I am a proud IBO powered by Amway Global and have been for several years. I know everything there is to know about my companies and my industry. All the good, bad, pretty & ugly.. Just like every other business model on the planet. Except ours gives us real personal freedom and real influence to give a hand-up not a hand-out…

My experience with AG and the leadership team that my wife & I are apart of has changed my life and my families life for the better. Our marriage has improved because of the BOOKS we were recommended and the PEOPLE we CHOOSE to associate with. Our careers, YES our JOBS have taken off, read ( more money and better positions )have improved. I am still looking forward to running our business full-time and giving my job to someone else as is my wife. Here is a shock to all the negative heads. We run a profitable business….SHock, horror, run for your life. real profit.. not possible with the knuckle heads on the intrawebs…

Friends/Family of ours that are not in business with us or shop with us are still our Friends/Family….We talk, hang-out & just live our lives. Same as before, just improved & better. Watched the Magic, saw the Tigers play, hit balls on the Golf course… Had a blast with friends in and out of our business………. Someone has got to up with something new and original to complain about.. Just tired drivel from before I was born.. What pressure or chasing.. blah, blah where?? not us or our team or our BIG LOA..

I never meet or hear about anyone remotely involved with these ridiculous stories of “OH my friends were brain-washed and forced against their will to buy printer paper from Office Depot & get payed for it.” What? Or the referenced it’s a cult?? Seriously? Are you kidding me?? A cult of what? Personality? Get a grip for gosh-’sakes it’s 2009. Not the dark ages.. FTC, Accreditation, BBB, DSA, Completely online, 8 freakin Billion globally, xyz, pqrst,….

I fully recommend a proper “brain-flushing” of mass proportions for many. Ie: If you are going to run a profitable & successful business, you NEED to learn everything you can and “flush” your E quadrant mentality….

People are excited about an opportunity and to learn from others that have succeeded in their chosen path. And………………

I also see new people on our own team jacked out of their heads sometime and it is funny and great to see at the same time because REAL possibility is in front of them for most likely the first time in their lives and that’s bad? Come on already..

People quit, people make money, some do, some don’t.. It’s not magic pixie dust or super secret training. It’s W_O_R_K and learning new skills and info and then applying what you have learned over and over and over..

Stop whining and start winning. If this business isn’t for you do something else. Stop blaming everyone and everything for your lack of success. What ever that means to you..

Let the flames begin and complaining about you don’t know my story or my upline or blah, blah, blah.. then quit and do something else. It’s not for you. Man up and have some honor & dignity.

This has been fun and no I will not be back.

God bless & God bless America,
Tim

I lost a “friend” to an MLM, my friend and her husband would not talk to me once my husband and I turned them down. Sort of sad and unfortunate, I probably would have ordered product from them, some of this particular MLM companies stuff is very good.

I’m keeping an open mind. That’s why I wrote the headline as a question, rather than “Boy, Amway Sure Makes People Annoying!”

Let’s do this: You come back on the first of every month and tell us how much you spent the prior month, how many hours you spent, products you bought, and your profit for the month. I will even post your progress. This will be the only way to dispell the propoganda of the naysayers.

A tip: If you truly consider this a business, you need to track every hour that you spend on it. That’s just basic business. It will of course be low $ per hour at first, but you need to assign a value to your time or there’s no way to assess your “opportunity costs” or compare to other activities.

Deal? We’ll meet back here the first? Don’t worry about privacy… no one knows who you are. You can post under a diff name if you’d like.

I had posed you a question – do you know what is MLM ? what is a pyramid ?

If your answer is:
- MLM – i.e. sell products to others.
- Pyramid – so my “upline” will earn money while I work hard.

then just take PITY on yourself and feel depressed. If you do not wish to ake pity on yourself, THEN I DARE YOU. FIND OUT!!!

Also since we are at it, decide:
- If you want to do your PhD on “google”
or
- If you wish to do it in a proper college.

Do you honestly think that people in AMWAY business are NOT human beings or that they are human beings but are STUPID ? Do you think that ?

Cheers/Shekhar

Then, WHAT IS YOUR TIGLE QUESTION you refer to above ??????? you have just quoted my sentence…..

But here are your answers:
- I am new my friend (only 15 days old) in the business.
When you start ANY business, HOW long do you take to start earning money ?
Why is that you ask this question ONLY to Amway IBOs and not all other
business owners of different businesses ?????
- How much money I have spent ? Although extremely personal (none of anyone’s
business come to think of it), I do not mind sharing only to make a point):
about 318 for joining (got a whole lot of products in the starter pack).
That’s it.
- Number of hours I have spent – ALL of my free time – it is MY business
so I will do what it takes. I am MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS not someone
else’s. So why do someone like you need to bother ?
Thanks to someone like you, people REFUSE to see the simple but seemingly
Too Good To Be True business model. But then you guys INSIST on ignoring
the key word “seemingly”.

Difference between you and me:
- I like to be positive. You like to be negative.
- I like to MIND MY OWN business. You – mind OTHER peoples’ business.
Did you notice the pun here ? I am sure you did not.
- I am not rich (yet). So I LIKE to be paid when I make a purchase.
You – do NOT LIKE to be paid. You are happy with using 0.50$ coupons.
- I KNOW what products are good for ME. You – do not even bother to find out.
- I go to meetings to LEARN the business and learn to be POSITIVE.
You – like to while away the time and remain NEGATIVE always.
- I have a job (and I also pray that you TOO have a job) and you have a job.
I have a PLAN-B. You do not have a plan B.
- According to YOUR perception – I will lose all my friends. But I have GAINED
many more like minded people. We have a ball. YOu – MAY have a few friends
who will NOT THINK TWICE before badmouthing you behind your back.
So who is better off ? me or you ?

The list goes on. For your kind informaiton you may note that the “you” in my list above was ME – myself – till a few days ago.

Wake up people. Do you want to learn horse-riding from a person who is simply PETRIFIED of horses and all animals ?

Shekhar

Tell us, Shekhar, 1) how much revenue you’ve generated so far with Amway, 2) how much money you have spent, including product purchases, materials, and 3) estimated number of hours you have spent preparing, thinking about, pitching, attending meetings, etc. for Amway.

You talk like you’re Michael Phelps, but my guess is you’re treading water or drowning, like most in Scamway. It’s funny to hear how Amway is being persecuted by people spreading lies… they’ve claimed that for decades. Their bigger problem is people spreading the truth.

I’ll give you Shekhar credit for answering the title question.

You said:
Quote:
The secondary business is where upline trick or bait and switch distributors into thinking they have the ultimate secret to succeeding in Amway. So the new distributor’s, not wanting to miss out on this information, subscribe to the “Amway College” and end up spending hundred if not thousands of dollars learning Amway.
Unquote:

I FAIL TO UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU GET ALL THIS TRASH INFORMATION !!!
WHY ARE YOU MISLEADING PEOPLE WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE HECK YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ??? IF YOU DO NOT HAVE FIRST HAND INFO THEN AT LEAST KEEP THIS INFO TO YOURSELF INSTEAD OF SPOILING THE NAME OF A LEGITIMATE BUSINESS.

I am an Amwayiite and doing pretty well for a recent recruit:

- I HAVE NOT joined “Any other” “Amway College” simply because there is none.
- Amway products are top class and are NOT expensive.
- All I pay is a cover charge of USD 5/- (ZERO FIVE ONLY) per meeting simply
because my father does not pay the rental of the hotel room where we
congregate.
- My upline DOES NOT pester me to “recruit people”.

- My best friend is now retired and his take home is USD 250K per annum.

So please just stuff it OK ?

Cheers/Shekhar

Jean, good that you told the guys “you are not interested” – this will avoid mutual waste of time. My point is, DO YOU REALLY KNOW what is MLM ? what is “Pyramid” as you term it ? Or are you just “read it on Google” or “read similar blogs like the one you posted” or “my friend told me” ???

If answer to any one of them is yes, then please at least do not badmouth a legit business without knowing what it is and how the heck it works.

It is people like you who:

- are so rich that they do not need more money.
or
- are so poor/middle class that the mentality remains thus and therefore:
who:
- Make Sam Walton (do you know who he was ?) and Mark Zuckerberg billionaires.
- Spoil the name of a business without knowing a thing. This is like a person
who does not swim teaching swimming to others.

Cheers/Shekhar