Ambit Named to Direct Selling News Global 100!
Direct Selling News, the industry trade publication for Direct Selling companies, is releasing its “Global 100: The Top Direct Selling Companies in the World.” After just three years in existence, Ambit Energy has been ranked by our industry’s trade publication as the 38th largest direct selling company in the world with 2009 revenues of $325 million.
So, by offering electricity or natural gas service in just three states, we’ve become the 38th largest direct selling company in the world? That kind of impact suggests a bright future! Congratulations to everyone in the Ambit Energy family, but a special thanks to you – our unstoppable team of Ambit Independent Consultants!
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Every time I speak to a prospect about my business I speak with passion about every aspect of it, both positive and negative. Yes, negative, more on that later on. But my passion comes (and yours should too) from my deep rooted reason for dedicating myself to the success of whatever it is I’m doing. You see, as a 30 plus year self employed veteran in the food business there have been many, many struggles and sacrifices that just come with the territory. One of those struggles, and unfortunately the most common, is the battle with the checkbook.
One summer day (this time of the year usually brings a little bit of checkbook relief but not in this story), on payday, my lovely teenage daughter walks into my very hot office cautiously and almost apologetically. I was sweating terribly, not so much from the heat but from trying to figure out what bills to pay first and how to cover them. It was at this moment that my daughter, at her young age still not aware of how banks work, says to me that the bank wouldn’t cash her payroll check. I would have preferred someone taking a baseball bat and hitting me across my back because it wouldn’t have hurt as much. It killed me to know that my daughter became witness to the ugly side of running a business. Being overdrawn was not an uncommon incident, but this was My Daughter !! When this occured I had been in the mlm business a few times but it wasn’t until that moment that my “why” had truly been defined. My other “why’s” were always about just the money, but this day I had discovered a much deeper “why”.
I now look back on that day, very often, as the day that my true reason for succeeding in network marketing emerged. I don’t ever want to experience that feeling in my office again. That feeling of frustration and despair, not knowing if things were ever going to change for the better.
If your considering going into this or any other business that could change your life for the better, clearly define the reasons for joining. Doing that seemingly very simple task will pay you back handsomely in the future ’for that will be the foundation on which you will build your business. Use your “why” as the fuel to feed your I-will-not-be-denied engine. A deep rooted ”why’ will also serve as your armor and shield against those who will try to destroy your dreams.
Ambit Energy not only offers residual income, it offers generational income. How cool would it be for my daughter (and son) to one day cash All my checks from Ambit Energy long after I’m gone. Yeah, real cool. PowerOn.
Anthony Cappello
732 691 7320
2/3 2010 Postponing Your Future 0 By: Joshua Freedman Three different people told me the same story last week: I’m too busy keeping my head above water to make progress on my real goals. On one hand, that’s a practical and realistic way of coping. Look, we’ve all experienced that some days we can barely tread water fast enough… and some days we sink… and on those days it’s “impossible” to put time and energy into the future. How can you invest when you can’t put bread on the table? All three had practical, legitimate reasons for “treading water,” they were not making weak excuses. There just has not been time. So that’s the “practical reality.” What about the “emotional reality”? What I noticed in all three conversations was a loss of energy and momentum. There’s an emotional cost to postponing your future, and when you’re calculating the choices of your day and week, this needs to be factored in. I suspect that when you factor in the emotional cost (in the extreme, dying a little more each day), the equation might change? You’ve likely seen this framework that Stephen Covey offers in First Things First: Covey points out that we need to avoid QIII and QIV, and shift more time to QII if we want to build the future. Good! Let’s do it!!! How? Well… that’s a problem. It’s a fabulous model, though most of us already know that we need to stop fighting unimportant fires and getting sucked into distractions… but we still do that. We’re choosing to put time in QI, QIII, and QIV, and shortchanging QII. Why? Because we’re not driven by “what we know.” We’re driven by what we feel. There’s some set of feelings boiling around this pattern of behavior pushing and pulling us. There are feelings before the choice (to shortchange QII). Then there are feelings the come immediately when we do what we’re doing instead… then there are still more feelings when we end the day saying, “*(@_!_)# another day with no time for QII.” If I can indulge in a bit of prognostication, I suspect that if your pattern is “do QI &III but miss QII” you’re feeling a mix of stressed, overwhelmed, impatient, excited, and focused (even driven). If you’re getting sucked into QIV then your feelings are likely to be bored, uncertain, distracted, lonely, or lost. Then, despite the knowledge that QII is the only way out, you still go to another quadrant, and, for the moment it feels good. If you’re QI and QIII focused, you probably get great feedback, maybe overhearing, “He’s so reliable….” “You can count on her….” If you’re escaping into QIII, you get a bit of relief. In any case, there’s a feeling payoff — an emotional benefit. What is yours? The first, and perhaps most important step, to getting out of the pattern is to recognize the emotional drivers. What’s triggering your pattern, and what payoff are you getting from it? Knowing that is not enough – you need to DO something with those feelings. That’s another article… but I’d love to hear your ideas (post a comment!) I also noticed that in these conversations, and many others – including many in my own head, there’s a refrain about being busy: “I can’t do this unless I can devote a block of time…” Many a project have lingered on my “to do” list because I told myself I didn’t have the six hours or three days or whatever to complete it. Consider this: If you had a month you could devote completely to your future, what would you do with that month? How about if you had one week? What could you do if you had one day? How about if you had five minutes? We all have time, but for most of us it’s fractured — five minutes here, and hour there. While it’s extremely challenging, somehow we have to reclaim those dribs and drabs of time and turn them into a worthy contribution. As usual, I would suggest the challenge lies not so much in the technical achievement of this end, but in the emotional transition we must undertake in order to bring the A game to these momentary matches. Survive or Thrive To conclude, here is powerful reminder from Karen McCown, Six Seconds’ Chairman: If you focus on survival, then your survival is at question; if you focus on thriving, then your survival is assured – and more is possible. Each week you have but a few discretionary hours to cash in: Will you spend or invest? ♥
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OK, you’ve switched to Ambit Energy, (or your thinking about it) and your very happy about the savings and your going to love the travel perks that will be coming your way, but you’d REALLY love to get the Free Energy , but your phone feels like it weighs 100 lbs. and your one on one skills aren’t the sharpest. So what do you do ? Easy, throw a party !
I can almost guarantee that you or your spouse have gone to or hosted some sort of product based party where the host or business owner had something to sell (candles, tupperware, skin care, lingerie, etc..) and the host received something in return for use of the home. Sound familiar ? The host contacts the appropriate guests, invites them, some or all may purchase something, but eveyone has a good time. Fantastic idea, one which has been duplicated for decades.
Well, how about inviting your circle of friends to a party where it won’t cost your guests a dime, but rather offer them an opportunity to save money on their electric or natural gas bills, enjoy travel perks, and yes, the chance to earn Free Energy ! No you don’t have to give a presentation about the company and it’s programs. Right here on PowerOnWealth you can access Why Ambit Works(by filling in the form) or go directly to www.acappello.whyambitworks.com and just play the videos. They’re all short and enjoyable to watch.
We all like saving money. What better way than to save money and help your family and friends save money also, month after month, and have a good time doing it. Party On.
Contact Anthony at 732 691 7320 for more details. PowerOn.
