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Going Green with Amway Global

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?

 

 

IBOAI News on Nutrilite ROC20 Launch

New Nutrilite® ROC20 Antioxidant Enhanced Drink Mix is creating quite a stir. When water tastes good, you’ll drink more, helping you stay better hydrated. Learn about it on the IBOAI website, discuss it here!

Your Enthusiasm for Perfect Water Beats Predictions and Deliveries

You’ve overshot the predictions! While forecasting sales of a new product is far from a perfect science, Perfect Empowered Water has proved especially difficult to predict, thanks to your unbridled enthusiasm. You can be proud of the pace you’ve set for this exciting new product – well done!

However, IBO enthusiasm for Perfect Water is so high, although Ada worked hard to make the best predictions, you blew their best efforts to anticipate demand totally out of the water. For that reason, delivery of product is behind. Quixtar has posted an announcement in its What’s New section about delivery expectations. In case you missed it, here’s what they’re saying back in Ada:

1. Perfect Empowered Drinking Water™ orders placed in April will be delivered by the end of May. Truckloads of this product are moving through our service centers each day, and while we cannot promise a specific delivery date, these orders are being fulfilled in expedited fashion.
2. Orders for Perfect Water placed thus far in May will ship by the first week of June.
3. We do not expect long-term challenges with timely shipments of Perfect Water, as we are currently manufacturing to exceed future demand.

The good news is, delivery will soon catch up with demand and your enthusiasm is going to mean continued high sales and big profits. We think we all agree, we’ve got a winner here!

IBOAI Article on Perfect Water

There's a new article at the IBOAI website about Perfect Water called "IBOAI Shares Quixtar/Amway Global Guidelines on Perfect Water Claims."

That website is not a blog, so you can't comment there, but you sure can here!

Postscript: Gary VanderVen, the head of Quixtar Rules, talks more about Perfect Water claims at the Adatudes Blog.

Asafa Powell Does it Again!

It's pretty clear Asafa Powell is happy with Quixtar, having set yet another world record while enhancing his health with Nutrilite products.  This is something all IBOs should be able to use to promote sales!

More About Products

Here's the good news: in addition to everything from the Choices catalog qualifying for free shipping, so does everything from the new "Options" catalog.  The only exception would be the Store for More catalog.  The Ribbons Albums already have free shipping.

About Products

We would like to comment about the product issue that has been coming up.

Contrary to the myth that Quixtar's products are all priced too high, the majority of the products are priced very competitively to national brands in their same category.

Most IBO's do not wish to market discount store quality products. That has never been our business model. In particular we find that the Artistry line is priced well and a very profitable line.

In addition to that, Quixtar has lowered the quantity of the Nutrilite Daily from 180 to 90, and lowered the price to make it even more competitive. They introduced the blister paks of Rhodiola and Carb Blocker also as part of their First Circle Program.

In September a new line called "Simply Nutrilite" is launching with exciting new health & fitness products with extremely good pricing.

In November some equally exciting Artistry skin care and cosmetics will be launched, also with great pricing.

And even more great news is that shipping will be free starting September 1st for all customer coreline purchases over $75.00. New IBO's, during their first full 3 months in the business, will also receive free shipping for coreline purchases over $75.00.

This is all a direct result of the IBOAI's  collaboration with Quixtar.