Distributorsmight not be able to see each other face-to-face on a regular basis; they might feel alone in the field, distant from the team. Uplines and field leaders wonder: how do I make sure my team is inspired and engaged?
Here are three actionable ways to inspire and engage teams, even from afar. Read on to learn how to organically increase downline performance and ensure that distributors are consistently prepared, enthusiastic, and goal-oriented.
The downline includes all distributors who are placed beneath a particular distributor in the hierarchy. This means that the sponsor is at the top of the hierarchy. New distributors that they recruit end up directly underneath them. This is called their downline. Any new distributors that the recruits bring in are placed beneath them in their downline, and so on. So theoretically every downline can become an upline eventually. And every upline could be a downline to someone else.
The fact is that people spend most of their time making an income or business building. So it stands to reason that there should be opportunities for training throughout the workday to keep them engaged, motivated, and happy.
In direct selling, actionable distributor training is essential, as learning without purpose is futile. Providing downlines and uplines with smart to-dos ensures training translates into tangible results. This approach, supported by real-time performance tracking and digital tools, drives productivity and success, equipping the workforce to excel practically.
Rallyware embeds motivation into day-to-day work processes. For a distributed workforce to maximize success and motivation, it is equally important that downlines feel engaged with their tasks and that uplines have insights to make the right decisions on how to encourage and coach their teams. Rallyware not only helps you make those decisions, but automates all the daily tasks and activities that lead each distributor step by step towards their success.
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I make my first MLM software and I think I managed to code how to get the points from the downline even though it is a recursive problem I didn't use recursion and I might refactor to a recursive version if that seems better. With our system, the level of a distributor is measured i number of silvers and for each product that gets sold the promotion/bonus/score/points works upline so if Bob is the sponsor of Alice and Alice makes a purchase then Bob will get points measured in number of silvers for that purchase. I added a business function to my user class:
What might be to do is now just a % on the silver according to the depth of the order.The code actually output the correct result for an order downline but I didn't yet test it extensively and I wonder if you think the code looks strange and if I have thought of everything since the models are somewhat complicated / advanced. The user class is from webapp2 and I could use a subclass but I didn't have time to do that so I just put in the method to the user class that's there and now I can call it from Jinja2 like user.this_month_non_manager_silver
The main problem I see here is that you're essentially trying to do a breadth-first search (you look at all the users who are below the distributor, then look at all of the users below those distributors, etc etc), but each time the while loop loops you're only looking at the users below the last distributor.
As you can see, the value of distributor after the first set of downlines are accessed is the last distributor in the user's downline. Then the next time the for loop is run, you're only looking at the last distributor's downline.
Traditionally a tree-walking algorithm is either recursive or loop-based with a stack. Generally you will choose one or the other based on memory constraints. To keep the solution iterative, you'd need to rewrite the above python-ish code like this:
If you want to bring agents into your downline, you must give them a compelling reason to work with you. Will they gain support? Will you help with training? Free access to quoting and enrollment tools like PlanEnroll can be extremely attractive to new recruits!
Multi-level marketing (MLM), also called network marketing[1] or pyramid selling,[2][3][4] is a controversial[4] marketing strategy for the sale of products or services in which the revenue of the MLM company is derived from a non-salaried workforce selling the company's products or services, while the earnings of the participants are derived from a pyramid-shaped or binary compensation commission system.[5]
In multi-level marketing, the compensation plan usually pays out to participants from two potential revenue streams. The first is based on a sales commission from directly selling the product or service; the second is paid out from commissions based upon the wholesale purchases made by other sellers whom the participant has recruited to also sell product. In the organizational hierarchy of MLM companies, recruited participants (as well as those whom the recruit recruits) are referred to as one's downline distributors.[6]
MLM salespeople are, therefore, expected to sell products directly to end-user retail consumers by means of relationship referrals and word of mouth marketing, but more importantly they are incentivized to recruit others to join the company's distribution chain as fellow salespeople so that these can become downline distributors.[1][7] According to a report that studied the business models of 350 MLM companies in the United States, published on the Federal Trade Commission's website, at least 99% of people who join MLM companies lose money.[8][9][10] Nonetheless, MLM companies function because downline participants are encouraged to hold onto the belief that they can achieve large returns, while the statistical improbability of this is de-emphasized. MLM companies have been made illegal or otherwise strictly regulated in some jurisdictions as merely variations of the traditional pyramid scheme.[11][12]
Independent non-salaried participants, referred to as distributors (variously called "associates", "independent business owners", "independent agents", "affiliates", etc.), are authorized to distribute the company's products or services. They are awarded their own immediate retail profit from customers plus commission from the company, not downlines, through a multi-level marketing compensation plan, which is based upon the volume of products sold through their own sales efforts as well as that of their downline organization.
Independent distributors develop their organizations by either building an active consumer network, who buy direct from the company, or by recruiting a downline of independent distributors who also build a consumer network base, thereby expanding the overall organization.[citation needed]
The combined number of recruits from these cycles are the sales force which is referred to as the salesperson's "downline". This "downline" is the pyramid in MLM's multiple-level structure of compensation.[7]
The overwhelming majority of MLM participants participate at either an insignificant or nil net profit. A study of 27 MLM schemes found that on average, 99.6% of participants lost money.[14] Indeed, the largest proportion of participants must operate at a net loss (after expenses are deducted) so that the few individuals in the uppermost level of the MLM pyramid can derive their significant earnings. Said earnings are then emphasized by the MLM company to all other participants to encourage their continued participation at a continuing financial loss.[14]
Many MLM companies generate billions of dollars in annual revenue and hundreds of millions of dollars in annual profit. However, profits accrue to the detriment of the majority of the company's constituent workforce (the MLM participants). Only some of the profits are then shared with individual participants at the top of the MLM distributorship pyramid. The earnings of those top few participants are emphasized and championed at company seminars and conferences, thus creating the illusion that participants in the MLM can become financially successful. This is then advertised by the MLM company to recruit more distributors in the MLM with an unrealistic anticipation of earning margins which are in reality merely theoretical and statistically improbable.[15]
Although an MLM company holds out those few top individual participants as evidence of how participation in the MLM could lead to success, the MLM business model depends on the failure of the overwhelming majority of all other participants, through the injecting of money from their own pockets, so that it can become the revenue and profit of the MLM company, of which the MLM company shares only a small proportion with a few individuals at the top of the MLM participant pyramid. Other than the few at the top, participants provide nothing more than their own financial loss for the company's own profit and the profit of the top few individual participants.[16]
The main sales pitch of MLM companies to their participants and prospective participants is not the MLM company's products or services. The products or services are largely peripheral to the MLM model. [citation needed] Rather, the true sales pitch and emphasis is on a confidence given to participants of potential financial independence through participation in the MLM, luring with phrases like "the lifestyle you deserve" or "independent distributor".[17] Erik German's memoir My Father's Dream documents the author's father's failures through "get-rich-quick schemes" such as Amway.[18] The memoir illustrates the multi-level marketing sales principle known as "selling the dream".[19]
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