Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Amway And CORE?

Breakdown of CORE and why it doesn’t work. Here are the CORE steps. Some groups may have variations of CORE, but this is generally what many groups use:

1 - Show the Plan (10-15 per month)
2 - Retail the Products (10 customers @10 PV each)
3 – Tapes/cds
4 - Books
5- Functions (attend all)
6 - Accountability
7 - Counsel with Upline (Be teachable!)
8 - Buy 100% of your own products
9 – Communikate

Many upline will tell you that your success is nearly 100% guaranteed if you follow these steps for 2-5 years. Some Amway enthusiasts will tell you that 6 months of this activity will nearly assure you of a platinum level business. Certain steps are within the IBO’s control, such as reading every day and listening to cds, and attending functions. It is also easy enough to be accountable, counsel with upline, buy your own products, and use KATE (voicemail).

Here’s where an IBO’s efforts will break down. Showing the plan and retailing products. And remember, if you cannot do these steps then you are not considered “CORE” and your upline will likely tell you that it is your own fault and that you simply haven’t been CORE, therefore you did not achieve success. There is some truth in this but let me expose the system in a different angle.

Amway has a spotty reputation in the US. I don’t think anyone can dispute this fact. Therefore, for the vast majority of people, being able to show the plan 10-15 times per month is a nearly impossible task. If you are able to do this, you are a really good salesman or a good liar. In this scenario, the IBO is already successful, but not because of CORE, but simply because the IBO has the gift of being able to convince people into seeing the plan. But for many IBOs, they may contact hundreds of people and not be able to get anyone to see the plan. Even IBOs who follow upline advice on how to contact will probably not be able to show 10-15 plans per month. Thus this IBO, who is doing the work, will not be able to succeed. The system will blame the IBO, but the reality is that the IBO has too big of a disadvantage to overcome.

Secondly, with high prices (on average) and with a spotty reputation, most IBOs are unable to retail products. Amway itself has admitted that less than 4% of Amway products are sold to customers (non IBOs). Thus most IBOs are unable to sell products, therefore they are not CORE, therefore upline will blame the IBO for failure..

What if an IBO contacts 1000 people and cannot get 10 people to see the plan? Upline will claim that IBO is not CORE and therefore it is personal failure of the IBO. IMO, the only reason why upline can claim that CORE works is because in order to do the CORE steps consistently, you have to already be at a certain level of success. The vast majority of IBOs cannot and will never be able to reach that level.

That is the myth and the deception that many uplines will use to attract recruits. That each IBO can do the CORE steps. When only a fraction of 1% ever reach the level of platinum or higher, the numbers strongly support what is written here. Apologists are welcome to try and prove me wrong, but they can't.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What you say fits in perfectly with Amway's being a fundamentalist Evangelical cult.

Sure, only a small percentage of persons can really pull off CORE, especially the showing of the plan successfully many times, and the hawking of the products. Those few persons are "the Elect." They are the ones blessed with "prosperity." They become the bigshot Diamonds and Crown Ambassadors. Everyone else, despite their hard work and backbreaking efforts, fails and therefore "isn't CORE." Translation: "They aren't members of The Elect."

This is that pseudo-Christian "prosperity gospel" that is at the heart of Amway. There are a chosen few who will get rich (i.e. go to heaven), and the rest will be damned to poverty (i.e go to hell). The entire notion is a kind of dime-store Calvinism.

Anonymous said...

Your Amway up-line wants you to be in CORE, even though they are well aware that most people will not be able to pull it off. The reason? Simple -- if you try to be CORE, you'll spend a shitload of money that will go up to them, regardless of your success or failure.

So they lie to you: "You won't succeed in Amway unless you go CORE!" What they really mean is this: "We up-line creeps won't be able to fleece you properly unless you go CORE!"

The human garbage that runs WWDB and other Amway-based MLM systems has one overriding interest: steady money from their down-line.

AMWAY IS LEGALIZED THEFT.

Joecool said...

You're spot on. Being CORE is nearly impossible no matter how hard you try. The part of CORE that is doable is the buying cds, attending functions and reading books, etc. What is impossible is showing the plan and sponsoring people on a regular basis. And that's because Amway has a bad reputation.