There's no question you can make money out of Amway by building a distributor network.
It's all about whether one is comfortable with promoting fallacies and false dogma to friends to feather one's own nest.
Yet I don't do that and make money anyway. Go figure.
No matter how much money a gold/diamond/titanium member makes, you must acknowledge that their success rests solely on sucking a large number of people into a vortex in which they will make very little progress.
Nope, that's a fallacy. I don't "acknowledge" it at all.
The numbers bear this out completely.
no they don't
Last time Amway ran a major "conference" (complete with church service, of course) in Auckland, 7000 local Amway distributors attended.
To the best of my knowledge Amway has never held a "church service" as part of their conferences. Never. Some distributor organisations, running their own
private conferences, have organised non-denominational services in conjunction with but separate to the business conference. Whether they do this depends on the market demand in the area. The org I affliate with does it Australia/NZ, doesn't do it in Europe. I'm an atheist and have never attended them, and I've seen "Diamonds" and above waiting for them to finish to attend the main sessions as well. Apart from my general antipathy towards religion I have no problem with catering to customers to make it easier for them to attend.
Of that 7000 - which is surely not all Amway distributors in Auckland -
A conference of that size would be for all of New Zealand and as most IBOships are couples it probably represents around 4000 IBOship as most.
only a couple of dozen were actually making more than a couple of dollars an hour for the time they spend on it.
Rubbish. Most people - including those who attend the occasional conference - spend very few hours on Amway.
The fact is, Amway is a business model that works. For very few.
Yes, the very few that actually try to make money.
As I've said to many Amway distributors over the years, if they invested the same time and passion into any business endeavour, they would be better off doing anything but Amway.
If people invested the same time and passion into any business endeavour as they typically do in to Amway, they'd get much the same result - not much.
20 years of watching where they take Amway - or where it takes them - has proven me right again and again.
In 20 years, I've built a national business employing 25 people as of today.
Good for you. I've spent 20 years building various ventures, which I've sold and made a lot of money. I also built an Amway business and made money.
People who were already Amway distributors when I started and who assured me they would be laughing at me in years to come are the same people I am now chuckling at seeing their LinkedIn requests: still in the same dead-end job, still drawing circles...
And some of my friends "who were already Amway distributors when I started" have built global networks that generate them very large incomes and generate full-time equivalent incomes for many other people.
Dueling anecdotes!
Try this - spend a week following your friends around to see how much actual work they do building a network and retailing products, then get back to me.
The big secret of network marketing is that
hardly anybody actually does it. People have some friend "in Amway" that buys some stuff, occasionally goes to meetings, but rarely, if ever, does the work necessary to build a network (linkedin requests are not it) and they seem concerned they're not making any money!
In 20 years of studying this industry I have *never* found anyone who actually put the work in and failed to build a network. I've encountered some that have built networks badly (and thus unprofitably) or made some poor decisions along the way which caused issues but never any that didn't get results from the work.
