Last updated on February 22nd, 2024 at 05:58 pm
Norwex opened up to new consultants in New Zealand in April 2015, and has had exponential growth since then, but is still a relatively young company with a LOT of room for growth. Currently there are Norwex products maybe 2% of New Zealand homes, so we have a long way to go! That means if you are looking for a new business opportunity, then this is a chance to get in at the ground floor with a growing company. Or if you just want to share Norwex with your friends, family and colleagues – you are very welcome!!
Norwex is a growing organisation and needs more people like you to spread the word, so whether you would like to join to run a full time business, to develop a new hobby that makes some income on the side, or just because you love the products and want to share them, we have a place for you.
This is a bit of an FAQ on becoming a Norwex consultant in New Zealand, and at the end I will link to documents you can download in PDF if you would like to read more. You are also more than welcome to contact me and I will be happy to send you all the information you need (in print or via email – your choice) and answer any questions you may have.
On this page
- How much does it cost to become a Norwex consultant (and what’s in the new consultant kit?)?
- Are there any special offers this month?
- How much can you EARN as a Norwex consultant and are there any other benefits?
- Can you earn extra rewards to help you build you kit?
- Do you have to pay for catalogues?
- Can you host your own party?
- Do you have to pay for host rewards?
- Is there training available?
- Is there a party guide I can follow? Is it easy to do a party?
- Can you sell Norwex online?
- How much do Norwex consultants need to sell to stay active?
- What are Sub Total A sales?
- How do you get paid with Norwex?
- How do you become a Norwex consultant?
How much does it cost to become a Norwex consultant (and what do you get)?
Find out how you can join Norwex for FREE (with no obligation) this month!! Only until Midday April 1, 2024, AEST. Otherwise, there are three joining options, but in short, it can be as little as $12.45!
Norwex Fast Start kit ($79.95 + $12.45S&H)
The first option, the Fast Start Kit, is valued at over $124.90 but costs only $79.95 with nothing more to pay and no minimum spend/or sales. In short it is no risk, but has all the joining benefits instantly.
This kit contains
- Norwex Product Wallet
- EnviroCloth
- Window Cloth
- Cleaning Paste 74ml
- Customer Order Forms
- New Consultant Guide
- Spring 2023 Catalogues x 5
- Six months free subscription to Office Suite
You can start by sharing these essential products to help people create safer, more sustainable homes.
The Easy Start Kit ($12.45 S&H)
Valued at $248.40 this kit is FREE if you submit just $550 in sales in your first 20 days – and yes, that can include your own purchases (and yes, you do get the wholesale rate right from day one!).
The Easy Start Kit contains:
- Starter Kit Bag
- Window Cloth
- EnviroCloth
- Dusting Mitt
- Probiotic Water Booster sample
- UltraZyme Dishwasher Powder sample x 10 sachets
- Mini Cleaning Paste
- Ultra Power Plus Laundry Detergent 250g
- Body and Face Pack
- Spring 2023 Catalogues x 10
- New Consultant Guide
- Customer Order Form
- Go For The Goal Brochure
- 6 months free subscription to Office Suite
If you don’t meet the 20 day sales critera, you are still only charged $150, which is a pretty great savings!
Ultimate Start Kit ($12.45 S&H)
This kit is valued at $491.40 but has an upfront investment of only $12.45 (which is the shipping fee)!!
How many workshops/parties would you need to do to earn this kit for free? Around 5-7 (depending on sales, obviously) in your first 90 days. Many people can do this within 6 weeks or less. Too easy. I’ve known consultants to get it in without even doing demos – just promoting the products to family and friends. (And yes, I will run your first demo for you, if you like!)
And, even if you don’t achieve it for free, you will only pay $300 at the end of your 90 days which is STILL a huge discount! Can you say #riskfree?
This kit contains:
- EnviroCloth™
- Window Cloth
- Dusting Mitt
- Cleaning Paste 74ml
- Ultra Power Plus™ Laundry Detergent 250g
- Wet Mop Pad, recycled
- Dry Superior Mop Pad, recycled
- Mop Base
- Telescopic Mop Handle
- Rubber Brush
- The Norwex Purpose Booklet
- New Consultant Guide
- Customer Order Pad
- Host Envelope
- Norwex 2023 Spring Catalogues x 15
- Opportunity Envelope
- Party Cards
- Party Postcard Invitations x 30
- 6 months free subscription to Office Suite
This kit has everything you need to do a Norwex “cleaner, safer, better” demo straight away, but if you want more, you can also choose an upgrade kit for 40% off, at the time of joining.
Personal care upgrade kit
You can add this upgrade kit to any of the above kits, at the time of joining. It is specifically desigbed to complement your journey with Norwex to make your events even more successful by allowing you to experience and demonstrate our personal care range.
This kit is valued at $601, but at 40% costs only $360 if selected at the time of joining.
The Personal Care Upgrade Kit contains:
- Cleansing Facial Powder
- Hydrating Moisturizer
- Renewing Eye Cream
- Rejuvenating Serum
- Illuminating Oil
- Skincare Travel Bag
- Makeup Removal Cloth Set
- Ultra-Plush Bath Towel x 2
- Body and Face Pack
Are there any Special Offers this month?
As a matter of fact there are! Such amazing offers – I was so impressed I wrote a whole separate post on how you can join Norwex for FREE (with no obligation)!! Only until Midday April 1, 2024, AEST.
How much money do Norwex consultants make and are there any other benefits?
The simple answer is you can earn as much as you like, and YES there are LOADS of other benefits.
But let’s go with a more precise answer. 🙂
The Norwex consultant commission, and the discount your get on your own purchases, is 32% of the retail price including GST, or put another way, your wholesale rate is 68% of the retail price. This is the same for all consultants and starts with your very first order after joining.*
An average demo of around $600 would therefore earn you about $192. Not too bad for a night out partying. 🙂
So if you would like to make around $7-800/month, you would be looking at doing an average of one demo a week (or 4 parties on one weekend/month!), or if you would like to do 2 shifts/week, you double your income!
Alternatively, you might like to party all online, in which case you might do a couple of multi-day, multi-host online workshops each month on Facebook, or perhaps you would like to do Messenger Express parties, or WhatsApp parties… the options are endless (and yes, there is training for this!).
When you help other people join Norwex and support them to develop their own business or even just a small customer base, you can also earn an extra commission to pay you for leadership activities, and in time this can actually earn you more than your own demos do. Norwex has extra training and even an extra conference just for leaders, and they LOVE to help you develop leadership skills.
(Personally, watching and helping people in my team grow into leadership positions has been one of my favourite things about this business!)
*Note there is a slightly more complicated way to put this, which is 32% of the net rate (i.e. without GST) and then the consultant’s portion of the GST is added back in to your commission – but this ONLY MATTERS to you, if you are personally registered to collect GST. For most of us, what I said above is all you need to know.
Other Benefits – incentives, trips, free catalogues:
Norwex consultants benefit from being part of a fabulous and growing community, of course, and in fact their are many testimonies from consultants about what an incredible difference Norwex has made in their life.
But are the more tangible benefits too? There certainly are. From free travel (I’ve been on an all expenses paid (by Norwex) holidays to Hawaii and Hamilton Island, not to mention leadership trips to Uluru and the Blue Mountains) – to free Norwex products, to other monthly incentives, there are many different ways Norwex rewards us for sharing the love!
Norwex offers different consultant incentives every month, often designed so that “casual” or non-partying consultants can earn something, part-time parties can earn something, and full-time parties can earn something, including enough catalogues to keep them going until next month (which they now give you in the form of spending sprees, so you only need to get as many catalogues as you need and use the rest for something for yourself!).
Usually, at a minimum, if you do even about 3 or 4 parties/month you will get a spending spree each month, and usually you quality for the first incentive gift when you place $287.50 (RRP) in orders/sales in the first 2 weeks of the month. (Which is $250 Sub Total A.)
Often, there’ll be some incentives based on sales, and others based on demos or another focus as well.
As an example, here are some recent incentives for consultants. (click on the images to see them larger).
- A free bathroom scrubmitt for submitting $250 in Sub A sales
- A free limited edition stainless steel water bottle for submitting qualifying parties
- An extra spending spree for new consultants
- A free tech cleaning cloth for submitting $250 in Sub A sales
- Cumulative choice gifts at different levels of sales
- A free “Try me Share me” pack for qualifying new consultants
There’s often an incentive for new consultants, one for mostly casual consultants (those who either don’t do parties, or don’t do many), and one for more regularly partying consultants – and some people will earn all three!!
Leadership Training and Professional Development
Norwex provides a huge amount of free and subsidised training to it’s consultants, including leadership training and personal and professional development. There is an amazing opportunity to benefit from professional coaching and trainers, which can help you in all aspects of life and career.
In fact, I know consultants who have joined just for the personal and professional development opportunities.
Do you have to pay for Catalogues?
In short, no. Not if you are doing regular demos. You will get some catalogues in your starter kit, and then you can earn spending sprees every month in the consultant rewards, PLUS you can earn two hundred dollars of extra shopping sprees in your first 90 days, AND Norwex offers other shopping spree incentives from time to time.
AND those shopping sprees all add together and last for 12 months, so you just spend them as you need to!
Can you earn extra rewards to help you build you kit?
Why yes, you can!
There are four points in your first 90 days where you can earn extra rewards.
If you submit $500 in what’s called Sub Total A sales (which is basically just retail minus GST) in your first 20 days with Norwex, you will get the Healthy Bathroom set for free, worth over $135!
If you submit $1000 Subtotal A sales in your first 30 days you get the Healthy Kitchen Set for free. When you submit $2000 in Sub Total A sales in the first 60 days, you get the Healthy Laundry set.
AND if you submit $2500 in sales in your first 90 days (about 5-7 average parties worth of sales over 3 months) you will also get a $200 shopping spree! Lots of people, if they are doing parties, get it all in the first month or so. 🙂
Of course, if you self-host parties, you can also get the host gifts on top of these gifts!
Can you host your own party? Do you have to pay for host rewards?
Yes you can host yourself (in fact, you are strongly encouraged to do so!) and NO, you do NOT have to pay for the host rewards, they are all company funded.
So, you can host yourself and earn commission AND host rewards!
Is there training available?
Oh so much!
There is online training, run by Norwex and by our FABULOUS team. There are monthly webinars, and there are also many video and webinar trainings you can access immediately. There are also weekly new consultant webinars run by Norwex.
There is also an online training/resource site for Australian and New Zealand consultants that you can work through at your own pace.
There is also in-person training, depending on your location, sometimes run by the Norwex company trainers and sometimes by Norwex leaders. Local leaders also run new-consultant and party training – chat to me to find out dates.
We are a very cooperative bunch, so leaders tend to work together to support each other, and to support each other’s teams.
There are also LOADs of recorded webinars online that you can tap into at your own pace.
Additionally, I am always just a phone call, text, or FB message away!
Is there a Party/Demo Guide I can follow?
There certainly is. For in-person/in-home parties there are “party cards” included in your new consultant kit, which tell you what to say and how to do demos! So you can pretty much take your kit out of the box, invite some friends over, and read out the script and you are away! You can also download a PDF of this and/or watch a video online.
And, there is similar material for you to pretty much copy/paste for doing an online workshop.
Of course, there are also videos of senior leaders doing parties online, and training videos where they tell you WHY they do or say what they do. And, if you are in Canberra (or nearby) you are welcome to come and watch me do a demo.
You can also jump into an online party run by me or one of the other leaders in our team, to see how they work.
As I said, there is loads of training, both online and in-person. But you can do a party straight out of the box if you want to, easy!
The Safe Haven Five demo only takes about 30-45 minutes from beginning to end, with some extra time afterwards for taking orders – it’s truly so simple!
Can you sell Norwex through Facebook/WhatsApp/messenger/texting Parties?
You certainly can!
And to make it easy, there’s a follow-along guide for how to run an online party on the Norwex Resource site.
Additionally, Norwex has partnered with Zoom, to give Norwex consultants in Australia a 25% discount on all professional meeting plans.
While I do think it is easier to promote Norwex in person – to be able to show people how it works and physically get it into their hands to try – the fact is, we can’t reach everyone that way, for a variety of reasons. And, some people just prefer online shopping.
They used to be in the minority, but since the start of the pandemic, there are now many consultants who successfully run a Norwex business solely through online parties. In the past there have been a few consultants who have earned incentive trips that way (to South Africa in 2017, and a Mediterranean cruise in 2018 and more), but I expect that will be more and more common. And there is at least one senior leader with Norwex Australia who got there without doing a single in-home party!
If you would like to receive a free sample or attend my next on-line party, please get in touch.
How much do Norwex consultants in New Zealand need to sell to stay active? What are the consultant requirements?
To keep your account from CLOSING you need to put $287.50 of retail product sales (ie not samples etc) through your account in a rolling 12 month period. $287.50 retail = $250 Subtotal A = $195.50 consultant’s price.
To keep your account from becoming dormant you need to put that same amount through your account in a rolling 6 month period. ie $287.50 retail = $250 Subtotal A = $195.50 consultant’s price. (If your account goes dormant, you have 6 months to reactivate it and place a $250 Subtotal A order, before it will close.)
To keep your account technically active, you need to do the same thing in a rolling 3 month period. If your account is active AND you have chosen to have the public website, people will be able to find your website to order from when they are looking for a consultant in your general area.
What is a rolling 3/6/12 month period?
This just means that in any given month, you count back from that month.
So for example if you placed a $100 order in March and a $200 order in April, then you will be active in April and May – in May the three month period you are counting is March, April and May. If you don’t ever place another order, then your account will become dormant in September, and close the following March.
What are Sub Total A Sales?
Norwex consultant incentives or reward requirements are always listed in Sub Total A sales. What does that mean? It’s the value of any retail products in your order, after subtracting GST. It does not include samples, catalogues, or anything else that is not available for retail sale.
How do you get paid with Norwex?
If you get paid by cash or bank transfer you get paid immediately, and you simply pay Norwex the wholesale rate when you place the order. If the customer orders on your website, or pays by credit card through the Norwex system, Norwex will pay you by bank transfer, which they do twice a month.
Before they pay you, you can also spend any money sitting in your “account” on other orders, if you want to.
How do you become a Norwex consultant?
Well, the best way is to message me through this form or on messenger and ask me how to become a norwex consultant, LOL. I have covered a LOT of material here, but believe it or not, there’s still more to know! And getting the timing right makes it much more likely that you will earn your kit for free and/or get your start up rewards.
So I really do recommend getting in touch with me for a chat before you join. However, if you are ready now, you can just sign up with Norwex here. (Make sure you click YES to 6 months of free office suite. Seriously! It’s soooo worth while and can get your random online orders on your public website.)
However, I’m not kidding – I really do strongly suggest you get in touch first and we can chat about the best choices for you, whether you should opt in to get your own public Norwex website for free for six months (uh – yes! Random sales are the best!) and what the best timing is (to make sure you get as much free stuff as you can, after joining!). I’d love to know what you would like to do with the opportunity of joining Norwex (even though that can change over time), and how I can best support you.
I’d love you to join my team, so please get in touch, and let’s chat! You can also fill out the contact form here, if you prefer.
