Posts Tagged ‘Pampered Chef’

• Pampered Chef Review

  Date: 2010.03.15 | Category: Company Review | Response: 6

  If you are looking to replace your income with a home business opportunity and heard that Pampered Chef is an easy way to make a living, then you have come to the right place. This review is going to discuss the background of this company and advise you if this is a real opportunity or a waste of your time. I will also give you my success formula of what exactly you need to do to succeed in the Network Marketing Industry.

  Pampered Chef

  Pampered Chef is a global Direct Selling company that offers a line of kitchen tools, food products, and cookbooks targeting at preparing food in the home. The company is headquartered in Addison, Illinois and operated in USA, UK, Germany, Canada and Mexico, with a worldwide direct sales force over 60,000.

  Doris Christopher founded Pampered Chef in 1980, when she saw the need for professional-quality kitchen tools in the regular household.  The company has helped many families to prepare quick delicious meals, at the same time enjoy the fun of preparing them. Due to its success in the industry and the potential, the business was acquired by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Corporation in 2002.

  Products

  The product range is wide and comprehensive to prepare food for every occasion and even for an exquisite culinary experience with free recipes. Some of the popular range of Products includes the Stoneware, Specialty Cutting Tools and Cookware.

  Party Plan Marketing Strategy

  Pampered Chef primarily uses the Party plan as their marketing strategy, which was made famous by Tupperware. In this strategy, you as a member will host a home party, and invites your friends, relatives or neighbor. The events will include display and product demonstrations to the guests, and before the end of the gathering, you or the Pampered Chef consultant will take orders for the products. The primary lead generation will come from the home party and your network or referrals.

  Becoming a Consultant

  If you are looking to become a consultant for Pampered Chef, first you need to know that there will be competition within Pampered Chef as it has over 60,000 Independent consultants worldwide. You will not be the only few consultants in your district.

  Secondly to make money from commission, be prepared to host at least 3 cooking shows a week to earn some significant income, of course it will be based on the product sales of each particular show. There will be a monthly quota to meet in order to earn a reasonable commission on your personal sales. To succeed in Pampered Chef would take a great deal of commitment and much marketing or selling skills. You will also want to look at build your own team of consultants to enjoy a higher commission, thus good leadership skills would be a plus. For this you would be recruiting consultants where you will teach them the skills for selling the Pampered Chef products. The pay structure is somewhat similar to that of many MLM companies and it does reward you well for putting in the work.

  Real Opportunity?

  So if you are asking whether Pampered Chef is a real business opportunity, then the answer is “YES!” They are one of the more successful, effective and popular direct selling companies with MLM pay structure. If the business is operated correctly, it can truly lead to financial fulfillment.

  Issue to Consider
  One issue is that Pampered Chef does not effectively train their Leaders on the best strategies to recruit people into the business. They leave a lot of the groundwork to “Leaders” who often get lost and confused on how to grow the business.

  So when you want to grow any MLM company, the most important thing is to market yourself as well as the business. This will differentiate you with your fellow consultants and position you as a valuable distributor. If your upline only coaches you with traditional marketing methods such as speaking to friends and family or buying leads, you had better start to think twice if you are in the right team. This will almost always lead to disaster as only about 3% of network marketers succeed with these methods.

  Commitment Required

  You should instead, make a commitment to learn about the business and get the best MLM marketing training to be a valuable marketer. Adopting cutting-edge marketing tools like Internet Marketing will open your business to the world and explode the sales volume that your business needs to thrive. Do this and you should begin to enjoy this industry tremendously.

  So if you really want to succeed in this business and learn to apply the power of the Internet to explode your business and your income just like I did, then put your name, email address and phone number into the boxes on the right to gain access to my secret strategies.