Costs and Income
What
is
the cost to become a Green Irene Eco-Consultant?
The training and business set-up fee is
INR
5000 and you have 30 days in which to buy your demo kit (the demo kit is
shipped promptly after payment).The set-up and training fee includes the online
training, customized marketing materials in digital form, access to The
Ask "CORE"database, access to the BackOffice, your own
personal Costs and Income e-commerce website yourname.terapad.com.email
forwarding Then, within 30 days, you buy the demo kit for INR 5000 that
includes a representative group of the "CORE" recommended
products (not sample sizes, but real products) During your training you
can start selling through your new website and begin earning money to pay for
the demo kit!
Are there
extra or hidden costs?
Other than the initial investment, you pay
only INR 300 a month (after 60 days) as a membership fee to help defray ongoing
costs of: training, research, marketing, website and email forwarding and
communication.
Do I need
to hold inventory of "CORE" products?
No, we hold the inventory and ship the
products directly to the buyer. The Eco-Consultant will need a demo kit to be
able to effectively sell some of the products, but the Eco-Consultant is not
required to buy and hold any inventory.
Do I have
to pay extra for marketing materials?
During the training and set-up
period, our
staff customizes the "CORE"Service Sheets and "CORE"Guides
with your name, community and contact information and emails them to you in PDF
format so you can print them out yourself and are never required to buy
additional marketing brochures from us. In the demo kit, we ship a starter
package of service sheets, "CORE" Guides, postcards and
Green Irene folders. When you need more you can print the ones you received by
email or you can choose to purchase them from"CORE" (in particular
the postcards and folders which are from a professional printer). You can order
business cards and other items like car decals and name badges from a third
party printer who has templates set up for us or you can have them printed in
your community. There is no requirement that you buy any of these items from
our supplier, but if you choose to have them printed locally, you just follow
the templates we have pre-approved.
Do I
receive a salary and benefits?
No. Eco-Consultants are independent
business
people and not employees of "CORE" You are trained by Green
Irene and use our consulting materials and products.
How
will I
get paid?
"CORE" handles all billing
fees
to the clients. You receive a monthly check based on
collections from your clients for consulting and product sales.
How much can I expect to earn?
You will receive 80% commission
on consulting
services, such as the Green Home Makeover and the Green Office Makeover. And
you will receive 20% on your product sales to customers (with a few
exceptions). Since we’ve designed "CORE"to be completely
flexible without any sales quotas or minimums, each person’s earnings vary
greatly: some are satisfied to do one appointment every couple of weeks, some
eco-consultants have full time jobs and can only work on their "CORE"business
at night or weekends, and others strive to be busy every day. We do not make
earnings claims. We offer many opportunities to generate income, such as the
Green Home and Office Makeovers, Go Green Workshops, fundraising, website and
one-on-one sales, and each eco-consultant finds the right balance for
themselves.
How do I get customers?
We advertise and market "CORE" nationally
and provide you with leads, but we need you to market yourself locally and
network in your community. This is a grassroots, community-based effort, and
the best marketing is word-of-mouth recommendations.
Can
my
company enroll as an eco-consultant?
We are getting more inquiries
recently from
companies who want to add our services and products to their lineup of existing
services and products to widen the range of eco-friendly services they can
provide clients. The initial cost for a company is INR 10,000 that
includes one master account with one log-in for training and for Ask "CORE" database
access, one ecommerce website for the company, one set of marketing materials
and email forwarding. Assuming that additional employees would all come under
the corporate account, for each additional salesperson/consultant, we would
charge a INR 1000 training only fee for 90 day access to the training. This
training only fee does not include separate marketing materials, email
forwardings or individual websites (although they can be provided as additional
add-ons). You may want to buy additional demo kits, but it isn’t be required or
you can buy specific products to use as demo products which would be at the
eco-consultant discount of 20% off retail.
Is "CORE"a
Franchise?
No,
and as a result there are no Franchise
Fees.
