From: reb@punch.EBay.Sun.COM (Bob Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.business.multi-level
Subject: Re: Earnings...
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:04:34
Organization: Systar Technologies, Inc.
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In-reply-to: uloren@mcl.ucsb.edu's message of 30 Sep 92 23:42:29 GMT

>>>>> uloren@mcl.ucsb.edu (Loren D. Koss) writes:


uloren> Since there is such a great debate over people not making it
uloren> in MLM and what not, I was wondering if anyone wanted to
uloren> disclose how much they have made in their various ventures..

I'm an Amway Distributor, I make several hundred every month and in
June (My first month at silver qualification) I got a bonus check for
over $4800 and kept enough for me to be still smiling about it in
October!!

uloren> I can honestly say that I've broken even on Equinox and am
uloren> still waiting for my first check from CBI.  Since there are a
uloren> lot of people in different MLM's here, I think the people who
uloren> are looking into it will definitely get a good idea about how
uloren> much they can expect to make..

I think it's a bad practice to base your decision on MLM on the
earnings of any given individual. For example, most of the people in
my group make just about zip. Of course, most of the people in my
group do just about zip. I can say that everyone who is making money
in my group are making it because they are putting in the effort that
it takes.

In my plan, I often show a graph like this.


							       x
      |							       x
      |							       x
      |							       x
      |							       x
      |							       x
 M    |							       x
 O    |							      xx
 N    |							     xx
 E    |		     					    xx
 Y    |		    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
      |		   x					   xx     x
      |		  x					  xx      x
      |		 x					xx        x
      |		x				      xx	  x
      |	       x				    xx  	  x
      |	      x					  xx    	  x
      |	     x					xx      	  x
      |	    x				     xxx		  x
      |	   x				xxxxx   		  x
      |	  x		          xxxxxx			  xxxxxxxx
      |	 x                xxxxxxxx
      ____________________________________________________________________

                          |           |           |           |
                          0          100         200         300
(Not to scale)


                           TIME

The curve that flattens out is the job, eventually you reach a point
where you can't trade time for dollars and get a whole lot more
and eventually you retire on half or 1/3 of what you already could
not live on.

The exponential curve, is shown much to wide here, but what I want
to show is that between 0 and 100 plans, not much money. Even at
200 plans (sponsored 20-25 people) the money relative to your job
is not much. But.... by the 300th plan (30-40 people sponsored),
your income can be significantly greater than in the job.

Not many people do 100 plans, let alone 300. Soooo, at that level,
aside from direct sales, don't expect to be making much money.

Comments?!


Bob
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