Yesterday's issue of USA TODAY featured a full-page ad by Nutrilite and Amway Global congratulating the Team Nutrilite 2008 medal winners. (It's in the Sports section.) Four athletes are featured and the common denominator between them is Nutrilite, the world's leading brand of vitamins, minerals, and dietary supplements. It ...

I've been thinking about how I need to let go of my old job responsibilities and embrace my new role. It's not easy to walk away from a warm, familiar, accepting environment into unknown, unchartered territory. For the most part, I like the unknown--it's full of challenge and discovery. But it's bumpy! And I tend to trip once ...

Yesterday during services, the minister had the young children come up to the front to talk about the meaning of Easter. One little boy said, Easter is about "in with the new, out with the old" and another child close by who was too shy to move to the front murmured to his mother, "oh, that's why it's in ...

This weekend, I ended up at my favorite local bookstore, discovered a book called Words that Work-It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear by Dr. Frank Luntz. (Available through B&N, your Quixtar Partner Store.) I took the book with me to the cafe, ordered coffee, sat down, and read vrtually the entire book. I couldn't ...

This week, I was fortunate enough to spend some time with an IBO couple who are hugely successful in the business and currently participating in The Learning Lab with Quixtar. Wow, I learned so much in 90 minutes. One of the topics was Choices Catalog. I asked how they use it in the business. What they liked about it and what they thought we could ...

Have you read BrandSimple by Allen P. Adamson? One of our frequent bloggers at Opportunity Zone recommended the book to me and I'd like to pass the recommendation along. Word of mouth, or should I say word of blog?  First, it's engaging and easy to read. Second, it's the simple truth on how to build a brand idea, brand ...