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What Can You Earn as a Wine Consultant

What can you earn as a wine consultant?
What can you earn as a wine consultant?

Hopefully you are getting a good sense of how much fun it is to be a wine consultant But what can you earn as a wine consultant?

What Can You Earn in this Business?

You earn commission monthly on your sales and your team’s sales. Commissions are paid on 100% of wine, personalized wine and gift basket sales, 50% of stemware and accessories sales, and 40% of wine club sales.

Commission has three components:

Bottom line: Doing 8 $450 tastings per month will max out your compensation plan. You will earn 35% as a wine consultant or senior wine consultant and 44% as a Team Leader or above.

The Path of a Leader

You start as an Independent Wine Consultant and have the opportunity to climb a career-plan ladder. The key business builder title is Team Leader. Beyond Team Leader, you can achieve the titles of Group Leader, Director, Senior Director, Managing Director, Executive Director and Senior Executive Director. Here are the highlights of the first 3 titles.

Title Getting There Earnings
Independent Wine Consultant
  • The starting point
  • 20-35% commission
Senior Wine Consultant
  • 1 wine consultant on your team
  • 20-35% commission on personal sales
  • 3% commission on personally sponsored consultants’ sales
Team Leader
  • 3 active* personally sponsored wine consultants (“3 plus Me”)
  • You sell $1,000 per month
  • You and your team combined sell $3,500 per month
  • To qualify for this title, you achieve these goals 2 months in a row
  • 29-44% commission on personal sales
  • 3-7% commission on team sales

* To be active, a consultant needs $300 in personal volume every rolling 3-month period.

If you’re ready to get started now, please call me at 650-714-7009 or email me at betty@winetastingsandmore.com. You can also sign up directly on my site.

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