Welcome to 2017 Happy New Year everyone! This New Year, instead of looking at all we accomplished together in the last year… … I thought I’d turn it around and ask YOU... ... empowr citizens and success coaches... ... for your input. We need your guidance for 2017. We need to know what YOU want empowr’s priorities to be. “Show me an organization’s priorities, and I’ll tell you it’s future”. -unknown philosopher First, for the benefit of our newest citizens… … and to serve as a refresher for our old-timer citizens… … let’s remind ourselves: What have we been attempting to accomplish? Together we
the citizens, success coaches & employees of empowr are on a mission. We’re attempting to use software…
… to build a place where people from all over the world…
… can find opportunity…
… hope...
… and the influence and power to change their lives for the better. In fact, empowr’s official mission and goal reads as follows: Our Mission
To empower people by enabling
opportunity, hope and influence. Our Goal
To help half the planet (4 billion people)
earn $25 or more per day
by the year 2025. Are we building a new nation? Perhaps one way to think about empowr’s future, is that of a new nation. A nation that people can easily travel to – using their smartphone or PC -- and easily become a citizen of -- just by signing up. But is “nation” really the right way to look at what we’re creating? Perhaps. Let’s discuss: ● These days, most of our communications, and our community, are happening online. ● More of our news and entertainment are now coming from cyberspace. ● Our shopping is rapidly moving to the Web and mobile. ● And now, more of our income potential and opportunity are manifesting via the internet. Clearly, more and more of our time, money and life are being spent online. So, where is that fine-line? I mean, exactly when is the moment… … where we find ourselves more dependent on the online world, than we are on the actual countries where our physical bodies happen to be located in? And as we find ourselves more dependent on various online places, aren’t those places (those websites, apps, companies that we use) also completely dependent on us…
… for their content, for their revenue, and even for their reason to exist in the first place? Look: Over time, we have grown to demand certain things from the place -- our country -- where we have lived and built our communities; where we have worked and played. Shouldn’t we be demanding more from the places where we’re now doing most of those things? I submit for your consideration that it IS optimal and accurate to think about what we’re doing here together, at empowr, as “forming a new nation”: ● A nation that exists only to help make the lives of its citizens better. ● A nation where everyone (citizens, success coaches and employees) is doing their part to improve how it helps you and other citizens. ● A nation that’s accountable to you. That listens to you. That moves in the direction you want and need it to. ● A nation whose leader comes from the community; and is elected (by vote) by the community members. ● A nation where you have rights. ● A nation that is inclusive – meaning that the income and wealth being generated flow to its citizens, as opposed to being extracted out for the benefit of a few billionaires (company founders and investors) and their friends.
So, as we go about building this nation, the question I'd like you to think about, is:
What kind of nation do you want? ● If you were choosing to move to a new country, how would you judge and compare countries? ● What factors would you most consider, as you look to make your choice? ● What things would make your move to a new country worth the effort? For 2017… … what important things… … do YOU feel… … should be in that very top… … (2% to 3%) of empowr’s projects? In a moment, please use the comments section below, to share your thoughts, your desires, your wishes. But first, please consider that empowr is not an organization with the most resources in the world. At any one point, together, we can only focus on about 2% to 3% of all the things we would like to get done. Therefore, we must be very careful – incredibly methodical and specific – as we go though the process of determining which projects we will take on. 
To help get the conversation started… … I’ll share how we have been attempting to answer that question during 2016. Up to now, the following have been our priorities... ... and how we've answered this question:
What kind of nation do you want? 1. A vibrant and rapidly growing nation I’m sure most people can agree that a great nation needs to be one that is growing… … so that it’s constantly getting stronger and more capable of helping its people. But how should we measure empowr’s growth? Most Internet companies measure themselves by the number of eyeballs hitting their pages, because it is the sales of those eyeballs (advertising) that ultimately matters most to them, as they work to enrich their shareholders. And if they end up counting software bots, non-real people, fake accounts and people that have many accounts… … creating a false sense of how many real eyeballs they’re delivering to the advertisers… … well, so be it. Those fake users help them seem bigger, which helps their revenues and so they’re generally fine with that. As you may know by now, at empowr we believe the best nation will ultimately have the strongest economy. Why? Because the nations with the strongest economies have the most resources… … and therefore they’re most capable of helping their citizens improve their lives using those resources. So, rather than count how many eyeballs are viewing the empowr platform, instead, we need another way of counting our citizens. We need a way to count the people that are really contributing to the empowr economy… … as opposed to simply counting visitors or software bots or count fake accounts or people with many accounts. Perhaps one way to measure the number of people truly contributing to the economy… … is to count the number of people that are hitting their Daily Goals? Counting the number of Daily Goal hitters When someone hits their Daily Goal, they’re building and motivating their circle of trust (their network). Those personal motivated networks are the key to each citizen’s income potential, as they represent the people that will be there for him or her: -- To help them earn by viewing and sharing their posts -- To help them earn by sharing, bidding and buying the things they’re selling -- To help them reach an even wider audience with their listings and posts So when a citizen hits their Daily Goal, they are building and motivating their network, which increases their personal economic potential. That means they have also increased the economic potential of the overall empowr community and economy, because they are doing that within empowr. In addition, when an empowr citizen hits their Daily Goal -- along with growing their economic potential by growing their circle of trust -- they are also immediately: ● adding to the empowr economy because of the products & services they list and deliver to other empowr citizens ● helping other people distribute and sell their products & services, by bidding, sharing and sponsoring (IE: acting as distributors) for those people And that’s why we think it makes sense to judge empowr’s growth based on the number of people hitting their Daily Goals. If empowr is said to be “rapidly growing”, that means that the number of Daily Goal hitters is quickly growing. And that’s why every empowr employees keeps a close eye -- each and every day -- on how this number is growing. 2. A highly productive nation We believe that a great nation needs to be a productive one, not just an active one. For example, what if everyone is busy hitting their Daily Goals but, in the end, the community is accomplishing almost nothing. Typically, nations compare themselves against others using their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – which is the amount of sales being made (money changing hands) within their economies. In that same manner, empowr measures the productivity of the overall economy, by total dollar amount of completed sales of products and services… … by citizens to other citizens, where profits successfully changed hands. This measurement of productivity is also watched by every empowr employee daily. 3. A nation with a high standard of living For all the hard work (and Daily Goals hit) of our citizens, what do our citizens receive in return? Nations often measure their standard of living by “income per capita”. How much is each citizen earning? At empowr, we calculate that by taking the amount of cash outs, on average, our citizens receive… … and we add to that the dollar amount of products and services they are purchasing and receiving, on average, via the empowr economy. Adding those two (cash and purchases) helps us have a benchmark that all employees watch daily to ensure the standard of living, of empowr citizens, continues to grow. 4. A great nation has happy citizens What’s the point of empowr, if its citizens aren’t happy? At empowr, each month we ask each and every citizen how happy they are in empowr (0-10)… … and we watch your votes and read your comments very carefully… … to ensure we have a constant eye on what you want us to improve, and what you’re totally loving and want us to do more of. Like all the above factors, every employee of empowr views this info daily… … so that how you feel about how we’re doing, is always top-of-mind. 5. A great nation has happy children The future of every nation is its children. And you can judge a nation’s future by the care it takes with its newest citizens; the ones that need the most help. At empowr, our newest citizens are our “children”. We are always focused on improving how we focus on the needs of our newest citizens. Indeed, one of the ways that success coaches are awarded, is based on the results achieved with their newest student citizens. 6. A great nation does a great job at educating its youth Along with a focus on the happiness of new citizens, a great nation must invest heavily in the education of its youth. Why? Well, because the greatness of nations depends on the strength of their economies… … and because the strength of their economies depend on the productivity of their citizens… … then… … it follows that the nations that do best at educating their citizens to be productive and successful in their economies… … end up becoming the greatest of nations. Did you follow that? The nations that do the best job at educating their citizens today… … become the greatest nations tomorrow. In empowr, education happens through our success coach program. Success coaches are judged and bonused based on: ● The quality of their teaching ● How successful their students become in the economy ● How happy their students are ● How fast they respond to questions from their students ● How fast they moderate the marketplace listings submitted by their students Recently, empowr has been specifically focused on increasing the quality of education, in two (2) new and major ways: 1. The first way is by “decreasing class size”… … meaning bringing down the average number of students that each success coach is responsible for, so they can spend more time with each student. This was accomplished when hundreds of you, our dear citizens, volunteered to become success coaches in just the last 90 days. Thank you, new success coaches! You are an inspiration to everyone… … and of great hope and assistance to the old-timer success coaches that have been over-worked and carrying the torch… … some for many, many years. Did you know? The number of success coaches has quadrupled in just the last 90 days – driving down the “average class size”. 2. The second big recent push to increase the quality of education, is by opening up management positions… … so Success Coaches themselves have help and guidance, as they look to improve how they educate and serve their students. Of course, all success coaches can earn bonuses for doing a great job with their students… … but now, also by training, mentoring and leading other success coaches to greatness. It no secret: empowr believes that if the future of an economy depends on its quality of education… ... then shouldn’t its educators be compensated as well as -- if not better than -- any other role in the empowr economy? empowr has spent years studying and analyzing what went wrong in educational systems (like that of the United States)… … and what went right (in countries like Finland and South Korea)… … and the result of those learnings and implementations is that, now, in empowr: ● Success Coaches are free to try different approaches to educating their students: They are free to innovate! o (Learned by watching one of the most successful education systems: Finland – where teachers are trained well, then released to be creative and entrepreneurial). ● Success coaches are compensated based on merit – meaning based on their own performance as a teacher -- and are free to earn as much as they like without limits. o (Learned from South Korea’s educational system, where teachers can become millionaires). Being a focused and dedicated success coach is one of the best ways to earn profits and even AMCOs in empowr… … if you are serious about helping people succeed. This is a still great time to become a success coach… learn how here Our objective is for each generation of students to get better. And then, we’ll look to each new generation of students, for the next crop of success coaches to emerge… … even better trained and equipped, on average, than the generation before them. As a result, with each generation of students and success coaches, the overall quality of the education system will improve… … creating better educated students that are even more prepared to be successful in the empowr economy. Which ultimately means a stronger economy… … that’s getting better and better at meeting the needs of its citizens… … with each passing wave (or generation) of citizens and success coaches. 7. A great nation has a currency that’s in demand People want to have more of the currency of great nations. In empowr, when you use your credit card or PayPal to pay for products and services, you are -- in essence -- buying into the empowr currency. Therefore, one way to measure the demand of the empowr currency, is by tracking the company’s monthly revenues – meaning the amount of money flowing into empowr. empowr is always looking for new ways to boost its revenues, because that’s the only way it can come up with more cash to pay out to its citizens… ... which is essential to pushing upwards the standard of living of its citizens. Indeed, together we’ve been doing really well with revenues, as evidenced by the (rapidly growing) amount of cash outs lately. And things will get a lot better soon: As empowr continues to grow… … it will become a much more attractive place for big advertisers to spend their money… .. which, as a reminder, is how over 90% of the revenues of Facebook, Google and most top web properties are generated. And so all of us at empowr simply cannot wait for empowr’s traffic to grow to a point where the advertising dollars it can earn are meaningful… … so that we can get more of that revenue (billions of dollars annually, just like the other platforms)… … and of course in empowr’s case -- unlike any other platform -- virtually all that revenue will be pushed to its citizens via cash outs. 8. A great nation has great infrastructure Great nations invest heavily in their roads, bridges, trains, airports and transportation… … because they’ve learned that the faster people can get around… … the more business they can do… … which means the faster their economy grows… … and the more everyone prospers. In empowr, we think “great infrastructure” means that the empowr product must work faster and faster. The platform must constantly become more stable. All bugs must be eradicated. empowr must listen to its citizens as it looks to prioritize the new features, fixes and issues that it wants to attack using its limited resources. This is a big part of why all empowr citizens are asked, monthly, to share their views on empowr… ... and why all empowr employees are required to view that information each day, before they start their day. 9. A great nation is fair and secure Great nations have laws and rules, and people are rewarded for following them. Many of you have been complaining about the spammers around the site – spreading their garbage about loans and get rich quick scams. And you’ve also pointed out that some citizens appear to be doing things that don’t appear to be “above board” and honest. As a result of your requests, I can tell you that removing those that have chosen to cheat you will now become an even bigger focus for us at empowr. It’s my promise to you, that you’ll be seeing new initiatives around this topic in the coming days and weeks. 10. And finally, the citizens of a great nation are free In a great nation, people are free to speak up and be heard. They are free to change the system. After all, if the system truly belongs to them, there should be free elections happening on a regular basis… … where peaceful revolutions (known as democratic elections) cause the old leaders to go away… … and make room for the new and passionate ones, as judged and “hired” by the citizens via their votes. By now, empowr has had several presidential elections, where you voted to elect the company’s President. In 2017, we’ll have our next empowr presidential election, where a few of you will step up and say “I’m running to be the next president of empowr”. And then we’ll all vote, and – very simply -- the person with the most votes, will become the next president of empowr. To become empowr’s president, you don’t need experience running a company. empowr will provide you with full-time staff who will show you how things work around the office, and make you feel comfortable pretty quickly. You just need to have good ideas, and a love for empowr and its potential. No one will vote for you if they sense you don’t have those two things. The only requirement is that you need to be a success coach. If you think you might want to give it a go, be sure to become a success coach now so you’re eligible to run, when the time comes. Question: Why do empowr presidential candidates need to first be success coaches? Answer: Because in that manner, they will have already proven to the community that they will enjoy -- and be good at -- serving the community. Isn’t that what a president’s job description is… "serving the community"?
There are no losers in empowr’s presidential elections:
Based on all past elections, I can tell you that the support and respect you’ll feel for having put your name out there and run for president… … whether you win or not… … will be amazing. So, this is the perfect time become a success coach: ● Do it because you love helping people ● Do it because you love seeing people succeed ● Do it because you love earning great bonuses ● Do it because you love AMCO cash outs ● Do it because you’d love to have the option to become empowr’s president in the future Simply go here to learn how easy, fun and rewarding it is to become a success coach. And beyond the empowr presidential election… … much, much more needs to happen to evolve empowr’s democratic process and institutions. Specifically, the empowr constitution needs to be formalized, and all the rules better defined, so that senators, congressmen and women can be elected on a regular basis… … and political parties are encouraged and enabled to form.
empowr’s board of advisors, comprised of some of the world’s best thinkers in the areas of political science and economics, are ready to get started on this process…
… and are waiting for the successful attainment of the many economics results, that we’ve actually been experiencing recently. Our democratic hope for 2017 Our hope is that, sometime during 2017, the organization’s focus can become bringing together more of the full democratic process so that you are all truly free… … and have more influence on the world around you and especially in this community and economy that you’re putting so much into. By the way, I highlighted the word “influence” above to see if it caught your attention. What’s that? empowr wants you to have more influence? Influence on what? Where did you hear that, before…? Anyone?
Perhaps you remember it from empowr’s mission: To empower people by enabling opportunity, hope and influence. Based on what you’re telling us via your feedback, in this last year most of you are receiving much more opportunity from the empowr economy (than you did before)... … which is making many more citizens hopeful about their future. And with opportunity and hope on the rise, we’re even more eager to help get you more influence… … meaning more power to change the things, rules and leaders… … that most matter to you… … and most affect your ability to create & live the life you choose and dream of. Here comes 2017 I can tell you -- with much pride -- in 2016 there has been significant and measurable progress in points # 1-9 above… … some of them progressed more than others, of course. Specifically, the empowr team and engineers successfully completed nearly 10,000 new features, bug fixes, algorithm and infrastructure improvements… … with almost all of such product ideas, suggestions and bug/issue reports coming to us directly from YOUR input through: ● Your comments in blog posts like this ● Your feedback via the monthly survey (where you vote 0-10 and then give your comments) ● and through your trusted success coaches A big THANK YOU, from all of us, to the incredible success coaches…
… who work harder than most of us will ever know… … and to all citizens, success coaches and non-coaches alike…
… for doing everything in your power to push & pull empowr up higher and higher…
… to where your vision wants it to go, and you believe it should be. And a big thank you to the employees of empowr, who work harder than any other tech company out there…
… and who give up more of their lives – in terms of time, focus, money/income and benefits... … in order for this mission to succeed… We are all appreciative of their belief that the world needs this project to succeed, and it needs it so badly, that all their personal sacrifices that they make are worth it. Being one of those employees myself, I can tell you that without the community’s (your) support… … without all the encouragement you – our citizens -- always shower us in… … without all the forgiveness you afford us every time we drop the ball… … without this constant reminder, though your actions, that we’re not alone: … that you value this mission and believe it as much as we do. I can tell you that without your incredible, unwavering and unrelenting support… … there’s no way this grand and gigantic moonshot experiment would have endured and continue to grow and expand. And so it is with that sense of humility to you… ... this sense of reciprocity and love that we have for you, our citizens… … that feeling that stems from realizing how lucky we are, to have received so much from you… … it is with that mindset that I can tell you without any doubt whatsoever… … that the team, founders and management of empowr are -- now as much as ever… … committed to serving you… … and committed to giving this project everything we have until… … together… … we have achieved our mission and goal. Our Mission To empower people by enabling
opportunity, hope and influence. Our Goal
To help half the planet (4 billion people)
earn $25 or more per day
by the year 2025. Thanks for listening. So now, please, answer this question: 
Are we focused on the right things? What are we missing, that you believe should be one of the top 10 things we focus on? ● If you were choosing to move to a new country, how would you judge and compare countries? ● What factors would you most consider, as you look to make your choice? ● What things would make your move to a new country worth the effort? Please use the comments section below, to share your thoughts, your desires, your wishes. And once again, welcome to 2017 (more) ►
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