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Starting and Running the Successful MLM Company

Sponsored by:
Babener & Associates
mlmOne.com  &  mlmlegal.com

33 Hours Free Consulting with Industry's Top Experts, Speakers and Panelists
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THE SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS

Jeffrey A. Babener, of Portland, Oregon, www.mlmlegal.com, is the principal attorney in the law firm of Babener & Associates. He represents leading U.S. and foreign companies in the direct selling industry. He has been advisor to such companies as Avon, Discovery Toys, Nikken, New Vision, NuSkin, Excel, Fuller Brush, Cell Tech, Kaire, Sunrider, Melaleuca, etc. He is a frequent lecturer and has been interviewed on the industry, and published, in such publications as Money, Inc., Atlantic Monthly, Success, Entrepreneur, Kiplingers Personal Finance, Home Office Computing, Business Start-Ups, Wealth Builders and Money Maker's Monthly. He is editor of the industry publication, Direct Sales Legaline. Mr. Babener is also the author of the books, Tax Guide for MLM/Direct Selling Distributors, Network Marketer's Guide to Success, The MLM Corporate Handbook and Network Marketing: Window of Opportunity. He is editor of the internet web site, www.mlmlegal.com.

Michael L. Sheffield is President of Sheffield Resources Network, a full service MLM consulting firm in Scottsdale, Arizona, and co-founder and Chairman of the Multi-Level Marketing International Association (MLMIA). His company has assisted in over 300 MLM company start ups including such companies as Fuller Brush, Service Master and Home Shopping Network. He has been a frequent lecturer on launch strategies for MLM companies at various MLM conferences as well as the Schools of Business at Arizona State University, University of Cincinnati and Anderson University. He has designed over 100 MLM compensation plans, and has been the guest instructor on the subject at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Co-author of numerous academic papers and research studies, he served as a coordinator of the major academic/corporate conference at the University of Texas, El Paso. Millions of readers have relied on Mike's popular "Product Of The Month" column in Money Makers Monthly to help evaluate "What's Hot" in MLM products and services, and he has also serves as "product editor" for Wealth Building magazine.

Josh Brinkley is director of publications and training of Cutting Edge Media. CE is the premier publisher, advertising and lead generation source in the network marketing industry. CE's publications, including Home Business Connection Magazine, hundreds of websites and massive direct mail campaigns, reach millions of potential and existing home based businesses every month. Unique to CE is its ongoing national training program for subscribers which assist in proven techniques and strategies for working with and closing prospects yielded from CE's high quality lead generation

Clifton Jolley, of Dallas, Texas, is President of Advent Communications and has provided communications products and consulting to leaders in network marketing for more than 15years, in addition to teaching communications at the university level both in the United States and abroad. His innovation and skill have been heralded in the Atlantic Monthly, Success Magazine, Wave 3, and numerous other national publications and broadcasts. He has been a frequent contributor to leading magazines and has acted as media spokesman for such major companies as A.L. Williams, Home Shopping Network, Nokia, Sunrider, Quorum, Nikken, Oxyfresh, Network 2000, and dozen of others. His skill in crisis intervention and media relations has been credited with rescuing dozens of Advent clients from media scrutiny. Dr. Jolleys company is known for state-of-the art graphics production, including distributor kits and manuals and Web site production. Advent Communications also provides its clients award-winning video production, executive communications and distributor programs.

Ian Cordell and Solomon McCluster are President and Director of Marketing, respectively, of Florida based IDSTC, an acknowledged leader in MLM software technology and internet solutions. The focus of IDSTC is on the startup MLM and outsourcing technology solutions for the emerging direct sales company.

David Urman, of Portland, Oregon is President of Sourcenet Telecom . Sourcenet is the preeminent provider of communications services for the direct selling industry. Sourcenet provides such services as long distance, AT&T wireless, internet access, conference calling, virtual office, etc. for use in affinity programs, as core product and for corporate support. Sourcenet counts among its customers affinity programs for companies such as Maleleuca, Nikken and Trek and among companies that use core products, wireless for ITI, internet access for Excel and long distance for World Connect.

Alfred White is a Senior Management Consultant for Hamilton LaRonde & Associates of San Diego, California and Vancouver, Canada. Mr. White has extensive international experience. For the last twenty-two years, Mr. White has been a management and marketing consultant to the direct selling, multilevel marketing and network marketing industries. Mr. White's experience includes more than 200 assignments with a wide range of companies both domestic and international. He is highly regarded for his expertise in operations management and compensation plans. Mr. White designed the PDX computerized system for structuring new MLM companies. The PDX system is a very effective system that can bring a company from concept to fully operational at considerable savings in time and money. Above all Mr. White has a love for the MLM/Network marketing industry and devotes time and energy developing systems for the entrepreneur to be the owner of their own network marketing company. He is a featured writer of articles in national journals on the subject of network marketing.

Robert Butwin, of Santa Rosa, California, is the consummate MLM professional. He has built and led large distributor organizations. He is highly respected in the MLM corporate community and juggles his distributor schedule with duties as a mentor on recruiting to corporate management of many leading companies. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Street Smart Networking, available in bookstores everywhere.

Sandy Elsberg, of Orange County, California, is one of the most successful and admired distributors in the MLM world. She has led huge sales networks over the years. She is sought out frequently by MLM companies and distributor groups to speak and train. She is the author of the best seller, Bread Winner, Bread Baker.

Garvin DeShazer, Executive Consultant, Sheffield Resource Network, has nearly 30 years experience as an entrepreneur. With 26 startups or acquisitions of his own, in industries ranging from alternative fuels to network marketing to fine arts, he has extensive experience in corporate and marketing management and driving sales. Included in his past corporate experience is the founding of a major direct selling company in the home security arena. He has served as a Senior Consultant for more than 60 network marketing companies where he focuses on strategic planning, key distributor development programs, creative writing and project management.

Sue Bradley, Party Plan Development, Sheffield Resource Network. Sue is a noted expert in the area of Awards, Incentives and Recognition design and planning for both Party Plan as well as MLM companies. She has worked with some of the largest direct sales and network marketing companies in various corporate management positions in Operations, Human Resources, Distributor Relations, Distributor Services and event planning

Rod Cook is most commonly known as the MLM WatchDog of the industry. He studies the good of the MLM industry and at the same time tries to stomp out pyramid schemes. Part time he is a consultant who helps people start up new companies so they are a credit to the industry. At MLMWatchdog.com, editor in chief Rod Cook and his field reporters handle hundreds of questions or complaints a week about MLM companies. Rod jokingly says, "I live in the middle of the MLM Information Highway and get run over by trucks twice a day!" Rod is considered the ultimate MLM "marketing" inside information source! His articles have been published in over 30 different publications.

Wayne Hinkle is V.P. of Sales of Trinity Software of Dallas, Texas. Trinity is a leading technology solutions provider to network marketing companies. Prior to becoming V.P. of Sales, Hinkle served 20 years at Nortel Networks where he was responsible for customer service and satisfaction for the entire eight state region of the SBC operator services division. He is a specialist in customer support and service as well as technical support, training and project management.

Eugene Argent is Manager of Sourcenet Financial/Alexandria Services. On behalf of startup and established MLM companies, Sourcenet/Alexandria specializes in searching out multiple resource options for merchant account processing with established banking and processing financial organizations.

Marianne Archibaldis a renowned futurist, lecturer and trend watcher. She lectures and consults regularly on twenty year future marketing trends that will shape the consumer and commercial marketplace.

Scott Fitzpatrick, of Montreal Canada, is a member of the National Accounts team for Pivotal Payments. Pivotal is a leading provider of Merchant Account, Payment and eCommerce Solutions for startup, emerging and established MLM, Direct Selling, Network Marketing and Party Plan companies. The Company has enabled millions of transactions for merchants across U.S., and its payment solutions are designed to take into account the unique needs of merchants who are processing transactions in a card-not-present environment. The Company's core mission is to allow businesses to seamlessly integrate Internet Merchant Accounts to their website, product database/catalog, shopping cart and processing gateway.

 

Conference Date: October 23-24, 2008

TO REGISTER CALL (800) 231-2162

Eligible attendance: Limited to Executives of Existing or Startup MLM Companies
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