Andrew Reynolds is a quiet, down to earth, almost shy, sort of guy. Not the sort of person you’d except to be standing in front of a large crowd of almost 4000 folks at an Entrepreneurs Bootcamp sharing his system for making cash from property that has brought in over £30 Million since he started just ten years ago.
Not the sort of guy you’d imagine as a house organization mentor – nor somebody who would have devoted the last couple of years to philanthropy, supporting local and national charities by applying his dollars making systems to the company of fund raising.
In 2005 he raised the largest amount from an event ever produced for Wonderful Ormond Street Hospital – and followed up in 2007 with a similar event – raising an even higher sum. 2008 saw him use his Money On Demand techniques to pull in nearly £500,000 for the Make A Wish Foundation. A Patron of the Princes Trust, Andrew Reynolds is a firm believer in the role of mentors….
We went along to discover out more…
Just ten years ago, Andrew Reynolds was working for a national home-builder – a completely distinct career to the organization he now runs. Reaching the age of 40 and with a gut feeling that there had to be much more to life, Andrew decided to look for practical alternatives to corporate life
There’s an old saying that ‘when the student is ready, the teacher will appear’ and Reynolds says that is SO accurate in his case.
“My gut instinct was telling me that somebody out there somewhere knew a diverse way to earn funds than the 1 I’d been brought up on at school. I just ‘knew’ that somewhere somebody was performing what I wanted to do – running a profitable organization from their residence – rather than performing the crazy commuting each day and being faced with the nonsense of office life….the backstabbing, the ‘clawing your way up’ the promotion ladder, just to get a single figure % salary rise….
…Then out of the blue I received an email invitation to go to a seminar…an event taking location just 3 days later. The event was to feature a guy who was indeed making money working from house. I so desperately wanted to learn his system and see if I could do it myself….”
There was a negative side to the equation. The seminar was being held 5000 miles away in the USA and a trip at such short notice for somebody with a full time 60 hours a week job, was virtually out of the question.
“The gut instinct I had – that this guy knew something that could change my life, kept gnawing at me that night. The following morning (a Sunday!) Andrew Reynolds known as his boss at home and asked if he could have the next week off, so he could go to the seminar. 48 hours later Andrew found himself sat in a tiny seminar hall with his pen poised, as the seminar began – an event that would turn out to be a crucial turning point in his life – the commence of a Multi Million pound fortune developed from his desk in a little spare bedroom at property
“The lesson I learned from that – go with your gut instinct. If you are ready to do learn some thing and a ‘teacher’ appears – don’t think twice – grab the opportunity with both hands!”
That gut instinct served him well. Within days of attending the seminar, he handed in his notice at work and began working on an notion for his new “Money On Demand” business.
“I had no idea what I was doing. I had no experience in this company.. I had no readymade goods to sell…I had no idea about advertising on the web or utilizing direct mail… I had no customers… I just sat down with my old Pre-Pentium pc, which had 1 of those old ‘clackety-clack‘ printers that woke up the neighbours when it went off… plus my notes of what the speaker at the seminar had taught me….”
I then set about tweaking what I had been taught…adapting it for the UK market and spent the next couple of years refining a company model that I referred to as “Money On Demand” and have since taught to other people – some of who have gone on to pull in over £1million each, copying what I taught them”
What Reynolds came up with was a cash making organization plan that could be copied and run by others at residence – on a full time or part time basis.
“When I was searching around for an alternative to working for a company – I looked at the so referred to as ‘Business Opportunity ‘ market – I looked at all the daft ‘networking’ schemes, very costly franchise deals where you appear to end up buying yourself a job. I even looked at existing companies for sale to see if I could locate 1 I would like to operate myself (assuming I could have got a bank loan). But they all seemed to be small sub post offices or fish and chip shops. Not my concept of a wonderful enterprise
What I craved more than ever was freedom – the capability to work the hours I wanted, instead of the daily grind….the freedom to work from where I liked – instead of being tied down to the daily grind of commuting every day to 1 location of work…the freedom to determine when I took time out for myself and my family.”
Ten years later Andrew Reynolds has achieved just that! Working on his organization just a couple of hours a day – Reynolds has been able to set his company up in a way that allows it all to be run from his laptop pc – from almost anywhere in the world.
“In the past twelve months, I’ve run my organization on my laptop whilst I’ve been taking time out – from my balcony overlooking Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia, from a lovely 5 star hotel suite in Hong Kong, even though visiting Singapore, from a beautiful suite at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, and from my balcony overlooking the seafront in the peaceful setting of Jersey.
“Occasionally, I have to pinch myself. I look back at the hours of sitting in visitors – and compare it to the enterprise I now run and the freedom it’s given – not to mention the cash – I still can’t believe it myself.