“Here’s what we’ll do for you. We’ll help you get started in your own business. And we’ll offer you coaching and mentoring.”
I heard that at just about every Amway meeting.
I probably heard that long before we even got involved in Amway when I went to an information meeting about a real entrepreneurship training program which I spent several months attending.
Amway IBO’s sponsor people by telling them this is their opportunity to be a business owner but don’t give any further advice on what else is involved when starting up a business. You’d think this would come up in one of the late night “teachings”. Instead those “teachings” consist mainly of rants about which IBO’s should change their clothes, hairstyle, car they drive, etc. It would make better sense if those “teachings” actually provided useful information such as advice on how real business owners set up shop.
While I’m not going over the curriculum or advice I received during the real entrepreneurship training, here are a few things learned there about starting a business.
1. Search for a business name. This doesn’t mean thinking up a name, decide to start using that name, go for it, and that’s the end of the story. It means you pay a government office to do a name search to see if anyone else has already registered that business name.
2. Register your business name, probably at the same government agency.
3. Purchase a business license for the city where you live/do business in.
4. Purchase business insurance including errors and omissions insurance. (This is to cover your ass in case you lie or make misrepresentations to others while tricking them to come to Amway meetings, sponsoring IBO’s, or buying products. Piss off the wrong person and that insurance might come in handy.)
Real coaches and mentors would have these on their checklist for starting up a business. Phony coaches and mentors running a scam wouldn’t.
There are many steps to take when starting up a company such as buying equipment, payroll, tax numbers, hiring professionals (accountant, lawyer), registering the vehicle under company name, etc. The above lists just gets most self employed entrepreneurs started. Important starting steps to take to be considered a serious business owner.
The Amway IBO’s I knew didn’t take any of these basic steps and yet they still considered themselves “business owners”. Ha! Nothing but losers pretending to be business owners. Not in the same league.
I’d say Ambot and I were the only IBO’s in our leg who were real business owners, and I’m talking a business that has nothing to do with Amway. The steps we took when setting up our real business, we didn’t take with the “Amway business” because we were never instructed to do so by our upline.
Amway “business owners” or commissioned salespeople?
To sum up our Amway penance: pretend business owners losing real money.
Let's suppose somebody who was an Amway IBO went through all of those steps to set up an actual business. Let's say he called it "The Bonehead Corporation," and got his licenses and tax stamps and official permissions and all the rest.
ReplyDeleteWhat difference would it make for him? He'd still just be a commissioned salesman for Amway products, and that would be obvious to anyone who had dealings with him. All he could say to people is "We're the Bonehead Corporation, and we sell stuff." If somebody asked "What are you selling?" all he could do would be to show the usual Amway crap.
I think this is why Amway up-line doesn't make a big deal about setting up a real business with all of the required things that you describe. They know that being an IBO isn't really a business at all. It's just a commissioned sales slot.
But up-line will tell the IBO to have business cards printed up. Pure fakery! Anyone can hand out fancy business cards. But it will make the IBO feel good about himself, and delude him into thinking that he's now a big shot with his own business.
Anonymous - that's true. Whether or not an Ambot goes through the usual steps to set up a new business, he'd still be a loser selling Amway shit for pennies commission.
DeleteThe fact that Amway gives these losers a title called IBO "Independent Business Owner" and their cult leaders brainwash the Ambots to believe they're "business owners" just goes to the show the power of suggestion a cult has on its flock.
IBO = I Bullshit Others
Probably those letters could come up with other words that apply to Amway Ambots but it's a good as I can think up on short notice!
IBO = Insane Boorish Oaf
ReplyDeleteThat's a good one!
DeleteHow about:
IBO = Idiot Bastards Obsessed
This was my biggest complaint about IBO's/Amway/WWBD. I asked, "what if Amway folds?" Upline claims that this is your OWN business when in reality IBO's have ZERO say in what products are in production and which products will go away. If you see Shark Tank, those real entrepreneurs will only make deals with a product they know they can exceed at AND like. WWBD claims that you don't have to like the products and I think it is because they get NO say in it. So how are you a business owner when you didn't get any licensing, pick your products, and have zero say in it?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - real business owners make their own policies. They decide what vendors they'll use to buy products that they'll eventually sell to customers. They set prices. They set their hours. And so much more.
DeleteYes Shark Tank has real entrepreneurs.
Amway Ambots have been brainwashed by the assholes in their Amway upline to believe they're entrepreneurs. When I ask what product or service they've created - I get silence. Let's see an Amway Ambot "entrepreneur" try to get a spot on Shark Tank! LOL!
The fucking assholes in our WWDB upline were outraged if we didn't like Amway products. Really the products are secondary to recruitment. But yeah Ambots have no control over the products Amway sells them. Not the selection, not the price.
Imagine that. Your Amway up-line is "outraged" that you don't like Amway products.
ReplyDeleteTry to imagine a scenario where the chef in a restaurant was "outraged" that you didn't like his soup, and made a big fuss about it. Or imagine a fruit vendor being "outraged" that you didn't like the taste of his grapes. Or imagine a masseur being "outraged" that you didn't like the way he rubbed your muscles.
Hasn't Amway heard? THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!
The attitude of up-line is that Amway products are the creations of God Himself (in Ada, Michigan), and therefore these products must be honored and worshipped and never criticized. If you don't like them, you are a sinner.
That isn't a business. That's a CULT.
LOL Anonymous! You got it! In addition to the assholes in the WWDB upline being outraged if you didn't like Amway products they were also outraged or incredulous if you wanted to return this shitty Amway products. Like their attitude is "why would anyone want to return Amway's fine products". LOL! Amway's "fine products"? LOL! LOL! Like you pointed out brainwashed Ambots believe all the Amway products are created by God Himself. Better known as the Great Amway God who must be honored and worshiped. Never criticize Amway products! And those who do criticize shitty overpriced Amway products are negative unchristian sinners!
DeleteYes! The customer is always right! Even when the customer is wrong, the business needs to bust ass to make things right for the customer. Bad publicity is worse than making things right for the customer. You don't have to do business with that customer again but you want to make things right for them if it's possible. Refund money. Exchange product. Whatever. Stuff that Amway, WWDB and Ambots have no concept of.
All hail the Great Amway God head of the Cult of Greed! Yeah fuck all those Amway losers!
IBO = Imbecile Blowhard Orating
ReplyDeleteYup! LOL!
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