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Another poll!


This poll seeks to find out what companies pay to the upline for the first line of recruits. Since many commission plans stairstep these, post the highest you could receive on the sales of your first line.


Again, the poll won't be meaningful if multiple reps from the same company post, so please either write a message indicating what company you have responded for or pm me with that info, and I will post a list of represented companies


Thanks


Lori

Are you looking for % of retail volume or % of wholesale volume here? Many companies report override % based on wholesale in order to make the percentage appear higher. Please clarify before I add my vote to the poll...


Home & Garden Party pays up to 6% of the RETAIL volume (that's equivalent to 10% of the wholesale volume) of the first line recruits.


Blessings,


Christy

Excellent point, I didn't think of the distinction. Lets try to make it RETAIL. Thanks for pointing out that important issue!


Lori

you make 10 % commissionable volume on your first level recruits with Mia Bella Candles. The C.V is different on each item but you earn 10% on each.

Taste Of HOme Entertaining is 2-10% on frontline consultants...

Nondy

Taste Of Home Entertaining is 2-10% on frontline consultants...

Nondy

We make 14% with Latasia on our first line. But that's on wholesale. So if you go by retail it's 7% since we have 50% profit on our sales up front. So maybe I voted in the wrong spot, depending on how you are wanting us to vote. I know alot of companies have big percentages like Latasia but you have to make sure you look at what those percentages are based on, retail or wholesale. Petra said 10% but it was on wholesale which was 75% of retail since we made 25% off the top of the sales when we made them. Just thought I'd point that out.

This is kind of a new concept for me, so let me see if I understand. For Latasia, you are saying that if you sell a product that you bought a wholesale for $10, you make whatever the difference in the from what the consumer pays you (sounds like they pay $20 for the item, so you make $10?) and then the company pays you a percentage of everything your downlinebuys from them. So if you soldthe $10 product, you make $10 becauseyou sold it for $20. Then, if your downline buys $100 in wholesale products, you get $14 of that for being the upline?


Is that right?


Lori

LOL, don't I seem likea know it all? I'm so sorry for talking about the retail/wholesale thing in my post above. I just voted and posted since I knew no one else here is in Latasia. I need to read all the posts before I try to make points from now on in case the point has already been made. Again, I'm sorry for being such a goofball!

Hey Lori, ok, the easiest way for to understand it all was this. I hold a party with $500 in sales, I just made $250 profit off the top. I don't carry inventory so I just place the order online to be shipped to the hostess or customers.


My upline when she becomes a managing consultant (5 active team members) makes 14% of my WHOLESALE sales of that party. Since 50% of the money for those pieces of jewelry is already paid to me, all that's left is 50% of the money collected to pay the uplines with. So, there is $250 left to pay with. 14% of $250 is $35. So every time I have a $500 party, my upline gets $35. I know that sounds terrible when you break it down that way but it makes sense. There is no way a company could pay for their products, sales commission, downline commissions, trips and all the other things if they based the downline commissions on retail sales, or at least when the consultant makes 50% of the retail sales up front.


So say my upline has a team of 5 women selling $1000 a month each, which with jewelry it's not hard to do. That's $5000 total downline RETAIL sales. 1/2 of those sales (money) went from the top to the individual consultants. So my upline gets 14% of $2500 which is a $350 check. Not too shabby!! I hope I didn't just confuse you worse here.


This is just how it is with Latasia because the up front commission is so big. I'm not sure that it's that way with every single company.


Sorry I didn't answer you when I apologized for being so quick to type above, I was busy being embarrassed about it, LOL. This is interesting to see. I'm glad you decided to do all of this!! Thanks!

Ok, I've went and looked at the override system with Latasia because I don't want to be quoting wrongly.


When you are not a Director and starting to build your team you make 6% of the wholesale sales. Now when you have 5 active and qualified consultants (sold their first $1500 in 60 days) you are promoted to the first Director Level.


Here's the stats:


Sapphire Director: 13% of teams wholesale sales


When you start promoting out people to Director under you then all the other levels come into play and you promote up:


Emerald Director: 15% of team sales, 6% of any first downline branch, 4% of all second line branches, 2% of all 3rd line branches, and 1% of all 4th line branches.


There are also Ruby, Diamond and Double Diamond Directors and all the commissions go up on team wholesale for each level,up to 20%, 11%, 6%, 3%, 2%, 1% on your 5 lines of family.


If I just make Emerald Director I'll be ecstatic!!! And with only 419 of us nationwide I think I stand a pretty good chance!

Hi there, Mary Kay pays a little differently. But for my personal recruits, I actually make 26%. For my whole unit, I make 13%, and then an additional 13 for my personal team which comes out to 26%. For new consultants, the team commission starts out at 4% and then goes up to 9% and then 13%. Plus we make 50% profit!! I love my work!!!

Valerie
Senior Sales director

With Big Yellow Box we are paid overrides on our team's RETAIL volume. The highest we can receive is 7% (retail). The general amount that most leaders receive is 5%, but we don't simply receive 5% on our first line. I receive 5% of my 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th,7th and on and on and on. :-) I receive 5% of anyone in my downline no matter how many levels down they are. UNTIL someone on my team promotes to a team leader. At that point I no longer receive 5% on that team's retail sales. I get 6%! (On that entire team no matter how many levels down they are from me.) Yeah!


Marianne :-)

Hi~


Premier Designs Jewelry is very simple to understand


We make 50% of are Personal Retail Sales Always


We earn 10% on our 1st Level Commission Volume (wholesale)


10% on our 2nd Level C.V.


10% on our 3rd Level C.V.


None of this ever changes, fluctuates, or depends on quotas. You earn 10% onthe very first person you Sponsor immediately (no quotas) and there are no changes when you promote the ladies under you.(No break aways)


We call it our 10-10-10


Sheryl


www.premierdesigns.com (http://www.premierdesigns.com)

With Bittersweet Candle Company you earn up to 5% on thecommissionable salesamount (pretty much that means retail). Edited by: tamralynn

With lia sophia,once you have 3 active advisors on your team, you can promote to manager and then earn 10% on your first line.

For my whole unit, I make 13%, and then an additional 13 for my personal team which comes out to 26%.


Hey Valerie,


I'm turning this round and round in my head, and I just can't figure out how this works... if you and each person in your downline earns 50% on personal sales, and then you each earn 26% overrides on your first line and 13% on each line below that, my calculations show 102% paid out in commissions and overrides by the time you reach just your third line. Clearly, I'm figuring something wrong here! lol. Can you help me understand?


Blessings,


Christy

Southern Living at Home you earn up to 9% on your frontline personally sponsored. That's on the wholesale volume. I think most companies pay team volume at the wholesale level.


Also - Another question worth asking is how deep can you get paid. We go 4 Director Lines down. Which is fairly deep. I get paid on anything in between those lines. That's something a lot of newbies in the industry don't understand, but very important question to get answers to.


Susan Scarborough Smith / Star Director

Hi Christy, first, I am a sales
director, and my commissions are different than consultants. My commissions are calculated on the wholsale amount a consultant orders from the company. So the 50% discount on product has nothing to do with the commission. As a director, you make 13% on your entire unit WS production for the month. Then on your personal team, you get an additional 13%. For instance, if I had a $10,000 WS month. Let's say 1/2 of it was my personal team. I get
$1300 on my unit
$ 650 on my personal team
$1,000 unit volume bonus
plus a recruiting bonus, if earned.

I hope that explains our awesome commission structure better!
Valerie

With Discovery Toys, it depends on rank. But you earn anywhere from 5% to 15% on your 1st generation. Plus, they have other bonuses you can get for being a leader.


Debbie

My commissions are calculated on the wholsale amount a consultant orders from the company.


Oh, I see now. This pollasks for override percentages ofRETAIL volume (not wholesale), so I just assumed that's what you were reporting. Let me see if Iunderstand correctly now... at the Sales Director level, your override % for your whole team actually works out to6.5% of retail, with an additional 6.5% bonus on your first line, right?


Blessings,


Christy

As Amber stated above, with lia sophia we earn 10% on RETAIL sales of all our first line recruits. I have more than doubled my salary since becoming Unit Manager in August '05.

Lori, what do Traveling Vineyard consultants make on first line and does it start with your very first recruit?

We can receive up to 40% of the BV onour first line as a Watkins associate~smileys/smiley1.gif

For TTV, the first level promotion is Senior Consultant, you have to have two people on your team (besides you, of course) and you get 2%, then when you get to 7 team members, you get 6% and a commission on their recruits. (3% I think, I can't remember, I just made Sr. Consultant.)


I think this is a bit lower than many companies, but I also think that we have potential for great repeat business, and we get commissions on sales our customers place on their own on the corporate website (so you don't do any work for that sale). There are not many consultants in my area, and I have received a lot of interest from people to consult, and as I build my team, it got methinking on this topic and these polls.


Lori

Northern lIghts at Home pays up to 6% on your direct recruits. But as a manager you also make up to 11% on your entire unit, so you can actually get paid double on those directs!!smileys/smiley17.gif

Jockey Person to Person pays 7% of the retail sales of your entire team until you get to a 1st generation team leader, then you get 7% on retail sales on your 1st generation teams, 3.5% on retail sales on 2nd generation teamsand 2% on 3rd generation teams.

The big directors can make up to 45% on our own sales, 10% on first level, 6% on second level, 3%, 2%, 1%, and 1% - seven levels deep for commission overrides!


It is amazing what a little recruiting to help other women improve their lives can do to help your bottom line! God bless Free Enterprise!

We earn up to 20% on people we refer personally, and 7% on people referred by others in our organization.