This is exciting news as Amway under Alticor has broken the $10 Billion dollar mark. Artistry and Nutrilite continue to grow and set new records without little surprise. Exciting times ahead for Amway that’s for sure. As Doug Devos said “the best is yet to come”.
http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/amway/49574/
What will 2012 look like? Who knows but I’m guessing the trend will continue…
Today my wife and I were able to serve Amway again by taking part in the Amway Active Start Soccer Fest for the St. Albert Soccer Association. For those following, you may remember we did this last year for the Red Deer Soccer Association however it was called the Nutrilite Active Start Fest. Amway has changed it’s sponsorship to highlight the main brand name Amway. I think this was a great change as it now allows us to highlight some of the other brand names other than Nutrilite at these events. It also gives us the ability if it comes up to, talk about this business opportunity. While that was not our main goal, it was nice to know we could do that if possible.
Since this was an indoor event for us we had to change our booth a little bit. No tent like last year which I thought brought the whole thing together. However we made due and the setup looked great thanks to my wife’s keen eye.
This was a busy day as the St. Albert Credit Union Servus Place (http://www.servusplace.ca/) as it’s a multi-use facility, beautiful at that, which has a lot going on. While we were there for the Active Start Soccer Fest, having our booth in this location gave us great exposure to everyone using the facility. We had a lot of people stop by our booth and recognize the Amway name as well as the Nutrilite brand. They were pretty happy to see us there and had lots of questions about the products and in some cases told us about past Amway experiences. We even had an older lady come by and say “Amway, that’s still around?”, to which we replied you bet. In fact Amway Canada is celebrating it’s 50th year here! Lastly for those who stopped by we had them enter a draw for a few free gift baskets that we put together. One highlighting edibles, one Artistry and the last one Kids vitamins and supplements.
So we’ve done this twice now and you may be thinking why are we spending 5-7 hours attending an event like this. Well it’s simple, serving is what makes people successful. We went there to help educate and represent the Amway name as well as gain some clients and help fill a need they have. We took a few client orders and will follow up with a few others that left their name and number to get more information. Being there to represent Amway and not feel shy about talking about it actually feels great. This event had nothing to do with World Wide Dreambuilders or the training system however the training system is what’s given us the confidence and self image to talk about a company we believe in. A company that sponsors a pretty awesome event like Soccer for all ages in Canada.
Recently Canada Soccer announced the name change for the Canadian Championship. This is a great name change and really highlights the name Amway as it should be. See the links below.
http://www.canadasoccer.com/amway-canada-to-return-as-title-sponsor-of-canadian-championship-p149017
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Yesterday it was reported that Aaron Rathy was forced to return his silver medal in Wakeboarding at the Pan Am Games because of a supplement he mistakenly took. He picked up some OxyElite Pro from GNC which contains Methylhexaneamine and is a banned substance by the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2010.
While athletes are fully aware of all the things they cannot take, they really need to make sure of what they put into their bodies. The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport actually recommends athletes not take any supplements because of things just like this.
While there are many supplement companies that offer NSF Certified for Sport, I’m proud to have the opportunity to represent one. Nutrilite provides a few NSF certified supplements like DoubleX, Concentrated Fruits and Vegetables and it’s Daily Multivitamin. Perfect Water also listed as NFS certified. I’m not saying you need to buy our stuff however this is one of the reasons why we have great retail success with local athletes, they can trust the supplements listed here won’t negatively impact them.
Yes it’s true, the Detroit Red Wings have continued and expanded their original partnership with Amway to a more principal sponsorship. Both companies (yeah an NHL team is a company) are privately owned and reside in the state of Michigan so there is somewhat of a natural fit there based on those two things.
It’s quite funny some of the comments that are coming out from people that are just ignorant and have no clue what they are talking about. It’s quite comical, people saying they will never watch another Detroit Red Wings game because of this to people talking about how can an illegal pyramid company sponsor a team like the Red Wings. Well first thing is first, Amway has been around since 1959 and its continued to grow and will close out last fiscal year in the double digits of $10+ Billion dollars. Yes, they’ve had legal issues, who hasn’t! but are the governmental model by the FTC for this type of business. Illegal companies are not governmental models. Last point on this, companies like Wall Mart, Canadian Tire, etc.… are sued and have way more legal battles than Amway. So enough already on the illegal pyramid and illegal company BS. That’s old school. To those who say they won’t be watching another game, yeah right.
One of the things I love about this deal is it’s honestly not about money, the Red Wings have a lot of money they don’t need sponsorship. They’ve never needed it in the 86 years that they’ve been around. The goal is to bring the two logos and companies closer together and this will benefit Amway significantly I believe. Partnerships and sponsorships bring validity in some ways and I think this will help further Amway’s charge to creating a positive image. They’ve done a great job so far and as I’ve said before we hardly hear anything negative about Amway anymore. When we do, it’s people that are uneducated. You want to know information about Amway and the opportunity? Why not ask someone that has integrity and is actually involved with Amway. It would be like me asking your Grandmother how to play football, I doubt I’d get the best answers.
A few more things about this partnership is Nurtrilite will be the official vitamin and supplement of the Red Wings. They will definitely see a benefit with the high quality products that Nutrilite has as have our athletic customers. Lastly there are multiple community-based initiatives that both Amway and The Red Wings will be collaborating on. That’s one of the coolest things that Amway does, they have HUGE community involvement which I respect a lot.
Want the full details of the partnership? Check out the Red Wings news link.http://redwings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=587621
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You know many people say you get what you pay for and I think to many people dismiss that statement. I’m Scottish and a lot of my friends know I’m quite frugal when it comes to making purchases, however I am willing to spend a little extra for a better product or service. I’ll do my research, I’ll read reviews and get feedback and if it’s worth it I’ll buy it. Sometimes those #1 products you see are not all they are cracked up to be.
I’ll take multi-vitamins for example because I’m pretty passionate about supplements and have taken an interest in figuring out what is good and what isn’t. For those who follow the many things out there about multi-vitamins will know recently there has been some news about toxic substances found in certain multi-vitamins like Centrum.
Sodium Selenite and Sodium Selenate are classified dangerous and toxic to the environment by regulatory bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, however they are the primary forms of the mineral sold on the mass market. Actually most mass-market vitamins contain chemicals that the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) does not allow in public drinking water.
So the logical question is how can companies use this? If its banned by the EPA in drinking water how can this be allowed? What I’ve been reading is there is question on if it’s really toxic or not. If you check out governmental toxicology reports you’ll be able to see that both forms can be carcinogenic and genotoxic and may contribute to reproductive and developmental problems in animals and humans. It goes on and on but honestly who wants to even put something in your body that is in question? I’d think the answer there is simple.
The main reason why sodium selenite/selenate are used by some vitamin manufactures over safer, more beneficial forms of selenium is because it’s more profitable to use raw materials of lower quality. Hence why I said “you get what you pay for”. Sad how companies that are supposed to help you with your health basically don’t give a shit and are worried about the all mighty dollar. I’m not surprised but again as I said, you get what you pay for.
Basically the moral of the news reports and write ups are take a good quality multivitamin ever day. Don’t cheap out on the Flintstones or “#1” Centrum vitamins, your basically saying your health isn’t worth a few extra dollars.
I’m proud to represent the largest Multi-Vitamin and Supplement in the world that plants, grows, and harvests its ingredients on it’s own certified organic farms. Nutrilite guarantees what’s in the bottle is actually in the bottle and makes it VERY easy to find out what the ingredients are, unlike some companies that hide it or make it very difficult to find. Yes we carry a premium brand multi-vitamin/multi-mineral but we also have other multi-vitamins that are cheaper and are of highest quality.
Do your own research, there is a ton of information out there and just make sure you are watching your health, that’s all I ask.
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