Does anyone know anything about Amway corp? It stands for american way started in 1959, and claims to make a lot of people wealthy by only redirecting they shopping from traditional buying to buying from your "own" business and introducing other people to the business.

Fr_Chuck

Yes, I do love thier products, I use their water filters every day for my drinking water, and have used thier washing detergent for years.
I think I even have some of thier cleaning products somewhere.

And I think they are a great company.
Now with that said, most people are not going to make alot of money selling it, but it is like AVON or Mary Kay, they all are good companies, have good products and the average perrson makes a few dollars.

The super sales person, who may also get rich selling life insurance or real estate may also get rich selling any of these, since a great sales person is just that.

benn11

So the secret is good salesmanship?

NeedKarma

benn,

Having spent a good part of my life in sales I've learnt that people buy from people not from companies..at least that's how it used ot be before the anonymous nature of the internet took over. So yes, you need salesmanship for sure. There is a lot more competition out there than in the old days of going to people's houses for a demo.

benn11

How do you develop your salesman skills? do you have to read books or is it trial and error?

NeedKarma

It helps to be an extrovert and have good self-confidence to begin with. You can learn some techniques but please don't become those salespeople that try to manipulate the buyer. I got out because cold calling became something I was uncomfortable with.

benn11

But did you ever enjoy it? where you a door-to-door type of salesman?

NeedKarma

I would never be a door-to-door salesman for the simple reason that I don't like them coming to my house uninvited to sell me stuff - I try not to be a hypocrite. I sold fairly high-end databases of industry standards before the web hit it big.

benn11

I also don't like door-to-door selling

birdie777

Let me ask you this.... If you really, really wanted to take a cruise to Hawaii, would you take it on a beautiful, luxurious cruise ship, despite the fact that it has Gigantic holes in the hull??? NO.

It is a sinking ship... the Queen Mary hasn't set sail in years for a reason. Despite the success it may have had in the years past, it now has many holes and is a sinking ship.

benn11

So you saying that Amway is a sinking ship?