Joecool will be on vacation for the next 5 days. I'll be visiting friends and may have difficulty with wifi so I'll just take a handful of days off. This article is how IBOs are deceived right from the beginning.
I was thinking about how Amway prospects are invited to see the plan. In many cases, there will have been a bit of deception or half-truths told in order for an IBO to get a prospect in front of the plan. But then I thought about the plan and how much deception was used in the plan itself by the speaker.
In many cases, IBOs and new prospects are deceived right from the beginning. The speaker might make some small talk, and get the prospect to agree on certain issues, such as income tax and insurance eating away at your paycheck, etc. When a prospect hears this, it will make sense, and they will agree and trust the speaker somewhat. After all, the speaker has been built up to be a financial whiz and all. And much of what the speaker says makes sense, at least on the surface.Then the deception begins.............
The speaker might talk about IBOs saving 30% on products right from the start, which is false. Here's some information debunking that age old myth:
http://www.amquix.info/Save30_myth.html Not only do many products cost more, factor in shipping and handling fees and it's not even close in many cases.
Then the speaker might talk about 98% of people being dead or broke by age 65, which is not true. The speaker might talk about 90% or more of small businesses failing in the first year (which is also untrue). These little factoids (which are untrue) are apparently used to make other opportunities seem flawed in comparison with the Amway opportunity. Readers and prospects really need to do some research and due diligence, and they will easily see through the mistruths.
The speaker might then talk about how the Amway opportunity is cheap to get started and has little or no overhead. But the problem is that many dedicated IBOs will get hosed as their upline will begin to teach them that they need to invest in their business in the form of voicemail, book of the month, standing order and attending all meetings. These expenses nearly guarantee that an IBO will end up with a net loss of income. What's more, upline may teach that this is success! In many cases, the speakers don't care about the prospects. All they care about is getting people signed up and on the system. Sure, they may loan cds to newbies, but once an IBO wants more, they are likely told that "serious" business owners buy their own tools.
So, a question for IBOs and prospects. Is it a good opportunity when you have been lied to or deceived right from the outset?
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If the "tools" actually provided real help and advice, they might be worth buying. But all they do is give give you taped speeches from Amway functions and rallies, with a lot of rah-rah bullshit and cheering and shouting. How is that supposed to help you build up your Amway business?
If you point this out to your immediate up-line, he'll start screaming that you are "uncoachable," or "negative," or "stuck in an employee mentality." When you hear words like this, you'll know at once that you have touched a raw nerve -- every up-line in Amway knows that susceptibility to emotional bullshit and hype are the essential qualities that a down-line IBO must have. If you show contempt for these things, he'll realize that he has wasted his time recruiting you.
Amway runs on three fuels: hope, dreams, and fantasy. If you are skeptical about pie-in-the-sky promises, you either won't sign up in Amway or you'll drop out very quickly.
One thing you'll notice about Amway freaks -- they always have a smile plastered on their face, they never talk quietly and calmly, they refuse to get involved in any serious discussion about the business, and they tend to get abusive in the face of pointed criticisms.
In short, mindless excitement and enthusiasm are everything for them.
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