18 this is jim winkler vice president of sales with market america i'm so glad
uh to be with you for a few minutes today you know what i want to talk about i want to talk about
uh international convention let me give you a little bit of background as we lead into that
um obviously i've worked with the company corporately for 11 years but not everyone knows
i've been an unfranchise owner for over 20 years my wife lisa and i have built a business up to the
executive field but vice president level so i'm going to be coming to you talking about
this event in two different ways one the insight i know we have coming corporately two why is it
so important to be there as an unfranchise owner or a guest who might be evaluating this business
now let's take a look at why is it so important well i remember when i was new to the business and
i really didn't understand how important these major events were you know and when
i talk major there has never ever been a bigger event than what we have coming up
in greensboro our international convention august 11th through the 14th our 30th year celebration
of being in business but you know back when i started the company was about six years old
luckily i had a mentor who said you need to get to the next event the major event and you need
to bring people with you i sort of fought it for a little bit and then she reminded me of something
she said you said you would be coachable and you told me that you wanted to succeed see i had told
her i wanted to succeed badly and i said i will be coachable so she said okay buy four tickets
now here's what's interesting that was almost 25 years ago the ticket price has only changed 25
it was never about the money spent it was about getting there um you'll never find a four day
event for 200 give me a break uh when you take a look at it why was it important i got there
because going into it i was like i hope this isn't a lot of hype and you know just motivation
no substance and i got there and here's why i took 23 pages of handwritten notes and i said wow this
is real these products are real they're backing it up uh the owner poured his heart out i got to see
our owner j.r writing her our co-owner lauren writinger mark ashley our president all of these
corporate team members dennis franks kevin buckman and and right away it immediately said to me you
know what this is special i came out of that event i went in as a an executive coordinator
i'd been involved in the business about three months i came out of that event and moved to the
level of supervising coordinator within six months because my belief had grown and that's what it's
all about is belief now i know for a lot of you you're thinking well why do i need to be there i'm
going to tell you something i'll put my corporate hat on a little bit this is going to be unlike any
event you've ever been to as great as i thought that one was 20 some years ago this one's going
to be 10 to a hundred times better and i know it because i've been able to sit in on the planning
uh for it and everything from the moment you get there the moment you're walking up to the arena
the moment you get off your plane or you drive in is is gonna be better it's going to be enhanced
you're going to be going wow how did they think of this wow how did they do this how did they put
this together and then you're going to hear the content that's the one thing that never changes is
it's not just motivation or inspiration it's content it's it's how do we build this how do
the products works what what can we do to build a great business that we have and you'll hear
from all those top leaders that we have in the field as well as our top leaders on our corporate
team with that being said here's what i'm gonna say if you're a guest and you're watching this guy
jim winkler right now you're like wow he's excited about this and you're thinking i've been looking
into this business business why should i go as a guest well here's why i'm going to tell you it'd
be a great reason to go as a guest go spend the time spend the money and then if when you're done
you say hey this isn't for me you will have you know great you haven't wasted any time one weekend
but if you go and use you see what i know you're gonna see you'll then cut off six months to a year
of a learning curve in your business if not more just like i did so many years ago it's really what
propelled uh my business that time it's to this day lisa and i make sure we talk to all of our
leaders in our organizations how many people do we have going at the event how many people do we have
with tickets to the next event because we know these major events are what keep that belief where
it should be and inspire us to do more because of the reality of what we're doing as a a company
i look forward to seeing you all there i can't wait to see you in person at the event i've
missed so many of you so much as our entire team has missed you stay safe uh and look forward to an
incredible uh event in august together all right everyone get your tickets by the way uh i should
have said this you can get your tickets by going to unfranchise.com if you're an unfranchise owner
you go to your own unfranchise.com just scroll down on the homepage boom it says get tickets if
you're a guest talk to your business partner about getting you a ticket for it before this thing
sells out can't wait to see you again give me a big hug looking forward to it take care everyone
i'm jim winkler and i'm looking forward to seeing you at the international convention bye-bye