Cook up Some Profits With The Pampered Chef®

If there's one thing almost everyone gets excited about, it's good food. A spin-off of eating well is a keen interest in kitchen gadgets, cookware and utensils designed to make cooking pleasurable and easy.

Well, that's what The Pampered Chef® is all about. Can't you just imagine the Pampered Chef® product parties? Kitchen envy can be so strong you could almost touch it in some cases, and it's upon that emotion which small fortunes can be made.

But you have to run a lot of parties to see that little fortune begin to take shape. However, as an old hand in the cutthroat world of multi-level marketing, I'm sure you already know what it takes to earn a buck. It's time to start channeling your inner Julia Child!

Besides, attending parties centered around great cooking and happily well-fed people are always a blast. You can do this!

The Pampered Chef® Company

If it's good enough for Warren Buffett, then it's good enough for you! That's right, one of the world's most successful businessmen believes in The Pampered Chef®…enough to buy it!

The Pampered Chef® has been around for over 30 years, all the while existing as a direct selling opportunity. They were started by a teacher, who took her natural ability for teaching, her love for good, professional-quality tools in the kitchen, and her apparent business acumen and started it all in 1980. Her name is Doris Christopher and she pioneered the idea of the ‘Home Cooking Show'.

Successful company backed by a big name, plus a visionary leader who served as a pioneer in the industry…great ingredients here, pun totally intended!

The Pampered Chef® Opportunity

One thing you'll love about The Pampered Chef®'s compensation plan is that it's wonderfully simple. A 2 x 5 grid is all that's required to show the commission structure:

Monthly Commissionable Sales Total	%
$1-$179	20%
$750-$1,246	22%
$1250-$2,499	23%
$2,500-$3,999	24%
$4000+	25%

Commissions start at 20% and as you can see, the more you sell the higher your commission, up to a quarter of the retail price. Once you make $15,000 in total sales, you may add 2% to each of these commission rates. Once you make to Elite Seller status, (at $75,000 total personal sales in the past year + $6,000 in commissionable sales in the current month) you get an additional 2% rate on personal sales.

As you can see, the emphasis for those who want to make the big bucks will be on personal sales. Having someone host your parties is a good way to get things rolling, but sales from your personal website or hosting things yourself will really get things heated up (there we go again with the punning).

Things which are commissionable are items you sell during:

• Cooking Shows
• Catalog Shows
• Wedding Showers
• Host purchases, even though they are discounted
• Items you sell on your own website, or in person yourself, without the aid of a host
• Cooking Show Fundraisers (15%)

To stay active, simply maintain at least $150 in commissionable sales each month. You may receive a 2% override on the commissionable sales of your direct recruits.

You get the picture…and the final piece of data you'll need is how much the products cost. They range from under $10 to $585 for an 8-piece stainless cookware set. That's a good one to feature at Wedding Showers.

What's the Buy-In?

Independent Consultants may join at the regular ($159) or mini ($99) kit level. The kits include all kinds of Pampered Chef® cooking items so you can do your shows in style, of course using the products you're trying to sell.

You get recipes, ideas, and inspiration from the back-end, as well as a website. There are countless ways to promote the product, like:

• Party Food theme
• Superbowl goodies
• Feature recipes for the Rockcrok
• Do a Healthy Eating show
• Do a Pizza Party and feature the baking stone, for example
• Food ideas are endless…get creative and have a ball

Any Cons to Go With All These Pros?

Well, there is just one: that's market saturation. Everyone from Macy's to Martha Stewart promotes their own line of cookware. We mention cookware because it's the most expensive category sold by The Pampered Chef®. You'll have to really dazzle them to overcome brand name favoritism to brands like Cuisinart, Calphalon and the like.