Orlando Magic to play in new Amway Arena

Amway To Forge Multi-Year Marketing Alliance with City of Orlando and Orlando Magic
The arena in Orlando To Become Amway Arena
December 7, 2006 Orlando, FL – The arena in Orlando, home to the Orlando Magic (NBA), Orlando Predators (AFL), as well as other sporting and entertainment events, will become Amway Arena. The re-naming reflects a multi-year alliance formed by Amway, the City of Orlando and the Orlando Magic. The agreement will go before the Orlando City Council on Monday, December 11, 2006, for approval. Amway will also have an exclusive future negotiation period once the deal ends. Amway, founded in 1959 by Magic owner Rich DeVos and his best friend, Jay Van Andel, is one of the world's leading direct-selling companies. It is the largest operating unit of parent company Alticor Inc. Amway operates in more than 50 countries around the world, bringing business opportunities to more than 2 million people. "We're excited to forge this partnership with the Magic and the city of Orlando," said Alticor Chairman Steve Van Andel. "The NBA is one of the most popular sports leagues in the world, and this partnership will build pride in our business around the world." Said Alticor president Doug DeVos: "We are delighted to have the chance to work closely with the Magic and the city of Orlando. We're especially excited to have the chance to align the charitable efforts of our One By One Campaign for Children with some of the great things that the Magic are doing in the community." Besides Amway, Alticor is also the parent company of North American e-commerce leader Quixtar Inc, business services provide Access Business Group, and a number of other ventures. Amway will receive exterior and interior building signage, and television, radio, print and internet promotion. “We’re pleased to generate additional revenue sources, continuing our commitment to operate a self-sustaining arena,” said Allen Johnson, City of Orlando Centroplex Director. “With more than 150 events per year, we’re confident the Amway Arena will serve as a central venue for our region’s sporting, entertainment and cultural events.” Under the proposed, 4-year naming rights agreement, the City will receive an increased net return than in year’s past. “We’re looking forward to many memorable moments ahead in Amway Arena,” said Orlando Magic Chief Operating Officer Alex Martins. “Amway represents the quality and excellence we strive for in bringing our product to our fans and stakeholders. We are excited to bring Amway on board. This is a win-win-win situation for the City of Orlando, Amway, and the Orlando Magic.” The Orlando Magic is committed to the community. Over the last 17 years, more than $13 million has been distributed to local non-profit organizations via the Orlando Magic Youth Foundation, a fund of the McCormick Tribune Foundation. Annually, Orlando Magic community relations efforts impact 75,000 kids. Ticket highlights for 2006-07 include: 9,752 seats priced $30 or under per game – the most in franchise history, a new $20 ticket in the lower bowl, and 1,963 seats priced at $10. Through NBA CARES, the league, players and teams will raise and contribute $100 million for charity, donate more than 1 million hours of hands-on volunteer service to communities worldwide, and build more than 100 places where kids can learn and play over the next five years. The arena, owned by the City of Orlando, opened in 1989 and is one of six facilities owned and operated by the City of Orlando all under the name of “The Orlando Centroplex.” Originally called the Orlando Arena, the facility was named TD Waterhouse Centre in February of 2000.
Fred & Linda Harteis are loyal fans to the Orlando Magic

Fred Harteis on Paul Zane Pilzers new book

Economist Paul Zane Pilzer’s new book release, The Next Millionaires, (http://www.paulzanepilzer.com/tnm.htm) could not be a more market specific endorsement of literally every aspect of the Team’s business model. Pilzer discusses five markets/industries in which some of these next 10 million millionaires will emerge and the Team is and has been capitalizing upon all five.


Ø Where Internet technology meets product distribution there is e-commerce, which is central to the Team’s business model.
Ø And with the Internet and a home-based business, there is no need for massive overhead expenditures and operating capital for brick and mortar buildings, inventory, personnel, equipment, etc.
Ø With the Team’s focus on the exclusive wellness industry products through the DOT1-STEP program, we have a niche in a market reported to be presently at $300 billion on its way to a trillion.
Ø One of the key factors in business success is the ability to expand and teach others. Pilzer calls it bridging the technology gap through intellectual distribution. The Team’s intellectual distribution system is not only empowering to those seeking to capitalize on the 5 areas Pilzer identifies, but also provides the leverage with which to expand at whatever rate we can get this information into other people’s hands.

Pilzer’s Emerging Millionaire Trends

Internet Technology

Product Distribution

Home-Based Business

Wellness Industry

Intellectual Distribution

Team’s Business Format

Franchise Based Business System

But the biggest factor allowing an individual like you and me to take advantage of ALL these otherwise unreachable growing trends, is the Team’s masterful systemization of achieving success through a system. The Team's business model allows to put a check mark next to each of these millionaire producing trends. Fred Harteis's development of a system that leverages information and activity with specific focused results based upon the win-win principles of franchising provides a level playing field for anyone with drive, determination, and dedication to capitalize on these wealth creating trends. While not a traditional franchise where narrow restrictions govern activity and results, the Team’s system is a vast array of audio, video, written and web materials along with opportunities of association through Open Meetings, Seminars and national leadership conventions- all of which is produced and attended by those who have actually achieved the results we are looking for. These results are attained by working with like-minded teammates seeking the same results and working together as a team to achieve those results by leveraging the same duplicatable system to do so.

There has never been a better time than now to capitalize on these business market trends by grabbing a hold of the Team business system and setting out to join what Pilzer calls the Millionaire Population Explosion.

Or, you can continue to just sit on your…
…and watch it pass you by.

Fred Harteis believes Business 2.0 quote

Industry Trends

Fred Harteis believes in two basic industry realities:
First, the CONSUMER MATTERS MOST!!! In a recent article at Business 2.0 on CNNMoney.com industry experts rank the CONSUMER as MOST IMPORTANT.

“Rank: 1 You!
The consumer as creatorWhy You Matter: They've long said the customer is always right. But they never really meant it. Now they have no choice. You – or rather, the collaborative intelligence of tens of millions of people, the networked you – continually create and filter new forms of content, anointing the useful, the relevant, and the amusing and rejecting the rest. You do it on websites like Amazon, Flickr, and YouTube, via podcasts and SMS polling, and on millions of self-published blogs. In every case, you've become an integral part of the action as a member of the aggregated, interactive, self-organizing, auto-entertaining audience. But the You Revolution goes well beyond user-generated content. Companies as diverse as Delta Air Lines and T-Mobile are turning to you to create their ad slogans. Procter & Gamble and Lego are incorporating your ideas into new products. You constructed open-source and are its customer and its caretaker. None of this should be a surprise, since it was you -- your crazy passions and hobbies and obsessions -- that built out the Web in the first place. And somewhere out there, you're building Web 3.0. We don't yet know what that is, but one thing's for sure: It will matter.”
Second, the NUTRITIONAL DRINK Industry is growing and will continue to grow for years to come.
Look at a recent article atBEVINDUSTRY.COM
“It should come as no surprise that the fastest-growing beverage category would possess the same energy it gives to consumers. Energy Drinks are growing more than twice as fast as any other category, with a 54.3 percent increase in sales for the year ending June 18, according to Information Resources Inc., Chicago.”
Global functional drink volume (MILLIONS OF LITERS)
SUBSECTOR
2005
FORECAST 2006
SPORTS DRINKS
9,767.5
10,498.1
ENERGY DRINKS
1,946.2
2,206.8
ELIXIRS
331.5
355.3
TOTAL
12,045.1
13,060.2
Source: Euromonitor International, 2006

Larson appologizes to Quixtar powered Business Owners

Internet critic Scott Larsen has apologized to Jody Victor for reporting false and inaccurate information about Jody, his family and his business, information that has now been withdrawn from Larsen’s Web site. This is a milestone and, we hope, a precedent which Mr. Larsen and other critics will bear in mind in the future.

As you may recall, IBO Leaders Jody Victor and Billy Florence recently sent Mr. Larsen reasonable but strongly worded letters demanding that all of these inaccuracies be withdrawn from Larsen’s Web site and that he cease what appeared to be malicious behavior.

In response to Jody Victor’s first letter, Mr. Larsen did remove much of the offending information about Mr. Victor promptly, and then submitted a list of questions to Mr. Victor for which responses were provided in the “Jody Victor second letter” referenced below. In response to Mr. Florence’s letter, also below, Mr. Larsen made corrections to his pages, albeit without apology.

While Mr. Larsen has now issued an apology to Mr. Victor, he also continues to pepper Jody with additional questions about his business and personal life, insisting on intruding in a business with which he has had very little personal involvement. Larsen was only an IBO himself ten years ago, and for a very short period of time.

The IBOAI felt that visitors to this site, and most certainly all of our IBOs, should have access to these letters. The communications also reference and are accompanied by supporting letters from Quixtar that correct some of the inaccuracies posted by Larsen. It is also worth noting that, while Mr. Larsen claims in his responses that part of his ignorance stems from alleged Quixtar non-response to his inquiries, the fact remains that he never contacted the IBO leaders who he criticized and damaged online until they contacted him to insist on corrections. We believe that Mr. Larsen’s lack of credibility and true motives have now clearly been demonstrated and that anyone who reads his past or future allegations “should consider the source.” We also know that any IBO leader, and the IBOAI’s leadership, will always be willing to answer questions posed by those who love the business as we do – but that they would be foolish to spend vast amounts of time responding to the never-ending questions of someone who has no involvement whatsoever in the Quixtar-powered business opportunity.
Scott Larsen Apology to Jody Victor Posted 2-20-06
Jody Victor second letter to Scott Larsen Posted 1-10-06
Billy Florence letter to Scott Larsen Posted 1-10-06
Jody Victor first letter to Scott Larsen Posted 12-14-05

Dedication to a vision

IBOAI Board Officers

Don Wilson, Billy Florence, Greg Duncan
Dreams: They best come to life with dedication to a vision and hard work. Each of us knows how true this is and how important it is to foster an environment that supports that pursuit. It’s why we can all be grateful for the hard work and dedication of the board and staff of the Independent Business Owners Association International (IBOAI). It’s also why Greg, Don, and I are so proud to be personally involved as new officers of the IBOAI Board.

Our purpose is to support and promote our business – your business. We do so by acting as your voice and championing issues that are important to you. In this, we represent all IBOs. As such, our highly motivated IBOAI board looks forward to working closely with the wonderfully dedicated IBOAI staff and the immensely supportive Quixtar Inc. tocontinually improve this business.
Of course, this is a team effort. The board and staff work hand-in-hand with the corporation to represent your interests, but we also rely on your contributions. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Greg, Don, or me or any board member, or the IBOAI office. Together, we will continue to make this the most incredible opportunity on the face of the earth. An opportunity that helps people with vision realize their dreams and bring to life exciting new ones.
Billy Florence, President
Greg Duncan, Vice President
Don Wilson, Secretary/Treasurer
Fred Harteis , Past President
2005 IBOAI Board

Jodi Victor ready to have truth be known

IBO LEADER TAKES ON INTERNET CRITIC

IBOs everywhere, and Quixtar, have had their businesses harmed by the false and misleading information posted on the Internet by Scott Larsen, a self-appointed expert on our business who, in fact, was only an IBO for a very short period of time.

Fred Harteis's fellow IBO Leader Jody Victor has had enough of Mr. Larsen, and has sent him a reasonable but strongly worded letter demanding that all of the inaccuracies be withdrawn from his Web site and that he cease what appears to be malicious behavior. The IBOAI felt that visitors to this site, and most certainly all of our IBOs, should have access to Jody Victor's letter. The communication also references and is accompanied by a supporting letter from Quixtar that corrects some of the inaccuracies posted by Larsen.

Here's Jody's Letter:

December 13, 2005

Via Certified Mail,
Return-Receipt Requested


Mr. Scott Larsen:
Sent via email


Dear Mr. Larsen:

It has come to my attention that you have made false statements concerning my family, our business and me on http://www.amquix.info.

I respect the right of anyone to express their personal opinions or provide verified and accurate information online or offline. But it is completely unacceptable to disseminate, as you have, false and damaging information about my business, my family, or me. By this letter I am informing you of the verifiable facts and insisting that you correct the record immediately.

The specific erroneous information you have posted – without ever meeting me or engaging in any discussion with me -- includes:

Your Web site includes entirely false and misleading information about my Amway/Quixtar business qualification. Please refer to the enclosed Statement from Quixtar for accurate information about my business.

Your assertions that my wife and I are periodically qualifying emeralds and that we have never had our own business "as large as crown" are entirely false and materially damaging to my family and our business.

Your allegation that I caused Amway or Quixtar to alter the family crown portrait displayed at company headquarters by having my former spouse, Linda, "retouched off the portrait" is entirely incorrect. Once again, refer to the enclosed Statement provided by Quixtar for the true and accurate facts. Linda and I were never depicted in a "family crown portrait."

Contrary to your assertions, my father did not relinquish any claim to the "American Way Association" before he died.

Your implication that I have some inappropriate means of staying "in power" and maintaining a position on the IBOAI board is reported without any substantiating fact and is completely false. There is a significant difference between stating opinion and providing information that a Web site visitor would interpret as a statement of fact, and you are further damaging my reputation and business through such innuendo.

I am continuing to review your Web site and other Internet locations for additional false and inaccurate information, and will be asking you to correct the record further if we identify such information.

Additionally, neither I nor my family members are public figures and reproduction of our photos without our permission is unlawful. Take them off your site and anywhere else you’ve posted them as well.

Let me be perfectly clear. Continued abuse of me and my family is completely intolerable and unlawful and I insist that -- by December 26, 2005 -- you remove all of the aforementioned false statements, unconfirmed information and personal photographs from your site or any other Web site or medium where they might appear. There is no flexibility in that deadline – we are aware of how easy it is to quickly correct Web pages. I also want your written confirmation – to the fax or email addresses given below – that you have completed this task.

If you do this, then we can both walk away from this without further damage. However, if you are unwilling to correct the record, then I will presume you wish to deliberately continue to cause harm. That will not put you in good standing with the laws of the United States or Germany – which has even tougher laws on libel and slander than we have in this country.

If you fail to retract the false information and correct the record, I will take whatever further action I deem necessary to obtain appropriate relief.

Sincerely yours,


Jody Victor

QBI enhancements announced

QBI enhancements announced
The 2006 Quixtar Business Incentives have been enhanced three ways!
The 2006 Quixtar Business Incentives are jammed full of Cash Awards in all shapes and sizes and Business Conferences from Maui to Florida to the Caribbean. With QBI, there’s something for everyone.
Yet, now there’s even more. QBI 2006 has just been enhanced three ways!
1. NEW CASH for requalifying Platinums!Grow by a month or more when you requalify at Platinum and earn a special Platinum Growth Incentive (PGI). The new PGI Cash Awards range from $2,000 to $5,000!2. ACHIEVERS may be closer than you think!We’ve just added two more ways to qualify in 2006! Achievers ’06 in sunny Florida may be closer than you think!3. PETER ISLAND is calling you back! We’ve reset the goals for all Diamonds. The trade wind breezes and white sand beaches are calling you back to Peter Island!Read on for all the details.
1. Requalify at Platinum and earn a special Cash Award!
The Platinum Growth Incentive (PGI) rewards Platinumsabelow the qualified Sapphire level who requalify and grow in 2006. Platinums who grow by at least 1 qualified Platinum month over 2005 are eligible to receive a PGI Cash Award based on their total qualified Platinum months for 2006.
PGI Cash Awards Schedule
Platinum months 2006
Cash Awardb
6
$2,000
7
$2,500
8
$3,000
9
$3,500
10
$4,000
11
$4,500
12
$5,000
PGI examples
Platinum IBO
Platinum months 2005
Platinum months 2006
Cash Award
A
5
6
$2,000
B
7
10
$4,000
C
7
7
–
a Platinums who had 12 qualified Platinum months in 2005 are not eligible for this program, as their goal is Q-12 or another QBI Cash Award. A Platinum who receives another QBI Cash Award in 2006 is not eligible to receive a Platinum Growth Incentive.b Canadian IBOs are paid in Canadian dollars.
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2. Achievers may be closer than you think!
Achievers Invitational is Quixtar's biggest Business Conference of the year, and now we've added two more ways that IBOs can qualify to attend!
Be a Q-12 Cash Award recipient who hasn't qualified for Achievers for three years or
Grow your business over the FY 05 Platinum PV baseline
Achievers qualificationWith these new modifications, the following IBOs are eligible for Achievers:
Q-12 Cash Award recipients who:
Grow their business over a 3-year average Platinum PV baseline or
NEW! Grow their business over FY 05 Platinum PV baseline or
Qualify a new Platinum leg or
Requalify a new Platinum leg or
Achieve 108,000 Ruby PV and 10 Platinum months or
NEW! Have not qualified for an Achievers invitation since FY 02.
New Sapphires
Get-FAA Cash Award recipients
New Emeralds
Requalified Emeralds with 30,000 Ruby PV
New or requalified Diamonds and above
Achievers 2006 is at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center - five days of business meetings, product education, and all the magical fun Orlando's theme parks have to offer. Now you have two more ways to get there!
The Gaylord Palms is one of Fred & Linda Harteis s favorite
resorts.

Freddy Harteis recommends Zig Ziglar

by Zig Ziglar
As I mentioned earlier, my career - especially until I reached age 45 - has been a roller coaster. I had an extraordinarily difficult time getting started in the world of sales, but after P.C. Merrell inspired me, my career took off big-time. For the next four years, my success was unbelievable.
Then I stopped growing and started swelling. The results were catastrophic. In the following five years, I was in 17 different companies. Some of those companies were just slick new deals, but others represented real opportunities. However, my ego had reached the point where I actually believed that I had the answer to everything.
If the company I was working for didn't buy into my brilliant suggestions, I said, "I don't have to put up with this!" And off I went to a company that appreciated me. As I left, I predicted failure for that company, though it may have been in business for 50 years.
Seventeen deals in five years. Many of them were "get-rich-quick" deals, but after five years, not only had I not gotten rich quickly, but I hadn't gotten rich at all. As a matter of fact, I was getting deeper and deeper into debt. Finally, I decided to do something that I had vowed that I never would do: get back into the cookware business, where I had earlier enjoyed remarkable success.
The president of the Saladmaster Corporation in Dallas made me a significant loan, bailing me out of a really tight spot, and I was back in the cookware business. I was a franchise dealer in Columbia, South Carolina. Soon after I joined the team, the division supervisor came to visit with me and offer some suggestions. He had been a preacher all his life and had gotten into the cookware business to pay his daughter's medical bills.
To be honest, I thought that I knew more about the cookware business than this man did and that I should be the supervisor. Consequently, I didn't like the fact that he was my boss, and my ego and attitude stopped me from being in much of a listening mood. However, as he talked, I realized that in the last five years I had jumped from pillar to post and had less than nothing to show for it.
One of the man's statements made a great deal of sense. He said, "Zig, you are an excellent salesman - one of the best I've seen. But your ego makes you vulnerable to being manipulated. People brag on you, feed your ego, and lead you to believe that you can do things that simply are not doable. You've tried virtually everything that's come down the pike, and your results have not been very good." Then he said, "Now, Zig, I'm going to give you some advice. It's free... And as you know, most free advice is worth about what it costs, but let me offer a suggestion: "You've set some records in this business. You've gained some national respect as a result. But, Zig, the next time one of these 'good deals' comes your way, why don't you put the blinders on. Tell the person that regardless of how attractive the offer is, you've made a commitment. You're going to stay in this business until you stabilize yourself from a financial point of view and rebuild your reputation as solid and dependable, instead of just flashy and always looking for a 'deal'. Zig, if those deals are all that good, they'll still be good a year from now. And if they're not good a year from now, they're not good now.
Though I hated to admit that I had an ego problem, I recognized the wisdom of what my supervisor was telling me. Things were tight for a number of months, but thanks to much hard work and that commitment to stabilize myself, I managed to finish fifth in the nation out of over 3,000 franchises that year. The following year, I was number one in personal sales in the United States.
Regardless of what you may think of the messenger, listen to the message. My supervisor gave me some of the best advice I've ever gotten, and over the years, we developed a genuine friendship. I would have missed a great deal had I not swallowed my ego, put my nose to the grindstone, and gotten back on sound financial ground.
I sincerely hope that hour haven't missed great opportunities because of a swollen ego, and I sincerely hope that if you have, you recognized your ego as the culprit of your demise. Nothing knocks you down a notch quicker than an inflated opinion of yourself. Don't get me wrong; being proud of your accomplishments is good, but when you start thinking that you know more than the next person, watch out!
Fred Harteis recommends reading Zig Ziglars " Secrets of Closing the Sale" book