IBO Best Practices

• Payment of head-hunting fees, that is, money is earned just for recruiting others and not from sales volume;
• Minimum purchase requirements to participate; and/or
• No sales of legitimate products or services to those outside the organization.

The AMWAY™ Business Opportunity is distinctly different from an illegal pyramid. Here are a few of the most important qualities that distinguish Amway from a pyramid:

• There are no head-hunting fees involved – ever. No one earns money just for registering new IBOs.
• Amway also has no minimum purchase requirements to register an IBO. While there is a registration fee

(common for direct-selling companies), the purchase of product is entirely optional, though it is recommended in order to learn about the products.

• And perhaps most important – no one ever earns money in an AMWAY business until product is sold.

In fact, Amway standards like the Customer Volume Requirement (CVR) are intended to encourage the sale of product. The CVR, for example, requires that IBOs who haven’t reached the Platinum level must generate at least 50 PV worth of sales to any number of retail customers or make at least one sale to 10 different retail customers in order to earn a Performance Bonus on downline volume. The bottom line is that selling products is imperative to the success of each IBO business and the overall AMWAY business.

Amway is committed to maintaining the highest standards in business.

See our Q&A “What’s the difference between a ‘pyramid’ and a legitimate MLM?”

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