The Worthless Diamond

"Quixtar doesn't work and I'm proof of that! Why, I was a DIAMOND for four years and I only pulled in a couple thousand dollars, unlike the millions that those scamanizations boast on their scam CDs and scam Books! It doesn't work!"

I've had the opportunity of hearing that rhetoric in more ways than one. It's amazing how many different arangements of words can be made out to mean the same thing. So you have these diamonds (or former diamonds, rather) and they're all peeved because they didn't make the money that their upline said they would. Of course, their upline was preaching out of a pamphlet that also talks about certain structures of business possible with the Quixtar system. These so-called "successful" IBOs did everything their upline told them to do and reached the almighty, ever-coveted rank or Diamond after years of trials, tribulations and turmoil and what did they reap in harvest? A couple grand and a garage full of "worthless" books and tapes, or CDs, or whatever(I like the books, frankly, but that's another story).

So what happened? What's the problem? Are they right?

Well, no. And even if they were, why would I acknowledge that? I'm a pro-Quixtar blog afterall! In truth, the answer isn't complicated but these Diamonds certainly aren't correct in their assertion that Quixtar "doesn't work" because they didn't get the money they thought they'd get. For starters, it's a math thing. It's not really anything else. There's no "theory" to the system of making money in this business. The money comes on a point scale with a percentage attached. That's numbers, people. Not faith. Not theory. Plain and simple numbers. You want to make money, you work the numbers, and the way to work the numbers is to understand the system.

Am I going around in circles? No. I'm not going to touch on any of what I just mentioned in this post because it's not really relevant to the subject. This post isn't an instruction manual and I'm never going to write one, sorry (actually I'm not. Teehee!).

Simplified: There's two core structures of the business and everything else just branches off from those. There's the Pipeline and the Pyramid and they're both real easy so I'll get right to the points.

The Pipeline: You sign up one person. They sign up one person. They sign up one person. And down the pipline goes. This builds stability. If one person or three or four quit, nobody else is really hurt. It's not hard to sign someone else under one person and keep going. The damage is easily fixed and you move on. The pay (not being much - I'll get to that later) isn't drastically affected so nobody's stung. Bottom line: people aren't distraught over the loss. The problem is that you don't get too much money because it's just a one-way stream and due to the way the "System" works, that bonus is going to take a heavy hit.

The Pyramid: No, not like "the pyramid scheme," at least not in the paranoid "BAD THING!" sort of way. You sign up three people. Those three sign up three people. Those three sign up three people and...hey! Are you listening! *slap* Settle down, you knee-jerkish baffoon. We're not making any money signing people up. We still have to SELL LEGITIMATE PRODUCTS TO LEGITIMATE CUSTOMERS! God...you people are impossible. Anyhow, this produces cash. Because there are multiple streams of income flowing rather than just one stream as in the pipeline, you see more money in your wallet. The problem is reminiscent of the Spinning Plates skit. You people who have been to meetings and heard the speaches are already aware, and those of you who have scene the age-old skit know what it is. You've got three poles and on top of the poles are plates that you must keep spinning to keep them from falling. You run from one to the other to the other and back until you wear yourself out and then all of the plates fall. That's exactly what you have here. If you can't keep your distributors motivated, then the plates fall. You have no plates. You have no income. You quit. And because you quit, so does the guy above you and so on and so on. The structure is rewarding but tiring and stressful, as well.

Both structures have strengths and weaknesses and, to harness them, you must have a strategy. You have to have a plan. You have to know how you're going to keep those plates spinning and/or you have to know how deep you want to drill that pipeline before you move on to another.

Now that's the structure side to the business. And here's the meat, because this is where it all counts. What I just presented was a way to distribute products. Find out what's best for you, BUT REMEMBER THIS: A rank: such as "Diamond" or "Emerald" or "Starfighter of DEATH" only recognizes how many points are pushed. Not how much money is made.

Your bonus, your money, is decided on the person below you. If you qualify for 9% bonus, you're going to get 9% of whatever you sold (on top of direct marketing profit) as well as 9% of the group volume (how much money that pipeline/pyramid has produced). However, if your immediate downline qualifies for any bonus, be it 3%, 6% or 9%, their bonus number is subtracted from your group bonus leaving you with the remainder (if their's was 6, yours is 3. If their's was 3 yours is 6, etc.) plus 9% of your personal achievments. Did that confuse you? It shouldn't. Go back and read it again.

I know it sounds like it sucks, but it doesn't. It's actually better than anything I could come up with, but the reasons for that are another story for another post. I'm just writing this as something of a rebuttal to what these Diamonds are whining about.

Bottom Line: Being a Diamond doesn't mean jack. I don't give a crap what rank I am, so long as I'm making money. If you're a Diamond and you're not making money, I strongly advise you to reconsider your business strategy.

- iBO out