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Today is a very news-filled day for those involved in the Team vs. Quixtar dispute that has been disrupting thousands of IBO’s all over the country these past few days. There is news coming out of Quixtar in the form of e-mails, primarily a unifying message stating that the IBO advisory council is 100% behind the company for it’s decisions to terminate the founders of the Team training organization (Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady) and many other high ranking Team participants:

Quixtar Inc., North American Founders Council, and Independent Business Owners Association International Board of Directors
Joint Statement Regarding Team

The North American Founders Council (NAFC) and Independent Business Owners Associational International (IBOAI) are proud to represent the Quixtar business opportunity, especially during this exciting period of transformation in our business. Unprecedented investments by Quixtar are poised to help make our businesses stronger than ever – more than $60 million in new money in Quixtar Business Incentives, launch of training to help make IBOs more successful, and exciting new product and category launches. Overall, the company is spending more than $200 million in product development, brand building, training and compensation enhancements to make this business opportunity bigger and more successful than ever.

We are disappointed that the founders of the Team training organization, Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady, and other IBOs affiliated with Team, have refused to move forward with the Quixtar business into this new and promising future. Given Team’s unwillingness to work with the corporation to remedy their bad business-building practices, their stated intent to start a competing MLM and, ultimately, their decision to file baseless litigation against the business opportunity from which they have profited for years, the NAFC and IBOAI fully support Quixtar’s decision to terminate these IBOs’ businesses. The terminations of Woodward, Brady, Billy Florence, Don Wilson, Randy Haugen, Chuck Goetschel, Tim Marks, Kirk Birtles, James Martin, Aron Radosa, David Brandy, Benjamin Dickie, Bruce Gilbank, Michael Martenson, and Chuck Cullen will help correct practices that put Quixtar and all IBOs at serious and immediate risk of legal and regulatory action.

The NAFC and IBOAI stand firmly with Quixtar in an unwillingness to put our business and the businesses of hundreds of thousands of IBOs at risk of legal and regulatory action caused by Woodward and Brady’s practices.

We believe the Quixtar business is the best business opportunity in the world. We are prepared to work with the corporation and other IBOs who remain committed to their businesses as we move through this period of transformation to become stronger and more profitable, helping more individuals than ever before achieve success with a Quixtar-powered business of their own.

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There is also news coming out of TEAM regarding the situation at hand. They are not providing any guidance to IBO’s as far as what to do in light of the situation. Given the fact that the TEAM opportunity and training is all centered around the Quixtar business I’m not sure how they can continue “business as usual” as stated in their announcement.

The message below was released from the Team office executive staff this afternoon (Aug 14, 2007).

Team,

It is natural for people to be confused during such interesting times as we find ourselves in. Although many of our leading IBOs have made serious allegations against Quixtar, the legal system will have to be the final judge of the situation. For this to happen, time must be allowed for both sides to gather information and present their cases to the court. Many have asked what they should do during this conflicting time. It is important that each person in the field understand they operate an independent business. We, the Team administration, can not and will not give advice as to what people should do regarding their independent businesses. While we all may have opinions regarding this situation, as far as Team is concerned, it is business as usual. We will continue to provide the world class service that you have come to depend upon.

Team Executive Staff

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So you’ve got TEAM and Quixtar sending out statements one after the other that really serve no purpose and don’t help any of the “masses” of each organization and it seems like they are being left out to dry. There has been a lot of talk about “stacking” and Quixtar accusing TEAM of using this tactic that is against their terms… which as far as I can tell Quixtar does not state in any of their agreements that “stacking” in particular is banned. Stacking is a method for building depth and volume very quickly for your mlm business. There are pros and cons to it which Todd Krause explains well in a post on Alticor’s blog. The irony is that Quixtar is quickly putting into place a NEW policy effective September 1 that will ban stacking and provide disciplinary action to those who use it.

More Quixtar & Team information from Shaun Carter dot Com:

More Evidence of TEAM Termination

TEAM Restraining Order

TEAM Files Class Action Lawsuit

TEAM Founders Terminated

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