Former Coach Earns $250,000 Annually Selling Cutco After 21-Year Career Break

Jake Scharnhorst (00:00) I was looking for a way to run my own business. So I started back with Cutco as a side gig. And my first 4 months back while I was working full time as a strength conditioning coach, I sold $50,000 in Cutco part time, and realized that could be a feasible opportunity to run my own business. So I took the plunge. It's worked so far. Jake Scharnhorst, Genesee, Idaho. average, $250,000 a year. My current Cutco sales success has been residential sales, my first year back with Cutco. Then transitioning into event sales, business gifting, and realty gifting, along with residential sales. So I do some in-home demos showing Cutco. I do online demos remotely with residential customers. I work events, small fairs, big shows, state fairs, and I also do business gifting with all sorts of industries and realtors as well. I sold Cutco in college in 1999 and 2000. Just making money for college. Then I had a 21-year career as a strength conditioning coach, and rejoined Cutco in January of 2022. I think the big thing is just talking to people, right? Being able to relate to any type of person and customer, and in every industry there's some portion of sales. So in strength conditioning, we always had to sell our program and ourselves to athletes and parents. So contributed to my ability to be able to sell in that area as well. In a different career, we dealt with all sorts of demographics in terms of student athletes and parents and administrators and coaches. So it made it a pretty easy transition to be able to talk to people in all different areas and realms and business owners and Being able to relate to them, and build rapport, and made that a fairly easy transition. If someone previously sold and was thinking about coming back and selling Cutco, I would tell them that based on the time that they sold, the programs in Cutco have expanded tremendously. So for example, when I sold in 1999, it was all in-home demos. There was no event program. I didn't even have a cell phone. So things were a lot different, and the opportunity to sell in all different realms is a lot better now, and the support of Vector is great in terms of running your own business. So I would say give it a shot.