Selling Pampered Chef Products Can Be a Great Home Business

Pampered Chef operates as a direct selling or network marketing company. You can build an income in two ways:

1. Sell Products

2. Build An Organization Of Consultants Who Sell Product

Here you will be able to read an independent review of the opportunity, although you will need to research in more depth through the company, since most details of the Pampered Chef Opportunity were not readily available on their website.

The Company

Pampered Chef was founded by Doris Christopher in 1980. Her business idea was to create a product line full of the most essential kitchen tools and showcase them through in-home cooking demonstrations. Prospective customers would be able to see the tools in action and would essentially be able to try them out before they buy. This technique has proven to be very successful. As quoted from the Pampered Chef Website:

"Today, The Pampered Chef is a rapidly expanding, multimillion dollar enterprise with more than 67,000 independent Kitchen Consultants across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany and a reputation as the premier direct seller of high-quality kitchen tools."

The Products

As mentioned, The Pampered Chef Products are of a very high quality. Also, the company has created a very large line of different tools to function as an additional revenue source for the home business.

The Opportunity

Since the opportunity is structured as a Multilevel Marketing (or MLM) business, you get paid by selling product -- as a kitchen consultant you would buy and wholesale and sell at retail, thus making the difference in profit. The company shows you how to run in-home demonstrations where you use the products and let your visitors use the products. If they enjoy the experience, then there is a good chance that they will buy.

As a kitchen consultant you can get paid by recruiting other representatives and then show them how to sell product. Then, you would be paid on both your own Pampered Chef product sales and on the sales of your group.

There are a few negatives that we have noticed with the opportunity and we will explain them below.

1. Non-Consumable Products

The Pampered Chef products are non-consumable, in other words, if they buy a cookware set from you, it is unlikely that they will buy that same product from you for a long time. On the other hand, consider a nutritional company that sells vitamins. Since a customer would continually need to replenish their supply of vitamins, you would continue to earn commission, month after month, on that one product.

To give them credit, Pampered Chef does have a very large product line and as such, each customer could potentially buy many different products. Regardless, even the most loyal customer will run out of products to buy at some time, which will decrease your potential residual income over time.

2. Online Product Saturation

Currently, there is a large number of internet sites where you can purchase Pampered Chef products for well below retail. The problem comes about when you find a customer and they purchase from you at retail. Now, they like the product, so they happen to look online for other products. Then, they happen to see that they could have bought the same exact product for much less than what they paid when they bought it from you. That is not a good situation to be in.

Final Thoughts

If you would enjoy giving the in-home kitchen demonstrations, then Pampered Chef can be a very good way to make money. However, if you are only interested in a quality home business that will give you the chance to earn a full-time or part-time income, I recommend you look at one of our Top 3 MLM Companies.