Streamline Your Show Supplies: What to Include in Your Catalogs

What do you all include with your catalogs for guests at your shows? I'm trying to simplify my life and not have to keep replacing so many things...

My guests get:A contact card with my info that they are welcome to take with them
The guest special for the month
Flyer with very basic recruiting info (as I go through the kit, this gives an opening for me
Blank 1/2 sheet of colored paper for notes
Catalog
My survey slip for door prize drawingFor February I'll add a 1/2 sheet with the products that will be discontinued.My guests don't get an order form until it's time for them to go shopping, which is after I'm done talking to them.

raebates said:

My guests get:

A contact card with my info that they are welcome to take with them
The guest special for the month
Flyer with very basic recruiting info (as I go through the kit, this gives an opening for me
Blank 1/2 sheet of colored paper for notes
Catalog
My survey slip for door prize drawing


For February I'll add a 1/2 sheet with the products that will be discontinued.

My guests don't get an order form until it's time for them to go shopping, which is after I'm done talking to them.

Click to expand...

May I ask what is on this flyer? and, yo go through your kit at your show? Can you explain how you do this? Sorry if I sound stupid, maybe after you explain I'll have one of those Doh moments, but humor me, please...

I'd be happy to. The flyer is attached. I got it from someone here. I've left the contact info area blank.


At the start of my shows I go quickly through the items in the guest kit. When I get to the flyer I say, "I know you probably didn't come here this evening looking for a new job. I do know, though, that most people aren't working their dream job. If you or someone you know would be interested in finding out more about starting a PC business, I'd be glad to answer any questions."


During my show I have someone ask me why I love my job. That's when I do my 30-second commercial.

raebates said:

I'd be happy to. The flyer is attached. I got it from someone here. I've left the contact info area blank.


At the start of my shows I go quickly through the items in the guest kit. When I get to the flyer I say, "I know you probably didn't come here this evening looking for a new job. I do know, though, that most people aren't working their dream job. If you or someone you know would be interested in finding out more about starting a PC business, I'd be glad to answer any questions."


During my show I have someone ask me why I love my job. That's when I do my 30-second commercial.

Click to expand...

Thank you... but now could you tell me about your 30-second commercial? Sorry to be a pain!

Thanks Rae!! Thats a GREAT sheet! I have someone who wants to join but if she has questions i can show her this!

ChefPaulaB said:

Thank you... but now could you tell me about your 30-second commercial? Sorry to be a pain!

Click to expand...

You aren't a pain at all. Here's what I do:

I love my job because I get to make it whatever I want it to be. I really became a consultant in order to feed my Pampered Chef habit. After a while I realized that I could actually make some money. I've been doing this for almost 5 years now. I get to set my own goals and my own schedule. I'd love the chance to talk with you about how The Pampered Chef can help you reach your goals and maybe even help make some of your own dreams come true.



Disclaimer: While I have several I-want-to-sign-up-one-day leads, my only recruit never qualified.

my guest packets are a catalog, order form, and the Opportunity Brochure in a manila folder.

I have yellow pocket folders with the 3 prongs in it to attach papers, etc. It has the PC logo sticker on front (originally gotten from nancy's artworks or town & country - no longer pc vendors), a slot for my business card inside. In clear protector sheets I have flyers for a stoneware fact FAQ sheet, the monthly guest special, the host benefits flyer, top 10 reasons to buy a stone,(used to have the flyer with the cookware comparison w/our professional cookware (if anyone has this with the executive, please let me know, I can't seem to find one anywhere). In the front & back pockets, I include a copy of the Season's Best for everyone (nice "thank you for coming" gift, they all seem to appreciate), a catalog & an order form. If it's the end of the selling season, I include a sheet with the discontinued items/price changes as a heads up if they want to "get it now", sometimes I offer those items at a discount, and sometimes a small catalog so they can see what's coming up, to help entice bookings if anyone is on the fence. I think it makes a nice package & everything stays together. After the show, I usually go through & replenish whatever was taken. I tell them they can take anything out of the folder to take home, but the folder & the sheet protectors.

DebbieJ said:

my guest packets are a catalog, order form, and the Opportunity Brochure in a manila folder.

Click to expand...

This is what mine are too....with the addition of my guest care card. (what I use instead of the door prize drawing slip.) I used to do all kinds of stuff - but people didn't read most of it, and I ended up having to replace it all of the time because it had food on it, etc.....

I have plastic folders with all of the regular flyers ect but I just started to puy one of my paychecks in a plactic protector sheet too That way every one can see what I make on each party. I tell them don't look at maybe how many shows I do a month but what I make at each one of them . I have gotten so intrest . they actualy see it

ChefBeckyD said:

This is what mine are too....with the addition of my guest care card. (what I use instead of the door prize drawing slip.) I used to do all kinds of stuff - but people didn't read most of it, and I ended up having to replace it all of the time because it had food on it, etc.....

Click to expand...

I hand out my slips at the end of my demo, otherwise they'd be in there too!