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?
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’.”
Thousands greeted the IBOAI and former Chairman Jim Janz at the Calgary Pathways to Success, where we were delighted to introduce IBOs to their trade association, answer their questions, and demonstrate how we work for them. We hope you were able to attend. Read about it on our main website and tell us what you thought.
Amway Global has proudly announced a new presenting sponsorship this holiday season: The NBC Holiday Celebration on Ice, which took place live in Las Vegas on November 11, 2008, will air on NBC November 30, 2008. Read the news on our main website, then tell us what you think. Will you be watching? Will you tell others about it? After the program airs, let us know what you thought of the event and the sponsorship.
Next up in our IBO Best Practices series is "Follow the Online Rules." Read the IBO Best Practices series on our main website and tell us what the Best Practices mean to your business.
