(1) That would not be "easily" figured out.
(2) In itself it wouldn't tell you much
You could have three different businesses where using your method you calculated the "profit/hour" and at that point they were exactly the same. Yet in one business the smart option would be to sell it before it's worth decreased. In another the smart option would be to keep working to increase it's worth, and in the third the smart option could be to shut the whole thing down!
Your "profit/hour" tells you nothing.
It's tells you nothing? Seriously? Nothing? Seriously? Nothing? (where's Seth and Amy when you need them).
Kahn, I'm laughing at the superior intellect.
You wonder why people are skeptical about your business? This kind of crap is the reason. You can't give us P/L statements. You can't even make an estimate of the profit per hour invested UP TO THIS POINT? And if you do it means nothing?
Would it make you happier if we included a valuation of the company in the equation? Company valuations tend to include future earnings so:
total profit + company valuation / hours worked
should get us some kind of idea of the value proposition here?
And while we are on this topic why don't you tell us how Amway business are valued typically? I'm curious if I built up my business to say a diamond level how much I could sell it for.
Bottom line, your refusal to engage when it comes to actual numbers makes it more likely that this is a scam. Every time we see numbers from Amyway they reveal the same thing over and over. Crap profitability for the average IBO, lots of tools profit for the kingpins and a huge lack of any kind of good information on actual profit for those in the middle of the pyramid.
Even some quick back the envelope calculations shows the Amway business to be sucktastic compared to almost anything else (it might beat lottery tickets).
You can't just trot out bonus checks from people at the top of the pyramid and claim that this is a good business. You have to look at the AVERAGE case. For example if the average diamond business takes 10 years to build I want to see the profitability curve for the entire time. If you have to lose money and invest huge amounts of time over a long period that may be the equivalent of investing a large sum.
How long does it take the average diamond to go diamond? How much money do they make or lose along the way? Once the average diamond stops working the business how long does the residual income last? Dollars per hour is just a simplification of all of these calculations to give an overall idea of how well your time has been spent. If you include company valuation then it's a very good indicator.
As for your tennis pro strawman doing an actual estimate would be pretty easy for a pro athlete. Take the amount of hours they've spent to become good (typically 10,000+ by the beginning of a pro career), the amount of money they've made up to now and divide. This will show an abrupt edge if done over time. This edge represents the risk inherent in this type of all or none strategy. If you make it big you will make large dollars and everything will work out. If you don't make it big then you will likely not be profitable at all. This is one reason that I wouldn't recommend someone use a pro athlete strategy to run their lives.
The time that you are working without making money is your investment and represents your risk. I personally think most Amway people completely misrepresent the risk involved because they don't consider time to have value.
Bottom line, it's a waste of time compared to almost anything else. Sitting on your ass collecting welfare is probably time better spent than "building an Amway business".
Plain and simple it's a brainwashing business cult that relys on a continuous stream of suckers chasing an unlikely dream.
