Income breakdown: I would estimate 20% from my own sales, 30% commission on direct team, 30% bonuses on wider team building bonuses & 20% from additional sales productivity bonuses. I have around 35 first line team members & around 120 in my entire downline although not all will be active in any one month.
As you can see the majority of my income is derived from the team as I focus more of my time on recruiting & mentoring. I don't just sit back for this money though, I spend my time creating training material for my team, on coaching calls, advising on team pages, supporting at events, taking courses myself on social media & on leadership, making contact with schools & event organisers and also still selling myself. Other people within the business may spend more of their time on sales & events and make their money this way. It really depends what other commitments you have and your style as to what suits you.
I started it whilst working full time so focused on social media in the evenings & occasional weekend fayres. It also played more to my experience as a leader in my day job to focus on building & developing a team. Other organisers may have more time in the day so focus on building their incomes from sales - specifically working with schools- where they can get large orders. So someone else's £1000 income could be split as 75% personal commission, 15% commission on team, 10% sales productivity bonus for example.
Someone starting out realistically may make £100 a month or less (especially if they end up reinvesting their commission in more stock or sales aids), it can take time to build up to a bigger income whether through sales & making inroads with schools (which can take time) or in building a team. There are also people who just do it more as a hobby and are happy to make a few quid a month doing a local fayre or a party as a way of getting out the house or building up their confidence meeting new people.
What I like about Usborne is there is not the pressure to sell or recruit, it's your business your way. I sell & recruit because I enjoy it and am motivated by the incentives & financial rewards but I have team members who only order every 6 months to get books for their family or team members who sell regularly but don't want to build a team. This is how it differs to some other MLMs I have heard about - we don't promise high earnings, we have an actual quality product to sell and we don't bully our team members to order every month.