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I have recently been introduced to SU and I love it !! Have any of you become demos for your own personal buying?? Or is it not worth it unless you have workshops?? Hope I am making my question clear... I guess I am just curious.. any help would be appreciated
I think you will find lots of demos who started out just buying for themselves (hobby demos) - some of them still are; others have made it into a business. That's the great thing about SU! - you can have it fit your circumstances.
I started just to buy for myself actually. I just emailed family and friends and told some people that I was selling it and I have made my minimums without my purchaces actually. I have been earning my stuff for free now! Kind of nice!
If you have more questions you can PM me and I will answer all your questions. I just signed up this last August and have not regreted it at all!!! I love it!
There's a whole breed of SU demos that is called hobby demos (insert my name here) Basically they are just in it for the discount. I hold a book party every once in a while and sometimes a workshop. To keep your demo-ship, you have to meet a $300 quota every quarter.
So I would judge how much you think you will spend on your new love...if you would spend $100 US a month, you could benefit by being a demo.
I love getting to see new stuff before others, I love hanging out with my demo group and learning cool stuff. I would kind of like to do more sales just so I could get some of the great incentives SU offers!
I couldn't have said it better myself. I think most Demo's I know started out as a Hobby Demo and just found so many people that fell in love with it, you just start getting sales from all kinds of people.
First and foremost with me was the discount!! If you order a lot, it is really a great thing. Good luck with your decision!!
You can make SU! whatever you want it to be. I look at it like this-- if you're spending $100 a month on stamp supplies, then be a demo. $300 a quarter is the minimum. Get a friend to throw in an order and you'll be good.
Plus I love getting the magazine and being in the know. It's great stuff from a great company.
Yes, you can sign up and be your own demo, for the discount. You can dabble by doing a workshop or class if you'd like, or just put in an order every now and then.
The quarterly requirement for sales is $300 (net) per quarter. New demos who sign up now have until the end of September to make their quarterly quotas. After that, you have to maintain sales of at least $300 per quarter.
What I tell potential recruits is that if they are spending at least $300 every three months, they should sign up and find some friends who will help them make their minimums because after a while, even if you have an unlimited supply of money, there's a limit to what you can jam into your house. LOL And, if you find it's not for you, no one from SU! comes after you and breaks your legs for not meeting your minimum, hee hee.
If you sign up under a local demonstrator, they may have fun meetings you can attend like we do here in Erie. There are lots of perks to being a demo, like the monthly magazine and the website, not to mention the discount!
I too started as a hobby demo. Probably still am. I have some friends that I have introduced stamping to and we now get together once a month and just play. Sometime I teach, sometimes I don't. Sometimes they buy, sometimes they don't. But we all have fun and I make my minumums. Sometimes it is way over minimum. Just depends on the season. You will love it!
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Mary Kay
"Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think." Buddha
I signed up to be a hobby demo, you know, just for the discount! But now I have a customer base and I love it. The discount, Great Rewards, meeting other Demos & Stamp Lovers, Convention & other meetings, I have had sooo much fun, met really nice people and made a bunch of new friends.
I signed up as demo just to get the discount for myself. Yes, you have to have $300 in sales every quarter, but it will only actually cost you $240 plus shipping and taxes!! Plus I made a whopping $5 in volume rebates last quarter. Doesn't sound like much, but it's the price of a stamp pad!!
Even if you host your own workshop once per quarter you should be able to cover half of that quarter's quota easily. I would encourage you to talk to your demo and get a recruitment packet. Look it over, talk with your husband/partner/SO and then go for it!! You really don't have anything to lose. The starter kit is cheap right now, you'll get cool stuff you can use and a really nice discount. If you hate it, then buy nothing further, your contract will lapse and your done--no muss, no fuss!!
I joined 2 years ago just for the discount. I do an occasional workshop and get orders here and there from several friends that know I sell it, but primarily I am my own best customer. There is still so much I want that I can't give it up! As a demo, I also come in contact with other demos in my stamping group and we share lots of ideas, techniques, swaps, etc. I have made many new and wonderful friends that I would not otherwise have met if not for SU. I say go for it.
I buy for myself and have let family and friends purchase from me... I have made it over $1,500 in sales since I signed up January 7th!!! So am very happy to have such great friends to buy from me.... Only about $450 of that was mine too
Oh, yeah... I support my own Stampin Up career! It's no problem at all to buy the minimum amount for myself. Really, does my family NEED to eat EVERY day? C'mon now, get your priorities straight!
Just kidding!;) My family does eat every day, but perhaps not as expensively as if I hadn't become addicted... uh, I mean, discovered Stampin Up.
Rebecca
__________________ With 2 little kids, I've got enough stress So my style is quite simple - 10 minutes or less. My gallery's not fancy, but for me it's just right. And I learn more everyday from this WONDERFUL site!
I am somewhat of a hobby demo. I have a very small customer base (just very close friends and my sister!), but I love it. I do spend quite a bit each month and do make the quarterly minimum. Since becoming a SAHM, I have had to have a class every quarter just to keep me going, but that's been REALLY easy!! I just go on this website for different techniques, and BOOM- I have a class!!
I am in love with the products, the company and my fellow demos- hobby and workhorse!
__________________ -Flo Wife to Tim 10/23/99 Mom to Isabelle 5/4/04, Sam 8/16/07
Wow thank you all for the wonderful advice.. I have my mother in law coming in about a month so maybe when she leaves I will give it more serious thought. Thank you all very much for your input.
A good friend of my talked me into signing up b/c I had gotten so many people to come to parties and things. So they became my "group" - we meet once a month and they rotate hostessing so that they get the benefits.
Works out really well - now I get my stamps for free! :-D
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