Tip 1:  YOU are responsible for the success or failure of your new business!

Tip 2:  Be patient!

Tip 3:  Educate yourself!

Tip 4:  Make efficient use of your time

Tip 5:  Expect to get out of your comfort zone

The bottom line — have patience, be consistent in your efforts, focus on education, and above all else, take full responsibility for everything that happens.

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PEOPLE  ASIA:  TO  A  WORKING-EXECUTIVE  MOTHER,  FAMILY  ABOVE  ALL

[PHOTO AT LEFT - Doyee Tumpalan with her children. Family above all. Being mother  to  her  2  wonderful  children]

MANILA, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 (STAR) By Fatima Parel (People Asia) As an enterprising wiz, Rhodora “Doyee” Tactacan-Tumpalan has achieved success beyond compare. But all these pale beyond what she considers her most important feat: being mother to her two wonderful children.

“I can drop everything for my family,” swears Doyee in earnest when in the course of the interview, the conversation stirs to family vacations and the dilemma that working mothers are often faced with – how to divide their time between work and family.

As president of First Vita Plus Marketing Corp. – which produces the all-natural health drink First Vita Plus and other energizing products – Doyee’s days are often spent in the office. Her husband, Socrates “Soc” Tumpalan, who is the chairman of the company, handles the information technology department and other major aspects of the business.

Speaking in the vernacular, Doyee shares how pressure on the job can sometimes get too much. “I know that all of my actions will affect thousands of people, that’s why I really think hard before I make my decisions, because I’m responsible for so many people. I often get so drained but I know that I shouldn’t show any sign of weakness.”

Her weariness, however, fades away every time she meets with her employees and dealers. “They seek me out when they need advice. Sometimes I scold them but they know that (it’s because) I’m concerned about their welfare. More than anything, I want to build a relationship with them because this is more than just business,” she discloses.

While she avers that the success of her enterprise is important, there is one thing which she holds more essential and critical: raising her kids right – knowing that she and her husband are great role models for their children.

“I’m always very conscious (about the fact) that my kids look up to me, same with my husband… and that if they ask for something then I’ll tell them straight if I’ll be able to get it for them or not. We’ve always been honest with them.”

While the long hours that she spends with her “extended” family (that is, her thousands of business associates all over the country) is financially productive, it is her own family which she considers the source of her strength and joy. Whenever the 39-year-old mom is with her kids – Miguel Luis “Lance” (14) and Ma. Patricia “Patita” (11) – Doyee reveals that she can’t help express her happiness by hugging them constantly, with her kids gladly reciprocating the loving gesture.

“Every single day, before going to school, they always go to our room to kiss us and say goodbye. And later in the day, they’ll call me up and ask what time we’ll be going home. I tell them if I’ll be home late or if their dad will be the one who’ll be home early. That way I’m assuring them that when I tell them I’ll be home on that exact time then I’ll be really home on that time,” shares Doyee.

And every moment with her kids is something that she will never take for granted, especially with the difficulty that she went through in both of her pregnancies. With her first pregnancy, Doyee experienced such serious bleeding that the doctors even advised her to consider abortion, to which she vehemently objected. The nine months that followed were spent in a hospital bed. With Patita, she was bedridden for four months straight, not allowed to move strenuously. That’s why she would often tease her kids not to give her a hard time considering what she went through for both of them.

As an incentive for working hard for the rest of the year, the whole family goes on vacation in Canada every summer. And for three, whole months, Doyee, Soc, Lance and Patita share all the household work together – doing the laundry, cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping – you name it and the four of them will work on it.

“For us, a vacation is a must. I learned that from my parents, that education should not only be confined in a classroom. Traveling broadens our horizon, that’s why we bring our kids everywhere we go and we learn a lot from them,” tells Doyee.

And it’s not only in vacations that they get to spend family time. During this interview, for instance, both kids were in Doyee’s office waiting for all her appointments to be done. It was a Friday, you see, and the whole family had planned to see a movie together. It’s from spontaneous decisions such as these where they often get the most fun out of.

In turn, the bond between the parents and their children has become so strong that Doyee and her husband would often consult with Lance and Patita on business matters. The children become the critics on some of their products. It seems that business runs in the family, literally. Doyee even showed her kids’ business cards indicating Lance as the chairman and Patita as president, a sure sign that they’ll be following in Doyee and Soc’s footsteps.

Just like any other parent, Doyee also has her hopes and fears. Finishing school, for one, is what she would want the most for her two lovely children. Pressure, she said, is something that she doesn’t want her kids to experience. “I dread the day that they’ll be miserable because I pushed them into something that they would not want to do.”

Because for Doyee, it is not wealth and success that’s important, it’s how her kids will turn out that matters most. “I would always wish for their happiness. I want them fulfilled as persons and be whatever they want to be,” this lovely mother concludes.

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I have always knew I will be successful ever since I was young, but I didn’t know how and when. In 2005, I had encountered First Vitaplus, at that time I was focus on my work, but I knew my heart belongs to First Vitaplus, I had lost touch with my friend who was originally invited me, and  in early 2009 I decided to contact Mr. Jerry Jimenez and told him I wanted to join his team. Apart from getting rid of my skin allergy I am making a very decent income.

When I became a dealer I was still working as International Senior Marketing Director for Century Properties, after 3 months of doing the business part time, I’ve decided to resigned and last Sept 30, 2009 I was able to buy a brand new Ford Escape,  last year I bought  a 2^nd hand Nissan Urvan Estate and my parents home soon.

Currently I’m also a proud investor in Philippine, Singapore & New York stock exchange all from my earnings with FVP. Apart from managing my team I manage my own finances. I have learned that when you want something badly enough you will never stop until you achieve it. Having experience poverty for 25 years of my life, my parents house was made of abaca, I was working student and journeyed this far and been blessed,  I know everything is possible.

Burning desire is what gets me through all the perspiration necessary to overcome the inevitable obstacles along the way. When you want something badly enough – then WINNING is the ONLY option. You either find a way or make one, and you MUST pay the price, whatever it takes! We must give our 100% commitment in reaching our dreams and increase our desire of getting what you truly want. The truth is we can’t give only 80% and give some excuses. Our life is a gamble but for us to WIN we must give everything, 100% at all times!

We will all have different challenges and experiences in the coming years and no one can foretell the future but one overriding biological strength humans have built into their DNA is HOPE!

 When you dream, dream big! It’s a mortal sin settling for substandard. Don’t be just a dealer- become a leader, don’t be just a leader – become a mentor, don’t be just a mentor – become a friend, don’t be just a friend become rich, don’t be just rich become billionaire so we can do more and HELP more!

Secret? The only risk in this business is when you don’t know what you’re doing. Never stop learning, be conscious about your attitude, become visible (the best marketing tool is YOU) .

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Well, multiply that by 400,000 and you get the picture of how big Doyee Tumpalan has grown the family business and changed the landscape of network marketing in the country. For those who don’t know, Doyee is the stylish woman behind First Quadrant, the biggest multi-level marketing company in the Philippines which recently opened an office at Milpitas in Silicon Valley, California. She’s been called the “Mary Kay of the Philippines” but perhaps more fitting titles would be “Dreamer” or “Entrepreneur of the New Millennium.” 

If you want to go a little further down the history of this shoemaking lady, you would have to go back to the 1860s, when Marikina was a sleepy agricultural town and a kapitan, her great-great-grandfather Laureano “Kapitan Moy” Guevara, bought a pair of shoes in Germany and then dismantled them here to learn how to make them. But more on that later. 

Today, Doyee finds herself in the unique position of turning her grand dreams into reality, of exporting her local company and making it global, of selling millions of shoes, bags, makeup, clothes and “everything you need,” and in effect fulfilling the dreams of hundreds of thousands of people involved in First Quadrant. But to her, the most important thing is putting Filipino products on the global market. Doyee herself is a great advertisement for the country: She’s young, ambitious, hardworking and with a soft spot in her heart for people who want to make their lives better – it doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, just as long as you want to gain financial freedom and share your blessings. 

Milpitas is just the start of First Quadrant’s internationalization, a business she and her husband Socrates Tumpalan have grown phenomenally in two-and-a half years. “Not even in my wildest dreams did I think it would come to this,” she says with a smile. 

Of course, her partnership with Soc has been the secret of the company’s success. While she’s the public face of the company, her reticent husband is the quiet one working in the background. She’s the dreamer, he’s the architect. “He’s the brains behind the company,” she says. “He translates my concepts into reality.” 

One of those concepts became real three weeks ago when FQ launched its Milpitas office with US partners Noni and Rubi Estevez as FQ International COO and CEO respectively. “We decided to make it international because of the demand. Plus, Filipinos are born networkers, every single one of them has a relative in another part of the world, kahit saan may contact.” 

Milpitas may not be very well known to the average Pinoy whose idea of California is LA and Daly City, but like those two cities this small town is teeming with Filipino-Americans. Milpitas Mayor Joe Estevez is a Pinoy from Pangasinan who migrated to America in 1980, worked his way from his engineering profession to the city council and is now serving his first term as mayor (he’s the second consecutive Pinoy mayor of Milpitas). The official count of Pinoys, according to the mayor, is 13 percent of the 65,000 residents. A small number really – the same percentage as residents of Chinese and Vietnamese origin – but “it’s a tight-knit, active community that it seems like we make up more than 50 percent,” he says. 

“We have the same mission; his is for Milpitas, mine is for First Quadrant and the Philippines. He wants to bring the Filipino heritage to Milpitas,” says Doyee. 

Mayor Estevez predicts that for First Quadrant, “Filipino Americans are just the start because you start with who you are. If Filipinos can’t appreciate their own products, it would be difficult for other groups to appreciate them.” 

How can our products compete with more well-known and easily accessible brands and will they be sold as “Filipino products”? Doyee won’t back down in her crusade. Yes, part of the business strategy is to sell them as Filipino products. “I know it’s crazy but we’ll make it work, and part of the strategy is to build up the nucleus first, which is the Filipino community. But I have reserved 20 percent of our international catalogue to US products to co-exist with products in the country that’s hosting us. In the US we’ll change the catalogue every six months, in the Philippines it’s four months.” 

Yes, Doyee is the kind of woman who would gladly wear FQ’s Doyee brand of shoes side by side with her own Blahniks, or her Newport bags with Hermes. 

So the Milpitas launch had a Filipiniana theme all throughout. Doyee wore her Joe Salazar ternos proudly during the office blessing at the Milpitas Town Center and the launch dinner at the Sta. Clara Convention Center where Lea Salonga performed as guest artist (though her repertoire of very sad songs was very inappropriate for the happy occasion). What made both events also special was the performance of the University of San Francisco Kasamahan dance troupe. I’ve never been so proud at seeing teenage Pinoys do traditional dances like tinikling and pandango sa ilaw. You could see that these kids – perhaps all of them now American citizens – are not just in touch with but are also interested in learning and sharing their heritage. 

There are over 10,000 multi-level marketing (MLM) around the world with the United States as the founding country 50 years ago. Like most businesses that are involved in networking one way or another, MLMs are not spared of controversy. The US is perhaps the country with the strictest regulations and laws governing MLM, which many people mistake for a pyramid scheme (the latter is illegal in all states of the US and banned in most countries around the world) because it recruits other people to sell products. First Quadrant has not been spared of that controversy either, especially in the early days. 

To establish the US office, FQ hired Michael Sheffield, chairman of the Multi-Level Marketing International Association (MLMIA) and CEO of Sheffield Resource Network, a direct sales and MLM consulting firm based in Arizona. This is the guy who met with Mikhail Gorbachev in 2000 when Russians began doing MLM, and also the same guy who helped pioneer the business in China. 

“We wanted to do it right from the very beginning, which is why we got him,” says Soc Tumpalan during the Sta. Clara dinner which was attended by over 2,000 Filipino-Americans. 

Sheffield speaks of MLMs as a “People helping people business.” Throughout the world, 30 million people are involved in MLM. In the US alone, according to Sheffield, over $30 billion have been made through this channel of distribution and it’s growing 20 percent each year. 

“First Quadrant, its founders and executives are committed to doing the right thing, to helping their fellow men and providing people with opportunities they never had before,” he says. “Apart from the financial rewards and the tremendous opportunities, these people you will meet will become your lifelong friends. And that’s what multi-level marketing is: It’s a relationship business.” 

Sheffield quotes a famous line when he says, “Our philosophy goes something like this: ‘Service to mankind is the rent that we pay for our space on earth.” 

Doyee and FQ business associates (they don’t like to call them “members”) echo the same sentiments when they talk about people who have made it good in First Quadrant: a banker, jeepney driver, street sweeper, teacher or secretary who has made more money than they would in a lifetime of 9 to 5 jobs. 

The same opportunities that let people earn from thousands to millions of pesos a month are the same things that raise skepticism and one’s eyebrow: How could a person earn that much in so short a time? 

“There are many types of compensation plans, all originating from the US. In our case, we adopted the binary compensation plan because it is the most equitable since for every recruit you already get compensated,” says Doyee. 

There are four ways of earning in the FQ plan as a business associate (BA): Through direct selling (you get 50 percent discount of all products), through direct selling rebate (you get 5 percent lifetime rebate from all the product sales of direct referrals), direct referral or sponsoring (you can refer two persons — group A and B — to become BAs and they will be enrolled automatically under your sales group), and referral bonus (each time group A and B are paired you earn a bonus). 

FQ gives seminars for free, after which you can decide to become a seller in which case you don’t pay anything but simply become a sub-agent of a BA, or choose to become a BA and pay the P8,800 fee. If you decide to become a BA but are too shy to propose the business plan to your prospective members, any of the BAs in FQ will gladly do it for you. Says Doyee, “Even crosslines would do it, meaning people who will not earn anything from your referrals. That’s the culture we try to teach. We’re one big happy family.” 

One of the success stories at FQ is Thomas Joseph “TJ” Arteche, who’s only 24 years old. He worked as a transaction officer at Citibank before he joined First Quadrant. A cousin invited him to discuss the “business plan” and he grudgingly went. Over coffee at Starbucks, and later when he went to the FQ office, he had a change of heart. “Before, I looked at networking na parang nakaka-downgrade sa tao. But I thought, even if I don’t sell products or the business plan, bawi na ako at 50 percent off on the products which I could either use or give away as gifts.” 

His father, Filomeno Arteche, told him, “Bakit ka nagpapaloko sa ganyan?” TJ says, “He’s a lawyer by profession, so he was very skeptical at first. He couldn’t see how you could put in P8,800 and earn P10,000 a week. But he couldn’t do anything because it was my money I used to enroll. It’s a copy business so pinasok ko mom ko and sister ko. Ako ang nagtrabaho for my mom, I put two people under her to prove to my dad that it worked. Her first check was P1,500. Now she gets close to P110,000 per week.” 

TJ earned his first million in four months and bought his first BMW in a year. His father, needless to say, was convinced and pretty soon joined First Quadrant where he now out-earns his son. 

Another success is Garry Norman, a former electrician at Electrolux, who was able to build his own house worth P10 million. 

These are the kind of stories that encourage people, but also cast doubts in their minds – especially for people like us who are trained to be skeptical and used to hearing tall tales. How can one out-earn the person that brought you into the company, or out-earn a person who is more educated than you are? The answer perhaps lies in the nature of the business: Everybody’s on equal footing, it doesn’t matter if you’re a lawyer or a driver, what matters is if you’re willing to put in hard work and perseverance – two things that are easier said than done. 

TJ, who earns his income from both selling and referring, says, “At first nahirapan akong magbenta but ang kagandahan nito itulog mo lang yan and the next day you start again.” 

So we asked Doyee: Are sellers born or made? “They’re made,” she says emphatically. “Anybody can sell anything as long as they have the right attitude, the training and a company that provides good products to sell.” 

Try to picture five daughters in color-coded dresses (the easier to tell them apart) making shoeboxes in a factory after school. That’s how Doyee Tactacan-Tumpalan started. At three years old, she was on the floor helping put shoeboxes together. At 10, she’d help deliver shoes to Shoemart. At 15, she was talking to retailers and booking orders. At 16, she was going to international trade fairs and doing the negotiations with leather suppliers in Hong Kong and Singapore. At 19, as a fresh graduate of Communication Arts from Maryknoll, she was handling the entire operations, from accounting to product development – just like her three elder sisters Vicky, Dina and Tetet did before her (youngest sister Julie married young and missed that rite of passage) – and she’s never looked back since. 

This is the heart of the First Quadrant business: A shoe factory in Marikina called D. Tactacan Manufacturing, which made Lady Rustan shoes for Rustan’s, Le France for Shoemart (remember that blue box with white polka dots?), for Gallerie Lafayette in Paris and other parts of the world. They made shoes that were used by Laila Benitez of Student Canteen and Dolphy in the movie Pacifica Falayfay. 

Back then Marikina was a thriving shoe capital. Then came China with its cheap prices and Filipino retailers couldn’t resist importing, and then came the economic slump in 1997. It was like kicking an already dead horse. 

That’s when Mayor Marides Fernando stepped in with her Marikina-made shoes. She pulled five of the young entrepreneurs of Marikina to represent the city in trade shoes abroad; the city would pay for the exhibition booths in shows held in Las Vegas and New York, the entrepreneurs would shoulder the rest and do their best to sell, sell, sell. 

“Around that time I stumbled on multi-level marketing,” says Doyee. “I did research, looked at various compensation plans. I knew that if you build a network you sell faster.” (Doyee had experience in direct-selling before when she and her sisters distributed their own Newport shoes through this channel, but learned the hard way that credit lines sometimes remain just that – credit and not profit; so she went the next step, MLM, which is a spin-off of direct-selling.) 

“I didn’t want to do it for my company alone. First Quadrant is selling 45 independent brands. My mission was to revive the industry and we’ve done that in just two years. The company alone is supporting about 100,000 people in the workforce including their dependents. There are more in the sub-industries like people making adhesives for the shoes, etc.” 

It brings to mind the story of Kapitan Moy, her great-great-grandfather and the recognized founder of the Marikina shoe industry. After he went home to Marikina in the 1860s with his German pair of shoes, and he needed to repair them, he thought: Why not make shoes here? All that was available locally was slippers, you had to buy your shoes in Europe. 

So he said, while people waited for harvest season they might as well do something. That was how shoe manufacturing became a cottage industry in Markinina: the women would do the upper, the men would do the lip, and they would go back to their farms when it was time to harvest. 

Thousands of miles from Marikina, in Milpitas, Doyee tells us over dinner: “There are 250 components in a pair of shoes and 15 processes to make one pair.” 

Imagine that. It took her just two steps to build her company: Dream big and do big.

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C’était enfin une journée d’été. Il fallait laisser les volets fermés pour se protéger du soleil. J’ai mis cette chanson en boucle et j’ai commencé à réinventer cette recette …

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The Ruby-Throated Hummingbird, Latin name: Archilochus colubris, is a small hummingbird. It is the only species of hummingbird that regularly nests east of the Mississippi River in North America.

The species is sexually dimorphic.

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Flowers seem intended for the the solace of ordinary humanity.

- John Ruskin

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Ok, I confess. I have a complete and utter fascination for NUXE products and in particular, this cream. As I have normal to combination skin, I sometimes find it hard to find good moisturising creams. They are either too oily or don’t provide enough moisture.

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“The real antidote to busy-ness must be sought outside the consumerist world…Finding sanctuary leads us from the problem of busy-ness to a real spirituality that brings peace. The quest for sanctuary resonates deep into the heart of several contemporary dilemmas and at the same time contains within it the solution to these dilemmas…

A consumerist place of refuge will always be insecure because it is not rooted in a sacred space.

The sacred cannot be manufactured by the consumerist society, because the sacred cannot be manufactured…the sacred is found when we recognise it as sacred; the sacred is not found when we recognise it simply as [something] we fancy or as a convenient pause for breath…

The basic starting point for entering sacred sanctuary is the quality of your day-to-day dealings with other people. You cannot mistreat [moan or gossip about people or entertain bad thoughts about them] one moment and then find sanctuary the next. Finding the sacred space begins with the recognition of the sacred in your daily living.

This truism needs to be carefully unpacked by any person who is sincerely seeking [true peace and] sanctuary. It must not be shrugged off with either ‘Of course,’ or ‘I’m interested in peace and quiet, not morals’…There is no peace without sacrifice and there is no peace without justice. Those simple insights are most commonly applied to peace between nations or races, but they also apply to everybody’s ordinary life and social relationships…

If you want to find the sacred space in your life, then you must want to ‘walk without blemish’. You will, of course, fail to live without blemish; but failing is quite different from not even trying.”
(From: “Finding Sanctuary; Monastic Steps for Everyday Life”, Abbot Christopher Jamison, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2006)

A PRAYER AS A FIRST STEP TO FINDING TRUE PEACE:

God the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, You gave Your Son, Jesus Christ, infinite power over all the forces that exist in the universe and on earth. Forgive all our mistakes and sins; free us from suffering and temptations, anxieties, discouragement and desperation, and take away the confusion in our head.

We ask You to drive away all envy and falsity from our homes and the homes of our relatives and neighbours, and to protect them against fire, assaults and robbery.

In Your infinite goodness, let our guardian angel watch over us at night so that we may tranquilly sleep and be refreshed.

Father, replete with goodness, we ask You to impede all of the evil spirits’ diabolical actions against me and my family. Cast fear, drugs, insane customs and blasphemous spirits far away from us. Free our country from the terrible consequences of its inhabitants’ lies, money grabbing and numerous other sins.

Dear Father, You don’t force Yourself on people; You have given humans the gift of free will and a very long rope. Your heart bleeds at all the suffering and injustice that is caused by people’s selfishness and greed. Still you give those people a chance to mend their ways. In Your infinite goodness and mercy, through Your Word, give health to the persons we now recommend to You (say the names of others dear to you, and mention yourself, too, and if you can, someone you don’t like). Be compassionate with them, restoring physical, emotional and spiritual health, courage, tranquillity and a taste for living in us so that we may give thanks to You with a soul filled with peace and joy. Through Jesus Christ, in the love of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

(Now say one ‘Our Father’. Tomorrow, say one ‘Our Father’ again.)

Its probably because they don’t ask self evident questions about Clearcase over IM every fifteen seconds. Though it could be the order within chaos thing too. Not really sure…

Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

- Theodore N. Vail