Taylor Cady Built Professional Skills and Earned Guaranteed Base Pay

For the earning potential and experience with Vector, what I would say is that I made the decision when I graduated from high school and started with Vector and Cutco at eighteen, nineteen years old. I had made the decision that experience was more important than compensation. However, compensation is still great. So when someone is younger and they're building their life and they're trying to build their resume and their skill sets, what matters more is not exactly how much money that they can amass, but how many opportunities and doors that they could create. And then with that, after learning how to get good at selling Cutco products, the compensation is very more than what they would get at probably most jobs once they stick with it for more than just a couple weeks. My name is Taylor Cady. I'm in Jacksonville, Florida, and I'm an assistant division manager with Vector Marketing. I would tell people that oftentimes that when people claim that they didn't work here for very long or at all, and they more just heard it like a common rumor, and they assume that it's true because they see it. What I would say is that pyramid schemes are when people have to buy into the company, and there's usually startup costs. And here, there are no startup costs, and people don't have to pay. We have a guaranteed base pay, and those things just aren't common in pyramid schemes or scams. A lot of people might think that the pay structure is confusing, but the best way that I explain it is that there's a guaranteed base pay for each qualified appointment that a representative completes. Qualified meaning someone's over the age of thirty and that they have a full-time job. So that's guaranteed steady, consistent income for the representative. And then on the other side, that they can earn more than that guaranteed base pay when the product is sold, which is more often than not. So no matter what though, they're never earning less than that guaranteed base. So that's how I would explain it. So when people say that they have to sell to their friends and family or there's upfront investments required, I would say that I and a lot of my friends that worked with Vector and Cutco never sold to my family. So when I was new, I was more showing people who could just get me referrals and other opportunities to meet people that I didn't know. And that's how I built everything that I ever had with Vector and Cutco. Well, we specifically like to focus on college students because they're able to do appointments with customers, you know, after five PM, 'cause a lot of them have classes in school, and middle class families who would love Cutco might not be able to see it without having younger people with more flexible schedules, more fluid schedules. I think that we focus on college students so that it's low pressure, it's more fun for the customer, and we can reach a wider base of customers. I think that the reason that Vector has a bad reputation online would be that there's probably-- there's definitely been instances like every company where not everyone... There's always a factor of someone doing something that's not above board in every company. That doesn't mean that the whole company is bad. I would also say that just like a Yelp review, it only takes one negative person to kind of ruin it for a lot of other people where it's not necessarily the case. I also think that because anyone can go online and say what they want in their opinion, that it's just we see this with news, we see it with companies, we see it with school, and I think that's what factors into it.