Forum Thermomix
Welcoming Center, Management and General Chat => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: grapesy83 on April 10, 2012, 11:28:40 am
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Hi all, I went to an open day today and have a few follow up questions I was hoping to seek clarification on. In the "fine print" it says you have to have sold 3 thermomix's in your 60 day probation period. Is this correct and what happens if you don't get those 3 sales?
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It's best if you have another chat to your Group Leader, grapesy. He or she will be best placed to help you through the fine print. Don't be daunted. It's a great role to be an advocate for healthy eating, with the support of the awesome Thermomix. No one can predict their sales with any certainty. Just try to do your jobs well and if you're excited and confident and happy in what you do as a consultant, hopefully you will reach your own goals and make a lot of good friends and gain more knowledge in the process. :) Good luck and welcome to the forum.
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Thanks Cecilia - juries still out on what I want to do (will probably purchase first and play with it for a while before going through the training) just though I might be able to get a different perspective other than my group leader who I've been chatting with for the past few days.
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Hi grapesy83, welcome to the forum. It will not hurt you to read as much as you can on becoming a consultant so if you check out this (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=5426.0) thread you will also find a link to another thread as well.
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Hi grapesy83 :)
Cecilia is correct - the only person who will be able to answer that question is your Group Leader. Good luck with your decision making!
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Welcome to the forum grapesy83.
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Welcome to the forum.
Robyn
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Hello and welcome grapesy. Do you have friends interested in purchasing a thermomix? If so, then I would become a consultant as you will be comfortable demonstrating in front of them and also guaranteed a sale. Like all business ventures, research us the key. Is there locals wanting your product? What hours do you have available to demonstrate? What is the economic environment? What are the sales targets, and can you meet them? Perhaps ask around if anyone is interested in thermomix and get a feel for whether the need is there.
Sorry to rave on, but I have seen many friends go into business without researching first.
Good luck DG xxxx
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Thanks DG - I have friends who say they're interested but I guess things can change when it comes time to part with $1900+. I have my own demo this weekend which I will watch with a different perspective. Having seen the product I guess I don't need to focus so much on what she is demonstrating but rather how she demonstrates. Still haven't come to a conclusion but loving the input none the less.
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Hello and welcome to the forum grapsey. Good luck with your decsion.
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So I have been on the forum for a few weeks now and I'm enjoying reading everyone's advice etc (and I don't even have a TMX yet). Just wanted everyone's opinion on what they like cooking in their TMX and what they cook the most?
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Hey Grapesy, remember me from the other consultant thread :-)
I've borrowed my sister's TMX, have only got it for another few days though. It's going to be hard giving it back to her!
I've cooked/made: Pumpkin soup, Chicken and Cashews, Lemon Sorbet, Apple Sorbet, Tomato and Coconut Chicken and some basic bread rolls.
Anyway, I've had a ball with it, lots of fun and the results have been awesome (exception being the sauce with the chicken and cashews was a bit flavourless - but there's a lady on here QuirkyJo who has an alternative sauce to use which is great apparently).
Can highly recommend going down the buy/earn a TMX path, which is what I'll be doing in August :-)
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Have been flicking through so many of the threads on this forum and noticed a lot of customers are making dishes that don't work over and over again. This is a big concern for me as I want an easy and quick option to cook meals - especially for the kids. I don't want to buy the TMX and make a recipe out the EDC and find that it doesn't work and then be back at square one making something the conventional way out of ease - someone please re assure me that this isn't going to be the case!
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Don't worry about the EDC grapesy - there is a new edition of that coming out very soon. In the meantime, as a consultant you refer all your customers to Thermomix Australia's official recipe community and on the forum there tweaks to recipes with problems are corrected. You don't have to hold all that in your head. Just indicate to the customers to sign up for the newsletter and visit the recipe community occasionally and you have fulfilled your responsibility to assist them with updates. If you haven't been shown it at training, it is here: http://www.recipecommunity.com.au then take the forum link and you'll find the updates near the top.
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Thanks Cecilia - haven't even got my TMX yet so was more concerned about me than any potential clients/customers :) have you had your meeting for next month? I know this months incentive was the Chef Laurant book and was wanting to know what next months is to see whether I buy my TMX this month or wait until next?
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My meeting is coming up at the end of the month. The incentives will always be listed on the http://www.thermomix.com.au page so keep an eye out there.
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Cecelia does this mean you are not allowed to mention this forum?
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Hi Love my thermo. I put my answer that way so that Grapesy would be aware of the routine/regular access to information. I love this forum and I try to share my perspective as a consultant in support of others here as well as on the Thermmix Recipe Community forum. I have learnt heaps here from Thermomix users far more experienced than I am and I often reach out for advice or information, sometimes for myself (as I was hopeless in the kitchen before I got my Thermomix) and very often on behalf of customers, so I try to give back as much as I can here and elsewhere on the web. :)
For the record, I have found out some info that might help Grapesy:
May Purchase Incentive: With every TM purchase the customer will receive a Best of our Recipe Community Cookbook
Existing Customer: Host Varoma Demo in May = $30 Best of our Recipe Community Cookbook
OR if sale at the demo= Free cookbook
PLUS
Interest Free!! 1st May – 8th June
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cecelia there will be a lot of people out there very happy to hear about the interest free! Thanks for letting us know.
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How does the interest free work? You still obviously need to go through the finance company and I take it they have their own admin/processing fees involved?
I am about to purchase the TM today and I'm interested to know what everyone's tips are for the first meals cooked in it? I'm a little overwhelmed with all the options so something tasty and easy would be a good start.
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Grapesy do the vegie stock first as that will be ever so useful.
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I am about to purchase the TM today and I'm interested to know what everyone's tips are for the first meals cooked in it? I'm a little overwhelmed with all the options so something tasty and easy would be a good start.
Grapesy, I'd give the Pumpkin Soup a go.
I cooked this for my in-laws a couple of weeks ago when I borrowed my sister's TMX. They said it was the best pumpkin soup they've every tasted. It was the recipe from the every day cooking book.
Regarding the interest free deal, it still goes through the finance company, I'm not sure of the particulars, but I'm 100% certain there will be additional fees and charges payable on top of the $1,939.
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Grapesy, this (http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=859.0) is an old thread of what people did for their first meals and of course since then there are so many more recipes available but this will give you some ideas.
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$1939 plus $167 fees comprising application fee $70 and monty a/c keeping fees. Still makes TMX accessible to a lot of families. :).
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$1939 plus $167 fees comprising application fee $70 and monty a/c keeping fees. Still makes TMX accessible to a lot of families. :).
I wonder just how that compares to just putting on a low interest credit card. And I wonder if HO gets a finders fee from the financing company.
Gert
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when I was buying my DD a TM for her 21 birthday, they had this offer out. After filling out all the paperwork, they then wanted my DH income included on the application and it was so much rigmaroll that I said forget it, and paid for it on my credit card. I don't understand how my income alone was not sufficient to approve for a $2000 machine and it really got up my jumper.
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There are plenty of credit cards available now with low interest deals or interest free periods that it would be much more worthwhile shopping around for something like that. I know quite a few people who have opened a new credit card to fund a large purchase and then before the end of the first interest free period open another new credit card provider that gives you a further interest free purchase on balances transferred across. A bit of work but really worthwhile if you are making a significant purchase on credit and don't want to pay any interest. I've found in the past the fees associated with interest free deals are significant.
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Where there is a want there is a way.
CP I would walk away as well. Very outdated.
Gert
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What a lot of people don't know is that if you pay with a Mastercard you get an extra year's warranty.
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What a lot of people don't know is that if you pay with a Mastercard you get an extra year's warranty.
I think it depends on the type of card ie gold platinum silver etc.
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Cecilia - you get an extra year on your TMX warranty? Why isn't this a drawcard for making sales? I paid on MC and haven't been informed of any extra year.
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SOO I have put my hand up to host mothers day here for my husbands family as I have every intention of cooking everything in the TMX which should arrive on Thursday - Am I nuts? Catering for over 14 when I have only had the machine for like 3 days. I also have a vegan coming and don't have the vegan cookbook - does anyone have any great recipes that I can attempt?
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SOO I have put my hand up to host mothers day here for my husbands family as I have every intention of cooking everything in the TMX which should arrive on Thursday - Am I nuts? Catering for over 14 when I have only had the machine for like 3 days. I also have a vegan coming and don't have the vegan cookbook - does anyone have any great recipes that I can attempt?
Good luck grapsy. Lol! Try a vegetarian rissotto for the vegan. I have vegans in my family and they love it. Let us know how you go .
I say get a ham for the rest.
Gert
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SO I got my TMX today and had a day of cooking in the kitchen. Attempted a new york baked cheesecake and we haven't tried that yet but looked amazing. Then we had the beef bourguignon out of the new recipe community book with the mashed potato from the EDC. It was nice - don't feel I was "taken out of the kitchen" as much as I thought I would be but thats ok
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grapesy, since I got my thermie I seem to spend more time in the kitchen, because I am forever cooking ;D
I make the mashed potato all the time in thermie because I can walk away knowing the potatoes won't boil over.