Success Stories
Mohammed Bagudu
Senior Vice President
Mohammed Bagudu came to the U.S. and worked in a diplomatic mission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He started in 5LINX on May 31, 2006 and has successfully grown his business. He believes if you can manage people and tolerate their differences in behavior without selfish interest, you become a good leader with high success.
His greatest personal accomplishments as a 5LINX representative are helping solve other peoples’ problems by offering them the opportunity and achieving SVP. One of the obstacles he overcame before reaching ET was thinking the business was not really for him, but because he believed in the products and the industry, things became easier.
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Steve and Pasha Carter
Platinum Senior Vice Presidents
Steve and Pasha Carter have been building their 5LINX business for only nine months and are the first Platinum Senior Vice Presidents in the history of 5LINX! Along with receiving a check for over $127,000 and matching diamond 5LINX rings, they are the first PSVPs to receive a beautiful Bentley!
“Prior to 5LINX, we spent more than 11 years with another telecom company. One of the biggest differences we see with 5LINX is that, as far as customers go, what you build is yours to keep!” exclaims Steve. “You can truly build long-term residual income and know that it won’t be taken away from you as long as your customers remain on the service.”
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Ian and Stella Chebe
Senior Vice Presidents
“You don’t have to be good to start. You have to start to be good.”
Receiving a pink slip from a job my entire family relied on for a living was a wake up call for my wife and me. The coming of 5LINX to our lives in November 2005 was so timely. 5LINX is truly a window of opportunity that allows you to see your success even before you achieve it. With a product line that is in HIGH DEMAND the 5LINX business is easy to build. You actually will be doing yourself a disservice if you take a look at this opportunity and decide not to take advantage of it.
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Lisa Nicole Cloud
Platinum Senior Vice President
Lisa Nicole Cloud joined 5LINX® in April, 2004. While she was making a good living in pharmaceutical sales, “I just felt like I was not doing what I was intended to do in this life.” She heard about 5LINX® after accidentally receiving an e-mail from SVP Barry Donalson that was intended for a different Lisa. “This e-mail triggered a series of emails and I learned that Mr. Donalson was departing from a MLM company where he was a top income earner in the company to join 5LINX® . Amazed at his decision to leave a lucrative income and start over, I was interested in what he was getting ready to embark upon and I was open to learning about the 5LINX® opportunity.”
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Anthony Deveaux
Senior Vice President
Anthony Deveaux and his family (including three sisters and two brothers) have lived their lives in the United States, but their roots run beyond these shores. “Most of my family is French and Bahamian,” adds Anthony. “My inspiration is to secure my family’s name in history. My mentor told me to not only rise above mediocrity but to soar above it!” The message Anthony uses as a guideline in life is to “go hard at everything you desire in order to achieve in this life.”
Anthony has been with 5LINX® for the past 16 months. “I have been in network marketing off-and-on for 15 years (since I was 16),” says Anthony. “5LINX® is different because for the first time I have found a company that puts representatives first!” The leadership of 5LINX® has experience working in the field and that is what enables them to relate effectively to the representatives.
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Barry Donalson
Platinum Senior Vice President
Top income earner and producer, Barry Donalson, has been in the Network Marketing Industry for over 14 years. Mr. Donalson has built and managed a personal sales organization of over 150,000 representatives reaching from California to New York; the mountains of Portland Oregon to the beaches of Virginia; as well as Canada and Puerto Rico. Mr. Donalson produced millions of dollars in sales for his affiliated companies.
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William Faucette Jr.
Senior Vice President
“In the spring of 2001, after seven years of success in direct marketing, I began to research starting my own network marketing company. A short time later, I was referred to 5linx by the district manager of Sprint PCS, who believed that the co-founders and I shared a similar vision.”
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Dr. Eric Fogam
Senior Vice President
Dr. Eric Fogam is a full-time physician and still finds time to do 5LINX. He has been with the company since 2006, but it was attending the Atlanta Convention that inspired him to build his business. Prior to that he had not pursued the opportunity and had no previous network marketing experience.
He is originally from Cameroon. He and his wife of 23 years have 3 children all attending college. 5LINX has changed their lives in that they now have time and money. While his greatest personal accomplishment as a representative is attaining SVP, his dream is to build a modern health care facility in Bali in Cameroon.
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Jamie and Nicole Forte
Senior Vice Presidents
Although Jamie Forte had been with another network marketing company for seven years prior to coming to 5LINX, since January 2006, when he joined, he has built an entirely new organization from scratch to reach SVP in one year.
A Mechanical Engineer by trade, he believes network marketing has changed his life because he can enjoy the freedom to do what he wants when he wants while controlling his income and future advancement.
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Marshall Fortson
Senior Vice President
I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. My father had his own business and instilled in me the goal to never work for anyone other than myself. So, it was during my junior year of college at Tennessee State University (Nashville) that I began selling clothing out of the trunk of my car. This business mushroomed so that two months prior to graduating, my company GrooveWear, had its grand opening. Top professional NFL players, NBA players and entertainers all found their way to GrooveWear to get the latest hip-hop styles they couldn’t get anywhere else. I had graduated from the trunk to a million dollar business. It sounds great, but I was working long hours and had lots of overhead.
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C. Anthony Harris
Platinum Senior Vice President
Over the last seven years top income earner and visionary, Mr. Harris has become a champion in the industry of Network Distribution. Being affiliated with only two Network Marketing companies, he successfully created a company within a company. Mr. Harris created a movement of successful positive leaders in an environment where an ordinary person could get extraordinary results by only teaching them to work together in harmony towards achieving their desired goals.
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Dwayne Johnson
Senior Vice President
Dwayne Johnson became the first 5LINX SVP from the state of Florida. “I entered the industry of network marketing at the tender age of 19.”
Growing up in Freeport, Grand Bahamas where he watched his mother build a traditional business from scratch into a successful company, Dwayne learned early on that he didn’t want to be owned by a business. “I went off to study engineering at Devry University and after I got back into the work place I quickly realized that a J-O-B wasn’t made for me either.”
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John and Patrice Jones
Senior Vice Presidents
The last time John and Patrice Jones made a career move, 12 years ago, lightning struck. They were credited with opening the Northeast for Excel Communications and went on to attain the highest level of success as top earners and leaders. They won every award, culminating with John's selection by his peers as winner of the company’s most prestigious honor. That was as Trainer of the Year, earned by the most impacting leader to the entire field, regardless of downline affiliation.
Rick Knight
Senior Vice President
The Genesis Group is a powerful sales force based in Birmingham, AL that spans all across the country through its many branches. Rick Knight, Patrick Noles, along with former NFL Quarterback Jay Barker, are co-founders of the company. The Genesis Group was formed to help people change their lives, not only in business, but in their spiritual walk as well. Rick played Collegiate Athletics, and believes that his background on the court plays an integral role in their success in the business world and his competitive drive to be the best in whatever he sets his mind to.
Dr. Ross Lambert
Senior Vice President
Dr. Ross Lambert started with 5LINX one year ago and since joining, he has been able to attract the right kind of people who have built successful organizations who have changed their lives.
As a full-time periodontist, one of the obstacles he has faced is the challenge of not enough time, another is people without vision. 5LINX has created a lifestyle for Dr. Ross that he could only dream about. He’s added significant income and has been able to decrease his work schedule allowing him to spend more time with his wife of 35 years, their family of 3 adult daughters, his hobbies and his team.
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Lee and Rhonda Lemons
Senior Vice Presidents
“As a Systems Engineer for IBM, I realized at the age of 40 that I was not living the life that I wanted for my family. Don’t get me wrong, I had a ‘good life.’ But, I knew I was never going to be paid a six-figure income and I was going to continue to be required to give all of my time to someone else! I always joke that I had come to learn that IBM stood for ‘I’ve Been Misled.’ I wanted more out of life and I had been looking for my way out. I realized that working for Corporate America did not allow us these opportunities.
Andre and Patty Maronian
Platinum Senior Vice Presidents
“I am a product of a never quit attitude ... not talent. I’m very competitive, and I finish what I start.” It’s this attitude that has sustained Andre Maronian from his beginning in network marketing over ten years ago as a part-time pursuit, to his present position as a 5LINX Platinum Senior Vice President.
“My family is my burning desire. I can’t lose when I keep them at the forefront of my mind. They are my WHY.”
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Clarisa and Peter Minang
Senior Vice Presidents
“We are just average people who prior to 5LINX had no direct sales experience and had traditional jobs but were open to an opportunity that made sense. We found it in 5LINX and in just 10 months were able to achieve the position of Senior Vice President. Because of this opportunity, my husband Peter, a teacher, is now retired and I, a pharmacist no longer work a job. It’s quite fulfilling to say I still practice Pharmacy but this time around, I practice Pharmacy when I want, where I want and with whomever I want. For us to achieve this is truly our American dream.”
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Kate and Chi Ngwa
Senior Vice Presidents
“As 2006 rolled in, I knew I had to do something different. I was getting tired of conforming to the ‘Just Over Broke’ way of life and really wanted a way out. I wanted more — I was yearning for my piece of the pie. I also wanted to be a full-time mom for my kids. On January 15, 2006, King (Pinyin) stopped by yet again to show us this ‘phone thing’. We were pleasantly surprised at the possibilities!”
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Albert and Lima Nsah
Senior Vice Presidents
Albert worked a JOB in corporate America for 14 years. We fell in the same category as most Americans, believing that working for someone else was the only way out.
“When I came to this country six years ago from Cameroon, West Africa, and saw my husband work an average of 60 hours a week, I knew that something had to change. I just did not know what or how. I was at home raising our kids by myself most of the time.” Lema says.
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Tim Orbaker
Senior Vice President
“I knew my life was on the road to retirement at 65. My friends called it freedom 65. Fortunately I found 5LINX® and now freedom 65 has become freedom 45! After being in corporate America for 20 plus years, I knew they would continue to control my future both time and financially and therefore something had to change.
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Pastor Sam and Debbie Ore
Senior Vice Presidents
Joining 5LINX is a divine arrangement. I was at first skeptical because of two main reasons. First, I felt I would not have time because of my intensive involvement in ministry as a Pastor of a local church and as an itinerant preacher. Second, I also felt I could lose focus of my primary assignment which is preaching that I have done for 20 years. However, I still went to the Lord in prayer but I did not have to pray for more than two minutes when I had that divine intuition within me which seemed to be saying “Go for it.” Immediately, I called Charles Osong, who enrolled me and the rest is history. That was August 13th 2006.
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Tishina Pettiford
Senior Vice President
“You can make excuses or you can make money but you can’t do both” was a quote that I lived by when starting 5LINX. I knew that in order for me to achieve my goals in life I would have to make some changes. Changes that would make me into a better person and then I could live each day by taking one step towards freedom. I never knew that following the so called American Dream of completing college, getting a good job and owning a home would make me feel like a caged animal. As if someone was giving me just enough to survive.
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Sunny and King Pinyin
Platinum Senior Vice Presidents
As an Information Systems Audit Manager, Sunny Pinyin hated his early morning commute to work. Thanks to his 5LINX® business, “I now have the shortest commute — from my bedroom to my home office,” he exclaims. “I am no longer a slave to the alarm clock.” That’s just one of the several ways the 5LINX® opportunity has changed his and King”s, (his wife) life.
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Stan and Chereace Richards
Senior Vice Presidents
Stan and Chereace began their 5LINX journey on May 14, 2006. Neither had any prior experience in network marketing prior to their 5LINX business. They were promoted to the position of Senior Vice President in September at the 5LINX National Event in Philadelphia.
Before 5LINX, Stan worked with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (as a bus operator and street supervisor). In addition to working for the WMATA, he has owned a successful entertainment company since 1992.
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Norbert Simmons
Senior Vice President
Norbert E. Simmons is the founder of Deeper Life Church Ministries, Inc. in Goldsboro, N.C.
Norbert says spreading the “good news” of the 5LINX® business aligns with his mission as a Pastor. The 5LINX® business has changed the financial status of his ministry in a very positive way, and helps his church do greater outreach ministries at home and abroad. Many of his parishioners are also in the business.
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Shadiah Soliman
Senior Vice President
Shadiah joined 5LINX a year ago. Prior to that she was with another direct sales company and before that a full-time teacher. While dealing with the emotional rollercoaster that this industry can bring, she has found her greatest accomplishment to be the ability to help others have success and believe in themselves. Her greatest inspiration to succeed and her “why” is her family. Shadiah plans on retiring her mother and continues to help take care of her parents.
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Derrick Taylor
Senior Vice President
Hard work has never been a problem for me. I grew up watching my Mom work hard, and all of my life I was looking for something that would work for me. I was taught to discover my area of expertise and I would bloom. My Mom worked evenings, and many times we didn’t see her until the weekends. However, her principals are embedded in me unto this day — “work for yourself instead of working for someone else.” All of my life, I knew that I had only tapped the surface of my true potential. I am self-motivated. I love a challenge, and I enjoy helping others soar beyond their wildest dreams. I was looking for something that would change my life. But the funniest thing is ... I didn’t find it; it found me!
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Ron Williams
Senior Vice President
Ron Williams is a committed family man and a true leader in his community. Ron enjoys helping other people achieve their potential and get more out of life. It was this commitment to his organization that allowed him to achieve Senior Vice President (SVP) in only 10 months time. Achieving SVP allowed Ron to retire his wife Marcia so that she could stay at home with their three children full time. His goal is to have his family financially free and to never worry about money again. He is well on his way to achieving that goal in less than one year with 5LINX®.