Our Partner Income Plan is built upon 5 key income principles

The Principle of Leverage
The Principle of Residual Income
The Principle of Dynamic Scale
The Principle of Peer-to-Peer Income
The Principle of Holacracy

The Principle of Leverage

Leverage in network marketing occurs when a few people share an idea with a few people, who share the idea with a few more people in turn and so on. By building a multi-generational team in this fashion, you increase your earning potential exponentially, as you’re paid on the collective output of your entire organisation, not just your own efforts.

The Principle of Residual Income

Residual income in network marketing is the royalty-type income you continue to earn based upon the one-time effort you invest to begin with. When you think about it, there are very few businesses or industries today that pay residual income. Musicians, authors, and successful insurance salespeople are a few examples of professions that do earn pretty powerful residual incomes. You put the effort in once and reap the rewards for months and years to come! Moreover, the Principle of Residual Income is critically important in the network marketing business because it synchronises with the Principle of Leverage. When these two powerful Principles occur together, we refer to it as a Leveraged, Residual Income.

The Principle of Dynamic Scale

Dynamic Scale refers to the idea of guiding progressively greater units of recurring purchases through your growing community of Team Partners. So not only is your organisation growing in terms of its raw number of Team Partners (leverage), not only is it creating a residual stream of income (through the residual activity across time of that growing community of Team Partners), but it’s also scaling that leveraged residual to ever great heights through progressively greater team-wide recurring purchases and sales of additional third-party products and services (essentially increasing the average team-wide unit of sale).

In that rare business where all three Principles occur simultaneously, we refer to this as a Dynamically Scaled, Leveraged, Residual Income. Running together, these initial three key principles offer up an ultra-powerful way to kick start your new career and get your income off the ground fast!

The Principle of Peer-to-Peer Income

The key point to appreciate from the outset is Acumen Strategic Partners operate entirely as a peer-to-peer, member-to-member community. As such, all commission is paid immediately, member-to-member in real time on a transaction by transaction basis. Acumen Strategic Partners holds no central repository of commissionable funds and simply charges a modest fee for it’s services. New Team Partners are directed by the system to pay 100% of the commissionable element of their Distributorship fee (referred to as our Partner Support Fee) directly to a member of their upline in accordance with our Partner Income Plan. Distributorship fees are made in line with the upline Team Partner’s preferred method of receipt. This is usually a simple online bank-to-bank transfer but can also include an online payment processor such as Paypal or Stripe, and even Crypto.

The Principle of Holacracy

Holacracy is the innovative method of decentralised management and organisational governance we employ at Acumen Strategic Partners and provides a context for the four income principles we’ve covered thus far. In a Holacracy, authority and decision making are distributed through local, self-organising teams rather than being vested in a conventional management hierarchy. Instead of operating as a hierarchical pyramid, power is decentralised and distributed, giving individuals and local teams more freedom to self-manage, while staying aligned to our core values, mission, corporate identity and purpose.

And it works!

Every Team Partner is paid in accordance with the same income schedule. No Team Partner is superior or sub-ordinate to any other, and each Team Partner is afforded the trust and autonomy to direct their energies in alignment with our ideals. Our aim is to unlock every Team Partner’s full potential in the process, without bureaucracy, office politics or pointless middle management.

Whilst we don’t give income projections, you can do the maths and set your own goals…

Acumen Strategic Partners administrates the payment of commission (£200) on 3rd Tier Independent Distributorship sales. By way of example, this means that when you sponsor Emma (1st Tier), who sponsors Mike (2nd Tier), who sponsors Trevor (3rd Tier), Trevor’s £200 Partner Support Fee transits directly from him to you.

Pop Quiz:

If you were to personally sponsor 3 Team Partners (in total), who follow your example and each personally sponsor 3 Team Partners (9 Team Partners), who each did the same, your income on your (27) Tier-3 Team Partner Working With Mentor Model sales would be?

If you were to personally sponsor 5 Team Partners (in total), who follow your example and each personally sponsor 5 Team Partners (25 Team Partners), who each did the same, your income on your (125) Tier-3 Team Partner Working With Mentor Model sales would be?

If you were to personally sponsor 7 Team Partners (in total), who follow your example and each personally sponsor 7 Team Partners (49 Team Partners), who each did the same, your income on your (343) Tier-3 Team Partner Working With Mentor Model sales would be?

If you were to personally sponsor 12 Team Partners (in total), who follow your example and each personally sponsor 12 Team Partners (144 Team Partners), who each did the same, your income on your (1728) Tier-3 Team Partner Working With Mentor Model sales would be?

Known as 20-20 Vision, If you were to personally sponsor 20 Team Partners (in total), who follow your example and each personally sponsor 20 Team Partners (400 Team Partners), who each did the same, your income on your (8000) Tier-3 Team Partner Working With Mentor Model sales would be?

Now, clearly these are just examples to illustrate the depth-orientated dynamics at play. In practice, the word is carried in a much more random or chaotic way, which of course is always the natural order of things as we’re such a diverse body of people and all Team Partners are completely free, of course, to be as active as they wish.

Equality of opportunity and the need for speed is key. Not a silly “get rich quick” type of speed, but an urgency borne of the appeciation that network marketers, particularly those new to the profession, need brisk validation of their often highly emotional decision to join us. Our fast-paced, single tier, peer-to-peer income model achieves just that, unleashing powerful single-tier team leverage and fast income from the outset. Single tier leverage means 100% of the commissionable element (£200) is paid on a single tier (not multiple levels or tiers) thus acting as a universal leveler. No one can sit at the top of an organisation earning lots for not doing much when the organisation rewards all Partners on a single tier of income! This transparent and eminently fair innovation rewards each Partner purely upon merit. Everyone is paid in accordance with the same income schedule. The upshot? Our innovative single-tier approach means an Independent Team Partner can quickly (and quite routinely) surpass their Sponsor and Upward Support Team in both income and recognition based purely upon their performance, not their chronological point of entry.

And let’s not forget, the above examples only represent the Working With Mentor Model end of the business (principly the purchase and supply of field-based training and on-going Partner support). The bulk of the sales revenue that will ultimately flow through your organisation will occur on the affiliate end of the business over time, in the form of an array of ongoing third-party product partner offers. These include simple affiliate programs, specially negotiated offers, and even other network marketing opportunities (in non-conflicting service areas).

Yes.

All Acumen Strategic Partner Distributorships carry a no-quibble 14-day money-back guarantee. This means that both the £5 (+VAT) admin fee and the member-to-member Partner Support Fee are subject to clawback, if a statutory return is requested within 14 days. On the extremely rare occasion this ocurrs, it is for the cancelling Partner to request their refund from either Acumen Strategic Partners and the upline Partner concerned. Acumen Strategic Partners bear no liability with regard to member-to-member refunds.

That could turn into a long list…

We could start with the ability to harness leverage, residual income and dynamic scale to eliminate debt and build an incredible future;
you get paid immediately, in real time, as your business grows (often from your first week in the business);
you progress on the same footing as everyone else due to the absence of hierarchy and pay-grades;
you can build your own business without shouldering the burden of all those traditional small business overheads and hassles (staff, stock, premises, business rates and cash flow problems to list but a few);
you get to meet and mix with a fun, positive and progressive group of like-minded peers;
you get to choose your own flexi-time hours;
you can combine the freedom of being in business for yourself with the reassurance of not being in business by yourself;
you’re recognised and genuinely appreciated for your contribution;
you get to eliminate risk as you enrol with our Cashback Protocol;
you get to help deliver fantastic value to your peers;
and maybe more than anything: you get to develop personally and professionally (and socially!) in often the most profound and unexpected ways, that will support you for life.

No industry is perfect and ours is no exception. We must realise that some concerns carry some basis in reality and recognise there are some quarters in our industry (like any other) where we can simply do better.

Some of the things that we observe that we don’t like and seek to eliminate in our activities are:

• inappropriately discussing business in social situations;
• blatant “pitching” of family and friends and over-selling the opportunity;
• being perceived as a desperate salesperson;
• rampant, unprofessional online spamming;
• being overly-focused upon new people and neglecting existing Team Partners in need of time, encouragement and support;
• being either inaccurate or resorting to exaggeration when talking about the potential of a network marketing business
• front-end loading.

Awareness is key and can go a long way to being curative in itself. At Acumen Strategic Partners, we are committed to the highest ethical standards and to raising the bar through our day-to-day example.

Learning how to do something well, before we begin doing it makes sense in most endeavours, especially when it involves one’s livelihood. If you know you want to own or operate a successful business someday, you’re likely to seek out some training in the business concerned, or somehow become educated in the type of business you wish to operate in.

This is pretty obvious, right?

If your goal was to become a plumber, you would first enter an apprenticeship. If your goal was to become a doctor you would first enter a university hospital as an under-graduate. If your goal was to join the priesthood, you would first enter a seminary!

So, why do so many network marketers do exactly the opposite? In fact, when you think about it, ours must be the only profession where you’re typically asked to start your business first, and only then begin the process of learning how to successfully operate it! To all at Acumen Strategic Partners, this is mixed-up thinking of the most elementary level.

Industry veterans have seen this happen more times than they care to remember. A new Team Partner enters the profession gung-ho, lets their enthusiasm get the better of them, goes about the business in completely the wrong fashion, and then a few months later they are gone.

What could have gone so wrong?

Most of the time, the momentum and excitement that motivated them to enrol to begin with didn’t last because they didn’t gain immediate access to the breadth of training and support required and critically, they couldn’t work out how to make money anywhere near quickly enough to keep them in the business long term.

All too typically, they got on a few calls with their upline, made a few half-hearted attempts to sponsor others and got shot down quickly (and sometimes brutally). They got discouraged, even scared and quickly fizzled out.

But what if there were a better way?

Skilling-up fast, making money fast and having fun with the process are all key.

The reason some people quit in network marketing has little if anything to do with their company or product and everything to do with their training, their peer-group support and their initial stream of fast income (or lack thereof). Right there, we can establish a range of clearly quantifiable problems crying out for a clearly quantifiable solution – and that’s where we come in.

Our concept revolves around the idea of building a simple subscription-based organisation of personal development orientated Team Partners. We support our Partners by equipping them with a range of robust training resources and peer-group support, and critically, by getting our new folks into meaningful income fast.

Having established that critical early stage success story, the sky’s the limit.