Blood, sweat and wonder mops. (Kleeneze)

Member Name: lordted

Product:	Kleeneze
Date:	27/05/04 (768 review reads)
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Advantages: Business does work, Flexible hours, Sociable

Disadvantages: Few will earn a living, Takes a lot of hours, Can be anti social

I was a disbeliever, sure, but anything for an extra quid and I signed up. Now here's the thing - I would never buy from a tacky catalogue shoved through my letter box because I prefer to either buy a known commodity (i.e. CD, software, airplane ticket) from the Internet or alternatively check it out in a shop (or offline retail outlet, as it is probably called now...). I'm not bothered about the social stigma of buying from a catalogue, it just isn't exactly efficient/convenient for me at this point in my life. But as I say, I signed up.

My first 'drop' - the technical term for posting gaudy catalogues through strangers' doors - was in February and I did about 100. This resulted in 40 no returns (keeping in mind that these catalogues cost you 50p each) and two orders totallin a mighty £18. At 21% margin, and £10 minimum delivery charge from Kleeneze, was actually going to lose money delivering the goods!

Now then, I could have packed it in there and then but I could not get around the fact that two complete strangers had received a catalogue that I would not have wiped my butt on and placed an order - carefully leaving the details on the two part order from, with the original catalogue, on their doorstep at the appointed time. Some people actually liked ordering stuff this way - I was amazed.

Not wanting to be beaten, I ordered a couple of hundred more catalogues and took to the streets again. This time, I dropped 260 catalogues and when I went to collect them I obtained £250 of orders.

It takes quite a bit of time out of your week, because in addition to putting the catalogue packets together in their waterproof bags and delivering them, when you get orders (after you have revisited all the houses again) you have to order them online and wait around for the courier to deliver them, and then try and deliver them (not everyone is in when you come calling, that's for sure, and in around 1% of cases I hav
e found that the people who order it deny that they did and refuse to take delivery or pay for it!). All in all, you can make money (once you have paid for your outlay on catalogues, petrol, labels, starter packs and monthly internet membership subscription) but it is never going to be much if you do not obtain a downline...

The downline is where you recruit others into the program and they start doing what you are doing - the benefit to you is that you get paid bonuses depending on how they do, and here is the rub.

According to the way that the commission structure works (or bonus, if you prefer) if you have a couple of people in your downline (sort of working for you) who don't ever earn enough to make the second level bonus (so less than £600 in sales per month, for example) of 10% on top of the basic 21% margin, then you as their sponsor actually make more off them!

What does this tell you? Long term, of course, a sponsor should try and get his downline to succeed and get them to sponsor a downline of their own! But short term, a sponsor would do a lot better having 5 or 6 people in their downline who did nearly, but not quite, enough to get anywhere. To be honest, a lot of people would fall into that category of "not quite" because let me tell you, achieving my 10% bonus took a lot of work and aggro, and after selling £800 of product in one 4 week sales period, I ended up with £240 profit that equated to £4 per hour.

If you go the whole hog, good luck to you, but be advised, it takes grit, hard work and consistency to achieve a regular income from this sort of scheme. It can be done, but it is not fun and you will get abuse from all and sundry.

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