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Canadians Looking for a Business

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EntrepreneurshipThe latest RBC Canadian consumer outlook states that 1 in 5 Canadians are thinking about starting their own business in the next 5 years.  To be honest I’m not surprised by this news article and the mentality of people these days.  People are looking for other opportunities outside of their full time jobs that hardly pay them enough.  Without question I hear it almost every day that people complain about not enough money, have bills to pay, not enough time in a day, want to spend more time with my family, I’m working two jobs just to make it, and it goes on and on and on.  Don’t believe me? Start opening your ears and you’ll hear it as well.

So out of this article what’s the biggest challenge to starting a business, getting enough money to start or expand.  28% of people said this was a concern.  It also says that 14% of people worry about getting clients and others feel it would take to long to turn a profit.  To be honest those numbers are pretty low when it comes to concerns and shouldn’t stop people from exploring the potential to reach whatever goals and dreams they have.

I just happen to know of a business opportunity that’s got a pretty low cost to running a business and know a few people who have been successful in helping others reach those types of goals and dreams.  Woah, low and behold that opportunity is the Amway business opportunity.  Surprised?  If you’ve been reading this blog you shouldn’t be, if your new maybe you are then.  What other business can you start that doesn’t require a loan at the bank of some business grant from the government?  Not very many, in fact I don’t know any outside of this opportunity.

Our business is backed by an amazing company that has been around for over 50 years and is continually growing in revenue year after year.  So if your worried Amway is going to pack it in with the reception, you better give your head a shake.  It’s not going anywhere but up.

We’ve got great brands such as Nutrilite and Artistry that are tops when compared to the competitors and are products that people use every single day month after month, so clients are not hard to find, at least for us anyway.  Our business is based on helping others succeed first before we do and coaching & mentoring people through the business as many who start don’t know how to run a business.  I know the government sure isn’t mentoring you through a business that’s for sure.

Anyway the thing is people are looking for opportunity outside of what they are doing and that’s what entrepreneurship is cool. You are given that freedom to build however large of a company you want with little roadblocks and restrictions, and because you run a business your entitled to some pretty substantial tax benefits as well.  I’m not going to sit here and say you have to build this business, but this business does work and compared to other start-ups is pretty darn cheap to get into and has mentorship like no other with World Wide Dreambuilders.

Check out the full article here - http://money.canoe.ca/money/business/canada/archives/2011/05/20110525-075228.html

Seeing Our Donation in Action

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Yesterday I had the chance to visit with the Anderson’s on my way back home after traveling for work.  I was able to see first hand how our donation to Erron and her family made an impact.  You may remember Erron was requesting donations for an iPad for her son Elijah who has Autism.  She did a post here called Speechless where she talked about the huge act of selflessness that so many people made to help donate in this great cause. Check it out if you get a chance.

So last night Erron and Kyle showed me the iPad with all the applications they have installed to help Elijah learn and communicate.  I saw first hand the progress Elijah is making with this device and that is amazing.  At first when I saw this donation request from Erron I wasn’t sure how an iPad could help out someone with Autism, and last night I was shown.  The iPad is an amazing piece of technology and it will help more people than I think Steve Jobs ever thought it would. 

I’ve mentioned many times before here that we really want to impact people in many ways and one way we want to impact people is through donations and being able to give back to organizations and people exactly like this.  I can tell you with 100% certainty that we would not have been able to donate as much as we wanted to without the business we are in.  We’ve made many more donations this year already compared to any other year ever because of this business.  So I can say Amway and World Wide Dreambuilders was the major reason why we were able to donate to Elijah’s iPad fundraiser and partially why he will be able to learn and communicate better.  That’s amazing.AutismAwareness

Also Lindsay and I donated two beautiful gift baskets to a Saskatoon Autism Gala utilizing products from Amway focusing on the Legacy of Clean and the Artistry line.  Being able to utilize our business to make donations like this is pretty powerful.  It really helps Erron out by getting some silent auction donations in there and we are proud to help out in that way.  This is true World Wide Dreambuilders through and through which is about focusing on others and taking our eyes off ourselves and focusing on others.  I love that we get to associate with a company like that, pretty powerful.

Please check out the link here and if you have it in your heart to donate a few more jewellery pieces from Erron so that she can donate the next iPad they get to another deserving autistic child that would be amazing.  I think she’s 15 away and that’s SO close to be able to touch another life.

Miss America and Artistry Once Again

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Tonight at 9pm Eastern, 7pm Mountain and 6pm Pacific, The Miss America pageant will take place and again like last year Artistry partners up with them. News release from last year. 

 

 

Here is an except of what some of this means:

“The newly crowned Miss America will be the proud endorser of ARTISTRY skin care and cosmetics. Imagine the credibility and popularity this will create for ARTISTRY and Amway Global in ads, catalogues, and on the website. Just think how positively customers and prospects will react to this!

ARTISTRY will be the official skin care and cosmetics provider for the Miss America pageant – that means contestants will learn how to put their best face forward with ARTISTRY products – and feel confident they’re doing the best they can for their skin.

The ARTISTRY scholarship, sponsored by Amway Global, will also allow women to shine. For the next two years, the ARTISTRY scholarship will continue to empower American women to achieve their personal and professional goals.

 

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Being Creative

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Today Lindsay is doing a SpaCafe event for a friend of ours that is getting married next year.  What’s creative about this SpaCafe is that all proceeds from client orders will go directly back to the bride-to-be.  Lindsay thought it would be a great way to raise some money doing a mini-spa type of event so that the bride could use that money for whatever she wanted for her wedding.  Be it a spa day, nails, facial, etc…

She brought over a lot of the new Artistry products which are 1 of the top 5 prestigious brands out there and I believe she let people see, feel, try, etc…  To be honest I don’t know exactly what she does. I’ve never attended one of these SpaCafe’s myself.  It’s not really my cup of tea hehe.  A huge thanks to all the guests who showed up and supported the bride by making some orders, after all the afternoon was all about the bride.  Isn’t it always :) ?

I just love how we have so much flexibility with our business and what we can do with it.  We’ve decided to be selfless and give back all these proceeds to the bride as I mentioned before.  That’s awesome!  Being an entrepreneur gives you all kinds of choices and I’m glad we have the power to make them.  Lindsay loves these events because she gets to interact with new people about something she really is passionate about.  This is just one of the awesome things we get to do.  I love you Lindsay for being such an amazing person, giving and selfless!