One of the things Amway IBOs "think" they possess, but in reality they are far from it, is "Business Mentality". It is not necessarily the fault of the IBOs. Many are sponsored into Amway by trusted friends or family lacking business experience. They will "submit" to upline as they are advised and will try to learn about the Amway business. The problem is that many upline leaders teach self serving business practices such as hard core dedication to their tools system, from which they often handsomely profit. They may also downplay the vital importance of actually selling products to actual customers. Let's examine some of the questionable practices.
"Buy from yourself". If you have a business owner mentality, you only buy from yourself if it's beneficial to your business. Many IBOs talk about ridiculous things like a McDonald's owner would never eat at Burger King. That's totally false. Just because I own a McDonald's doesn't mean I am eating Big Macs the rest of my life. You cannot spend yourself to prosperity. If I sold pens for $1.00 and my cost was .50, and my competitor had a special on the same pens at 3 for $1.00, I'm buying them from my competition. Also, buying from yourself makes you a customer, not a business owner. Many new IBOs and prospects fail to see the flaws in this kind of teaching.
"Ignore facts if you have a dream". This is probably the biggest heap of bull crap taught by some upline. I have seen this spouted in particular by IBOs downline from WWDB and BWW leaders. A business owner studies the facts, not ignores them. Any REAL business owner wants to know how much he is bringing in and how much is going out. That's how you detect the heartbeat of your business. A site visitor named Gina on this site, posted a profit/loss statement from her real business. Naturally, IBOs were at a loss to discuss it because it was foreign material to them. If you are spending more on tools, functions and training than you are taking in, you are operating at a net loss and unless your sales goes up, you will continue to bleed money until you lower your expenditures. The purpose of the training is supposed to help you generate more sales volume. If that isn't happening, how much more training do you really need?
"Submit to upline". Another load of hogwash. Why should someone submit to upline simply because they "sponsored me" or whatever? Why should someone have authority over you and your business simply because they signed up before you? A real business owner would think independently and make business decisions based on facts and numbers, not on the advice of someone upline who hasn't taken the time to assess each IBO on a personal level to be able to give advice on an IBO's "Independent Business", or worse, advice on their personal lives".
"Dedication to the system". Silly advice as well. What dedication does the system have for an IBO? If an IBO succeeds (which is very rare), the system takes credit, but for the more than 99% of people who never make a significant income, it is their own fault if they don't make it. Amway apologists will defend this by saying that many may not have signed up wanting a significant income. While that may be partially true, tell me where people show "plans" designed for the guy who wants an extra $100 a month? The plans shown are always (AFAIK) to go platinum or diamond. There is no unbiased evidence that the systems help anyone succeed in Amway.
IBOs and information seekers, does any of this sound familiar? Is this a part of your experience? If so, I encourage you to ask questions and get more information before proceeding with any more "business" activity.
IBOs think they have a business mentality but they are misguided by self serving advice doled out by greedy upline leaders.
ReplyDeleteSubmit to upline, LOL. I'd tell them to kiss my fat one. That's pure el toro caca because the incentive in any pyramid scheme like Amway is to tell your downline (if you can even recruit one) to keep throwing their money away at it.
ReplyDeleteShow me even one story where an ethical upline IBO has advised a downline IBO: "Look Bob, you've been at this for how long now? And you've done nothing but waste your money and time. Maybe you should spend more time with your family and start spending your money on them instead of Amway."
Spot on comments!
DeleteAmway 2014 sales dropped 1 billion dollars versus 2013
ReplyDeleteI read about the sales drop. I'm not sure how they did in the US but 1 billion is a pretty significant drop in sales. IBO's must not be using enough
Deletedouble x! LOL
I think they just ran out of room in their garages and closets to store any more of it.
DeleteApparently china has dropped significantly
DeleteI agree with your statement dude, your upline will tell you that the efforts u put in Amway business is not enough when u make a loss and they will even say that it is normal when you cant make a net profit because any business also require some time to make the business grow and make profit. Then they will tell you that you are almost success already and encourage you to work more hard so that you wont quit. Meanwhile, they take the chance to encourage you again to attend more on those seminars, buy more CDs and books.
ReplyDeleteUpline is clever. They will tell you that you can join and be making money right away then when you join, they tell you that you need to invest like a "real" business. They play both sides of the coin. That Amway is a low risk business with no overhead then if you join, they introduce the overhead.
DeleteI submitted for 9 month, lost $ 8.000 on stuff I didnt even need(milkshakes, never liked them). Half a year since I quit, still recovering! I consider myself very trustworthy person, the lie they were feeding with collected and one day I went online and read this blog...and understood that my life can be more fun and facts speak for themselves!
ReplyDeleteYou should seek a refund on the products you don't want or need. I'm glad you found this blog so you could gain valuable information about the inner workings of the Amway business!
Delete