I’ve aired my fair share of gripes about my Amway Pink Koolaid days. But I gotta tell ya, I learned a LOT of good storytelling in Amway. It’s why I’m good at telling stories now.
Allow me to tell you an Amway story . . .
My upline Diamond was a guy named George. George could hold an audience *spellbound* for hours.
In October 2010 the government of my country did an experiment. They gave 18 government grants of USD$40,000 to entrepreneurs of USA and Europe that where willing to come to Chile for a minimum of one month to provide training to a Chilean company to be more efficient, providing solutions to important problems like energy, traffic, polution, health, finance, etc.
The program was so succesful that right now, they decided to expand it to 300 more cases in the next 6 months.
Yesterday afternoon was a consulting call-in day and Stew called in. He joined last September. He’d just returned from 11 days of vacation in Alaska. No email, no voice mail, no business stuff whatsoever for almost 2 weeks! He’s in a very “boring” industry, which is not generally doing well right now He often feels guilty because he’s only implemented … Read More
Listen, we’re all chasing the same dream … “escape the dollars for hours trap by moving some electrons around the internet using auto-piloted systems while our bankers scratch their butts and look at us curiously wondering how it all works”
Am I right?
Now there are a lot of people out there telling you it’s easy. In fact, some are telling you it’s VERY easy.
Which leads a lot of people to have broken hearts, shattered dreams, and to dig very large holes of debt for themselves.
A long time ago I heard a radio show about divorced couples hooking up once a week just for some nookie. The two of you can’t have a civil conversation without smashing plates and dishes, but her hips are just irresistible. Hey baby, it’s a lot safer than trawling bars . . .
Google. Ex Wife.
You Can’t Live With Her. You Can’t Live Without Her.
This morning I saw a post about Google testing…
Thomas’ business was doing $1 million a year 12 months ago. He’s doing about $4 million now and he’s headed straight for $10 million. He manufactures parts in Asia and sells them in the US and Europe, via his websites and Amazon.
He began his Roundtable session by saying, “My current situation is a really sweet deal and I’m making a ton of money. But one thing I know about sweet deals is, they always come to an end.”
20 years ago, Paul Pilzer said monopolies are impossible because markets have no corners. It’s true. No matter what your competition is, there is always a way over, under, around, behind.
Whatever you face, a solution exists.
The solution could be…
I’ve been to 30 countries. I love international travel. There’s just one problem if you’re a member of the Internet Marketing Jet Set:
Jet Lag.
I don’t know about you, but Jetlag normally screws me up for about a day and a half “going” and 4-5 days “coming home.” It really sucks.
Actually it USED TO suck. It doesn’t suck anymore.
Here’s how I cured my Jet Lag.
Mr. Unstoppable is in the clothing biz. He comes to our May Roundtable meeting with his tail between his legs.
“My bookkeeper screwed up and, uh, forgot to categorize $126,000 of expenses. I woke up one day last month and found out we had no cash.”
There’s 2 ways that people sabotage their business:
