Amway Motivational Organizations: Behind the Smoke and Mirrors

by Ruth Carter

Book Overview

Amway distributors tout their business as "the best business opportunity in the world." Yet of the five million or so Americans whove been involved over its 40 year history, fewer than 1% have made a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967107024
• ISBN13: 9780967107028
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Backstreet Publishing
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The TRUTH needs to be heard,

I have family involved in the "business" The have been doing it for almost 20 years now. They have alienated most of the family and they have wasted THOUSANDS of dollars. The scariest part is the lies the husband tells and seems to believe. "oh, I'm retired now, the business supports me" TRUTH...he was fired from his job for poor performance and his wifes high income supports him. They are even forcing their kids to be involved in the "business" and you can just see the pain in the kids faces when their father brings it up AGAIN and AGAIN in order to recruit family members to "help the kids build their business". Cringe. This book reveals the destruction, the pain, the self-hypnosis that greed creates. Yet these people claim to be Christian. What would Jesus do????Well, he WOULDN'T LIE to people about income potential and cause stress and dissent in families for a BUCK! The lady who wrote this book was brave. I think a great many women in the "business" can hear their inner voices telling them to run....but they don't. Amway is a nightmare and if they weren't the GOPs number one financial contributer the govt. would shut them down.

Hit to the head

I found this book to be very informative. My husband decided that he was going to go into Quixtar and I was going to be his partner. Needless to say, he's on his own. I read this book when he first told me and I found it to be true. The amount of money that a person spents on a MLM is ridiculous. The Quixtar e-mail, voice mail, and the tapes you have to subscibe to. And that's not counting all the meetings that they want you to attend, at a cost of course. I attended one meeting (against my will) and could not believe how gullible these people were. They believe everything out of the upline's mouth and never question any of it. Just nodded their heads and smiled. If you are serious about going into Quixtar/Amway, read this book first. It will defintely open your eyes.

A great book....

This is a great book. It's fascinating how the MLM's motivate people to operate. Perhaps the most amazing part is that Amway (et al) have an unbelievable amount of people running around thinking they are making money, when a they are not. I'm not sure what keeps them in - greed, or the embarrassment of admitting that the investment never worked. Perhaps a bit of both??!!If you want to make money, start your own company and sell something (real!) that you find value in.

Tapes, Books, Functions

"The system is optional, but so is success". A quote I heard numerous times over my 4 year career in "the business". This book is an excellent behind-the-scenes read for anyone considering becoming an IBO or even for an existing IBO who wants all the facts and not just info that the uplines want you to see. Amway itself is an excellent corporation but as stated by many others, it's the motivational organizations that push their tools (tapes, books and functions!!!!) that are the true concern. ...

The Truth is Finally Out

Ruth Carter has done a great public service by exposing the deceptions, manipulations, and outright dishonesty of Amway Motivational Businesses. The corporation has a maligned reputation principally due to the operations of these "associated" businesses and their cultish-style tactics. From her position as assistant to a Diamond-level distributor, Mrs Carter's assertions are far more credible than lower-level distributors protestations of their "Upline's" integrity and character. The vast majority of distributors have no idea what "goes on behind the scenes" of the high level distributors they worship, and Ruth Carter exposes the wolves in sheep's clothing with pinpoint accuracy, based on over 10 years of personal experiences. Her examinations of the mind control techniques these organizations use is invaluable to former distributors like myself who spent 6 years in Amway and it's Motivational Money Drains. I hope that all current and future distributors will take an opportunity to "look at all the angles" of any business opportunity. That is, of course, what they advise you to do, isn't it?