Wednesday, April 10, 2013

What Happens To An Amway IBO After A Few Months?

I send this message to inform IBOs tha they should be aware of their circumstances in business. What I mean is when you are a new IBO, it is common for you to buy/sell your 100 PV, and perhaps listen to some cds. If you basically did what your sponsor or upline advised, you made your 100 PV bonus level and you will receive a bonus from Amway for about $10. If you did as advised by your upline/sponsor, then you likely made a namelist and started contacting some potential business partners aka prospects. You're probably a bit excited because things are going as you expected. You did your part and a bonus is on it's way to your doorstep. Heck, you may have even sponsored a friend or relative because of your newly found excitement and enthusiasm.

But what happens after a few months? If you are still doing 100 PV and have no downline, then what are the chances that you will ever achieve anything? Your excitement is wearing off and now the Amway opportunity is becoming "work". You are also starting to notice that it is starting to get expensive to continue to purchase products, many of which you never purchased before. For example, were you buying cases of energy drinks and "high end" vitamins before Amway? Did you buy $50 cases of bottled water before Amway? Supposedly their laundry soap and other cleaners are highly concentrated, therefore your consumables are the nutrition/vitamin products.

Even if you managed to find some downline, are they duplicating what you do? Are they also moving volume and sponsoring downline? If not, what are your chances of fulfilling the 6-4-2 plan or some similar version of it. When I saw the plan, I thought it was reasonable and I was on my way to platinum. What I discovered though, is that as you progress, upline has greater expectations of you and that includes more tool purchases. (I was in WWDB). In the end, my recommended tool purchases ate up any profits I had and at the 4000 level, I was just about breaking even, which means I was at a loss when factoring in my time spent and other miscellaneous expenses such as gas money.

Where are you at? If you're been in for more than a year, are you on schedule to become platinum or are you at 200 PV with one downline? Maybe you have a small group with 600 PV? You still aren't close to a net profit. For the vast majority of people, success is not right around the corner. What's around the corner for most is more time lost, more money expended, and no progress. If your group is now growing each and every month, you are sliding backwards. If you don't constantly have new IBOs coming into the group, you are probably stagnant. With about half of IBOs dropping out each year, keeping a group together is a tremendous task.

IBOs, where are you at after a few months? Where are you at after a year? If you haven't gone platinum, it is nearly a certainty that it will never happen, despite what your upline might say. The facts are there, it's a matter of whether you want to believe it or not.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

And bear in mind if you dont believe the above and think you will become diamond it will take ten years ( and only a couple have done so in the past 15 years ). And even then you will have a net income after your expenses of a modest amount. Finally you can be sure one or several of your legs will not requalify and you are back to the starting blocks.

Anonymous said...

When we first joined, honestly, I thought we WOULD be Diamond within a few years.

Now, I don't even think we could hit a consistent 1,000 PV.

SOOO disillusioned.

Joecool said...

I think many people join thinking they can work hard and that diamond is achievable. It sounds reasonable during the plan presentation but then in real life it's another story.

Anonymous said...

most of us want the carrot but forgot that they are doing the running and some got lucky therefore they get to tell their story and most like to hear from them because you being told that you just have to keep running hope you are the next success one so don't stop running thank you for trying

Anonymous said...

Its just an impossible task. Thats why no one can do it. If the failure rate is 99 per cent. Then there is a flaw with the model.

Anonymous said...

I have family friends that are still IN after 12 years. Gone to every function, spent tons of money, and still have no people personally sponsored. That they can still really believe "it will happen for us eventually" is now beyond my comprehension. (and I used to be a big believer myself). They'll spend their life savings just to KEEP A DREAM ALIVE...even though it's a false dream. They just don't want to wake up, because it's too painful. Man, I just don't like this business AT ALL anymore!!!

ExAmbot said...

There's a reason why you don't like it - start with it's not a business but a scam, a fierce scam!

Anonymous said...

A different perspective. A lowly delivery guy working at one of the commercial banks in Namibia, an African country of 2 million people, made Emerald within two years. True story. Maybe he was just lucky right?

Joecool said...

Or his country's people didn't know the scam?