Although the odds were stacked against him, my husband was determined to be successful in this Amway business, despite the fact that the company had a 99 percent failure record. He hoped that success in Amway would mean more than just financial security; it would also mean bathing in the happiness of the cult leaders that he admired so greatly.
Former Amway Independent Business Owners (IBOs) have written blogs and participated in forums where they essentially say the same thing. They worked really hard and invested a significant amount of time and effort into developing an Amway business, but their efforts were in vain. On the Internet, you will also find several blogs from current IBOs who repeat the words of their upline, claiming that the reason these individuals did not sponsor anyone was because they did not work hard enough or put out the necessary effort.
Sure, there are IBOs out there who joined because they were pressured by friends or relatives to do so. They paid their $150 and received their Amway start-up kit, and that was the extent of their interaction with the company. Those individuals most likely had no intention of putting in any effort and were only interested in assisting the individual who badgered them into joining up.
My Ambot worked extremely hard and put in a great deal of effort in order to develop an Amway business, in my opinion. He sat glued to his computer for hours on end, completing the Amway university programme. He poured over Amway literature and product publications for hours on end, and it paid off. He had memorised everything and was able to answer inquiries about the strategy or products, and he was as knowledgeable as or more knowledgeable than his upline. Listening to cassettes and reading books that his upline had pushed him to purchase took up most of his free time. He spent a significant amount of time each week hounding prospects to attend meetings. He attended every single Amway meeting, rally, seminar, and other large event. It took at least 50 hours a month to attend Amway meetings, plus travel time to and from them. If a major function out of state for the weekend was included, it took well over 100 hours a month to attend Amway meetings, not including travel time to and from them.
Let us not forget the countless hours he spent each week talking on the phone and dealing with the never-ending stream of text messages from his upline.
When all of the meetings, listening to tapes, and studying Amway are taken together, Ambot easily quadrupled, if not treble, Amway's estimate of 10 to 15 hours each week.
A lot of time and effort went into Ambot's training, but his upline continued to ride his back, accusing him of not working hard enough. He was advised that the reason he wasn't thriving in his Amway business was because he was too lazy and didn't put in enough effort. He agreed.
Let's see what happens. Someone who devotes at least 100 hours a month to any project is not considered to be a lazy person. Even when the odds are stacked against them, like in Amway's case, where the success rate is a fraction of one percent, they are focused on their objective and determined to succeed and achieve their goal.
In what kind of motivational approaches is the upline employing, such as blaming employees of being lazy, failing to try, or not working enough hard? The number of former IBOs that have the same tale that their upline (who is not related to us) said the exact same thing indicates that it is significantly higher than my Ambot's upline.
There are more effective methods of motivating people.
Oh, I forgot about that. The upline is not present to motivate you. They are there to indoctrinate you. In the manner of good cult leaders that they have been educated to be, they reprimand, mock, chastise, and criticise their followers. Even more than they desire to see their leader thrive in their Amway business, the followers desire to be pleasing to him. They put forth more effort and put forth more effort. Every time they don't produce results, especially when it comes to funding new IBOs, they are reprimanded and denigrated mercilessly.
Fortunately, many independent company owners (IBOs) become tired of this demeaning treatment and decide to leave "the business." Unfortunately, this is frequently not before significant financial and emotional harm has been done.
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