Encouraging a Potential Team Member: Tips from a Cheffer

[lacychef]

Okay, so a gal co-hosted a show back in January & we got to talking about the opp. She decided she was interested, and wanted to sign up as soon as the new kit was available.....and she hasn't signed yet! I have left her a couple messages, inviting her to a team meeting, & asking if there's questions I can answer, etc. What do you fellow cheffers think I should do? I don't want her to think I'm bugging her to get signed up; but I can't figure out what's holding her back....thanks for any help

 

[Rebeccascabinet]

Did you send her any info? If you didn't maybe you could send her some info. like the empowering women mag or recruiting CD? After that call and see if she received it and then let it be. She'll sign when she's ready. Maybe she didn't get your messages.

 

[DebbieJ]

Just stay in touch....send her a recipe or handwritten note through the mail....then call again a couple weeks later...then email her.....just keep in touch!

 

[cmdtrgd]

Good ideas with the notes. Send her a handwritten note saying you were thinking about her as you were __________ (watching the new DVD, reading EW, etc.) and thought she might like to read/watch it, too. Let her know that timing is everything and you will be here when it is her time.

 

[pamperedharriet]

Try Kate's approach. Hopefully you will get an answer one way or the other from her.

 

[pamperedgirl3]

Good ideas with the notes. Send her a handwritten note saying you were thinking about her as you were __________ (watching the new DVD, reading EW, etc.) and thought she might like to read/watch it, too. Let her know that timing is everything and you will be here when it is her time.

I agree. I have a potential recruit who just can't join right now but wants to. I think she's also feeling the worries we all get of can we do this. I gave her the magazine at her show in Jan (& one for her sister who she thought should join) & emailed her a few days ago. I told her that I didn't want to bother her, but to remind her that I'm thinking of her. I also mentioned that only she knows when the right time to join is & I'm always here to answer questions/listen, etc. She told me that she really appreciated that. I think since she knows I'm not just trying to recruit her for my benefit that she'll be more willing to contact me with questions, etc.

 

[cat]

It took me a LONG time (uh, a few years?) to decide to start a PC business and if my original consultant had kept in touch with me, I would have signed with her! But since I lost touch, I became a HO lead for my director! So as others have already advised, stay in touch and she will sign when she is ready!

(It took one of my recruits 10 months from the time she said she was interested to the time she actually signed up!)

 

[DebbieJ]

It took me a LONG time (uh, a few years?) to decide to start a PC business and if my original consultant had kept in touch with me, I would have signed with her! But since I lost touch, I became a HO lead for my director! So as others have already advised, stay in touch and she will sign when she is ready!

Me too!!! I became a HO lead for my director. She called and asked if I needed any questions answered or if I just needed to know how to sign up and I said "sign me up!" LOL!

I met my first consultant at LEAST 5 years ago. I hosted a show for her, checked Maybe for the biz on my DPS. She called and I never answered and then she eventually stopped calling. *shrug*

My most recent recruit signed in January 2007 but we first met about it in December 2005. So you just have to hang in there and wait for the right time for them!

 

[lacychef]

Thanks for your responses ladies. I had given her the new opp brochure; then I mailed her the welcom packet since it still has helpful info, plus the new DVD. I figured I'd just call every couple weeks or so; hopefully it will work out when she's ready!

 

[raebates]

Don't give up. It took me about 10 years to sign. (Don't ask. It's a long, boring story.) Remember that if she's not excited about doing it, she probably won't get off to a good start. It needs to be her timing. She'll let you know if she feels that you're becoming a Pampered Pest.

 

[chef_kimmo]

I agree with what was said a couple times. Don't only call. Rotate it. Call, then e-mail, then mail. All basically saying you have been thinking about her (or other creative ways to say the same thing). She will appreciate you have done it and will sign when ready. If she isn't answering the calls, something may have happened and she just isn't ready now. Be patient.