Monthly Archives: August 2008

Congratulations Team Nutrilite Olympians

August 29th, 2008 | Posted in Amway News, Endorsements, Nutrilite

Yesterday I started to write a post about Amway Global’s Team Nutrilite athletes that competed at the recent Beijing Olympic games. I instead up with a more personal post about the value of persistence - I quit. On Tuesday, Amway itself will publicly congratulation the athletes with a full page advertisement in USA Today (click [...]

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Amway wins an Emmy!

August 29th, 2008 | Posted in Amway's Awards & Recognitions, Videos

Well, strictly speaking it’s not Amway’s Emmy, and it’s not quite one of those Emmy’s, nevertheless, animator Matt Campbell of HDStudios has been awarded an Emmy by the Michigan Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his video The Company Line, produced for Amway’s parent company, Alticor. The video won in [...]

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I quit

August 28th, 2008 | Posted in Commentary

I love watching the Olympics - it is literally thousands of people achieving their dreams. What can be better that? Many of them have worked years for little reward and with no expectation of a medal or massive sponsorships - but they had a dream just to be there, to compete with the best, to [...]

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XS Gold - coming September 15

August 26th, 2008 | Posted in Amway News, XS Energy

A few commentators on Amway Talk have been talking about a new XS Energy product due out soon for Amway Global in North America - XS Gold. Bridgett over on The World According to Bridgett has brought us the information that it will be launched September 15, as well as this great video “teaser” -

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Idle gossip from idle minds - another example of a clueless Amway critic

August 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Critics of Amway

In the comments of the post More Clueless Amway Critics, one of the subjects of the post, Amway critic pokerpooner, decided to add his side of the story into the comments. In my opinion all he successfully did was prove the point of the post - he’s clueless about the Amway business, how it works, [...]

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More Clueless Amway Critics

August 21st, 2008 | Posted in Critics of Amway

Last year a user posted the following great video on youtube of Amway Malaysia’s first Founders Crown Ambassadors - Charlie Lee Kim Soon & Linda Ng Kwee Choo -

Yesterday, one of the regular Amway Quixtar critics on the QuixtarBlog forums, pokerpooner, had the following to say about it -
LOL Joecool take a look at this [...]

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Amway Headquarters Renovations

August 20th, 2008 | Posted in Amway News

As most readers may know, 2009 is the 50th anniversary of the founding of Amway Corporation. As part of the celebrations, Amway World Headquarters in Ada, Michigan, USA is undergoing renovations. Confirming the idea that these days pretty much everyone has a blog, a message popped up on my google alerts from Erhardt Construction’s blog. [...]

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Amway - The Founder’s Fundamentals

August 12th, 2008 | Posted in Videos

The following video was post on Amway UK’s public video website this week. It’s a short but interesting insight into the values of Amway’s founding families and what they wish promoted through the Amway business opportunity - Freedom, Family, Hope, Reward.

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The Power of Networking

August 5th, 2008 | Posted in Commentary

Back in 1963, Harvard social psychologist Stanley Milgram performed an interesting experiment. Building on earlier ideas about social networks by Michael Gurevich, a PhD student at MIT, Milgram performed a number of experiments where he sent packages to randomly selected individuals. The package included instructions asking them to forward it to a particular “target person”, [...]

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All in Energy vs XS Energy

August 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Commentary, XS Energy

There’s been a bit of discussion recently on various Amway-related websites about an energy drink called All in Energy, apparently marketed primarily through poker tourneys. All in Energy, much like XS Energy (marketed by Amway and Quixtar) comes in multiple flavours, is sugar free, and has large doses of B-vitamins and various energy-boosting herbs.
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