Another day comes to an end in Prague and this one was quite rewarding actually. I will be the first to admit that I was very uncertain about unleashing on my communications peers from around the world a panel of IBO bloggers who have varied histories of critique. The PR and External Affairs had asked for a session so they could learn more about ...

Today Quixtar announced 2007 sales of $1.07 billion, down a tad from the previous year's sales of $1.12 billion. Given the amount of change and turmoil experienced, I was encouraged by these results! I've already seen some of the initial reactions that this somehow reflects a fiscal year that ended Aug. 31, 2007.  As people will ...

It's great to finally have Lynn here in the Zone with her Beta Mom blog.  She doesn't give herself enough credit to be an Alpha Mom, but that's what makes her so great -- humbleness and self deprecation.  Kinda like Kathy Griffin whose cable show "My Life on the D-List" makes fun of the fact that she's not an ...

  Happy Birthday O'zoners, and congratulations on a great first year!  I just read David Prescott's musings in Code Review and have to agree, it does seem like much longer than a year for the Opportunity Zone.  Well, for me that's especially true since I've been doing the RealQuixtarBlog since April of 2004.  I ...

Do you have a Google alert set up for your name? I do. No, it's not vanity (well, maybe a little). But if my name does appear in another blog or in a news piece, it's work-related and I want to see what others are saying about me, just like I want to know what others are saying about Quixtar or Amway. Anyway, my name popped up in a blog ...

Tonight or tomorrow I'm leaving to celebrate Thanksgiving in Wisconsin. Then on Sunday I fly to Florida for Achievers, where I hope to help IBOs celebrate their awesome achievements as IBOs and help them as they prepare to build their businesses even bigger! Today I spent a few moments to visit the Alticor Visitor Center. At one time, several ...

In the past I've written about editors here at the REAL Quixtar Blog. Today I'm calling out the Interns. As I was driving in I was thinking about them, particularly since they have taken on a larger workload in the absence of Anna. Shannon, Charlotte and Lindsay (who actually is a contractor) are all working hard on important PR work. ...

Check out the most recent issue of Direct Selling News for an article (Social Media: Word of Mouth in the Digital Age) that features the Opportunity Zone, based on interviews of Beth Dornan and myself. Of course, I think it's wonderful because we're in it, but it does a good job of outlining what our experience has been this year ...

No, I'm not jumping the gun and skipping all of fall to go straight to winter. Actually, it's been in the 80s all this week, so snow and sleet are the last things on our minds here in Michigan. Actually, I'm posting about the "snowball" mic that ended up on my desk the other day. Beth ordered one for me (and one for herself) ...

Due to all the legal activities going on, we haven't been able to say too much here in the Opportunity Zone lately. There's lots I wish we could talk about, but we certainly wouldn't want to say or do things that hurt our legal position. Check out the Alticor media blog post today for the latest news. For just over three years ...