Founding Philosophy
“To take better health and prosperity around the world, while changing the face of
the industry”
– Mark Landon
President & Founder
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“It`s Just The Beginning”
To tell the Ark story properly, we have to go back to when President & Founder - Mark Landon, was just 18 years of age.
At 18 Mark was a struggling musician, and after dropping out of college and trying several different jobs to supplement his musical career, he came across a flyer on a shop window that would ultimately change the direction of his life forever.
After replying to the advertisement, Mark went to an interview at a local hotel in a town called Brighton, on the south coast of England, UK. However, it was not just any ordinary job interview, as Mark found himself in a meeting room full of people, talking about a health company. Mark decided that the business was not for him and so left the meeting. However, several months later and after seeing the same advertisement again, Mark decided to give the business a go and spent £25.00 / $40.00 and joined the company.
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Mark Landon
Marks Mum
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| Mark immediately started using the products and on his first day after he had attended his first meeting and training class, he got his first customer, his Mum. After Mark and his Mum started getting good health results from using the products, Mark started retailing the products to other people in his family, to Customers that his Mum had referred to him and to people that he bumped into on the street. Just part time and with no prior business experience, Mark started building a retail business that would give him 18 Customers in his first month. One of these was his Uncle in Canada, who along with 3 other people from Mark's original 18 Customers, joined the business and became one of Marks first Distributors. |
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After Mark earned just over £400.00 / $600.00 in his first month from retailing the product, he then started learning the power of duplication.
As he put more people on the products and signed up more Distributors, Mark realized that his Distributors were also retailing and recruiting like he was, which started earning Mark a Royalty cheque from their business too. This really excited Mark; to be able to earn a residual income from his organization of Distributors for life, even when he was asleep at night.
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Mark 18yrs
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As Mark's business grew, so did the health stories and income stories from his organisation, as well as Marks excitement, which produced an income of over £2,500.00 / $4,000.00 in his 5th month alone. After going full-time in the company, his income started to double and treble and quickly Mark built an international organisation, just by working local and thinking global and by doing 2 things - using the product and talking to people.
With just a willingness to work and a burning desire to succeed, Mark started telling the story all day long. |
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Looking back Mark reflects on why things went so well as a Distributor.
“One of the greatest things that happened to me when I started out as a Distributor was that I got off to a really fast start. The first 72 hours are so critical in your business because the quicker you go, the better your attitude is and the better your story that you create for yourself. If you keep talking to lots of people, problems do not seem to matter to you and everything is more exciting.
On top of that, your Distributors do what you do and not what you tell them to do, so if you go quickly, they will too. The momentum generated is unbelievable.”
“Massive action equals massive results.”
Over the next couple of years Mark learnt from some of the best people in the Multi-Level Marketing Industry, such as the Millionaire Maker himself, Mr Jim Rohn. Mark learnt the Jim Rohn philosophy that has now become famous in the business world today.
“For things to change, you`ve got to change”
“For things to get better, you`ve got to get better”
“You have to be willing to work harder on yourself, than you do on your product and marketing” said Mark.
So while building his international business, Mark went to work on himself, attending every meeting, training, conference call and personal development class that he could, to learn the skills to become more as a person, a Distributor and a Leader. However, as the years passed and Mark moved into his mid-twenties, he became increasingly disillusioned with the Multi-Level Marketing Industry in general and the way some companies were conducting their business. In fact, after being in 2 different companies and becoming one of the Top Distributors in both, Mark still felt dissatisfied and a little disillusioned with the integrity, philosophy and code of ethics that some companies have.
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To add to this, as well as losing several people in his family to heart disease and other diet related problems, when Mark was just 28 years old, he lost his Dad to Cancer.
As devastating as this was to Mark, some good would come out of it, as he decided to dedicate the rest of his life in helping other people to get better health and nutrition, so that they would not have to suffer in the same way as his Dad had. Although tragic, his Dads death became the reason that inspired Mark. To find the best product money could buy and to build a company that would not only help other people with their health but would stand up for honesty and integrity and keep the promises to Distributors that so many companies before in the industry, had failed to do. |
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Marks Dad
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Over the next couple of years while on several business trips to America, Mark met up with some of the finest minds in the Health and Nutrition Industry. These were to include Dr Harry Elwardt ND, PhD, who was instrumental in helping Mark realise his dream and without who, the course of history may have been very different. Indeed, Mark and Dr Harry shared many of the same philosophies and dreams, but also concerns regarding the industry. Dr Harry had not only been a naturopathic doctor of some standing but had also been a top Distributor in the industry as well, with an abundance of knowledge and wisdom. Dr Harry’s show of support and faith in Mark inspired him even more.
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The Break-Through
It was while Mark was attending a Medical Convention in Las Vegas, USA that he first met Dr. Harry. While at the convention, Mark learnt of an incredible Nobel Prize winning discovery, that was won in 1998 by 3 eminent Doctors, for their work concerning a Gas Molecule called Nitric Oxide and the role it plays in the Cardiovascular System. It had also been shown that Arginine (an amino acid found in certain foods) is used by the body to produce Nitric Oxide naturally.
The term for this is ADNO (Arginine Derived Nitric Oxide).
It was with this discovery that gave Mark the idea of combining ADNO with Micro Nutrition, (the elements that make up nutrition and botanical factors, delivered at a cellular level).
However, it was with one telephone call that would give Mark the Break-Through that he was looking for. Mark met up with an incredible lady called Barbara Apps who had spent over 15 years in Marketing and Product Development. Barbara introduced Mark to Dr Titut Yokelson PhD and Jeff Golini, leading developers and manufactures of nutritional products. Mark was so impressed, not only with their 25 years experience in product development with Amino Acids, Herbs and nutritional and dietary supplements, but also with their enthusiasm, commitment and belief in Mark's dream and cause.
In fact so much so, that Mark asked the question……
“If you can design me the best products money can buy, I will be the first Customer and first Distributor in the company and take it completely around the entire world”.
After much research, development and testing with Barbara Apps and the product development team, Mark developed the original Arkworld products and went to work on developing a company that would change the cause of history and revolutionise the industry as we know it.
After another 2 years of hard work, dedication and commitment to the cause, Mark began the company and opened its doors for business on May 1st 2005. The dream was born and Arkworld was founded. After inventing the Pink Drink and Bionic Badges and a simple unique 4 step training system that everyone could use: 1. Use It! - Use the Products 2. Wear It! – Wear the Badge 3. Talk It! – Talk to People 4. Teach It! – Teach the Skills; Mark was able to build his Distributorship to over $46,000 of business by the end of the first month. It was with this simple training philosophy of Use, Wear, Talk, Teach, that took Arkworld to 1 Million Dollars of business by the end of the first year and to over 3 Million Dollars by the end of year two.
However, it’s only just begun!
With Arkworld now in two countries already, plans are already underway for continued expansion to fulfil Mark’s dream and goal of bringing better health to the world. What was once a dream has now become reality!
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On a sunny afternoon in Orlando Florida, USA, A Dream Was Born…ARKWORLD!!
Using the finest quality ingredients in the world today and combining ADNO, (Arginine Derived Nitric Oxide) with Micro Nutrition, Arkworld truly leads the way in bringing better health to the world with some of the most innovative products ever seen.
With a business opportunity and philosophy second to none, millions of people worldwide, will have the chance to have more financial freedom and prosperity through the Arkworld opportunity.
With the Founding Philosophy…
“To take better health and prosperity around the world, while changing the face of the industry”.
Arkworld will sail the ship of hope and opportunity, around the entire world !!
As a Christian, Mark is in no doubt,….“I truly believe that some things in life are sent for a reason and that everything gone before has been preparing us for this moment. I believe this is a God sent Company, a Cause, a Family and a Way Of Life. A Company run by Distributors, instead of Distributors run by a Company, by the people, for the people”.
“So join us on board the Ark because together we can make a difference. To sail around the world just by doing 4 things, Using the Products, Wearing the badge, Talking to people and Teaching others to do the same, we can make this a better world for people to live in.
From humble beginnings, in a small town in the United Kingdom, the dream became reality…ARKWORLD… “Welcome To Our World”
And Remember… “Its Just The Beginning”
“Dedicated to my Dad, who taught me so much and who I love and miss so much”.
Mark Landon
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Company History – The Arkworld Story