Gourmet Pistachio & Apricot Oatmeal Cookies

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Ingredients:

Instructions:

Put oven racks in upper and lower thirds of oven and preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 2 baking sheets.

Beat together butter and sugars in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until fluffy, then beat in Watkins vanilla. Add egg and beat until combined well. Stir together flour, baking soda, salt, and Watkins cinnamon in a small bowl, then add to dough and mix at low speed until just combined. Fold in oats, apricots, and pistachios.

Spoon rounded tablespoons of dough about 2 inches apart onto baking sheets. Bake cookies, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until golden brown, 16 to 18 minutes. Transfer cookies with a spatula to racks. (Cookies will crisp as they cool.)

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Watkins Products Was the Winner on Super Bowl Sunday

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As a professional Watkins products associate, I’m a constant advocate (and cheerleader) for what we call, Watkinizing Your Home.  With a treasure chest of 350 products for home and personal use, Watkins associates have been Watkinzing American homes for 141 years, since Watkins Incorporated was founded by J.R. Watkins in 1868.

Having been born into a family of avid users of Watkins products, I guess you could say I’ve had a Watkinized-home all my life.  Watkins products have played a role in every major family event of my life, ranging from preparation of Thanksgiving dinners, to Christmas desserts and Super Bowl Sunday snacks.  So it came as no surprise to my friends that our Super Bowl Sunday party showcased a hit parade of Watkins products that our guests marveled over and raved about throughout the afternoon and evening.

My wife and I received numerous compliments about how great our Watkins snack and dip mixes tasted, generous pats on our backs for the spectacular flavor of our barbecued shrimp and burgers that were brushed and glazed with Watkins barbecue sauce and kudos to my 12-year old for 3 batches of Watkins Snickerdoodle Cookies she baked for everyone.  In fact, everyone in the house gushed over the rich and delicious flavor of the Watkins pure ground cinnamon my daughter used to coat her Snickerdoodle cookies.

Needless to say, everyone was impressed by the sheer number of Watkins products used in preparing the dips, snacks, salads, vegetables, meats and desserts.  I had several requests for product samples and catalogs, with others simply saying “Order me some of this” after eating something they liked. 

Other Watkins items that played a role in our Super Bowl Sunday were Watkins vanilla and cranilla candles that delivered their wonderful aromas throughout our house,  a prominently displayed canister of lavender-scented Watkins room freshener in our bathroom that set alongside Watkins hand soaps and lotions, and Watkins hand soaps and dishwashing detergent displayed near the kitchen sink and used when it came time to clean up at the end of the party.

All in all, Super Bowl Sunday ended up being a great day for the Pittsburg Steelers, but it was a fantastic day for Watkins products in the Whitley household.  If you’re looking for a great home-based business opportunity, I highly recommend you take a look at selling Watkins products.  However, I never think of operating a Watkins business as “selling products.” Instead, I think of Watkins more-so as a “product introduction business.”   Why?  Because Watkins products are so great, and their quality is so outstanding, that the mere introduction of Watkins products to others not only leads to product sales, but the capture of life-long users of Watkins products that spread the word of Watkins to others, leading to new clients and future Watkins business owners.

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Watkins Products Sell Themselves

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If you’ve been a reader of this blog for very long you know two things about me.   Namely, (1) I’m a very big fan of Watkins products and, (2) I’m a Watkins Associate and run an independent home-based Watkins business.  So it should come as no surprise to you that I grew up with Watkins and have had Watkins products in my household since I was a small child.  

However, this is not the case with my wife.  We’ve been married 13 years and she had never heard of Watkins before we married.  She largely ignored the Watkins products I had at the time of our marriage, and didn’t pay much attention to me ordering Watkins Liniment and Petro Carbo salve a year or so into our marriage.  But today’s a whole different case, for she’s become a huge fan of Watkins, and no longer teases me about being a “Watkins Evangelist,” as she and my youngest daughter once affectionally called me. 

My wife loves to cook and is now a big fan of the Watkins Black Pepper and Cinnamon.  So how did this conversion come about?  I have to attribute it to the quality of Watkins products.  Take for example these two products, Watkins Black Pepper and Cinnamon. They’re great because they are 100% black pepper and cinnamon, with no inert fillers. Almost every manufacturer of these products includes a high concentration of inert fillers, which I tell people are no more than simple cutting agents. You get enough taste of pepper and cinnamon to not question other brands, but when you try to compare them to Watkins there’s really no comparison.

My wife loves to make French Toast.  One day she ran out of cinnamon and asked if I had any Watkins Cinnamon handy (knowing full-well I had about 200 sample packets and several cans in my Watkins inventory cabinet.).  I said “sure” and fetched her a small cinnamon sample packet.  Later, when we set down at the table to eat, she literally couldn’t believe the difference. Her first words were “Wow! Now that’s cinnamon. It tastes so fresh and powerful.”

I share this story with you because this is the way Watkins “couples” evolve. One spouse starts the business and the other is typically a skeptic or naysayor. But the power and quality of the products eventually comes into play and not only swings the other spouse over the line, but most often the converted spouse becomes the more powerful salesperson of the two.

They say opposites attract, and that is certainly the case with my wife and I. She is the last person in the world that would ever want to get into sales. But she likes Watkins products so much that she just naturally speaks about them often to her relatives in glowing terms without any thought or intention of “sellling” them.  In fact, she’s even given away Lemon Shea Butter Cream samples to several relatives because she wanted them to experience first-hand what a great product it is how wonderful it smells.  In doing so, she unconsciously pulled down any defenses they may have had.  In many ways she is the better sales person for marketing to people we know, because she’s not even aware that she’s selling.  For, in her mind, the sale was never the intended outcome, she was simply just “telling them about a great product.”

One objection that people often have is, “But I’m not a sales person. I don’t know a thing about selling.” I ask them, “How many times in your life have you recommended a product to someone. I’ve bet you done it in your grocery store aisles at least once or twice in the past 2 or 3 years. Have you ever asked anyone if they’re tried a product you really like? Sure you have. Now what if I told you that’s all you have to do with Watkins. Just use the products and recommend the ones you like best. If they work for you they’ll work for others.”

It’s just that simple. Watkins is not a high-pressure sales business.  In fact, we don’t even think of Watkins as a sales business, although the company is a direct sales company.  Instead, we think of Watkins as a “product introduction business” or a ”product recommendation business.” 

I know how cheesey this might sound to you if you’ve never used Watkins products, and I can understand these comments coming across that way.  For Watkins is one of those experiences you can’t relate to until you’ve tried it.  Since Watkins offers a money back guarantee on all 350 products it manufactures, every product you purchase and try can be thought of as a zero-risk trial.

To prove my point at no risk to you whatsoever, send me your name and mailing address using the handy contact form below.  I’ll send you a free Watkins products catalog and some free Watkins products samples for you to try for yourself.  You have nothing to lose, and I don’t either.  For I know if you’ll give Watkins a try, you’ll be like my wife and telling others just how great Watkins products really are.

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Watkins Products – Old Timey Christmas Favorites

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Are you thinking about buying a friend or relative Watkins products for Christmas?  Old-line traditional Watkins products like double-strength vanilla, cinnamon, black pepper, liniment and Petro-Carbo salve are racking up big numbers this holiday season.  But Watkins new line of “green cleaning” products and wonderful lines of body lotions and creams are selling off the shelves also. 

For those that might wish to put together a “Watkins gift basket,” I’m happy to inform you that Watkins already sales several “bundled products” that are sure to make your holiday gift list.  In fact, this month only we’re running a promotion for Watkins “On the Go” Kit for only $10.99.  And, for only $19.99 you can buy that special someone in your life the J.R. Watkins “Head to Toe” Kit, which contains 8 great products from Watkins Traditional Apothecary line.

Feel free to browse my Watkins eStore and order Watkins online now.  Watkins products make great holiday gifts. 

I’m also running a new promotion and starting out early for 2009.  I call it my “Watkins Frequent Shopper Program.”   Any customer of mine that orders $500 or more in a single year will get a free $50 Watkins gift certificate once they cross over the $500 mark in product purchases (sales tax and shipping charges are not included).  I’m launching my 2009 campaign early by giving you 2009 purchase credits for anything you purchase in December 2008.   Thus, any orders you place now for Watkins product will be added to your 2009 purchases.  This way, if you reach your $500 in total purchased prior to December of next year, you’ll get a $50 gift certificate you can use for your Christmas purchases in 2009.

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