I prepared a letter for 6 Troopers and their spouses today. These 6 couples are very close to Mike and I know they will help. Jim will deliver them personally tomorrow:
As you may know, Mike xxxxx is in his last few months of life. I spoke with Betsy's sister, Wendy, last week, and she told me of their concerns for Betsy's financial security after Mike dies. I have set up a unique giving center for them, and need Troopers and their families to step up once again and help one of their own.
I am an ambassador for Together We Can Change The World, Inc. The sole purpose of this organization is to provide sustainable funding for non profits, schools and charities and the people who support them. My current project pertains to funding for private schools, but I have given Mike and Betsy my full attention for now. It is well within our reach to quickly provide Mike with the peace of mind in knowing his wife is taken care of financially.
I am not asking Troopers to spend or give any extra money. This approach is unique in that the money comes from their everyday spending. I will ask you to please go to the website I have set up for them. In the upper left menu, there is a 'Get Your Own My PowerMall' button. That will take you to a page where a video will automatically launch and explain how this works. Please watch the World Changer Mall video, it is about 13 minutes.
http://www.mypowermall.com/mall/158711
There is a free option and a nearly free better option. When 150 people join with their own World Changer malls, Betsy could receive over $1000/month ongoing. Each person who does this will also be earning money for their family. It's my goal to get this started immediately and I need your help in communicating with others. I will do whatever it takes to make this happen for them. Please call me with any questions xxx-xxxx.
We will meet at the Great Lost Bear on Sunday, January 25th at 1:00 to get things started. Please feel free to enlist others to help and join us.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
January 19
It was tough to switch gears on the phone call this morning from talking about schools to talking about losing a friend. I didn't want to answer Ginny when she pressed me about my passions, but I'm glad I did.
When my next door neighbor, Donna, told me in November that she had only weeks to live, I was paralyzed with fear. It used to be so easy to meet in the yard and chat. I found myself second guessing everything I wanted to say to her and so I said nothing for 2 weeks. A week before she died, Jim and I went over and sat with her. After a few moments of small talk, I broke down and cried, telling her I was sorry for not visiting sooner, but I had been scared. I told her all the things I had wanted to say and hugged her. I learned a valuable lesson that it wasn't what I said that mattered to her, it was that I was there for her. Now I am going to be there for Mike.
I sat down this afternoon and wrote an email to the Maine State Troopers Association board president, a retired Colonel. I explained what I was doing with My PowerMall and how it could give Mike peace of mind to know Betsy was going to be ok financially after he died. (Mike was diagnosed with brain cancer shortly after they were married about 15 years ago. His life insurance is based on his pay at the time he went out on sick leave, so it isn't much.) I gave him their mall link and directed him to the WCM video. I then asked his help in spreading the word to the troopers. Julia is right when she says how careful you have to be to stay within appropriate boundaries. I can't solicit them directly, but it's ok through the association.
Jim and I put together a list of people who could help us with a sort of telethon. I would get 5 or 6 people on board, explain our objectives, and we would start calling. There are over 300 Troopers, so we could use the extra hands. I am going to make the calls tomorrow to get our team together.
When my next door neighbor, Donna, told me in November that she had only weeks to live, I was paralyzed with fear. It used to be so easy to meet in the yard and chat. I found myself second guessing everything I wanted to say to her and so I said nothing for 2 weeks. A week before she died, Jim and I went over and sat with her. After a few moments of small talk, I broke down and cried, telling her I was sorry for not visiting sooner, but I had been scared. I told her all the things I had wanted to say and hugged her. I learned a valuable lesson that it wasn't what I said that mattered to her, it was that I was there for her. Now I am going to be there for Mike.
I sat down this afternoon and wrote an email to the Maine State Troopers Association board president, a retired Colonel. I explained what I was doing with My PowerMall and how it could give Mike peace of mind to know Betsy was going to be ok financially after he died. (Mike was diagnosed with brain cancer shortly after they were married about 15 years ago. His life insurance is based on his pay at the time he went out on sick leave, so it isn't much.) I gave him their mall link and directed him to the WCM video. I then asked his help in spreading the word to the troopers. Julia is right when she says how careful you have to be to stay within appropriate boundaries. I can't solicit them directly, but it's ok through the association.
Jim and I put together a list of people who could help us with a sort of telethon. I would get 5 or 6 people on board, explain our objectives, and we would start calling. There are over 300 Troopers, so we could use the extra hands. I am going to make the calls tomorrow to get our team together.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
January 17
Here's the follow up e mail I sent out this morning:
Hi Rus and Brian,
I enjoyed meeting both of you this week. Thanks for taking the time to meet with me. I understand completely that what I have shown you is overwhelming! But it is truly the answer to NPO and school funding.
I have done a few calculations on what each student, staff, faculty and board member could earn each month at the start.
Using 6 at Tier 2 , 30 at Tier 3, and 150 at Tier 4, each person could be earning about $1000/month.
My PowerMall's sole purpose is to create sustainable funding for schools, NPOs and the people who support them - you!
This would guarantee college for every student. The underclassmen could have most of their college tuition banked before they graduated high school. Even the seniors would continue to earn $12,000/year or more ongoing, enabling them to graduate college without much debt.
How about if we all meet together next time? I'd appreciate it if you would contact your counterpart at McAuley and have her join us. All three schools have a wonderful mission of developing young men and women to live their lives in service to others. That's precisely why I chose you to be in the pilot program for our company. Together we can change the world.
I look forward to meeting soon,
Andrea
Hi Rus and Brian,
I enjoyed meeting both of you this week. Thanks for taking the time to meet with me. I understand completely that what I have shown you is overwhelming! But it is truly the answer to NPO and school funding.
I have done a few calculations on what each student, staff, faculty and board member could earn each month at the start.
Using 6 at Tier 2 , 30 at Tier 3, and 150 at Tier 4, each person could be earning about $1000/month.
My PowerMall's sole purpose is to create sustainable funding for schools, NPOs and the people who support them - you!
This would guarantee college for every student. The underclassmen could have most of their college tuition banked before they graduated high school. Even the seniors would continue to earn $12,000/year or more ongoing, enabling them to graduate college without much debt.
How about if we all meet together next time? I'd appreciate it if you would contact your counterpart at McAuley and have her join us. All three schools have a wonderful mission of developing young men and women to live their lives in service to others. That's precisely why I chose you to be in the pilot program for our company. Together we can change the world.
I look forward to meeting soon,
Andrea
Thursday, January 15, 2009
January 15
Today is a glorious sunshiny day here in Maine! After my meeting at Saint Dom's High School this morning, I went to my favorite little coffee shop in Gorham, sat in the window seat and basked in the sun. I had to take a few moments to think, and be thankful.
Russ, the Director of Institutional Advancement at St. Dom's HS is a great guy. He has a no nonsense exterior and looks like a marine so I was a little nervous. But it didn't last long. I started by telling him about myself and my family, and how I got involved with My PowerMall. We covered the details about TWCCTW, Ginny, and how schools and NPOs can create sustainable funding. I discussed the 3 sources of income, the WCM fees, rebates from the mall and the American Express gift cards. I handed him a printout of the income calculations for the school after each one. I used very conservative numbers. Tier 1 was the school, tier 2 was 50 staff, faculty and board members, tier 3 was 275 students and tier 4 was 1375 (each student getting 5).
I told him the best was yet to come - each person - staff, faculty, board member and student could help a non profit, AND earn money themselves.
He said exactly what I said the first time I saw the income numbers..."I can't wrap my head around this.It seems too good to be true" I said, "Yes, I know!"
I preempted his next comment by saying "You may think it looks like a MLM, but it's not. There are no products to stock or sell, no meetings and no games."
I added at his point that my husband has been a State Trooper for 23 years. I am used to being very careful with what I associate with. We checked out everything before I even got involved, and I invited him to do the same. He seemed pleased with this. We got back to the numbers...
"So, on this level where I would have a WCM, where does that money go?"
"To you, that would be yours." Big silence.
I know it's a lot to take in so I just sat there and let him think.
He was thinking about how they could implement this at the school, because the next question was "I could very easily see us directing parents to use the gift cards to pay tuition, but how would they do it?"
"They would go their own WCM, buy the Amex gift cards, then go to the School site and pay the tuition online."
We logged onto the Buxton Food Pantry WCM at this point and I showed him around the One Child at a Time, the Local Merchant Mall, and then we went to the biz site. I showed him which video he should watch, and the "I want a World Changer Mall" button just below it. At this point I suggested that he talk with Brian, his counterpart from Cheverus, about how we could get a pilot program started right here in Maine, and offered my help at every point along the way. He agreed that we would meet again soon.
Russ, the Director of Institutional Advancement at St. Dom's HS is a great guy. He has a no nonsense exterior and looks like a marine so I was a little nervous. But it didn't last long. I started by telling him about myself and my family, and how I got involved with My PowerMall. We covered the details about TWCCTW, Ginny, and how schools and NPOs can create sustainable funding. I discussed the 3 sources of income, the WCM fees, rebates from the mall and the American Express gift cards. I handed him a printout of the income calculations for the school after each one. I used very conservative numbers. Tier 1 was the school, tier 2 was 50 staff, faculty and board members, tier 3 was 275 students and tier 4 was 1375 (each student getting 5).
I told him the best was yet to come - each person - staff, faculty, board member and student could help a non profit, AND earn money themselves.
He said exactly what I said the first time I saw the income numbers..."I can't wrap my head around this.It seems too good to be true" I said, "Yes, I know!"
I preempted his next comment by saying "You may think it looks like a MLM, but it's not. There are no products to stock or sell, no meetings and no games."
I added at his point that my husband has been a State Trooper for 23 years. I am used to being very careful with what I associate with. We checked out everything before I even got involved, and I invited him to do the same. He seemed pleased with this. We got back to the numbers...
"So, on this level where I would have a WCM, where does that money go?"
"To you, that would be yours." Big silence.
I know it's a lot to take in so I just sat there and let him think.
He was thinking about how they could implement this at the school, because the next question was "I could very easily see us directing parents to use the gift cards to pay tuition, but how would they do it?"
"They would go their own WCM, buy the Amex gift cards, then go to the School site and pay the tuition online."
We logged onto the Buxton Food Pantry WCM at this point and I showed him around the One Child at a Time, the Local Merchant Mall, and then we went to the biz site. I showed him which video he should watch, and the "I want a World Changer Mall" button just below it. At this point I suggested that he talk with Brian, his counterpart from Cheverus, about how we could get a pilot program started right here in Maine, and offered my help at every point along the way. He agreed that we would meet again soon.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
January 14
Today I spent some time on the website for the school I will be visiting tomorrow. I was looking for themes or phrases that recurred throughout the site - sort of like their lingo. Even though I hate sales, I learned many things in sales workshops. Since I can't personalize a mall for them, I can focus on familiar lingo. For this school, planned giving was big. Jacki confirmed on the morning call that the malls can be willed to future generations, or even schools and NPOs- another nice detail.
On the news today in Maine, the state economist gave his forecast for the coming year. Layoffs were projected in both government and retail sectors, and giving was going to be way down. Maine usually ranks pretty high nationally in the giving category, so this will hurt. I really like the concept in the NPO video of NPOs shoring each other up to weather tough times. Instead of fighting for every last dollar, that same dollar, spent on a World Changer Mall, will multiply.
On the news today in Maine, the state economist gave his forecast for the coming year. Layoffs were projected in both government and retail sectors, and giving was going to be way down. Maine usually ranks pretty high nationally in the giving category, so this will hurt. I really like the concept in the NPO video of NPOs shoring each other up to weather tough times. Instead of fighting for every last dollar, that same dollar, spent on a World Changer Mall, will multiply.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
January 13
I think the first domino is beginning to tip......
My meeting today with Brian at Cheverus went very well. He told me how their fundraising was moving away from being event based. Which led very nicely into my presentation.I showed him how changing shopping behavior just a little could produce unimaginable, sustainable income for the school. Then I explained how each student, staff and board member could also add a nonprofit to benefit. I talked about my vision for the school hosting a TWCCTW Day. He agreed that this fit like hand in glove with the school's motto of becoming a person in service to others.
And so, this will move along to the next level. The school will thoroughly check out the company. I offered to be at each and every meeting necessary. I am very encouraged by the movement forward, and understand that challenges still lay ahead.
I am in awe of how the puzzle pieces of my life are fitting together, as I mentioned in my previous blog. I imagine heaven to be a place where you can review your life like it's a movie and say "Oh!, that's why this happened!" We might get glimpses along the way as I am now, but I'll bet there are so many more times we set something in motion that we just have no idea of the impact.
My meeting today with Brian at Cheverus went very well. He told me how their fundraising was moving away from being event based. Which led very nicely into my presentation.I showed him how changing shopping behavior just a little could produce unimaginable, sustainable income for the school. Then I explained how each student, staff and board member could also add a nonprofit to benefit. I talked about my vision for the school hosting a TWCCTW Day. He agreed that this fit like hand in glove with the school's motto of becoming a person in service to others.
And so, this will move along to the next level. The school will thoroughly check out the company. I offered to be at each and every meeting necessary. I am very encouraged by the movement forward, and understand that challenges still lay ahead.
I am in awe of how the puzzle pieces of my life are fitting together, as I mentioned in my previous blog. I imagine heaven to be a place where you can review your life like it's a movie and say "Oh!, that's why this happened!" We might get glimpses along the way as I am now, but I'll bet there are so many more times we set something in motion that we just have no idea of the impact.
Monday, January 12, 2009
January 12
I'm ready for tomorrow! My meeting with the Director Institutional Advancement for Cheverus High School is at 9:30. I spent a few hours today going over the material in the back office training section, and printed out final copies of the income calculations. I created a Business Mall for them, and printed out the Welcome sheet with their websites, mall number and key code. After I give him the background on TWCCTW, Ginny and My PowerMall, I'll ask him to log onto the new mall. I learned a while ago at a sales training workshop to personalize the presentation as much as possible. It creates a sense of ownership. I really hope this is ok to do and know I'll hear soon if it isn't! :)
I figure, this way, I can show him around the key points of the mall and back office,including the income calculators.
He then can show the mall to the board and other faculty without commitment. When they're ready to move forward, it's just a simple upgrade to the free WCM.
I will reiterate throughout my presentation my commitment to helping every step of they way. I'll probably be on the 8pm call tomorrow, so I hope to have a positive update.
I am keeping Larry in my prayers. Ginny is right, this wonderful bootcamp has made him like family.
I figure, this way, I can show him around the key points of the mall and back office,including the income calculators.
He then can show the mall to the board and other faculty without commitment. When they're ready to move forward, it's just a simple upgrade to the free WCM.
I will reiterate throughout my presentation my commitment to helping every step of they way. I'll probably be on the 8pm call tomorrow, so I hope to have a positive update.
I am keeping Larry in my prayers. Ginny is right, this wonderful bootcamp has made him like family.
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