I'm not good at math so I don't save money

Are you serious? I like how people categorize "math" with finances. Like being able to calculate what the cost of something is on sale or how to just calculate savings if they put their money somewhere.

Is it because most people equate math with algorithms and proofs? Fine, if that is the case. But everyone should be able to know how to save money. Isn't that the point. Most people are NOT in sales so their income is set. You trade time for money if your hourly and if your salary you better hope you don't work more than 40hrs a week or your hourly rate conversion just dropped.

So story goes like this:
We got a customer who is using First Choice Power at $0.23 cents/kw on a month to month plan. Been doing this for awhile now. Normal consumption in the summer is 2000kw.

So simple math tells us that this person should be paying before taxes is:
$0.23 X 2000 = $460 per month.

I guess that isn't so bad if that is the rate you can only pay. BUT.

I have a 6 month rate that is $0.134/kw and a 1 yr at $0.144/kw.

I tell everyone to lock it as long as you can as you will never know if the market prices will go up or down.

The savings this person would have had are as followed per month

• 1 year plan ($0.23-$0.144) x 2000 kw = $172 SAVED per month for 12 months at that usage
  
• 6 months plan ($0.23-$0.134) X 2000 kw = $192 SAVED per month for 6 months at that usage

Now of course the usage will drop in the winter but you get my point. For at least the summer months this person was OVER PAYING by $172-$192 PER MONTH.
Okay. Some people got money coming out of the wazoo so this isn't a concern. But for the working class this is huge. For something you will get regardless and it's delivered the same.

It has been said that most bankruptcies could be avoided if another $250 of income was generated per month. Instead of generating it you're almost there just by saving!

So ask yourself. Why does our school system not have a class to teach people about how to manage their money? Why do so many people carry a credit card debt? How come you hear so many college students carry debt on the cards from just stuff they buy? No education. We go to school to learn a trade yet most people never really understand how money works. Sad Sad times.

Plus, I saw on David Letterman last night that physical education class are being phased out. So now we are going to become a nation of overweight students who have no clue that paying the minimum due on the credit card isn't smart.

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Ignite and Stream Energy #37 largest private Dallas company

I thought to myself who the heck cares if my company is the #37 largest in Dallas. That is just Dallas. Sure I'm happy we rank but that is only one city. I guess you can't really complain since our company is in it's infancy of 3 years. But then I started to look at the companies and wow. There are some large companies that are privately owned in Dallas.

The larger we get the more it's going to hurt TXU. We already have in excess of 350,000 customers in Texas alone. I can't wait until we break the top 10. With them being bought out I wonder how that's going to change the TXU energy plans.

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Top 100 private companies in Dallas.

#37 Ignite/Stream Energy - We are moving up! Last yr was #51

#1 Energy Future Holdings - Formerly known as TXU ( They are slowly losing market share)
#2 Neiman Marcus
#3 Michael's Stores
#7 Mary Kay (wow!)
#11 Dresser Inc (Oil tools)
#24 Interstate Battery
#39 Container Store
#47 Hagger Clothing
#61 Toni & Guy (they are expensive!)
#71 Dallas Cowboys
#79 Taco Bueno (everyone raves about them)
#93 Half Price Books Store

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Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Southwest Region Goes to Stream Energy Founder Rob Snyder

Yipee.

Looks like my little side business with Ignite and Stream Energy is slowly making national news. This is going to be a good times as this will draw more attention to what I do and bring even more accountability to a business that has been tainted by the likes of so many shady companies.

All of this below is from MSNBC and linked in the title
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9:37 a.m. CT, Mon., June. 30, 2008

DALLAS, TX - The innovator behind one of the nation's fastest growing companies, Rob Snyder of Stream Energy, has been named Entrepreneur of the Year for the Southwest Region in the Services category. Snyder was recognized at an awards banquet held June 28 in Dallas.

The Entrepreneur of the Year program, created in 1986 by Ernst & Young, recognizes the pioneers and innovators who excel at growing and sustaining market-leading businesses. The award recognizes Snyder for his dynamic leadership of Stream Energy, and his personal and corporate contributions to business and society.

His story, and that of Stream Energy, are intertwined tales of vision and daring. In 2004, Snyder left behind almost two decades of private equity involvement and formed Stream Energy, risking his professional reputation to persuade the public that there was a better way to buy electricity. His determination to succeed transformed Stream Energy into one of the fastest-growing firms in U.S. history, poised during its fourth fiscal year to break $1 billion in revenues.

Stream Energy began selling electricity during 2005 through a small army of more than 100,000+ Independent Associates. By using the direct sales approach to customer recruitment, Snyder and the firm's other founders have realized their vision of growth while giving people a means to generate incremental income, even during difficult economic times.

This amazing success -- with roughly 350,000 customers recruited in only three years of operation as a retail electricity provider -- has resulted in Stream Energy standing among the largest privately-owned companies in the Dallas-Fort Worth region and has generated tens of millions of dollars for its marketing associates. Stream Energy continues to expand its electricity customer base in Texas by as much as five percent monthly and has also recently experienced explosive growth from its April 2008 entry into the Georgia natural gas retail market.

With this honor, Snyder joins other previous Southwest Regional winners including Michael Dell of Dell Computers, Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines, Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner of Broadcast.com, Norman Brinker of Brinker International and H. Ross Perot of Perot Systems.

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Ignite in Georgia with deregulated Gas

Well hello Georgia!

Good to see our company growing and expanding to their 2nd state. So far there has been a lot of money that have given to associates by saving on advertising. By not spending money on stuff like Reliant Stadium or paying celebrities on TV to push a commercial, Ignite has been able to give all that money to it's associates that are actually working. What is great is that it pays well for the people who work it and continues to pay due to people paying their energy bill.

Now with a 2nd state, even more monthly energy residual income is possible. What I love about being in Texas and being the originating state is that all associates in Georgia must be trained and sponsored by someone in Texas. Good chance I'll know someone or someone in my organization will have a connection there. So make a sale one time and be paid month after month just because they are paying their energy bill. No need to re-sell someone or convince them they need their "energy". I love that!

It's no mistake that 4k-5k people turned up at Georgia's Launch Event held in Georgia April 5th at the Georgia International Convention Center.

We will also host our first Ignite Academy in Georgia on April 12 at the GWCC at 285 Andrew Young International Blvd. NW in Atlanta from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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