gottalove I've just looked at those figures for Amway. The earnings are taken from the whole year. The number of bots is the number recorded on one day. If you consider 90% of bots leave within a year and these will have been replaced and replaced and replaced, the earnings are not much at all.
Say 100 bots join in Jan, 10 of them will be left in Dec.
In Feb 100 bots join and slowly leave until there are 17.5 feb bots left in Dec.
In March 100 people join and in Dec there are 25 of them left etc etc.
I did the sums all the way up to Dec, assuming 100 people joined each month and left at a rate of 90% over 12 months.
In Dec 1200 people will have joined over the year and there will be 615 of them left. This is the churn rate that Eyes talked about.
The income disclosures tell you that there are 615 people and the average earnings were $100 a month (taking total earnings and dividing that by current numbers).
But that is discounting the people that left and took some earnings. If all those people were taken into account the monthly figures would be more like $50 a month per person.
It would also be useful to know how much the bots would have had to spend to earn that much. Do they have to pay any charges, P&P, training, travel, blah blah blah....
People LOSE MONEY in MLMs. You can see through the income disclosures quite easily if you know what questions to ask.
Sorry if I've bored anyone to sleep there.