The IBOAI covers IBOs celebrating Amway Global’s 50th Anniversary at EDC festivities in Ada and Grand Rapids, Michigan, then Diamond Club in Las Vegas. Read the coverage on our main website, then come back and tell us how you’re celebrating 50 years of Amway Global as the world’s premier business opportunity.
Next up in our IBO Best Practices series is "Never Bring Products into a Different Country." Read the IBO Best Practices series on our main website and tell us what the Best Practices mean to your business.
Every day, IBOs do positive things in their lives, and we highlight some of them in a new section on our IBOAI website called "IBOs in Action."
Read about Satish Reddy, an IBO who proudly wears his Founders Emerald pin from Amway Global, formerly Quixtar, and his Silver Snoopy pin presented by the NASA Astronaut Corps. Read all about it, then come back and discuss it.
Discussion Starters
The IBOAI, Amway Global and all IBOs recently lost a great friend and advocate, Dick Davis. After a courageous battle with cancer, Dick passed away on March 11, 2009. Read our tribute to Dick on our main website, then share your condolences with the family here.
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Every day, IBOs do positive things in their lives, and we will be highlighting some of them in a new section on our IBOAI website called "IBOs in Action." First up is the story of Cale Andrews, who when given the choice between attending Achievers 08 and running in the Las Vegas Marathon ... chose both! Read how Cale Andrews maximizes his healthy lifestyle and his Amway Global business, then come back and discuss it.
Discussion Starters
How are you able to combine your IBO and leisure activities?
What fun activity would it be difficult to do without your IBO business?
Amway Global has announced their involvement with the John Tesh radio program, Intelligence for Your Life. In addition to advertising the Amway Global brand, they will sponsor two segments each week on the nationally syndicated daily radio show. Amway Global will also be placing ads on John Tesh's website, Tesh.com.
Read about Amway Global's new relationship with John Tesh on our main website and tell us what you think.
Discussion Starters:
Did you recognize John Tesh's voice on Amway Global TV commercials?
What have others said to you about hearing Amway Global ads on John Tesh's Intelligence for Your Life radio programs
How might you use this sponsorship to promote your own business?
Team Nutrilite athlete Jenn Stuczynski was named Female Athlete of the Year among all American track-and-field athletes by Track & Field News. That's a significant honor and yet another to add to Stuczynski's list. Read about this great honor on our main website, then share with us what it means to you.
Discussion Starters:
The Internet is a place many people go to get information. It’s where you expect to find facts and figures and details, but very often what you find is non-balanced opinion and spiteful commentary. Frequently, it becomes a gathering place for people with an agenda or a point of view or the careless and uncaring who spew mean-spirited attacks on others, regardless of the audience or their feelings.
A recent example was a news story out of Indiana about four young adults killed in a weather-related car accident. We won’t mention the families to protect them from further pain. The four were returning home after an evening business meeting and the toll-way was icy; the car slid across the median and collided with a semi, killing all four. It was a straightforward news account, but the comments section started with someone bad-mouthing the business opportunity in which the four were involved: Amway. Sprinkled in among the concerns for the pains of the families were more isolated comments about Amway and Amway meetings.
Whatever your opinions about Amway, the Amway opportunity, and Amway meetings, the story about the death of someone is not the place to voice them. Your freedom of speech is not the freedom to choose your place to speak out. Your right to free speech is not the right to speak freely without sensitivity to the feelings of others deeply affected by what you say. In this instance, what you think about Amway isn’t nearly as important as how those families felt about the loss of their sons and daughters. This isn’t about your rights, it’s about theirs. With freedom comes responsibility to act responsibly.
Recently, there was a call for change in politics in Washington – now there needs to be a call for change in discourse on the Internet. As one Christmas carol says, “Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with ‘me’.”
Amway Global is donating more than $1.12 million in product to the "Today Show" Toy Drive! Amway's gift of children's toys and ARTISTRY® cosmetics will be sent to social service organizations from New York to California for their holiday gift programs. See Amway Global Managing Director Steve Lieberman make the presentation on the "Today Show" Saturday, December 20. Read more about the Amway Global Toy Donation Story on our main website, then let us know what you think here.
Discussion Starter:
One of the goals of “going green” is to leave as small a footprint on the environment as possible. Environment-conscious IBOs and their customers have had a head start in the effort, powered by Amway Global’s record of environmental stewardship. See the green you can accomplish when you buy and retail products exclusively from Amway Global.
Did You Know…
When Amway Global was founded in 1959, it marketed only one product: L.O.C.® Multi-Purpose Cleaner. L.O.C. established Amway Global’s environmental commitment because only biodegradable cleaning agents were used in its formula.
Nutrilite® is the only global vitamin and mineral brand to grow, harvest, and process plants on its own certified organic farms.
Concentrated products are only now being recognized in the industry for their environmental benefits – but Amway Global took this important step to limit adverse environmental impact years ago.
Dish Drops® Dishwashing Liquid has been reformulated with highly biodegradable surfactants.
Dish Drops Automatic Concentrated Powder Dishwasher Detergent has been reformulated to be phosphate-free, which complies with strict environmental restrictions in many states and also has been shown to work better than leading conventional dishwasher detergents.
L.O.C.® Multi-Purpose Cleaner meets the requirements for “Ready Biodegradability,” according to the OECD, a European agency that establishes environmental regulations.
SA8® Powdered Laundry Detergents packaging is made from 100% recycled paper board (35% post-consumer materials) and printed with vegetable oil-based inks.
SA8® Scoops are made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic from soft drink bottles.
(From 2008 Amway Global Environmental Stewardship page. See the remarkable record of Amway Global’s environmental stewardship.)
Discussion Starter…
Are you aware of Amway Global’s accomplishments in environmental stewardship? Do you promote it? What do you do personally to “go green”? What has your family done to live environmentally friendly? Is there a “go green” movement in your community? How do you retail certain products because they fit into today’s “go green” movement?
