For as much negativity as Amway gets when their name is mentioned; and the secret meetings you went to without anyone telling you what it was before you got there; something must work to create that kind of growth supporting that many people still currently  doing  "paper" shuffle businesses. What is the negative side of such MLM's? The MLM opportunity was (and still is) based on the very simple premise of "if I’m going to buy this product to use anyway - why not buy it from my own business,  teach others to do the same, and the more we all buy from ourselves the more we will all save". In fact with enough people downline you surpassed what you spent and actually could make a lot of money on all those people that were just buying consumeables from their own business as you taught them to.

I did traditional "paper Amway" many years ago. I established a respectable downline and was headed towards higher ground, but the mechanics of the system turned it into a lot of work. I didn't want to do it. The "paper game" as I refer to it as,  required the distributor to take the orders from his downline, place all these orders with his upline, pay for the goods, pick up the orders, deliver the orders to all the distributors, and then try to wrangle the money out of them to reimburse him for their orders. For those past or present distributors in these kinds of MLM's that operate that way, you know what I am talking about. Why couldn’t everyone have just placed their orders with the company and we all got our cut. It didn’t work that way. Many stuck this part out,  especially those with very supporting spouses; but many of us just didn’t want to go through the routine anymore and just left. There is a better way though, and it's in place now with Quixtar. Your referrals CAN order their stuff online without you having to get involved other than by just getting your check.  This is signficant AND important.

If you’ve been in the job market long, you know that the phrase "JOB-just over broke", has too much truth to it. Even if you own a business (actually most businesses own their owners-as mine does me) and make a little more money, but you never have time to spend it or gain true financial freedom. It all gets back to the Ray Croc McDonalds thing of earning money off of someone else’s efforts instead of always your own. The J.Paul Ghetty philosophy of,"I would rather have 1% of 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own" will ring true until the day we die. We know it’s not a matter of choice to find such a vehicle; it’s a matter of necessity today.

The only two ways most of us are aware of to make money with is through employment and through traditional franchising. If you create $2700 of profit for a company as an employee the split is $700 for you and $2,000 for the company. The split in traditional franchising is much better; of that $2700 you would get $2000 and the franchisor $700. But the absolute cheapest franchise is over $50,000 and a McDonalds is now up to 1 million and then you think you had a time problem when you were an employee. Just run a traditional business and your 8 hour work day turns into 14 and 16. I know, I’ve worked 60 to 80 hour work weeks for 22 years. Other ways to make money require substantial investment capital upfront; which few of us have (but I do have an option for that arena at the end of this).

According to the American Banker’s Association of the people at age 65; 23% still are working, 30% are dependent upon charity, 45% are financially dependent upon relatives, and only 2% ever achieve financial independence to do things outside of just existing. Bankruptcies are at an alltime high, savings are at an alltime low. People are spending 20% more than they earn. The problem; there’s not enough time to earn the money we need to spend in the time period we need to earn it in IF we rely on only our own efforts.

Are you satisfied with your life? Do you have all the time and money you need? Can you achieve your dreams and goals with your present job or profession? Are your careers consuming too much of your time? Would your lifestyle change if you could increase your time and financial resources? Are you prepared for your childrens’s higher education needs? Would you choose to live in a different home or location or drive a different automobile if money were not an issue? Is your debt load putting you and your family under stress? Are there charities you would like to support financially? These are all things to think about that revolve around time and money.

From product manufacture to sale, who makes the money?  Lets look at the distribution process from manufacturer to end user. Traditionally the manufacturer makes the product, sends it to a jobber, who forwards it to a wholesaler, who advertises it and hopes to sell it to a dealer or retailer, who then advertises it some more and sells it to the consumer. And all along the way a chunk of change is added to the cost of the item. What if you could go from the manufacturer directly to the consumer and bypass all the handouts along the way? Think you might be able to get the product to the consumer for a little less money? Think there might be a little more profit for all in the system to share in? There is; and such a system is called Private Franchising.  In the Quixtar system involving all these partner stores, about 5% - 30% of the middleman profit is cut from the end purchase price of the goods and about 70% of the middleman profit is used for rewarding those who are referring others into the system through the compensation plan. You still buy the goods at 5-30% off retail normally but you get a good chunk of change to boot from that 70% pool.

In the last three and a half years certain things have been put in place to make this "Private Franchising" system happen. One of these things is of course the internet. At the end of 1996 only 4-6% of the population was on the internet. At the end of 1998 that number was 25% accessing the net on a daily basis; by the end of 1999 over 50% of the population owns a computer and this number will continue to escalate. In 1996 only $15 million was spent on the net by 5 million people. In 1997 $170 million was spent on online purchases by 10 million people. In 1998 that was projected to be $800 million but turned out to be $43 billion. Three years ago the projection for the year 2000 was $2.8 billion. The year 2003 projection today is $1.3 trillion. In mid 1997 there were 80,000,000 internet users worldwide, growing at the rate of 2 million users per month. That was 150,000,000 by the end of 1999 and by the end of 2000 that will be 300,000,000.  Every 1.5 seconds someone joins the internet. The internet is moving at a pace 7 times that of the PC computer. Those are staggering numbers folks - it only takes a little piece of the action to make a huge difference in your life. And E Commerce is where it is all going to happen. The internet, developed in the late 60’s by our government to protect information in the event of a nuclear war, is the greatest marketing tool since the invention of the telephone and television.

Now, for the good part - the Private Franchising opportunity. Although Quixtar involves use of the Amway marketing and compensation plan (hey, it's all out on the table with me; no secret stuff you have to find out later and say "I knew it!"), all ordering by clients, members and IBO's is done online; by THEM; you don't get involved except to bring them to the table with your IBO number and keep getting your check when they place orders online to get their stuff.   NO PAPER JUNGLE CHASE!  Quixtar involves networking with eventually over 1300 major distribution partner stores like Office Max, Lionel Trains, Superior Coffee, Colorado Pen, eSportsonline, Air Source one, Heller Bros. Fresh Fruit, Totally Fun Toys, Network Solutions,etc. and the list is growing rapidly now that companies don't have to prove the Y2K thing, etc. to provide a home shopping opportunity of enormous magnitude with high residual income potential

Why in-home shopping? Because time is a critical commodity today. A recent sermon in church was all about how people struggle for time, how they stay up half the night trying to get things done only to fall asleep in church the next morning,  and how God gets the crumbs of their time. I couldn't argue with him, he was right on - my life is nuts because of lack of time to make a living and have anything left over. People don’t want to spend 30 minutes driving to the store, 30 minutes finding the item, 20 minutes waiting in line to pay for it, and another 30 minutes back home. 45% of web shoppers say convenience is their chief motivation to shop online. 60% of the shoppers say they shop in their pajamas. Personally, even in my business, I order stuff over the web at night to avoid using productive time for such during the day. It’s faster, there’s no waiting to talk to a real person, no"hold" music or ads to listen to and burn up my time, I love it. I'll buy a book online before I'll go down to the store for it; anyday. But DON"T expect to save a lot of money shopping through Quixtar. They cut out the middleman, but QUIXTAR becomes the middleman and all the profit goes into feeding the diamondsa and emeralds, etc; the saving to the average distributor with a small downline is zip.