Cult Co.
As a high school, or even college student, did you ever see these flyers all around campus:
Need a Summer job?
Earn up to $500 a week!
Well a friend of mine picked up one of these flyers, called the number on it and started working for them the next week.
The company name was called Vector. They were a sales firm that sold knives door to door. Because when I think about buying knives, I think "I wish someone would show up to my door with sharp instruments and not leave unless I buy something."
The Knives they sold were from a company called Cut Co.
After my friend signed up....we never saw her again.
OK, well maybe not never but for about a year everything she did and said revolved around Cut Co....which we affectionately referred to as Cult Co. for the somewhat obsessive and "unique" people who actually went door to door to sell kitchen cutlery.
This is multilevel marketing at it's best...well at it's most interesting at least.
It is not much different than the brand little old Betty Kitchen partook in to try to recruit 653, not 652, not 651 (a little known fact, Betty Kitchen recruited 647 people, 6 less than her goal...she now has only 4 fingers...capiche?)in order to help re-elect W.
If all companies were run like cut co and all campaigns were run around that model well....I'd never answer my door again.
Need a Summer job?
Earn up to $500 a week!
Well a friend of mine picked up one of these flyers, called the number on it and started working for them the next week.
The company name was called Vector. They were a sales firm that sold knives door to door. Because when I think about buying knives, I think "I wish someone would show up to my door with sharp instruments and not leave unless I buy something."
The Knives they sold were from a company called Cut Co.
After my friend signed up....we never saw her again.
OK, well maybe not never but for about a year everything she did and said revolved around Cut Co....which we affectionately referred to as Cult Co. for the somewhat obsessive and "unique" people who actually went door to door to sell kitchen cutlery.
This is multilevel marketing at it's best...well at it's most interesting at least.
It is not much different than the brand little old Betty Kitchen partook in to try to recruit 653, not 652, not 651 (a little known fact, Betty Kitchen recruited 647 people, 6 less than her goal...she now has only 4 fingers...capiche?)in order to help re-elect W.
If all companies were run like cut co and all campaigns were run around that model well....I'd never answer my door again.
2 Comments:
i had a friend like that too!
By Kathie Legg, at 8:24 PM
I have a set of Cutco knives and they are the best. They never get dull! Anyway I did not buy them from someone at my door...gd bless Costco! I can see how things can easily become almost a cult. People get caught up in something and it becomes their life like re-electing George W. for example.
By Sarah Pearl, at 4:08 PM
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