Globalcom 2000 was the first network marketing company I owned with my partner Don Steinberg, and it had quite an impressive history. We sold long distance and phone cards and in fact that company actually dominated the phone card industry in America in 1993 and 1994. We did everything first: the first time a retail store put their logo on a phone card was 7-11 and we did those phone cards.
Our Marilyn Monroe phone card (the first of what would be many more Marilyn Monroe phone cards in the industry to follow) was the number one collector card for 1993. It made the front cover of England’s Collector Card Catalog, and our “Marilyn for Christmas” made the front cover of Germany’s Collector Card Catalog. We had the first customize branded phone card vending machine in America, the first Magazine cover on a phone card, first solid gold phone card, first $1,000 phone card, first fund raiser phone card (we did a lot of fund raiser phone cards – as I am very cause oriented) the first ethnic phone card and half a dozen other firsts in the phone card industry. During this time we were also the fastest growing phone card company in the US.
At the end of 1994 Don and I decided to sell this company and branch out into another area of telecommunication which had more appeal to a global market place in order to more easily penetrate the international markets and take advantage of a world wide network marketing company expanding into many countries.
With the experience and industry connections we gained in Globalcom 2000 Don Steinberg and I opened our next network marketing company “One World Communications” which sold CallBack and phone cards worldwide and this now allowed us to penetrate the global telecommunications market place.