The idea of MLM is great … but when you have the wrong people at the helm, it doesn't work.

Phoenix Down

In binaries, no volume comes about because of the small numbers sponsored, and thus resulting small volume — ONLY at the beginning though!!

e.g. if one sponsors 2 a month in 2 months & teaches the same thing, there'll be 1,600 distributors in 15 months!
Go do the math, Ty.

You do NOT need to find the big builder.
Just promote products to the minimalist 2, and TIME is the only factor for an AVERAGE JOE to become a Mark Yarnell, or Ty Tribble.
– in the RIGHT company though!

(As stated above, Usana is not a true binary plan company if one wants to earn beyond US$1k/week.
Readers: see our blog, and you'll see why.)

Ty, like we said, fill up your 6 generations in Univera just based on TWO legs (which is 124 downlines), and you don't really see ANYthing BIG with that.

Readers: due diligence & research is the key. Not old-school assumptions.

If you have a big business builder in two legs in ANY compensation plan, you will make good money.

I have no problem with Binary plans, but they do not help the average Joe make more money in Network Marketing.

Question remains:
Is one in network marketing to TRULY help the small-time networkers, or to penalise them with "empty promises"?

If we're talking about one who doesn't have the ability/luck to sponsor more than 2, then all comp plans will not be able to help him/her — EXCEPT the binary.
There's no use debating that one will gain a little more commissions in a unilevel/breakaway.

It is very evident when one makes a simple calc.
Let us say this "handicapped" distributor sponsors JUST 2 in the univera plan, and also in a binary plan:

- Fill up your 6 generations in univera (based on 2), and this distributor ends up earning 3-fig a month, or just breaks the 4-fig mark.
More often than not (in unilevels/breakaways), NOT qualifying for any of the executive bonuses they've been lured with.

- In a binary, its not a doubt the cycles come later ( Question remains:
Is one in network marketing to TRULY help the small-time networkers, or to penalise them with "empty promises"?

Indeed binaries might pay a smaller %, but its a matter of "giving & taking"… with binaries, one is given a lot more freedom and TRULY the power to decide to sponsor 2, and spend your efforts helping train & teach the rest to duplicate to their own 2.
This is not possible in most other comp plans.

It is an obvious fact that most (up to 90%) involved in network marketing just do not have the abilities / time to sponsor many people, and that's where non-binary plans penalise them heavily on.

Of course, one just has to do their due diligence into finding the right company which provides all the right features in a binary, and not just hop on the first binary that comes along.

The reality of most binary plans is that they pay a smaller % for volume created.

Why the "sigh"?
We would very much like to hear your views.

We believe a lot of people think they had been "misled" into joining binary compensation plans… but truly they merely joined the WRONG ONE — Usana.

Usana's plan is very restrictive and in the end, one ends up dealing with all the obstacles of building an org with more than 2 referrals anyway, in order to circumvent the US$1k/week restriction. And because of their unrealistic 1:1 "balancing" ratio, nobody can really excel with the company.

This shows with their producing only very few 7-figure earners in their 10++ year history.

HOWEVER, with all that said, there ARE companies that exist with truly practical & FAIR binary compensations & very rewarding ones, in fact.

FAIR binary plans are designed to suit 90% of the network marketing distributor population — the part-timers / small-time business builders who only have a few hours per week to spend outside of their 9-5 jobs!

Details & Analysis here:
http://networkmarketingtrialsandtribulations.blogspot.com