Category Archives: Commentary

MonaVie vs Amway Redux

November 10th, 2011 | Posted in Amway India, Amway News, Commentary

Back in 2007/2008 Amway in North America (then known as Quixtar) was involved in a deal of controversy after terminating several Diamonds associated with the organisation TEAM, led primarily by Orrin Woodward and Chris Brady. Eventually TEAM and many associated Diamonds joined another MLM company, MonaVie. There were then various legal battles between all parties [...]

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Are you recruiting your competitors?

September 28th, 2011 | Posted in Amway Myths, Commentary, Peter Bowditch, Robert T. Carroll, Steve Nakamura (JoeCool)

A supposed “criticism” of Amway, and indeed of multilevel marketing, that I’ve seen turn up regularly is the idea that it’s inherently flawed because “you are recruiting competitors”. For example, Robert T. Carroll, in his “Skeptic’s Dictionary” says – Why, you might wonder would you recruit people to compete with you? For, isn’t that what [...]

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The #1 problem with Amway and multilevel marketing

August 21st, 2011 | Posted in Commentary

Amway has  a problem, a problem it shares with entire multi-level marketing industry. The result of this problem is that the vast majority of people who join Amway never make any significant money.  It’s a problem that leads to low average incomes. It’s a problem that leads to many people not renewing their memberships. This [...]

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Amway? A friend of mine tried that, it doesn’t work!

June 2nd, 2011 | Posted in Commentary

A friend of mine has been an Amway IBO for about 4 years.  She’s recently decided to stop with her goal to be Diamond, instead pursuing goals related to environmental change. That’s fine, people’s lives and ambitions change. The thing is, in that four years she was regularly attending major and minor seminars, weekly “open [...]

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Amway North America – a stunning new statistic!

February 16th, 2011 | Posted in Amway News, Amway's Awards & Recognitions, Commentary

We’re still awaiting Amway’s official sales data from 2010 but already some info has leaked out in various press interviews and elsewere. In the recent USA Today article on Amway, Amway North American managing director Steve Lieberman was quoted as saying North American sales were up about 5% – the most significant growth in that [...]

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A response to USA Today and their sins of omission

February 7th, 2011 | Posted in Commentary

The media rarely fails to surprise me in their ignorance and sheer laziness when reporting on the topic of multilevel marketing, and alas,  USA Today is no exception. Today they published an article Many in multilevel marketing sales find it hard to earn much that was somewhat critical of MLM, and attacked two companies in particular [...]

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Coming up on TTAA ….

August 26th, 2010 | Posted in Commentary

I’ve been unable to post much recently due to some other priorities, but I thought I’d give TTAA readers an idea of the posts I have in draft for the near future, as well as some additional Amway related projects in the works. If you happen to have something you’d like me to address or [...]

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