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Here is an abridged version of a questionnaire from a tour-taker of my primary business I received recently.

“Personal-Message: Thanks, Virginia Reynolds. I appreciate your dedication. I truly want to be successful at helping others and this seems to be a simple yet very effective way. Do you know about X and Y Corporations? Both are very wonderful opportunities for me to join that help people\’s health and their wealth. The X people are local and the Y people are in …. Since you are effective being an \”ezhelper\” around the world, I would really appreciate your advice. Thank you sincerely,
name of tour-taker.”

Here is my reply with further additions:

Tour-taker name, thank you for your kind words.

Now, I HAVE heard about X over the years and Y rings a bell.
So far as I know both are highly reputable.

I have not had personal experience with them so I really have not earned the right to advise you specifically about them. I do believe that they follow the traditional MLM model.

Now I DO have specific views about traditional MLMs generally and because of these views I do not join them – irrespective of their reputation. These views are set out in entry #12 in my training site. (http://www.ezwealthtraining.com). Essentially you are really relying on people in your down-line to be as dedicated and as effective as you are to so many levels down – sometimes up to 10 levels! (ie 3 get 3 who get 3 who get 3 and so on …) In the real world this just does NOT happen. (I am very realistic as far our primary business is concerned – please read the 1 9 90 Rule in entry # 65 and Chances of Success in entry #41 in my training site.)

Also, you usually have to handle physical product through minimum monthly auto-ship membership requirements. I know that if a physical product does what it says it will do then the WalMarts, chemists, drugstores and natural health product retailers of this world find a way to bring in competing products – in spite of patents, legal protection and so forth.

Also, Wealth Advice is usually governed by each country’s State and Federal corporate and taxation laws so it is hard to find generic specific wealth advice that can be adapted locally – without consulting, and paying fees to, your local CPA, Investment Advisor and Lawyer. Also, practically everything written by motivational writers today is just taken from Dale Carnegie’s 1936 and 1940s classics and even he had the honesty to mention that he borrowed his ideas from religious and cultural icons from earlier centuries. Basically 2 plus 2 equals 4 – irrespective as to whether this appears online in Wiki or in a 19th century school text-book. Similarly, for travel and vacation oriented mlms, travel bookings are usually governed by local state licensing requirements. Air travel IS tightly governed by the Air Travel industry.

So you can see that on principle I am not a fan of ANY traditional MLM at all. In fact I avoid anything which mentions “downlines” and even “matrix” or “cycle” for that matter … 

With the Get Paid Today model like our business – yes, you DO have to gain resellers who upgrade – but you do not need many at all. You do NOT have “downlines”. See the Tour video in your “How It Works” tab in your back-office AND the 2UP Flash movie on the same page, again, to see how the 1up and 2up Get Paid Today compensation model works. This compensation model has been operating in one form or another for centuries. It is basically the same model whereby the master (teacher) gleans a greater share of sales commissions while the apprentice (new recruit) learns the ropes. It’s as simple as that.

Purists will contend that the 1Up and 2Up Get Paid Today business model is multi-level-marketing and they will flaunt so called expert views from legal and regulatory sources saying that this is so.

That’s nonsense of course.

You have one level below you – NO MORE than one level – and we call these resellers.  Therefore there is no “multi-level” involved.  Also, as there is only one level below you there cannot therefore be a “downline”. There is no “line” that goes “down”.  There is one level – period!   Also, the fact that those who gain resellers are called “sponsors” does NOT mean that our business model is mlm.  The word “sponsor” is NOT captive to the mlm business model.  One of the largest training organizations in the world calls its licensees, “sponsors”.  This organization has nothing to do with mlm at all. There are “sponsors” of sporting events. The word “sponsor” is apt as there is an inherent responsibility for the sponsor who recruits a reseller to help that reseller succeed. There is therefore a relationship that is stronger than that which exists between seller and buyer.  The word “sponsor” captures this relationship appropriately.

There are also purists that would contend that the 1Up and 2Up Get Paid Today business model is a form of “network marketing”.  This is also debatable. The “net” in “network” fragments when the required people and sales proceeds are passed up to the sponsor.  The special relationship that had existed between sponsor and reseller no longer exists as both sides have met their requirements. The reseller has passed up the required number of people and sales and the sponsor has helped the reseller achieve this.  The reseller is now independent of the sponsor.  There is no “network“.  Obviously the better sponsors will still include these now independent resellers in their training and updates – and maintain a strong friendly relationship. This is not network marketing though.  This is just maintaining sound relationships. To his great credit my own sponsor in my primary business still includes me with latest updates and resources even though I became independent of him back in February 2009.  I am doing the same with my independent resellers.  This means that anyone coming into our primary business will have comfort that they will NOT be left on their own after they fully qualify.  My sponsor and I together with other top producers call ourselves the #1 elite team and we ensure that everyone is included and updated with new team resources as and when they become available.

The fact that most traditional mlm companies have discarded the 1Up and 2Up  Get Paid Today compensation plan proves the point in a way.  Top performers in traditional mlms rely on their downline network of top producers over time, sometime over years, to produce override commissions for them. By definition, top performing resellers under the 1Up and 2Up model separate from their sponsor once they have passed up their required people. No wonder traditional mlms don’t like this 1Up/2Up model!  What many mlm sponsors sadly discover is that many of their top producers up and leave and take THEIR downlines with them anyway.  Also, many mlm operators change the commission structure – often reducing commissions paid. My own sponsor in my primary business left his previous mlm, taking many in his downline with him, when the mlm company changed its commission structure – for the worse. It is strongly suspected that this particular mlm company has since embarked on a smear campaign in various public forums against my primary business because of this defection.  My sponsor was then, and is now, the top producer of his previous mlm and now, with my primary business.

With the 1Up/2 Up model commissions usually remain at 100% of sales proceeds.  That means that for a product with a total sales value of $2000, following a 2Up model, the sponsor will receive $6000 from each reseller, consisting of the initial sale to the reseller and the sales to each of the two people passed up. Then the sponsor gains two more resellers each of whom will potentially derive revenue of $6000 plus pass up two resellers and so on, exponentially. These proceeds are received on the spot rather than months later. Also, for some GPTs (including my primary business) the commissions consist of 100% of the sales proceeds paid directly by reseller to sponsor – the company does not touch a cent. It’s equivalent to gaining what the mlm promoters sprout as “fast start bonuses” ALL the time.  With our primary business there are 5 stages leading up to a total sales figure of $1885 at which people are passed up.  This allows resellers to commence at a lower purchase amount and work their way up.

So the best way to succeed with our 1Up/2Up model is to locate “tigers” who are able to recruit and pass up people at all stages. Like Ulysses and the sirens the greatest challenge is NOT to lose focus and be sidetracked by the lure of so-called “spillover”, and “no personal recruiting”  that the promoters of mlms, matrices and cyclers often promise.  When crunch time comes you HAVE to gain your own referrals/customers and make sales through your own efforts – I don’t care WHAT business you are in, online or offline. Some lucky ones instinctively know this as soon as they embark on an online business career.  Unfortunately most people take years, and have to learn this lesson the hard way.  It’s amazing how often this pattern appears in communications I have with friends and connections in business social networks.

I joined my primary business in late January 2009, upgraded to all 5 stages within 4 days, and it took only TWO people to qualify me at stages 3, 4 and 5 by the end of February. I did have to pass up my first stage 1 to my sponsor and two stage 2s as well – and I had another three stage 2s as well before my two stage 5 upgrade qualifiers joined me. I have had stage 5 upgrades since of course – together with many more at stages 1, 2, 3 and 4. I am also benefiting from pass-ups and roll-ups from my resellers – and this will just grow exponentially over time as my top producers grab more tigers by the tail … 

Also, my welcome email template (entry #1 in my training site) has paragraphs about confirming my primary business’s product value – and the fact that the products are digital – and that you pay for them only ONCE.

I hope you have found this informative.  What I have expressed here are my own views, based on my own experiences over the past 9 years I have been in online ventures.  I don’t profess to be an “expert” – and really – nor should anyone else – as the internet keeps evolving and changing.

Virginia Reynolds
Online Business Professional
Primary business: http://www.yestocash.com
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http://www.earnfromtraffic.com

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