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Do you believe that you have to put an insane amount of effort in from the get-go, and that you will have little or no growth until you put in that kind of effort? Actually Bridgett, I find it extremely unlikely that anyone has built to Ruby and worked less than 10 hours a week. Indeed, the main reason is they never try it in the first place! Another reason people quit, as highlighted by others above, is unlrealistic expectations. I am late to this party, but I must say, I highly appreciate this post of yours, simply because I can relate to it — very well!!
And my gratitude goes also to visioneer and his story on Le, it was just extremely well written. I used to go for meetings and functions but was not very keen building the business actively, so we decided to stop going to these meetings as they take up lot of time and money, iconsidering travelling, preparation etc.
While going to meetings and listening to CDs definitely make you feel good and positive, but if actions does not follow the teachings they quickly turns into frustuation. I am not sure about other LOS, but in BWW they heavily put pressure of attending all meetings and major functions…which after sometime start to feel like a burden.. I am nor in support or against these meetings, but clearly they are only good for people who wants to build business fast, otherwise they will keep wasting money indefinitely.
I never meant any such implication. I am not of the opinion that a brand new IBO should, nor should be encouraged, taught, trained, whatever, to put hours a week in to building this business. Most of the population simply cannot handle that for a long enough time to garner any significant results. Look at the last function you were at. And yet, their upline currently qualified pins—Plats, Emeralds, Diamonds are making good Amway money.
In other words, one can build a very nice Amway income by having MOST of their organization doing very little—nowhere near hours a week. And, quite frankly, those people are few and far between.
How about lots of little dreams? Wishing the best to everyone. In other words, the functions have kept them in the business. It might be turning down a social invitation because you have business related goals or committments. It might be doing without holidays for a year or three. But to do that on top of 40 or 50hrs of traditional income is damn hard to maintain. Heck … as I wrote of that I thought about being a new parent as another example!
It all depends on what the IBO wants out of the business. Really you need to sit down and discuss where they want to go, figure out a game plan and then work towards it.
Just make sure the expectation is set and meet people with where they are at. We have much more success that way instead of trying to ram something down someones throat they are not ready for. This business is so simple. All that needs to happen is for an upline Platinum or sponsor to sit down with a new or existing IBO and finds out what they want, how soon they want it, and get a time commitment from them, like how many hours per week are they willing to work. Then the upline needs to lay out the basic steps of making the list, helping the new IBO get a good number of customers, help them with personal use by finding out what they are already buying at the store for their lifestyle, then show them how to prospect and get an organization started.
The thing that frustrates me the most is that nobody at the company wants to hear it. They just keep looking the other way. If the Diamonds want to have training materials, then let them do it; just submit them to the company and then everybody can take advantage of them. It would be real simple for the company to do all the training, but they just refuse to do it.
I would be willing to bet that, rather than sales being stagnant in North America still, if the individual training systems were eliminated, and we stood united as one company, we could hit 5 billion in North America within 3 to 4 years. Who do you want teaching you how to build a business? Do you sit down with all of them and teach them how to do a list? How to invite? And why not get the best prospectors teaching to prospect? What I suspect is going on is that you might be missing the teaching and training because a substantial part of it is done in the style of narrative — teaching through story telling.
Now we also get powerpoints and whiteboards and that kind of stuff, but a lot is done through storytelling. If you have any doubts about whether this is real teaching, ask a follower of Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, or anyone of a multitude of great leaders over the eons.
So what? Now, in my case not working has pretty much been because of choice and circumstances. Some Diamonds have gone to the extent of teaching people that they should give up family necessities in order to afford the next function, the next cd pack, the next seminar, etc. The entrepreneur has no alterior motive. He is not suggesting people go without groceries in order to afford mass quantities of his books and seminars. Amway Corp has recognized that there should be balance in tool purchases.
Doctors recommend surgery and drugs they may profit from all the time. Lawyers recommend paths of action that may lead to them profiting. Everyone from pharmacists to grocers to hardware store owners to car salesman to whatever make recommendations they have a stake in.
Guess what … Amway Diamonds and indeed pretty much everyone else in Amway also recommend you buy and sell Amway products! Guess what? They have a stake in that too. Many US Diamonds have made comments from stage suggesting people go without basic necessities so they can afford the next function and more business support materials.
This is major successful entrepreneurs, advising up and coming entrepreneurs about what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. Why should leading Amway entrepreneurs be treated differently? Are you suggesting they should sugarcoat things and make it seem easier than it is?
ALL success books talk about paying the price. Why should the Amway Opportunity be taken out of that same success principal. Success is success no matter what arena you apply it to. If its not in my schedule then its not going to happen. While certainly not exclusive, very few employees have the ability to spend months at a time travelling privately while still earning an income.
Not to mention other companies. Being an entrepreneur gives you those options and then some. I have a buddy that owns his own IT company and has been able to take time off and travel to his homeland in Poland.
On the misled aspect, you are very right. There are a lot of people that represent the Amway Business Opportunity, not all of them are as honest and transparent. Another reason people quit any multilevel marketing endeavor is due to a misunderstanding of the business in general. This is why I like the business so much. As a result, I have a clear understanding of the business, have many happy customers who buy from me and very soon will start sponsoring some more business minded folks.
India has a population of 1 billion people and till now there are only , IBOs. So the sky is not the limit. Awesome post Ibofightback! I hope I am not breaking any copyright laws by posting this story I got from the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book. I like to read this every so often to remind myself of the sacrifices others have made. Please take it down if you think it violates any laws.
If not, enjoy! When my wife Maryanne and I were building our Greenspoint Mall hair salon 13 years ago, a Vietnamese fellow would stop by each day to sell us doughnuts. He spoke hardly any English, but he was always friendly and through smiles and sign language, we got to know each other. His name was Le Van Vu.
When he and his wife arrived in Houston in , they were flat broke and spoke no English. We were building our salon just a couple of hundred feet away. For two years their diet consisted almost entirely of bakery goods. To this day they continue to save on a regular basis, live on an extremely small percentage of their income, and, of course, always pay cash for any of their purchases.
Do you think that Le Van Vu is a millionaire today? I am happy to tell you, many times over. John McCormack. Splendidly simple, pointed, and well articulated…this is a wonderful piece of writing that not only deserves praise for what it says, but for the emotions it reflects.
Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. I came across this brief story recently in a book and thought it worth retelling — This was maybe fifteen years ago, a time when it began to seem as though Envirosell might succeed as an ongoing concern.
Recently the Belgium courts have determined that Amway competitor, Herbalife, has no real retail customers. The same circumstance applies to Amway. The dream believing distributors are suckered in a well disguised pyramid scheme wherein all the money paid to the top of the pyramid distributors comes from a never ending churning of new distributors.
This is not really news to long term critics of Amway, but isn't it reassuring that some courts around the World have not been fooled by the disguised nature of these MLM schemes. The initiators of these schemes are actually criminals on the scale of the mafia. These motivational organizations sell a closed market product which encourage widescale 'intent to defraud' others.
If I might add, even if the IBOs have some "customers", they are likely to be sympathetic and downtrodden family and friends. I wonder if the Herbalife ruling will carry over to the US? I think that the biggest problem is that the people in the network have a kind of cult culture. It's a culture around the company and around the Diamonds. Because it's expensive to travel from Hawaii to the mainland for functions and because my "mentors" advised me to reinvest all profits into tools.
Amway must be shut down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We can earn a lot from Amway. If you do not know,follow BWW system. Even if you follow the BWW system, please know you are going to spend a great deal of time , effort , and money and even then , the chances of acheiving platinum let alone Diamond are pretty small. Remember it is a numbers game and just like the lottery, the numbers are not in your favor.
Post a Comment. When I was a prospect for the Amway business, my sponsor told me that the diamond was in the top one tenth of one percent in income.
Now it may or may not have been true but the audience certainly figured the diamond was wealthy.
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