An open letter to pampered chef consultants

Hello Pampered Chef Consultant,

As I was busy on the net researching your company of choice, Pampered Chef, I came across this article: Stick Your Pampered Chef Up Your Ass!

Now please don’t get mad. These things do happen. The key is not to dwell on it, but to learn from it so that you can increase your home party sales for your pampered chef business and I will show you how using the sentiments shared here!

Raise your hand if you have to go to a pampered chef/tupperwear/naughty lingerie/home accent/wrought iron sconce I don’t need/and/or/candle party in the next few weeks.

I’m done. I’m not going. I’m not buying the crap to help you out or to stick in my guest bathroom.

>>> Party Plan Pat says: Never, ever approach your potential home party attendees with the request to buy product to help you out. It puts people in an awkward position. I can assure you the resentment that builds up is not worth the money you made.

Home Party Plan Success Tip: People buy from those they like, know and trust. Build a relationship instead. The reason people buy is to

1.) Ease pain
2.) Increase pleasure
3.) Status

Help people identify existing problems, show them the value of what you have to offer as the best fit solution and you are in business!

I’m not going for the food or the free drinks or the mingling with other women I only know from seeing them at some school function last winter.

I’m not going to throw a party so you can get the extra large hurricane vase and I can get a 20-percent discount.

I’m not going to ask the same people I ask every single time to come. And I’m not going to go to their parties because they’ve run out of new people at work to invite.

>>>Party Plan Pat asks: Are you tired of hounding prospects who you know couldn’t care less about your business?

Deadly Home Party Plan Business Mistake: Small prospecting zone.

Here is a quiz for you

The smartest way to significantly build sales significantly is to:
A.) build customer loyalty?
B.) Find new customers?

B- FIND NEW CUSTOMERS

Scanner data, which monitors 9,480 brands indicates that it is 2.8 times more important to have new customers, that it is to have customer loyalty.

It is evident from the rant in this post this fact is true. Harassing the same people who bought pampered chef products from you for the past month is not the way to you.

It is hurting you and your pampered chef business. Now you know why people dread to meet you on the streets!
I’m not going to feel obligated to buy something cheap so you can get your discount. I’m not going to make people I know feel obligated to buy something from me because I bought at their last party.

I’m not going to be tricked into thinking I need 2 dozen plum scented votive candles. I’m not going to buy yet another measuring cup that can’t seem to measure the solids or the liquids correctly after the first dishwasher safe cycle.

I’m not going to feel bad, either.

Stop the madness.

>>> Party Plan Pat advises: Learn the principles of building a successful business. To do so I recommend the book by Robert Cialdini, Influence: How And Why People Agree To Things. It is only $15 and it will get you want guaranteed!

Home Party Plans Business Commandment: Your role as a pampered chef consultant is to focus on the customer. Remember we are all tuned into one station WIIFM i.e., What Is In It For Me? To answer this focus of this station MMFSAM i.e., Make Me Feel Special And More!

To Your Success,

Party Plan Pat