Empowering PC Business Success: Setting Goals & Accountability

[Koolotus]

Okie Doke.
2 signed recruits for sept. 2 qualified recruits for august ( already signed)
4 cooking shows
at least 1500 in sales.
I am really trying hard for a consistant business. for me that would be 4 shows.

 

[cat]

Cat,
Great minds must think alike because I have the same goals. I don't however have any recruits yet. I do have a few interested so we shall see. I also want to have shows that stick. I started with 9 shows this month and will end with 4

Melissa,
Well, we will just have to keep encouraging each other then!

Best wishes,
Cat

 

[lbishop]

I am just starting out. I went to my first show last Saturday and I LOVED IT!!! I decided that I would like to host shows, they are so fun!! I have a show booked for August 12 and my goal is to have another by the end of August along with outside orders. (I work full time for someone else right now and hate my job--Finance Company). Is this a good goal for someone just starting out, or should I shoot higher?

 

[chefjeanine]

I am just starting out. I went to my first show last Saturday and I LOVED IT!!! I decided that I would like to host shows, they are so fun!! I have a show booked for August 12 and my goal is to have another by the end of August along with outside orders. (I work full time for someone else right now and hate my job--Finance Company). Is this a good goal for someone just starting out, or should I shoot higher?

Welcome! Since you're asking about goals, I think you'll do great with your new business.

Should you shoot higher? One way to know what your show schedule should be is to decide what you want (need) from your Pampered Chef paycheck. When you know what kind of money you want to make, you can plan how many shows you need to have in a month/week.

Regardless of whether you view this as a hobby or a business, I encourage everyone to hold at least one show a week. When you present shows on a (at least) a weekly basis, you feel more comfortable at each show, you develop a flow and it becomes more fun for you and your guests. When you wait a week (or two) between shows, it's as if you are starting all over again each time you leave your home. There isn't a flow and you (and your guests) can feel the difference.

Good luck! Have fun! Come back to ask questions and share your insights.

 

[cooking.with.ann]

WELL...my goal is a bit different. My August goal is to decide what I want to do with my PC business. Since I signed earlier this year I've pretty much been treating this like a hobby, instead of a business. I've got to decide if this is my hobby, or if I want to grow this into a business. There are advantages to each, but I need to figure out which one is the right path for me.

I currently work at several different jobs--none full-time, all from home (mostly). I monitor grants for a non-profit (this pays me a full-time salary but I don't work a regular 40-hour week), I write restaurant reviews for a local magazine, and I lobby during our yearly legislative session. One (or more) of these jobs will have to go if I decided to make PC a career.

Decisions, decisions, decisions!

 

[pamperedalf]

Bumping this up!!!!

My August Goals:
~ Sell $2,000 in CS. (don't care how many shows I have 5 so far and a fair @ begining of August)
~ Recruit 1 more
~ Qualify my 2 newest recruits
~ Go into Sept. w/ 10 bookings or more
I better stop so it is realistic!

Update on my August goals:
~sold about 3,800
~recruited 1 more
~haven't got my 2 qualified
~I am going into sept w/ 7 cooking shows and 2 catalog shows

My September goals:
~sell 3,500 in CS
~recruit 1
~Go into Oct. w/ 10 bookings or more
~Sell 36 stones!!!

I want to buy my son a quad in cash before we go camping in November, and slowly start paying off other bills. I need to stop buying excess stuff I don't need.

I hope other people reach their goals the same way I have. Shoot for the stars!

 

[MicheleC]

Amanda,

Awesome job on your goals! I just decided last week to post a goals chart in my office to keep me focused.

My September goals:

$2500 in sales
1 new recruit
10 bookings in September
sell 24 stones

Looking for a great September!

Michele

 

[DZmom]

I feel kinda odd for quoting myself, but here goes...

Well, as y'all can see by my signature, I plan on walking at leadership. So I need to recruit 4 or more and qualify 5! I have one signed, qualified INACTIVE recruit and one recruit that signed July 1st!

I would also like to finish booking my Aug and Sept. My goal is to book8 or more shows a month. For Aug, which is WOW month in the Ishee cluster, I'd like to have 12, but am skeptical about that! I have 3 booked so far and 2 maybe's. I have 2 booked for Sept and 3 maybe's.

My July & August were terrible. I only submitted $380 in July and $817 in August. I had a family crisis that I had to take care of. To be perfectly honest, I've not had a cooking show since July 14th. My August sales came from hold over July shows.

Now for how I'm turning my business around. Because that's the most important part. If you've seen my recent post about my September, then you all know that I've got 6 Cooking Shows on the calendar, the most I've EVER had. Plus, 2 catalog shows and 2 bookings and a 3-Day Trade Fair in Oct.

My newest recruit just qualified the end of August. She earned the knives, her SS1 and the midseason products! Plus, she banked $556! I'm so proud of her! As is my Director. My recruit attended her first cluster meeting all by herself. I was unable to go and she drove herself an away to a meeting where she knew no one else. We were very impressed with her and her commitment to The Pampered Chef!

Sorry for rambling, but I'm trying to channel the excitment I returned home from Conference with. See you all at Leadership 2007! Dallas here we come!!

 

[cat]

My goals are to become a Director before the next Nat'l Conference

To increase my show schedule to a consistent 4 shows a month

I'd also like to earn Level 1 of the Irresistable Rewards...

I currently have 2 recruits, but one looks like she may go inactive, so I need to recruit and qualify 4 more!

Thanks for bumping this up!! Haha...it IS weird to quote myself!

For Sept, I've got 4 cooking shows and 3 catalog shows scheduled. I have one maybe for October and one for December.

My two recruits are still active (one of my recruits is ALSO a future director now) and I have 2 potentials sitting on the fence.

Hope to keep this momentum going through next year! For most of my two years in the business, I've only averaged one or two shows a month! Working on building up my business!!

 

[pchefinski]

I've decided to make PC a hobby. I don't have any hobbies (aside from cooking) and how many hobbies actually make you money? I've been trying to force a career from PC when it is best as a hobby. I can have my time out, get to know people without business pressures, earn a little extra $ here and there for a date night or whatever, and not feel like I've given up on something I love so much. If it turns into something bigger in the future, that is great. If not, I have peace with it being a hobby thing. I definately respect those who consult part- or full-time, and I look up to you. Maybe God will allow me to do that one day. But right now, He has something else for me. I think I might be able to work with a friend of mine who has a 3 year old special needs child. With my 3 yr old special needs nephew Tyler passing away so suddenly just a couple months ago, this little boy has captured my heart and I am honored to possibly work with his mom in taking care of him. (Getting paid $18 an hour to fellowship with her and play with her son is icing on the already yummy cake!) So this isn't the normal goals.. I'm not reaching for x amt of shows or sales, etc. I'm finally at peace with it being how it is, and not striving for more than it's supposed to be at the moment.

 

[Kelley Sells]

Okay, jumping off the cliff here....I want to triple my business......
Sept., I want one signed recruit, 8 bookings (I have 3 already booked so 5 more).
Oct. I want one signed recruit, 10 bookings ( I have one booked so far and an expo to do)

Nov. I want two signed recruits 15 bookings ( I have NOTHING so far)

Dec. I want all signed recruits qualified and at LEAST 4 bookings ( again NOTHING as of now)

I ALSO want to pick up the phone.....I talk all the time on the phone, not sure what my problem is, but I'm going to do this.....

Look at all my guests info, write all contact info down, schedule time for 3 hours to do POWER TRIFECTOR.....AND when I sit down at my desk I'm going to shoot for a goal of "NO'S" so, "I'm shooting for 15 no's tonight"......reverse psychology on myself......

I ALSO want my hubby to SMILE when I mention the Pampered Chef to friends and family, not roll his eyes....which I have ALREADY talked to him about as it is discouraging ANYONE from doing business with me the little business killer....sorry, negativity is NOT an option....

I am GOING to walk as NEW DIRECTOR next year at CONFERENCE.....that is my one year goal.....AND I want to hear the shouts from CHEFFERS ALL OVER when I DO Walk.....

Okay, so this afternoon is the 24 for 24 challenge I have given myself and I AM picking up that phone, I don't CARE how many no's I get or how irritated anyone gets, I'm gonna SMILE and be HAPPY....naturally EXCITED BY THE MONTHS SPECIALS.....

I WILL update......

So, THANKS YOU GUYS ROCK SOOOOO MUCH.......

 

[mommyhugz1978]

So here are my goals,

I have been doing this for five months.. so their small ones but hey you have to start somewhere don't you??

I want to increase my bookings from three a month to six a month.
I want to increase my show attendance from 6-10 to 15 people.. nto sure how to go about that one.
I want to increase my show average from $ 200.00 range isn't that sad???


So these are my basic goals..... like I said I need to start somewhere!!!

 

[heat123]

I've decided to make PC a hobby. I don't have any hobbies (aside from cooking) and how many hobbies actually make you money? I've been trying to force a career from PC when it is best as a hobby. I can have my time out, get to know people without business pressures, earn a little extra $ here and there for a date night or whatever, and not feel like I've given up on something I love so much. If it turns into something bigger in the future, that is great. If not, I have peace with it being a hobby thing. I definately respect those who consult part- or full-time, and I look up to you. Maybe God will allow me to do that one day. But right now, He has something else for me. I think I might be able to work with a friend of mine who has a 3 year old special needs child. With my 3 yr old special needs nephew Tyler passing away so suddenly just a couple months ago, this little boy has captured my heart and I am honored to possibly work with his mom in taking care of him. (Getting paid $18 an hour to fellowship with her and play with her son is icing on the already yummy cake!) So this isn't the normal goals.. I'm not reaching for x amt of shows or sales, etc. I'm finally at peace with it being how it is, and not striving for more than it's supposed to be at the moment.

Good luck Amanda! I know you posted at a previous thread of your struggles with getting PC off the ground for an entire year. I wish you the best with your new endeavor and hope to see you here at CS regularly still~ even if doing it as a Hobby! Hopefuly someday you can do this full time and really get it going to where you want it to be!

 

[sarahmarie]

My director gave everyone in our cluster an envelope entitled "raising the bar." On there she wront our highest show sales, most recruits in one month, most bookings in one month, etc. Then, to the highest show sales and highest month sales we need to add $100. (ex. highest show was $500. This time you need to sell $600 in one show.) and to each recruit or booking goal we added 1.
At my next meeting however many goals we reached we get a prize out of the prize bucket.
I thought it was a neat way to set reasonable goals.
I have my first show tongiht and i hope to double my goal! I am shooting high. (my goal is $100 over the average show. So it is like $590 something.) there are 22 people coming so ii think it will be good!

 

[britishchef]

My goal is to have my next show be a $1000 show. Or maybe a $2000 one. It's for realtors and I"m hoping to really sell the pizza gift sets. It's my 2nd show ever.

 

[mommyhugz1978]

My goal is to have my next show be a $1000 show. Or maybe a $2000 one. It's for realtors and I"m hoping to really sell the pizza gift sets. It's my 2nd show ever.

That is an awsome goal to aim for!!!! WORK HARD YOU CAN DO IT!! GOOD LUCK!!

 

[pamperedalf]

Bumping this Up!!!!!!!

My September goals:
~sell 3,500 in CS
~recruit 1
~Go into Oct. w/ 10 bookings or more
~Sell 36 stones!!!

I want to buy my son a quad in cash before we go camping in November, and slowly start paying off other bills. I need to stop buying excess stuff I don't need.

I hope other people reach their goals the same way I have. Shoot for the stars!

My September was awesome, my highest month yet w/ pc. I sold $4,615.81, and best yet not 1 but 3 $1,000 shows in 1 week. The other cool thing is I had 3 cancelations, and still pulled this month off. I also sold I think 56 stones.

My October was great again, I had numerous cancelations, but pulled 2 $1000 shows off, and sold $4,090 in 3 live shows. I wish it could be this easy every month. A possible recruit, got to get her to sign. Paid cash for my son's cycle (quad) it should be here this week. I love it!

My November goals:
~Sell $3,000
~Make Level 2 of sell athon
~Organize my office (it looks like a tornado hit)
~recruit 1
~go into December w/ at least 6 bookings
~have 4 bookings for January

My goals are low for November, but I am taking a week off to be back on the east coast w/ family for my grandfather's funeral, and we have our anual family camping trip to S. California at the Sand Dunes. It will be so warm, I can't wait. I am going to use the $1,000 catalog show idea. I am really looking forward to it.

 

[Chef Diane]

goals???whenever I set goals for myself I fail and of course that makes me believe I can't do this. I find myself asking questions like....what are you doing, are you crazy, why do you think you're a sales person? Then I come here and you all encourage me to keep moving on.

Last night I sent out an email ($1000 holiday Mystery Host) to everyone I have addys for and guess what? I got a reply this morning and will be sending out the packet tomorrow. I also have 2 others who wanted to order so that will be $200 more (Im hoping). I'm so excited I can't wait to send in my first $1000 show.

So I guess my goals for this season are 1. $1000 show 2. Get 5 bookings (I have none now, so 5 will be a huge success) 3. Get a jump start on my Jan calendar so I can work smarter not harder next year. 4. Get out of the family and friends group (its killing me) Im sure if I think harder I could come up with more.

Thanks a bunch to all you wonderful ladies.

 

[Soozeeq]

Okay I am jumping off (the couch) hahaha
no, seriously...her are my goals for the rest of the year...

November
5 shows with sales of $2000+ (I have 2 shows booked right now)
2 recruits (I have a couple leads)
Get my desk and PC stuff organized - I hate scrambling to get ready for a show!

December
5 shows with sales of $2000+ - no shows at this point
2 recruits
And get January looking like I have a real business going! I want to do 10 shows in January!

Diane, could you email me a copy of your $1000 holiday Mystery Host show? I think that will help me get started!

Thanks!

Susan

 

[Chef Diane]

Okay I am jumping off (the couch) hahaha
no, seriously...her are my goals for the rest of the year...

November
5 shows with sales of $2000+ (I have 2 shows booked right now)
2 recruits (I have a couple leads)
Get my desk and PC stuff organized - I hate scrambling to get ready for a show!

December
5 shows with sales of $2000+ - no shows at this point
2 recruits
And get January looking like I have a real business going! I want to do 10 shows in January!

Diane, could you email me a copy of your $1000 holiday Mystery Host show? I think that will help me get started!

Thanks!

Susan

here's the link for it on here
http://chefsuccess.com/showthread.php?t=12465

you may want to change some of the dates

 

[Soozeeq]

Thanks for the thread Diane! That is a great Mystery host idea. I will have to tweak it a bit for me as I have only been in business for 4 months. I do like the anniversary idea though for when I get to the one year point!

Susan

 

[kahluakiggy]

My goals for November:
Sell $1250 CS so that I can get the new spring products. That also gives me my SS1, plus rather a lot banked, so Yay. lol
Work on booking. (I have had 2 kitchen shows, and no one booked off of either of them. )
Work on calling people - I fear the phone. lolMy goals for December:
Actually, I basically just want to hold two shows at the beginning of the month. (Yay free stuff!) I have one booked.I plan on pushing January, mostly. I had really wanted the SS2, but the only thing I was really desperate for was the mandoline, so I'm just ordering it off the samples, and not stressing about it. Happy me is a good thing. I'll just get the rest of the stuff a bit at a time.