Anyone see this offline business opportunity advertised in Entrepreneur mag?

I have read Entrepreneur magazine for years...gets the creative juices flowing and I generally just enjoy reading it. I began noticing an ad every month for this company:

http://www.environmental-waste.com/b...rtunities.html

Mind you...we are talking 5 and 6 years ago...probably a little longer than that. I don't have a subscription to Entrepreneur anymore but when I bought one in the airport a while back I saw this company is still advertising....anyways, as you can see if you visit their site, they charge a 25k fee to receive the training necessary for this biz. Not exactly a low barrier to entry there with that kind of fee, huh?

I was so intrigued by this concept (basically all you need to start this business is your brain and a phone) that I was able to find a site a few years ago that basically sold all the info that outlined this business model. (rehashed, of course) That site is no longer online...if memory serves me right I spent about $100 to buy some videos/docs that were mailed to my house...and if I kept the stuff for longer than 30 days they would hit my credit card with a charge of $1,000...but if I returned it I only had to pay the $100. So yeah I returned the stuff after I burned it onto a blank disc (sorry dude if you are out there somewhere but I didn't have the extra 1k to spend).

Then....I made a pot of coffee one night and stayed up the entire night learning the outline of this business. It's basically using high school math to help apartment complexes/businesses save money on their trash bill. I studied it more and more for a few weeks, and then...once I felt that I had a good grip on everything, I went online and ordered a logo for my new company. It looked good and very professional...I was excited!

Now came the hard part......

Cold calling owners of profitable apartment complexes to tell them I could save them a lot of money---if they agreed to pay me half of the savings I got them on their monthly trash bill.

So....I decided one Friday that I would start my cold calling the following Monday. Gulp. That Monday rolled around and I gave it a whirl. I think I contacted about 3 people total and was rejected by all 3. So then...I quit. I figured I needed a sales person to do the cold calling for me, but I hesitated because I realized that anyone who was good enough to do the selling could just learn the biz model for themselves and then I'd be screwed.

So yeah....I left it at that. That all transpired probably 5-7 years ago...not sure exactly.

Wish I would have some done research into all of these ninja cold calling techniques that I see all over WF now.

I have no desire to go into this business now. Just wanted to post this. :-)