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    Commissions

  • May 19, 2010

    Crossing the MLM Desert

      When the pioneers headed to California in the days of the old West, they came upon the huge deserts of Nevada, containing little water and no food. These deserts took days to cross. At the edge of the desert, the pioneers discarded anything they could, loaded up on water, and headed out as fast as t... Read more ›

  • December 9, 2010

    International Sponsoring And Commissioning

    If your company is preparing to go international, you need to consider how you will handle international sponsoring and commissioning. You need to consider how your compensation plan will operate in the different types of markets—eCommerce, traditional, and in-person markets. The behaviors you need to rewar... Read more ›

  • March 30, 2022

    The straight facts on stacking

    There are certain compensation strategy problems that we see play out again and again around the industry. Stacking is one of them. It is the bane of level commissions, and it can cripple an organization—distributors who stack take away more money than the compensation plan is designed to pay them, hurting ... Read more ›

  • December 8, 2013

    Why Do You Want to Own A Direct Selling Company?

    Why do you want to own a direct selling company? One motivation for starting a company in this industry is obvious. Other than a home-run technology company, few businesses have such fast upside potential as a direct selling company. A network marketing company recently enjoyed revenues close to a billion dol... Read more ›

  • December 20, 2016

    Vemma settles with the FTC

    On December 15th 2016, Vemma and the FTC reached a settlement. The settlement contains no admission of fault or any finding that Vemma operated unlawfully or operated as a pyramid scheme and it “imposes a $238 million judgement that will be partially suspended upon payment of $470,136 and the surrender of c... Read more ›

  • March 28, 2016

    What’s a pay leg commission?

    Pay leg commissions are built on a simple concept. Typically, binaries use one of two systems to pay distributors, cycle bonuses or pay leg commissions. In this article we discuss the pay leg commission type. Pay leg commission deliver the the primary commission in binary plans, and they are only used in bi... Read more ›

  • September 3, 2015

    Binary Compensation Plan

    We sat down with Ray Rawlins, commission programmer of more than 40 years, to get his insights about binary plans. How do they work? What variations have been seen in the industry? What bonuses are they often supplemented with? How are they programmed? Let’s find out! https://youtu.be/XUl7_wTHo9A Full Tran... Read more ›

  • May 19, 2010

    The Beauty Of The Binary Plan

    MLM program pay plans are a bit like girlfriends or boyfriends. You believe that the one you have is the best! There are lots of MLM or network marketing pay plans. Over the years, I had often heard of MLM programs with a binary pay plan, but I had misconceptions about them, which unfortunately stopped me fr... Read more ›