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April 2008<br />
inside this issue<br />
<strong>Founders</strong> <strong>Message</strong> 1<br />
Greg Fullerton<br />
Recruiting & Training 3<br />
Ken Dunn Achieves <strong>Max</strong> Triple<br />
Diamond<br />
Bill L. Andersen Achieves <strong>Max</strong><br />
Triple Diamond<br />
5 ways to success! 7<br />
NEW supply of the magazine!<br />
<strong>Max</strong> Does Spanish!<br />
Product Information 10<br />
The Role of Glutathione in<br />
Energy Production<br />
Product Testimonials 13<br />
Events & Promotions 14<br />
<strong>Max</strong> Opens in Canada!<br />
Associate Recognition 16<br />
Top Revenue Recruiters<br />
Top Associate Recruiters<br />
Top Preferred Customer<br />
Recruiters<br />
Feb. Rank Advancements! 22<br />
Corporate <strong>Message</strong> 27<br />
Russ Garn, Creative/Marketing<br />
Director<br />
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<strong>Founders</strong> <strong>Message</strong><br />
Greg Fullerton: Committed to <strong>Max</strong>!<br />
I keep a little book where I write<br />
down the date of meetings I attend,<br />
where I visited, the number of people<br />
in attendance and the ideas we talked<br />
about. I have a record of every time<br />
I’ve spoken. I remember doing the<br />
first <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> meeting in<br />
Toronto in January 2007. There were<br />
35 people there and we had the most<br />
exciting and fun time.<br />
When I was getting ready to go to<br />
Toronto on the 2008 “Your Business<br />
At Home” tour, I found that I would<br />
be in that city exactly one year to the<br />
day of my first visit. And this time,<br />
there were about 300 people at that<br />
meeting.<br />
I experienced a warm and wonderful feeling at that Toronto meeting that<br />
made me want to figure out exactly why it was there. I thought of the<br />
great depth of leadership at <strong>Max</strong> and our incredible product, <strong>Max</strong>GXL.<br />
Those are great features any company would love to have. But there were<br />
three other things that really jumped out at me.<br />
First, there was a real feeling of camaraderie and belonging. I sensed there<br />
was a real connectedness among our Associates who knew they were part<br />
of something bigger than themselves. They knew that <strong>Max</strong> has come to<br />
mean they have a world-wide impact. They can live a better life, they can<br />
take better care of themselves and that we all can make a difference.
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Second, there is a definite commitment to that connectedness. We are committed to each<br />
other, committed to <strong>Max</strong> and the success of our company. People are committed to service,<br />
to sharing their gifts with others. I was so impressed at how people would say, “Finally! I<br />
have found a place where I can stay for the rest of my life!” Now that’s commitment!<br />
And finally, I saw something that was breathtaking to<br />
me when I met with Toronto leaders in three sets of<br />
dinner meetings that started at 6 and ended at 10:30<br />
p.m. As these leaders introduced themselves, there was<br />
no chest pounding—these people had true humility.<br />
Everyone I met knew they had a unique contribution<br />
to make to the success of this company, but no one<br />
believed they were the reason for the success.<br />
When I meet quality people like this, it just uplifts<br />
me. I come away a better person. I have such an<br />
appreciation for people who are passionate about <strong>Max</strong><br />
<strong>International</strong> and passionate about <strong>Max</strong>GXL. I just love<br />
being around them!<br />
I feel that energy and excitement just as much as when<br />
it’s with three people in Northern California when we<br />
first started or at Toronto with 300 people. I love to<br />
listen to testimonials. One lady told me she had given<br />
<strong>Max</strong>GXL to her dog. That little dog had fleas and mange<br />
and had just been neutered. There was a whole litany<br />
of problems but <strong>Max</strong>GXL helped her dog. I asked her,<br />
“What’s your dog’s name? Lucky!?”<br />
In Dallas about a year ago, we were in a room with<br />
25 people, while down the hall another MLM company<br />
was meeting in a room that seated 150. Ken Dunn said<br />
to me, “Someday we’ll have those kinds of numbers.”<br />
And we do! I was recently in Rochester, NY, with 200<br />
people!<br />
I just enjoy being around <strong>Max</strong> people. I love all the<br />
hugs, all the love. I care about our Associates. I want<br />
you to be happy, to have everything you dream about.<br />
I cheer your every achievement. I love the<br />
energy and the excitement you all give to me!<br />
Greg Fullerton,<br />
If you have ideas or suggestions of how we can offer better support<br />
to help you reach even higher levels of success, we would love to<br />
have your feedback. Please contact our Sales Director, Bob Kaelin<br />
either by letter to our corporate office or by email: bob@maxgxl.com.<br />
We look forward to hearing from you and implementing your ideas!
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Ken Dunn Achieves <strong>Max</strong> Triple<br />
Diamond<br />
The Key to Triple Diamond?<br />
Relationships!<br />
Ken Dunn traveled an incredible 240,000<br />
miles on business last year. And everywhere<br />
he went, he found time to reach out to friends<br />
and acquaintances. In<br />
just the last month, a<br />
woman Ken had been<br />
friends with for the<br />
past three and a half<br />
years, was ready for<br />
the <strong>Max</strong> Opportunity<br />
and jumped at the<br />
chance to sign on as a<br />
<strong>Max</strong> Associate.<br />
“It’s all about building<br />
relationships and building friendships,” Ken<br />
reported at a recent Fly-In. And above all,<br />
he says, you have to really care about the<br />
person. They can’t just be a prospect to<br />
you. “That’s the most important thing,” Ken<br />
emphasized.<br />
Ken is grateful for what industry trainer<br />
Michael Clouse taught him.<br />
“Michael says that every prospect must<br />
know three things about you:<br />
1. They know you<br />
2. They trust you<br />
3. They like you<br />
It’s up to you to align these relationships<br />
with the right time to introduce the product<br />
and the opportunity,” Ken said.<br />
relationships.”<br />
“<strong>Max</strong> Founder Steve<br />
Scott may not<br />
consciously realize<br />
it, but his whole life<br />
has been focused<br />
around relationships,”<br />
Ken observed. “He<br />
is properly aligned<br />
as an entrepreneur<br />
for success in<br />
network marketing<br />
because of his gift for
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Ken’s wife saw the incredible fit of Ken’s<br />
personality and network marketing when he<br />
began in the business four and a half years<br />
ago. She wisely remarked, “It took you 15<br />
years to figure out how to do what you<br />
should have been doing your whole life!”<br />
Ken believes that people like to hear a<br />
rags-to-riches story. “I had to go to work<br />
to support myself at the age of 16. I had<br />
to make changes. And no one is different<br />
than me. I am telling that story as much as<br />
possible to as many ears as are open. We<br />
empower through words!” he said.<br />
The people Ken works<br />
with have confidence<br />
in him. Whatever he<br />
says, he will do. And<br />
that includes putting<br />
in 20 hour days.<br />
“I’ve been successful<br />
because I’ve found<br />
really quality people<br />
and I offer support to<br />
them. I am there for<br />
them.”<br />
Ken loves the words of Ghandi. “He said that<br />
you should be the catalyst for the change<br />
you want to see in the world. You should<br />
see the change in yourself.”<br />
Too often we use someone else’s “perfect”<br />
script in a telephone call, Ken relates. “Then<br />
we hang up and think, I should have said<br />
this, and we think of several things we would<br />
have liked to say. Those are the golden<br />
nuggets you should have used!”<br />
Ken wants all Associates to step up to what is<br />
possible for them. “<strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> offers<br />
personal development<br />
as well as a powerful<br />
product,” Ken says.<br />
“Sing that song!” he<br />
challenges.
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Bill L. Andersen Achieves <strong>Max</strong><br />
Triple Diamond<br />
For all the new Associates who<br />
are standing at the starting line<br />
of a career in network marketing,<br />
Master Associate Bill L. Andersen<br />
has some advice to share.<br />
“It all begins in your mind. It’s about dreams<br />
and passion and the<br />
mental commitment<br />
to self,” he stated.<br />
Bill’s commitment<br />
to <strong>Max</strong> and <strong>Max</strong>GXL<br />
has vaulted him to<br />
the rank of Triple<br />
Diamond in addition<br />
to being a Master<br />
Associate.<br />
“You have to drop all the masks, the lies<br />
and perceptions you may have had about<br />
network marketing,” Bill said. “Get to the<br />
truth of self belief and what you can offer to<br />
the Associates you work with.” Bill believes<br />
that most people are trying so hard to be<br />
right that they don’t listen long enough<br />
to connect with those they talk to. They<br />
assume that if they are right, you must be<br />
wrong, and you have to come to their way<br />
of thinking. That leads to manipulation and<br />
overselling, Bill says.<br />
Instead, Bill suggests Associates talk about<br />
how exciting <strong>Max</strong>GXL is and the integrity<br />
found in the leadership of <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong>.<br />
“It’s not just one man of integrity—it’s an<br />
entire organization committed to integrity<br />
and truth! And I am all about integrity and<br />
truth,” Bill said.<br />
“Someone more influential than myself<br />
once said, ‘the truth will set you free,’ ” Bill<br />
observed. “Part of that truth is that this is<br />
a tough business.<br />
Part of the truth is<br />
that we all make<br />
mistakes and bad<br />
choices from time<br />
to time. Part of that<br />
truth is that you may<br />
want to quit 20 times<br />
in the first month.<br />
“Don’t live in fear! Too many people are<br />
captivated by corporations that pay just<br />
enough money so you won’t quit. Part of
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the truth is that we are all awesome human<br />
beings and have a greatness we bring<br />
together.”<br />
“Remember, it all starts in your mind. Do<br />
you value the dream?<br />
Do you value freedom?<br />
At what price do you<br />
value dreams and<br />
freedoms? Enough to<br />
put in the hours? To<br />
talk to people?” Bill<br />
asked.<br />
Success comes after we<br />
pay a price. “I wasn’t<br />
good at baseball at<br />
first,” Bill said. “I didn’t<br />
get awards until long<br />
after the commitment<br />
not to quit—not when<br />
I got hit by a baseball<br />
or when others told me<br />
I wasn’t good enough.<br />
All of us have had a<br />
little baseball moment.<br />
The world tells us<br />
we’re not enough. I<br />
am enough. I know<br />
I am!” he said.<br />
Whenever someone<br />
tries to say you aren’t<br />
good enough, Bill says<br />
to tell them to go sell<br />
their lies to someone else!<br />
“I have a personal goal to talk to five people<br />
every day about <strong>Max</strong>. I tell them what an<br />
amazing product and company we have and<br />
invite them to look at it. I send product to<br />
them to try. Then I teach others how to do<br />
the same,” Bill explained.<br />
He says to develop<br />
the commitment<br />
to strategy and<br />
teamwork. “How can<br />
you become great?” Bill<br />
asks. “Be consistent,<br />
be committed, honor<br />
yourself and others<br />
and be in action daily.”<br />
Actions, according to<br />
Bill, are sharing the<br />
<strong>Max</strong> Opportunity and<br />
teaching others how to<br />
do the same.<br />
When Bill Andersen<br />
first heard of <strong>Max</strong><br />
<strong>International</strong>, he was<br />
drawn to the truth<br />
he saw in this new<br />
company. “Great<br />
talent has a significant<br />
responsibility to go<br />
beyond self and<br />
limitations, to reach<br />
higher. <strong>Max</strong> is doing<br />
that and has challenged<br />
me to become a<br />
better person. Even if<br />
there was no money<br />
exchanged in this business, I’d do it for that<br />
alone,” Bill said. “We are becoming greater<br />
together.”
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5 ways to<br />
success!<br />
<strong>Max</strong> has created a dynamic new<br />
brochure to reach and retain the<br />
<strong>Max</strong>GXL Associates and Preferred<br />
Customers you want to sign up.<br />
Titled “5 way <strong>Max</strong>GXL can improve your life!”, this full-color brochure<br />
has vibrant images and easy-to-understand summaries on five major<br />
benefits of taking <strong>Max</strong>GXL:<br />
1. More Energy: how increased glutathione in your cells can lead to more efficient<br />
energy production as well as increased cellular protection.<br />
2. Immune System: how the immune cells of your body (T-cells, B-cells and white<br />
blood cells) are hampered without adequate glutathione.<br />
3. Cellular Detox: Nobody does it better! Glutathione grabs toxins and escorts them<br />
out of the body.<br />
4. Peak Athletic Performance: Strenuous exercise requires serious glutathione levels<br />
for energy and to help your body recover faster.<br />
5. Fight Cellular Inflammation: Name a major health issue and you’ll find out-ofcontrol<br />
inflammation is at the root of it. Glutathione offsets the effects of inflammation at<br />
the cellular level.<br />
Also included in this new brochure are four powerful testimonials of the impact <strong>Max</strong>GXL<br />
has made on people of varied ages and occupations.<br />
Profoundly simple and powerful, the 5 ways <strong>Max</strong>GXL can improve<br />
your life! brochure can do the talking for you and result in new<br />
Associates and Preferred Customers!<br />
Go to the <strong>Max</strong>cessories on the website to purchase!
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Because of the amazing results <strong>Max</strong> Associates are having<br />
with the Your Business At Home magazine, the company has<br />
secured a new supply of this amazing magazine.<br />
You can now order more of this fabulous tool to help you build<br />
your business and share the <strong>Max</strong> Opportunity.<br />
We are seeing a groundswell of interest in <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> and<br />
<strong>Max</strong>GXL because of the professional and exciting way <strong>Max</strong> is<br />
presented in this powerful magazine. Order your supply today!<br />
Go to your back office or<br />
call <strong>Max</strong> Customer Care today! 801-316-6380
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<strong>Max</strong> Does Spanish!<br />
It’s a huge market to tap into! The ten million-plus Hispanic households of today will<br />
increase to 13.5 million in just two years. These households will control $670 billion in<br />
personal income six years from now. Mexican-American households will account for $409<br />
billion of this total. 1<br />
It won’t come as a surprise that a recent article on the Hispanic marketplace reported that<br />
“when it comes to selling, 56 percent of Latino adults respond best to advertising when<br />
it is presented in Spanish.” 2<br />
<strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> is prepared to help you with this challenge by<br />
translating three brochures into Spanish:<br />
1. “The <strong>Max</strong>GXL brochure” (Say No to Accelerated Aging)<br />
2. “5 ways <strong>Max</strong>GXL can improve your life!”<br />
3. “7 Ways to Make Money: The <strong>Max</strong> Plan”<br />
The natural health tradition runs very strongly in Hispanic families. Have you introduced<br />
your Hispanic friends to the great health benefits of <strong>Max</strong>GXL? Hola! Now you have the<br />
tools to do so! Check out this link to <strong>Max</strong>cessories! http://maxgxl.com/toolshed.php<br />
Notes<br />
1. http://www.ahorre.com/hispanicmarket.htm<br />
2. http://www.ad-mkt-review.com/public_html/docs/fs075.html
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The Role of Glutathione in<br />
Energy Production<br />
You’ve been told that glutathione increases<br />
energy on a cellular level. How does it do<br />
this? Since glutathione is not the actual<br />
fuel for the “engines” or “energy factories”<br />
of our cells, what part does it play in the<br />
creation of cellular energy?<br />
These are questions we would all like answers<br />
to, but not if they make us feel like we’re<br />
back in Chemistry 101!<br />
Hopefully, what you read<br />
below will provide a nontechnical<br />
explanation for<br />
these questions.<br />
The Tiger in Your Tank Is<br />
Called ATP<br />
It’s obvious that all cells<br />
must produce energy to<br />
survive. We know that the<br />
“gasoline” or “electricity”<br />
that powers our cells is<br />
called ATP (adenosine<br />
triphosphate). If your car<br />
runs out of gas, it can<br />
sit for a while until you<br />
replenish the supply. Not so<br />
with our cellular fuel. Our<br />
cells simply cannot survive<br />
unless they have a continual, sufficient supply<br />
of “cellular gasoline” or ATP. So the process of<br />
creating fuel in each and every cell must go<br />
on constantly.<br />
A single cell may have a couple of hundred<br />
energy factories or cellular power plants called<br />
mitochondria or it may contain thousands of<br />
them. Your hard-working heart cells have been<br />
estimated to have 5,000 mitochondria each 1 !<br />
The complex process of turning nutrients into<br />
ATP in the mitochondria depends on many<br />
oxidation and reduction reactions.<br />
Redox is the shorthand term for the chemical<br />
reaction where atoms are changed by<br />
either losing elections (oxidation) or gaining<br />
electrons (reduction).<br />
The Process<br />
Understanding the exact<br />
process of ATP creation<br />
didn’t happen until 1937.<br />
Hans A. Krebs finally<br />
figured out a metabolic<br />
pathway in the cells that<br />
explained how energy is<br />
created. There were many<br />
scientists who played a<br />
key role in understanding<br />
how this pathway worked,<br />
but because Krebs had the<br />
insight that the pathway<br />
was a cycle, the process<br />
was named for him and<br />
is usually called the Krebs<br />
cycle.<br />
You will also read of it as<br />
the “citric acid cycle” or the tricarboxylic<br />
acid cycle (TCA) or occasionally, the Szent-<br />
Györgyi-Krebs cycle (adding the name of<br />
the scientist who mapped out many of the<br />
molecules and the sequence of reactions of<br />
the Krebs cycle).<br />
We are including a diagram of the eight major<br />
steps in the energy cycle. Since we are not<br />
doing Chemistry 101, describing this process
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could be as simple as saying it’s a metabolic<br />
dance of electrons being transported and<br />
transferred, through complex processes of<br />
reduction and oxidation. Remember that<br />
transferring (or grabbing!) electrons is also<br />
what starts the cycle of free radical damage.<br />
The Role of Glutathione<br />
Oxidation is like a flame, wonderful when<br />
harnessed, dangerous when out of control.<br />
When we are young, the oxidation necessary<br />
for energy production is highly efficient<br />
with only a small amount of oxygen not<br />
utilized. Even this minor oxygen loss (1-3%)<br />
unfortunately results in the production of free<br />
radicals. And this is where glutathione comes<br />
in to neutralize those free radicals.<br />
A one-to-three percent<br />
oxygen loss causing<br />
free-radical production<br />
doesn’t sound too bad,<br />
does it? But say you are<br />
no longer 20 years of age<br />
and correspondingly, your<br />
cellular mitochondria are<br />
not as efficient as they<br />
once were. More and<br />
more free radicals are<br />
generated in the oxidative<br />
energy process and they<br />
are, in turn, damaging<br />
the mitochondria themselves.<br />
The powerful antioxidant, glutathione,<br />
quenches a number of free radicals, including<br />
the highly dangerous hydroxyl radical by<br />
donating an electron. Glutathione itself does<br />
not become a free radical even though it has<br />
given up an electron.<br />
No wonder it is called the Master Antioxidant!<br />
Now that it is quenched, the extremely<br />
harmful hydroxyl radical is halted from its real<br />
dirty work: generating other free radicals like<br />
peroxynitrite and the radicals of oxidized fats<br />
(lipids).<br />
Glutathione has just halted a literal cascade<br />
of free radicals by quenching the hydroxyl<br />
free radical. But you need to know just<br />
what a favor glutathione has done for you in<br />
preventing peroxynitrite production.<br />
Peroxynitrite is truly pernicious!<br />
Martin L. Pall, PhD, professor of Biochemistry<br />
and Basic Medical Science at Washington<br />
State University stated: “Peroxynitrite reacts<br />
with and inactivates several of the enzymes<br />
in mitochondria so that mitochondrial and<br />
energy metabolism dysfunction is one of<br />
the most important<br />
consequences of elevated<br />
peroxynitrite.” 2<br />
Translation: When<br />
the mitochondria have<br />
suffered enough free<br />
radical damage as to<br />
become dysfunctional,<br />
energy production is<br />
impaired. Your cells do not<br />
get the amount of energy<br />
they need to function<br />
properly. Your cells may<br />
function at a level below<br />
the optimum although you probably won’t<br />
feel it.<br />
There is yet one more free-radical mitochondrial<br />
consequence as a result of low glutathione<br />
levels that you “will” be aware of. Richard<br />
Van Konynenburg, PhD, wrote: “The resulting<br />
partial blockades in the Krebs cycles and the<br />
respiratory chains in the red, slow-twitch<br />
skeletal muscle cells decrease their rate of<br />
production of ATP. Since ATP is what powers<br />
muscle contractions, the lack of it produces
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physical fatigue. It becomes chronic because<br />
GSH [glutathione] remains depleted.” 3<br />
You might think of free radicals as a band of<br />
marauders circling an oil tanker, preparing<br />
to hijack the precious commodity that fuels<br />
cars and trains and pretty much the entire<br />
Western world. Glutathione molecules could<br />
be considered a group of highly efficient<br />
bodyguards—handing out electrons and<br />
turning vicious marauders<br />
into mild-mannered<br />
bystanders.<br />
Glutathione Praise<br />
from Dr. Keller<br />
As you understand this<br />
intricate energy creation<br />
process, perhaps you<br />
will appreciate more a<br />
statement by the creator<br />
of <strong>Max</strong>GXL, Dr. Robert H.<br />
Keller. Dr. Keller said that<br />
glutathione is “critical to<br />
cell functions such as the<br />
TCA (Kreb) cycle and then<br />
the respiratory chain that<br />
uses 4 molecules of ATP<br />
to generate 32 molecules<br />
of ATP.”<br />
Is it vital for you to<br />
have those glutathione<br />
bodyguards on energy<br />
duty? Van Konynenburg<br />
certainly thinks so as he<br />
wrote, “GSH [glutathione]<br />
plays very important roles in maintaining<br />
mitochondrial function and integrity.” 4<br />
Perhaps it’s enough to remember that<br />
glutathione is there to assure that the<br />
creation of cellular energy is not hampered<br />
by free radical damage. While this is not by<br />
any means the only role glutathione plays<br />
in keeping your body running smoothly, it<br />
is a vitally important role. Now you have<br />
one more reason to appreciate Dr. Keller’s<br />
marvelous, patented product!<br />
Notes<br />
1. Stephen T. Sinatra, MD,<br />
FACC, “L-Carnitine and the<br />
Heart,” McGraw-Hill, 1999,<br />
p. 36<br />
2. Pall M, “Elevated,<br />
sustained peroxynitrite<br />
levels as the cause of<br />
chronic fatigue syndrome,”<br />
Medical Hypotheses (2000)<br />
54(1):115-125.<br />
3. Glutathione White<br />
Paper, Richard Van<br />
Konynenburg, PhD,<br />
http://phoenix-cfs.org/<br />
GluAACFS04.htm<br />
4. Ibid.
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I suffered from daily discomfort in what I refer to others as my<br />
“chicken bone,” you know, the shoulder blade. I like to describe<br />
it as the housewife’s discomfort from the continuous day to day<br />
chores of laundry, making beds, dishes, sweeping, vacuuming,<br />
laundry, cooking. It was VERY severe. I used to beg my husband<br />
to rub my shoulder area. Then once he started, I would beg him<br />
to stop because it still hurt.<br />
After a week of taking <strong>Max</strong>GXL, I noticed the discomfort was<br />
gone—like it never existed. To top it off, I NEVER get sore any<br />
more after my workouts. Even on the days I work out extra hard I<br />
think to myself, “man, I am going to be hurting so bad tomorrow.”<br />
But much to my surprise.....NOTHING! I love <strong>Max</strong>GXL! Not only for what it has done to my<br />
body, but for what I know it is doing to protect my body in the future!<br />
And I got an added benefit: I sleep so great now. I wake up feeling so crisp and energetic.<br />
Thanks, Dr. Keller!!!<br />
MAX GXL helps retired police officer recover from back discomfort<br />
due to injuries suffered during vehicle accident while on-duty.<br />
On July 1, 2002, I was struck by a vehicle which caused me to<br />
receive injuries that later forced me to retire from my job as a<br />
police officer. During this accident, the muscles in my upper back<br />
were torn from my spine leaving me with injuries too severe to<br />
continue on in police work. For more than five years after the<br />
accident I lived with the daily discomfort and stiffness that this<br />
injury left me with, and frankly I had just learned to live with<br />
it. Then a friend introduced me to MAX GXL and my back has<br />
been free from the discomfort ever since that day I took my first<br />
capsules. Too good to be true you say? I’m free of that now,<br />
and with the added benefit of more energy, I feel better than I<br />
have in twenty years. I truly am living to the MAX!<br />
Call for Testimonials!<br />
Has <strong>Max</strong>GXL made a difference in your life? We would love to feature you<br />
and your testimonial in upcoming publications. There are myriad ways<br />
<strong>Max</strong>GXL can impact your life. Please send your testimonial by email to<br />
karen@maxgxl.com and if we choose your submission, we will ask you to<br />
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The <strong>Max</strong> <strong>Founders</strong> Cruise will be an elite event for the Associates who<br />
have qualified, and will have the unique opportunity to share ideas and<br />
learn from the Top Leaders, <strong>Max</strong> <strong>Founders</strong> and Corporate Executives.<br />
May 3, 2008—<strong>Founders</strong> Cruise Welcome Reception, Miami Airport Marriott<br />
May 4 - 11, 2008—2008 <strong>Founders</strong> Cruise Eastern Caribbean
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<strong>Max</strong> Opens in<br />
May 29-31, 2008<br />
Canada Pre-Launch - Toronto<br />
On Monday evening, March 24, 2008, the thrilling announcement<br />
was made that <strong>Max</strong> has received the Positive Advisory Opinion<br />
from the Canadian Competition Board. <strong>Max</strong> has a new subsidiary<br />
called “<strong>Max</strong> Living Company” operating in Canada!<br />
In the Corporate Conference Call with over 1,000 <strong>Max</strong> Associates<br />
listening, the <strong>Max</strong> leaders shared this exciting new page in <strong>Max</strong><br />
<strong>International</strong> history.<br />
In celebration, a pre-launch Canadian Convention will be held<br />
Thursday through Saturday, May 29-31, 2008 at the Toronto<br />
Airport Marriott Hotel. Tickets for the Convention are available<br />
on the <strong>Max</strong> website: www.maxgxl.com. Ticket prices are $199<br />
US. Convention seating is limited with only 500 reservations<br />
available. The first 300 convention tickets purchased will be<br />
eligible for a drawing which will award three cruises. The cruise<br />
packages will be given away on April 15, 2008.<br />
<strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> shares its delight at this exciting new<br />
chapter with our energetic and enterprising Associates<br />
who have worked for this day!
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<strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> is proud to announce the<br />
Top Associates Recruiters for the past month:<br />
Roger Doucet is no stranger to network marketing. Almost<br />
all of his recruits at <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> have been the result of<br />
referrals from his many contacts over the years. He has joined<br />
over 200 network marketing companies in his 22 years in the<br />
industry, and sold breakthrough health products from over 300<br />
non-MLM companies. Roger said he doesn’t look into working<br />
a network marketing company unless he is first impressed with<br />
the product.<br />
In 1988 he started manning booths at health shows displaying whatever products he was<br />
working with at the time. His network of contacts that he draws on for <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong><br />
has mostly come as a result of these shows.<br />
Roger says he is in the process of weaning himself off all the other companies to focus<br />
exclusively on <strong>Max</strong>. <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> has everything he has been looking for in a network<br />
marketing company. It is a company unlike any he has seen in terms of the product,<br />
marketing plan, ownership and management. Roger said when he met with the owners and<br />
executive team from <strong>Max</strong> he couldn’t have been more impressed.<br />
“Some were tearing up when they described their passion for the company and its future.<br />
They were so genuine,” Roger said. “It wasn’t about greed or selfishness. They were<br />
sincerely concerned with helping people. That really impressed me.”<br />
Gene Stanford is in business with his wife, Emily, and brother,<br />
Ryan. Coming from a business and network marketing background<br />
has helped in their success in terms of gaining marketing skills and<br />
learning how to work with people. Gene said it has taught him<br />
how to communicate and get in touch with different personality<br />
styles, instead of taking a one-size-fits-all approach. Gene’s team<br />
has drawn on a wide variety of sources in recruiting people who are<br />
open to what <strong>Max</strong> has to offer. In addition to looking up friends from<br />
past businesses, who are looking for exciting new opportunities, he<br />
targets people in all walks of life who are open to change. He said in a challenging economy<br />
with soaring gas prices people are looking for ways to supplement their day jobs and <strong>Max</strong><br />
provides an excellent opportunity.<br />
Gene’s team also goes off the beaten path to find opportunities that could have major<br />
returns in the future. He’s working with members of a professional sports franchise. Gene<br />
said it could result in anything from helping a few people, to becoming the daily supplement<br />
of the entire franchise, to possibly opening other doors down the road. You can’t tell what is<br />
behind the next bend but by branching out into many areas, the possibilities are limitless.<br />
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Gloria Alvino is a healthcare professional who has for years been<br />
searching for effective holistic approaches to healthcare. She has also<br />
been challenged by chronic illness and was therefore very receptive to<br />
the positive effects of <strong>Max</strong>GXL. After just a week on the product she<br />
stopped using the cane she’d been using off and on for six months.<br />
Gloria said she has been looking for ways to build bridges between<br />
traditional and alternate modalities of healthcare, and between science<br />
and spirituality. She describes <strong>Max</strong>GXL as the missing link in that bridge.<br />
Her success in marketing <strong>Max</strong>GXL is a natural extension of her passion for the product<br />
and her faith in the company. “<strong>Max</strong>GXL empowers the body by giving it what it needs to<br />
function in its own miraculous way,” she said.<br />
Gloria also very much believes in <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> as a company. She said she has met<br />
with many of the leaders of the company and their intelligent approach to the business,<br />
combined with their integrity, passion and professionalism, really resonate with her as a<br />
person and a professional.<br />
Gloria said <strong>Max</strong> has put a compensation plan together that rewards the Associate just<br />
starting in the business. It finds ways to give back to the people who work hard regardless<br />
of where they are within the company.<br />
Travis Harris said that being excited about <strong>Max</strong>GXL is his biggest<br />
selling tool. He approaches people from every walk of life from friends<br />
and family to someone he meets at the store who may be complaining<br />
about various health issues. Any opening he finds to share the product<br />
he jumps on because he is so sold on it after seeing it transform the lives<br />
of so many people he has introduced it to.<br />
“A lot of people are seizing on what the product can do and jump on<br />
board,” he said.<br />
Travis generally gives people the seven-day IntroPack along with Dr. Keller’s CD. After they<br />
get some exposure to the product and company he will show them the <strong>Max</strong> edition of “Your<br />
Business at Home” magazine for more information and background. This approach has<br />
worked very well for him.<br />
Travis is very active in sports and has found that <strong>Max</strong>GXL has given him added energy<br />
during and reduced recovery time after games. Some of the people he has introduced to<br />
the product have been very healthy, like himself, while others were dealing with serious<br />
health issues. Without fail they have reported incredible results after a short time on the<br />
product, which only fuels his passion and desire to share it with others.<br />
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Maria Dees and her husband Vince are working the business<br />
together and she said he is an invaluable part of their success.<br />
It is the first time they have done a network marketing business<br />
together. Maria has done several home-based businesses. She<br />
has been very successful with other businesses but they usually<br />
started out as a means to getting products at a discount. This<br />
time, however, there is equal emphasis on the business, which<br />
results partly from having a product that is so powerful.<br />
The product has also been pivotal to her success in marketing it. She feels the key to her<br />
success has been follow-up and staying focused on helping team members. Like many other<br />
successful recruiters, Maria starts out by giving people a week’s sample of the product. She<br />
says she then follows up within 3 or 4 days. She is there to answer any questions and give<br />
feedback about the product and business. Maria said this method has resulted in close to a 98<br />
percent success rate. Almost everyone she has given IntroPacks to have gone on to become<br />
Preferred Customers or Associates, although she said the majority came on as Associates.<br />
Pamala and Dr. Thomas Wilson are used to being in<br />
the public eye. Dr. Wilson is a respected chiropractor and<br />
Pamala a renowned marketer who was listed as one of the<br />
top 10 influential women in the wine industry.<br />
Many of their Associates and Preferred Customers have come<br />
on board because they can see the glow from the Wilsons<br />
and ask what their secret is. “We love being together. We’re<br />
always happy,” Pamala said. They have brought many people<br />
on board as a result of this.<br />
Dr. Wilson said <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> has a compensation plan that makes it possible for<br />
everyone to succeed, with a product unlike anything on the market. He credited Pamala<br />
with coming up with a very simple and effective method for introducing people to it.<br />
She approaches people and says, “Take the product for a week.” It’s a statement not a<br />
question. Then she either sells them a one-week sample pack or gives it to them if they are<br />
reluctant to buy. If they don’t want to go beyond the week they don’t have to, she said, but<br />
she’s found almost without exception people want to try it. In fact, only one person has said<br />
no since she started using this approach. Those who try it almost always want to continue.<br />
Pamala said she doesn’t pressure people she just lets the product speak for itself.<br />
Another approach Pamala came up with, and which is effective for both of them, is saying,<br />
“This is a big opportunity. Someone will share it with you sooner or later, it might as well<br />
be us.” Many of Dr. Wilson’s colleagues have responded positively to this approach, both<br />
because of his credibility as a doctor and because of the conviction behind his statement,<br />
backed by a powerful belief in the product.<br />
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Nancy Balogh heard about <strong>Max</strong>GXL when she approached Dave<br />
Tipton, now on her <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> team, about a product from a<br />
different company. When Dave gave her a sample of <strong>Max</strong>GXL she<br />
researched it, tried it out and in a short time was sold on it. She saw<br />
almost immediately that, based on the product and the company, it was a<br />
better opportunity than the one she was involved in. Since she had been<br />
with the other company only briefly before coming to <strong>Max</strong>GXL, it wasn’t<br />
a tough decision or transition.<br />
Nancy says most of her success marketing <strong>Max</strong>GXL results from her own enthusiasm and<br />
passion for it. She said she spent a lot of time researching the product and the company.<br />
The more she learned the more passionate she became about it.<br />
So far all of the people Nancy has recruited have signed up as Associates, but she says she<br />
gears her approach to the needs of each person and is open to signing people as Preferred<br />
Customers or whatever their individual situation seems to dictate. “You need to lead by<br />
example but also be true to yourself and your team and it will become clear which way to<br />
go with each situation,” she said.<br />
Top Associate Recruiters Randy and Jillyn Haymore and Ty Tribble and<br />
Bo Short of <strong>Max</strong> Impact were featured in last month’s e-newsletter and<br />
have placed among the top recruiters once again!<br />
<strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> honors the following Top<br />
Revenue Recruiters:<br />
Patrick Roy and Paul Rix are in a business partnership<br />
called MAXPPL. They have been friends for nearly 10 years and<br />
have been involved with various businesses together during<br />
that time. Paul said when he heard about <strong>Max</strong>GXL he was<br />
hesitant at first but when he tried the product, looked into the<br />
opportunity, then met with Ken Dunn, he knew it was a lifechanging<br />
endeavor.<br />
When marketing <strong>Max</strong>GXL, Patrick says he tries to target people with an open mind, who<br />
are looking to make a positive change in their lives. He will often approach people with a<br />
background in network marketing, who are already familiar with the industry, but is happy<br />
to talk to anyone who is willing to listen and try it. Patrick said when he can see someone<br />
isn’t open to the message he respectfully walks away. He said he was much the same at<br />
first. He feels if he continues to push with a person who is not prepared to listen it will<br />
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only permanently turn them off. He has found that it isn’t at all uncommon for such people<br />
to come back later and seek information from him when they see the positive changes in<br />
his life. Two of the people he’s signed up as Super-Achievers were in that category and had<br />
no interest initially. “It’s an easy product to market,” Patrick said. “It sells itself.” Patrick<br />
encourages anyone just starting out to persevere, because it can be frustrating when you’re<br />
just starting out. If you fight through it and don’t give up you’re bound to succeed, he said.<br />
Like the Dees and Wilsons, Lielane and Jovita Peralta have been successful as a<br />
team marketing <strong>Max</strong>GXL. Lielane feels her success grows out of her own excitement for<br />
the product after experiencing many positive results. She was a skeptic when Joni Yundt<br />
first introduced her to <strong>Max</strong>GXL, but quickly changed her mind when the discomfort in her<br />
wrists that she had suffered for years was virtually gone after just a few days on <strong>Max</strong>GXL.<br />
It also helped her husband, Jovita, who has had variety of health issues over the years and<br />
who, after a short time on the product, went to the doctor, and showed normal cholesterol<br />
levels, something that was a problem before.<br />
She said she brings her “tools” with her everywhere she goes, the magazine and DVD and<br />
Dr. Keller CDs. When an opportunity presents itself she either shares her story, gives them<br />
some of her tools, or both, depending on the circumstance. It has worked well for her.<br />
When people see her passion for Dr. Keller and his amazing product, and tells them her<br />
personal experience, they almost always want to know more. With only one exception all<br />
of the people she has recruited came on board as Associates.<br />
Tom Yundt admits that teamed with his wife, Joni, they are<br />
pretty darn good at marketing <strong>Max</strong>GXL, but he gives her most<br />
of the credit. “She’s the marketing guru,” he said.<br />
Joni has a knack for marketing after years of working in<br />
various capacities in the industry over the years. Tom says<br />
that for him, it is a matter of learning to be the inviter, not the<br />
presenter and using the tools, like 3-way calls, “Your Business<br />
At Home” magazine and DVD, and CDs featuring Dr. Keller, the<br />
way they are meant to be used.<br />
Tom has to remind himself and his team that no matter how smart or educated prospects<br />
may be (and he just signed up a PhD on his team) to “dumb it down” and let the product<br />
and company speak for themselves, through the many great tools at their disposal. Tom<br />
said he is working with an amazing team in Hawaii that is out of control with excitement<br />
over sharing <strong>Max</strong>GXL.<br />
“We are enjoying sharing the product and are getting extremely positive responses from<br />
friends and family we are introducing it to,” he said.<br />
Tom has worked in engineering for 25 years and is doing well enough with <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong><br />
that he envisions a time in the near future where he could be making a permanent career<br />
change, he said.<br />
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Also among the Top Revenue Recruiters previously honored are:<br />
Pamala and Dr. Thomas Wilson<br />
Maria and Vince Dees<br />
Roger Doucet<br />
Randy and Jillyn Haymore<br />
Febe B. Supera<br />
Top Preferred Customers Recruiters<br />
<strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> is proud to announce the Top Preferred Customer Recruiters for the<br />
past month. Many of these names will be familiar to you if you read the March newsletter<br />
recognition section as they were honored last month as well. Hats off to the following Top<br />
Preferred Customer Recruiters!<br />
Al Greer<br />
Alan McDonald<br />
Randy and Jillyn Haymore<br />
Rebbecca and Dr. Marvin Shipman<br />
Wendy Brady said that she and her sponsor, Noelene Walton, use<br />
a sincere approach to marketing <strong>Max</strong>GXL, using their own experience<br />
along with information about the company. The primary tools they<br />
use are a home presentation and something they call a “<strong>Max</strong> Pack”<br />
they put together, which includes literature from the website, Dr.<br />
Keller CDs and DVDs.<br />
“We try to reach each individual with the materials,” Wendy said.<br />
Wendy said the magazine has been invaluable for introducing people<br />
to the product. “My sponsor gave me 50 of these wonderful mags. I have signed up triathletes<br />
and weight lifters using the magazines. Being in Australia we have no other “<strong>Max</strong>”<br />
accessories to use and these are wonderful.”<br />
When introducing people to <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> Wendy first shares her own experience,<br />
tells them it’s the best business and product around, then invites them to her home for<br />
a meeting and takes it from there, she said. “I would like to thank my sponsor Noelene<br />
Walton and her sponsor Katrina Farnham, they have been wonderful! They always go that<br />
extra step, which is great learning experience for me as my <strong>Max</strong> empire grows,” she said.<br />
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February 2008 Rank Advancements<br />
Congratulations to the <strong>Max</strong> Associates who have advanced in<br />
rank because of their dedicated efforts in sharing the <strong>Max</strong> WAY!<br />
BronzeAssociates<br />
Surinder Singh, Kissimmee, Fl<br />
Rony Saut Siahaan, Los Angeles, CA<br />
Agnes A. Castillo, West Covina, CA<br />
Angelita D. Sumira, West Covina, CA<br />
Brian Park, Riverside, CA<br />
Bryan Edson Yco, West Covina, CA<br />
Cleve Long, Braselton, GA<br />
Joseph Alexander So, California, CA<br />
Danny Cannataro, Pickering, ON<br />
Robert Gibson, Albuquerque, NM<br />
De Ann Gershbein, North Vancouver, BC<br />
Debra Koszka, Meadow Vista, CA<br />
Deno Kokinos, Lafayette, LA<br />
Bernardo L. Siaotong, West Covina, CA<br />
Natural Way Systems, Santa Monica, CA<br />
Dr. Everette Rogers, Monroe, LA<br />
Marvin Patterson, Branson, MO<br />
Ermin Fergerstrom, Puunene, HI<br />
Bridgeway Co. Inc., Huntsville, UT<br />
Frank Stoneman, North Pole, AK<br />
Francine Rodrigue, Ottawa, ON<br />
Glenn Sikes, Buford, GA<br />
Virginia Cartagenas, Fontana, CA<br />
Heidy C. Pasion, West Covina, CA<br />
Heidi Drummond, Charlotte, NC<br />
Jeff Pelletier, Honolulu, HI<br />
Jaime M. Isidro, West Covina, CA<br />
Romel Sangalang, West Covina, CA<br />
Jill Smith, Ada, MI<br />
Joey E. Galvez, West Covina, CA<br />
Jordan Beckwith, Kingston, ON<br />
LeeAnn Beckwith, Napanee, ON<br />
Janice Byers, Wetherford, TX<br />
Joe Tate, Iron Station, NC<br />
Robert Kennard, Kenova, WV<br />
Kenneth Maceren, Placentia, CA<br />
Manolita F. Ilumin, Hayward, CA<br />
Linda Love, Sonora, TX<br />
Sharon Mason, Sudbury, ON<br />
Marie Andersen-Whitehurst, Greensboro, NC<br />
Marilyn Mariano, Anaheim, CA<br />
Matt Ashby, London, ON<br />
Arne Tanamal, Highland, CA<br />
Brad McColloch, Ogden, UT<br />
Matt Badawi, Oak Hills, CA<br />
Worldwide Business Development, Alpine, UT<br />
Jerry House, McDonough, GA<br />
Joe Emmert, Indianapolis, IN<br />
Monique Montgomery, Ottawa, ON<br />
Calvin Muldrow, Hartsville, SC<br />
Rina Busra Mutmainah, Los Angeles, CA<br />
Senando E. Lazarte, West Covina, CA<br />
Nicole Ray, Corona, CA<br />
Antonio Herrera, West Covina, CA<br />
Pablo Dibello, Las Vegas, NV<br />
Jeanne Thomann, Friendswood, TX<br />
David Souza, Redding, CA<br />
Paul Cantrell, Suwanee, GA<br />
Donna Wilson, Tampa, FL<br />
David and Kether Wilson, Mansfield, TX<br />
Pure Life Inc., Lilburn, GA<br />
Healing Arts for Wellness, Greensboro, NC<br />
Raul S. Cruz, West Covina, CA<br />
Raul Medina, West Covina, CA<br />
Jerrber Health Trends, West Covina, CA<br />
Rochester<strong>Max</strong>, Rochester, NY<br />
Mary Christiansen, Greensboro, NC<br />
Nancy Farrell, St. Catharines, ON<br />
Strategies for Healing, Aurora, CO<br />
Susan Pickle, Fredericksburg, VA<br />
Linda and Brad Greenberg, Charlotte, NC<br />
The Dream Team, Lafayette, LA<br />
Donna McMillin, Redding, CA<br />
Herman Tirado, Orlando, FL<br />
Tamara Davis, Palo Cedro, CA<br />
Hector Ocampo, West Covina, CA<br />
Tommye Tonneson, West Monroe, LA<br />
Teresa Urzetta, Victor, NY<br />
Victorina V. Alfonso, West Covina, CA
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SilverAssociates<br />
Robert Eelman, Point Pleasant, NJ<br />
Carolyn Baldwin, Murphy, NC<br />
Charlotte & Christopher Reyes, West Covina, CA<br />
Daemma Mendez, Anaheim, CA<br />
Ted Budd, Cannington, Ontario<br />
David and Stacy Heller, Indianapolis, IN<br />
Dave Tipton, Fredericksburg, VA<br />
Simis-Emista Baquiran, Rancho Cucamonga, CA<br />
Esperanza L. Cano, West Covina, CA<br />
Gina Cortese, Penfield, NY<br />
Jeffrey White, Riverside, CA<br />
Jill Fleming-Fulk, Cornelius, NC<br />
Jhoanna Pauline Yco, Springfield, VA<br />
Jovito and Lielane Peralta, Mililani, HI<br />
Karen Ivy Sumira, Springfield, VA<br />
Dr. Mihail Lazaresku, Crescent Valley, BC<br />
Bethany Littleford, Johnson City, TN<br />
Maria Dees, Fredericksburg, VA<br />
MAXPPL Investments, Port Perry, Ontario<br />
Merit Pro Business Enterprise, West Covina, CA<br />
Life Style Solutions, Frank Town, CO<br />
Mary Muench, Fair Port, NY<br />
Merlin Cordova, West Covina, CA<br />
Mike Unclebach, Sherman, TX<br />
Nicole Molyneux, Redding, CA<br />
Pamala and Dr. Tom Wilson, Redding, CA<br />
Penny Cecconi, Rockwood, CA<br />
Performax, Pittsford, NY<br />
Deborah Parmely, Redding, CA<br />
Val Rybka, Kelowna, BC<br />
D A Souza Investments LLC, Redding, CA<br />
Trey Knight, Mooresville, NC<br />
Paul Burlingame, Kittery, ME<br />
GoldAssociates<br />
Dr. Steven Davis from Redding, California has worked in a number<br />
of network marketing companies because he finds that breakthrough<br />
health products often are marketed this way. Dr. Davis said Dr. Keller has<br />
developed something he’s been seeking for many years. It is the most<br />
significant breakthrough he’s encountered and his success in marketing<br />
it has grown out this. He shares it with friends, family and patients<br />
because he believes in it completely.<br />
Robert Canner of Greensboro, North Carolina said that to achieve Gold Advancement,<br />
a number of great friends had to make a decision to win. After selecting a list of 100<br />
people to approach, Robert stopped after the first thirty. Sixteen decided to win, he said.<br />
He met with each individually, and they teamed up to reach their financial goals with <strong>Max</strong><br />
<strong>International</strong>. Reaching Gold is significant he said, but it’s just a milestone on the way to<br />
Double Diamond this year. “The main significance is to show our <strong>Max</strong> team that if I can do<br />
it, we all can do it,” he said.
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Ty Tribble and Bo Short of <strong>Max</strong> Impact in Federal Way,<br />
Washington said their advancement to Gold Associate<br />
happened as a result of developing a plan, working it<br />
consistently, and getting prospective partners around<br />
the team. Bo said, “We have such a wonderful team<br />
that sharing the opportunity to associate with people of<br />
such value is an honor.” He said if they ask their partners<br />
to ‘give their best and reach their highest’ we must do<br />
so as well. It is crucial in each stage of the building process that we work our business in a<br />
fashion that sets the tempo for the team, he said.<br />
Rick and Elaine Lynas of London, Ontario, said achieving<br />
Gold Associate involved being themselves and being totally<br />
passionate about the vision of <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> as a worldwide<br />
phenomenon. Rick said it will also help spur the team that helped<br />
get them to Gold. “It is now time to help them do the same,”<br />
he said. After working in the industry over 30 years, Rick is<br />
convinced <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> will revolutionize the industry and<br />
will become the largest company in network marketing history.<br />
Thomas and Joni Yundt of Honolulu, Hawaii, said that<br />
becoming Gold Associates was about having faith in the<br />
system and a belief in the product. It’s a matter of taking the<br />
time necessary to succeed and persevering through the hard<br />
times, Tom said. In Hawaii’s tough economy people often have<br />
to work multiple jobs to make ends meet. “Seeing what we’ve<br />
been able to accomplish financially gives others hope for both<br />
financial and personal success and freedom,” he said.<br />
Karen and Kenny Wagner of Herriman, Utah, said that<br />
achieving Gold Associate was a combination of a passion for<br />
<strong>Max</strong>GXL, a lot of hard work, patience, mentoring team members<br />
and refusing to give up. Another key element was finding good<br />
people to help with the business. The Wagners feel they are a<br />
good example of how two people who have never worked in<br />
network marketing can succeed with hard work, determination<br />
and a great team.
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PlatinumAssociates<br />
Steve Kent of Kaneohe, Hawaii said that by utilizing tools, the<br />
system and working diligently with the team, he was able to advance<br />
to Platinum Associate. He gives much of the credit to an amazing<br />
core group. Guidance, knowledge of the industry and mentoring<br />
genius from a mentor and his sponsor, Steve Lee, proved invaluable<br />
towards his success. Steve feels achieving Platinum validates the <strong>Max</strong><br />
opportunity. He’s grateful to all those contributing and blessed to work<br />
with Dr. Keller’s amazing nutraceutical, <strong>Max</strong>GXL. By rising above a<br />
compromised financial situation, those partnering with him have been<br />
given a first-hand vision of what they, too, can accomplish.<br />
Louis Volpe of Redding, California said that for him achieving Platinum<br />
Associate was about, among other things, leadership. Identifying and<br />
supporting leaders on your own team as well as the corporate executives<br />
and founders. “Your company is only as strong as your leadership,”<br />
Louis said. “If you don’t have great people at the top, your company<br />
won’t succeed.” With strong leadership, an amazing, scientificallybased<br />
product, and a first-rate compensation plan, you can’t go wrong.<br />
Louis said it felt awesome to advance to Platinum and looks forward to<br />
advancing even further. He said it’s also about helping others. “Once<br />
I’ve achieved my goals, it’s all about helping others achieve theirs.”<br />
DiamondAssociate<br />
Jim Fitzpatrick of Kelowna, British Columbia, said the secret to his<br />
success in achieving Diamond Associate is consistently sponsoring<br />
people and finding the right people to sponsor. He said it’s important to<br />
differentiate between the opportunity searcher and the true business<br />
builder. Finding the right people to work with can put you on the<br />
fast track to success. New blood is the life blood of your team, Jim<br />
said. Keeping your team informed and recognizing people’s efforts as<br />
they advance in the company is vital to success. Jim feels achieving<br />
Diamond only increases his credibility and believability in the company.<br />
If it’s done once it can be done again, Jim said. If he can achieve<br />
Diamond, so can the people on his team.
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Double Diamond<br />
Associate<br />
Alan Sickman of Virginia Beach, Virginia, feels the key element to<br />
achieving Double Diamond has been helping other people. His success,<br />
he said, is a direct reflection of his team’s efforts. Without his team he<br />
simply wouldn’t have achieved the level of success he has. By sticking<br />
to the basics, using established tools to present the products and the<br />
opportunity, and teaching his team to do the same, he’s been able to<br />
advance. Reaching this milestone, he feels, demonstrates to his team<br />
the potential that is possible for each of them. Alan now considers it<br />
his responsibility to give back by helping them reach the same level of<br />
success. “With a special product in <strong>Max</strong>GXL and a fabulous group of founders and corporate<br />
officers, invaluable creative support from people like Russ Garn, who provide first rate tools<br />
for the field, my job becomes a lot easier,” he said.<br />
Triple Diamond<br />
Associates<br />
Bill L. Andersen of Salt Lake City, Utah, is celebrating his advancement<br />
to <strong>Max</strong> Triple Diamond. But don’t think he’s taking any time off to do<br />
so. Bill has a personal goal to talk to five people about <strong>Max</strong> every single<br />
day. He will explain just how amazing <strong>Max</strong>GXL and <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong><br />
are and invite the person to take a closer look. He sends them a sample<br />
of the <strong>Max</strong>GXL and lets this fabulous product do the talking! He also<br />
tells them that he is truly a product of the product. Bill dared to dream,<br />
to be passionate about <strong>Max</strong>GXL and to commit to never give up. “<strong>Max</strong><br />
has challenged me to become a better person,” Bill says. He is now<br />
leading the way for others to achieve the same success.<br />
Ken Dunn from Toronto, Canada, says that his business model is a<br />
marathon not a sprint. He’s in it for the long run and even at Triple<br />
Diamond he still does what it takes, including putting in 20-hour-days.<br />
Tell Ken why you think <strong>Max</strong>GXL is wonderful and he immediately replies,<br />
“That’s why I’m here. <strong>Max</strong>GXL is life-changing. It’s the product that sold<br />
me on this company.” For Ken, building friendships is one of the keys<br />
to success. After all, he says, our business is one of introductions. “We<br />
introduce people to the product and we introduce them to the opportunity.”<br />
“We empower through words,” Ken explained. He wants his team to drop<br />
“someone else’s perfect script” and speak from their heart. “Those are the golden nuggets,”<br />
he says.
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<strong>Message</strong> from Russ Garn<br />
Creative/Marketing Director at <strong>Max</strong><br />
We live in a visual world. Everything<br />
we see impacts us, both consciously<br />
and unconsciously.<br />
Companies will spend inordinate amounts of money<br />
to create a “brand” for their corporation, their logo<br />
and their products. If the company does not present<br />
a consistent image, their message will be visually<br />
confusing. The branding must be dynamic, professional<br />
and consistent. That consistency must be there for<br />
everything: marketing materials, advertisements or<br />
web content.<br />
What was the thinking behind the creation of <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> branding? The<br />
guiding vision or philosophy of <strong>Max</strong> is that this is a science-based company with a truly<br />
credible product. <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> is like a breath of fresh air in the MLM world. There are<br />
passionate dedicated leaders at <strong>Max</strong> with a unique, rock-solid product that brings results<br />
to those who take it.<br />
The stylized “M” for <strong>Max</strong> (some call it a ‘swoosh’) represents the three dynamic founders<br />
of <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong>, Steve Scott, Greg Fullerton and Fred Ninow. The “M” is powerful,<br />
speaking graphically of strength and stability. The “M” also symbolizes movement—a<br />
company that is going somewhere FAST! This visual representation of movement speaks to<br />
me of knowing the positive direction this company is taking. The founders came together<br />
with a vision in which <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> is the realization. I wanted to capture what the<br />
three founders represent, their vision and a sense of going somewhere.<br />
The tag line, “Look, Feel, Live to the <strong>Max</strong>” summed up in a few, powerful words the<br />
image of the founders and the overall message of <strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong>. It says in the most<br />
concise way what the company is about: living life to the <strong>Max</strong> and fulfilling dreams.<br />
Corporate colors also play a vital role in projecting an image. Red, to me, represents the<br />
body and the vibrant message of <strong>Max</strong> to “look, feel and live to the <strong>Max</strong>!” It’s a warm,<br />
inviting color that helps visually to tell the message of what <strong>Max</strong> is all about. Silver is a<br />
classy, complementary color while black is a color of strength and dominance. Right away,<br />
you receive the message that <strong>Max</strong> is powerful from our colors alone!
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Though I have been around MLM companies, I come with<br />
an outsider’s point of view. I see the big picture and I<br />
can say that I’ve not seen an opportunity of this level<br />
with leaders who have the kind of integrity found in <strong>Max</strong><br />
founders and executives AND a compelling product.<br />
Like Greg Fullerton has said, at <strong>Max</strong> you can fulfill your<br />
dreams, whether to pay off your home, set aside money<br />
for college for your kids, have more time with your<br />
family or be happy in a fun career where you are not<br />
just clocking in and waiting for someone to tell you what<br />
to do! Any of these dreams are worthy and possible with<br />
<strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong>.<br />
My vision is to create for you the tools that will assist<br />
you in making those dreams come true. From the “5 ways” brochure that will assist you<br />
in recruiting and retaining customers, to the “Your Business At Home” magazine letting<br />
you be the messenger while the magazine teaches the message, to the IntroPack with<br />
its innovative direction in reaching out and creating success. With tools like these, it is<br />
absolutely possible for anyone to succeed in this business! These powerful tools with their<br />
creative look will help you share the <strong>Max</strong> way and achieve all your dreams.<br />
<strong>Max</strong> <strong>International</strong> is on the cutting edge of science and opportunity.<br />
And our wonderful Associates are truly taking it to the <strong>Max</strong>!<br />
Russ Garn