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Bringing Compensation Plans Into Perspective Part 4
Hybrid Uni-level and the 5% Plus Theory How does a Hybrid Uni-level Compensation Plan create the above- referenced 5% Plus Commission? (See Foundation Principles, 5% Plus Theory.) With this plan, there are only customers and distributors. You can receive retail commission on customers if they’re first level to you. You receive a uni-level commission on…
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The Three Proven Compensation Plans Over the last 25 years, three predominant compensation plan types have been implemented by select network marketing companies to achieve landslide success: • Breakaway • Hybrid Uni-level • Binary Each of these plans can work and be a good choice. Herbalife, NuSkin, XanGo, Tahitian Noni, Melaleuca, Isagenix and Synergy are…
Read MoreBringing Compensation Plans Into Perspective Part 2
5% Plus Theory The 5% Plus Curve observed in network marketing industry commissions provides a standard for network marketing companies to allocate commission money. The 5% Plus Theory says, in order for a compensation plan to be viable: 1) each upline distributor that receives commissions must receive at least 5%, and 2) a company must…
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While there are many factors that contribute to the success or failure of direct selling companies, the compensation plan is one of the biggest. The companies who achieve long-term success always have a sound one. Plans that are not well designed and consequently fail to motivate distributors can become a brick wall to company growth.…
Read MoreDefining success in network marketing
Each decade as technology changes, the economy changes, and social stigmas change, so does the definition of success. In direct selling, getting rich—buying mansions, cars, and international vacations—used to be the picture of success, but times have changed. Today’s idea of success is more moderate. From my observations, people define success in more than one…
Read MoreHabits of Successful People in Multi-Level Marketing
I’ve worked in the MLM industry for the last 16 years and have spent a lot of time observing the habits of people who have found success in their personal businesses. Over the years, I’ve asked many of them what their ‘secrets’ to success have been, while there isn’t any one secret, and we all…
Read MoreNetwork Marketing, Multilevel Marketing (MLM), Direct Sales, Party Plan….. Oh My
The list of jargon used in the direct selling industry goes on and on into infinity (at least that is what it seems). I want to try to clear up some of the confusion about differences and similarities in the direct selling industry. Direct selling and distributors You will note that I am calling us…
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