As 2008 comes to a close and I look back over all that has happened this year and reflect on the major advancements our company has made, I am excited about what we have done as a Team and the springboard effect this will give each and every one of us as we launch into 2009.
One of the greatest highlights of 2008 has to be our partnership with Success Magazine. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with the Video Plus staff in Dallas - especially the owner and CEO, Stuart Johnson. Our partnership with Video Plus and Success Magazine is a marriage of like-minded thinking. Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady have been passionate about helping foster change in the world around them and helping people achieve success in their lives in a wide variety of areas. We continue to receive outstanding feedback regarding their best selling book, Launching a Leadership Revolution, and how this is being put to wonderful use all across North America. Stuart Johnson has launched his own initiative by authoring his own book, Success for Teens, and his goal is to give away 1 million copies of this book throughout North America so that he and his company can impact the lives of teens the way a school teacher once did for him. We here at Team are proud to support his efforts.
Orrin Woodward and the Policy Council continue to look for ways to influence the world around them and this partnership with Success Magazine is a tremendous way to further their mission. Success Magazine is an internationally recognized entrepreneurial publication that focuses each month on tackling the tough entrepreneurial issues while educating and motivating their readers. Within the pages of this respected publication that all Team members will receive, a special section will be devoted to shining the spotlight on Team leaders, news, and recognition. This section will only be included in the magazines going out to the Team customer database and will not be in the newsstand edition, so to get this customized version you have to be a Team customer. Past issues of this publication can be found in the shopping cart section of our website. We now have a special section exclusively reserved for magazines. If you would like to order additional copies of a magazine in which you or members of your Team were featured, you can do so using our shopping cart feature. Here is the link:
In related news, Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady were sought out by the industry publication Networking Times for a special interview which was highlighted in the latest newsstand edition. This magazine can also be purchased for a limited time via our shopping cart. This probing article of Orrin and Chris looks at how these two leaders honed their leadership skills in the networking marketing community and wrote a best selling leadership book based on these principles. Even more amazing is how they have used these principles to lead one of the largest communities of people in North America though a very dynamic and fluid economic time that has seen the industry change drastically. At a time when many communities atrophied and fell by the wayside, Orrin and Chris’s leadership enabled their community to thrive and grow in record numbers. Networking Times asks how this could be done and what the secret to their success has been.
I really believe that this is just the beginning of Team utilizing mass media channels to communicate with a larger audience and it’s remarkably exciting to see industry leaders seek out our leaders for advice and insight. I look forward to what our leadership has to share in the coming months in Success Magazine and the recognition section that we have prepared for people who hit new levels in the business.