Jay, if you don’t mind I’m hoping that you will keep me straight as try to get my head around the ever increasing size of the bottom level and the time it will take the team to fill it. I’m sorry if I’m analysing this to much and making something out of nothing but the more I look into this the more I seem to dislike the idea of us earning the extra position from surfing the 3 sites.
Because, no matter how big the team gets, we will never be able to keep up with filling the ever increasing bottom level due to the fact that the extra positions we are earning are actually causing the problem for the reason I mentioned in my previous post.
If my assumption is correct, level 16 of the matrix will be 43,046,721 and will take a team of 80,000 active POAD members around 17 months to fill. And remember this will be the 3rd level of someone who has joined on level 13. Surely I must be getting something wrong here?
If I haven’t got something wrong, then perhaps we do need to re-think the overall strategy and give serious consideration to scraping the extra positions earned from surfing and look at the forced re-entry or something similar. As this will also cover the point you made about bringing new money into the system rather than extra positions taking it out.
Dave
Last edited by davey on Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:33 am; edited 1 time in total
So you've got the numbers exactly right, including how long it'll take to fill that 16th level.
The nature of most MLMs is that you don't really care much about filling levels, as far as you're concerned you're at level 0 and only need to worry about recruiting to fill your own matrix. The PoaD scheme changes that to focus on filling the entire matrix evenly, rather than individual efforts filling their own matrix.
Since the purpose of the PoaD matrix is not to make the top level lots of money, but to quickly qualify everyone for the paying programs, a rethinking seems in order.
A yearly or one-time payment of $20 or so, no positions earned through surfing, some forced re-entries at specific income points, and bigger commissions at each level, would help quite a bit. That would let people qualify for the paid programs based on referrals and spillover, while keeping the cost reasonable for those on the bottom.
Hi Jay,
Very quick reply and thanks for the confirmation and further explanation.
Perhaps a much simpler way of explaining why I now think the extra positions are a bad idea.
Imagine the whole team sponsoring a new person each and every day, and that person has absolutely no intention of sponsoring anyone EVER. In fact they are going to completely rely on the active team above them to build their downline for them. That is in effect what we are doing when we earn an extra position by surfing 3 sites every day.
I’m sure most people who have been around MLM for any length of time, know that this is simply not sustainable.
So the big question is, can POAD go forward with the current strategy, as quite clearly it seems unrealistic and perhaps the way forward is something like you just outlined.
I waited a bit to see if we'd get any other responses, but apparently nobody else is worried about what the numbers say.
For my part, I think reworking the way the traffic exchange works is about the only way to keep this sustainable and let people who join late qualify for the four paid programs.
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