Can Luck Really Change Your Business?

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Discussion Overview

This thread centers around a participant's experiences at a local festival, highlighting successes in booking shows, attracting potential recruits, and generating orders. Other participants express excitement and share their own positive sentiments about event participation.

Discussion Character

  • Anecdotal
  • Opinion-based

Main Points Raised

  • One participant, identifying as a consultant, shares their experience of working a local festival and successfully booking shows and generating orders.
  • Several participants express excitement and congratulations for the consultant's successes at the festival.
  • Another participant mentions their own positive experience with leads generated from a previous booth event.
  • One participant notes the cultural dynamics at the festival, mentioning varying levels of interest in the booth.
  • Another participant discusses their own recent show and the challenges faced with road construction while traveling to the event.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

General agreement exists among participants regarding the excitement and potential of events like festivals for generating business leads and bookings.

Contextual Notes

Participants share personal experiences from various events, reflecting on the challenges and successes encountered in their business activities.

Who May Find This Useful

Consultants looking for inspiration from peers' experiences at events and those interested in exploring booth opportunities in their own areas.

That's great, Ann! Congrats on having so much success!!!
 
Awesome news Ann!!! I hope all of these pan out for you!!!!!!!
 
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This morning, I called one of the other women working the booth, since I wasn't going to be there today (I had a show... more on that below). I told her to talk to whoever was in the timeshare booth today, since I had 2 super-hot recruit leads from that table. She did - and will probably be signing her! So between the 2 of us, we're recruiting 3 people from that organization. :)My show today was a booking from a June 1 show. And it was clear across town from me. I allowed plenty of time to get there, but decided to take a different route than my usual because there would probably be construction on the cross-town freeway. I hit 3 separate construction zones in my alternate route! Instead of getting to the house 45 minutes before the show, I got there at the show time. Luckily, I had done most of the prep at home. 20 minutes later we started. The ladies loved the interactive format, and had a good time. Sales are at $750 (the host is so excited that she has almost $300 FPV to use!), and there are still a few folks who need to order. Plus, 2 live bookings and a catalog show!
 
Ann you are too hot to touch right now! Congratulations, I'm so excited for you :)
 
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I'm excited, too! And since we're doing a large group cluster meeting in August (to cover conference announcements), there'll be 2 of the 3 recruits there. Nothing like new, excited recruits to liven up a meeting. :)I left a message for my Director on Saturday morning, but I really should call her again.
 
Hey, directorship may come for you by the end of the year! Way to go!
 
WOW!!! I just read through all of this thread and I am so excited for you! I believe once YOU make up your mind to go for it, YOU will achieve it. Keep it up girl and by the way, NEVER think that you can avoid road construction by an alternate route in MI. I always wonder how they manage to have enough orange barrels to use there :rolleyes:. Can't wait to read the next update.
 
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Orange barrels are the unofficial state animal. Actually, DH has a theory that they're actually an alien life form that does the actual work, since you almost NEVER see a human working on a highway construction project. The barrels line up, and do the work at night, when nobody's around to see.
 
chefann said:
Orange barrels are the unofficial state animal.

Actually, DH has a theory that they're actually an alien life form that does the actual work, since you almost NEVER see a human working on a highway construction project. The barrels line up, and do the work at night, when nobody's around to see.
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Too funny and so true! I have never been to another state that has so many out at one time. Your DH might be on to something ;)
 
Way to go Ann! :)
God bless,
Amanda
 
WAY TO GO!

I had shifts at my county fair this weekend ... last night and tonight. This is the first time my cluster has participated in this and it's pretty much at my urging (they are all from 30 minutes south of me and are always sending me stuff about events an hour away or more.)

I got about a dozen responses between the two days ... I think about 3 checked that they are interested in hosting ... including one GUY who said he needs good cutlery and good cookware ... recruiter suggested having him book in August and have somebody book off him for Sept. so he can get BOTH!

Another wanted to start her catalog show right away ... so she got a packet ... and another USED to order PC all the time ... still a few others grudgingly gave their info in exchange for a catalog.

No CURRENT recruit leads ... but of course, i will bring it up when I follow up. This is going to be fun!

(And then I come home to find an e-mail from somebody wanting off my mailing list ... who wouldn't even give me her name! I had to do a "finder" search to figure out who she was. Somebody I used to sing in chorus with. Kind of disheartening on a slow day ...)
 
YEA ANN!

I'm so happy for you - Congratulations on a great Booth!
 
That is so awesome Ann. Keep us posted on your recruits!
 
Glad to hear about your exciting news, Ann. I don't believe it was luck, though....:)
 

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Can luck really change my direct sales business?

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