• AIM uses a classic stair-step breakaway plan that is similar to the plan used by Amway and other successful companies.  When members of your downline achieve the rank of Director, their group volume "breaks away" from yours, but you still get paid commission on that volume through six generations. (up to 15% on your first generation Directors)
• All promotions are based off the group volume of the last three months.  The first level to achieve is Preferred Member (6% commission), and you reach that level with a three month group volume of 450.  To reach the level of Director (18% commission), you must average 2,000 PV over a three month period.
• Titles are permanent in AIM.  After you achieve the level of Product Consultant, there are minimum monthly PV purchases.  However, those minimums never exceed 150 BVP, and you will not lose your title if you do not order for a whole year!  However, if you do not meet the minimum for a month, you will not receive any commissions during that month.
• Because titles are permanent, you can "buy" your way to an upper level.  In other words, you can stock up by purchasing enough products during a one month period to get up to 18% commission back.
• There are a number of available bonuses at the Director Level and above.  These bonuses can exponentially increase your income.
• Retail profits are also possible, and are based on the difference between the wholesale cost you purchase products for and the price at which you retail them.
• AIM offers a 10% discount for any purchase over $165 and a 12% discount for any purchase over $600.  Shipping is free for any order over $50.
• AIM offers its distributors to sign up other people as either distributors or direct customers.  Distributors make the same commissions off each, but the signup fee for distributors is $25, while there is no fee to sign up direct customers.

Profits in AIM are realized in three basic ways: retailing, downline width, and downline depth.  I want to take a moment to discuss each.

Retailing
One sign of a good MLM company is when its distributors are able to earn a living just retailing products.  For this to happen, the company must be stable, and it must have an excellent product line.  Remember that MLM companies typically do not spend money on traditional advertising. (if they do, watch out!)  Their distributors are their advertisers, and they normally do not have large advertising budgets either.  In other words, the products must speak for themselves.

AIM's flagship product has been famous for almost twenty years, and numerous medical and academic studies have verified its benefits.  Armed with this information as well as numerous personal testimonies, distributors are often able to earn substantial money without sponsoring people!

If you are a Director with a GV of over 6000 a month, your cost for a 10.5 oz is $27 (with a volume discount), while the retail cost for the same jar is $50!  With a margin of 85% and the benefits that I have already mentioned, it is hard to not make money retailing.

While retailing is an effective way to get short-term income, in itself, it does not bring long-term financial independence, so we need to consider the other ways to earn profits.

Downline Width
Downline width refers to how many distributors and direct customers are on your first level, regardless of how many distributors your first level has sponsored.  Some companies use a forced matrix plan, which limits the number of distributors that you can have on your first level, which forces you to build depth.

Downline width is an effective way to gain short-term to medium term profits, but like retailing, does not bring long-term financial independence.  That is because attrition is a natural part of any MLM.

AIM allows its distributors to earn tremendous profits with downline width because it does not limit the size of your first level.  In addition, distributors earn the same commission on the purchases of Wholesale Members in their first level as they do on their own purchases.  In other words, if you had a first level of 100 people all purchasing an average of 60 BVP a month, you would get 27% commission on all of those orders.  (18% plus a 9% bonus)

The advantage of this is that you can earn substantial profits even if you do not have active distributors in your downline.  Many AIM distributors join just to get wholesale prices on their purchases, and you can still be successful even if they do not sponsor new people of their own.

Downline Depth
The major money in MLM comes from downline depth, which means that your downline grows many levels deep and expands as it gets deeper.  This typically takes time to develop, but the financial payoff can be huge.  

In AIM, you can get paid commissions on up to six levels of Directors, and can get bonuses on the volume of unlimited levels of Directors.  In other words, if you have a Director that is 30 levels down from you, you can still profit from the sales of him/her.

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