Mark Your Calendars for a Few Must-Attend Events!

December 6, 2007

Hollywood, Florida
Join Agel Triple Diamond Director Randy Schroeder, Double Diamond Director Billy Looper and Vice President of Global Sales Jeff Higginson for a Super Saturday in Hollywood, Florida. Details are listed below.

Date: December 8th
Time: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Cost: $20/ticket in advance or $25/ticket at the door
Location: Hollywood Playhouse Theatre, 2640 Washington Street, Hollywood, Florida

Guadalajara, Mexico
Agel CEO Glen Jensen, Director of Mexico Sales Zach Bradley and Managing-Director of Research and Development Joel Rockwood will be in Mexico with Diamond Directors Nat and Chanida Puranaputra and Diamond Directors Grant Ferguson and Maria Carreon. Details are listed below.

Date: December 8th
Time: 9:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
Location: Club Industrials, Esquina de Javier Gamboa y Ave Vallarta, Guadalajara, Mexico

Lisbon, Portugal
Join Agel Triple Diamond Director Randy Schroeder, President Craig Bradley and Vice President of the European Union Howard Hannemann for an ABB in Lisbon, Portugal. Details are listed below.

Date: December 12th
Time: 8 p.m.
Cost: 5 euros/Team member and guests are free
Location: Faculdade de Ciencias-Campus (Campo Grande), Edificio C3-Anfieteatro 3.2.14, Lisbon, Portugal

Moscow, Russia
Join Agel Triple Diamond Director Randy Gage and President Craig Bradley on December 15th during a three-day special event in Moscow. Details are listed below.

Date: December 14th-16th
Time: Dec. 14th: 2-6:00 p.m.; Dec. 15th: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Dec. 16th: 10 a.m.-6:00p.m.
Location: Novozavodskaja Street 27, Palace of Culture, Gorbunov, Bagrationovskaya Metro Station or Filevskiy Park Metro Station

Frankfurt, Germany
Join Agel Triple Diamond Director Randy Gage, President Craig Bradley and European General Manager William Amzallag for an ABB in Frankfurt, Germany. Details are listed below.

Date: December 17th
Time: 6-10 p.m.
Location: NH Hotel, Hessenring 9, Moerfelden/Franfurt, Germany

For more corporate and field events, visit www.agel.com/events.

There’s more to just dangling a few carrots

By ALVIN TAY

Better compensation planning can help achieve marketing goals

SALES compensation in network marketing would seem to be a relatively straightforward proposition: Dangle a few carrots, give the best sales distributors a trip to Bali, stand back and reap the rewards. But according to author of Why You're Dumb, Sick & Broke...And How to Get Smart, Healthy & Rich! (John Wiley & Sons) Randy Gage, it’s much more complicated than that.

An appropriately constructed sales compensation programme, says Gage, a marketing guru and distributor with Agel, can help eliminate that most divisive issue for distributors: Why am I receiving what I’m receiving?

Moreover, he says, better strategic compensation planning can help achieve strategic marketing goals as well. But it’s seldom used that way, Gage says.

“While most companies think they’re paying adequately, 67% of all sales distributors think their current commission system does nothing to drive behaviour,” he says.

And here is the bottom line, Gage says 95% of the people in network marketing simply have no idea what kind of business they’re in.

“I say this because you can drive around most cities and see ridiculous-looking signs on fences and telephone poles that say, “Lose Weight in 30 Days” with a phone number.

“And most of these people think they’re in network marketing, but they are practicing plain old sales. They’re selling product one person at a time.

Gage says one should view it as a business of teaching and training people.

“What I suggest they do if they want to be successful is model themselves on somebody who’s genuinely successful and who’s developed residual, walk-away income on the basis of relationships with his people. Those are the people you want to emulate”.

And Gage’s advice is to go for the big-business model.

“That’s where you go out and sponsor people into the business with the opportunity. You’re going to train them and teach them with the goal of building a network of tens or ultimately hundreds of thousands of distributors”.

Gage says one has to ask: “What kind of business do you want to have?

“Suppose I sponsored you into my business, and I’ve gone with you to 10 of your friends and did two-on-one presentations with you. I came into your living room and did meetings there for two months one night a week and then I counselled with you on a monthly basis and provided a big quarterly event that you could plug into and bring your people to. And say I worked with you and developed the relationship all that time.

“Now when the hot new fibre-cookie deal comes out, you’re going to say, “I love the company I’m with, they’ve got great support, I’m making progress, my group gets bigger every month, my check gets bigger every month, and I don’t have time to be looking at other distractions. Nnetwork marketing is really about relationships, that’s what it is.

Gage has been called a “Jedi Knight of Prosperity.” He takes that role seriously, working to save the inhabitants of the universe from their worst enemy - themselves.

Of course, Gage has also been called arrogant, judgmental, and evil. But one thing is certain: his brash, outspoken, and straight-shooting advice produces solid results.

A former high school dropout, Gage rose from a dishwasher in a pancake house to become a multimillionaire. Today, he is recognised as one of the world's preeminent experts on prosperity. For more than fifteen years, he has been helping other people transform self-limiting beliefs into business and personal success.

Gage takes the conventional beliefs that money is bad, rich people are evil, and it's spiritual to be poor and positively detonates them in a flurry of opposing evidence. His own compelling journey of triumph over poverty, fear, and self-doubt demonstrates the true power of your mind to attract and maintain prosperity in your life.

14 patents awarded to Utah inventors

By Karl R. Cannon
Published: Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007
Adopted from DeseretNews.com

Fourteen patents were awarded to Utah inventors on Oct. 16.

Foot tent apparatus. Paul E. Huber, Salt Lake City. Filed May 3, 2005. Patent No. 7,281,282.

Apparatus and methods for sealing voids in a subterranean formation. Richard J. Curtice, Vernal; Gregory D. Wilcox, Wooster, Ohio; Len E. Fry, Butler, Ohio. Assigned to Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Duncan, Okla. Filed March 12, 2004. Patent No. 7,281,576.

Transaction instrument inventory management system and method. Randy Beck, Alpine; Sven Miller, Salt Lake City; Clyde Page, South Jordan. Assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Company Inc., New York, N.Y. Filed Jan. 25, 2005, claiming priority to multiple prior patent applications. Patent No. 7,281,653.

Corneal topography slit image alignment via analysis of half-slit image alignment. Lloyd Allred, Bountiful. Assigned to Bausch & Lomb Incorporated, Rochester, N.Y. Filed July 21, 2005. Patent No. 7,281,799.

Blending jar apparatus having a generally rectangular shape. Thomas D. Dickson Jr., Midway. Assigned to K-Tec Inc., Orem. Filed Dec. 26, 2005, claiming priority to multiple prior patent applications. Patent No. 7,281,842.

Recovery of metal values. Patrick M. Brown, Exton, Pa.; Robert A. Hard, Hallowell, Maine; Donna D. Harbuck, Salt Lake City; G. Kyle Green, Sandy. Assigned to Caboi Corporation, Boston, Mass. Filed March 26, 1996.

Wire network mapping method and apparatus using impulse responses. Chet Lo, Cynthia Furse, both of Salt Lake City. Assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City. Filed Jan. 31, 2006, claiming priority to provisional patent application no 60/648,836, filed Jan. 31, 2005. Patent No. 7,282,922.

Stylus input device utilizing a permanent magnet. Brian Taylor, Daniel Lee, both of Salt Lake City; Richard Woolley, Orem; Paul Glad, Taylorsville; Michael Harney, Layton; Benjamin Gyori, Farmington. Assigned to Cirque Corporation, Salt Lake City. Filed June 30, 2004. Patent No. 7,283,127.

Semiconductor forensic light kit. Calvin D. Ostler, Riverton; Densen Cao, Hongyan Li, both of Sandy; Zhaohui Lin, Salt Lake City. Assigned to CAO Group Inc., West Jordan. Filed April 22, 2005, claiming priority to multiple prior patent applications. Patent No. 7,283,230.

Internet browsing using a uniform interface. Kary K. Burns, Draper. Assigned to Intellisync Corporation, San Jose, Calif. Filed Dec.12, 2000. Patent No. 7,283,623.

Method and system for controlling a machine tool with direct transfer of machining data. Mark S. Evens, C. Porter Bassett, both of Orem; Walter Edward Red, Charles Gregory Jensen, both of Provo; Corey Lynn McBride, Lindon; Jonathan Edward Bosley, Tucson, Ariz.; Girish C. Ghimire, Hillsboro, Ore. Assigned to Brigham Young University, Provo. Filed May 10, 2001, claiming priority to provisional patent application No. 60/204,609, filed May 16, 2000. Patent No. 7,283,888.

Overlaying orthorectified aerial images with map information tied to a state plane coordinate system. Michael A. Olsen, Sandy; Gary H. Gurr, Syracuse. Filed March 24, 2005, claiming priority to provisional patent application No. 60/556,514, filed March 24, 2004. Patent No. 7,283,909.

Wrapping device. Robin Peng, Sandy. Assigned to Design Engine, Sandy. Filed Aug. 17, 2006. Design Patent No. D552,972.

Packaging container for gels and the like. Ryan Goodwin, Peder Singleton, both of Draper. Assigned to Agel Enterprises, LLC, Provo.

Agel conference will bring international crowd

By Paul Beebe
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 10/10/2007 02:50:45 PM MDT

When dietary supplements provider Agel Enterprises kicks off its annual meeting in Salt Lake City on Friday, hundreds of sales reps from Israel and the Muslim world will be among the convention-goers.

"From the beginning we wanted to make our products available to as many cultures as possible" said Glen Jensen, CEO of the Provo-based multi-level marketing company. "From Day One, we opened in 10 countries and we set out to have all of our products kosher-certified for our Israeli team members and halal-certified for our Muslim team members."

Over 3,000 people from 40 countries are expected at the Agel event, which will run through Saturday at the Salt Palace Convention Center.

Founded in 2005, Agel is one of the latest entrants into the already-crowded dietary Utah dietary supplements industry. At least 105 companies based in the state sold products worth $4.4 billion last year according to the United Natural Products Alliance.

Agel may be young, but it's not small. The privately held company does not publish its revenues, but Jensen said sales this year are expected to exceed $100 million.

"We've really grown fast," he said.

The company says it has 100 employees in Provo and another 50 people stationed at 15 foreign offices. They support over 100,000 independent salespeople who market Agel products door-to-door, over the Internet and Multi-level marketing businesses are a way of selling products through salespeople who are often called distributors. People who sign up as distributors receive commissions for their sales and those of other people recruited to join the business, according to the Federal Trade Commission.

The products Agel distributors sell are antioxidants, weight-loss formulas, joint maintenance, vitamin and mineral supplements and other commodities suspended in gel packs.

Gels are supposed to be more convenient than pills or tablets. They are more portable and can be taken without a liquid. And while the company doesn't claim that the body absorbs supplements suspended in gel faster, Jensen says gel is a better delivery method than "highly compressed" tablets or capsules.

To illustrate his argument, Jensen compares suspended gels to advances in the music industry.

"I would compare pills and tablets to cassette tapes. What we deliver is more along the lines of an iPod," Jensen said.