Monthly Archives: February 2009

Why don’t people just tell you it’s Amway?

A common complaint (and I must say a somewhat legitmate one) that I encounter about Amway rep’s is that they’re often not “up front” about the identity of the company they work with. IBOs generally don’t call people and say something like “What are you doing Friday for lunch? I’d like to show you the [...]

Let’s Talk About Tools I

Probably the last major “unresolved” issue in the public arena with regards Amway is the “tools” or Business Support Materials (BSM), and in particular controversy over profits earned from BSM by “higher pins”. If you spend even a small amount of time on the internet researching Amway you’ll find many claims that “the real money” [...]

Len Clements launches a podcast

One of my favourite commentators on the Network Marketing industry is Len Clements of MarketWave Inc. Len has been very much at the forefront of defending the industry against anti-mlm zealots like Robert FitzPatrick and Jon Taylor. He unfortunately has had a tendency to repeat some of the unfair generalizations about Amway that are based [...]

Alticor and Amway Sales Growth: 1960 to 2008

This is an update of a graph I did last year for AmwayWiki Amway global sales were reported at “estimated retail” until 2000 when the holding company of Alticor was formed. This means they’re valued assuming that they were all sold at the full retail price, not at the price they were sold to distributors/IBOs. [...]

Amway 2008 Sales figures – a few comments

Amway’s official sales press release was issued today and confirmed what was already publicly stated by Rich DeVos last Friday – Amway’s global sales for 2008 were $8.2billion – up 15% on Amway’s 2007 sales of $7.1 billion. In a break from previous years, data for no individual markets or regions has not been separated [...]

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