On Saturday, I sent out an email with a different type of interpretation of the "Best Ever" Join Offer Stampin' Up! is having this month. I received the following question based on that email and I thought I would share both the question and answer since you may want further explanation as well.
I’m excited that you are interested. Here’s some more detail and explanation, hopefully this will help. I’m happy to have a phone call too.
Anyone who purchases a Joining Kit (also known as a Starter Kit) becomes a demonstrator. There are
really only two types of people who buy Stampin’ Up! products: a demonstrator and a customer (who purchases product through a demonstrator).
There are many variations of a what a demonstrator is and you don’t have to declare which type of demonstrator you’ll be. This means you have flexibility and can change what you do (or don’t do) over a period of time.
- do nothing. Just purchase products for themselves with a discount of 20%. This is often referred to as a “hobbyist demonstrator”.
- Invite friends/family to stamp/create with you. These friends can purchase products through you. You would earn 20% from their sales.
- Gather people at your house or a friend’s house for a “party” or “workshop”. Show how the products work and how to create
things, everyone makes a card or two. Have catalogs available in case/hope that they want to place an order. Again, you would earn 20% income from their sales.
- Teach a class. You can charge a class fee.
- Teach regular monthly classes and call it a Stamp Club. For my Club, they have a choice to place a $30 order or pay $20 class fee each month.
- There are many things beyond this like craft fairs, card ministries, do videos online, teach classes
online, recruit other people to be on your team, turn this into a full time job……….
For example:
After you join (buy the kit), you’ll instantly become a demonstrator. When you want more products, you will place your orders through a demonstrator-only site (rather than order from me). This site has many other resources and information available to you. Just like a customer,
you will also earn 10% Rewards Points on your orders. But unlike a customer, you’ll also receive a 20% discount off the products you order.
You will receive this 20% discount for as long as you are a demonstrator. Or, if someone orders through you, then you receive 20% income. These percentages are based off the total products sold for that order. You have the ability to increase this 20% to 25%
depending on the amount of sales that occurs in one year (12 rolling months). When your sales mark reaches $1800 (whether just your sales, a customer sales or combination), then it increases to 25%. Some people stay at 20% and that is totally ok. 20% a great discount (although the increase of 5% makes a huge difference).
To stay an active demonstrator, you will need to meet the $300 quarterly minimums.
If you join this month, your first quarter is extended until March 30. So you’ll have October through March to meet that first $300 sales minimum, which can be through your own purchases and/or purchases from anyone else. Then your quarters will line up with everyone else’s: April through June, July through September, October through December and January through March.
I can help you think up ways of
introducing Stampin’ Up! to others and there are many resources and training videos on the demonstrator-only website and facebook page as well as the support of me and my team of stampers.
If/when you do not meet the $300 sales minimum in time, there is a pending month assigned to help. If after that you still don’t meet the minimum, then you would become “dropped”. This would mean all benefits of being a
demonstrator would stop. You don’t need to give anything back and there are no penalties, no matter how soon or long after you joined. And, you can always sign up again.
If you choose to grow from being a hobbyist demonstrator to (insert your own label) kind of demonstrator, there are many perks and incentives to reward and keep you motivated to sell their products (from product credits, free registration to
Stampin’ Up! events, cash bonus, incentive trips…). The higher the incentives, the more time, work and sales/recruiting needed.
I hope you can see that there are a wide variety of types of demonstrators and you can “be” any kind/type you want. Most demonstrators are “hobbyists”. You just don’t see them on the internet because they are not making videos or have a presence. You only see the ones
that have decided to turn their Stampin’ Up! hobby into a business.
Stampin’ Up! does spotlights on demonstrators, as well as seeks advice from top demonstrators in emails and trainings, and almost always they say: “I just joined for the discount”. It seems like there’s a magic switch that happens and they want to do more and become more. It doesn’t happen for everyone, but it’s nice to keep that option and
opportunity open.
I hope this helps with your decision making. Please let me know if I didn’t answer your question fully or if I sparked new ones. I’m here to help.
Christine
PS - if you want to schedule a phone call to chat, just give me a few times that work for you (&
your time zone) and we can set that up.
