Amway, Please Stick To Your Role.

Everyday, as I head over to IBOFightBack's and the official corporate blogs, I get more appalled by the individuals who are asking for all systems to be suspended, and Amway to administer all training and materials. Some even suggest that Amway should place PV/BV on business support materials.

This is WRONG!

Amway Corporation is a manufacturer and should remain focused on PRODUCT training and events, rather than IBO training and network building.

If Amway becomes the trainer, then you will have a few scenarios taking place, all of which are NOT ideal, and definitely not my cup of tea as an aspiring Diamond-to-be, namely:

1. We may have STAFF who are non-networkers teaching us techniques and methods which they learn from the BOOKS. The only people we would optimally benefit from should be existing leaders who have "been there, done that";

2. We may have invited SPEAKERS who may advocate different ideas from yours. A good example would be a N21 speaker expounding on the benefits of Team21 to a group of BWW "6-4-2" IBOs. The poor chaps would be confused; (now you know why there is a No Crosslining rule!)

3. We may also have invited SPEAKERS who simply share superficial information such as "Never give up" and other nice cliches, but never going into specifics, for fear of stumbling IBOs from a different LOS or are unwilling to reveal their "secret" recipes for success (listen to all the motivational CDs in my market and you will realise that most of them, if not all, are just "tidbits" of inspiration and know-hows, nothing substantial); and

4. We would, in all likelihood, be bombarded with product selling techniques and everything that turns you and I into Amway salesmen. Gone will be the days when we were Business Owners building a duplicatable organisation.

In my humble opinion, if Amway tries to take over the IBO business building training, we will essentially go back to pre-Yager days, where everything was "sponsor as many as you can", "get them onto the products" and "hope for the best". No strategy, no ongoing morale building, no teambuilding efforts.

Obviously there are quite a few more reasons why I am disgusted (pardon the strong language) with Amway staff even thinking that they know how to build the business, but the above four points should be enough to show views from the IBO perspective.

IBOs who wish to do nothing but become Amway salespeople should be allowed the freedom to do so, but without interfering and meddling with the ricebowl of the rest of us who live and swear by the System.

If you are an anti-System IBO, would you like to be "forced" into a System, where you have to "spend" all your unwilling dollars on what you foresee as "useless, repetitive" materials and functions? If not, why force sincere IBOs like myself who NEED the Systems?

I LOVE AMWAY, believe that this is THE BEST business partner I can find in network marketing and so my words are NOT meant to lower the company, but please, people, keep the lines clear.

Let Amway be Amway (Manufacturing Excellence) and let the Systems be the Systems. (IBO Training Excellence)

In summary, I am absolutely AGAINST the idea of Amway/Quixtar substituting itself for all the great systems we have today, such as Network TwentyOne, Britt World Wide, Internet Services, World Wide DreamBuilders etc.