Our 2010 International Convention was a great success we laughed, we cried and laughed again.  It was amazing to see so many eager entrepreneurs from all over the world excited and ready to take on new challenges. Thanks to our good friends Kim Kardashian, Scottie & Larsa Pippen, Raquel Perera, Katrina Campins, Kamal Hotchandi, Tommy & Michelle Pooch, Nicolas Vallejo, Angelo Pagan and everyone who took the time to support us and made this exciting convention happen.  One thing for sure our 2010 International Convention was bigger, better and Faster!!!  Some of my highlights were Scottie Pippen introducing his new product and launch partnership with Market America, Kim Kardashian on stage talking to a sold out crowd of 25,000 entrepreneurs about Paid To Shop and social media, Raquel Perera (girlfriend of Alejandro Sanz) talking about our revolutionary skincare product Metraskin, our doctor's panel with our national and award winning medical team, Duane Mclaughlin's performance and choir, Justina & Conquer's Entertainment performances, Andrew Payne showing everyone on stage about his new discovered combination Metraskin + Pentaxyl, Marc Ashley & Loren introducing the new redesigned Portal, Marty Weissman's Gala introduction and the success of our trade show.  This year's convention was not to be missed and we got enough press to prove it!

I wanted to share few images of some memorable moments from our  Market America 2010 International Convention and to view more photos you can go on the photo section of my blog or click here: http://www.beingjrridinger.com/photo-gallery.html

(here I am wearing Tom Ford during my Gala speech)

(Duane Mc Laughlin's performance with choir Saturday Morning)

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There are two main pillars or two currents of energy in Market America that feed the Management Performance Compensation Plan (MPCP).  1. The Market America web portal and 2. The Market America University which discovers billion dollar markets and sucks volume out of it while also providing the very best training.

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nba hall of famer, 6 time world champion, and two time gold medalist scottie pippen will be here to discuss his involvement with market america  with our sports nutrition brand torch and a new Prime bone and joint formula by isotonix!

While there are a number of different tools that can help us once we get that initial appointment booked, I consider the audio file an important tool for getting us to that point.  We can’t run before we learn to walk, can we? The same process hold’s true when prospecting and recruiting. We can’t prospect if we aren’t programmed for success, can we?

As an entrepreneur, I use my mp3 player a lot during the day. The more you train yourself and listen over and over to the content that you’re wanting to learn, eventually – it will stick. Think about your favorite song you’ve heard on the radio. Somehow you know the lyrics, but never looked them up. That is because your brain is being programmed each time you hear that song to the point that you can recite it verbatim (and the song may not even be playing).

What will you do with The Dash?

There is no greater thing in life than freedom.  Independence from whatever limits or controls you is the greatest experience in life.  Our forefathers were willing to risk everything for freedom and independence from tyranny, taxation, or oppression.  Their commonality was entrepreneurism.  They came to America to prosper and start their own enterprises.  Today most people are in economic bondage and controlled by the 45 year plan.  Most people work 45 years to end up broke and they miss the best experiences in life because they do not have the time or money to live their dreams freely.  95 percent of Americans spend 45 years of their life making the other 5 percent financially independent.  Yet our forefathers risked everything, including death, so anyone could expereience financial freedom.

Do you understand the process of prospecting and recruiting? Do yourself a favor before reading this — take a moment and watch my video on filling the funnel and shaking the bean jar! When you deal with a small number of people at one time instead of filling the jar with lots of possibilities, you tend to focus on specific individuals because they are the only opportunities you have. As a result, you come across apologetic, pushy, desperate or overly aggressive when you try to prospect and recruit these individuals. By “cultivating” possibilities instead, you will find prospects that want to try the business, and those prospects lead to even more people when they become sponsored or customers.  This is similar to the process of “sowing” and “reaping.”  You can’t expect to plant one seed and have an entire crop. You need to plant hundreds of seeds, and then you need to cultivate them. You need to water them and fertilize and till the soil. With time, continued cultivation and nurturing, some send germinate and grow. Some eventually bear fruit and can be harvested or “reaped!”

Are you on the 45 year plan hamster wheel?  What do you think?  Why work 45 years of your life for someone else's success and go nowhere.  After working a plan for someone else's success for 45 yrs people end up dead, still working or practically broke.  Market America is reinventing the wheel.  Share this video with all of your friends, prospects and ask the question:  Are on the 45year plan hamster wheel?

send me a message on @jrridinger or facebook/jamesridinger will you?

How long will it take you to realize that you are not a hamster on a treadmill?

Send me a message on twitter @jrridinger I want to know what steps you are taking to get off the treadmill and off to success!

~Keep Growing

JR

Market America International Convention was a resounding success! I saw a crowd of hungry, open-minded, passionate and ready entrepreneurs eager to learn. The social networks engines were firing and the social media presence was felt like never before!

Over 1500 guests attended the social media breakouts, Twitter was over capacity, AT&T lines were jammed, Google broadband down, the world was buzzing with the #marketamerica hashtag.