Once you’ve got your list of 100 people, the next step is to identify the ‘top 25 start up list’. We assume this is the ones who score the best on the Revolution profile points. They even give you a script to use so you can start calling your friends and family.

The phone script involves calling your warm leads and asking them to help you by being a ‘training appointment'. What this means is that you can watch as your upline sits with them and tries to sell them into Revolution Financial Management. What they probably expect is that you would be doing a practice and the trainer would be helping you.

The phone script is intentionally vague. They even say that giving too much information is a ‘scenario for disaster’. Essentially when you show up at your friends place with a Revolution recruiter, they have no real idea why you’re there. It this happened to us it would feel like the Revolution recruit is using their friendship to pressure you into something you probably don’t want.

Having spent several years in financial services, this is an unusual structure. Usually during training you would go with an experienced adviser to see their clients. Then after you have your licenses you can start approaching your own leads. That way they become your clients. To us it looks like Revolution wants to turn your leads into their clients, leaving you with no clients and no warm leads for yourself.

After the phone script is a very simple 90 day plan. Revolution gives you space so set some of your own goals, but they also give you some to get started. First and foremost is recruiting, then it’s pass your exams, and after that it up to you.

The Revolution Financial Fast Start Guide could essentially be used for any MLM. Apart from the brief mention that there are licenses, they don’t appear to offer any financial education. it looks like you are on your own when it comes to studying and passing the tests. This is disappointing because if they were really helping you become a financial adviser, the first focus should be to help educate you properly before you try and prospect any clients. Instead the focus here is on using your own warm leads to try and recruit as many new members as possible.

Why Is It Difficult To Make Money With Revolution Financial

The challenge is not unique to Revolution Financial, it’s common to all MLMs. The problem is that MLM is a system which is designed to make sales for the company, not to sell franchises. If you join Revolution Financial, or any MLM, you are a customer, not a business owner.

Recruiting a ‘downline’ is never as easy as they suggest. Our review of WFG, (which is the exact system used by Revolution), found that to get 3 senior members in your downline, you would need to prospect around 2,500 people. That’s a lot of prospecting!

Another interesting fact we learned about the business model used by Revolution, is that only 1 in 4 associates gets their insurance license. Given that this license is part of the 90 day plan, we can only conclude that the other 3/4 quit. You can expect 75% of your recruits to quit Revolution within their first 90 days of joining. It could be that Revolution Financial uses a system designed to churn and burn recruits. It looks like once they’ve got your warm leads, they’re done with you.