Can You Find This TPE? Your Help Is Needed!

Published by Mike Michalowicz (Google+)

O.M.G.  I mean it.  O-freaking-M-freaking-G!!!  I need your help, big time! We MUST find this TPE!!!  This is NOT a PR Stunt (though, I wouldn't put that past me).

Here's the quick 411.  I did a presentation at Emerson (in Boston) just a few days back and just as I was walking out, an attendee named James grabbed my shoulder.  He said he needed a minute to share a bizarre story.  What James explained is as follows:

FACT 1: James was traveling a while back (not exactly sure where it was) and at one point got on bus.

KINDA POINTLESS FACT 2: A few other people on the bus where standing.

FACT 3: As the driver started cruising down the road, he looked back at James and asked the obligatory where are you from and what do you do?

FACT 4: James answered that he is currently traveling and is an entrepreneur.

CRITICAL FACT 5: The bus driver stopped the bus immediately (think screeching tires and falling passengers -- makes the "kinda pointless fact 2" make a point) and said something to the effect that James MUST become a TPE.  The bus driver explained how there is this "crazy movement going on," and talked about all the people launching businesses TPE style.

Holy shit!!! We need to find this man.  I MUST speak with him.

But I have a BIG problem, all I know is that he is somewhere in North America and that he is driving a bus (dangerously, I might add).

PLEASE HELP: Have you met this hero of the highway?  Do you know any details about him?  I am looking specifically for him, not someone "like" him or another TPE that fly planes or something.  I need to speak with this person specifically.  So, if you know any details or heard about this TPE evangelist, please email me ASAP at Wanted@ToiletPaperEntrepreneur.com

Thanks! We will find our mystery TPE.  We will find him!!!

A Desperate Request From Mike Michalowicz, Author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur

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  • http://www.SimplyWorkingFromHome.com Cheryl Hill

    OKay, Mike…

    - Anyway we can find this JAMES in order to find out what TOWN? That might narrow the search JUST A bIT! lol

    Did this James guy not give you his business card? hmmm might have to teach him a thing or two about handing out biz cards. It is a powerful thing!

    Good luck and I will keep my eye out for the guy that resembles the picture above, just might be a few guys on facebook that look that way without a profile picture.

    In all seriousness I will RT and get the word out!
    Chill

  • Ralston

    I am in Jamaica but I will be on the look out for him too. lol

  • http://www.lauriemarch.wordpress.com Laurie March, EvangelistaLA

    Sounds serious! The driving, I mean.

    I’ll keep an eye out for him here in LA.

    Is it contagious? this TPE?
    ;)

  • http://www.nancymcconnell.com Nancy McConnell

    Hi Mike, I will sure keep my eyes and ears opened, how bizarre, good luck, Nancy.

  • Paul Sabaj

    Boy this is going to be like the t.v. show 24 with Jack Bower.I can’t wait to see how this turns out!Ok what kinda bus
    Grey Hound or city bus? By the way did you get James info or give him your card?

  • http://www.lottosuper7results.com/ LottoSuper7Results

    let’s find him!!!

  • Jillian H.

    Did Jim Collins (author Good to Great) actually become the bus driver on the bus he is always preaching about?

  • http://www.teenentrepreneurblog.com Shonika Proctor, TeenBizCoach

    Has James not learned anything about being a TPE?

    1. With a very common name like “James” in a big city like Boston, you would definitely want to brand yourself something else.

    2. He was travelling ‘a while back’ and doesn’t remember exactly where? Uh first- the TPE movement has only been around for what? 8-9 mos. Second- I am guessing that James is either old and senile and has been teaching the same curriculum for 30 years or young and always intoxicated.

    3. I think you got some bad information or you got your stories mixed up. If you and Mr. SB weren’t having so much on your little ‘entrepreneurial talks’ perhaps you would have gotten the story right.

  • http://www.berkphotography.com Tammy B.

    Okay, were the people in the room signed up prior to the seminar to hear you speak? If so, maybe they have a roster or email listing…but I’ll bet your friend (who told you the story) is going to read this email somehow and find YOU! Then he can tell you what city he’s from…

  • http://www.connectionsplanet.com Carl

    I live in (rural) Nebraska. What’s a bus?

  • http://www.diymarketers.com Ivana Taylor

    I’m the bus driver :)

  • http://james.com James

    It was me

  • Mike Michalowicz

    @Everyone – Great idea… I need to get more details from James. I was talking with so many people at that presentation that I really didn’t think much about it until the day was out. By then James was nowhere to be found.

    James is an Emerson student and was at the E3 event (it was last Saturday). This is the e3 group – http://www.emerson.edu/admission/undergraduate/academics/mkt_emerson_experience_in_entrepreneurship.cfm

    You guys are smart (I don’t expect anything less from TPEs)… obviously I need to get more details from James.

    I need to find James! … so James… if you are reading this please contact me. I need to get all the details on the story.

    - Mike

  • Mike Michalowicz

    @James – YES!!!! Please email me at Mike *at* ToiletPaperEntrepreneur.com , I want to schedule a time to talk with you. I was in such a rush, that I don’t recall many of the details.

    WOW!!! We are one step closer!!!!!!!

    - Mike

  • http://www.SimplyWorkingFromHome.com Cheryl Hill

    WHOOO HOO we found James!!!

    I was so excited to see what “JAMES” looked like that I clicked on the link to visit his website….CRAP!!! and Error on page came up….

    JAMES, help us out once again and redo the link, please!!! ;0)

    Can’t wait to hear all the details Mike, make sure to fill us in!

    -Chill

  • Marshall

    I’m thinking that James that just posted is not the real James. When I click his name it goes to http://james.com

    Don’t think that’s legit. However if I am wrong, sorry James :-D

  • Mike Michalowicz

    @Marshall… his email also is not working. An impostor! Freaking-A. Thanks for catching that. Shit… the search for James and the bus driver continues.

    - Mike

  • Marshall

    @Mike
    People these days… hah! No problem man

  • http://www.twitter.com/jamesdisabatino REALJAMES!

    Hey Everyone! The REAL James here. Mike and I will be working to find this guy!

    follow me on twitter for progress to date…

    http://www.twitter.com/jamesdisabatino

  • http://www.quivivity.com Barb Finer

    Hiho!
    I am one of the teachers in the E3 program and James is great. All of the entrepreneurs in E3 are wonderful people. Makes me feel good about the future.
    No buses in Nebraska? Maybe James should start his new business, GreenCoach, there instead of Boston!
    James@ridegre… will reach him. No solicitating of sleeze, please. Man has to finish his college classes too!

    To more toilet paper…(The Napkin Entre. deinitely doesn’t sound as good).

    –Barb (4 time entrepreneur)

  • Mike Michalowicz

    @Barb – Thanks for the info (I cloaked his email so he won’t get any spam).

    @The Real James – WE FOUND YOU!!!!! I just sent you an email. I need clarity on the story. Please email me the full amount of deets and I will spread the word.

    @Everyone – FOLLOW JAMES on Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/jamesdisabatino

    We will find our man!!!!!!!!!

    - Mike

  • http://www.quivivity.com Barb Finer

    NP.

    Students may be on spring break so perhaps James in on another bus!

    Is the question for the Bus Driver: are you an entrepreneur, driving to pay the bills as you develop your product /team? Or, what?

    By the way, your presentation at the Emerson College E3 was very good. Energizing, funny, sad, endearing, encouraging, … we need to talk about the ‘trips’ you took in college though!!

    Best,

  • Mike Michalowicz

    @Barb – the college trips are a thing of the past, for sure… LOL.

    @Everyone – I have emailed back and for with James and have TONS of new details. I will convert it to a blog today and post by Monday.

  • Mike Michalowicz

    @Everyone – NEW DETAILS ARE IN!!!! BLOG POST COMING MONDAY!