Ah Kleeneze...... I remember the wife dragging me off to some sort of conference for potential Kleeneze wannabe agents about ten years ago when she wanted to earn some extra cash.
There
is definitely a pyramid element to Kleeneze but it's not one of those dodgy schemes where the people at the bottom give all their cash to those at the top. What happens is you can, once established, recruit new agents of your own and then you earn a cut from all their subsequent sales. Plus if your new agents then recruit their own new agents you'll even get a cut of those sales too!.
So in theory if you establish enough of a chain then you could eventually just stop your own selling and just enjoy your cut of the sales of those below you in the pyramid you've built up.
That's the theory anyway and this conference was for members of one huge pyramid that had built up. It really reminded me of one of those american evangelist gatherings as various members went up on stage to relate their success stories accompanied by whoops and hoolahs from the audience!
Afterwards they came round to recruit newbies and seemed highly disappointed that my wife, who was still interested, only wanted to have a little round of her own without recruiting all her friends and family to become
disciples agents of the Kleeneze cause.
Despite re-itering several times that she'd like to start with a small round, they still kept going on about recruiting others so eventually we just left without joining in any form!
Had loads of phone calls after that, about one every couple of days or so for a month, asking if we wanted to join up. The calls only stopped when I got quite stroppy one night and backed it up by saying my wife had converted to the Avon-ite religion and now only prayed at the altar of shower gel and bubble bath !
They seemed to take it all very seriously but that could just have been this one particular over zealous pyramid I suppose.
Despite this I'd say there's definitely nothing wrong with Kleeneze both as a company and range of products, as they've been around a good while now.
In reality with all these doorstep catalogues such as Kleeneze, Betterware and Avon your success obviously depends primarily on having a decent round of potential customers. IMHO this is still possible as these companies are still successful, but as others have intimated, it's something that must be becoming a harder sell in the internet age.
It also would definitely help if you, for example, work in a large office where there's many potential customers without any legwork which you can use to back up your residential callbase.
Or, as my wife used to do, get your husband to take an Avon catalogue in for the office girls when he's visiting! Very successful but a touch embarrassing!
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