Little things are often what are missed the most. How would you clean your teeth for instance? Toothbrushes are made out of plastics. You would not even wake up in time in the morning. Have a look at your alarm-clock. How many parts made out of plastics does it have? Without plastics there would not be any means of transport. A huge number of parts for airplanes, cars, ships and trains are made out of plastics. But where do plastics come from?

The first synthetic plastic was made from the plant material cellulose. In 1869, John Wesley Hyatt, an American printer and inventor, found that cellulose nitrate could be used as an inexpensive substitute for ivory. The mixture could be plasticized with the addition of camphor. Celluloid, as this new material was called, became the only plastic of commercial importance for 30 years. It was used for eyeglass frames, combs, billiard balls, shirt collars, buttons, dentures, and photographic film. In 1951, two young research chemists for Phillips Petroleum Company in Bartlesville, made discoveries that revolutionized the plastics world. Today, the plastics they discoveredpolypropylene and polyethyleneare used to produce the vast majority of the thousands of plastics products all over the world. The raw material for plastics is petroleum.

The word plastic comes from the Greek word plastikos, meaning “able to be molded.” Plastics can be processed in many ways. The main process used to form plastics is called extrusion molding. A heated plastic compound is forced continuously through a forming die made in the desired shape (like squeezing toothpaste from a tube, it produces a long, usually narrow, continuous product). The formed plastic cools under blown air or in a water bath and hardens on a moving belt. Rods, tubes, pipes, and sheet and thin film (such as food wraps) are extruded then coiled or cut to desired lengths.

So far so good. Now close your eyes and immagine your every day life without plastics. What would you miss most? Your television, your cellular phone, your eyeglasses or would it be safety? Most kind of safety protections are made out of plastics.

When I started out selling in insurance, I never dreamed I would get to the level of income that I enjoy today. As in most professional sales careers, when you perfect your sales and prospecting techniques, your ability to earn a great living will follow. But, even then, you are still far from the peak of the mountain top in income potential.

In order to obtain income levels far beyond what most agents ever dream of, you must understand the power of leverage. “Leverage” is the way most MGA’s, IMO’s, FMO’s and NMO’s in the industry earn millions per year instead of thousands per year like most agents. With personal sales alone, there are only so many hours per week that are available to make sales. Not to mention the many other things that competes for your time like family, friends, church, leisure, etc. You create “Leverage” by maximizing your income opportunities through the efforts of others as well as your own. Only then can you free yourself from the limits you can earn from personal sales, because of your limited time available.

The traditional growth path for most agents who eventually become MGA’s, IMO’s, etc, has been to learn and perfect their sales and prospecting techniques over time, then take the next step to position themselves to earn additional income from teaching other newer agents what they have already learned. However, getting to the point of qualifying for an MGA or other marketing type contracts for multiple carriers can take years to accomplish. In addition, the start up overhead expenses and required resources can be very costly.

What if you had available to you right now a complete system that provides all the products, resources, training, compensation structure and opportunity to due exactly what I am talking about right now. Start creating Leverage today, even before you’ve perfected your own sales and prospecting, even though you do not have any MGA, IMO, FMO or NMO sales contracts.

The United Independent Wholesale Insurance Network has created a success system that provides an opportunity for savvy agents to not only survive, but thrive, in our very lucrative but demanding business.

I encourage you to fully examine this dynamic program and discover for yourself what other agents all around the country are calling “The Most Powerful Insurance Marketing System” ever designed.

Here are just a few of the reasons agents are joining the UandIWIN network around the country!
Retirement Security
Experienced agents know that renewal income alone will not provide a long term secure retirement. They understand that the only way to grow income year after year, even after retirement, is to create “Leverage”.
Ownership
You have full vesting rights from day one, meaning you own your block of business and renewals as well as your monthly bonus revenue from your down line sponsored agents. Leave the block of business and the distribution channel you build to your heirs!
Product Selection
UandIWIN has over 40 top featured Insurance Companies in their Portfolio. If you sell Health, Disability Income, Life, Annuity, LTC, Medicare Supplement or Medicare Advantage you will appreciate the product selection.
Sales and Product Training
Join in on as many of the weekly sales and product training webinars as your schedule allows. With the size of our product portfolio, there is always something new to learn.
Unique Bonus Program
Earn up to six different types of bonuses in addition to your personal sales commissions. Person Production Bonus, Personal Sales Volume Bonus, Quick Start Bonus, Organizational Volume Bonus, Structural Bonus and Breakaway Bonus!
Unique Opportunity
Immediately begin building a multi-state insurance sales organization through the use of Leverage. No costly multi-state license fees. Your sponsored agents don’t even have to be writing with the same company or products to receive volume credit!
Downline Development Program
Accelerates your agent sponsorships and the growth of your Quick Start, Organizational Volume and Structural Bonuses.
Business Building Tools
Comprehensive Website, UandIWIN Toolbar, Life and Health Quote Engines, Promotional DVD, Recruiting Brochure, Power Point and Flip chart Presentations, Sales, Recruiting, Coaching & Opportunity webinars, Downline Development Program and more.

For flight professionals and the general public alike, one of the most recognized parts of the airline industry is the strong union presence among its professionals. Major international and national airlines have been unionized for decades in order to protect flight professionals from excessive pay and benefit cuts meant to secure the bottom line. However, unions have been considered a mixed blessing by the media, the public, and airline executives. Striking flight attendants, pilots, and flight technicians sometimes hold up flights, drawing ire from customers. As well, airline executives by and large feel that unions ask too much from airlines when many companies are struggling to stay afloat financially. There are pros and cons to the union process for professionals, though it still benefits them to this day.

It is important to start with the negatives of unionization in the airline industry before speaking of its virtues. The decline of labor unions in the United States and North American countries has made the airline union appear like it is fighting a losing battle with public opinion. As well, the benefits of comradery amongst union members have been weakened by increasing competition for jobs in the airline industry. While the union advocates hard for workers and businesses have obliged in the past, many airline executives would rather concede optional health care plans and other benefits than give up the big paydays that unions often push for. Finally, the aforementioned problem of strikes among airline unions can often make flight professionals look selfish and unsympathetic.

However, the public should realize that unions have helped keep flights in the air for years by averting greater labor strife. Indeed, the airline unions are one of the last places in the American labor landscape where successful negotiations are still a common occurrence. Airline professional unions offer flight crews, pilots, and attendants an opportunity to develop relationships with colleagues in other companies while working toward competitive salaries. As well, companies and the public should look at how the union’s bargaining power not only benefits flight professionals but the overall business.

Unions are able to negotiate group health benefits for their members, which helps the company save on providing more expensive health options. The union-business relationship is not one sided and while unions push for higher wages, the compromise wages that are established in negotiations help keep experienced professionals in the industry. The unionization of airline workers benefits everyone involved but flight professionals need to be aware of these different pros and cons to gain a fuller picture.

Transportation of discarded mattresses to the mattress recycling facility is one of the largest cost centers of doing business and is quite complicated for a sole proprietor running the mattress recycling facility. That sole proprietor has his hands full focusing on recycling mattresses in his facility. In today’s business world these necessary but difficult and labor intensive tasks are often “outsourced.” While the United States policies which have resulted in millions of American jobs being sent off shore under the label of outsourcing has recently gained negative opinions – the work at home cottage industries have thrived for centuries.

Going back as far as the 1400s the putting-out system or the workshop system or the domestic system were manufacturing models where jobs were contracted by a single manufacturer to subcontractors who completed the work in their own facility, usually their own home.

This subcontracting served as a way for manufacturing entrepreneurs to have subcontractor workers work in their homes manufacturing individual articles that when finished were brought to the contractor’s central place of business, such as a marketplace or a factory in a larger town, to be assembled and sold as finished goods.

These cottage industries flourished in the European cloth production as well as in various other industries, including the manufacture of wrought iron ironware such as pins, pots, and pans. The the manufacturer frequently provided the raw materials to their subcontractors to process in their homes.

Then, as now, the cottage industry conducted in individual’s homes had a lot to do with people’s desire to work at home rather than in a centralized factory or other location. Normally, instead of mass produced products, these home based businesses focus on unique or distinctive products in niche markets where large manufacturers can not find an economy of scale. When economy of scale can be achieved, then the cottage industries face serious competitive disadvantages from large manufacturers.

Currently, workers – many of them women with children – desire to remain at home while concurrently satisfying their need to make money has rapidly expanded the Internet based cottage industries. Examples of successfully Internet spun cottage industries are the popular iPhone applications where programmers develop “apps” and then sell them to iPhone . eBay is a giant source for cottage industries with work at home individuals buying and selling collectibles and other goods and service on the eBay website. Even some small manufacturers and craftspeople use eBay as a central site for selling their finished goods and services. Work at home authors can write their ebooks in the comfort of their living room and then use the Internet to market their products on websites such as Amazon. These authors may well do their background research at home or at their local library instead of at a centralized office.

In the 1400’s, the cottage industry served as a means for entrepreneurs to bypass the cumbersome and inflexible guild system. Today’s motivation may well be that there are simply no traditional jobs to be found that pay well enough to support the worker’s family or the worker wants to avoid the stresses of corporate jobs by working at their own speed and on their own schedule. For Mothers wanting to avoid the perils of daycare, their motivation is that they can work at home while watching their own children.

The European domestic system is often credited as being a source of the large amount of profits enjoyed by common people which made them less dependent on wealthy land barons. This increase in wages also led to a much wealthier peasantry with more personal belongings, with higher quality food to eat, with more fashionable clothing and with a better education than they had enjoyed prior to entering into cottage industries.

The cottage industry model has worked very well in the past and is definitely working well on Internet related businesses today. Could it also work today as a way to resolve the mattress recycler’s headache of getting unwanted mattresses out of homes and into the mattress recycling facility? Has economy of scale already been reached by the curbside trash haulers?

Every area is different, but the visual key to initially evaluating how well the curbside trash haulers are doing with mattress pickup and disposal – is noticing how many discarded mattresses lie on the roadsides. If there are none, someone has already figured out and implemented a working mattress pickup and disposal process. If you see mattresses everywhere along the roadsides, opportunity for a cottage industry mattress pickup system exists. Like moving furniture, two men and a truck might be all that is needed to implement a mattress pickup and disposal cottage industry.

If you Google “Junk Haulers” you will quickly see that the mattress pickup cottage industry has already been implemented by a host of junk hauling companies helping individual homeowners unclutter their residences by coming to their homes and removing – among other things – unwanted mattresses, box springs and stuffed furniture. These cottage industry people do a wonderful job of assisting home owners and getting mattresses off their premises. What is missing in the majority of cities is the mattress recycling facility where these current day entrepreneurs can deliver the mattresses, box springs and stuffed furniture for recycling. Thus today, cottage industry people with strong backs and a truck or trailer are indeed able to pickup mattresses from home owners and haul them off to the landfill.

So, the real question is where are the mattress recyclers?

VitaLife Networks a Florida based nutritional network marketing company, with independent marketers in all 50 states, joins with The Trump Network (TTN) . VitaLife members currently market a full line of nutritional products; making them ideal candidates to market The Trump Networks unique line of wellness based products and services.

We studied our product mix and our marketplace, our business opportunity and compensation, and especially the systems needed; not only to attract new marketers, but also the systems required to develop the individual and give them the best opportunity to be successful. Once we identified what we needed, it became obvious that there was one company, and only one, that already had the values, systems and sustainable infrastructure in placeThe Trump Network.

The Trump Network was a perfect match for VitaLife.

VitaLife is passionate about the Wellness Revolution and has provided and marketed high quality nutritional products since its inception. By transitioning to The Trump Network, the VitaLife Marketers will be equipped with the very best products, training, tools, and systems the industry has to offer.

Barry and Luronda Joye, the Leaders of the VitaLife Marketing Community are excited, confident, and ready to build. “All the things it takes to create a sustainable and profitable business converge here and we are grateful and thrilled to take advantage of The Trump Network’s incredible programs.”

1.TTNs Custom Essentials(R) delivers personalized nutritional supplementation based on the individuals biochemistryproviding a competitive edge.
2.TTNs Silhouette Solution(R) provides access to the lucrative $50 billion weight loss industry.
3.TTNs compensation system provides aggressive short term income and long term wealth building.
4.TTNs systems and technology provides the framework and support to grow and maintain the business, and provide personal development for its members.

The Trump Name provides instant recognition and credibility which allows our members to recruit much faster and maintain much longer.
We looked at everything in our market when choosing the best fit for our community, says Jim Fulford. We came to the same conclusion that Trump did when he selected Ideal Health to become The Trump Network.

They have the right product mix, are in the right markets, and have an entrepreneurial leadership team committed to building a multi-billion dollar company. And now with The Trump Network name, we believe they are perfectly poised to dominate the industry. Everyone at VitaLife is excited about this new opportunity. Our team will play an integral role as we build a bright future at The Trump Network.

We are thrilled to have the members of VitaLife join The Trump Network team. We work hard to provide the products, training, and support needed to help our Marketers compete in the marketplace. We look forward to helping each member of VitaLife get off to a fast start, said Lou DeCaprio, President, The Trump Network. We believe in the VitaLife corporate leadership team and I look forward to meeting the rest of the Vitalife members during our many conference calls and as I travel the country to share The Trump Network story.

The VitaLife team is now operating as Trump Marketers as the Diamond Success Partners Team. To learn more about the Diamond Success Partners team, visit www.dsptn.com.