Interactive Demo - I'm Doing It!!!

[pamela]

Woo-hoo Meg! Four more shows this week...you are rockin!

I am SOOOOO excited, too! My show for Sunday has at least 13 coming and Thursday has at least 10! The host for Saturday has seemed to have been abducted m(), but my plan is to get her on the phone today no matter what! Friday's host is an older lady that is just too much fun! I seriously would love to get her on my team~she got an outside order and called me "just because I am so excited"! How cute is that?! She may have as few as 3 guests or as many as 20....no one is RSVPing and she has circumstances that won't allow for her to make too many reminder calls. I am just going with it as I think she is going to be fun to be around regardless!

My goal is to get the 6000 bonus points, and I can do it if these shows are as promised!

 

[pamela]

I am SOOOOO excited, too! My show for Sunday has at least 13 coming and Thursday has at least 10! The host for Saturday has seemed to have been abducted m(), but my plan is to get her on the phone today no matter what! Friday's host is an older lady that is just too much fun! I seriously would love to get her on my team~she got an outside order and called me "just because I am so excited"! How cute is that?! She may have as few as 3 guests or as many as 20....no one is RSVPing and she has circumstances that won't allow for her to make too many reminder calls. I am just going with it as I think she is going to be fun to be around regardless!

My goal is to get the 6000 bonus points, and I can do it if these shows are as promised!

DEAR LORD!!! We are at 21 for today's show!!!!!!!!!! I am in the midst of throwing the interactive idea out the window! I know it will be WAY to stressful for me if I try to corral 21 people into making the soup with me, so I plan to have everyone introduce themselves by telling their favorite product and then anyone after them can't say the ones that have been mentioned before! I will be doing the soup recipe while they are intro-ing and maybe, just maybe, it won't be a huge crowd control problem!

ANY IDEAS!!!!?????

 

[ChefLisa]

DEAR LORD!!! We are at 21 for today's show!!!!!!!!!! I am in the midst of throwing the interactive idea out the window! I know it will be WAY to stressful for me if I try to corral 21 people into making the soup with me, so I plan to have everyone introduce themselves by telling their favorite product and then anyone after them can't say the ones that have been mentioned before! I will be doing the soup recipe while they are intro-ing and maybe, just maybe, it won't be a huge crowd control problem!

ANY IDEAS!!!!?????

My show on Friday morning had 23 guests in attendance. I ended up asking for a couple of volunteers instead of having everyone help. It worked out great and my two volunteers had a lot of fun. One of them booked a show. While they were chopping or mixing, I got to keep on talking.

Lisa

 

[pamperedbecky]

My show today had 20 people ($2000 in sales so far....YIKES!!!:bugeye and I completly scrapped the interactive idea. Oh well. I did have a good number of people come up and play with my stuff after the demo, but I think this interactive thing will truly only work when it's a group of around 10 or less. Otherwise you totally lose people. Who knows, maybe it'll get easier, but I'm WAY happier having these big shows than trying to perfect the interactive show.

 

[chefkathy]

My show today had 13 guests and I did it semi interactive. We did the new Strawberry Cream Trifle from the S/S Season's Best (which is SOOOO good BTW).The set up of the house really didn't allow a totally interactive show so I just called people up who were willing to help and it worked out great. Out of 13 guests, I think 4 of them ended up helping and the show is just shy of $1000 with 3 bookings and 1 recruit lead.

 

[bethsbiz]

I've done 4 interactive shows so far and 2 were text-book good, just like the DVD (segment 2). Then show #3 everyone was LATE and either elderly or pregnant. Only the hubbies who stayed would work with the tools and the kitchen set up was horrid for interactive. This one showed me that I have to be very flexible to the interactive idea.

Show # 4 I just got home from. This show had only 4 adult guests...and 4 8-10 year olds who were the only ones who volunteered. I stopped asking for someone to come up and started calling up the adults. Still, the little tykes kept coming, like energizer bunnies. The host kitchen/dining room was a nightmare...both small and not way to move to the living room...where her hubby and other folks were all watching tv.

Long story short? I agree that host coaching can help a lot to make the interactive go smoother. I also like the idea of NOT having chairs in the demo area....my first 2 shows the demo area was separate from the area I set up with a product table and catalogs and those were much smoother.

What I do really, really, really like about the interactive shows, when they are working, is that they really do involve the guests and keep the show shorter. My max guest number so far is 12 and that was my best interactive. I think that less than 4 adults is stretching it a bit and more than 15 would be a pain...so coming up with flexible options is a good idea.

I know that I am loving doing the food preparation at the beginning...even if I am not able to do an interactive show in the future, for whatever reason, I think I'll still keep this format: 1) food prep; 2) catalog/guest pack review; 3) other product review (and discussion of collections, hosting, etc.) 4) door prize; 5) order taking with 3 piles.

Hey, if anyone has any ideas on how to diplomatically deal with kids who take over an interactive show, please let me know. The moms in this crowd were happy to let the kids do the work but it was much harder for me to press on because I had to make much more sure the kids were safely using tools.