Our LOS has also been promoting Ditto but I haven’t really gotten into the habit of promoting it to clients and new IBO’s yet. Would you mind sharing how you’re doing it?

Thanks!

DITTO rocks, and I don’t think most IBOs have harnessed the power and potential of it.

And because of this, they haven’t worked with it enough, learned how to promote and implement it, and so most IBOs are not educated in how to use this tool. They don’t know the “why”.

They have not yet figured out how to “sell” this concept–meaning they only see it as how it benefits them, rather than understanding how it benefits their IBOs and their Customers.

All of this is just my opinion.

OK, I just wanted to drive that point because I though it would be helpful to someone as my LOS also teaches ditto as the default. I was not looking to be annoying.

Thanks for the great forum here, IBOFB.

But I’m still no seeing anyone talk about getting their customers on Ditto. Am I being thick or is this an indication that no one else is using Ditto?

It’s “Buy From Yourself And Teach Others To Do The Same”. When you have THAT as your business model, then what you are selling is a concept, a business model, in which there is zero profitability for an IBOship unless that IBOship is attached to other IBOships.

You have a bunch of self-consuming “IBOs”, the majority having absolutely zero intention of making money with the Amway biz, but signed up as an IBO ‘cause that’s what was offered to them in order to just buy products.

And then you have a bunch of IBOs who are interested in making money, but are taught to sign everyone up as IBOs. Therefore, they kiss that retail mark-up goodbye and have to rely solely on the PV/BV income. And this is just not enough money for the brand new IBO.

So you have people not making money soon enough and therefore the retention rate suffers.

Or you have IBOs sticking around for years and years not making the money that they could make, if you helped them by managing expectations and helping them make a few hundred dollars that they could put in their pockets rather than the solemotivation of you helping them retail being to put that money toward a function or a CD.

If we all focused on helping people make just a few hundred bucks now, it really is a lot less effort and a lot less painful and a lot more effective than trying to sell them on the idea of making a few hundred thousand dollars five years from now.

But the first, how about the current IBOs make their First Circle work so that they can have some credibility?

I don’t think IBOs realize just how much credibility they could have with their friends, family, acquaintances if they themselves were making (net profit—after expenses) a mere few hundred bucks a month.

This point is what made me figure out, and why I continue to figure out the most effective ways to retail. It’s THAT important.

In our case we tried creating customer out of people who didn’t wanted to join the business, but once they said no for business, they even refused to look at the products.

Classic example is my wife’s friend, she is a house wife and wanted to do something on the side but her husband did not allow her to do that, and not only that he also told her not to buy products as he felt that we may try to lure them into business, if they will start using the products. Instead he agreed for her to do Tupperware business (which failed eventually), but the main point is that people have this mind set about amway that they don’t even want to try the products and it is becoming harder to even convince them to try out the products.

No doubt, that products are great and we love them, but selling them is a big, big issue. I have not totally given up, we are trying and we will create customers eventually, but just that it is not as easy as it should have been, with the quality of the products that we have.

To be honest, it’s difficult for me to talk to people. Yet, in the corporate world, I enjoy leading project teams, running meetings and teaching seminars. So I know I can do this business…I just have to build my self-confidence and skills. So I’m starting with customers before actively recruiting. Guess my style is to work in the mailroom before becoming an executive!