Yes, you didn’t misread that – I used to sell Tupperware. I was “The Tupperware Guy.”
In the early 2000s I was trying to learn all I can about running a business, making sales, marketing, and all that kind of thing, in order to help my training business prosper. And one of the best ways to learn these things is to join a business with an existing structure so you don’t end up reinventing everything from scratch (and getting most of it wrong), as many entrepeneurs do.
I looked at various network marketing programs but they all seemed to me to be a little bit too much like a pyramid scheme. But then I was talking to my mom in October 2002 and she told me she had just joined Tupperware. I looked into it and found its business model to be much more palatable – no “up-line”, and less high-pressure attitude. I asked how I too could sign up.
Since then I have recruited a number of other Tupperware consultants from my workplace (Oracle) and friends, even my wife (who was dubious at the beginning, but now thinks Tupperware is the best). And in May 2003 I was promoted to Unit Manager, and I named my unit the “A-Ward Winners.” My mom even transferred into my unit.
I stopped selling some time back (writing in 2026) but I still have a lot of surplus Tupperware left over…
Migrated from bill.wards.net/blosxom on 2026-04-12