“The facts don’t matter if the dream is big enough”. I once heard this taught at a function as IBO and a recent comment jarred my memory about it. When you think about it, someone who invites you to join a business opportunity and says the facts don’t matter, red flags should be flying and you should put on running shoes and run in the opposite way.
In what business do the facts not matter? Apparently only in Amway because the fact is that the vast majority of Amway IBOs make nothing or lose money. The fact is that most IBOs do little or nothing then quit. The fact is that most IBOs never sponsor a single down line. The fact is that the average IBO earns about $100 a month and that includes the diamonds.
Any real business owner would want all the facts and nothing else in making decisions about joining a business opportunity that will use up a lot of time and money. IBOs don’t know that they are likely to spend hundreds of dollars a month with very little return on investment.
But the reason so many IBOs just become contributors to the diamonds lifestyle is because that is the real business. The real business is selling tools and functions. That’s why the teaching and advise almost always points to the system and dedication to education yourself about Amway. In previous posts I’ve broken down the math behind this but in a nutshell, tools and functions have a much larger profit margin for diamonds than Amway products and unlike the Amway compensation plan, rank and file IBOs do not participate in the tool and function income.
So look at the facts. Do not blindly follow your upline without vetting actual facts. If you do so, you do it with your own peril and it’s how upline empires are built. Proceed with caution.
3 comments:
The whole point about Amway is to force yourself to live in a bubble of fantasy and illusion. You have to disregard objective reality, and live in a world of asinine dreams.
Here are two basic facts that no Amway IBO will ever admit to himself:
1) The Amway Corporation of Ada, Michigan is only interested in selling as much of its product line as possible. Nothing else. They don't give a flying fuck about anyone in the lower ranks of the pyramid, except insofar as these lower ranks send money upwards to them.
2) The subsystems (or Amway Motivational Organizations like WWDB or Network 21 or BWW or Leadership Team) have no interest in anything except selling an endless series of CDs and tapes and books and function tickets. They too don't give a flying fuck about low-level IBOs, whom they expect will drop out after a while, and be replaced by other dumb schmucks. In short, the AMOs are in the business of talking to you about Amway -- nothing else.
Those are the PLAIN FACTS. All the absurd bullshit about "helping others" or "prosuming" or "leadership" is nothing but a cover to camouflage these facts.
The whole point about Amway is to force yourself to live in a bubble of fantasy and illusion. You have to disregard objective reality, and live in a world of asinine dreams.
Here are two basic facts that no Amway IBO will ever admit to himself:
1) The Amway Corporation of Ada, Michigan is only interested in selling as much of its product line as possible. Nothing else. They don't give a flying fuck about anyone in the lower ranks of the pyramid, except insofar as these lower ranks send money upwards to them.
2) The subsystems (or Amway Motivational Organizations like WWDB or Network 21 or BWW or Leadership Team) have no interest in anything except selling an endless series of CDs and tapes and books and function tickets. They too don't give a flying fuck about low-level IBOs, whom they expect will drop out after a while, and be replaced by other dumb schmucks. In short, the AMOs are in the business of talking to you about Amway -- nothing else.
Those are the PLAIN FACTS. All the absurd bullshit about "helping others" or "prosuming" or "leadership" is nothing but a cover to camouflage these facts.
Only morons think that "facts don't matter."
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