If you have looked for an Internet business at all, you have seen the ads and heard the promises of certain "gurus," that promise to "fill your matrix" for you if you with spillover will just sign up now. Sounds good, doesn't it? You sign up, pay your money, and ride the coattails of the expert off into Successville. The problem is that with most matrix pay plans, this helps them, and hurts you.
A matrix pay plan is one that limits how your organization grows, by limiting how many first line referrals you can have. (Some pay plans allow infinite width, which is even worse. The person you sign up under has zero incentive to help you at all by putting people in your organization. There is not a case where they would be better off doing that than they would be by putting everyone on their own front line.) You might see a plan that has something like a 3X6 matrix. That means in the basic part of the compensation plan, you would be paid on up to three members wide and six deep, for a total of 1092 in a perfectly executed matrix.
So, how is it possible that spillover can negatively affect you? Let's say Guru Bob fills your first two rows for you before you find a person of your own to enroll. In fact, he is so good he fills you up with the first three rows. That means your friend Mary who signs up because she feel sorry for you, would be placed on your fourth level down. If you are conscientious and want to help her, you would be working with your first personal referral down on your fifth level, and only getting a few cents for everyone above that. And if Guru Bob helps them like he helped you, you might be adding people to your tenth level and beyond.
You, then, end up with a massive looking organization that is paying you less than your monthly dues. Thirty or sixty or ninety days later, you drop out and try to find out what's hot now. To your surprise, you find that Guru Bob is now promoting another program. You think, "maybe if I get in earlier, I will get in on the big money." Wishful, but not accurate, thinking. You can sign up as close to Guru Bob as you want to, and you aren't going to make the money he's making, or anything close to it, until you have your own personal sign ups. If it worked for the long term, Guru Bob wouldn't have a list of ten programs where he has been the top guy (or girl.) He gets in, runs it through his list, makes money for a couple of months, and goes off to another.
Building a perfect matrix requires some sacrifice by everyone. In this case, if everyone agreed to have a maximum of three personal enrollments, all on their first line, everybody would make way more money. And, if no one cared where those enrollments came from, everybody's matrix would fill, and everyone would get to the top of the pay plan. Now, the only obstacle is finding a group of people and a company that will do that. If there were, maybe they could call it something like Unselfish Wealth.
About the Author:
Jack Beddall is an experienced Internet entrepreneur who finds resources for the e-entrepreneur. You can see two of his sites at href="Unselfish Wealth Successville News and
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