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Today's quotes
Let's begin today with a wonderful quote, and a beautiful poem, from my friend Harold in England.
"All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
--philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer
i exist in the depths of solitude
pondering my true goal
trying 2 find peace of mind
and still preserve my soul
constantly yearning 2 be accepted
and from all receive respect
never comprising but sometimes risky
and that is my only regret
a young heart with an old soul
how can there be peace
how can i be in the depths of solitude
when there are two inside of me
this duo within me causes
the perfect oppurtunity
2 learn and live twice as fast
as those who accept simplicity
-- Tupac Shakur
Email
I'd like to share with you three emails recently received and I hope you can appreciate how much I appreciated them. (Emails are sometimes modified for clarity, brevity, and syntax.)
This first from Joan B.
Good day, Mike,
I wanted to email you (I am not religious but very spiritual) and send
you lots of healing, prayers, and love, for I manifest only great
things for you and all of now and in the future.
I do want you to know how much joy and gratitude you have given me
since I joined you as a loan partner in February of last year. I
look forward to all you're updates with anticipation and wonderful
positive thoughts, for in my opinion, we will all be winners in the end
whatever the outcome. To me, it has been a privilege and awesome
opportunity to be part of your dream to change the world forever in
ways we cannot even imagine today.
Your friend as always,
Joan B
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And here's probably the shortest email I've shared with you, from Brian B.
I wasn't going to bother you again today but just wanted to express how much I personally appreciate all you have done for me.
Brian B.
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This longer one I've saved for last, sent from David A. from down under.
Hi Mike,
I
sense your tone has lifted despite the BS that keeps getting thrown at
you. You no doubt are gaining excellent support from many of us.
The moment Carol L mentioned your background, very briefly on her first
call to me, I knew that this was a man of integrity and someone I could
trust with my small input.
In a couple of sentences she mentioned how she had come across you at a
business conference you had and that several of her close contacts had
known you for 20 years or more, people she trusted and that their faith
in you was absolute.
I have not changed my mind about you for one second. I have not seen a
scrap of evidence regarding your character to change my perspective.
Your almost over done attempts to show you have a good name which I
must say has been more than impressive. Underneath we do hear a heart
that is bleeding from the wounds but that it is a heart of integrity
and love for those who are standing behind you and also a heart for
those you seek to serve.
A friend of mine said "One's perception is reality. Everyone makes
sense to himself." No matter what kinds of situations, dramas and
political correctness we find ourselves in, we make sense of it
ourselves, based on our viewpoint, perspective, and upbringing. My view
comes from a Christian base, his perspective doesn't, but whenever we
come to a disagreement, he says, 'Everyone makes sense of it to
themselves.' And he is right. I make sense of a situation and he makes
sense of a situation, but we differ because we come from a different
world view.
As one of your quotes said, if we are fearful, we will experience fear.
If we are basically untrustworthy, we will find it hard to trust
someone when the chips are down. If we cover up and lie, we will see
what seems to be lots of lies all around us.
Fortunately I had a kind of Pollyanna mother who always saw the glass
half full, and most of the time I find that's what I do too.
God bless you my friend.
We love you and are barracking for you.
Blessings from Australia
David A.
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Big Program
The
year was 1959 and two friends barely out of high school started a new
company. They began selling products from the trunks of their cars and
they created arguably the world's first network marketing company.
Their names were Richard DeVos and Jay VanAndel. By the way I met Mr. DeVos, he and I kept our boats at the same marina in West Michigan.
By 1975 their business had become a juggernaut making both men very wealthy.
However, their business caught the attention of the Federal Trade
Commission here in the U.S. and the FTC sued their company, Amway. By
the way, Amway is an acronym for "American Way."
The FTC hauled them into court claiming their business model, because it paid commissions on several tiers was a pyramid scheme.
Long story short, Amway was victorious and their favorable court ruling
paved the way, since, for thousands of network marketing companies.
Not only that, this court ruling legitimized once and for all network
marketing, AKA MLM, as a legitimate, viable business model.
So much so in fact in 2012 when the FTC adopted a new law, the
"Business opportunity law of 2012." They spent the better part of
the first 58 pages explaining why the FTC was exempting network
marketing companies from the new law and it's rules, which decimated
the business opportunity world.
So once again, network marketing emerged as a legitimate, viable
business model. However, yet even today, there are those
uneducated souls who somehow still manage to view network marketing as
a pyramid scheme. They should read those first 58 pages, not the entire
bill as I have, but just those first 58 pages.
Since these two young men created Amway it has gone on to become the
world's largest direct selling organization powered by network
marketing and grossing in the vicinity of 8-9 billion dollars PER YEAR.
No other network marketing comes even close! And even though
Richard DeVos passed away September 6, 2018, and Jay VanAndel on
November 5, 2014, their legacy of creating an industry which has
spawned literally hundreds of thousands of average yet successful men
and women and their families and continuing to do so to this day.
As you know, I have offered loan partners the opportunity to join a
network marketing company that has applied this business model to the
sale of a service wherein our federal government rewards business who
apply and then qualify (applications are extensive and complex) up to
$26k per employee, and this money is not a loan.
It is a special program enacted by congress to help businesses recover
from economic turmoil largely due to the perpetual insidious effects of
the COVID virus.
There are a lot of companies specializing in providing this service to
businesses, the service being navigating the tumultuous application
process. However there is only one to my knowledge, the company I have
been talking about, which has taken the fees they earn (which are
amazing by the way) and sharing those as commissions through a network
marketing business model. You can Google this too, use "ERC Government
Program."
This company paid $500k to build software specifically to get higher
refunds and omit human error on the application forms. They receive an
average of 20% more, (way less than their fee), averaging $21k per W2
full-time employee. This is considerably more than other high-level ERC
companies. Most ERC competitors do not have a large staff of CPAs who
specialize specifically in ERC refunds, like this company has.
Somehow, some people seem to think I own this company or I developed this program - not so.
Since I began marketing on the internet in 1997 my interests have been two fold:
1. Developing products and programs to assist internet marketers in their success goals.
2. Through joint ventures (in the industry called "JV's") offering a
wide variety of programs which are brought to my attention and then
researched by me.
Some people seem to think that I should not be investing my energies in this way.
They clearly do not understand, if I can find a way to help you or
anyone else I do business with, be among the first to profit from
something new, something spectacular, I absolutely owe you this
courtesy to tell you about it.
(And it's ironic - if the 'haters' joined this program - there is even
a free option - and spent as much time /effort working on it as they do
on their hatred and vitriol they could actually be quite successful. )
Yesterday I sent an email to all Group Leaders to sign up if they like
for this program, and get their link out to all of their referrals
before next Wednesday, August 24.
You see, next Wednesday, August 24, I will publish a special link where
I have this companies program details, and the link to join.
However, next Wednesday I will also recommend to everyone if they have
not received a 'join' link from their group leader to at least make the
effort to contact their group leader before using the general sign up
link.
So next Wednesday I will provide a lot more details about this program in the update.
Until then.
Sincerely,
Mike G.
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