Our upline told Ambot and I to gather a name list of
everyone we know. To help us out they gave us a prompt sheet to use to help jog
our memory that we know more people than we think we know. The people we know
that we don’t know that we already know. This prompt list consisted of friends,
family, the cashier at the gas station, the mailman, the garbageman, etc. I
don’t really remember the suggestions on the list. Our Platinum used to brag he
had 1000 people on his list at any time. He also suggested using Facebook to
make new friends and then snipe the friends of Facebook friends and put them on
your list. Within the first couple of weeks of signing up Ambot and I came up
with a list of over 200 people that he showed to the Platinum. Ambot got
more names on his list once he signed up on Facebook, joined various groups,
and started signing up unknown friends left, right, and center. In fact
Facebook froze his account because he’d gone ballistic on adding too many
friends. He exceeded his daily limit of adding friends.
Now its one thing to come up with a list of a bunch of people that you might
see during a month. Its another thing to actually have their phone numbers or
know them well enough to ask for their number. I mean how many people snipe the
water meter reader and ask for his home number.
I think Ambot and I put down the names of every former co-worker we'd ever had.
These were people we knew but not necessarily kept in touch with after
we started our own business and we don't know if
these people still work for the same place or how to get in contact
with them if we had to.
So we had this list of names. I suppose these were people we were supposed to
bug to come to Amway meetings and I suppose from time to time Ambot looked at
it and called someone to harrass them into coming to an Amway meeting. For the
most part the names on the list were people we run into from time to time but
don’t know their phone numbers. The odd thing is even though we and other IBO’s
were told to make the list and show it to the Platinum as proof we’d done it no
one upline ever talked about the list afterwards or referred to that list again
or asked if we were contacting any of the people on our name list.
In other words one of the first things the upline had us do was create a list
of names of people we knew, then make notations if they were hot or cold as
prospects, and then they didn’t particularly care if we were contacting these
people to come to board plan meetings.
It seems more important for the upline to badger their downline to buy more
products and buy more tools than it is to follow up on their name list and what
exactly they're accomplishing with the name list. Or at least in our LOS.
Amway is all about sell the hope not the soap. As long as there were people on the name list there was still hope of becoming an Amway bazillionaire.
Anna, there is an interesting fact about this "list" business that your Amway up-line wants you to compile.
ReplyDeleteThere are many persons on the internet who have websites that promise to help you generate contacts for your Amway business (for a price, of course). Every one of them starts by telling you the same thing: Compiling a big list of all your family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues is a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME. You almost never get any takers when you try to call up those people, because they are simply uninterested.
Instead, they argue, if you pay for the services that these website owners offer, they will show you how to get interested parties to call YOU and ask about the Amway plan. This, they say, is bound to be more effective in developing a down-line. It's logical -- if somebody approaches you with an interest in your business proposition, you have a much better chance to recruit him.
OK -- so what can be deduce from this? It's very easy: IBOs are having a lot of trouble getting new recruits, and their homemade "lists" are not working. If they were, these various websites offering to teach you how to develop leads would not be in business. In addition, Amway Platinums also know that the homemade lists are useless, but they encourage IBOs to compose them purely as a way to keep these IBOs busy and enthusiastic.
Hi Anonymous. Yes I've also seen websites that have lists that Ambots can purchase.
DeleteJust more ways to scam Ambots out of their money.
Anyone can put a list together from contacts they find in an online database. Doesn't mean the people on these lists are interested in a sales pitch. It's just a list of contacts. I guess if you've got to show your sack of shit Amway Platinum a substantial name list in a hurry buying one might be the way to go. Interesting that part of the sales pitch is how they say putting together a list of your friends, coworkers, family, etc is a waste of time. Which is very true. Just another busy project assigned by an Amway cult leader.