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Hold on to those afterburners Fire Nation JLD here and I am fired up to bring you our featured

guest today John Butt. John are you prepared to ignite? Yes I am. And I can extinguish myself

after as well. In Fire Nation you'll know that because John started a fire safety business

as a cold calling door to door salesman and did okay, selling to kidda for seven figures in

2003. He then accidentally started another using e-commerce and over $20 million later is the UK's

largest online fire safety supplier. John take a minute. Fill in some gaps in that in show and give

us a little glimpse of your personal life. As you can tell from the accent I'm over in England.

I you mentioned there I started as a door to door salesman built up a business trotting around

commission only snow, rain, people being horrible etc etc not a lot of fun. But eventually built it

up did okay and sold that to kidda make smoke alarms and all that kind of stuff down home depot

and they paid a nice big check and I decided to retire just before I was 40 and eventually got

onto the internet fell back into selling fire extinguishes again because I actually I actually

set up an e-commerce demo site so I could show people how it worked and then sell them sites

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