Someone sent me the email below and
I wanted to pass it on. It reminded me of
a time several years ago, when I was
traveling with network marketing veteran
Bill Pike from Dallas, Texas.

We did trainings in about 3 cities in 7 days.

When we traveled through various airports
Bill would make it a point when he saw a
military person to shake their hand and say
we appreciate your service.

Since that time I have been much more aware
when I see Military Service people in airports.

I make it a point if I am in their space, to throw
out my hand and say “We appreciate your service”.

From time to time, when setting beside Military
personal I have given them a $20 bill as we were
exiting the plain and said I would be honored to
buy your lunch today.

This time of the year, is a time for all of us to
count or blessings.

I thank Bill Pike for inspiring me many years ago
and I hope the story below will inspire you and
you pay it forward.

START OF STORY:

I put my carry-on in the

luggage compartment and sat down in my assigned

seat. It was going to be a long flight. ‘I’m

glad I have a good book to read. Perhaps I will

get a short nap,’ I thought.

Just before take-off,

a line of soldiers came down the aisle and

filled all the vacant seats, totally surrounding

me. I decided to start a conversation.

‘Where are you headed?’ I asked the soldier seated nearest to

me. ‘Petawawa. We’ll be there for two

weeks for special training, and then we’re being

deployed to Afghanistan

After flying for about an hour, an announcement was

made that sack lunches were available for five

dollars. It would be several hours before we

reached the east, and I quickly decided a lunch

would help pass the time…

As I reached for my wallet, I overheard a soldier ask his buddy if

he planned to buy lunch. ‘No, that seems

like a lot of money for just a sack lunch.

Probably wouldn’t be worth five bucks.

I’ll wait till we get to base.’

His friend agreed.

I looked around at the

other soldiers. None were buying lunch. I walked

to the back of the plane and handed the flight

attendant a fifty dollar bill. ‘Take a

lunch to all those soldiers.’ She grabbed my

arms and squeezed tightly. Her eyes wet with

tears, she thanked me. ‘My son was a soldier in

Iraq ; it’s almost like you are doing it for

him.’

Picking up ten sacks, she headed up the aisle to where the

soldiers were seated. She stopped at my seat and

asked, ‘Which do you like best – beef or

chicken?’ ‘Chicken,’ I replied,

wondering why she asked. She turned and went to

the front of plane, returning a minute later

with a dinner plate from first class.

‘This is your thanks.’

After we finished

eating, I went again to the back of the plane,

heading for the rest room.

A man stopped me. ‘I saw what you did. I want to

be part of it. Here, take this.’ He handed me

twenty-five dollars.

Soon after I returned

to my seat, I saw the Flight Captain coming down

the aisle, looking at the aisle numbers as he

walked, I hoped he was not looking for me, but

noticed he was looking at the numbers only on my

side of the plane. When he got to my row he

stopped, smiled, held out his hand and said, ‘I

want to shake your hand.’ Quickly unfastening my

seatbelt I stood and took the Captain’s hand.

With a booming voice he said, ‘I was a soldier

and I was a military pilot. Once, someone bought

me a lunch. It was an act of kindness I never

forgot.’ I was embarrassed when applause was

heard from all of the passengers.

Later I walked to the

front of the plane so I could stretch my legs. A

man who was seated about six rows in front of me

reached out his hand, wanting to shake mine. He

left another twenty-five dollars in my palm.

When we landed I

gathered my belongings and started to deplane.

Waiting just inside the airplane door was a man

who stopped me, put something in my shirt

pocket, turned, and walked away without saying a

word. Another twenty-five dollars!

Upon entering the terminal, I saw the soldiers
gathering for their trip to the base.I walked over to
them and handed them seventy-five dollars. ‘It
will take you some time to reach the base.

It will be about time for a sandwich.
God Bless You.’

Ten young men left that flight feeling the love and
respect of their fellow travelers.

As I walked briskly to

my car, I whispered a prayer for their safe

return. These soldiers were giving their all for

our country. I could only give them a couple of

meals. It seemed so little…

A veteran is someone

who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank

check made payable to ‘The United States of

America ‘ for an amount of ‘up to and

including my life.’

That is Honor, and there are way too many people
in this country who no longer understand that.

2011 According to legal analysts, there is a law
being passed which could in theory make many
types of affiliate marketing a federal felony.
In theory, many types of marketing, which don’t
fall under the terms and conditions of sites and
social networks, could be prosecuted under the
Department of Justice, for as much as three years
in federal prison for each instance.

The issue here has to do with the Computer Fraud
and Abuse act of 1986, which was originally made to
prosecute and convict hackers, has been expanded
over the years to include almost any type of “unauthorized
access.” While this is currently just a misdemeanor, and
the DOJ ignores these cases unless they are in combination with
“real” crimes, that might be changing. Well, congress
is about to expand this law to make it a felony, and make any
“excess unauthorized access” a federal felony.

Pushing for congress to enact this is companies like
Microsoft and… well, Facebook. The problem with
this is that this law will make it ILLEGAL to do anything
that is in violation of the terms and condition when you
sign up for example Facebook.

That means if you are one of those marketers
who use Facebook to promote your business, and
the terms and conditions prohibits you from posting
commercial messages on other people’s pages, or perhaps
sending out commercial messages via the message function,
you could be arrested for “excess unauthorized
access.”

Think this is not possible? Well, in 2009 it turns out
that the DOJ actually did prosecute a woman who violated
the Terms of Service of Myspace for using a “fake photo” on
her profile. Why was this illegal? Because the TOS required her
to only use real photos of her.

You should read the Facebook TOS, there are several things
that you could be prosecuted for.

For example:

You will not engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such
as a pyramid scheme, on Facebook. In theory, if you ever
mention a MLM product on Facebook, you could now go to
jail. If you mention it 10 times, you could spend 30 years in
prison?

You will not provide any false personal information on
Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than
yourself without permission.You want to make another
profile for your business, and one for your personal use
to keep people separate? Well, that’s illegal.

You will not post content or take any action on
Facebook that infringes or violates someone else’s rights or
otherwise violates the law.Want to promote a free gift card
product, go to jail if you don’t have rights to the TM. Just
some of the examples. In theory, many, many

CPA networks are violating the law when they use
facebook to promote their network in any fashion, or an
offer and do not use the facebook advertising system.

You will not send or otherwise post unauthorized
commercial communications (such as spam) on Facebook.

What is Spam? What is unauthorized? This means if
you use facebook to market any product, or even reach
out to a potential customer, is that illegal? Do we want
to criminalize this?

What’s even worse, if your company engages in
unauthorized marketing on any forum, any social network
or any site (that means even comment spam, which I hate),
you could be also prosecuted as organized criminals under the
changes in the law.

Hopefully this to will pass, it just seems that every
time we turn aroundthe minority is trying to dictate their
non entrepreneurial mindset on the masses. If you don’t
like a message on your Facebook wall UNFRIEND them, pretty
simple. The last thing we need is more government regulation
as it results to anything.

I just want to thank each one of you that
participated in our first ever Black Friday
Sale. It was a huge success. There were
a couple of Back Orders, but other than
that, everything has been shipped.

If you have questions, you can call our
office at 502-868-6199.

And Yes, we have had several questions
about this….. Our Christmas Gift Certificates
are also available again this year.

Details are here => http://mlmhelp.com/Christmas2010

If you are tired of socks, belts, and fruit cake,
simple give the above URL when people ask about
possible gifts.

This time of the year we also list our scratched or dented
programs on Ebay, the ID Name is MLM-Auctions if
you care to do a search. We have our new book
“7 Ways to Create Extra Cash for Christma” listed on
Ebay right now and also have several books on
Amazon.com http://cmgwebsitetraffic.com/links/2726

I hope you have had a great year.

The marketing world is changing. I think it is a reflection
of the world in general. Now more than ever people want
leaders that will lead and tell the truth!

Have a wonderful Christmas.

I appreciate your support throughout 2011.
I will be giving away a book that we have sold for $17
for several years free in early 2012, because I KNOW
the market needs the message, now more than ever.
So keep an eye for the email.

It will say something like:
“Was $17.00 now free for our customers and clients”

I will let you run.

You and yours have a wonderful Christmas, enjoy
every second of it.

Respectfully,

Dale Calvert