"They" say that you must be tricked. "They" say I should NOT tell you all this detail. That you must be lured into filling out a lead capture form. What do "You" say?

If you are the type who needs to be tricked with false promises, please leave now.

I've been down those roads, and back again. I'm looking for those who either have been there too and now know better, or those who are smart enough to not go there in the first place!

Does The Store Where You Shop, Pay You For Referrals? Mine Does!

The world is changing and we couldn't stop it if we tried. One change that is sweeping the business world is that business owners are learning that their own customers are their best advertisers. Look at Groupon, Amazon, etc. These businesses are willing to give you, the Customer, incentives to not only come back to them when you shop, but to tell others about their store as well.

Truth vs Lies, Fact vs. Myths, Success vs. Failure.

• MYTH #1: Network Marketing (a.k.a. MLM) is a scam.
  
  FACT: It can be. So can real estate, stocks, college, social security, etc. The fact is, Network Marketing is "The Perfect Business" as Robert Kiyosaki says in his best selling "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series of books. Much has been written about this topic, and I don't think anything I can write here will change your mind about this topic.
  
  If you believe that MLM is bad, you are wrong. If you want to know the FACTS, I recommend you read Robert's book "The Business School", or Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki's book "Why We Want You To Be Rich" and get the FACTS. If you don't, or won't read, then go find out why Warren Buffet owns an MLM company.
  
  In short, it is a simple and easily proven FACT that Network Marketing is THE best way to become educated and to create wealth in the world, period. If you chose to ignore the FACTS and you chose instead to embrace this MYTH, then I can only tell you one thing - leave this site now.
  
  We do not tolerate stupidity on our team. Ignorance of the facts is fine. We welcome ignorance because all of us are ignorant about something. But stupidity, that's a different thing. Stupidity is ignoring the real world. It is ignoring FACTS and embracing MYTHS based on emotional thinking. Stupidity is the result of mental laziness. It is a failure disease and we have no place for it here.
  
  This video is about the most revealing example of how different opinions there are on the subject of "pyramid schemes", and to anyone who does understand the positive possiblities of network marketing, this video will have you rolling in the floor laughing:
  
  
  In summary, unless you understand that MLM can be a good thing when used by honest people, you are not welcome here. Yes, MLM can be a bad thing when used by bad people. Same with guns, politics, religion, you name it - anything can be bad, but the pure model of MLM is about people having to FIRST help other people in order for them to succeed.
  
  The MLM model far, far, far and away beats the so-called 'job' deal that it's outright laughable that MLM is terrible or a scam. No, some people are scams. I'll agree with that one, but to blame MLMs, or any business model for the actions of a few bad people is, well, stupid.
  
  If you want to talk about a scam, let's talk about college. Now there is the perfect example of a scam. Hundreds of thousands of people leave there in debt that takes years to recover from just for starters, but that's a segway for another day, so I won't go there but will get back on topic.



• MYTH #2: Amway's pay plan is not as good as other companies.
  
  FACT: There are only two companies who pay on everyone in your organization, no matter how wide or how deep it is, and Amway is one of them. The details and comparison is covered on our team conference calls because this MYTH is so full of misguided ideas that this topic can take hours to discuss in detail.
  
  The bottom line is, Amway's pay plan is the best in the industry, yet it probably has the worst reputation for pay plans. It's a head-scrathing puzzle as to how this myth lives on, but at the root of it is jealousy and insecurity of people in other companies where their plans omit pay on downline below a certain level, or where they require you to elevate your personally sponsored IBOs, or any number of other disqualifying rules that exist there.
  
  Amway's plan pay you on EVERYONE in your organization and it has created more millionaires than all others, period, case closed. The naysayers may sound good when they spout off about this MYTH, but the math is clear and simple - Amway's pay plan is the best in the industry and we can prove it!



• MYTH #3: You have to buy $300 of products per month.
  
  FACT: There are ZERO purchases required. It's that simple. The basis for this MYTH probably goes back to the agenda-based teachings of some distributor groups in the old days of Amway. Many mistruths were taught by some groups, and this is one of them. They wanted the troops to buy a lot of product. While it is a good thing for you and your group to purchase product, it is NOT a good thing to try to trick people into buying products. Other factors may have also lead to this MYTH getting legs, but it simply is not true. You purchase only what you want and need. More about this on our conference calls.



• MYTH #4: You have to go to hotel meetings and out-of-town conferences.
  
  FACT: There is not, and never has been a requirement to attend any meetings, but the reality of the "meetings required" myth goes beyond that. Some IBO team leaders were so forceful in the past that they pressured, persuaded, tricked, lied about - call it what you like - but suffice it to say that they mislead people into feeling as though these meetings were "required".
  
  Let's face it, education lies at the bottom of any success of anyone who has every achieved it, and for this reason, meetings can be a source of street-smart, hands on knowledge. And while knowledge can be acquired on your own, you will achieve much more and a lot quicker if you can model yourself after those who have already achieved success.
  
  In the past, meetings and conferences were about the only option in town to 'rub shoulders' with those who had achieved the success the new IBO was seeking.
  
  In today's market of high-tech devices and online resources, there are many more choices available. That's one reason that we have our team conference calls. Anyone can call in, listen to leaders and new members and prospects discussing the Amway business and our team philosophy.
  
  I would put our team education system up against ANY business college or business university in the country as to real-world results in teaching someone the skills needed to succeed in the world of business, any business, too, not just the Amway business. Don't just take our word for it. Go read what others like Robert Kiyosaki (The Business School) or Donald Trump have said about network marketing. They agree, it is the best place for someone who wants to be successful in business to learn the skills required to achieve their dreams. Robert Kiyosaki calls this "The Perfect Business", and I agree with him.
  
  So, as to the 'meetings required' myth, that's bunk! Success is not "required" and neither are meetings, but, and that's a big but, getting around proven (key word there, proven) leaders is probably the quickest way to the top. The good news, the FACT is, meetings are not the only way to make that happen.
  
  That's one of the reasons we have our conference calls, i.e. so people can get the knowledge they need to succeed and so they can attend them at their pace and schedule, and ELECT to attend them, not be REQUIRED to attend.
  
  One other point to address here, i.e. there have been teams of IBOs in the past, maybe still are some, who shamed people into attending these hotel meetings, local seminars and out-of-town conferences. The biggest reason this took place was because some groups of IBOs - note this was not Amway, but some individual team leaders of IBOs - who operated what is known as a "Tool Business" alongside their Amway business. And some of these teams did this on the "Q-T", i.e. on the quiet side, without telling anyone that their 'Tool Business' even existed.
  
  Because they were making money from the selling of these 'tools', they were motivated to promote, some say, or "push" is a better description, their educational materials (aka 'tools') onto people. Two points here about this.
  
  First, education is important, and second, deceiving people into getting an education is wrong. Both conditions existed in some of these groups, and it has left a bad taste in some people's memories about the "Amway business". The FACT is, it wasn't Amway that operated these 'Tools Businesses', it was certain group leaders of IBOs who did this.
  
  However, Amway shares some of the blame because they did not step forward and enforce their own rules and prohibit these negative practices from occurring. Why Amway allowed these pushy tactics to exist is an open debate to this day, but the FACT is, the "Tools Business" did exist, in secret, for far too long.
  
  Those days are gone and Amway has long taken care of these practices, but the past haunts all of us to this day. Thank God those days are gone. Now we only have to deal with the bad reputation that lingers. This mostly exists and is remembered in people over 40 years old, so when you hear the past being thrown up as though it's still here in the present, you need to remember that it is no longer a FACT, it is a MYTH.
  
  A final thought here about any tool business model, i.e. there is nothing wrong with a so-called "Tool Business" so long as it is operated in the open and honestly. Yes, people do need education, and yes, the profit motive is the best method to spur on growth of any enterprise. The point to remember from all this history and confusion is that deceit is a poison to any organization that always leads to it's failure. Honesty and accountability are pillars upon which real business is built.



• MYTH #5: It takes too long to build an established business like Amway. People who get rich quick are building these startups where getting "in" early is key to their success.
  
  FACT: Yes, there are a few who make it 'big' with startups. But they ALL fall down, quicker than they went up. And that 'all' is real. Name me one get-rich-deal that stuck around. They do not exist. And if you think you have a chance to be one of those who does make it big, you are living in la-la land. The only ones who make it in those 'deals' are those who start the deals because they stack the deck.
  
  Yes, they sound good. And that's because there are a lot of people out there who are both hurting and they are business under-educated and they want so badly to believe that they can get rich overnight. It doesn't happen! The newer you are at business, the harder it is to believe this FACT. And the more educated you are about business, the more you understand the value of both a proven supply company like Amway and a proven and honest team of leaders who can guide and coach their team to achieve real success that lasts a lifetime and can be handed down to their kids.
  
  Step back from the emotional hype a moment and look at the FACTS. There are grandkids today who are living a very comfortable lifestyle because their Grandparents started their Amway business before their parents were born. THAT is stability. THAT is FACT and no amount of fast talk or high pitched, overly excited yelling or smooth looking websites will overcome these FACTS to the learned person. Only the under-educated victims will fall for the MYTH that you must get in early.
  
  I learned this one the hard way. Getting in "early" really means, "It won't be good later, so get in now and screw those who get in later!" No thanks. You go there until you learn what I know - established companies are where to build your future, not on the new ones!