| Yuwie's referral system and my problem with it |
I have been a member of Yuwie for long enough time now to get some idea of how it works and what I like and don't like. I'm going to write about Yuwie's referral system in this post.
As you probably know (and if you don't, check this FAQ post or watch the movie), Yuwie has 10 referral levels. The percentage of page view rewards across them looks like this:
| Level |
Your Percentage |
| You |
10% |
| 1 |
10% |
| 2 |
10% |
| 3 |
4% |
| 4 |
4% |
| 5 |
4% |
| 6 |
4% |
| 7 |
4% |
| 8 |
10% |
| 9 |
10% |
| 10 |
30% |
10 referral levels basically make Yuwie a MLM (multi-level-marketing) program. I don't like this system, and I don't like MLM in general. The problem is, you get little rewards for your personal page views and big rewards for recruiting. Now, that would be allright with me if we had 1 or 2 referral levels, but it makes no sense to reward you with, say, 10% of 8th level referrals page views, when you probably had absolutely no play in recruiting them.
The ideal system for me would be something like 85% personal rewards, 10% first level, and 5% second level rewards. You have control over first 2 levels of referrals and are able to help them recruit - unlike those in 4th level and higher. This way much more money would be distributed to reward personal page views, but recruiters would still be rewarded as well. Actually, it would reward recruiters who find direct referrals even more, rather than those who got lucky in recruiting a good marketer in their 4th level or higher.
According to the table, you will make 3 times more from page views of a person in your 10th level (you probably will have no idea who he is or who recruited him) than you will make from your own page views. That hardly looks fair to me. Also, this is what makes trying to generate your own page views (by posting notices or asking to take a look at your blog) futile. You hear me, notice spammers? You'll just end up making more money for someone else. What you should do is start recruiting your own downline, if you have any plans to make money with Yuwie. It's another matter if you just joined to get in touch with your friends. In that case, you probably won't pay any attention to money making and if you make anything, it will be just an added bonus to you.
Personally, I joined Yuwie just for the money making opportunity. While I don't like the referral system, I still can make use of it. I'll just have to concentrate on building my downline.
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| Posted: 10/12/2007 at 05:20 | Read 350 times | 9 comments | Leave Comment |
