« Quixtar Chatter Q & A | Main | That Dilbert Guy »
September 29, 2005
The Way Things Were
By QBlog in Miscellaneous
Check out this old Amway recruitment brochure (pdf) from 1991. It's pretty interesting to read the types of things that were disclosed to new Distributors. I wonder how it compares to the Quixtar plan being presented today?
Here are a few excerpts that I found quite interesting:
(page 1) Like all other distributors, you start by being sponsored by another distributor and obtaining the literature portion of the Sales Kit.
You can begin building your business in any of several ways. You can merchandise products to your friends, neighbors, and relatives. You can also sponsor others as distributors and train them to merchandise products. It's not important which you do first, as long as you do both...
...BV for Amway products and services, excluding catalog, averages 87% of suggested retail price. The amount of Performance Bonus is determined by Both BV and PV. Presently one point of PV is equal, on average, to slightly more than $1.80 BV...
...The Average Monthly Gross Income for "Active" Distributors was $65. Approximately 46% of all distributors of record were found to be "active."...
(page 5)
(page 6) Q. Do I have to sell products to retail customers?
A. Yes. Money is made in the Amway business through the sale of Amway products. Products sold to retail customers create the profitability of your Amway business. In order to to receive a monthly Performance Bonus payment on the volume of your sponsored distributors, you must have ten retail customers during the month.
Comments
Count for inflation...$115/mo
;p
If memory serves me right, that sounds pretty close to the literature I recieved when I got into the business in 1981.
For the record, I always worked my business on two fronts. I was constantly trying to amass a small clientele of "10-20 customers buying 10-20 dollars" every month. I also made a good faith effort to prospect, show the plan, etc.
I liked the recent tape "Width, Momentum, and Depth" where Save Severn teaches not to have any more than 20 clients because they will keep you too busy from the real goal which is to recrut...fishy, huh?
Xanacdustc> I liked the recent tape "Width, Momentum, and Depth" where Save Severn teaches not to have any more than 20 clients because they will keep you too busy from the real goal which is to recrut...fishy, huh?
Joe> Width, mometum, depth. Intersting, but I guess that does not apply to retail sales eh?
Wow. That's an interesting trip back in time. I wonder myself how much of that is actually the same.
Posted by: kurosawa09 | September 29, 2005 6:59 AM