Unilevel Compensation Plan

For the past few weeks, I have been talking about the elements that go into creating a compensation plan. Over the next few posts, I would like to discuss the common compensation plans, their strengths and weaknesses, and how the various elements are applied in them.

We will start with the most common compensation plan, the unilevel plan. In this plan, every member can recruit as many people as they like and they, in turn, do the same. The network, therefore, grows wide and deep.  

This is a very simple plan to understand but it can attract the wrong people and result in a great deal of disillusionment and frustration for the people being recruited in large numbers and then left to their own devices. If you are going to adopt the unilevel plan you must create strong structure requirements and discourage indiscriminate recruiting.  Read More