It's the BIG ONE for OppZone!

Friday, February 01, 2008  by Susan Julien-Willson
Category: sales, selling, retailing, IBOs, blogging

Today is February 1. Opportunity Zone is celebrating its first birthday. Sales Speak has been part of Opp Zone for six months. 38 posts ago, I entered into an exciting adventure that proved to be enlightening, inspiring, and educational. OppZone gave birth to a new way of connecting the corporation with IBOs and IBOs to people in the Corp like myself.

For almost 10 years here, I spoke about distributors and IBOs like a crowd of nameless people, busily writiing and editing product copy and catalogs ... IBOs were strangers I hadn't met YET. Then I began to attend IBO events. My world got bigger. Then I began to interview retailers and obtain testimonials for articles. Then I became involved in Learning Lab teleconferences. Then I began to blog and guess what? IBOs began to comment.

Through OPP Zone and Sales Speak, IBOs have become real people with names, families, customers, likes, dislikes, opinions, ideas, feelings, dreams, and suggestions. You've become partners in business and friends in life. There were days when some of us questioned what we were doing, expressed concerns, felt discouraged ... and other IBOs affirmed and confirmed contributions and decisions made. There were days a few comments came in that were perceived as critical or judgmental ... many of you expressed support and admiration for Quixtar Corp and OppZone. Thank you. We're not flawless, but we're committed to positive change and to our IBOs.

Over the last year, I've come to realize OppZone is a community of doers, thinkers, dreamers, believers ... succeeders! I am proud to be a part of Quixtar/Amway Global and proud to to be an employee and an IBO.

So, on this day, as we celebrate our first year of communicating via OppZone blogs, as we celebrate a changing business environment, and we celebrate life with all its freedom and opportunity ... its magic, its mystery, its challenges, its "learning experiences," let me leave you with this ...

Be a torch. Be a spark. Be a candle in the dark.

(Swiped from the beautiful Hallmark card I sent over the holidays. Thank you, Hallmark.)

Happy Birthday, OppZone and to all of those who have become a part of you. May you be an instrument of change and help us make a difference in the lives of many.

sjw

Comments

# Ben said on February 1, 2008 7:06 PM:

Susan,

Thank you for the extra time and effort you spend in keeping the blogs going. I appreciate what you and the company are doing towards the transformation and continually striving to make this business better for everybody!

I especially liked your comment that we are a community of doers, thinkers, dreamer, believers and succeeders!

As you said, some of the comments have been critical or judgmental and I would say, negative. But we are all human and there will always be mistakes made, I think the main thing is that we are all moving forward towards a common goal to build something of siginificance that can give people better lives.

One of the best aspects of this business is we are positive, we are builders, always looking at problems with the attitude that we are overcomers and there will be a solution!

So thanks again for all your hard work!

Thanks, Ben. IBOs like you make it all worthwhile. sjw

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