If you are against Amway, just talk about the reasons for opposing Amway. If there are any unexpected cases, you can share them.

The following is a passage I picked from the Internet, which may be helpful to you.

The essence of Amway is to transplant a set of religious techniques into business. I introduce some church life I have come into contact with (this may be some radical churches in the United States). Many Christians want to go fishing, and there are several other studies besides Sunday worship every week. After worship, they also have time to learn and communicate. There are several meetings every year. There is a bigger meeting every few years, for example, thousands of people attend. In addition to learning, everyone should talk about his feelings, and then several people will talk about testimony, that is, how the God who happened to him helped people manifest their spirits and so on. Christians cannot doubt God. Of course, true Christians believe in the existence of God 100%. Non-believers are poor because they can't get help from God. As you can see, according to your introduction, many practices of Amway are similar. Religion itself is a spiritual need of human beings. At present, it is about dedication, and the future and even the afterlife are used by people to overcome our ultimate fear-death. Because of God and heaven, Christians are no longer afraid of death. At the same time, it is also a comfort to our helplessness, because God will arrange it. God always has its right reasons for everything, and some reasons may be beyond our understanding for the time being.

But Amway is a company, and its own purpose is to make profits. It is immoral for a company to control its employees or distributors by religious means. For most of us, what we need is a normal life, with work and rest, friends and family. We need to relax a lot. From some posts praising Amway, we can see that Amway's approach is to push people to the extreme. Your poor performance shows that you are not working hard enough, and any negative thoughts are shameful. This is a company. These theories and statements have no absolute connection with the specific products of any specific company, which is universally applicable and cannot be refuted by others. This is called political correctness, that is, it is obviously wrong, but it cannot be said to be wrong. Some people in Amway copied some words from the founder in their posts. I don't know if this man really said these words, but this is definitely not the first thing he said. I think philosophers and even liars used these words to educate others and themselves thousands of years ago. It is not normal for a company not to pay attention to products, marketing and market. Instead, we should constantly tell the truth and control employees, dealers and even consumers with the truth.

In addition, after reading my article, you will know the disadvantages of direct selling.

On the fatal disadvantages of direct selling from the perspective of rich dad business school

introduce

First of all, I am a fan of "Rich Dad" series, and have played cash flow games in both card and electronic versions. Like everyone else, after reading the book Rich Dad Business School, I began to learn direct selling with great interest, hoping to take this as an opportunity to start a business. I have attended meetings of companies such as Company A, and I have also come into contact with people of large and small direct selling and pyramid selling. But it all started with "rich dad". I was invited at first because they told me that I was playing the card version of the cash flow game. But I personally didn't choose this so-called best direct selling company or a direct selling system, not because of anything else, but because I found many disadvantages and problems of direct selling from the perspective of a "rich dad" reader.

The educational significance of direct selling has been ignored.

First of all, although rich dad mentioned that the direct selling company is a business school, in Robert Toru Kiyosaki's eyes, the greater value of the direct selling system lies in its educational significance. Robert Toru Kiyosaki always introduces direct selling to everyone as an educational plan rather than an entrepreneurial opportunity. Robert Kiyosaki himself has never made a penny in the direct selling industry. In business school, he always emphasizes the value of direct selling as an educational plan first, which is ignored by most people. Many direct sellers just take rich dad as a gimmick and don't look at it at all, but they like to pretend to be readers to attract those of us who have really seen it and talk about so-called career opportunities that everyone can do. At the beginning of the book, rich dad mentioned that "direct selling is not for everyone". Especially in the cash flow game, whether it is the card version or the electronic version, the real direct sales ratio is very small. In the cash flow game, we can hardly see any practical help of direct selling to get rich. Jumping out of the rat race depends mainly on buying real estate.

Actual cost of direct selling

In Rich Dad Business School and the cash flow game, the cost of direct selling is designed to be very low, and only 200 dollars is needed to join. But in practice, we know that if you want to join a direct selling company like Company A, you should not only join, but also stock up and pay a sum of money. In most cases, this money is tens of thousands. For the novice who just joined, this may be his previous income savings. With the down payment, you may have to spend money on products that you simply can't afford on time or irregularly. This kind of expenditure is continuous. In addition, there are many hidden costs. You may need to invest far less time and energy than money, and you may also face the risk of interpersonal collapse and social shock, resulting in the difference between actual cost and theoretical cost.

In other words, joining a direct selling company in real life is very risky, far from the simple design in business schools and cash flow games. Why is the cost difference between Chinese and foreign direct selling so great? Why do many people here sell iron in pots for direct sales? The reason is probably related to the exchange rate, and most direct selling companies are foreign. And why do those foreign direct selling companies keep such high prices in China? It's not because their costs can't come down, nor is their products really so magical and effective, but that direct selling companies must maintain the consistency of international product prices, otherwise cross-selling will occur, that is to say, we can buy the same or even more expensive products at American prices when our income is not as good as that of Americans.

Can direct selling really bring financial freedom?

As we all know, the direct selling industry is a very low threshold industry. Many people came here with the dream of getting rich, but most of them ended in failure, creating many so-called "direct selling refugees." Institutionally speaking, many direct selling designs are designed for fairness and justice, but why do only a few people reach the other side? The key here is whether direct selling can help you achieve financial freedom. Robert Kiyosaki has a famous "pipeline story", which is often quoted by direct sellers. Later, it was quoted to the front by the classic Jaeger direct selling tutorial "Eight Steps to Success". Direct sellers often use repairing pipes as a metaphor for themselves, and call those employees who get paid water carriers. But is the direct seller really a reliable channel?

Suppose I do direct sales for company A today. In the first month, I brought two friends to the meeting. After the conference, small meeting, after-meeting and after-meeting bombing, I finally got these two friends, became customers, bought products and helped them join. The next month, I brought two more friends. I got rid of them with 18 skills and asked them to buy products. How many clients will I have in the third month? The theoretical answer is at least four, but in practice, there are often less than two left. Like a frog falling into a well, the well is ten meters deep. Frogs can jump two meters at a time, but no matter whether they jump ten times or a hundred times, they can't jump out of the well, because work and hard work have not really accumulated. -The network woven by most direct sellers is actually an empty net, which cannot bring sustained and stable passive income, or a pipeline with little running water is built. What's the use of repairing pipelines if the upper reaches of the river bed are dry?

Why can't direct selling bring what Robert Kiyosaki called continuous passive benefits? The fundamental reason lies in the lack of continuous consumption. Because in most direct selling companies, people who come to join are mainly motivated by business, not customers. Everyone is counting on reselling to make money. No one really becomes a customer because they like to spend, so everyone is buying and hoarding goods. The real customers who really consume products are far less than the huge direct selling team. The good performance of the company is only to transfer the products from the warehouse to the home of the direct seller. It was followed by low-priced goods, dumping and injured direct selling refugees. Because I bought the goods, I found I couldn't sell them. When they want to sell them, they find that places like Taobao and Yi Bei are full of low-priced products. This is not only because low-level dealers avoid each other, but also because the sales price of high-level dealers may be lower than the purchase price of your novice, which is also a problem for many companies. Because senior dealers have mastered too many markets, they can bargain with the company. Because of the price difference, direct selling companies planted the seeds of price disorder and injustice from the beginning of the system, and later it was "difficult to turn over".

The key to more problems lies in putting the cart before the horse.

In Rich Dad Business School, direct selling companies are not only called business schools, but also called "individual franchising". But compared with franchising, we can also find the fatal shortcomings of direct selling. In franchising, if a store has been making money by opening branches without doing its own business and making profits, this situation is called typical "franchising fraud". Similar companies, whether international or China, will be severely punished once they are found. But the same situation can be seen everywhere in the direct selling industry, and everyone seems to be used to it.

Lack of "own business" is a common problem of all direct selling. It is important to open a branch, but if you only make money by opening a branch, then this store is doomed to close down. The fundamental problem of direct selling is that it is too divorced from "consumption" and real consumers. It should be noted that without the business of consumers, it is impossible to achieve real sustainable development in the end. Because without consumers, there is no income, and without sustained and stable consumption, there is no sustained and stable income. Excessive "business orientation" is also the reason why direct selling companies attract people's disgust and disgust. Because the original intention of many direct selling companies' system design is for operators, not for consumers first. But among this 100 people, only five or six people are really willing to do direct selling, and it is rare to get to the end unscathed. But if it is a consumer, there may be more than 50 people in 100 who are willing to spend.

From the rich dad's point of view, can direct selling really help you realize your freedom, regardless of the "financial" problem? Even if you really succeed, become a star and become a successful person on the direct selling stage, you may have an objective monthly income, but you may not be free. The so-called success is also Xiao He, and failure is also Xiao He. Nowadays, the market of many direct selling companies is not based on products or services, but rational and people-oriented. Too many direct selling companies want to build their own markets through brainwashing, cult of personality and boasting of success, but forget that what they built by superstition and cult of personality will eventually be lost because of the collapse of cult of personality and superstition.

Because things brought by fanaticism come and go quickly, without end. At that time, I participated in the training of Du Wen Shuicheng of Company A, and the "successful people" took turns to go into battle. For two days and two nights, everyone was exhausted. At that time, I was thinking, if these people are really as successful as they think, why are they sitting here working day and night? Why can't they rest? The competition among direct sellers is a fierce battle, which can be seen from the internet. If these market bosses who rely on party marketing don't stick to their positions, the team will be distracted and will be dug into a big corner one day, so they can't really let go. According to rich dad, due to congenital system defects, they can't realize the transformation from S quadrant to B quadrant.

prospect

What is the future of direct selling? No one can predict, but what can be predicted is that the cause with the above defects is not as perfect as the legend. The direct seller is neither an angel nor a devil. The direct selling company is a great invention and has its own fatal drawbacks. In the future, direct selling companies will certainly not close down easily, because direct selling is not pyramid selling. After all, bonus distribution is controlled, especially for companies that can get licenses, which basically have reliable accumulation. Whether the direct selling company is worth people's investment is also a question of crossing the river. Don't ask the hen or giraffe, you won't know until you try. The direct selling system, like any other system, also has its inherent shortcomings and defects, which is necessary for those of us who are curious about this field because of our rich father and even intend to try it. Throughout the history of human society and market development, we will find that the market is constantly developing. Similarly, direct selling has undergone various upgrades and improvements since its appearance. Just as Microsoft's windows operating system and antivirus software need to be constantly upgraded to make up for defects and loopholes, there will be a better direct selling system in the near future to make up for the current defects.

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