As top distributors celebrated their 2011 accomplishments at a recent Amway Latin America Leadership Seminar, hundreds of distributors from Venezuela to Argentina cheered them on, both in Portuguese and Spanish.
For the first time, they were able to share the excitement only the top distributors of the region usually get to experience – without leaving their home markets.
Amway TV serves primarily as a training tool, allowing distributors to watch live in-language interviews with product experts and Amway staff. During the Toronto seminar, distributors were able to take part in a bigger motivational event that included presentations by Amway President Doug DeVos and Amway Latin America President Jeff Dahl.
INA Coordinator Michael Corcoran said distributors liked what they saw, as the webcasts received more than 12,000 views and 500 comments. Said one distributor, “What a beautiful moment… I’m not there but I can feel the energy that’s being lived there.”
As Amway India’s Managing Director Bill Pinckney said in the article, “The business model does work incredibly well in India, and it has lasted and proven its detractors wrong. Thousands and thousands of Indian entrepreneurs of all ages now earn important income for themselves and their families through the direct selling industry.”
Those entrepreneurs fueled a 24 percent increase in industry sales in 2010, and Direct Selling News predicts direct selling will continue to grow at an annual rate of 15 – 20 percent over the next five years.
Leave it to our creative colleagues with Amway Australia to explain the Amway Sales and Marketing Plan in just four minutes – and have fun while doing it.
The lovable character we refer to as “Outback Zac” has done it again, only this time, he helps viewers figure out how bonuses, one-time cash awards, business trips and more are earned.
You didn’t have to search far to find Amway Canada in the news this summer.
Our Canadian affiliate made headlines by taking home two prestigious honors at the Canadian Direct Selling Association (CDSA) annual meeting in June. Amway Canada received CDSA’s “Making a Difference” award for its support of Easter Seals, notably for raising hundreds of thousands of dollars through the organization’s Drop-Zone Events.
And Angela Abdallah, our manager of communications and government affairs and vice chair of CDSA, was given the industry’s highest honor, the Ivan P. Phelan Award. This award honors those who have made “a significant contribution to the advancement of the direct selling industry in Canada.”
Finally, Amway Canada was featured in two major stories about direct selling in Canada in La Presse and Direct Selling News.
“Lounge” isn’t a word you typically associate with the Amway business.
But that term takes on new meaning when applied to the “Amway Lounge” that just opened in Kanazawa, Japan.
The Lounge is a bustling space that provides an interactive setting for distributors to introduce our business and products to prospects. There’s a Beauty Space for one-on-one or small group Artistry consultations. The Lounge Space offers a setting for conversations about our business. And a Digital Showroom showcases Amway Japan’s brands and products.
This is the first “Amway Lounge” in Japan, a concept that if successful will be rolled out in other cities.
And judging by the lively crowds in Kanazawa, there’s little “lounging” happening there!
The new Business Centre is the talk of the town of Coburg, just outside of Melbourne. It’s also spurring conversation about who Amway is today to nearly 2.5 million Australians through print, broadcast and online publications.
It all adds up to a lot of talk in towns – and cities – about Amway’s first overseas affiliate.
For Craig Clickner, having an Amway business provided support when his high-paying job was eliminated two years ago. For wife Carrie, getting to socialize while working is one of the greatest advantages of owning an Amway business.
Craig and Carrie, of Madison, Wis., recently shared their experiences as distributors with more than 200 employees during a “lunch and learn” session at Amway World Headquarters. Their session was part of a series of lunchtime classes that help our employees understand how our distributors do business.
Carrie and Craig said the first six months can be tough for a new distributor who’s still learning how to present our business opportunity and who may get discouraged. But hanging in there will surely bring benefits, they said.
“I love the relationships, the high level of trust and love of the people you’re working with,” Carrie said. “And we get to work together, to build our business together. Not many people can say that.”
By creating opportunity and supporting entrepreneurs, Amway President Doug DeVos writes in the May issue of Direct Selling News. Helping people succeed through their own direct selling businesses creates a “ripple effect” that benefits not only the business owner but also the cities and towns in which they do business.
As Doug says in the bylined article, “..these individuals are often sharing their time, talent and treasure with their communities to help build them up. The entrepreneurs we encounter each day create an economic and social ripple effect that makes the direct selling industry unique. No other industry can say it empowers people the way we do.”
As the headline for the column reads, there’s “no better time for entrepreneurs than right now.”
Because there’s no better time to make the world a better place.
Henry David Thoreau wrote, “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance.”
Over the past four days, Amway Founders Council members from Australia, Austria, China, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine and USA closed that distance, meeting face-to-face in Miami, Florida with a common purpose.
It won’t be the last time we Tweet, post, snap pictures and share events through the eyes of the participants. As long as Amway is the driving reason behind friends and colleagues from faraway places gathering together, we’ll be there.
The top Amway distributors in the world have convened in Miami for our annual Founders Council gathering. And for the first time, we’re offering an insider’s view of this prestigious event.
We have a social media team in Miami that is providing updates on Facebook, posting photos to Flickr, Tweeting to Amway’s Twitter feed and posting video to Amway’s YouTube channel.
They’re capturing the sights and sounds and faces and voices of Founders, as well as providing exclusive content such as interviews with first-time Founders Council attendees. More than 80 distributorships from 13 countries are in Miami and thanks to our social media team, you have a front-row seat to this a one-of-a-kind event.
So follow us on Facebook. Twitter, Flickr and YouTube and follow all the action at the 2011 Founders Council.
The top Amway distributors in the world have convened in Miami for our annual Founders Council gathering. And for the first time, we’re offering an insider’s view of this prestigious event. 