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To: Tom Frederick who wrote (302)2/17/1999 7:27:00 AM
From: Frederick Smart  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 417
 
I-Link is Key To Virtual Distribution Strategy.....

From Yahoo.....

by: SmartWire (M/Chicago, IL)
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Virtual Distribution Franchises....

I'm going to take a step back so that more readers of this board can begin to get an understanding of the true power of the I-Link opportunity.

We are right smack in the middle of a revolution which finds ALL corporate enterprises checkmated by the internet. It's over corporate America. With each passing day, control over your marketing and distribution slips away as individuals go online and embrace wireless networks to buy products and services more directly while saving money AND perhaps getting ongoing residuals.

There's a growing fusion of energy behind the marketplace's awareness of this trend: the joining of residuals WITH significant savings is really getting the attention of the average retail consumer.

So it's not just "the internet stupid" anymore. It's about a process that's underway that will bring organization and discipline to this opportunity. I call this phase of the Internet's growth Internet Wave 2: the wave of e-commerce as led by Yahoo, Amazon and eBay and other leading examples. E-Commerce is a giant threat to ALL corporations. Why? Because they potentially can lose not only their clients to the competition, but
any legacy connection to a relationship with those individuals.

With I-Link, just imagine the process that's going on right now. Quietly, with no fanfare - just the delivery of good information by articulate individuals who are passionate about the opportunity - we start handshaking dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of retail and small business accounts from Sprint, AT&T and other LD carriers. The key to stress here is that we are witnessing a revolution and I-Link gives us dynamic product
that runs circles around the competition, offering all I-Link team members an opportunity to "lock into" business and retail relationships that can bring far more to the table than just an LD residual.

The #1 Holy Grail out there for ALL businesses is TRUST. Trust is the grease that makes ALL commerce run. Without trust there is no lasting business relationship between producers and consumers. Mining trust is the "last frontier" in commerce and with I-Link we have a powerful set of tools to gift out to small businesses
and consumers which can help align that trust with YOU, the I-Link representative. You can be part of an I-Link team that can be positioned for long term growth and profit because there is the opportunity to get inside those relationships and add so much more value to the equation over time.

TRUST portals will be the next BIG thing on the Internet. You haven't heard the term yet, but mark my word, it's coming. Why? Because when you are honored to receive a clients trust, you also have earned the right to continue the process of brokering other information to that client about products and services that may be important in their lives, etc.

Every portal on the net is trying to add trust layers and features to get the average consumer to feel warm and fuzzy, but what these AOLs, Excites and Lycos's don't understand is that this next wave of brokering INFORMATION is going to be won by local-area individuals and their supporting TEAMS who humbly walk a local-area walk, humbly get to know local--area events and all the families and kids that make the
color and fabric of life come alive.

We are witnessing the rise of a new form of facillitator in world commerce - the INFORMATION BROKER. And believe it or not, NO company - whether it's I-Link or AT&T - is going to be able to get 100% of their hands around this new business model because it's just too "out there", confusing, etc.

I have chosen I-Link for the power and the opportunity its technology gives me and my team members to grow and develop individually based local distribution franchises for products, services and information that can add value to people's lives while saving them some money and perhaps providing them with a longterm residual revenue stream.

My sponsor and partner in this venture is Ray Shepard, based here in Chicago. We have BIG plans to take the entire Chicagoland market by storm with our unique business model and the opportunity I-Link gives us to develop these fluid, trust networks of good people helping good people. You want to talk about TEAM building, then come pay a visit with us in Chicago as we fire up the energy with our unique and creative uses
of the internet, digital wireless and VOIP technologies.

TEAM building is all about TRUST building. It takes time to build the right foundation of trust before any lasting business success can be achieved. Ray and I have been reaching out to hundreds of individuals from ALL walks of life over the past 5-6 months as we have refined our marketing and team building business models.

I-Link is a CORE technology that will allow us to build, develop and maintain these linked channels of trust between individuals who are committed to the vision of adding value to people's lives in numerous ways so that we can all have more free time - even for the individual who does NOT join this unique business opportunity.

The revolution the Internet has created has still only just begun. Network marketing IS the wave of the future, but we think the real wave is creating these local trust-based Virtual Distribution Franchises for these will be the StoreFronts of the 21st Century. And to think these franchises are going for next to nothing right now - for, like western towns in the late 1800's virtual domains of local and national distribution are still virtually
FREE in today's world. The land in Montana that my Great great grandparents populated as squatters in the early 1880's was given away for just the commitment to populate and maintain a residence. The same thing is happening on the Internet today.

The Barry Diller's, Steve Case's, even the Jeff Bezos's of the world will not have a leg up on zeroing in on this Holy Grail - individual trust. For the first time in world history, thanks to the internet, THE INDIVIDUAL IS KING. This is a revolutionary statement to make, but whether I invest in Novell, Nextel or I-Link, the message is the same. ALL world corporations have been checkmated. It's now up to the "little guy" - the man on the street - to lay claim on and take responsibility for the staggering implications of what this opportunity means longer term. The internet, technologies I-Link gives us, and all the wonderful new products and services that will be exploding into this new world of digital wireless spectrum - all have combined to give TO THE INDIVIDUAL the tools, facilities and power that were onces reserved for only the giant corporations - power and facility to create, control and manage distribution networks for products and services.

If the Barry Diller's of the world have their way, then we will all just continue the trend of being passive couch sitting consumers who only need advertising - web, radio, TV, cable, etc. - to drive buying or selling decisions. I say these passive days are OVER.

The time is NOW! Individuals everywhere have the freedom and power to take MASSIVE action to become a part of this new trend which Internet Wave 2 will be all about: the total realignment of the consumer towards information and trust-based networks that add value to life - saving time, energy and bringing color, love, warmth and value back into the equation of our daily lives.

This is a mission that has no end. I-Link is a fundamental part of this mission. All readers of this board, members of the I-Link corporate team, all reps and any others even remotely connected to the I-Link story will become part of this "new energy" that will define this "next phase" of enconomic growth where the individual is KING.

Thanks for reading this. GO!!!