Saturday, February 26, 2011

Anybody Can Do This?

Every "Open Meeting" I ever attended I heard this statement as a selling point. Anybody can do this. The fact is......No.....they can't. Are you kidding me!? Do you have any idea what it takes to build an Amway business? Well before you go to bed tonight with dreams of financial freedom, and fancy cars dancing through your head, consider these points.

The time commitment. I was always told that it was flexible, and you could build it around your existing schedule. Unless your thinking of missing an open meeting that is! That's right....every Tuesday for LIFE. Open meetings ran at least 2 hours, maybe more if the speaker droned on longer. No big deal you say? It's like having a sports commitment or something similar you say? Alright, did I mention the monthly seminars? That's one Saturday a month and is the better part of the afternoon and evening that day. Oh did I mention that you haven't shown this to one person yet! Now add in 15 showings or "plans" a month at an hour a piece (I've been to plans that were way longer than that). Did I mention you have to get back together with these people for follow through appointments? At least another 15 hours of work there. Plus all the driving time, extra meetings with your "Team", helping your new people get started, contacting sessions with your group, attending house meetings.....should I go on? Do the math. You think your going to rocket yourself to financial freedom with a couple hours a week do ya? Wake up! Truth is most people get involved at the chance to get their time back! Does this sound like getting your time back? Oh, and by the way.....this NEVER ENDS! Sorry...were you told you could just "Walk away" from your "business" when it got big enough? LIE! Can you imagine how fast your group would collapse if you said "you know....I think I've built this big enough...I'm going to live the big life now" and left! Who would they be able to point to as a "Success"? Oh no....your not going anywhere! It's like the Hotel California.... you can check out any time you like....but you can never leave!

The financial commitment. Seriously. If you build it like the "Leaders" tell you. The amount of money you will spend is astounding! Remember those weekly open meetings? $5 per meeting. Monthly Seminar $30-$35 per seminar. Products on hand....the sky is the limit, but you will for sure have something on hand for people to try. In Amway it was XS energy drinks at $2.50 a can and some protein bars! With Monavie it was $35 bottles of Juice! THEN there is all the promotional items. Audio CD's, books, pamphlets, etc. Also known as "Tools". This will be a future post on it own (I know you can hardly wait Tex). Let's just say that this will be your largest financial investment by far! Sound easy so far? Sound like "Anybody Can Do This"? Really? That single mom with two kids? That high school drop out working at McDonald's? That single income family living pay check to pay check? No chance. All the supporters will point to the very few that have made money, and their personal stories of success. Well after 6 years of building.... and people were still pointing to the same folks they were on day one as examples of success....clearly not "Anybody Can Do This"!!  

10 comments:

  1. Do you expect to grow a business without putting any time into it? Do you realize the reason the time factor is so high is because you have to constantly replace IBOs who go broke because of the Amway Tool Scam?

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  2. Obviously you have to put hard work and effort into anything you do if you want it to succeed. Also you are spinning plates constantly because of the horrible drop out rate of the "business". Some quit over the tools...yes. However just as many quit when they realized this was no "part time business". I'm not defending the tool business... like I said... that will be another post. The point of the post was not just "anybody" can do this! You need a super human commitment with all kinds of time on your hands, a ton of disposable income, and be a gluten for punishment! If this sounds like you.... Amway is your deal! Thanks for reading.

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  3. Do you know what happens to a stagnant growth rate with just a 10% annual decrease in dropout rate?

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  4. Do I know? ..... I lived it!!!! Only it was MUCH higher than10%! I helped put Hundreds of people into this thing! If it were only 10%..... I would have hit Diamond inside the three year mark! LOL.

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  5. Bottom line:

    Millions have tried this. Whether they were lied to at the start is another story (they likely were though). How many success stories are there? A handful.

    The arithmetic states the obvious. Amway is not a wagon to hitch your retirement plans onto.

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  6. You lived it WITH a tool scam, right? I'm talking about a 10% annual decrease in dropout rate WITHOUT the tool scam. Just because you put them in fast and they got out fast because they went broke thanks to the Amway Tool Scam MAKES my point, ESPECIALLY since you didn't make the Diamond mark within 3 year. Do you even comprehend what I'm saying?

    Of course we were lied to, and thanks to the internet, it isn't as easy to lie any longer.

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  7. Tex.. You know, I've tried to view your comments as constructive, and engage in dialogue with you...BUT, your jabs at me along with your condescending comments is growing old. You wonder why you have no allies in your war against the "Tool Scam"? Here's a clue....your abrasive and rude. If you don't like what I write...don't read it, and feel free not to comment in future. Do you comprehend what I'm saying?

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  8. Tex, is a known racist, thus his comments are biased and slanted to his view of the world. He has been banned on nearly all Amway related blogs and forums because he makes demands and uses abrasive language in other people's blogs.

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  9. Only reason tex bothers hanging out at these blogs is to recruit peop for his bogus lawsuit. Like Joe says he usually gets banned from every forum or blog just like ibofb. They all find this weirdo annoying.

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  10. Basically, tex has been reduced to a spammer. Colin is right, tex is spamming for support in his lawsuit. He's gone wacko I think.

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