One of the things upline taught and emphasized was for people to be teachable. Being teachable would mean that you were open minded, willing to learn and willing to take advice from the wise and tenured upline and higher up diamonds and others. I find this ironic because the same upline leaders and diamonds are quick to blame the IBO when they ultimately fail.
They’ll say that the IBO didn’t try hard enough or they simply didn’t do things just the way it’s supposed to be done. So you’re taught to be teachable but when you are, it’s still your fault if you fail. Like upline is flipping a coin saying heads I win and tails you lose.
I know for a fact that many people who joined Amway gave it a real try and put forth real effort to do what they were advised to do but they were still unable to generate a net profit in Amway. I myself had a sizable group that ran 4000 PV in volume. I also had the correct parameters based on the WWDB eagle program. But somehow despite that, my business still did not generate a net profit.
In the end, if you think objectively, your Amway business is not designed to make you money. It is designed to systematically transfer money to your upline diamonds. Even if you somehow manage to make a little money (highly unlikely), your upline will very likely advise you to invest it into the tools system. And being teachable means you are likely to do just that.
The entire business, including the 100 PV defacto quota for IBOs, is also just to ensure that your uplines can keep qualifying for their higher up levels. When that happens, you get 3% and layers of upline get the rest of the near 30% in bonuses that Amway pays out. Who says do the work and get paid?
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When they say teachable and open minded, it is apparently only meant to apply to what someone in an Amway group can learn from the group or upline.
It does not apply to what an aspirant business builder could learn from the wealth of wisdom and experience that a bank manager, financial advisor, real business builder or someone who got hurt in Amway might have. When it comes to those, being anything but teachable is advised.
When I was lured under the usual false pretenses to hear an Amway enthusiast out, he did not want to hear anything about basic accounting, like profit and loss, and the principles of measuring return on investment and opportunity cost. I would have thought that when he learned I ran an actual business, and that I could share a thing or two about what worked and didn't work, he would be all ears.
If you go onto Youtube or Google and search for reasons that MLM "gurus" (who make a living from creating content) say why people fail at MLM, they all cite "not being teachable", along with wanting results too soon, not committed, plugged into a system etc. How wonderfully convenient. You won't hear poor accounting and financial management, unable to keep costs under control, not evolving to understand and serve changing customer needs.
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