My girlfriend asked me in church yesterday if she could have some catalogs b'c people at work are literally swarming her demanding that she have a party so they can buy stuff. She came over last night at like 10pm just to get them b'c she said if she didn't have them, there'd be a lot of angry people at work today. LOL Anyway, so she tells me she's gonna need a lot of catalogs, so I set aside 10 to give her. I also put in a fundraiser flyer, an express lunch show flyer, a stack of business cards, 10 order forms (she said she'll make more), and a sheet I have where for every $25 spent, a customer puts their name/number into a box (there are 50 boxes) and once the page is full, I pull a name for a $50 gift certificate. [If all boxes are full, it adds up to 1250 in sales, giving me over $250 in commission, so I think I can spare $50, of which I'll get $10 commission on. ] She came, looked over everything and said, um can I get more catalogs?? She is taking a show pack to her current workplace, and one to her old workplace (same company, two different offices and she works through both, but is stationed at one) and so I gave her another 10 catalogs & more biz cards. Then she starts talking about how her old office has tons of people just spewing with money and I casually mentioned that I have flyers with pre-assembled gift selections on them.. Like gift baskets almost. She freaked out and desperately wanted the flyers, but I dont have a printer, so I couldn't give them to her last night. And she said we can make an afternoon of it and put the gift selections together with cellophane bags, etc.. I gotta drop the flyers off today or tomorrow to her house, and I made up a Pampered Pool flyer for her to use if she wants. I'm offering a free Season's best cookbook for every order $100 or more. And I emphasized the guest special with her. She was just so happy to get the catalogs from me b'c she's been attacked by people at work who insist they need to order their things NOW!
I'm not placing any expectations on this, as I will be pleasantly surprised by whatever the outcome, but I think she'll do very well. This is like the 4th show she's had with me, so she knows how I do things. And she's closing the first weekend of November, so we'll have some Christmas money (woot!) and everyone will get their products before Thanksgiving.
The only thing I have a question about is bookings. I would like to try to cement some bookings before I make customer care calls, as her customers are notorious for not giving me full contact information. Is there any way that I can achieve this? With it being a catalog show I don't know if a "book to look" sort of thing would work.. What should I do?
Thanks I'll keep y'all posted on how the show turns out!
I'm not placing any expectations on this, as I will be pleasantly surprised by whatever the outcome, but I think she'll do very well. This is like the 4th show she's had with me, so she knows how I do things. And she's closing the first weekend of November, so we'll have some Christmas money (woot!) and everyone will get their products before Thanksgiving.
The only thing I have a question about is bookings. I would like to try to cement some bookings before I make customer care calls, as her customers are notorious for not giving me full contact information. Is there any way that I can achieve this? With it being a catalog show I don't know if a "book to look" sort of thing would work.. What should I do?
Thanks I'll keep y'all posted on how the show turns out!