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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by AxelBoldt (talk | contribs) at 15:18, 2 April 2002. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

"Amway Motivational Organizations (AMOs)" seem not to exist. I just asked a 30-year Amway distributor what they are, and she has never heard that term.

Type "Amway Motivational Organization" into Google, if you can be bothered. AxelBoldt

There are, aligned with Quixtar, groups like ina.net that fit this description and do the training and motivation of Quixtar distributors, who distribute Amway and other products through a common distribution arm.

So what's your point again? AxelBoldt

It's a fundamental issue with direct multi-level marketing organizations that they can't control the behavior of frontline distributors, probably no more than Arafat can control the timing of suicide bombers. Same top-down versus bottom-up behavior influence debate... the Amway Corp does try to make certain things standard, e.g. no "door to door selling", and they succeed in general, but they have only a few blunt instruments with which to do so.

This article needs to be updated, and the "AMOs" need to be documented - I don't doubt that somewhere somehow someone used this name for them, but they serve a legitimate role in multi-level marketing, although they may overstep it and become bad religions...

Oh God. Now 24 starts to preach MLM in addition to "embodied mind" and "ecoregion". AxelBoldt