August 27th, 2001
Greetings Shannon Hewitson
Regulatory Affairs Officer
Excel Canada
1.905.804. 3151
(carbon copied to SDI Entrepreneurs in the Excel Network)
(I am inviting anyone who has Kenny Troutt's and Vince Widger's email addresses to forward
this to each of them and to anyone else you wish....)
I am responding to your telephone call earlier this afternoon wherein you were
expressing grave concern about me using the word "pyramid" in
the "advertisement" entitled: "The NoUsury Revolution." www.cyberclass.net/revolution.htm
I first explained that "The NoUsury Revolution" was an article and not an
"advertisement."
I explained that I am not personally registered as an Independent Excel Representative, BUT rather I am freely sharing referrals with friends and associates who are registered as Independent Excel Representatives as I actively encourage consumers to change their shopping habits away from corporate monopolies to home-based businesses and local community entrepreneurs.
In our brief telephone conversation today, I further explained that I have been participating in the SDI (Self Directed Income) industry (otherwise known as Multi-level marketing, Network Marketing, Referral Marketing and/or Affiliate Marketing) for 22 years and that I have been actively promoting this industry since 1979. You wanted to know which Excel Network of people I was supporting and I explained that the Excel leaders that I was proud to know were: Carlos Rey, Frank Varon, Sergio Papadopoulos and Nathan Goldberg. You further explained that you would be communicating with Frank Varon to follow up from our telephone conversation.
I will now respond in more detail and offer some observations on the whole scenario involving the word "pyramid," the Excel opportunity and the SDI industry and invite some further typed discussion and/or real-time debate on the issues that I will now address. For background information about the SDI industry you are invited to visit The SDI Cyberclassroom at these URLs: www.cyberclass.net/sdilessons.htm, www.cyberclass.net/sdihallmarks.htm & www.cyberclass.net/sdianalysis.htm
The SDI (Self Directed Income) industry of which Excel is a part happens to be a legitimate and honourable business opportunity in Canada. The federal government and the giant corporations whose CEO's form the "usury" elite which have been controlling society for much too long have been seeking to defame and badmouth the SDI industry for as long as I've been alive - that's 52 years. The "usury" elite do not like the SDI industry because it permits the common citizens to earn some money and break away from the yoke of "usury" that was designed to keep us in bondage for our entire lives.
It's time for we the individual SDI entrepreneurs in co-operation with the corporate SDI companies to STOP cowering and hiding in fear of the federal government or anyone else from the "usury" elite. I have always advocated telling the "truth" and let the chips fall where they may. I'll stand on "truth" any day!!!
Your concern about the word "pyramid" is unnecessary. As Excel's Regulatory Affairs Officer you ought not be so concerned about someone - me - "Tommy-No: Usury" who is telling the "truth" - that indeed the shape of any marketing organization in the SDI industry (including Excel) is that of a "pyramid." No one from Excel's Corporate team nor should any Independent Excel Representative to be afraid of the word "pyramid" for every orthodox business and institutional structure is built with a pyramid shape. The pyramid shape common to the SDI infrastructure is different and much superior to the traditional pyramid shapes of corporations and institutions.
I have been active in the SDI industry since March 29th, 1979 when I signed an Amway application form. I want it to be clear to you that for 22 years I have been participating in this industry and in fact it is the most honourable marketing industry of the 21st Century to be involved with. I am a proud professional in the SDI (Self Directed Income) industry just as you are a proud professional in the legal industry.
My research about "pyramid structured" banking has been intensive indeed and
when I talk about exposing "usury" as a design flaw in the banking system I can
direct you to the research to back up my claim should you or anyone from Excels' corporate
team ever be interested. Also understand that when I criticize the banking
industry for its taking of "usury," I am criticizing the world banking
elite who know exactly that their "usurious" banking policies have a
direct impact on the 40,000 babies and youth that die every day on planet earth
because of "scarcity and lack." This is a whole other area of research and I do
not wish to go there right now. But do keep in mind that it is this same "usury"
elite which made the laws about "pyramids" in the direct marketing industry -
which you seem to fear so very much.
Let me clarify the "pyramid structure" of the banking system as I understand it
to be. You have the CEO at the top who earns a pile of money. Then you have the Regional
Directors, (please correct me if my titles are incorrect) and Regional Managers,
Branch Managers and clerks and finally customers. As you come down the
pyramid people earn less money and as you go up the pyramid there is diminishing job
opportunity. I experienced a similar "pyramid structure" in the educational
system for 34 years. There is the director (who is paid a pile of money),
then superintendents, then consultants, then principals, vice-principals, teachers and
finally students.
Likewise, in the traditional educational pyramid people earn less money as you come down
the pyramid and there is diminishing job opportunity as you climb the pyramid. I
never witnessed a Director of Education reach out to help a teacher and I daresay that you
have never seen the CEO of TD Bank reach out to help a clerk. BUT in the SDI industry you
will witness people like Carlos Rey and Frank Varon and Sergio Papadopoulos and Nathan
Goldberg reach out to help the new recruits.
One more observation about climbing the educational pyramid. I observed plenty of jealously, and back-stabbing and fear among those who were scrambling to climb the pyramid. I got to watch it all for 34 years as I never had any inclination to climb the educational pyramid.
My research about the SDI industry proves my claim that it is a "worthy pyramid selling venture." I proudly admit that the SDI industry of which Excel is a part is based on a pyramid structure. In the pyramid structure of the SDI industry "the uniting of efforts multiplies the benefits." Let me explain further:
Traditionally, CEO's, Department Heads, Sales Managers, Directors of Education etc. who
are positioned at or near the top of their respective pyramids in the retail industry
and/or in traditional institutions earn their profits from the work of dedicated and loyal
people who are positioned at various levels below them. Since these people are
strategically positioned at or near the top of a particular pyramid with diminishing
opportunity they are unlikely to reach out and help those at the lower levels whose
dedication and hard work is directly related to their receiving high salaries. In fact,
people often reach their level of incompetence and then defend their right to be
there.
Within the relatively new SDI industry, each new recruit is positioned at the
top of their own respective pyramid and each person must reach out and help their new
recruits make sales (retail and/or wholesale) before they earn their commissions and
expand their pyramidal structure. The action of reaching out to help others demands that
one first nourish personal growth from within.
The uniqueness of the SDI industry is the manner in which the
"uniting of efforts multiplies the benefits." Unlike traditional pyramidal
structures, where there is little or no opportunity for others to move up the pyramid, the
SDI industry permits every new recruit the same opportunity to become Manager of his/her
own pyramid-shaped structure. While doing so s/he acquires leadership skills by learning
how to "unite the efforts of others and thereby multiplying the benefits for
all."
In the SDI industry, a motivated new recruit can often earn more income that the person
who sponsored him/her. No traditional "pyramid structure" permits a new person
at the fringe to earn more money that the person at the top of the pyramid. After
experiencing the SDI industry for 22 years I can honestly say that those operating within
traditional "pyramid structures" could learn a few good strategies from leaders
in the SDI industry.
During the month of July 2001, myself
and Neil Anderson - a re-directed government employee from Ottawa who has 30 years
(part-time) experience in the SDI industry - worked on a report about the SDI
industry so that we could present some information to teach people the truth
about this fastest growing sector of local and global marketing. We finished our report on
July 30th and I released it at the conference where I was a guest speaker in Salmon Arm,
BC. on August 5th, 2001. The paper is entitled: "Analysis,
Projections, Observations & Proposals For The SDI Industry" and
it is now posted at this URL: www.cyberclass.net/sdianalysis.htm
In the meantime, I have seen Excel moving along very well since coming to Canada in
January 1999. Since the early Spring of 2001, I have been finding Excel long distance
customers for various friends and associates who are Independent Excel Representatives.
These people voluntarily "gift" me with "usury-free" community
currency www.cyberclass.net/letsbuild.htm for
my referrals. Many of the Excel long distance customers that I am finding are
from friends and associates in the "Untax/Detax/Refusetax/Anti-tax" Movement. www.cyberclass.net/untax.htm
It is interesting to note that the SDI industry permits our up and coming youth generation to work with an intermediary long distance company like Excel (instead of supporting the corporate giant of the "usury" elite - Bell Canada) and earn perfectly legitimate bonuses and commissions within a reasonable marketing structure to fund their education (or otherwise) by simply sharing information about competitive and quality long distance services. I have been encouraging the youth (and otherwise) to transfer their long distance service to Excel.
I do plenty to promote Excel and yet I get a telephone call on August 27th, 2001 from Shannon Hewitt expressing grave concern about the word "pyramid" in an article at the website known as The Cyberclass Network www.cyberclass.net and threatening that I could be terminated by Excel if I do not comply!! How ironic!!
I explained that I am not an Independent Excel Representative myself. Instead, I have elected to forward my referrals to friends and associates who are Independent Excel Representatives. I also explained why. During the past 22 years I have witnessed too many friends and associates be ruthlessly terminated by company "A" because they choose to add company "B" to their SDI Portfolio. After reading the "Conflict of Interest" paragraph from the Policies and Procedures page 12.1.8 of Excel's Training Manual I decided not to risk termination from Excel because I openly advocate building an SDI Portfolio. Details about the concept of a PEP (Permanent Earnings Portfolio) or an SDI (Self Directed Income) Portfolio at these URLs. www.cyberclass.net/sdiport.htm & www.cyberclass.net/pep1.htm
Instead of becoming an Independent Excel Representative, I elected to promote and advocate the Excel SDI opportunity on my website and at meetings within the "Untax/Detax/Refusetax/Anti-tax" Movement and forward any referrals to friends and associates whom I choose to support. For example, I recently was a guest speaker at the 4th Annual Festival of the Ages at Salmon Arm, British Columbia on August 5th, 2001 where I spoke to the attendees about changing their shopping habits. I explained that the easiest habit to change was the purchase of long distance service. Of course, I advocated Excel long distance service as the optimal alternative. After people change their long distance shopping habit and they know that by so doing they are supporting home-based businesses they are encouraged to change other shopping habits and buy more and more products from home-based businesses. I often receive emails such as the one posted below.
-----Original Message-----
From: J & J <xxx@telusplanet.net>
To: Tom J. Kennedy <tom@cyberclass.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: Greetings and a sincere thank you !!
Hi,
Thanks, we enjoyed your presentation. We definitely want to transfer our long distance phone service over to Excel. It would be a good feeling to know that paying our bill is helping your mission to share the truth about the various topics that you talked about. Our current service is TELUS "Your Way Unlimited" for (403) XXX-XXXX. Look forward to talking to you (or email the form - what ever is easier for you). Let us know when we should contact Telus to cancel the long distance service; or if it happens automatically when we switch.
All the best.
J.
Nuff' typed for now. I welcome feedback from Shannon Hewitson and from other Excel Corporate leadership as well as from the Independent Excel Representatives who are participants in the SDI industry.
Enjoy this day!!
Working with you for "peace and plenty" by 2020
I AM
Tom-Joseph: Kennedy otherwise known as "Tommy-No: Usury"
www.cyberclass.net
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www.cyberclass.net/nousury.htm
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www.communityzero.com/usuryfree