I've been blogging for a number of years now, and I've seen that Independent Business Owners (IBOs) talk a fine game about retailing, sponsoring, and participating in Amway business activities. If you want to grow an Amway business, they will advise you to get yourself established with 20 consumers, sponsor 6 frontline representatives, demonstrate a number of plans and set up specific follow-ups with contacts, among other things to get you started. When someone inquires as to whether or not these same IBOs are generating money, I find it really amusing when they respond with insults or shift the conversation in another direction. Of course, it would be acceptable if a new IBO admitted that they had not yet made a fortune, but it appears that even that kind of admission is not forthcoming from IBOs at this time.
It appears that the Amway business model is straightforward. In order to leverage your volume with your downlines, you need purchase some products, sell some products, and try to sponsor some downline. IBOs make the error of believing that you can start a business once and that the income would continue to flow into future generations. However, because IBOs come and go with such regularity, a business that generates residual income would appear to be as insignificant as a sandcastle on the beach to the average observer. The waves of attrition would quickly demolish your magnificent sandcastle, no matter how magnificent you had built it to be. In the case of an Amway firm, the same would be true. Because of the IBOs leaving, your firm would be wiped out unless you were continuously replacing the workers who lost their jobs. It is common for IBOs to talk about Amway sales and how the corporation is increasing in sales, although Amway sales have nothing to do with the ability of individual IBOs to increase their profits.
IBOs may also include comments about how they have become kinder people or how their marriage has improved as a result of their Amway business. What I don't get is how it may be possible while you're away from your family and spouse for functions and meetings. This could be due to the fact that 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 about how WWDB members had a 2 percent divorce rate, when the rest of society had a 60 percent divorce rate, which was shocking to me. Ironically, the diamond's marriage did not last long and ended in divorce. A WWDB IBO who blogs had mentioned this nugget of information on his blog a few years ago, thus I assume this nonsense is still being taught. There is no evidence to support the notion that Amwayers or anybody else has a higher or lower divorce rate than the general population, but it does become an issue when uplines teach it and their downlines repeat it.
As a result, it appears that IBOs are talking a good game. But they're just like poker players who are bluffing when they say and do what they're supposed to do. Unless you call them out on it, they're more than likely to fold their hands in their laps since they don't have what it takes. Because of this, many Amway debates devolve into an insult competition when the IBO is suddenly confronted with facts that are in direct opposition to upline teaching. It's typically fairly amusing, but I'm curious whether these people ever challenge their upline or if they just continue on their merry path repeating their upline's lies. When an IBO is repeating insane material taught by their upline, it becomes obvious to everyone but the IBO. Good luck to anyone who is attempting to create a business against what appears to be insurmountable obstacles.
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