When it came to Amway our
upline gave us no decent legitimate business advice. We went to all these
“business meetings” and nothing useful about being a real business owner was
ever divulged. Just because someone pays $150 to register as an Amway IBO, puts
on a business suit, carries a cell phone, and shows up for meetings does not
make them a “business owner”. A real business owner makes their own decisions
about when and where they work, their pricing, and business policies and so
much more. A bunch of fakers with pretend Amway businesses go to meetings when
their upline says they have to go, have no control over the product prices and
have no control if Amway decides to terminate them as an IBO.
Yeah! Freedom! Business Owner!
Try commissioned salesperson. That’s all Amway IBO’s are. Remember the whole
“cut out the middleman” speeches you hear at Amway meetings and on tapes/CDs?
Think about it. Who is really the middleman? The IBO.
How many commissioned salespeople out there would stay with the same company if
they were only earning $10 a month? They’d either quit and find something more
saleable to market or the employer would fire them.
Going to business meetings where the speaker (Platinum) goes off on rants that
have nothing to do with Amway or any other business, talks about their
relationship with God (I’ve never attended a business meeting with a
legitimate company where religion comes up), and shows a presentation telling
people to eat one meal bar and drink one Amway drink daily to become financially
free just doesn’t cut it.
Business advice consists of being CORE and duplicating your upline. Takes up
less than 1% of the “business meeting”. Well what do you expect after spending
2 hours ranting about the no show IBO’s and losers who have J.O.B.s and
religion. Doesn’t leave too much time to actually talk about Amway.
You know what else is less than 1%? The amount of IBO’s who break even or make
some income at Amway. Wow! What a great business opportunity where over 99% of
IBO’s don’t make money and/or lose money!
Seeing as how being an Amway IBO is just a pretend business lets think big and
pretend an IBO is a top notch Amway salesperson and has a good sized downline
or customer base and is earning around $1000/month. Its not enough to live on
if you have a mortgage and want to eat and pay your other bills but its a
decent side income. Most IBO’s think that’s a nice starting point in their
Amway business and Ambot was one of them who thought for sure he’d be making
$1000/month after 3 or 4 months in “the business”. The reality for most IBO’s
is that’s an unattainable level because the odds are stacked against them in a
system designed for failure. But seeing as how this is a pretend business lets
just pretend that’s the monthly tally.
In the Amway meetings I attended the Platinum or Diamond speaker would entice
the newcomers in the audience by asking what they could do with an extra $800
or $1000 a month. They could pay down debt and put it to their mortgage or save
it for a down payment on a house. What about that vacation you want to take?
You’ll have saved enough in a few months to take it. The speakers, aka Amway
cult leaders, make it sound how easy it would be to make that much money. They
say you start with yourself and eat a food bar and drink an Amway beverage
daily. Then you find 2 people who can do what you do. And over the next 4
months you add an extra person each month and after 6 months you’ll be earning
$1000/month.
Eat and drink your way to financial freedom!
You know there was a reason why my father never invested in a candy shop or
donut shop and that was because we’d eat all the profits!
The advice given by phoney businessmen is that’s the way to do things - eat
those profits!
I come to the conclusion that the main reason our sack of shit Platinum did not
give IBO’s concrete advice on what to do with our Amway earnings was because he
knew over 99% of us would never make money with Amway and within 2 years he’d
be talking to a whole new group of faces therefore he doesn’t need to upgrade
his speeches to keep up with the times. Just keep recycling the same old
bullshit for people who haven’t heard it before.
Yeah! We’re all gonna be rich! Despite the lack of real business advice.
No business advice = a business that likely won’t succeed.
