Lou Abbott - Richmond, VA

Lou Abbott is the founder of MLM-theWholeTruth.com, an information, commentary, and multilevel marketing (MLM) industry news site for professional network marketers.

"I am so impressed with what Max International offers.  It's been a passion of mine to understand how a business model (like MLM) that makes so much sense in so many ways and has the capability of empowering so many people could manage to have earned such an unimpressive reputation," says Lou.  After his first decade working and earning the major portion of his income from MLM, then watching so many network marketing companies come and go, Lou decided to write a book that explains why so many companies have failed their independent representatives.

Of  Lou's book, MLM The Whole Truth, network marketing veteran, Brian Cooper said, “At last, someone has written about what to look for when selecting an MLM company. I wish I had read this book about $20,000 ago.” Tom Barrett, author of the books Dare to Dream and Work to Win and Success Happens, says, “I have one problem with this book/course. It should have been written much sooner! It would have saved innumerable individuals from investing enormous amounts of energy, time and money in entrepreneurial endeavors that had little chance of succeeding.” "It's a bit odd and presumptuous of me to say this, but... I'm proud of you and your book Lou Abbott. Thanks. I appreciate you!" said John Milton Fogg, who is the Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the Upline® Journal, Founder, former Editor-in-Chief of Network Marketing Lifestyles magazine, and is a former Contributing Editor for SUCCESS magazine. Fogg is also the author of the million copy best seller, The Greatest Networker in the World.

Lou also is one of "52 of the brightest minds inside and outside Network Marketing" that co-authored It's time... for Network Marketing, a book that extols much of what is good about multilevel marketing. Just some of the other contributors include: Robert Allen, Richard Brooke, Bob Burg, Art Burleigh, Corey Citron, Len Clements, John Milton Fogg, Art Jonak, Robert Kiyosaki, Kim Klaver, Brian Klemmer, Terri Levine, John David Mann, Paul Zane Pilzer, Paula Pritchard, Bob Proctor, Tim Sales, Tom Schreiter, Bo Short, Dr. Denis Waitley, and Mark Yarnell.

At just fifty-four, Lou has owned several businesses, donated years of time to spiritual teaching work, built two large network marketing organizations, designed and built several websites including the PipelineParable.com, a delightfully simple prospecting and teaching site based on the Burke Hedges book, The Parable of the Pipeline. Always at the cutting edge, where network marketing meets internet marketing, Lou also designed some of the first automated network marketing, prospecting, contact management, and follow up systems for people on his teams.

Lou lives in Richmond, Virginia with the "love of  his life," wife and partner, Holly Billingsley.  He is a father of twin girls, and already a grandfather to two boys.