John Maxwell and Darren Hardy at Ambition 2010

Two keynote speakers at Ambition 2010 will be John C. Maxwell and Darren Hardy.

John C. Maxwell is an internationally respected leadership expert, speaker, and author who has sold more than 19 million books. Dr. Maxwell is the founder of EQUIP, a non-profit organization that has trained more than 5 million leaders in 126 countries worldwide. Each year he speaks to the leaders of diverse organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies, foreign governments, the National Football League, the United States Military Academy at West Point, and the United Nations. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week best-selling author, Maxwell has written three books that have sold more than a million copies: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Developing the Leader Within You, and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader.

Darren Hardy has been engaging and inspiring audiences with his messages of personal achievement for more than 15 years. A product of the success principles he teaches, Darren became a businessman at age 18, and by age 27 he was operating a company generating $50 million in revenue and was a self-made millionaire. A successful entrepreneur for more than two decades, he has led several business ventures, including two personal-development based television networks, The People’s Network (TPN) and The Success Training Network (TSTN). He is now the publisher and editorial director of SUCCESS magazine as well as a private-equity investor and board member to several multimedia companies. He has recently authored The Compound Effect, which contains the essence of what every superachiever needs to know, practice, and master to obtain extraordinary success.

2009 DSN Global 100

Direct Selling News published their list of the top 100 direct selling companies in the world in June 2010. Ambit Energy ranked #38 on the list based on their 2009 revenues of $324 Million. The average age of companies on the list is 32 years. The average age of the top 37 companies is 40 years. Ambit Energy is less than 4 years old and already ranks #38!

Jere Thompson, Jr. & Ambit Energy Featured Cover Story for Smart Business Dallas

Smart Business Dallas featured a cover story on how Jere Thompson, Jr. grew Ambit Energy from nothing to $325 Million in less than four years.

“Most entrepreneurs can hire what they can afford and that management team can get the company launched, but sometimes [it] doesn’t have the experience or the background to really scale the organization or to manage it — or it just becomes large,” Thompson says. “What we did was a little out of the box in that we stepped out and we hired that billion-dollar management team day one to come and get the start-up company off the ground.”

“If you’re a leader, you have to exemplify the traits that others admire and want to be around,” he says. “If you’re taking shortcuts, you’re going to lose great people. The best people will leave immediately. They want to be around honest, hardworking, smart, dedicated people. They’re entrusting their futures to you, and you have to respond by making certain that there’s no reason their trust ever waivers. The most important thing is that you conduct business life and private life in the same fashion and that’s one that will make your mother proud.”

Three simple questions

How many people do you know that use electricity or natural gas? Would they rather pay less and possibly even get it for free? If I could show you how we could work together and get paid to help them do that, would it be worth 20 minutes of your time?

It's No Joke, Ambit Energy Has a New Logo

The design uses two of the colors on Ambit’s new palette, orange and gray. It is accompanied by a spark of Energy (The Ambit Spark), highlighted by actual letter A’s. The spark also represents an Ambit or “sphere of influence,” the very building block of our Consultants and their businesses. The A’s are connected to show the power of uniting many towards a common goal. It represents what Ambit Energy and our consultants have achieved in just a few years’ time.

DSN $100 Million Club 2009

The $100 Million Club list was published in the September 2009 issue of the Direct Selling News. Only 68 companies worldwide earned a spot on the list. Ambit Energy was ranked #46 based on $197 Million in revenues in 2008. This was only their second full year of revenues!

Wholesale Corporate Revenue: $197 million

Marketing Style: Person-to-person

Compensation Plan: Multi-level

Products: Electricity and natural gas

Markets: Texas, New York and Illinois (United States)

Distributors: More than 50,000

Employees: 230

Headquarters: Dallas, Texas

Year Founded: 2006

Reliant Energy Bought by NRG

Although they had over 1.8 Million customers, Reliant Energy is now out of the retail electricity business. Due to a large debt load and credit issues, Reliant sold their business to NRG Energy for $287.5 Million. Reliant was the incumbent provider in the Houston area after being split from Houston Light & Power (HL&P) when Texas deregulated electricity. NRG Energy will still use the Reliant Energy brand, so most customers will not even realize they are with a different company. In the same manner, when customers decide to upgrade to Ambit Energy's service, the only change will be the bill which will have the Ambit Energy logo and a lower amount due.