The Ultimate Rejection Letter

A Letter Received in my In Box


Herbert A. Millington
Chair - Search Committee
412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University
College Hill, MA 34109

Dear Professor Millington,

Thank you for your letter of March 16. After careful consideration, I
regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me
an assistant professor position in your department.

This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually
large number of rejection letters. With such a varied and promising field
of candidates, it is impossible for me to accept all refusals.

Despite Whitson's outstanding qualifications and previous experience in
rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at
this time.

Therefore, I will assume the position of assistant professor
in your department this August. I look forward to seeing you then.
Best of luck in rejecting future applicants.

Sincerely,

Chris L. Jensen

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I really feel that my ballon has lost all its air when I have go to eSupport to get a question answered.

You want to deal personally with someone, and it is impossible to get in touch with them. Instead they send you to eSupport.

What a crock. Everything starts out perfect when you first deal with someone offering you his on line business. They are all attentive and helpful until you have paid them and then have a question. They tell you to open an "inquiry ticket" and someone will be in touch shortly to answer your question. The first thing you must do is learn how to use eSpport.

Maybe I am old school, but it comes back to customer service. There is, and yet there isn't. There is, if you understand that you have to stand in line, and there isn't if you don't understand.

I didn't have to stand in line to pay my money to them. They took it quicker than a well greased lightning bolt, and now that they have it, they say to me, "ahh, so you have a question, well wait until someone can attend you because we are too busy collecting money."

As regulators sift through the financial rubble, there are questions about what role lavish bonuses played in the debacle.

Without knowing all the refind details of what's behind lavish bonuses, my gut reaction is that there is something terribly wrong with us as human beings. In Pitrum Sorokin's book, "The Crisis of Our Age," he talks about the different extremes that motivate societies and cutures. Each period lasts perhaps 100 years if not more. We are definitely in a period of the "me" generation, based on greed and the material world. What is for sure is that in other times, people like Bernie Madoff and any number of fat cat CEO's of large banks and investment houses that have walked away with ridiculous bonuses would have been burned at the stake or stoned to death. Society simply would not have accepted this type of behavior, and would have done something about it. It seems that in today's world, it is considered bad behavior, but not low enough to be punishable by the masses. Whether we are lacking religion or something else, we are a sick self motivated society and all for the wrong reasons. It is a pity because imagine what could be done with all that wasted money, if it was used to really help this world?

Skol, Cheers, Salude, Here's looking at you...

Do you know why we "clink" our glasses before drinking?

It is the only one of the five senses that is not automatically taken into consideration when we raise a glass of our favorite elixer:

1st - We TOUCH the glass
2nd - We SMELL the drink
3rd - We SEE and analyse the Drink
4th - We TASTE the drink
5th - We HEAR the glass uniting with another to create a bond with our fellow participants.

This is the secret of thorough enjoyment and partcipation of our five senses in the act of sharing the experience of having a drink.

The Gospel

I have the chance to listen to a neighbor of mine, give a talk on her favorite subject and who, just so happens to also have a PhD. She is an executive coach, corporate executive and behavioral psychologist. She is going to talk about the following subject, “If you believe you can, you will. If you believe you can’t, you won’t.”

Now under normal circumstances, this is pretty sound advice for those of us who are looking for a formula for success in surviving life. No, not really exclusively for life, but this is the same type of advice I hear all the time from MLM gospel advocates. How convenient for these people to pick up on this line, and use it to promote joining them in their quest to expand their down line.

Under normal circumstances this type of advice does have it merits, but it is not worth applying it to things that are basically flawed from the get go. There has been a lot of discussion about MLM businesses and as I delve deeper and deeper into the subject, I am starting to see that no matter how it is presented, how “clean” and “different” promoters of MLM business present their particular sales pitch, all MLM businesses are basically huge pyramid schemes where the few feed on the plenty.

There five basic sirens that sound and one should be aware of when being pitched a product based MLM business:

1. Each person recruited is empowered and given incentives to recruit other participants of empowered and motivated recruiters recruiting recruiters – without regard to market saturation.

2. Advancement in a hierarchy of multiple of “distributors” is achieved by recruitment, rather than by appointment.

3. “Pay to play” requirements are met by ongoing “incentivized purchases,” with participants the primary buyers.

4. MLM companies pay commissions and bonuses on more “distributor” levels than functionally justified i.e. more than five levels.

5. Company payouts (commissions, bonuses etc.) per sale for the total of all up line participants’ together equals or exceed that for the person selling the product – resulting in inadequate incentive to retail and excessive incentive to recruit.

Here are five basic questions to ask yourself when you are offered the opportunity to participate in an MLM business:

1. Are participants recruited in an endless chain of participants?

2. Is advancement in the business by recruitment, rather than by appointment?

3. Are participants required to buy (or subscribe to) products and services in order to qualify for commissions or bonuses or to advance in the business?

4. Does the company pay commissions or bonuses on more than four levels of participants?

5. Does the company pay out per sale for the total of all up line participants exceeds that for the person actually selling the product?

The choice is of course up to each one of us to decide whether or not we want to take the plunge, but I am reminded of something that was once told to me by an MLM recruiter: She told me that today, it is much easier to recruit new distributors outside the United States, because here is the US people are too complicated and suspicious. She said that outside the United States people are more willing to just do it. She also said that telling people in Taiwan or Japan that if you believe you can do it, you will - is more palatable there than here in the USA.

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Who is Carl (Charlie) Heegaard?

Carl (Charlie) L. Heegaard is a formally educated independent business man who has been working for himself in a wide diverse gamma of endeavors for more than 46 years. He started working when he was 12 years old selling hand made Christmas presents, which he built in his home carpentry shop, to his neighbors and friends in Portola Valley around the San Francisco Bay Area where he was born.

He always worked to make pocket money, whether as a swimming coach, a Red Cross swimming instructor, a life guard or the manager of his local sports club. Growing up in the 1950s in California was a time when young men kept busy by working hard and playing hard and, as the saying goes living the good life of the 1950’s California.

Charlie graduated from high school, in Barrington, Illinois where his father’s job had taken him. And after a few stops and starts in his college education, Charlie graduated from college in 1970 with a degree in finance and management of Nichols College of Business Administration in Dudley, Massachusetts.

With the Vietnamese War in full swing in 1970 Charlie applied and was accepted as a Peace Corps Volunteer stationed in Ghana, West Africa. His job entailed creating credit union societies among the Ewe people in then Volta Region of Ghana.

After finishing his two year contact with the Peace Corps, he chose to get a post graduate degree in hotel and restaurant management. At that time his parents lived in Esher, Surrey, England and through his father’s help, he applied and was accepted to the Institut Internationale de Glion in Monteux, Switzerland to study cooking and hotel management for one year.

Upon completion of this course, he applied and was accepted to work for Hilton Hotels International participating in their executive training program. He had many different and divers opportunities while working for Hilton, but what most called his attention was to become an executive chef. And that is precisely what he managed to do. He worked in many different kitchens in European Hotels, and learned a tremendous amount about food, a hobby and love which he continues to enjoy today.

While in Switzerland, Charlie met his future wife. They married two years later. The ceremony took place at the city hall in Amsterdam, Holland. They have been married now for more than 34 years. This union has produced three children. All three of which are well educated professionals today.

Charlie and his new wife left their life in Europe in 1975. They arrived in Miami, Florida with the illusion of finding a job in one of the hotels on the Sun Belt. As it turned out, Charlie worked for awhile with the cruises lines sailing between the islands of the Caribbean, but it was not to last very long.

His wife, Liliana, who was originally from Colombia, SA suggested that they go and visit her family in Colombia. Being in close proximity to Miami, it was an easy flight to Bogota. Once in Colombia, their lives were to take another sharp turn. They quickly decided to try their luck in Colombia. 31 years later they have a chain of restaurants that goes by the name of Charlie’s Roastbeef, which continues to grow and prosper today.

In 1997 Charlie and Liliana decided that because of political reasons they could no longer live in Colombia, so they sold their home and moved to Miami once again.

Today, Charlie, Liliana and their dog “Max” live in Miami, Florida. Charlie continues to work in many different things, but most of all he has developed a keen interest in the internet and on line businesses. It is an on going project by which he is learning new things everyday. Time will tell where it leads him. He, and his wife continue to travel back and forth to Colombia to check on their business there.

A Dying Art

The practice of remembering someone for no other reason other than to say, “I am thinking of you.” It is pretty much dead in today’s world. Though unintentional as it may be, we have forgotten the power of reaching outside of ourselves and putting someone else in the forefront first.

In previous times, the written word in the form of a little note or a small gift to remind others that they are important to us, that we are thinking of them, is for all intensive purposes finished. We no longer have the time nor do we give importance to this very important gesture. On those rare occasions in today’s world, when we are inspired enough to say “thank you”, people are so taken aback by this demonstration of generosity and sincerity that they place us in an entirely new category of human beings in today’s world.

This brings up another point and that has to do with customer service. Why don’t retailers go that extra mile with their customers to thank them for their patronage? After all it is the customers that sustain the retailers. Those businesses that do manage to personally thank their customers often, gain a level of respect and confidence that keeps people coming back. It’s true that it is extremely difficult for some very large businesses to always be thanking their customers for purchasing from them, but they must be constantly reminded of the importance surrounding this practice.

I now want to speak about personal branding and the importance of separating oneself from everyone else. What better way to gain people’s trust, respect and confidence other than teaching by example.

We are all looking for ways to make money on line. There are thousands of individuals and web sites out there offering us the latest and greatest ways to make money. Whether it is building a list or joining a matrix, everyone is looking for ways to entice us to come on board. They all swear that they have the secret to make money easy, fast and in bundles. The problem with this is they all sound the same - very little originality and a lot of fluff, but most of all an undercurrent of incredible impatience’s and urgency for us to join up with them.

What none of them seem to realize is that people hate to be sold anything and the premise that what they are offering is “the system” that is going to change their lives. People want to learn and not be sold anything. They want to decide for themselves that what they are reading appeals to them, before moving forward to follow someone else’s advice.

How does one create a loyal following? The answer is personal branding. How do you personally brand yourself? SLOWLY! You start out by creating an image of yourself through your personal character, blogs and forums. And you then let people decide for themselves what you are all about. If you are true in both gesture and word, people will begin to trust you, and by trusting you they will begin to look for you and listen to what you have to say. At this point, the advice you give must always be from your heart. People can see through you very quickly, if you are not sincere. Once you have reached a level where you have a loyal following, you together with your group, can begin to discuss what as a group is really out there for you to do together. You in the mean time, and as your group’s leader, have already been looking at which direction you want to take your group. Don’t forget that you, as your group’s leader, must lead.

I started out by talking about the dying art of saying thank you. I want to finish this piece by saying that this gesture of putting people first, though old as it may be, should be remembered as something that will give us many miles of positive feedback and good will. And you as a true leader should tell people how important it really is. It will definitely make you stand out as someone who cares and really knows the importance of the little things in life. It is by far one of the best examples of branding yourself for the world to see and take notice of.

A Funded Proposal To Recruit For Your MLM Business

A funded proposal is a two stepped process:

Step 1 - Look for prospects who want to make money online - not to join your MLM business yet - and offer them some coaching to help them make money online, such as how to set up a blog with affiliate links and banners. You do not charge them a high price but just a small fee.

Think about it. . .

You would already be in profit whether or not these prospects join your MLM opportunity and at the same time you are creating a trust in you.

** This will solve your MONEY challenge

Step 2 - Some time later, when your prospects become confident with computers, the Internet and making some money through your guidance and mentoring, that’s the time you can offer them to join your MLM business opportunity so that they have a multi-tier affiliate program to promote.

** This will solve your PROSPECTS challenge

I thoroughly believe that one has to go just a bit slower with people and develop a core relationship with them. Though it is not the same model of calling friends and working your warm list, it is a more solid way to develop relationships.

This brings up another point and that is your contact list of like minded people. By finding like minded people - people that want to make money and "get it" - you are eliminating those people that really don't know anything about MLM and will become frustrated quickly with the whole process. It requires work and dedication, but once you have a list of people, you are working and making money with and also trust you, it is a forgone conclusion, they will follow you in any project that you propose to them because you have proved your worth and knowledge to them.

It is as simple as that, and it works extremely well, but it requires knowledge and skill. The one truth in all this is to become known and trusted by people. Personal branding is really the key.

Are we cracking up?

What I mean is, are we re-evaluating our lives and habits? How are we changing our shopping habits? When you buy, for example at Wal-Mart, do you feel you are really walking away with a better deal? Is your money going further at Wal-Mart?

Are you signing up for memberships at big box discount stores, thinking that by doing that, and buying in bulk, you are saving money? Is more and bigger always better? In reality, where are you going to store the rolls of paper towels and toilet paper that you have purchased from Costco or Sam’s Club? Is your home turning into a storage facility the size of a corner market? Why do we feel better surrounding ourselves with merchandise that is going to take us a year to get rid of?

Those of us that have parents or grandparents that lived through the leaner times of WW II or the Depression of the 1930s are now just beginning to understand why they did such peculiar things like saving old plastic bags or reusing aluminum paper. We used to chuckle at their funny habits, but today in our own lives, things are not so funny any more. It is now coming clear to us why they did what they did.

Let this situation be a lesson to us all. This is reality, tough yes, but it is a fact of life.

The good times will come once again, but in the mean time, adjust to the present and learn to be wise and sensible about your own lives.

Be EXTREMELY careful with Gift Cards!

I wanted to give everyone a heads up that if you tend to give gift cards around the holidays, you need to be careful that the cards will be honored after the holidays. Stores that are planning to close after Christmas are still selling the cards through the holidays even though the cards will be worthless January 1., 2009.

There is no law preventing them from doing this. On the contrary, it is referred to as 'Bankrupcy Planning'. Below is a partial list of stores that you need to be cautious about:

• Circuit City (filed Chapter 11)
• Ann Taylor- 117 stores nationwide closing
• Lane Bryant
• Fashion Bug
• Catherine's to close 150 stores nationwide
• Eddie Bauer to close stores 27 stores and more after January
• Cache will close all stores
• Talbots closing down specialty stores
• J. Jill closing all stores (owned by Talbots)
• Pacific Sunwear (also owned by Talbots)
• GAP closing 85 stores
• Footlocker closing 140 sto res mo re to close after January
• Wickes Furniture closing down
• Levitz closing down remaining stores
• Bombay closing remaining stores
• Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January
• Whitehall closing all stores
• Piercing Pagoda closing all stores
• Disney closing 98 stores and will close more after January.
• Home Depot closing 15 stores 1 in NJ ( New Brunswick )
• Macys to close 9 stores after January
• Linens and Things closing all stores
• Movie Galley Closing all stores
• Pep Boys Closing 33 stores
• Sprint/Nextel closing 133 stores
• JC Penney closing a number of stores after January
• Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores.
• Wilson Leather closing down all stores
• Sharper Image closing down all stores
• K B Toys closing 356 stores
• Loews to close down some stores
• Dillard's to close some stores
  
  

In the MLM Business, Its all In the Numbers.

Here's an article, not written by me, but still very interesting for those considering getting into the MLM business -


You may have heard of Bill Britt, one of the most successful distributors in Amway. Some years ago, 20/20 did a feature story on Amway.

They spent 19minutes interviewing whiners and complainers -- several distributors who had failed and showed the garages full of products they couldn't sell.

During the last minute of the show, Mr. Britt was interviewed in front of his palatial home. He was asked, "Mr. Britt, this business has obviously worked for you. What's your secret?"

He replied, "There is no secret. I simply showed the plan to 1200 people.

900 said, 'No.' and only 300 signed up.

Out of those 300, only 85 did anything at all.

Out of those 85 only 35 were serious, and out of those 35,11 made me a millionaire.

"Like Mark Yarnell (who made millions with NuSkin), Bill worked through the numbers. Like we always say - ANY business is a numbers game, plain and simple!

Remember that & be persistent & you WILL succeed.

Social Consciousness, civility and a bit of good old me second attitude.

I was in Costco the other day picking up a few things when I heard a ruckus just behind me in the check out line. I turned around to see what was going on and here was this irate guy screaming at a couple who had moved past him the line.

The female partner of this duo was looking rather embarrassed as her husband continued to discuss in no uncertain terms what he had apparently instigated.

What happened was that the perturbed gentleman, who had been pushing a rather large orange dolly, loaded to the hilt with groceries, had left the line, sans his orange dolly, to go and get something he had forgotten.

Upon seeing the unfolding situation, the couple behind him moved ahead of the orange dolly with their shopping cart and proceeded to check out.

On his return, the orange dolly owner saw immediately what had happened and started a long stream of adjectives to describe what this couple could do with their lives.

Now, I must inject that this whole incident was not dialogued in English, but in Spanish. I have lived in Latin America for 30 years, and I speak Spanish fluently.

Before this entire scene was finished, several other people in line had offered their opinion about this unfolding drama.

I will not repeat what they said, but the conclusion was that the audience had decided that Latin America is like it is because of this attitude amongst its inhabitance.

Though I can see a certain merit to their summation, I don’t entirely agree with it.

We need to calm down and be just a bit more understanding and generous with our fellow man. Yes the guy was wrong to leave the check out line to go after something he had forgotten, but the time he was gone was a matter of minutes.

I am sure that if he had told the couple behind him that he had forgotten something and that he would be right back, they would have understood. And yes the couple, who were also loaded down with groceries, was wrong to simply move ahead, without consideration for the other guy’s dilemma, this whole incident could have ended very differently.

Don’t you think that we can all try to be just a little kinder with our fellow man? After all what’s the big deal? It’s just the right thing to do.

Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?

TalkHasIt Asks... WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?

BARACK OBAMA: The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!

JOHN McCAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON: When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure -- right from Day One! -- that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me, although I clearly remember having to dodge enemy fire as Chelsea and I tried to cross the road.

DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goes after the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his 'CURRENT' problems before adding 'NEW' problems.

OPRAH: Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road...

JOHN KERRY: Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain. Alone.

RUSH LIMBAUGH: Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media white washes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS: Isn't that intewesting? In a few moments, we will be wistening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a sewious case of molting, and went on to accompwish its wife wong dweam of cwossing the woad to engage in an illicit affair with a U.S. Senator.

ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON: Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.

BILL GATES: I have just released eChicken2007, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. Internet Explorer is an integral part of the Chicken. This new platform is much more stable and will never reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?

BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE: I invented the chicken! COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one? DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?

AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.

REVEREND JEREMIAH WRIGHT: I say, DAMN that chicken! Does that make me unpatriotic?