Thanks for a thought provoking site. This is our first visit, but we'll be back!

Companies make grand claims about their comp plans, but we believe the best comp plan is the one that provides the most money for the least work.

That's not a lazy statement – it's a smart statement. It's like choosing to be paid $48 per hour over being paid $8 per hour for the same job.

One yardstick we find useful is the 10K question:

"How many active distributors do I need in my downline to generate a walk away residual income of $10,000 per month?"

We've been amazed at the wide range of answers – from as low as 400 to as high as 27000!

We worked five long years to make a success of Excel Communications and 'failed' miserably. Later on, with a bit of simple math we found that we had not failed at Excel – Excel had failed us. The answer to the 10K question was 10000 to 15000!

We never had a chance, and neither do a lot of people struggling today in a pay plan they don't understand.

Thanks for helping to put things into perspective here!

Bob and Anna Bassett