One of the things used as a recruitment tool my upline is to get a prospect to think of dreams. Dreams could be extravagant like owning a yacht or it could be simple like taking a cruise ship to Alaska. The recruit is told to dream big and to envision things they would like to enjoy. Perhaps it is not having a job, or perhaps it is being a stay-at-home mom. These are all great dreams and goals. Dreams and goals are good things to have. The speaker will then tell the audience that these are all possible thru the Amway opportunity. They won't say it is highly unlikely. They only give you the pie in the sky best case scenario.
Now some people may have achieved great success thru Amway. But these people are so few and far between that you could argue that the lottery has the same kind of success or maybe the lottery has more winners than Amway diamonds. Granted the lottery is a game of chance, and Amway is not, but the "likely" results can be comparable. In Amway and the lottery, you have the vast majority accomplishing nothing and losing money. You have some "best case scenarios" where a few are successful. You then focus on and display the success testimonies as evidence that "anyone can succeed", just as anyone with a ticket can win the lottery. The fact that a game of random chance produces similar results as Amway should be a red flag.Some uplines will often tell their faithful downline that someone who speaks negatively about Amway is a "dream stealer". Of course this is ludicrous. Your dream is in your heart and mind. Nobody can steal that. Secondly, whose dream is being compromised. It is the upline diamond who has all the goodies and the large checks right? The downline are basically ones paying for their upline's dreams. It is fairly well known that the majority of Amway products aren't sold to people who are not IBOs. It is also well known that 99% of tools and business support materials are sold to IBOs. So guess where your upline diamond's success comes from? That's right. An IBO's product volume and an IBO's tool purchases provide the upline diamond with a nice income. Stop and think about it for a moment.
So yes, there are some people who achieve their dreams in Amway. There are also people who achieve their dreams playing the lottery. There are millions of people who tried to build an Amway business and did not achieve. There are millions of people to play the lottery and do not win. Some dreams get built, but chances are they won't be yours. There is a good chance that your upline diamond's dreams will come true if you "never quit" and you stay on the system.
The question is whether you are seeking to build your dreams or someone else's?
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The question even to those who rate their chances to achieve their dreams in Amway, is whether doing so at the expense of others is in line with your values and self respect. That is something to consider even if you think you have what it takes to be one of the few.
Most people, almost everyone who joins, join Amway for the explicit expectation, that they would be able to sign up a few under them, and in doing so build their business. The people they plan to sign up, would join pretty much for the same reason. This is the problem: Any organisation where members are effectively recruiters who recruit people who want to be recruiters of recruiters does mean, as a matter of mathematical fact, that those who are successful need many people who fail, most who won't be able to recruit anybody, let alone the group size required to have a meaningful business. That is because in maths, a structure of branching nodes will always have more end points (members without any downline) than nodes (members with downline). In most cases vastly more so. That is not even talking of members with only two or three downline, who will hardly be successful.
They say 99% of people in Amway fail, but that is not the worst. The worst is that 100% of successes are build an having a majority of failures in the downline. They say they'd get rich by "helping others". But the maths say that most of those who will be told they are being "helped", will, by necessity as per design required to support your success, join and spend their time and money in vain. If that is not the definition of being the bringer of unachievable dreams, I don't know what is.
Not even a used car salesman has the prospect that the majority of people he will deal with, will ultimately regret doing business with him.
Kwaaikat is correct. A business that is based on an endless network of recruitment (rather than on the profitable sale of products) is bound to mean failure for the vast majority of its membership. This is why the entire MLM idea is evil and self-defeating, except for the lucky few at the top.
But unfortunately certain MLMs that have been around for decades have managed to amass great wealth, and have used that wealth to create political power bases for themselves.
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