5 Paradoxes of MLM

Here are 5 paradoxes of MLM.

1. When you have 100 distributors, you want the payplan to pay out most of the money in the first 3 levels because that’s where your people are.

When you have 10,000 distributors in your downline, you want most of the money to be paid out on the back end of the plan.

2. The latest, greatest, most innovative comp plan of today, can be tomorrow’s “dog” because compensation plans can be hard to change. It’s not that the math is that hard… it’s that once distributors get used to a comp plan and there are heavy hitters in place who’ve built the company… almost invariably changing things could cause the company to unravel for everybody if leadership decides to “take a hike”.

3. When you’re just signing up, you wish the products would cost less because they all seem totally overpriced or that you didn’t have to buy as much product. When your lavish lifestyle acheived after years of slaving away building an organization depends on your MLM check, you wish there were ways you could raise the product prices or get people to buy more product to boost your paycheck.

4. When you’re starting out in MLM, you wish people didn’t have to commit to a monthly autoship because that makes it harder to sign people up. When you’re wanting to make more money monthly you wonder why people weren’t required to sign up for autoship!

5. When you join a company, you really don’t want to pay for a distributor kit that seems totally unnecessary and neither do your recruits. When you are sponsoring lots of people and spending money and time telling them what they need to know you wonder why the company didn’t just make them pay a few bucks for a dsitributor kit that would do all that?