Stacking around the Platinum Level

I hope you have read the page in this series that comes before this page. If not please click on this link.

While it appears from the previous page that stacking is mostly beneficial, with only a "delay" in profitability, the more tenured IBO will begin to see the problems that stacking has caused him. Let's take a look at the stacking situation after the IBO has been in a while.

Here is the first problem at the 7500 PV level. Assume you are at the top. Depending on how fast the tap root is growing it could be multiple people qualify for a 7500PV award level at the same time.

In the diagram shown here, after three moths above 7500PV, four people have qualified for the "Gold" level. One question to ask, is who will get the $1,000 one time award? Only one person will receive it.

Many people receive the rude awakening that somebody else gets the one time $1,000 bonus.

Additionally, as the leg is driven deeper and deeper it will be highly probable that someone below you will qualify at 7,500 PV and take the majority of your volume away.

Here is the second issue at the 7500PV level. Many new IBOs would like to break a Platinum below them so that they can qualify for the 4% leadership bonus on the that business. However, what most new IBOs are not told is that without sufficient width (side volume), the one IBO will not qualify for any of the 4% leadership bonus. An IBO must have 2500PV of side volume (width) to get at least 1/3 of the 4% leadership bonus. To get the full 4% leadership bonus the IBO needs to have 7500PV of side volume, or have multiple qualifying legs.

If your donwline "Bob" goes platinum, and he is your only leg, you do not collect any of the "residual" 4% leadership bonus. You get to keep the 25% bonus on your own volume but that is it. There is no side volume to leverage the 25% bonus level.

Most IBOs are taught to continue pumping their contacts in the tap root until it is too late. A direct breaks and the IBO has no side volume to take advantage of the situation.

Here is a third problem. Let's assume from the previous page that over time you had three hot prospects Tom, Bill, and Bob. Since you have been taught that the team is more important, you decided to "help the team" by stacking your hot prospects in your downline, instead of personally sponsoring them. Assume that all three are really good and attain Platinum.

In this case your generosity to the team just cost you two personally sponsored platinum distributors. Bill and Bob are technically sponsored by somebody else, since you stacked them below other people. If somebody between you and them goes Platinum, you will not get the 4% leadership bonus you would have, if you had personally sponsored them, and had the appropriate side volume.

If their sponsors have sufficient width (side volume), then you will see little benefit from your former hot prospects.

By the time you get to this point, which could be months or years, your names-list has been decimated. All the people you know have been sponsored in one line under you. Your width will only come from cold contacts.

Only when it is too late will the IBO experience the forth problem with stacking. At the beginning the tap root seems to always be growing. The upline is working the tap root and providing lots of help in recruiting people. But, once your upline platinum has a downline platinum secured in your leg, they have little incentive to work the leg any more. Once a direct breaks in the tap root, the tap root is removed from your line. In the example to the left, when Bob goes Platinum, the people trapped between Bob and the upline platinum will probably not get any more help. Your upline has already secured a downline platinum and any further work to break another platinum in the same leg benefits him very little.

The rest of the leg is only good in providing side volume so the upline platinum can qualify for all or part of the 4% leadership bonus and as volume for the lucrative tools business. The upline has nothing to gain by working the IBOs trapped in the "dead zone". Your upline has his cat in the bag and moves on to more fertile ground.

Once Bob's group of 75 people breaks away, the IBOs between you and the upline platinum fall way down in bonus percentage. Bob's volume has been removed from their tap root leg and since it is the end of the taproot, the bonus percentages are pretty small.

So what once looked like an ever growing proposition has just reversed and you might find yourself left out in the cold as the excitement in the leg left with the breaking of the new platinum.

If you have a leg that has an Emerald in it, or even Sapphire, the people between you, going down to the big Pin are irrelevant. They no longer matter, your upline has gotten their maximum out of the leg. If they waist there time with little guys in between, they won't make much more money, so they go work in another leg. That is what is taught, and it leaves the little guy stuck without much mentoring and help.

Although stacking is said to increase stability, it is at the cost of the new person, and only for the benefit of the upline. The existing upline has a more stable business, but the new prospect is taken advantage of due to his lack of knowledge of how the Quixtar bonuses and business building strategies work. The new person is at a huge disadvantage since they do not have the experience to know that the stacking process is over the long term not in their best interest.

It takes some time before the new person becomes a tenured IBO and realizes the problem for himself. The majority of IBOs will get trapped between platinums and few will want to help him build a new taproot in the "dead zone".