Is the $60 for the Guest Sales Hurting Your Sales?

[DebbieJ]

I had more people go for the $60 once I actually demoed the ICSM. Helped me sell the Ice Cream Dipper as well.

 

[gilliandanielle]

I am just happy it is July now and I can start bribing people with the small batter bowl

 

[ChefLisa]

I had people at my June shows add items to get the Ice Cream Sandwich Maker. In my opinion they probably did it because it is something they would never purchase themselves, but they think it is a fun item so they decide to get it for free. I remember before I was a consultant there was always another item I wanted to purchase. When my consultant pointed out I could get something for free, I always chose to purchase that one more item to get the free item.

When the dollar amount required was raised to $60 at first I was disappointed, but then I started to think about how seldom Pampered Chef has raised prices since I became a customer and consultant. I am not sure how long the Food Chopper has been $28.50, but I know it was that price in 2002. I think that says a lot for Pampered Chef!

I love the Small Batterbowl and QuickStir Pitcher as Guest Specials. Customers are going to be very excited!

 

[DebbieJ]

My director told me that the Large Round Stone is actually CHEAPER NOW than it was when she started 14 years ago.

 

[chee65]

I believe the ICSM boosted my sales. I made sure to get one and demo it at the end of every show. It made a nice and easy desert. I made cookies with boxed cake mix, 1/3 cup oil and 2 eggs. mixed it up and put it on stoneware to bake. I made the cookies at home and used them to demo the ICSM. Everyone just about loved it. When there were kids at the show I would get the kids to come up and make their own, the kids had sooo much fun which encouraged the adults to want it. Then I had the adults make their own and they said it was fun. So for me it worked well. I also sold some ice cream dippers too. One thing I found out is that whatever I demo usually sells pretty well. So I believe it all depends on how you present the free gift. Maybe it did well here in Tucson because it's very hot. LOL

However, I do feel that the small batter bowl will be a better item.

 

[jrstephens]

i do not thin it boosted or hurt my sales. i do belive like some of you if it was set at $45 or $50 it would boost them though. b/c i had a lot of people that were about $20 off but did not want to spend $20 to get $11/12. sometimes we can out price ourselves with to high of a goal i think! i knoe we need higher goals but sometimes smaller ones are easier to achieve and then add up to more in the long run.

 

[gilliandanielle]

Does enyone even know why they changed it from $50 to $60??

 

[tiffanypc05]

My guess to why they changed the price from $50 to $60 is b/c so many people were buying the things at $50 that they kept running out of the products, which caused things to go on backorder which upset some people, so maybe this is the cause of the prices going up!!!

 

[chefjeanine]

My guess to why they changed the price from $50 to $60 is b/c so many people were buying the things at $50 that they kept running out of the products, which caused things to go on backorder which upset some people, so maybe this is the cause of the prices going up!!!

Hmmm. That's kind of you. Perhaps I'm cynical (okay, I know I am) but my guess is they wanted to make more money.

 

[tiffanypc05]

This is for the something that was said on the 2nd page about earning the free product!!!!



As for the $1250 that was probably for the mid-season products, and even if it wasn't the mid-season products, you have to be logical and think about how many new products are coming out! My director has been selling for 6 yrs. and she said since she's been selling there has never been over $900 worth of product come out at one time that you could earn that she can remember....This past catalog there was more than $900 BUT you couldn't earn all of it at one time(the executive pots)! I don't think it's the fact that they are getting greedy but PC is giving you the chance to earn all the new product and why would they want to let you earn more product without having a higher sales goal?

 

[tiffanypc05]

Hmmm. That's kind of you. Perhaps I'm cynical (okay, I know I am) but my guess is they wanted to make more money.-chefjeanine




Well I see where you are coming from! BUT Warren Buffet is already giving away all of his money...Why would he need more?

 

[BethCooks4U]

Hmmm. That's kind of you. Perhaps I'm cynical (okay, I know I am) but my guess is they wanted to make more money.-chefjeanine




Well I see where you are coming from! BUT Warren Buffet is already giving away all of his money...Why would he need more?

...well we do have a lot more managers there at HO and they have to pay their salaries somehow.

I can't believe how cynical I have gotten lately... sorry!

 

[Jennie4PC]

I think the classic scraper was a spend $50 get a scraper free some time last year before I signed cause I know I did not buy one and I have a few

 

[gilliandanielle]

I think it is okay to raise it to $60 if the free products is a best seller or something really great like the QSP and small batter bowl. I don't know what they were thinking when they chose that as the guest special! I think there is a big difference in people's heads between getting a $10 item free as opposed to getting a $15 item free.

 

[janel kelly]

I liked the garlic press as free item last year when guests spent $50. I also liked the free cutting board in February. I do kind of wish it was still spend $50 and get free item but I don't think it has really hurt my sales.

 

[gilliandanielle]

The cutting boards had to be successful since they ran out!!

 

[AJPratt]

I think its a good idea to have an incentvive like that, but its great when its an item people like, something that's popular like the small batter bowl. People went nuts for it last night!!

 

[cmackey]

I think that HO needs to go back to allowing individual orders get the guest special for the month like they did a year ago. I have alot of people who just order when they want something and what if an individual order is $100; I think that they should be able to get the free product just as much as any other customer. Why should they be punished because they did not order at a show?!?

 

[gilliandanielle]

They want people to go to shows instead of placing individual orders because the orders tend to be larger, but if someone places such a large ind. order they should get it too. I try to put as many individual orders as I can on to open shows I already have so they can have the special.

 

[Jayne]

Have you ever wondered if maybe they are getting rid of the ICSM? I mean think about it, when it wasn't the freebie for June, how much did they sell? And how much did WE sell it? My guess..it's going away and they were trying to get rid of a HUGE stock of them...haha

I actually thought the same thing!! My PC nut for a friend and I both bought it when it first came out. We both laughed and said what a joke (definitely not worth $12). She actually gave me hers when I started selling PC!! I asked her what I was supposed to do with it? She said she didn't care it was cluttering her kitchen. So now I have 2 (that I have no use for)!!

 

[AJPratt]

It actually IS a great product. Its just that its not like a lot of others where there is more than one use for it. If there is, I haven't found it.

 

[Paige Dixon]

I personally think the ICSM is gimmickey, but do you remember when it was pictured in the catalogue but not available yet because it was a mid-season product? A ton of people tried to order it before it was yet available!

I think they raised it to $60 hoping it would increase our sales, which is good for us!

How about the incentives: sell $1500 (HELD AND SUBMITTED-heldover May shows don't count!!) to receive $150 in free product (10%) but if you sell $10,000 you only get $850 in free product (8.5%). Why didn't they make level 4 at the $8500 level?

Also, did you realize with the Pan-O-Rama, it was sell 10 get 1 free. Sell TEN double burner griddles to get one free! Sorry, but that's no more generous than the neighborhood car wash. I sold a ton of cookware, and still missed out on two or three items.

 

[Ginger428]

Just curious...has anyone tried to make hamburgers with it? A couple of guests said thats what they are gonna use it for

 

[BethCooks4U]

Just curious...has anyone tried to make hamburgers with it? A couple of guests said thats what they are gonna use it for

I was just going to post that as a second use for the ICSM! It makes smallish burgers but that's good for kids or crowds with lots of side dishes and you can use smaller buns with them...

 

[tlmcunning]

The first time my DH saw the ICSM he thought it was a hamburger patty maker. I have not tired to use it for that, but someday I might.

Tracy

 

[soonerchef]

Playing a little devil's advocate...

I don't want to go against the grain here but I do feel that we as PC consultants get spoiled....I haven't heard of anyone else out there that gives guests specials when the buy so much $$ for free! I feel like we are very lucky to even get to offer such a thing and it doesn't come out of our pockets...

 

[AJPratt]

Playing a little devil's advocate...

I don't want to go against the grain here but I do feel that we as PC consultants get spoiled....I haven't heard of anyone else out there that gives guests specials when the buy so much $$ for free! I feel like we are very lucky to even get to offer such a thing and it doesn't come out of our pockets...

Well it is all PC's fault for spoiling us!! (stomping feet)

 

[cmdtrgd]

How about the incentives: sell $1500 (HELD AND SUBMITTED-heldover May shows don't count!!) to receive $150 in free product (10%) but if you sell $10,000 you only get $850 in free product (8.5%). Why didn't they make level 4 at the $8500 level?

Umm...actually it was sell $1500 and get $100+ of products which is 6.6%;
Sell $3000 and get $350+ which is 11.6%;
Sell $4500 (plus 3 recruits) or $6000 and get $550+ which is 12.2% plus 3 consultants or 9.2%;
Sell $10,000 and get $850+ which is 8.5%

So, I guess the best deal was the $4500 and 3 recruits when you are looking at it from a sales perspective. If you are having a hard time recruiting, the $3000 was the best deal.

Sorry to be picky...I like numbers

 

[tiffanypc05]

I Agree!!!!

Playing a little devil's advocate...

I don't want to go against the grain here but I do feel that we as PC consultants get spoiled....I haven't heard of anyone else out there that gives guests specials when the buy so much $$ for free! I feel like we are very lucky to even get to offer such a thing and it doesn't come out of our pockets...

I could not better agree with soonerchef!!! As for earning the free cookware, be glad they let you earn it instead of you having to buy it!!!! I never had the money to buy any of the cookware but I was able to earn it!!! ( I didn't get all I wanted, but I did earn over $500 in free cookware) How much more could they have helped us, i mean they offered cookware as a host special one month, and even let the discounted and half-price products count as full price for us!!!

 

[chee65]

Well, actually I've found another use for the ICSM. When I bake cookies instead of rolling out the dough to make round cookies I just simply put a ball of cookie dough on the round stone and smash it with the pedestal and plunger and it turns out perfect. I like thinner cookies so this is really nice. My 5 year old son just loved helping me make cookies with this. I also have a good recipe for cookies that I stole off the box of cake mix. Just take 1 chocolate cake mix add 1/3 cup oil and 2 eggs. Mix well (I actually need it with my hands in the bowl). And either drop on stone and bake for about 10 minutes at 375 or do as I mentioned above for thinner cookies and bake for 7 minutes. The guests at my last show just absolutely loved them.

I like the hamburger idea alot. I'm going to try that.