Our Amway upline instructed Ambot and me to compile a list of everyone we knew and send it to them. As a result, they provided us with a prompt sheet to utilise to assist stimulate our memories and realise that we know more people than we believe we do. All of our friends and acquaintances that we don't know but who we already know. Friends, family, the cashier at the gas station, the mailman, the garbageman, and other random people were on this list of prompts. I don't recall any of the suggestions that were on the list. Working on a list wasn't something I was particularly enthusiastic about. An Amway ambot list was a list of persons who were doomed to be harassed into attending Amway meetings, being conned into becoming an IBO, or being coerced into purchasing useless, overpriced, and shabby-looking Amway products. I made the decision to be difficult and only named people I knew who were also known by Ambot, which left out a lot of folks I went to school with and past employees from prior to meeting Ambot.
When it came to getting involved in Amway for the second time, the biggest obstacle was that we had already pestered everyone we knew the first time to attend an Amway meeting or purchase Amway products on our dime. Any names on our list would be tormented once more in order to be shown a board of directors' plan.
Our Platinum bragged about having a list of 1000 persons at any given moment. He did, in fact, show us his notebook, which included pages and pages of names, many of which had notations written next them. In order to make new friends on Facebook, he suggested that you snipe the friends of your Facebook friends and add them to your friend list instead. It's possible that you have hundreds of people on your Amway contact list and have never met any of them in person. Within the first couple of weeks of signing up for Amway, Ambot and I had compiled a list of over 200 people, which he then presented to the Platinum level of the organisation.
It is one thing to compile a list of a group of people that you might encounter on a regular basis over the course of a month. But it's another thing entirely to really have their phone numbers or to know them well enough to inquire about their contact information. I'm referring to the number of people that approach the water metre reader and ask for his house number. Raise your hands if you are an Ambot! What about when I'm in a Starbucks setting? The difference between ordering a triple venti raspberry mocha with an additional shot of espresso and whipped cream at my favourite coffee shop and asking for her phone number is that the former is more formal.
I believe Ambot wrote down the names of every former co-worker he had ever had, despite the fact that he had lost touch with them and had no idea how to get in touch with them again.
So we had a list of names of folks who were meant to be bugged into attending Amway meetings, and we were ready to go. I'm sure Ambot glanced at it from time to time and contacted someone whose number he genuinely possessed in order to hound them into attending an Amway meeting. We can't do anything about the persons on our name list whose phone numbers we don't know because we don't have them. Despite the fact that we and other IBOs were instructed to create a list and present it to the Platinum as proof that we had done so, no one in our upline ever mentioned the list or referred to it again, nor did anyone inquire as to whether or not we were contacting any of the people on our name list.
In other words, one of the first things our upline required of us was to compile a list of names of individuals we knew, categorise them as either hot or cold prospects, and then they didn't care whether or not we contacted any of these people.
In order for the upline to succeed, it was more vital for them to badger their downline into purchasing more items and tools than it was for them to follow up on their name list and what exactly they were accomplishing with their name list. Or, at the very least, in our WWDB community. As for the phoney ass leadership training programme that it was - known as World Wide Destructive Bastards owing to the major training of damaging relationships of its ambots if they had a significant other who did not want to waste their money on this scam - it was a dreadful piece of work.
I found it out with a little help from former Amway Independent Business Owners (IBOs) after we had long since left the Amway cult. The IBO is hoping that the name list will give them reason to be hopeful. Even if the IBO is having difficulty persuading prospects to attend an Amway meeting or finding customers to purchase pricey, substandard Amway items, there is still hope as long as there are still names on the list. I'm holding out hope that there's still a slim chance of signing up a downline. Hoping to locate a customer who is willing to pay an excessive amount of money for an Amway product rather than buying at their grocery store for a superior product at an affordable price.
Sell the illusion of hope! It's not the soap, either!
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