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Greetings!

As you know, I am always on the lookout for the latest information and training that I think will make a difference for you and your team. Well, today I learned about a program that is about to be launched that I think you will want to check out. It’s being conducted by a friend of mine, Jane Deuber. She has had more than 20 years experience in the direct selling profession and has created many of the most respected training programs in recent years.

To give people a taste of what she’ll cover in the 4-week course, she is conducting a no-cost tele-class this Monday Night at 5pm Pacific, 7pm Central and 8pm Eastern. I highly recommend you register to attend the call as Jane always delivers tons of valuable content you can put to work in your business right away. To register for the call simply click on the link below and ask Jane your most important question about growing your direct selling team. Within minutes, Jane will send you the call in details for Monday night tele-class.

>>> Click here to register for the Monday call by asking Jane a question about sponsoring. <<<

If that’s all you need to be inspired to join Jane’s Monday tele-class, great! If you’d like to learn more, I’ve included an excerpt below from an email Jane recently sent out.

Enjoy!

Anders & James

PS. If you can’t make it live to the call register anyway! Jane will send the recording to everyone who is registered. (If the link above is not working for you, paste this URL in your browser: http://www.innergameofsponsoring.com/igs_ask.asp.)

If you have not seen or heard of Video Plus and their tools at videoplus.com check them out today.

Stuart Johnson and his team with Video Plus do an amazing job.

If you are a networker looking to build your business, we highly recommend you to make use of their companies generic tools, cd’s, and dvd’s. The generic tools they offer come from powerful well known leaders such as Robert Kiyosaki, Jim Rohn, Paul Zane Pilzer, and John Flemming.

I actually had the pleasure of randomly bumping into Stuart Johnson at a Success Symposium (owner of Video Plus), and he exudes joy for what he does, he is a very strong leader, with a vision to admire, I look forward to getting to know more about him over the next few years.

All in all…Video Plus, an organization of excellence to be admired.

Enjoy life.

Anders Gustavsson

Wow…what an event this was!

Stay tuned on the next one at Success Magazine - http://www.successmagazine.com

Some notes on my favorite speakers…

Speaker: John Maxwell on leadership

Main Points;

#1 factor to success is knowing YOUR life purpose!

#2 Grow to YOUR maximum potential

#3 Success is all about adding value to others

Highly successful people…

- Relate well with others

- Develop and equip others for success

- Have an uncomonly positive attitude about adversity

- Learn to lead and influence other people

Speaker: Ron White - Memory retention

I cannot express how valuable this information was, and he was a “BONUS” session, I got more from this due to the “take away” and real life usable skills I learned, I would have paid $1000 just for this wisdom. Check future posts, I will explain his method of remembering names, topics, speeches, and other things later.

Speaker: Jeffrey Gitomer on Sales

Main Points;

- ONE wrong word can be misinterpreted, and ruin an entire presentation, STAY clear.

- Think locally and act personally

What 8 things you can do TODAY to get more success…

1. Write something your customers will find value in (yes, I am doing this now)

2. Create and Enhance your “personal” website, “yourname.com” get it if you dont have it.

3. Get your personal ezine going

4. Speak in public

5. Record yourself

6. Get “googleable” - If you google your name, are you seen? Get seen…

7. Develop a business platform

8. Don’t just create or adopt a philosophy, LIVE it, everyday, everywhere!

Speaker: Joseph Mclendon III

Main Points;

- Maximize Momentum by expecting MORE in life, be willing to do more than the average, continue to do more than the average.

Human Momentum = Deliberate and Consistent activity.

Enjoy life.

Anders Gustavsson

Today I read a reporters story about an alleged pyramid scam in China…

I have shared a few paragraphs of this report, and I think it is this type of ignorant reporting, or at least incomplete reporting that gives mlm, network marketing such a bad rap in the public view, please share your opinions…

Full report here
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$10m lost as victims fall to pyramid scam

New immigrants, fresh graduates and jobseekers have lost more than HK$10 million in a pyramid- selling scam.

Diana Lee
Monday, May 19, 2008

New immigrants, fresh graduates and jobseekers have lost more than HK$10 million in a pyramid- selling scam.All said they were duped into buying hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of aroma products.

Cheung, in her 40s, said she was persuaded in 2005 by a neighbor to buy HK$500,000 worth of essential oils of a certain brand after being promised amazing returns.

She said she attended day-long meetings at a company office, during which she was subjected to a variety of underhand sales techniques.

“They told me I must not tell my relatives about the business, otherwise they will stop me. I followed the advice and secretly used the savings held jointly with my husband.”

Another woman, surnamed Tsang, invested HK$1 million by mortgaging her property.

“My husband was a public security officer and told me it was a scam. I refused to believe him. I said they held grand conferences at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre and that the company hired a lawyer to explain its business was legal and profitable.”

Pang from Shenzhen borrowed HK$67,000 from relatives using different excuses, but the money was for seven bottles of essential oils and a membership fee.

The victims later went to police headquarters to meet officers from the Commercial Crime Bureau.

The company involved in the alleged pyramid selling scam could not be reached for comment.

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By no means am I defending how this company, who ever they are acted in their corporate headquarters, and by no means am I defending the distributors that have strongly mislead their prospects into front loading products for sake of immediate payout to their uplines.

I do however see many problem with this:

1. The words pyramid scam are thrown out way too often, and often irresponsibly so, if used need to be justified, so that uneducated people can learn the difference.

2. Other countries company leaders need to be educated so they don’t prospect like many people did here in the US 20-30 years ago.

3. The general public needs education so they don’t make moronic decisions like the poor folks that bought all this product!

4. Reporters need to be educated so that THEY can report about the specific issue and name the specific companies, reports like this make even legitimate companies and people involved in them look bad.

What do you think?

Anders