifting and the grunt work involved, working in my business is the fun part because since I'm in the travel business, our meetings and conferences are in some of the most exotic locations in the world.

What has been the biggest change that you've seen in your market since you started your business?

The way people have adjusted their travel habits, for instance since the economic climate is so grim people have adjusted by traveling during offseason months. Nontheless they still travel.

Where do you see the trends for your line of business in the next 5 years, and what do you foresee as opportunities and threats?

The future trend in travel is always bright because business people still have to travel,people will still always find money and ways to travel, and the baby boomers can't wait to retire so they can travel to all the places they've dreamed of. I see no threats to either travel, cellphone use or health and wellness.

Who has been your greatest role model, and what lessons have you learned from them that you've taken into the way you do business?

One of my greatest role models is a man named Mike Dillard, a former waiter who sat down and figured out a system that lays out the blurprint of network marketing in an easy to read affordable manual and ebook. I learned that you don't have to go broke buying leads amoung other things.

What is it that you believe, sets you and your business apart from others in your industry?

Traverus is a business with a heart, that may sound corny but its true. We don't look at people as numbers but like people with the same ambitions, problems and dreams as us all. We don't just get people in and abandon them, we plug them into our system and make sure they're never alone.

If there were one thing that customers believed about your business, what would you most like it to be?

That whether you're a customer or team member, you'll get treated like you're a human being, a human being whose input counts. And that its not all about US, its all about them.

Paul Hines

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