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.
Up-line (at least in North America) is probably well aware of the real difficulties that most IBOs face in recruiting anyone at all to join the Amway racket. It has gotten to be next to impossible to recruit new members. Amway's rep is in the toilet, and it's gotten worse because of hard-hitting blogs like this one.
ReplyDeleteIf up-line were to badger down-line constantly about using their list of possible contacts, all it would serve to do is eventually convince down-line that recruitment is hopeless. If you have a list of two hundred possible contacts, and you can't even get one of them to join Amway, it's finally going to dawn on you that the whole Amway racket isn't working, at least not for you. And so you'll quit.
It's therefore in up-line's financial interest to keep you paying fees, buying tools, and self-consuming Amway products, but it is NOT in up-line's interest for you to spend a lot of time on recruitment. That's why they don't mention your list to you.
Anonymous - yeah you sitting here looking at a page of 200 or 500 or 1000 people you know. Some maybe only in passing or you haven't seen since graduation and don't know how to contact. And yeah as you point out its discouraging when you can't get one person out of hundreds on your list to come to an Amway cult meeting.
DeleteA lot of people have been sharing their Amway stories online for 10 years or longer. And now there's other forums like Reddit where people share their experiences. We all get the word out. Amway in a nutshell is paying annual fee to shop at Amway's store. Not YOUR store, Amway's store. You shell out big bucks to buy shitty overpriced useless products. You shell out more bucks to the Amway tool scam. Most of your nights are tied up going to Amway cult meetings. You got to put up with fucking Amway losers. You get brainwashed. You lose your money. You lose your friends. Amway brings you nothing but financial and emotional distress.
And to keep the Ambot's income coming, as you say, the upline doesn't mention the list after they see one. Amway is all about giving the Ambots busy work. Money wasters and time wasters.