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About PDPs

What are PDPs?

PDPs are Professional Development Programs. Most industries and professions have them, featuring key players in the field offering tips and techniques for professional improvement, motivational presentations, and additional materials in the form of books, tapes, and seminars or conferences. With Amway Global-related PDPs, programs are created by people who have been where you are and can help you get to where they are in the business.

PDPs often combine elements of seminars, conferences, and meetings in a single setting. Emphasis can be on motivation (to help increase progress toward business goals), basics (to increase basic business knowledge), and instruction (to increase awareness of products, services, and tips-and-techniques). They often recognize IBOs (Independent Business Owners) who have accomplished their goals and qualified for new achievement levels, plus they spotlight new products and services, and they provide access to learning materials like tapes, videos, and books.

What’s difference between a seminar, a conference, and a meeting? Here is what the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary says:

• Seminar: “…a meeting for giving and discussing information.” (Often in a more academic setting.)

• Conference: “…a meeting of two or more persons for discussing matters of common concern.” (Often a group with wider interests, such as professionals or athletes.)

• Meeting: “a. to come face-to-face; b. to come together for a common purpose.”

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About Products

Where the products come from?

Products and services offered through Quixtar.com come from a variety of sources, including a long list of exclusive brands designed, developed, manufactured, and warehoused at and distributed from Alticor facilities in Michigan.

Alticor product development occurs in much the same way it is done at other companies. Much market research is conducted to determine what consumers want and the best and most cost-effective way to bring products to consumers’ homes. In the least, most products on Quixtar.com offer features that make them unique in the marketplace and for which side-to-side comparisons are difficult to make.

Amway Global also contracts with other companies across the world to provide other high value product selections. They include snacks, clothing, electronics, communications, and toys, among many others.

Exclusive brands

Although products sold on Quixtar.com come from a variety of sources across the United States and around the globe, most of our Exclusive brands are made right here in North America. Brand names like Artistry, Nutrilite, SA8, L.O.C., XS, and Trim Advantage, to name just a few.

Featuring products you use everyday

Products are a staple of our business, offering a huge assortment of products available through Quixtar.com. Products you use everyday. Products you recommend to others, who can also use them everyday.

Such as…

Household Cleaners

DISH DROPS® Dish Care; L.O.C. ® Bath, Kitchen, and Multi-Purpose Cleaners; PURSUE® Disinfectant Cleaners; and SA8® Laundry Detergents, Bleaches, Fabric Softeners, Prewashes, and Boosters.

Beauty Products

ARTISTRY® Skin Care and Cosmetics for Women; NAO never accept ordinary™; BODY SERIES® Hand and Body Cleansers and Moisturizers; Deodorants; Anti Bacterial Soaps; products for Sensitive Skin; and SPFs; Men’s Skin Care; Acne Skin Care; Hair Care; Jewelry; and Fragrances.

Personal Care Products

GLISTER® Oral Care like Toothpaste, Oral Rinse, Breath Fresheners, and Toothbrushes; Bath & Body; Feminine Care; Sun Care; and Over the Counter Medications.

Health Care Products

NUTRILITE® Vitamins & Supplements, NUTRILITE and XS™ Sports Nutrition, TRIM ADVANTAGE® Weight Management, eSpring® Water Treatment, ATMOSPHERE™ Air Treatment, MAGNABLOC® Therapeutic Magnets, iCook® Cookware, TRIM ADVANTAGE Healthy Lifestyle Foods, Exercise & Health Equipment, and FORMUCARE® Over the Counter Medications.

How Quixtar.com Exclusives are made

Amway Global is a subsidiary of Alticor Inc. Alticor operates full production facilities on its mile-long (1.6 km) complex in Ada, Michigan. It is there that high quality consumer products are manufactured in liquid, powder, aerosol, and cosmetics production lines. Alticor even makes its own plastics and paperboard packaging. This allows Alticor and Amway Global to maintain top quality, from creation to delivery.

Products beyond borders

Alticor actually creates, packages, warehouses, and distributes Exclusive products for sale by IBOs (Independent Business Owners) around the world, including through Quixtar.com in the United States, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean. Although the names may be the same, the products can often be quite different between countries to meet unique regulatory or marketing standards.

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Controversies

MLMs Versus Pyramids

In the early days of multi-level marketing (MLM), the business model was sometimes called a “pyramid.” However, in those days unethical entrepreneurs became involved who chose to operate illegally and the MLM industry gained a bad name through association.

Today, there are still unethical entrepreneurs taking advantage of their association with legitimate businesses. The FTC regards them as “pyramids” and not legitimate MLMs. Amway Global prides itself on being one of the good guys. Its Rules of Conduct and Code of Ethics, which help guard against unscrupulous people, are a standard for the industry. Amway Global and the IBOA International work diligently to educate and protect IBOs and their downlines from unethical schemes.

After lengthy study, the FTC regards Amway Global as an MLM business, not a pyramid.

How much money can you make in a business powered by Amway Global?

Some IBOs get involved in Quixtar.com to add a little extra income to their other sources of income. Others decide to leave their other sources of income, hoping to build a large income solely through Quixtar.com. Lots of IBOs operate somewhere in between. Their success is dependent upon a number of factors, not the least of which is their willingness to put in the hours and effort required to be successful in any business. IBOs achieve a wide range of success levels, depending on their criteria.

Quixtar and Amway  - Not one and the same

Quixtar’s Independent Business Ownership Plan is similar to Amway’s, but otherwise the two business models are different.

Quixtar is unique as an e-commerce model, relying heavily on the Internet to handle everyday business transactions such as ordering products, registering new IBOs or renewing existing ones, business support and customer service functions, and keeping track of business growth. Anyone who is an IBO or Customer can order products for delivery to their home, their apartment, their office, or to a friend.

Amway does not operate in North America. It is a separate business model that operates in Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and other parts of the world. It runs much as Amway once operated in North America with product ordering, billing, and distribution handled by Platinum and above IBOs. The business is operated differently in most countries because of cultural or legal differences, but the basics are the same from country to country. The biggest differences are with Amway in China, where people and the government are still trying to iron out how entrepreneurship should work in their society – it’s actually true for all MLMs (Multi-Level Marketing companies).

How are pin levels attained?

Contrary to rumor, no one can “get” a pin level. Every single one of them is earned, whether it’s Platinum, Diamond, or Crown Ambassador – or the many other levels. IBOs must qualify for each pin level based on a strictly observed set of standards. A pin level is not dependent on how much money someone earns but on how many points he or she builds up each month selling products and helping others in their business organization do the same.

Terms you may run into

IBOs: Independent Business Owners. Entrepreneurs who start their own businesses with Quixtar.com, which they run independently.

Customers: Consumers who sign on with Quixtar.com to purchase products at suggested retail price.

Upline: An IBO who registers Members and IBOs beneath him in his organization. Describes the IBOs who are above you in the line of sponsorship.

Downline: An IBO who is registered under another IBO within a line of sponsorship. He is “downline” from his sponsoring IBO.

Pin: A casual reference to an achievement level, such as “the Diamond pin level.” More specifically, however, a “pin” refers to an actual pin or piece of jewelry that an IBO receives upon achieving a specific success level. For instance, when an IBO reaches the Diamond level, he will receive a Diamond Pin, which all IBOs recognize as signifying his achievement.

Front-end Loading: Amway Global prohibits “front-end loading,” meaning the prior purchase of a large volume of merchandise, the cost of which in pyramids the purchaser eats.

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