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The Principle of Leverage

Leverage in network marketing occurs when a few people share a great idea with a few people, who share the same great idea with a few more people in turn and so on. By building your own multi-generational team in this viral-like fashion, you increase your earning potential exponentially as your income is based upon the collective output of your organisation, as opposed to just your own efforts. As you’ll appreciate, over time this is vastly more effective than merely swapping time for money in a traditional job-type linear way.

Network marketing leverage is about a lot of people each doing a little bit not one person doing everything. It’s a systems-based business. And when you consider your team can grow rapidly and without limit to hundreds and potentially thousands of Independent Team Partners (without any of the downside risks and hassles one would associate with a traditional start-up), you begin to see the attraction.

The Principle of Residual Income

Residual income in network marketing is the royalty-type income you continue to earn based upon the effort you put in to begin with. When you think about it, there are very few 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. When you imagine Led Zeppelin writing Whole Lotta Love in 1968 and appreciate the surviving members of the band are still paid a royalty every time it’s played on the radio in 2025 you see where we’re going with this. 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 of its natural synergy 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 and sales through your growing community of Independent Team Partners (essentially, raising your average unit of sale). This means that not only is your organisation growing in terms of its raw number of Independent Partners (leverage), not only is it creating a residual stream of income (through the residual activity of that growing community of Team Partners), but it’s also scaling that leveraged residual to ever great heights through progressively greater Team Partner purchases and sales of multiple, recurring “follow-on” products and services.

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

The Principle of Peer-to-Peer Income

Lets face it… Fast income really is the key to fast duplication. It’s the key to instilling that all important sense of urgency throughout your growing team. When each of your Team Partners carry the opportunity to make good money quickly, fast duplication and sustainable growth follow quickly. Nothing builds belief and confidence like a fast stream of initial income! In short, when your new Team Partners make money quickly, they stay, they learn, they build and they duplicate – and they do so with urgency.

The key point to appreciate from the outset is that Acumen Strategic Partners operate entirely as a peer-to-peer, member-to-member community. As such, all Team Partner commission is paid immediately, member-to-member in real time on a transaction by transaction basis. At Acumen Strategic Partners the concept of pending commission doesn’t exist as the company holds no central repository of commissionable funds. This makes for a very secure business model! And an extremely brisk one too. New Team Partners are directed by the system to pay 100% of the commissionable element of their Partner Support Fee directly to a member of their upline in accordance with this Income Plan. All Team Partner commission is paid in line with your preferred method of receiving payment. This is usually a simple online bank-to-bank transfer that drops straight into your account, but you can also include the option of receiving your commission via an online payment processor such as Paypal or Stripe.

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 key income principles above. Holacracy, as we deploy it, means authority and decision-making are distributed through local, self-organising teams rather than being vested in a centralised conventional management hierarchy. Instead of operating as a traditional corporate hierarchy, power and authority are decentralised and distributed, giving individuals and local teams much more freedom to self-manage, while staying aligned to our core values, mission, corporate identity and purpose. And it works! Each Team Partner is afforded an equal opportunity to progress alongside the trust and autonomy required to direct their energies in alignment with Acumen Strategic Partners’ ideals. It’s this innovative “Holocratic” approach that unlocks each Team Partner’s full potential, without bureaucracy, office politics or pointless middle management.