friends help: One of my best friends ask me to join in Amway company to make - Help.com

I love Amway Products! In fact, thanks for reminding
me! I need to find a distributor to buy some soap from!!!

It is, to an extent, pyramid-based, and the company’s reputation is rather shady, though there is actual profit potential. It’s similar to Team National in many ways. Some do well with this sort of thing, particularly those good at social networking as recruitment is a main method of advancement; most do not. Be skeptical and research the corporation more fully; if it’s still something you want to do, at that point go ahead.

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many if not all multi-level marketing (MLM) business, get the bad wrap of being a pyramid scheme, but they are not; Mary Kay, Cookie Lee, Amway, Quixtar, Avon and many more. The idea behind MLM is they save advertising dollars by paying associates to sell the product. Quixtar is as big as Amazon.com, but no ones heard of it. Why because it’s sales force is what makes it large… not it’s advertising. If you do not work at it… and get people in your “downline” you will not make much money. That is why people call it a pyramid… they are upset because they are not good enough to keep people under them. But the people that keep people under them can make thousands $$$

you have the potential to make lots of dough, it just depends what you are willing to put into it. good luck

Also, FYI, Rober Kiosaki (sp?) best selling author of, “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”, recommends MLM’s not for the money you can make (although you can make bank) but rather that many MLM’s have the BEST training in any field. Making money is a mindset, just like anything else. It’s a good thing to learn.
~Richard

I live near the birthplace of the Amway “pyramid” or “multi-level marketing”. Grand Rapids benefits from the millions that the Devos and Van Andel families have contributed since the company’s beginning. There is a mixture of admiration, jealousy and disregard for them depending upon who you are. I agree with Infopro that Amway’s products are good. And actually, although their politics are conservative (which may not be bad to some people), they have good reputations for being fairly honest.

I know a family who has been involved as middle tier for over 15 years (not as their full-time job , but as supplement) and they have been very satisified with their earnings and benefits. I also know a guy who joined later and invested a lot of money in the kits, etc. and then did not make enough to cover the costs before he gave up.

My understanding is that if you can join while the company is still new to your location and if you believe you have the people skills and networking capabilities, you may actually do well. However, if you are not very outgoing, it may not work.

However, I see Richard’s point about it offering good training.

and Fengshui has a definite point in being outgoing. That is a huge edge. This is what some of the training is … positive motivational training, but if you are terrified of meeting new or strange people, and you don’t think any amount of training can fix that… you will not do well in the MLM game… period.

I’m sorry. Can’t help you.

I wouldn’t do it again despite the nice people I met and the education in cold selling I received.

I’ve done Amway twice through different uplines and I also sold Reliv (a health product from the 90’s) under a MLM scheme. I never made enough to compensate for the long hours I put in.

My sister is one of the largest volume movers of Avon in NZ and really all she has to show for the 3 years work is a house full of product. And I do mean FULL of product! She clears less than 5K a year in cash as most of it goes back into products, magazines, and all the other spend she has for the business.

if she put in as many hours trading hours for dollars in a salaried job as she does doing Avon she would make a lot more than she does.

Final call is up to you. Some people do make a lot of money at it. But I never met anyone who did it overnight. Be prepared for lots of long hours and presenting to hundreds of people for only a few to ultimately sign on if my experience is anything to go by.