From: dkyburz@techdata.UUCP (dkyburz)
Newsgroups: alt.business.multi-level
Subject: Re:  LOOKING FOR GOOD MLMs (?)
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:25:46 GMT
Reply-To: dkyburz@techdata.UUCP ()
Organization: Tech Data Corp, Clearwater, FL

In article <1992Oct12.225059.28120@col.hp.com> lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson) writes:

>Why do Amway distributors often talk to you for many minutes about
>"this great business opportunity" without ever saying "Amway"?

    It's because the name Amway has had a reputation as a door to
    door soap company and many people still preceive it that way.
    If you can keep an open mind, when seeing the plan, I hosestly
    believe you will see how great the opportunity is. Many people
    have a hard time keeping an open mind if they KNOW it's Amway 
    before hand.

    I was one of those door to door Amway salesman back in the early
    70's. It took a friend of mine 9-months before I agread to see
    the plan again, because I KNEW it was Amway. It's great. I wish 
    they would have had the support system then they have know, I'd
    Crown Ambassador, up there with Dexter Yeager! But they didn't
    and I quit.

>If I'm NOT interested, and I already know that I'm not, you're 
>wasting both our time.

    You are right. If you are NOT qualified, they are wasting your
    time and theirs. But the person should have ask you a few
    simple questions, before presenting the plan. They should have
    determined that you were in fact looking for a way to make more
    money, or have more time. If you're not looking, you're NOT
    qualified. Being qualified has nothing to do with your age, sex,
    or ability. 

    Most Amway distributors operate on the assumption that some will
    some won't... so what.  What we have is NOT for everyone. We do't
    want to talk anyone into it. We want them to see the benefits and
    want to persue the opportunity. I'd rather have two or three
    go-getter types than a hundred luke warm distributors I had talked
    into the plan.

>So what do you say, folks? If you use this "technique", why?  Is it that
>your MLM has such a bad name that you EXPECT people to walk away if you
>tell them too soon? What's the deal?

    I think I covered this in the beginning. Yes, many people still think
    of Amway as a small door-to-door soap company. If fact they are the
    largest debt-free, privatly heald corporation in America. They stil
    manufacture a small number of products, but they broker somewhere
    between 12,000 and 16,000 products and services. They have 500-600
    of the Fortune 1000 companies onboard with them. There are not many
    things you could want, that they don't have access to! They own
    about 11,000,000 square feet of office and warehouse space, totally
    paid for. They own a fleet of trucks, airplanes and ships! They also
    did about $5,000,000,000, that's BILLION, in business last year and
    have been in business since 1959.

    I guess you can tell I'm a little biased. And for those people who
    think it's a pyrimid and will saturate... It's been 33-years and
    there are only 2,000,000 distributors world wide. That is less than
    1/2 of 1% of the US population. Amway does business in somewhere
    between 54 and 57 countries and territories around the world.

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