This is an exciting time because so many wonderful things are happening.. It is a great new year and 2008 promises to be the best year yet… For everyone!! I am very excited about FashionCents, because I think it is a great way for us to communicate and share ideas about fashion, shopping and great tips that we can borrow from each other. This is so much fun, I feel like Carrie Bradshaw from Sex in the City. I arrived back from NYC last night and had an amazing time. It was my girlfriends baby shower and so we threw her a glamorous party in her honor. It was incredible. Then our friend Alejandro Sanz, (if you dont know him, he is a very very famous international singer) performed at Madison Square Garden on Friday night and we went with our very dear friends, Marc Anthony and Jennifer as well as our friends Paulino Rubio (the mexican pop star) and her wonderful new husband, Nicolas who is incredible. We danced all night and had the best time and celebrated after. It is always wonderful to be in NYC. I just love it there, it is somehow liberating. I was so excited to get out into the city and do some shopping. I wasn’t really in need of anything or looking for anything in particular, but just wanted to feel the city and somehow you get sucked into all those stores. But strangely enough, as much as I love to shop, I just didn’t have as much fun as I thought. It is real work to go into a store and try to find what you are looking for or even browse for that matter. You have to find someone to help you, then you have to hope that they have what you are looking for and if you are lucky enough to find it, you then have to stand in line and wait to pay for it and hope they ring it up right the first time:) I tried very hard to buy something in New York, believe me, I tried, I went into so many stores, but even JR was surprised to see me come home with nothing (and relieved:) But when I got home, I started to shop Market America’s shopping site, and of course I ended up on Shopbop.com (one of my favorites…I always seem to end up there) and bought a bunch of goodies:) I love that store because you can find everything from bathing suits and sweatsuits to cocktail dresses and the shoes…all in one place.. love that concept.(be sure to check out the new colors of Juicy Couture, I got the lawn boy green and clementine orange, yummy!!!) (and of course if you are a Market America Unfranchise Owner, you get paid back for your purchases in cash:) Shopping online is so much easier and you get to browse without anyone hassling you….
Every once in a while, a girl has to indulge herself,
xox
Loren
fashion cents. what was up with that black owfit. It looked like the spiders from mars tour. Why do you do that? Get a fashion advisor right away.
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Hi Loren,
I appreciate this blog. What I personally would like to see come of it is this. Thanks to the choices I have previously made, my style has been put on the back burner for quite some time. I have a hard time sorting through magazines like style and get a bit overwhelmed with all the information that is out there. I tend to gravitate toward a more classic look inspired by Ralph Lauren but find I finish up looking a little boring or perhaps unisex. I still want to look feminine, classic and sexy all at once. Any advice in this area is greatly appreciated.
AM, Tampa
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Hiya Loren;
It’s Glenda again! Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it to Leadership. Grrrrrrrrrrr…….Keepin it short, old money/new money… spends the same. I don’t believe in waste of anything.
Here are the basics: I’ve spent 17 years attempting to accumulate web/internet/affiliates/local business into a fraction of what ya’ll have accomplished! Congrats on having the Capacity, Desire and Skills!!!!!
I’m here to build those who are deserving… I came from not a lot and still have not a lot …. yet, I am so blessed and reminded every day.
Below is a more detailed description of the “size chart” which sent anonymous into a frenzy….. yikes… virtual shopping is aka online shopping….”"”do you remember the commercial for Cascade…. Virtually Spotless… Virtually has been a key word since I can remember— virtual back before the internet was considered “a false place” or “an imaginary place”.
1. Personal Profile – Measurements (if we want to do the input)
2. This is for all sized people
3. I am ADHD and have to concentrate on keeping weight on…. have always been hyper conscious of the affect/effects of what I consume….
4. I am part Cherokee, German, Dutch, English and French. Largest part Cherokee
Thin, strong… hunter… Keeping this in mind…..
5. Each Customized site can contain individual charts…with Individual measurements
6. From there, our clients (and partners) can search with and according to the measurements
7. With charting by designer- each design is in accordance to particulars… what are they …
8. Match with our Internet capabilities…
After reading the anonymous comments I considered the underlying message.. and wasn’t offended in the least. I do appreciate your reply and it is noted that you paid attention.
Contact Anytime,
Enjoy Everything…. even sleep,
Glenda Hall
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Loren:
Everything at leadership School was outstanding! Please look into Aventura for Fine Men’s Shoes and David Eden as partners. I buy from them and would rather get paid.
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Hi Loren -
Wow – this is the first time my wife Linda and I have attended Leadership School and it has just been an incredible two days so far. After the launch of Fabulosa, I am wondering when we will be launching a line of body products for men? The line I would like to see would include body wash, shampoo, cologne, etc. I do hope that MA is looking into this and we look forward to a properous future with the leader in America – MA!!!
Sincerely,
Jim and Linda Brodnicki – Joliet Illinois
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Hello Loren,
when is Market America going to partner with Vicoria’s Secret? I love their underwear and their clothes.
Tanja
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Hello Loren,
my name is Tanja and I’m a coordinator with MA living in Las Vegas. I read your message about the Kabbalah teacher and I was wondering if you could recommend a book etc about Kabbalah because I am really interested in learning more about it.
Thanks and also thank you for your message board. That was a cool idea!
Tanja
PS. I’m having a great time in Miami!
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Hi Loren,
WOW! This is my firat blog ever and I’m excited about chats with you and finding out where you shop and getting fashion ideas – not my strength. I do love shoes and use great restraint from always buying shoes. I look forward to reading all the blogs. Leadership is amazing and we still have one day left! Hard to imagine more to come. Thanks for your intelligent and beautiful self and to JR you inspire me and my husband Jimi.marketamerica.com is going to rule the world – with love and empowerment! gott love it. Thanks for everything you & JR do. tricia
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HI Kate, thanks for your email! Sounds exciting. We need to talk about getting you online with Market America. Please give me the number to reach you at, and I will have my operations manager contact you to set a time to meet with me.. thanks and look forward to having you be part of the marketamerica.com family.. xo Loren
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Hi Loren ,This is Kate from Miami , I am the owner of http://www.anatomiestyle.com and would like to work with you . YOu built an amazing business and I feel some of your fans/clients are mine too ! How can we combine forces to reach the ladies who live the high end active lifestyle that you do as well ? Looking forward to sharing thoughts with you . Best ,Kate Boyer
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Hello Loren&JR this Neomi Singh Indian Leader from Florida,i love wt u doing.Neomi
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Hello Loren&JR this Is Ashok Ralmilay Indian leader From CA i love wt u doing both,thanks Ashok
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Hi loren&JR this is Renu Mistry from NY,i love u both, doing for my market america
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Hello loren&JR,this is Rajesh I am a Profesional photographer, start MA one year ago i am INDIAN leader in NY.I think before MA I waste my 16 years in USA,Amazing Wt u Both Doing God Will Give u strength.Rajesh Sharma 7183443614
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Loren, I feel the same way when I go shopping ANYWHERE besides our portal. I must admit, 2 of my favorite stores are not partners YET, and I cringe when I spend so much money at them, knowing I have my very own stores. Knowing now about Shopbop and other designer partner stores changes things a bit. What a site!, I mean they really do have sooooo much, that is why constantly checking out our portal stores is key, you never know what you will find. Thanks for the tip. Also your time in NY sounds like it was a blast, Jennifer’s twins are going to be gorgeous and fashionable, I can’t wait till Leadership, it’s the time of year I look forward to the most, seeing my coorporate team and our MA world team partners is the greatest feeling to experience. Love u all, xoxoxo, Danmara
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Thanks April for the love and support…xo Loren
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Hi anonymous, Sorry you feel that way…Actually if you took the time to read the blog rather than just post your negative comment you may see that a group of us are here to help each other with ideas. Since you have nothing to share with the group except how much more you have in life than me, which I thrilled for you…Maybe you ought to take a look at your life and see what you are doing to help others and share with others…it certainly feels better than just having a lot of money and just being negative and nasty… Good luck to you.. having a lot of money and no happiness is a very sad and lonely place…I wish you the best, Loren
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Dear Anonymous
This is supposed to be a positive interaction. Please keep your negativity to yourself. I would like to encourage you to bring good things into your life and be able to share THAT with others!
Have a good day!
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Sounds like a “show off” blog with someone who has “new money”!
I have the same and more than Loren and find it very obnoxious!
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I am a new distributor and cannot believe the oppurtunities that are presented to me…Going strong in 2008
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Oh, to shop… and where to shop… here the question is posted. This is Glenda and I wanted to let you know about a few additions that would be ever so enlightning!!!!! I am 5′, 95-101lbs with a 5 1/2 to 6 shoe size. Don’t let my size fool you, I walk tall! Shopping for clothes and shoes is a nightmare regardless of the city or country… and virtually shopping for the above is, well, non existent. Perhaps we can encourage a “catalog based” sizing chart univerisally throughout our Mall. We all know how some designers “run larger and some smaller” than others. I will sum this up with THANKS SOOOO VERY MUCH FOR ALL THE HARD WORK AND EXPEDIENT PROGRESS…..I am daily amazed! See ya at leadership, Glenda, ghallsmall
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Hi everyone… I am so happy you have been joing me.. Please share some of your favorite stores with me and the others with us. The grea thing about blogging is that we can interact with so many people at once and share ideas… pus i will need your help, because, I have to work on my presentations for next week very very soon..:) love to all…Loren
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Loren – What a great way to promote even MORE shopping on our portal ! You are a genius ! I LOVE this ! With your incredible sense of fashion and style, you are always leading us in the direction of what’s HOT ! This will take MA to yet another exciting level ! See you next week in Miami !
Marilyn Freese
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Another wonderful tool!! I have always “hung on” believing in all of JRs future predictions about where this company was going. For the last 14 mos. I have been working so hard with blinders on. My goal is to spend Director’s Day with yourself and JR.
PS… I am still working with Margaret in NY from the Ritz. She is embarrassed to ask you for help again due to her lack of growth. I wont let her give up…Pat Peterson
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Hi Loren, Never blogged before but can get used to it, Im going to enjoy learning about the fasion world, I could use a little help in that area. Dressing for success.excited about leadership my first. Thanks to You,JR, and the Great People in MA all my dreams will come true.
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Hi, Loren. This is a great blog. I love it already because it opens up more channels of communication, esp. the informal style. I love the informative chatting in terms of the stores and daily life, and the behind scene preparation for the leadership. Congratulations!!
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Lena,thanks for the suport and love..
Ed, glad we are on the same page… we can learn all about this whole new way to share ideas together…
Thanks for stopping in Jim, I will try my best to keep up…
Rudy, that’s the best news yet. You made my night:)
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Dear LaurenCongrts on your first blog. This is the coolest thing I can not wait to see you next week. I am sure you and JR along with the corporate team have plenty to share with all of us. I wanted to share this with you. Transitions is the greatest thing I have ever done. You might remember when I first started in MA in August of 1997 that I was about 325 pounds. I was a great believer and success story in thermochrome select losing 100 lbs. I thought it was the greatest thing but when we stopped making it I was worried after my mass supplies which iI referred to as contraband dwindled. I was starting to panic. Well after about a year and a half I started to get plump going back up to 278 pounds. Weight has been a fight all my life not from sweets but just liking to eat good food good restaurants and without the thermochrome weight creeps up on you. Finally I took a stand and decided to follow the transitions lifestyle. I started a group with 8 fat friends and we lost over 185 pounds. I led the group in weight loss at 34 pounds at the end of 12 weeks. Now I am well over 50 pounds and coaching some others. It is so great I feel so good it is incredible. the transitions teaches you how to eat I think I can do this for the rest of my life with no problem. Thanks for finding Dr. Sheri and taking the time to search for products and a system like this. Thanks for all you do to find all the other great products, great people, and for staying on that cutting edge I love you, JR and the corporate team, and I love MA too.
Rudy C NY
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Loren, Congrads on your first blog, I am not sure how you will keep up once word really gets out about this. You will be amazed at the responces. Just know we are all one big happy family, and want to thank you, JR and the whole Corporate Team for what you have done,… and what you “Will do” for MA in the future. See you at Leadership!
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Excellent first blog. My very first blog entry as well so we are off and writing… I’m a fairly new distributor in NJ under Gigi and I am so excited to be a part of this great company that you and JR started. I know what you mean about the excitement of NY but moreso, I too like the excitement of paying myself rather than somebody else more. I look forward to more blogging with you.
Ed B. in NJ.
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Hi, Loren.
There are many amazing things about you. You are a smart, wise and bright woman who inspired JR to create something great and unique – Market America. As I know, you are a hardworking woman, wonderful mother and sincere friend. Plus, you are charming and beautiful, with a great taste. And whenever many people grow and become famous, they stop being earthy. You are not! You are chatting with people online becoming one of them , letting people know that all your glamour cannot be compared to your pure soul of a naturally beautiful woman. One day we will meet, and I will be happy to have a laugh with you, a cup of coffee and friendly conversation, and share something that happy women can share. Who knows, maybe one day we’ll go shopping together. Have a wonderful day, lots of smiles, adoration of men and support or women:-))
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Gotta love the personal flavor this adds to ma
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Loren, I am so excited!! I can’t wait to see what comes next. You will do a great job helping people find fabulous clothes and Transitions can help them fit into them. What a beautiful thing!!
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Hi everyone! It will be great to get fashion and shopping advice from Loren. She has provided tips to some of the top entertainers and fashion icons in the world! We will all benefit from the interaction between one another as well. Thanks for the blog, Loren!
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aal..thats some of the nicest words ever.. I feel like I have known you forever..xoxo Loren
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Wooch..I love you and miss you.. I am here with your brother and we are thinking about you..So excited to see you.xo
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Thanks Nancy for all the sweet words… looking forward to seeing everyone next week…much love and appreciation..
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This is the best BLOG on the Internet!!! Loren is world’s best shopper…learn from her. She will change your life.
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Awesome first post, Loren!! Can’t wait to see you and everyone else next week! -The Wooch
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Can’t wait! Kimora Lee Simmons – FABULOSITY!
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There may be quite a few (thousand) people between your BDC and mine, but I do what I do because I believe in your commitment and vision for ALL of us. I love that you have a blog! Thank you so much for all the hours you and JR put in and I look forward to meeting the both of you some day. See you at Leadership!
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Pang, you well on your way:) keep plugging away and of course shopping and you will make plenty of money and look fabulous at the same time…much love and appreciation, Loren
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OMG!! My favorite Senior Vice President Loren have her own blog on the website. That is so cooool!! I might not making money from my MA business now, but I will stay with the company for the rest of my life. Market America is the best forever… Thanks to JR and Loren.
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Thanks Debra. Kimora is amazing and you will love her new bath and body line with MA. Soft and silky:)
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Great one Matthew… Jeromy, check it out.. Matthew has STYLE…xx Loren
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Thanks for the sneak preview of what is to come at Leadership. Kimora Lee Simmons….GREAT!!! By the way, a distributor from another company(starts with A, or, now Q)sent me an invitation to shop at her site. All I have to say it nothing can compare to the MA portal. Thank so much!
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Forzieri, out of Firenze, Italia, is one of the best online retailers for men (and women) and has exceptional customer service. Oh, and it just so happens that they are a Market America Partner Store, so it’s a win, win, win if you shop through MarketAmerica.com. I particularly like their ties; one would have to go to a physical Turnbull & Asser or Etro boutique (of which there are few) to find similar or better ties.
Respectfully,
Matthew Kimball
If you like music as much as clothing, you can visit my site after you check out Forzieri:
http://www.matthewkimball.com
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Dear Loren, I so much enjoyed reading your BLOG on shopping. Shopbop, under the apparel & fashion tab is an exciting store to browse. The Clothing was clean, fashionable, and elegant; just my style! I was hoping to see men’s clothing. You and JR always look so cool at our convention networking parties. And I’m guessing that you help or shop for JR:) Would you be so kind to point me in the direction for men’s cool and stylish clothing. Thank you, Jeromy
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I should have at least got some of those great “I Love NY” shirts…maybe that would have been satisfying to the appetite..:)
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Congrats on the first post. How could anyone go to Manhattan and not buy anything? Everytime I visit NYC, I personally always get some souvenirs, from random “I Love NY” T-shirts at midtown to a kung-fu DVD in Chinatown.
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