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What Are
PDPs?
5 Key Facts
About PDPs
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Fact #2
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5 Key Facts About PDPs
Professional Development Programs (PDPs) play a valuable
role today in business and industry. Here are 5 key
facts
that new Independent Business Owners should know.
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PDPs are everywhere.
U.S. employers spent $56.8 billion on employee training and
development in 2001, a 5% increase from the previous year.
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PDPs can be effective.
“It appears that improved performance is the ultimate
outcome of leading-edge firms’ investment in training.” (ASTD
State of the Industry Report, 1998)
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PDPs used in a
Quixtar-powered business are of substantial
value and are accompanied by a generous buy-back provision.
The latest motivational best-sellers may be moving and
inspiring—but they can’t teach you about building a
Web-based business powered by
Quixtar.
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PDPs used in a
Quixtar-powered business are part of the
growing training and motivation industry.
Professional development and education is an international
multibillion-dollar business.
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Investing in PDPs is an optional way to build your future.
You’re free to choose how much time, effort, money, and
training you want to spend on your future.
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Fact 1 – PDPs are everywhere
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Teachers, doctors, mechanics, and countless other
professionals rely on training and motivation to learn
industry trends, stay focused, and keep skills
up-to-date.
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U.S. employers spent $56.8 billion on employee training and
development in 2001, a 5% increase from the previous year.1
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“The average U.S. company is training more of its employees than
ever before …” 2
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“Expenditures on seminars and conferences remained steady from 2000
to 2001, but in the past three years, the category has increased 59
percent.” 1
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The Training and Development Organizations Directory
lists more than 2,600 institutes, firms, and
other agencies that conduct professional training or
produce training materials.
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Professional development for those building a
Quixtar-powered business is no different. The majority
have never built a business before and use the
information communicated through PDP books, tapes, and
meetings to help gain the skills necessary to help
achieve success.
1
Training Magazine’s
2001 Industry Report.
2
2001 American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) State
of the Industry Report.
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Fact 2 – PDPs can be effective
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A good doctor is an educated, motivated doctor. A good engineer is
an educated, motivated engineer. Professional development and
continuing education is found in virtually every field, and it works.
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"Companies
that invested $680 more in training per employee than the average
firm improved their total shareholder return by 6% the following
year."3
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"It
appears that improved performance is the ultimate outcome of
leading-edge firms’ investment in training. They report both their
own improved performance over time and higher industry performance
with their counterparts."4
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Through Professional Development Programs, independent business
owners learn more about business, products, marketing, time
management, and more. They learn these techniques from the
experts—other
Quixtar-powered business owners—who have faced the
same challenges and built successful businesses.
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Tapes, books, and seminars can be a valuable and effective way for
more people to gain the skills they need to achieve their business
goals.
3
ASTD
Research White
Paper, Profiting From Learning: Do Firms’ Investments in
Education and Training Pay Off?, 2000.
4
ASTD
State of the Industry Report, 1998.
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Fact 3 –
PDPs used in a
Quixtar-powered business are of substantial value and are accompanied by
a generous buy-back provision
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PDPs have been found to be a substantial value to many business
owners powered by
Quixtar. It is the sharing of hands-on knowledge
from those who have already built successful businesses.
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The latest motivational best-sellers may be moving and inspiring—but
they can’t teach you about building a Web-based business powered by
Quixtar.
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The prices charged for the motivational and training materials
available to
Quixtar-powered business owners represent real value.
Simply compare these with the prices of similar materials and events
from other training and motivation organizations.
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Other avenues for pursuing a career change include adult education,
where classes can cost hundreds of dollars. Of course, the cost of
college tuition, books, and related necessities are astronomical in
comparison.
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All aspects of PDP-use are covered under a generous buy-back
provision. The objective is to help you develop a successful and
profitable independent business and assure your investment in your
development.
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Fact 4 –
PDPs used in a
Quixtar-powered business are part of the growing training and motivation
industry.
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Professional development and education is an international
multibillion-dollar business. Authors such as Dr. Stephen Covey (The
7 Habits of Highly Effective People) profit from the sale of
books and other materials. Bookstores everywhere offer hundreds of
“how-to” books, tapes, and videos on a variety of topics.
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A number of
Quixtar-powered business owners also operate companies
that produce and market training materials to help others build
their own independent Web-based businesses.
The fees from PDPs help these business owners pay for a multitude of
expenses, including: production facilities, equipment, technicians,
accountants, attorneys, employees, leases, taxes, insurance,
transportation, union charges, and convention hall rentals and
commissions.
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They incur the expenses and, of course, realize profits from their
efforts, as with any other business.
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Moreover, many
Quixtar-powered business leaders are compensated for
promoting and selling PDPs to their customers, as is the case with
other sales businesses.
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Most money made through
Quixtar.com is from the sale of products
associated with its business ownership plan. Profits from the sales
of PDPs are generally invested into building the
Quixtar-powered
businesses of those involved in making those sales.
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Most
Quixtar-oriented meetings are actually free of charge. In
addition, leading
Quixtar-powered business owners typically provide
free mentoring to those people in their respective organizations.
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Fact 5 –
Investing in
PDPs is an optional way to build your future
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As an independent business owner, you’re free to choose how much
time, effort, money, and training you want to spend on your future.
In fact, it is your responsibility.
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Through Professional Development Programs, you can learn from those
who have “gone to the head of the class.” You can learn a great deal
about building a
Quixtar-powered business from those who’ve been
there and done that.
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The option of
using PDPs is yours to choose—only you know what might work best for
you.
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