In this year’s Amway Talent Contest, there are once again not 1 but 2 amazing Network TwentyOne Leaders who have made it to the top 10 semi-finalists… and it is now our job to vote them in to the top 3 finalists … Dinah Stokes from California and Aura Andrews from Florida.

Only Dinah Stokes could create a jingle on Time Defiance, Anti-Aging, Microdermabrasion … this song is now stuck in my mind.

And to say the Aura Andrews is gifted would be an understatement … amazing!

The top three finalists will perform at Achievers ’11! Amway’s talent judges have selected the Top 10 IBO Talent Show acts from the hundreds of outstanding submissions. Now’s the time to help Amway select the top three finalists (2 of them sure to be Aura and Dinah of course)!

Voting closes Friday, November 11, at midnight ET, so don’t delay –VOTE NOW for your favorite IBO Talent show finalist!

To cast your vote, simply click here and scroll to the bottom of the page … let’s go guys, make Network TwentyOne proud!

Listen and learn as messaging expert Dr. Frank Luntz explains what is so great about the Amway Business Opportunity and what IBOs should keep in mind when sharing this opportunity with others.

That reminds me… I still need to give Frank his phone back

About Frank Luntz

Dr. Luntz has written, supervised, and conducted more than 1,200 surveys, focus groups and dial sessions in more than two dozen countries and four continents over the past decade. Frank has become the go-to consultant when leading companies need communication and language guidance, from General Motors to FedEx, Disney to American Express, from AT&T to Pfizer, from Kroger supermarkets to McDonald’s to the entire soft drink and motion picture industries, as well as for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Business Roundtable.

The Instant Response focus group technique pioneered by Frank was profiled on “60 Minutes.” He has also been a guest on “Meet the Press,” “Nightline,” “The Today Show,” The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,”, “Good Morning America,” “Hannity and Colmes,” “Crossfire,” “Capital Gang,”“Montel Williams,” “Charlie Rose,” and “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” He also served as a consultant to the award-winning NBC hit show “The West Wing.

More media outlets have turned to Dr. Luntz to understand the hopes and fears of Americans than to any other political pollster. In the 2000 election cycle, Frank conducted almost two-dozen focus groups for MSNBC and CNBC, including live sessions following each night of both party conventions and presidential debates. His reoccurring segments on MSNBC/CNBC, “100 Days, 1000 Voices” won a coveted Emmy Award in 2001 He was a primary night and election night commentator for “The News with Brian Williams” on MSNBC in 2000 and for “Hardball” in 2004.

Frank has conducted focus group sessions for all three major television networks, two of the three cable news channels, PBS and the BBC. He has also conducted focus groups for The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and U.S. News & World Report.

Political clients have included New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1993 and 1997, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2001, and international political campaigns in almost a dozen countries, including Israel, Italy and Ukraine. He was the pollster of record for the 1994 Contract with America.

Frank graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an honors Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science, and was named a Thouron Fellow. He received his Doctorate in Politics at the age of 25 from Oxford University. In the spring of 1993, Frank was named a Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, the second youngest individual ever to receive this honor.

This book will be available exclusively through Network TwentyOne globally. Available in the USA in Washington, DC next month at the Network TwentyOne conference, be on the look out for John and Jim’s book coming soon to your market as translation has already begun in several languages.

Cool stuff and just another way those smart peeps at Network TwentyOne are dedicated to supporting affiliated IBOs/ABOs worldwide with the best in training, education and inspiration to aid them in building their independent Amway business.

About Geared for Growth – 10 Principles for Reaching Your Potential:

John Maxwell and Jim Dornan are legends.  In their respective fields, few have equaled much less exceeded their accomplishments as leaders.  But those who know them know they are thrilled to raise up leaders who both equal and exceed their accomplishments.  With that value in common, John and Jim realized years ago that their relationship was about more than just a rewarding friendship.  For them, being friends has also been a lifetime partnership to add value to others.  And that more than any other factor is the reason behind writing, Geared for Growth: 10 Principles To Help You Reach Your Potential.  

With this outstanding collaboration, John Maxwell and Jim Dornan have placed the perfect tool in the hands of people who aspires to an exceptional life.  Complimented by John’s world-class gift of teaching leadership and Jim’s experience as a world-wide business leader and mentor, Geared for Growth offers each reader the perfect balance between explanation and application.  John’s illustration of a truth will grab you…Jim’s story of how that truth was lived out will cause you to grab the truth and apply it in your life!  What a powerful combination!

But, Geared for Growth is not merely an explanation of how to succeed; its an invitation to join John and Jim on the journey to success.  They wrote this book because they believe in you and they believe that by applying these truths, you can succeed as they have.  To all who would aspire to go to the top, to thrive and not just live, to be significant and not merely successful…  John Maxwell and Jim Dornan offer you their hand and their confidence in Geared for Growth: 10 Principles To Help You Reach Your Potential.

Throughout this book it is clear that John and Jim are drawing from vast pools of experience; John from the corporate world of leadership training and Jim from the perspective of one of Amway’s top business leaders and founder of Network TwentyOne.

How do I know all of this? Well let’s just say I’m pretty tight with JM & JD and well… we talk … yeah, I’m kind of a big deal. Anyway, they asked me to take a perusal of their latest collaboration. Cool huh? Long story short, because we talk and because I’m known as a pretty savvy social networker, they asked me how I thought we could get the buzz started around the world on this new book. That got my gears turning and here’s what I came up with.

Come up with your best title for John and Jim’s new book and submit it to me here in the comments section to this post, via Twitter, Facebook or even smoke signals if you like. If your title is selected to be used, I’ll float a pair of tickets to any Network TwentyOne major Seminar anywhere in the world as well as a copy of the new book signed by both John Maxwell and Jim Dornan. We have a few working titles already and our editors are still coming up with new ideas, but I thought who better to help develop the title than the intended audience. You guys know John and Jim and you’ve read their previous books so you already have a head start … and just to make it a little easier for you all, here are the titles of the 10 chapters in their new book:

Chapter 1 – Starting – the First Step Toward Success
Chapter 2 – Discover the Difference Between Ordinary and Extraordinary
Chapter 3 – Intentionally Invest in Yourself and Grow Every Day
Chapter 4 – Face Your Fears and Fix Them
Chapter 5 – Choose Your Friends Wisely
Chapter 6 – Make Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset
Chapter 7 – Embrace Discipline as a Friend
Chapter 8 – Do What You Love and Love What You Do
Chapter 9 – Think Your Way to the Top
Chapter 10 – Establish Values that Will be a Foundation For Your Life

Got it? Good! Now spread the word and get me your submissions right away… I understand the book goes to print in the next month so no time to spare folks!

Note to mobile users, if the video below does not play simply click here.

Ok guys so check this out …Although this is primarily focused on North America, the points and messaging apply to Amway Independent Business Owners around the world.

Below is a portion of a pretty cool interview with New York Times best selling author and top pollster Dr. Frank Luntz (see his full biography below) had on the Michael Medved radio talk show on March 16, 2011. In this portion of the interview Frank touches on some of the many qualities that make both Amway as well as Amway’s Independent Business Owners so great and such an economic powerhouse in the US economy … actually bucking the trends and growing in a time of economic stagnation for most of America and the world.

In Frank Luntz’s latest New York Times Best Selling Book, Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary, Frank is very praising of both Amway and Amway Independent Business Owners and covers many of the attributes that make them both great. Below is just one of his many references to Amway from the book:

When someone affords us their undivided time and attention, we feel respected, appreciated, and significant. Most of the winners profiled in this book are more than just believers in the essential nature of respect— they’re practitioners. “You can’t ever gain respect until you show respect,” declares Richard DeVos, the visionary co-founder of Amway and one of the great entrepreneurs of the twentieth century. With his wife and partner of fifty years nodding in agreement, he emphasized,

“Your first act of communication is to show respect to whomever you’re talking to. What ever their philosophy, what ever their flavor, what ever their color, you’ve got to show that you respect them as a person. When people don’t respect you, they don’t let you in. They don’t tell you their secrets. And they don’t give you the information you need to give them what they want.”

Here is my latest N21Cast including Dr. Frank Luntz’s interview on the Michael Medved radio talk show.

n21guy with Dr. Frank Luntz on the Michael Medved Show

Cool huh? Tell me what you think!

About Frank Luntz

Dr. Luntz has written, supervised, and conducted more than 1,200 surveys, focus groups and dial sessions in more than two dozen countries and four continents over the past decade. Frank has become the go-to consultant when leading companies need communication and language guidance, from General Motors to FedEx, Disney to American Express, from AT&T to Pfizer, from Kroger supermarkets to McDonald’s to the entire soft drink and motion picture industries, as well as for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Business Roundtable.

The Instant Response focus group technique pioneered by Frank was profiled on “60 Minutes.” He has also been a guest on “Meet the Press,” “Nightline,” “The Today Show,” The News Hour with Jim Lehrer,”, “Good Morning America,” “Hannity and Colmes,” “Crossfire,” “Capital Gang,”“Montel Williams,” “Charlie Rose,” and “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” He also served as a consultant to the award-winning NBC hit show “The West Wing.

More media outlets have turned to Dr. Luntz to understand the hopes and fears of Americans than to any other political pollster. In the 2000 election cycle, Frank conducted almost two-dozen focus groups for MSNBC and CNBC, including live sessions following each night of both party conventions and presidential debates. His reoccurring segments on MSNBC/CNBC, “100 Days, 1000 Voices” won a coveted Emmy Award in 2001 He was a primary night and election night commentator for “The News with Brian Williams” on MSNBC in 2000 and for “Hardball” in 2004.

Frank has conducted focus group sessions for all three major television networks, two of the three cable news channels, PBS and the BBC. He has also conducted focus groups for The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and U.S. News & World Report.

Political clients have included New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1993 and 1997, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2001, and international political campaigns in almost a dozen countries, including Israel, Italy and Ukraine. He was the pollster of record for the 1994 Contract with America.

Frank graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with an honors Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science, and was named a Thouron Fellow. He received his Doctorate in Politics at the age of 25 from Oxford University. In the spring of 1993, Frank was named a Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, the second youngest individual ever to receive this honor.

Peace Out …

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Turns out those smart lads in the tech lab are developing the ability to subscribe to N21 Monthly CEP CD programs via your computer (Macs, PCs and even Linux boxes), iPhone, Android phone or most any other smartphone device. Imagine simply getting a notification on your computer or phone that your new CEP is not only available but already delivered to your device and ready for your enjoyment. As they say on TV, “but wait, there’s even more…” for you multi-lingual types, not only will you be able to subscribe to your own market’s CEP program but you’ll have the ability to subscribe to select other market’s CEP programs as well. Pretty darn groovy if you ask me.

So let the bean counters and decision makes over at Network TwentyOne know if this is something you’d like to have by clicking here and taking my survey. If you shout loud enough I am sure they’ll take this out of beta and into the real world.

Also, questions or comments? hit me here in the article’s comments section.

lay-ter peeps …

Take a look and let me know what you think about it.

As so many of you have wanted to stay connected and informed, Jim has decided to set up a personal website to allow you all to join him on this personal journey.  (www.JimDornansJourney.com). Jim will be posting regularly as will others from the Dornan family as Jim battles (and fully recovers from) this cancer.

Please note that this not a Network TwentyOne website but is a personal website for Jim’s very personal journey … but one that he wanted to share with his many friends around the world.

If you would like to be notified of updates to Jim’s website, simply click on the Subscribe for Updates link on the right column of Jim’s website. If you’d like to leave a message for Jim, feel free to sign into his Guest Book (located on the menu bar).

For a man that has given so much to so many, now is our chance to give back a little in thoughts, prayers and well wishes to Jim and the entire Dornan family.

As Jim would say … “More to come…”

Peace out…