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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

A real life Metaphor of starting a mlm business is like sky diving.

Before you sky dive for the first time you have to listen to your instructor, HOW do I do this, WHAT cord do I have to pull, WHY won’t I die doing this???

In regards to business, this part is important and it is often over looked by new people in the network marketing profession. It is common for our ego to just think we know it all, we don’t need to listen to those that have jumped before us!

As a skydiver, if we don’t listen to the system, and learn it tandem, we would jump out of the plane alone, and CRASH…FAST!!

In sky diving we die, in business, at this time we determine mlm or network marketing does not work, so in the same sense we are dead. Back to the cubicle

If we are smart, and listen to our master, learn what to do, and follow directions exactly as they were taught to us, we live, and thrive!

We then jump out tandem style, along with our master teacher, he/she holds our hand, and it makes it easier to do.

When we are at 5,000 feet we will likely remember to pull the chord, however, if we need help, we got it…we got help right on our back, he/she will pull it for us.

Then we repeat this process over and over again with our teacher present. This is one fabulous thing about network marketing, we always have someone by our side to help out.

First we must follow other leaders, and once we really got it we can jump by ourselves, and feel true freedom.

Once we have jumped enough ourselves we are also proficient to teach others how to jump, but we can not let them jump by themselves, we jump with them, and we make sure they get it, we teach until.

Then they will carry on the process…

Have a great day…

Anders

I don’t think so, that’s just what he says.

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