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.
Your Amway up-line knows very well that the list is basically useless. Its primary purpose is to get you into the habit of obedience to up-line directives. If you compose the list, up-line knows that you are gullible enough to stay in the Amway racket for a least a few months or more.
ReplyDeleteThe list is deliberately multi-inclusive -- you are required to put down EVERY SINGLE PERSON you can possibly remember, no matter what the circumstances or connection. If your garbage is picked up by the same sanitation worker every collection day, you are supposed to wait outside and strike up a conversation with him when he comes. If you have a child in grade school, you are expected to push the Amway opportunity with his teachers at the PTA. If you're at the beach, you are urged to make friends with the people lying on the blanket next to yours, and try to get them interested in Amway.
The purpose behind all this is simple. You are brainwashed into thinking that every person in the entire world must be considered a legitimate target for Amway recruitment. No exceptions! No holdouts! If you meet Dracula or the Frankenstein monster, you must try to get him to come to a meeting with your Platinum.
Recruitment of down-line was always the hardest part of Amway. Even the famous Charlie Marsh said that you'd have to speak to at least 200 people before you'd get a single person interested enough to actually come to a meeting . And that was in the old days! Right now in North America, after the years of massive bad publicity, recruiting a new IBO for your down-line is virtually impossible.
This collapse of recruitment is what has the big shots up in Ada, Michigan really scared.
Thanks for the insight Anonymous. The name list is just busy work the sack of shit Platinum gives to the new recruits to see how obedient they are. Ambots are so stupid that they think every person you ever knew or are randomly meeting in your daily activities will want to become an Amway Ambot. Having to speak to about 200 people just to get one to come to an Amway cult meeting sounds about right. Most of the Ambots we knew never brought new prospects to a ScAmway meeting. The Internet became Amway's worst nightmare when victims came online to share their stores of being scammed and abused by the upline. The collapse of recruitment is a victory for those of us who share our stories so others don't go through the same emotional and financial distress.
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