Kurtdesign1 said:
Instead you're receiving a small percentage of everyone you've recruited's gross sales; such as a typical franchisee would have to do. Make sense, or am I not getting the catch??
That IS how it works. However, the percentage you get is really small until you really grow, what's known as your "downline" (which is everyone that was recruited by you and those recruited by them.. so on so forth). The only way for this to work is to continually add to your downline. So, as long as the "tree" below you continues to grow you will reap the benefits.
One of the examples that I remember from the conferences was that you don't really need to find a lot of good recruits to succeed. You really only need one REALLY good recruit, who will grow their business and if they can reach DIAMOND status or higher, meaning that they have a certain number of people in the downline generating a certain amount of income from sales thru Quixtar. The percentage they get to take home is higher at that level, roughly 136,000, if I remember correctly. But that also means that Quixtar is generating a lot more income themselves. There are a couple of other levels higher than Diamond.. I think the highest is called Founder's EDC or something like that.. and those supposedly get close a million per annum.
The way it draws you in is the not-so-expensive starter pack. But after that, your upline will highly suggest that you listen to some tapes that were from past seminars. Motivational tapes if you will about how to grow your business and those tapes aren't cheap. Then there's books.
You can say that my experience with Network21 is almost first hand, but I wasn't directly involved myself. I can't say that it's bad because the times I have attended the conferences. I never saw anything but really motivated people. They were really about trying to help one another. But it just wasn't the type of business I wanted to get involved in is all.
It can get costly to maintain the subscription, the tapes, the books and the material needed to hand out to potential recruits. In order to sustain the cost of the startup, you will need to have a decent amount of disposable income at this point to spend on all those materials.... which means less cigar money. LOL!!!!
Anyway, if you have any other questions. feel free to PM me. I'll try to answer them as best as I can.
-L