hello and welcome to my walk in case you
are here for the first time my name is
Holly and housewife and mom of four kids
and I am a homeschooling mom as well so
thank you for joining me on my walk
today I want to talk about something I
used to be involved with and I wanted to
just share my experience and the pros
and cons so for any of you guys out
there that I've heard of the company
called pampered chef pampered chef is a
company that sells kitchen items
everything from cookware to kitchen
gadgets you name it and it is a very
well-known company they have a lot of
high-end products and I'll say that I
really love their products - first I'm
just gonna tell briefly about how I got
involved with pampered chef so yeah I
mean I had known about pampered chef for
a long time before I got involved with
it as a consultant but I just never I
never like pursued buying any product so
anything like that and then one day I
got a hold of a catalog and I was
looking through and thought oh this is
cool this is this would be nice and then
I looked at the back of the catalog and
they had just like a picture of all
these different products you can buy or
you can ya buy all at once like a big
package and it was the starter kit -
being a consultant and I was looking at
you know the the price that price was
$99 but it said that it valued at like
350 dollars and sure enough I did the
math I figured out everything that was
included in the starter kit and thought
well that is a really
you know a good deal for you know
getting a starter kit becoming a
consultant and the more I was thinking
about it at that time in my life I was
like I wonder if I should become a
consultant because well here's the two
reasons why I was thinking about doing
it
one is I I've always loved to bake ever
since I was young I would love to bake
and I've always enjoyed cooking as well
and the more older I get I think the
more I enjoy cooking and baking and I
thought well it'd be great to have some
pampered chef items because they just
have a lot of fun stuff you know and so
I thought you know as a consultant not
only you know do I get this great
discount off the starter kit but just I
don't know that I just thought I could
get discounts on future things and I
just thought it would be I don't know it
would have good benefits for possibly
owning pampered chef items so that was
one of the reasons the other reason was
I thought it would be a good challenge I
am NOT a good public speaker public
speaking terrifies me I took it in high
school I'm sorry I took it in college I
took a public speaking course in college
I don't know how I passed but I just
remember it was super challenging and I
still try and challenge myself in that
area and I thought with being a pampered
chef consultant I you know I was
thinking like oh I don't have to you
know go out and sale things or whatever
but yeah I just thought it would be a
good experience and at that time in my
life it just seemed to fit it seemed to
fit where I was that I had a good job at
the time so I was not in it for the
money at all I was I yeah I had a
good-paying job with benefits so I I did
need like an extra way of making money
or anything it was it was really just
for the experience and at the time I had
I had the time to do it because it
involves um you know it involves like
weeknights and weekends
you know Saturday mornings so yeah I
just thought it it was time to give it a
try so um I hooked up with a consultant
in my area where I was living at the
time and um or I should say pampered
chef hooked me up with a consultant in
the area and this gal happened to be
like really high up there on the totem
pole she she was really doing well with
member czev and she not only you know
did it full time and she was able to
quit her full-time teaching job and do
it full-time and make good you know a
good income but yeah she she had had so
many extra benefits because of where she
was at with the company she got to go on
a vacation every year that the company
paid for and it's just yeah all these
things so yeah she was definitely
someone good to be under and she learned
from when I met up with her for the
first time she invited me to come to a
couple shows with her and that really
helped to that really helped me see
exactly what you do when you are a
consultant for a show you're actually
not the host the host is you know going
to be the person that has the party at
their house or there's other ways of
being host these days but anyways yeah I
talked to her about my concerns I I told
her that I am terrified to try and sell
this stuff and she said the nice thing
about pampered chef is it's um it's a
product people want are people who like
to
cook know about pampered chef and yeah
she pretty much told me that it sells
itself and it was true and I learned
that later on but yeah she was she was
really good at her job when she did her
shows she oh my gosh I like I said I
went to two of her of her shows at two
different parties she she I'm gonna say
she hosted but the when she did and I'm
gonna tell you I almost wanted to buy
everything she talked about cuz she
really just not only was she knowledge
about everything but she was passionate
about it and she had a really good
personality forward to but she told me
that that is what it takes it takes
being passionate about something and I
knew that I could be passionate about it
because because I enjoyed being you know
in the kitchen cooking and baking so
yeah it actually worked out well for me
in the beginning I knew enough people at
the time between friends family and
co-workers I knew enough people that
wanted to have parties wanted to be like
my first couple of parties I already had
people volunteer to say I'll throw a
party I'll throw a party so that that
was a blessing and the party said well I
yeah it was pleasantly surprised that
the products did in fact sell themselves
and I mean I'm not saying every party or
every show did well I did have some that
I was very discouraged by because maybe
only two people showed up or whatever
but I don't know overall I think I
started off well doing it and yeah it
was
it was a good thing to do for the time
of my life now mind you a little
backstory I'm sorry if I had skipped
ahead I did all this before I was
married with kids this was back in 2005
to give you an idea so if I am talking
about anything having to do with the
upper shaft this was back in 2005 so I
don't know they might have changed you
know with whatever like their starter
kit I'm sure is totally different now
and there's you know I'm sure a lot of
things different about the company now
but like I said this is my experience
that I had with it as a consultant so
anyhow I ended up being a consultant for
about three years and I did have a
couple of moves during that time and
that also I don't know changed the way I
was doing my business too I did a lot of
catalog shows and I don't know like it
wasn't is easy for me in the beginning
especially when you like moved to a new
area and you're trying to like find
people to host more shows things like
that I feel like most of the people that
I had done shows with that wanted to do
more shows everything had to be like you
know catalog shows and over the you know
long distance and stuff so anyhow yeah I
eventually retired from pampered chef
just because again it was just where I
was at in life and while I I really
enjoyed the three years I did it and you
know it was very happy with all the
products that I got out of it a lot of
free stuff which was really cool and
plus I got a discount as well so that
definitely was an advantage um so that
was kind of like my brief story and I'm
sorry if I didn't really get into a lot
of explanation about what pampered chef
is that wasn't really the intent of
this video to talk about what they do
but and I'll just say you know it is a
like a percentage thing where you know I
would earn money for the percentage of
my shows and and then it also it works
like I don't know they called a pyramid
scheme or something like that where you
know you have like hey like that gal I
signed up under you know she made more
money like the better I did the better
she did because that's just how it is
and if I would have maybe worked harder
at my business with pampered chef and
got people to sign up under me I
probably could have thrived more in it
as well but I didn't see I didn't see
myself pursuing it as like a future
career or anything again it was just
like something I wanted to challenge
myself with but I do want to talk now
about the pros and cons and just to give
people an idea that might be thinking
about doing it to see like hmm you know
like what what are the good reasons and
one of the battery since for doing it so
first I will say I like to start with
the cons because I like to end with the
good things so the cons of it is that
now again they might have changed but
this was the cons for me so
in the beginning with that whole starter
kit like you had to you had to promise
three shows like people see that starter
kit and they think like wow I can get
all that stuff just for signing up as a
consultant and then do I really need to
do anything they do ask that you that
you do three shows in exchange for doing
the starter kit and I think that's like
all they ask so that that's one thing
I'm not saying that was a con but that
is one thing that they they insist I
think there's a timeframe on that too
and then also once you're a consultant
you have to just stay active with them
like I believe I was able to take like a
month off if I if I didn't or maybe it
was every every two months I could take
a month off where I didn't have to do a
show but I know when I did it and I'm
not telling you the actual numbers
because like I said I think it might
have changed but there was a certain
amount of shows you had to do and you
know that that to me got hard sometimes
when I'm like but I don't have anyone
who's you know right now who wants to do
a show and I have then I'd have to go
and I'd have to ask people that have to
ask friends and you know try and
convince so into to host a show for me
and so that's definitely for me a con
because I don't like to have to then
pursue you know getting the shows are
getting someone to host the show and
another con and this is another reason
why I quit doing it is because I found
that you know I usually do my shows on
Saturdays I did I think I did a couple
on like weeknights but I mean even that
was tough because you know I worked all
day and then I would you know pack up
all my stuff and then I'm gonna go do a
show on a weeknight
and yeah I mean that is that's a very
tiring week for someone who's already
working full-time
and then having to give up you know like
a Saturday morning or a Saturday
afternoon you know or even a Saturday
evening I just I and I believe when I
did actually stop doing it I just found
that I was too I was too busy on on
weekends and I just I couldn't even make
the time to do the shows so that is
another con I mean if you are only gonna
do this you know like you're gonna have
a full-time job and then pursue it then
you know you might just kiss your nights
and weekends goodbye that but unless you
were a social person and you want to be
out all the time I do not want to be out
all the time having to do you know this
job so yeah I mean that is that's
definitely was a big thing so I don't
know I mean I didn't really have a lot
of negative things negative things to
say about it other than that you know it
was just there are certain rules when
you you know when you join companies as
consultants I'm sure you know mayor Kane
and Amway or whatever all those places
they all have their own rules so but I
do want to see the pros before I wrap up
here so the pros for being a pampered
chef consultant at least the things that
I really enjoyed about doing it is one I
just love getting the products like I
said I got a lot of cool stuff for free
or fur
just really go to price because of the
discount I really enjoyed doing a lot of
the kitchen shows I mean there was only
a couple I didn't enjoy but for the most
part I had fun it was a fun thing to go
do these parties where you know it's
usually me and a bunch of other women
and we are talking about food and life
and it's you it usually was a fun time
so that was definitely a pro for doing
pampered chef
another Pro again was just the fact that
I wanted to challenge myself and it was
a great experience I mean I guess it
just depends on the person if it's gonna
be a good experience or not but it is
definitely another way to make money so
that again is another Pro I'm not saying
you can make tons of money unless you
wear that that sweet gal that I signed
up under that did really well at it but
yeah I mean it's uh it's just however
much you can put into it so yeah that's
pretty much all I got for today I just
wanted to share my experience what I
thought was the pros and cons of doing
it and I hope any of you there out there
that have been thinking about pampered
chef that this might have helped you in
any way at all I'm sorry if I didn't but
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