If you have heard the above sentence, or something similar to it, you are more than likely being asked to take a look at the Amway Sales and Marketing Plan. When you hear the plan, you will probably hear a lot of statistics about how bad it is to have a J-O-B, how risky it is to own a traditional business, and how the Amway business can resolve your financial woes and make all your dreams come true.

This web site takes a look at various statistics that you may hear at a presentation of the plan and other facts and statistics that I have found on the internet about Amway Motivational Organizations (AMO's) and the corporation.

In all fairness, not every Amway distributor uses the facts that I have researched here.

Although the Amway Sales and Marketing Plan is the same for everybody, different distributor organizations have different ways of building an Amway business. A good analogy is the NBA. They all play basketball, but they all do it a little bit different.

So first off let me say that nothing on this web-site should be construed as pointing a finger at a particular distributor or even a group of distributors and saying "Everybody says/does that"

When you are shown "the plan" you will probably get an information pack that has brochures that are either produced or approved by the Amway Corporation. You may also get some audio tapes, produced by Amway distributors and/or the Amway Corporation, and possibly a video tape, produced by Amway distributors and/or the Amway Corporation. You may also be loaned a book that is pro-Multi Level Marketing, maybe some pro-MLM articles and possibly some doom and gloom news articles about employment and the future.

Let's face it, this literature is designed to recruit YOU. Just like those fantastics business opportunities that purchase info-mercials on late night TV, they present postive information and positive testimonials. Do you really think they are presenting all the information you need to make a quality business decision?

It was my experience, and I have also heard the same thing from many former distributors, that the majority of the facts and statistics used when the Amway Sales and Marketing plan is presented are memorized and repeated without verifying the accuracy of the information.

I don't want you taking my word for anything on this website. I'm not an expert on business or marketing. However, I have links to articles and magazines who do have these kind of experts. On virtually every page, I provide links to various government, magazine, newspaper, and even legal resources. I do this because I want you to visit these sites. I want you to read the same information that I have and come to your own conclusions.

I also present my personal experiences while involved with the Amway business, and yes, you will even find my opinions, which several distributors have said is biased (as if their's isn't). You can place whatever value you want on these experiences and opinions. However, I do encourage you to read the readers comments/responses page on my web-site and at the other Amway Information web-sites on my Links page and find out for yourself if my personal experience and opinions are typical or atypical.

Actually, I sincerely hope that you will use the information on this web-site and also at all of the other Amway-Info web-sites to establish the credibility of the person presenting the Amway business to you. If most of the facts and statistics that they share with you are not true, how can you be sure that everything they tell you is honest, ethical, and moral?

I would like to address one final question that people tend to ask -- Why am I doing it? From the comments of many current distributors (you can read them in my reader's comment section) you would think that I am a Disgruntled Internet Activist on a mission from God to destroy the evil Amway empire. That's not true.

It's a hobby folks! Some people collect stamps...some watch birds...I research and collect information about the Amway business and the Corporation.

I was an active distributor for five years. After five years of losing money (somewhere in the vicinity of $20,000 spent on books, tapes and attending functions), I decided to walk away from the business. A year later I found Sidney's Amway Untold Stories site. It answered a lot of things that didn't seem quite right to me towards the end of my ama-career. But there were still several facts and statistics that I had personally used for many years that was not answered on AUS and I wondered if they were true or false. So I went about trying to get answers and found a lot of them on the Internet. I then decided to publish the results on a web-page. I started off with a dozen topics and you can see how it's grown over the past few years a little bit at a time.

Before the advent of the Internet, many people were asked to make a decision based only on the information that was presented when you saw the plan and the documentation given to you by a distributor. You might also have been pressured into making a decision within 24 to 48 hours. Hardly enough time to even read all the information they give you, let alone do some independent research.

Now, with a click of your mouse, you can not only research some of the things that you heard, you can also read the experience of many ex-distributors and then decide for yourself what the best course of action is for you.

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