Over my Amway and blogging
experience, I have come to a conclusion which I will stand by. And this, in my
informed opinion, is a potential problem with the Amway opportunity. The Amway
owner, Rich De Vos acknowledged this issue back in 1983 in his "directly
speaking" tape and unfortunately I’m not really sure anything was ever
done and therefore, the problem might exist today.
The Amway opportunity is one part of the issue, with the tools systems being the other prong. Over the years, in certain groups it would appear that the Amway opportunity and the tools systems have formed a symbiotic relationship. Those certain group leaders would make it appear as if Amway needs the system and the system needs Amway. What I mean is that Amway provides the opportunity, and then the leaders use the opportunity to sell their stylised system. In the meantime, the system leaders continue to teach the 100 PV goal and product loyalty, and most if not all of the new IBO’s do the new recruiting. Amway benefits as the system teaches movement of PV whether by sales or self-consumption, and new IBO recruitment, but the system leaders believe they benefit by having a new base to sell their cd's, books, seminars, voicemail, and website fees.
A conflict of interest occurs when those uplines tell their new IBOs that they "need" to attend a certain function, or that they "need" standing order to succeed. That upline is smart enough not to say the system is "required", but certainly, they will put a de facto requirement by saying things such as nobody has ever succeeded without the system, but you can try to be the first, or they may say the system is optional, but so is success. Of someone may say so and so diamond (insert) name is a multi-millionaire and he advocates the system, but you can go against his advice if you think you know better.
The real problem is that these upline leaders will tell you that you basically cannot succeed without these tools, but at the same time, the more tools you buy, the more profit these uplines make. Some of them will even try to justify this by saying a college professor may sell his own books to his students. But this is not the same thing. A college professor may spend years researching to write that one book. He will be teaching his expertise that is written in the book. If you attend properly organised seminars and do listen to a cd, you generally do not have an expert guiding you with very clear documentation on how they succeeded. You have very specific experiences coming from various speakers who may or may not have any common background with IBOs.
The Amway opportunity is one part of the issue, with the tools systems being the other prong. Over the years, in certain groups it would appear that the Amway opportunity and the tools systems have formed a symbiotic relationship. Those certain group leaders would make it appear as if Amway needs the system and the system needs Amway. What I mean is that Amway provides the opportunity, and then the leaders use the opportunity to sell their stylised system. In the meantime, the system leaders continue to teach the 100 PV goal and product loyalty, and most if not all of the new IBO’s do the new recruiting. Amway benefits as the system teaches movement of PV whether by sales or self-consumption, and new IBO recruitment, but the system leaders believe they benefit by having a new base to sell their cd's, books, seminars, voicemail, and website fees.
A conflict of interest occurs when those uplines tell their new IBOs that they "need" to attend a certain function, or that they "need" standing order to succeed. That upline is smart enough not to say the system is "required", but certainly, they will put a de facto requirement by saying things such as nobody has ever succeeded without the system, but you can try to be the first, or they may say the system is optional, but so is success. Of someone may say so and so diamond (insert) name is a multi-millionaire and he advocates the system, but you can go against his advice if you think you know better.
The real problem is that these upline leaders will tell you that you basically cannot succeed without these tools, but at the same time, the more tools you buy, the more profit these uplines make. Some of them will even try to justify this by saying a college professor may sell his own books to his students. But this is not the same thing. A college professor may spend years researching to write that one book. He will be teaching his expertise that is written in the book. If you attend properly organised seminars and do listen to a cd, you generally do not have an expert guiding you with very clear documentation on how they succeeded. You have very specific experiences coming from various speakers who may or may not have any common background with IBOs.
The bad guys are the rogue
upline leaders who seek to not only profit from their downline IBO volume but
also from tools that they advise downline to purchase regardless of downline
success or progress in the business.
As an example of some good practices used by a concerned upline, consider this. If that upline truly has "valuable" information that would help you succeed, they will get that information to you in whatever means they can. Either by email, Facebook, Twitter, text message, MP3, YouTube or whatever. They would never withhold trade secrets when they really want your success? It should occur to most IBOs that your uplines do really want your success?
As an example of some good practices used by a concerned upline, consider this. If that upline truly has "valuable" information that would help you succeed, they will get that information to you in whatever means they can. Either by email, Facebook, Twitter, text message, MP3, YouTube or whatever. They would never withhold trade secrets when they really want your success? It should occur to most IBOs that your uplines do really want your success?
Maybe sometimes you may
need to pay for a piece of advice or support you receive. These are normally
recommended as optional extras to help you but the choice is entirely yours! No
pressure! Most good uplines are perfectly happy with people coming and going as
long as they understand that some tool purchases may be required from time to
time. They do not encourage IBO’s (all levels and up) to create and share in a tools
profits system.
There is a definite conflict of interest with profiting “rogue” uplines advising you to buy tools. Please contact Amway directly if you have a challenge in this area?
There is a definite conflict of interest with profiting “rogue” uplines advising you to buy tools. Please contact Amway directly if you have a challenge in this area?
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