Lifeis Succsess Story - the Beginning

Corporate policy of our company envisions one very important attribute: we Do care about people and we strive to help them in life. With this post, we are starting a series where we will share with our readers the life stories of our members. Indeed, what is better than to learn of someone’s experience how to become successful in life?

Here is a magnificent example of a young Indian man who found himself in Direct Selling business. His name is Mr. Imran Gove. And just a few years ago the inhabitants of Belgaum may have seen him patrolling the street. Coming from the family of Head Constable, Mr. Imran’s future was pre-determined: police training courses and spending his entire life as a constable, performing all usual odd jobs of a city cop. However, this was not the case. Being young and full of aspirations, he soon was strained with his everyday routine of a C-class employee. As every young man, he was thinking about better life, just to put it is plain straight words – to become rich! Quite naturally, Mr. Imran was looking around for any opportunities, which were right in front of him – personified in a friend, who introduced to him Direct Selling and MLM. Being curious in nature, he studied the subject and decided – this is a chance! Indeed, that type of business ideally suits young man who has limited cash reserves, but strong will, mind power and desire to obtain new skills.

Against the wish of his father, with many colleagues openly disapproving, Mr. Imran started his journey into new life. He took his leave and challenged his police friends: in three months, he will come to their office on a brand new FORD car. (In fact, he confesses, that this was something like a one-minute mind glitch – but there was no way back). Mr. Imran joins an established Indian MLM company and starts his quest, working hard and laboriously. And guess what: in three months he comes to his friends on a diamond white 8-lakh FORD FIESTA with a chauffeured driver!!! That was a total shock and awe – his life dream and first vehicle in life – in front of envious colleagues. These colleagues were not totally supportive: this is a one-time luck and in a couple of months, you will come back, penniless as usual!!! Nevertheless, the crucial decision was made, and Mr. Imran formally left the police. Leaving his colleagues, he promised: wait for some time… One small detail: when he was chauffeured in FORD car to the police officers’ Guest House (the place that he frequently guarded, as a plain constable), his roommate that did not recognize him saluted. No one can disagree that such small event boosts the ego and drives enthusiasm… And this enthusiasm paid well. Over two years Mr. Imran made good money – it would take 39 years of hard work at his previous job to make this! This tremendously improved his life quality and drastically changed the lifestyle. His father, despite two years still left in the Government service, had resigned and now lives a happy life, driving FORD! Work in Direct Selling business allowed Mr. Imran just in one week to earn the money that he would have in his previous life after one year of diligent service. Of course, new business was not very easy, but here - having an ultimate goal, patience and determination – unquestionably opens the road to success.

In January 2009 Mr. Imran left the MLM company that he was working in: there were too many questionable issues: it was clear that the company was short-lived, it had no future plans, no stability, and what was unbearable: bad attitude to its members, the attitude that was on the edge of hostility. For quite a while, Mr. Imran was looking for other opportunity – till the time he joined Lifeis.

As we meet at our office, Mr. Imran points: “Lifeis – is strong fantasy of people – this company has brought back my dream. Besides a great concept of a business, affordable to every person, Lifeis assembled a powerful management team, an impressive Advisory Board, and worked out sound customer relationship procedures. I analyzed all techniques offered, and I realize that we have an excellent opportunity to achieve good income without losing any penny. And what I like most: we are always welcome – there is a special friendly environment at the office, Lifeis employees always find time to listen to us, answer our questions, e-mails and just simply talk.”

We at Lifeis are really amazed with the business acumen of Mr. Imran – as the Team Head he has assembled a small but quality set of people.

Although it is about one month since Mr. Imran joined Lifeis, he is now on a decent way to success. As the proof of it – here is a short picture report of the recent Business Opportunity Presentation (BOP) that was held in Hubli. By the way it was conducted in Kannada – the language of 65% of the locals.

About 150 network leaders of Mr. Imran’s team were present. Director of Sales, Mr. S.P.Kumar explained the peculiarities of our work, stressing the re-purchase details and money management.

The first part was conducted in the hall, and the second – in the open air.
Here the people felt relaxed and very free and Mr. Santosh Thakur, Head-Training & Development, explained the secrets of team building.

We, at Lifeis are wishing Mr. Imran Gove to achieve his goal: to make his “Life Leadership” Team the top one in Lifeis, bring maximum sales – and we are quite sure that this will happen very soon.

LIFEIS: We Are the World… We Are the Children…

Like every respectable company, LIFEIS is committed to the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs; being a new entity, we are still defining the most applicable to our business and capabilities opportunities. We Are the World… We Are the Children… - this lyrics from the popular song touches every heart – and ours too…

We have reported in our earlier post on initiation of long-standing relationship with Indira Gandhi International Academy in Bangalore. It was very tough to leave these charming children, and many of us (though we declared this officially) decided to come back. And, true to our promise, we did came back!

It was last Sunday when LIFEIS made its first official visit – the visit that was meticulously prepared and planned. It coincided with the Independence Day – and this is very momentous – Independent India makes a lot to help its less fortunate neighbors to overcome their problems. Indira Gandhi International Academy is a vivid example of this. LIFEIS is very proud of this opportunity to show its involvement in international relief effort.

Ravi Puri, LIFEIS Chief Executive Officer addressed the children: “LIFEIS, as to its nature, is the company with heart, and this heart is very sensitive to the needs and status of people. In our business, we are dealing everyday with grown-ups, but we always bear in mind that the man is always formed at his childhood – if being a child, he is confronted with the people who care, than the chances are high that all his life he will be caring, compassionate and attentive to other people. Thus, LIFEIS has a distinctive intention is not just to help once and forget them, but it is to teach and make them capable of helping others.” These words were applauded by all present, as Mr. Puri affirmed LIFEIS’ intention to frequently visit the Academy and try to help overcome its current hurdles of food. And not food only… At the time of our last visit, we noticed that many of the classrooms and halls would use some improved ventilation – so as the first commitment LIFEIS donated 32 fans, which were with gratitude accepted.

LIFEIS flags were popular as well as our theme song…
We also spent some time singing and dancing with children, watching their dance and song performances.
At the end of our visit we distributed chocolates and stationary.

We were happy to leave, for we noticed that our interaction with these deprived children brought some smiles to their faces – “keep a smile on your face, it’s so nice to be happy”

Advisory Board Members Share their Views in Lifeis BOP

Since the start of our pre-launch operation, the management and all employees of LIFEIS are actively involved in Business Opportunity Presentations (BOPs) that are, in general, conducted all over the Southern part of India. We have previously reported on some of them. While the members of our Team are doing their best in Yawatmal, Vardha and Davanagere, here we would like to report in detail on the event in Bangalore on this past Sunday.

This BOP was rather unusual; for it was the first time, we have invited some of the distinguished members of our Advisory Board: His Excellency Mr. Korn Dabbaransi, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Thailand; Shri M.V. Rajasekharan, Former Minister of Planning, Govt. of India and Dr. Anil K Khandelwal, Former Chairman, Bank of Baroda. In our view these people represent the cluster of knowledge in business and politics and well know the needs and desires of common people.

His Excellency Mr Korn Dabbaransi, is one of the most respected Politician of Thailand. Starting his political career in 1974 Mr Dabbaransi held various cabinet positions in Thai Government such as Minister of Industry, Minister of Energy, Minister of Public Health, Minister of Science and Technology and Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand. During his tenure as Minister of Industry Mr. Dabbaransi signed the first Free Trade Agreement between India and Thailand.

Shri. M.V. Rajasekharan is a former Member of Parliament and former Minister of State for Planning, Government for India serving directly under the advice and guidance of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. He is currently Member of the Upper House of the Karnataka State Legislature. In this capacity as a Member of the State Legislature, he is trying to serve the people of Karnataka, specially, the poor and the disadvantaged, with dedication and commitment to find solutions to their problems.

Dr. Anil Khandelwal, currently the Chairman, Baroda Pioneer Asset Management Company Limited, (a Joint Venture promoted by Pioneer Investments, Italy and Bank of Baroda), has been the Chairman and Managing Director of two Public Sector Banks viz Dena Bank and Bank of Baroda. His pioneering and innovative efforts in turning around Bank of Baroda earned him several awards, including the Asian Banker Lifetime Achievement Award for lifetime achievement in Financial Services by Asian Banker, which is the highest Award in the Banking industry in the Asia-Pacific and Gulf Region today and he is the first Indian to receive the award.

The event commenced with a lamp-lighting ceremony by our Guests of Honors. His Excellency Mr. Korn Dabbaransi, Shri MV Rajasekharan and Dr. Anil Khandweldal shared their valuable thoughts on their association with the company and the future of this direct selling business in India. The speeches were truly inspiring for our more than 400 people who attended this event. It was followed by a detailed presentation made by the core team on the company, its product offerings and the Lifeis Hybrid DSA Compensation Plan.

We are planning more meetings of our valued customers with members of our Advisory Board – both within the scheduled BOPs and separately.

More Quality People on Board: Mr. Cornelis M. Keur

In our previous post we discussed the importance of the Advisory board for implementing corporate strategy of the company. We are working hard getting ready for the launch, and as such, our top Management interacts with distinguished public and businesspersons. Our focus now is to roll out effective operations in India, and we are very pleased that we have a new member of our Advisory Board -  Mr. Cornelis M. Keur.

It has been just some days that Mr. Keur has retired from the post of the Consul General of USA, Hyderabad. He is well known in the political world – Mr. Keur’s US Foreign Service career spans for 32 years (presently holds the Foreign Service Officer rank of Minister-Counselor). Prior to Hyderabad, he served most recently as the Senior State Department Adviser and Deputy Commandant for International Affairs of the Air Force campus of the National Defense University.  Most of his years with the Department of State were spent on various assignments in Asia, having served in India, China (3 tours), Japan, Thailand, Burma as well as Suriname and Yemen.  Hyderabad was Mr. Keur's second posting as a Consul General; he previously served four years as Consul General for Southwest China posted in Chengdu.  Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, served in Peace Corps Thailand and worked for an NGO in Laos. He has attended Trombly Trade School, the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and National Defense University. Mr. Keur was born in the Netherlands and raised in Detroit.  Mr. Keur speaks Chinese,Thai, Lao, and Dutch.

As you see, Mr. Keur’s  experience is of an enormous value to Lifeis, especially as it comes to getting advice on international operations; however, we all know that he  has a deep understanding of India and Indian people. While being based in Hyderabad, Mr. Keur showed a keen interest in everyday life and to a great extent facilitated business of multi-national companies in this Indian state. His open manner was high appreciated – just like this photo:

Helping around Consul General of U.S. Consulate Cornelis M. Keur chats up Ali and his family at the Paradise Hotel

We at Lifeis warmly welcome Mr. Keur and are looking forward to our joint communication and collaboration.

Lifeis salutes James With

In everyday business of any company we are often faced with new tasks and ideas that sometimes are outside everyday mission and routine business. Consequently, international practice has accepted a special vehicle for this – Advisory Board. Usually this is a group of individuals who bring unique knowledge and skills which complement the know-how and skills of the formal Board of Directors members. In fact,  Advisory Board, does not have formal authority to govern the organization, that is, the advisory cannot issue directives which must be followed. Instead, it makes recommendations and provides key information and materials that help to make decisions and conduct business in a better way.

We, at Lifeis, are well aware of major issues and challenges that are facing our business, so we have established an informal Advisory Board. The role of the Advisory Board is to be available to assist our management with general business and strategic planning advice upon request from time-to time. We are getting support on a wide range of issues that are relevant to Lifeis: sales, marketing, corporate partnerships, financing, technology, administration, industry trends, politics, international matters and more. The list of Board members is presented on our Web-site - most of them are well-known personalities and leaders in respective industries.

 This week we have a new member – the one who is well known to many movie-lovers all over the world:

James With – an Australian actor and businessman. Since graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in Perth, Australia, and having undertaken further studies at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney, James has acted in many diverse parts, as he has worked his way up to stardom. He was in "The Phantom" with Billy Zane and Catherine Zeta Jones, seen playing a British Fighter Pilot trying to save mankind in "Independence Day" with Will Smith, Sylvester Stallone has blown his preacher character to bits in the latest "Rambo", and Nicholas Cage scopes him out in "Bangkok Dangerous". James has lived for various lengths of time in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and the United States.

 

Mr. With continues to put his diverse wealth of life’s experience into his work as a producer and entertainment specialist. James has worked in the fields of investment banking and finance for international banks and investment firms, having also worked as a licensed securities dealer and financial investment advisor. James has cultivated a strong interest in structuring financial products for entertainment and the arts and continues to strive to build long term structured financing opportunities for international

investors in Asian and international productions and co-productions.

Mr. With is currently developing a number of feature film projects through his flagship company TRI-US ENTERTAINMENT. Production facilities and locations are predominantly in Thailand and India. Through EXPLORE MEDIA GROUP the focus is on adding content to his extensive media library of his own specialized documentary programming, delivered in HD and 3D. TRI-US ENTERTAINMENT's new representative offices in Bangalore, India is currently focused on developing new HD and 3D content for the Indian market.

We do hope that our collaboration with Mr. James With will help us to work more productively and efficiently, considering his vast practice in business and finance.

Jump from Empty Nest to Lifeis Friends' Circle

July is in its full swing and the usual time for young people to look for new life. Today I noticed in the Sunday “Times of India” a brief article that tackles the popular issue of family-life Empty Nest – how do the parents feel and what they should do when their offsprings leave home for better – “It’s empty nest times as children fly out”.  There is also a box with a short number of suggestions how to make patents’ life more vivid and brighter. Googling this theme shows that this problem is very acute for Indian families. So, we think that we may add a new item to these suggestions: Join Lifeis Family. Indeed, you would feel that you have found the whole bunch of friends and colleagues; and more: a respectable opportunity to make money. To make this happen, we are conducting Business Opportunity Presentations (BOPs) right near the places where you live.

On July 8 in the beautiful historic city of Pune one of the planned BOPs took place – and we may note – that was a success. In view of pre-launch activities, we received a great response from people of Pune; these were also joined by Leaders from Sangli, Kolhapur, Nashik and Mumbai. We had some quality leaders attending this session who have groups of 10,000 to 1,00,000 people in their existing network and the good news is that they all are part of us now.

The audience (and there was more than 200 people) asked a lot of questions and we were pleased to inform them in details on Lifeis’  background; day to day products with quality and pricing being the main focus; ISO certification; application to IDSA; and the volume and scope of ground work done before actual launch. It is our pleasure to note that 110 of the attendees joined our Family.  In this BOP we had demonstrated actual product (two packs of shirts, T-Shirts, bed sheets and suit piece). People were invited on the stage after the event to see the products displayed. Overall, it was a great event and enough for the Puneites to know that WE HAVE ARRIVED.
The next planned BOPs are:

1. Bhadravathi
   Date: 11 July 2010
   Venue: Hotel Padma Nilaya, BH Road, Bhadravathi
   Time: 5 pm
   RSVP: Mr. Danny (+919886783415)
2. Hubli
   Date: 12 July 2010
   Venue: Krishna Bhavan, Opp Corporation Office, Hubli
   Time: 6 pm
   RSVP: Dr Dhayasheel (+919449577730)

Welcome to join us!!!

Lifeis Style - Targeted for International Success

Did you ever meet with the people who are committed to their job to the extent that they ‘burn’ themselves at the office? I did – these are the ones that work in the Lifeis team… Having a dedicated team work is an essential pre-requisite for success. In my Blog posts I would introduce the Lifeis team associates – I feel that will make understanding our business better.

This time I am starting with the core input to Lifeis – Lifeis Style. One of the major idea generators at our team is Mr. Ravi Rajgopal, Head, Product Procurement and Sourcing. As you can see from his short CV, he is one of the top experts in the apparel and textile industry in the world. His proven business characteristics include imagination and creative talent; excellent time management skills and a capacity for hard work and long hours; perseverance and the ability to sell ideas to others; deep knowledge of  new materials, trims and manufacturers' practices. And yes, you can get this feeling of interaction with qualified professional the moment you step into his office. I met him the other day, just in time to see the first arrival of the batch of men’s shirts:

Mr. Ravi started explaining his life philosophy, which is actually one of the most fascinating business ideas that I have heard. “Lifeis Organic” concept relates to the notion that everyone is thinking about – how make the life healthier. “You are entitled to organic life” – says Mr. Ravi, -  that means that the present consumer world should and need to change, stop using all chemicals, dyes, additives that in reality affect your health, and in the end your life length. Ironically, the spiral development of society goes back to nature, trying to get rid of all substitutes that were developed in the last years. Initially, “Lifeis Organic” focuses on three areas: Apparel and Textiles; Food Products and Cosmetics. The pre-launch phase envisions now the first ones, i.e. Apparels and Textiles.

 It takes a very hard job to find, evaluate and pick up the right stuff for the raw material. All consumers are well aware of the shirts, innerwear and linen that become useless after 2 or 3 washes. The colors are fading,  fabrics are peeling, and generally speaking they tend to disintegrate.

“I was stunned by the shoddy quality of the shirts now being sold as compared to two years ago. The fabric used in the shirt is very cheap, and the buttons feel loose and sloppy.” – this is the testimony of the customer at JC Penny. And this what Lifeis desires to avoid.

Thus, Mr. Ravi spends a lot of his time on the go, sourcing raw materials, finding appropriate vendors and testing selected fabrics.

Read more in our Corporate Web-site Blog Here

Lifeis In the Market

 Lifeis is currently at the pre-launch stage and at this time it is vital for our partners and customers to clearly understand the essence of our business and position it among other peers in Indian direct sales industry. It is developing at the fast pace, despite the crisis, and those interested may read this Direct Selling in India report that shows the annual industry growth of 17%. According to the data of Indian Direct Selling Association (IDSA) the legitimate direct selling industry in India is clamoring for differentiation between them and (fraudulent) pyramid/money circulation schemes. Thus, we would like in our Blog to give some direction as to distinguish Lifeis as a rightful company. We have prepared a simple comparison table that makes this task easier:

Lifeis aims to become a world-known brand by creating waves with our superb and revolutionary line of products. This is augmented by a team of high quality and motivated experts. Thus one of the first crucial characteristics of Lifeis is the existence of several lines of legitimate products that have true end users.

This is our initial line that is going to expand and diversify as the time goes by. And, as opposed to  some of our peers, we are convinced that all our lines will have demand outside our network – in fact our initial presentations to the public corroborate this.

Another important feature of Lifeis – we do not plan, promote, encourage or persuade massive product sales, nor we oblige our network partners to make big inventories.....
Read more in our Web-site Bog here

Wind of Change - a Breeze from Lifeis

 The world is experiencing a mega growth of Direct Sales Industry. Although it is fairly old, with the roots  going to the Biblical Times, the modern society has brought to it new approaches. It has a lot of names: network marketing, multilevel marketing, party plan marketing, one-to-one marketing – but essentially involves one thing: establishing the relationship between the salesperson and the customer; this relationship culminating in purchase of the product or service. The Internet is overloaded with information: just try to Google these words, and you’ll get 44+ million references.

So why we are here? What fresh and different we may bring to proficient Internet audience?

Do you dare to change your life?

Are you thinking on these long sleepless nights of all hard work and drudgery that you are experiencing for the last years, waiting for vacations that would  take you away from accustomed realities? Yes, yes… and you envy your friends (neighbors or relatives) who took the challenge and went to some overseas places… “This is not for me” – that's what you think about. Age does not matter, we all have one thing in common – we cannot cut the ropes that strap us with reality – at least with one decisive move!

“Wind of changes! Yes, it is around, but somehow it avoids me!” – that is the reflection that strikes our mind way too often. So, why not to (at least) listen to this concept of MLM – the one that Lifeis is suggesting for you? And you will definitely find the option for change…

We start this Blog at the time when our Company is at the pre-launch stage and all our team is vigorously working on business development. Our initial public contacts show that our business model is favorably accepted, so our task is to execute it in the most effective and appealing way. As part of Lifeis business strategy we envision to maintain this Blog as the most effective (as we assume) means of communicating with our clients and audience. As we initially concentrate Lifeis activities on India, we plan to structure the content in the way that most of the people may comprehend what we say – thus we will have summaries in their native languages.  We shall look into MLM market in India, we shall explain what our plans and actions are in detail, we shall meet our customers and relay their stories… Thus the Blog will augment the main content of our Web-site, while serving the purpose of interactive communications with our audience.

Follow us, and you will Enlighten, Clarify and Comprehend your knowledge – and this will result in the change of your life through rigorous work with Lifeis…