The opening line of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” is “It was the best of times and the worst of times….” That’s how I feel about our economy right now. On a conference call recently, I made the following comment: “We make our own economy. There’s just as much money out there as [...]
One of the things that great network marketing companies do is to offer incentives and contests for its distributors to participate in. The interesting thing about contests in Avant is that the pay plan is so lucrative that — to win a contest — you put so much money in your pocket that you could [...]
I hate to break it to you — no, that’s not true — I actually love being the one to break it to you. The rules change and — as usual — most people aren’t paying attention. In fact, the rules changed quite a while back and most people still don’t know it. The ones [...]
One of the most fascinating things I’ve experienced in my career in marketing is that people will often try to “solve their problem with problems”. Sounds like a paradox and it is. Here’s what I mean: I’m in a business where I’m contacted daily by people who legitimately want to create more freedom and money [...]
Her name is Helene Hadsell. And she wins every contest she enters. Seriously. She’s won 5 trips to Europe, a luxury home, televisions, boats, etc. In fact, by 1982, she’d won 5,000 different contests she’d entered. Freaky. Back in the 80s, she wrote a book called “Contesting” that’s a bit of an underground best-seller. If [...]