The Old Amway Are You Free Mantra

Here’s a reader who has an IBO relative. When a person is in the Amway business they’re encouraged to be respectful, mindful, humble peol who care a lot about others. Its all about theie downlines and their ambition to be surrounded with the things in life that really matter. This IBO uses the “are you free” question that Amway encourages their distributors to ask others. The thing with when I put this phrase on my blog such as get your wife free I end up getting potential husbands searching the Internet for free wives. Bizarre. So by putting out the are you free Amway IBO chant I might get a bunch of searchers looking for free girlfriends or something. Oh well. Yup whenever someone you haven’t heard from in years (friend or relative) calls and asks stuff like are you free instead of how are you, how’s the family, what have you been doing lately then they’re probably involved in an MLM business. They need to make up a list of everyone they know and then how to contact these people, start contacting them and inviting them into their Amway business. This reader’s relative is a perfect IBO candidate for Amway and the IBO's are probably most likely love bombing her. She’s a student and will likely graduate because of the Amway teachings that education is an absolute benefit. Really. Whatever you spend on education sould be put to use along with tithing the great Amway code. A financially free IBO will stay in the business forever. Money = everyone outside of Amway wants to be friends with you.


Dear Anna, I LOVE THIS BLOG. Recently a family member who I haven't spoken to in years (despite living in the same city), reached out to me and ask me if I'm free several times after I kept saying that I'm not. No "hello, how are you doing?!" or any form of respect. I'm sure glad she was tenacious. I kept asking her why she wants to meet and she doesn't give me an answer. I found out from other family members that she's a part of Amway and I'm 99% sure that she's trying to recruit me and my husband to build her downline. She never really had friends growing up and apparently, I'm the "big fish" she's trying to catch in hopes that I'll get all of my friends in. I'm glad I found this site so I could inderstand where she was coming from. Everything described her regarding these IBO's describes her personality, exactly from the "keep negative people out of your life and if your friends don't want to be a part of Amway get new friends" mantra to the true Artistry claims. She does not know that I know all about Amway and it's great history so for the sake of improving our relationship even more than it already is, I decided to sign up! I'm happy she's going to excel in life, because she seems to have increased her interest in her education thinking she will be way better and as a by-product also get rich from this. She's been in almost a year now and has made a ton of money. How much longer do you think she'll go on? Forever I think! She is now doing what she she really wants with her life but it bothers me that not enough of our family is in it yet, which is what tears me apart! Thanks and again-- great blog!!!