I've been blogging for several years and have noticed that IBOs talk a nice game about retailing, sponsoring, and conducting Amway business activities. They'll instruct you to get 20 clients, sponsor 6 frontline, exhibit a variety of programmes and set up certain follow-ups with contacts, among other things, in order to establish an Amway business. When someone asks if they are making money, these same IBOs start flinging insults or deflecting the conversation, which I find amusing. Of course, it would be acceptable if a new IBO admitted they had not yet made a fortune, but it appears that IBOs do not respond in this manner.
The Amway business appears to be straightforward. To leverage your volume with your downlines, buy some products, sell some things, and try to sponsor some downline. IBOs make the error of believing that if you built it perfectly once, the income will flow to future generations. What goes unreported is that IBOs come and go so frequently that running a firm that generates residual income would be like building a sandcastle on the beach. You could construct a massive sandcastle, but the waves of attrition would quickly demolish it. The same might be said for an Amway company. Unless you are constantly replacing the people who departed, the IBOs leaving would wipe out your firm. IBOs enjoy bragging about Amway sales and how the firm is expanding, although Amway sales have nothing to do with making IBOs more profitable.
IBOs may also make remarks about how the Amway business has made them a kinder person or how it has improved their marriage. When activities and meetings keep you away from your family and spouse, I frequently wonder how that is possible. It could be because the uplines talk about people being friendlier or spread myths like Amway and the AMOs saving marriages, for example. I recall reading in a WWDB diamond that WWDB members have a 2% divorce rate while the rest of society has a 60% divorce rate. That diamond's marriage, ironically, ended in divorce. I believe this nonsense is still taught, as a WWDB IBO who writes highlighted it last year on his blog. I don't believe Amwayers or anyone else has a higher or lower divorce rate than the general population, but it becomes a problem when uplines teach it and their downlines follow suit.
As a result, it appears that IBOs talk a fine game. They know what to say and how to act, but they're bluffing like poker professionals. If you call them out on it, they'll probably fold their hands in surrender because they don't have the goods. When the IBO is confronted with facts that contradict upline teaching, many Amway debates devolve into an insult contest. It's usually quite funny but I wonder if these folks question their upline or go on their merry way repeating uplines lies? When IBOs repeat insane material taught by their upline, it becomes obvious to everyone but the IBO. Good luck to anyone attempting to create a business against practically impossible odds.
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