Survey Results

Page: Is MLM a Buyer's Club or a Financial Opportunity? Kim Klaver Survey

1. What's keeping you with your company MORE?
	answered question		257
	skipped question		0
		Response Percent	Response Count
The product		60.7%	156
The money.		23.0%	59
Show repliesOther (please specify)		16.3%	42

2. Would you buy your product if you were not selling it? (Ponder this.Do most people keep buying product from company A when they move to company B?
	answered question		257
	skipped question		0
		Response Percent	Response Count
Yes, I'd keep buying it.		80.2%	206
No, I probably wouldn't.		12.8%	33
Show repliesOther (please specify)		7.0%	18

3. Does your company require you make a minimum purchase each month in order to qualify to get paid on downline orders?
	answered question		256
	skipped question		1
		Response Percent	Response Count
YES		79.7%	204
NO		15.6%	40
Show repliesOther (please specify)		4.7%	12

4. Do you typically spend more on the minimum monthly purchases than you earn in commissions and bonuses from recruiting or selling products?
	answered question		253
	skipped question		4
		Response Percent	Response Count
YES		50.2%	127
NO		45.1%	114
Show repliesOther (please specify)		4.7%	12

5. Does it bother you that you spend more buying products each month than what you earn selling and recruiting?
	answered question		247
	skipped question		10
		Response Percent	Response Count
YES		42.9%	106
NO		34.0%	84
Show repliesOther (please specify)		23.1%	57

6. Would you buy your products at retail? Without your distributor's discount?
	answered question		253
	skipped question		4
		Response Percent	Response Count
YES		49.8%	126
NO		36.4%	92
Show repliesOther (please specify)		13.8%	35

7. Are the products alone (versus income) worth being part of the business?
	answered question		254
	skipped question		3
		Response Percent	Response Count
YES		81.9%	208
NO		14.2%	36
Show repliesOther (please specify)		3.9%	10

8. Would you be happier if there were no opportunity meetings you had to go to?
	answered question		255
	skipped question		2
		Response Percent	Response Count
YES		36.9%	94
NO		34.5%	88
Show repliesOther (please specify)		28.6%	73

9. Would you make the money you want if you had 5 people who do exactly what you do?
	answered question		253
	skipped question		4
		Response Percent	Response Count
YES		61.7%	156
NO		31.2%	79
Show repliesOther (please specify)		7.1%	18

10. What's easier in this economic environment: To sell (product) or recruit business builders?
	answered question		252
	skipped question		5
		Response Percent	Response Count
Selling product		23.8%	60
Recruiting business builders.		20.6%	52
Both are really hard.		42.9%	108
Show repliesOther (please specify)		12.7%	32

11. Why do you love the MLM business MOST?
	answered question		253
	skipped question		4
		Response Percent	Response Count
The product		20.9%	53
The money		18.2%	46
The people		19.8%	50
The challenge		20.2%	51
Show repliesOther (please specify)		20.9%	53

12. ANSWER THIS ONE ONLY IF your company requires you to make a minimum purchase each month to qualify to get paid. Would you buy the same amount of product each month if they didn't require it?
	answered question		226
	skipped question		31
		Response Percent	Response Count
I'd buy less and some months, not at all.		34.1%	77
I'd buy the same each month anyway.		55.3%	125
Show repliesOther (please specify)		10.6%	24

13. Your take? Is MLM/NM business more of a buyer's club (to get products you want at a discount) or a financial opportunity?
	answered question		255
	skipped question		2
		Response Percent	Response Count
More of a buyer's club.		32.9%	84
More of a financial opportunity		46.7%	119
Show repliesOther (please specify)		20.4%	52