Unlocking Success: Insider Tips and Secrets for Motivation

[Kathytnt]

I want to know what tips and secrets have been the most successful or motivating to you.

Kat

 

[jwpamp]

Make goals...plan on how to get to them...take Tele-Classes, listen to the PC CDs, go to the meetings and access all the information you can from the company!

Basics.

I have just read "Back to the basics is 1 recipe, 1 crate, 1 hour shows". Wow, can't believe it was that easy...I should have figured it out myself!

I think that we make this business harder than it is. It's not supposed to be hard, just fun!

 

[quiverfull7]

I have trouble with the "one crate" thing! I always take too much.
How do I decide what I need to bring and what I don't?

 

[klsnyder]

I would like to know how to do the 1 hour thing.

 

[sillylittlechef]

1 hour show! That would be wonderful! How is it possible? Janice where did you read this? Did it tell you HOW to do it?

 

[jenniferlynne]

I always do my shows in one hour. I know I personally can't stand to go to a party that lasts forever so I don't expect anyone else to either. I demo one recipe and then have a second one that is almost done. When I get to the host's house, I prep almost all the ingredients. I save a small piece of each ingredient to demo. They don't need to see a whole block of cheese grated to know that our cheese grater works. Then I pop that one in the oven and finish up recipe 2. Then we play a game and fill out survey slips and then it is usually time to eat and place orders. Just make sure you talk about every single product that you put your hands on. Talk about it while you are using it to save time. Don't hold it up, talk about it, and then use it. That wastes time. I hosted a Wildtree Herb party several months ago. The girl stood and talked for two hours straight!!! Everyone was about to die when it was over. I had two people tell me they wouldn't mind having their own show, but they didn't want to go through that torture again.

Also, the phone can be scary, but you have to use it to get bookings from those "maybe" people. Once you get used to it the fear goes away.

Good Luck!!

 

[jwpamp]

Way to go, Jen!

By the way, so glad we got to meet!

 

[dannyzmom]

I want to know what tips and secrets have been the most successful or motivating to you.

Kat

PICK....
....UP......
.....THAT....
......PHONE!!

That was and continues to be my struggle - the more I pick that dreaded thing up, the more successful I become.

 

[nikkijo]

and ASK EVERYONE if they want to have a show. even if you are not at a show. If you run into someone and pc comes up (it should if they are not aware you sell it) ask them to have a party.

I also do the pampered pool...where the host takes a sheet of paper around with squares and sell each square for $2, the amount collected the winner gets to use in free product (can not replace their order if one was already placed)

 

[Jilleysue]

The hard part about picking up the phone is when you first start....no contacts yet. I am try to just strike up the conversation, and honestly I am doing well at that. But I know the phone will be a pain when I fill the contacts up.

 

[pcleah]

and ASK EVERYONE if they want to have a show. even if you are not at a show. If you run into someone and pc comes up (it should if they are not aware you sell it) ask them to have a party.

I also do the pampered pool...where the host takes a sheet of paper around with squares and sell each square for $2, the amount collected the winner gets to use in free product (can not replace their order if one was already placed)

How does this work? do you do it in the begining of your demo? After? It sounds like a new fun idea, but not sure how and where to fit it in. Any info would be helpful. Thanks!!

 

[PamperedChefDebi]

and ASK EVERYONE if they want to have a show. even if you are not at a show. If you run into someone and pc comes up (it should if they are not aware you sell it) ask them to have a party.

I also do the pampered pool...where the host takes a sheet of paper around with squares and sell each square for $2, the amount collected the winner gets to use in free product (can not replace their order if one was already placed)

I've been offering the pool with all my shows for a few months now and NO ONE has taken me up on it! I don't get it? Free products! More sales! I always include it in my hostess packets and I explain it to them also.

 

[mandydollie]

I, too, would like to know where you get the reading material about 1 recipe, 1 crate 1 hour shows.

 

[ChefAggi]

The hard part about picking up the phone is when you first start....no contacts yet. I am try to just strike up the conversation, and honestly I am doing well at that. But I know the phone will be a pain when I fill the contacts up.

Jilleysue
I found the same thing when I first started as I didn't have that many contacts to do a show for me. I had my best friend who did my first show and I managed to get another show from a friend of mine who is a Partylite Consultant. We did a show for each other. I managed to get one booking from hers, and well the rest is history as it started from there. I found I had a very very difficult time calling people up and got alot of "No's". It got very discouraging. I was starting to worry that I would go inactive, so I did a catalog show under my Mum's name. I started making my list of EVERY SINGLE PERSON I could think of that I knew or worked with, or any other place. I managed to get a few shows that way and from there I got more bookings.
So yes it took me sometime to get my business going. I had no shows for this month, but I have 3 booked for February with a potential 4th. I think I have 1 very interested March booking too. Things are improving now I am happy to say and I am very happy I stayed with the business and didnt' give up. It is so very easy to want to give up. But if you dig your heels in and really keep an optimistic mind, things will go in your favour!!!
As for phone calls, I don't mind them as much as I first did. I"m still not big on them, but hey business isn't gonna always come knocking down my door. I have to pound the pavement, hit the phones and find hosts!!

Cheers

 

[ChefAggi]

I've been offering the pool with all my shows for a few months now and NO ONE has taken me up on it! I don't get it? Free products! More sales! I always include it in my hostess packets and I explain it to them also.

I haven't done the pampered pool myself, but what I found to be a great success is this. I purchase myself a couple pieces of stones $21-30. I then SHOW my the people at the show the stone that I am putting up on tickets. What they can do with it and the great advantages to having THAT particular stone. I then tell them, I only have X number of tickets and that each ticket is $1 a piece. I can keep up with the tickets!! Women are buying from 1-6 tickets EACH!!! I sell enough tickets to pay back the original cost of the stone that came out of my pocket. It is a great success and I plan to do it for my Feb. shows.

Cheers

 

[Jilleysue]

Jilleysue
I found the same thing when I first started as I didn't have that many contacts to do a show for me. I had my best friend who did my first show and I managed to get another show from a friend of mine who is a Partylite Consultant. We did a show for each other. I managed to get one booking from hers, and well the rest is history as it started from there. I found I had a very very difficult time calling people up and got alot of "No's". It got very discouraging. I was starting to worry that I would go inactive, so I did a catalog show under my Mum's name. I started making my list of EVERY SINGLE PERSON I could think of that I knew or worked with, or any other place. I managed to get a few shows that way and from there I got more bookings.
So yes it took me sometime to get my business going. I had no shows for this month, but I have 3 booked for February with a potential 4th. I think I have 1 very interested March booking too. Things are improving now I am happy to say and I am very happy I stayed with the business and didnt' give up. It is so very easy to want to give up. But if you dig your heels in and really keep an optimistic mind, things will go in your favour!!!
As for phone calls, I don't mind them as much as I first did. I"m still not big on them, but hey business isn't gonna always come knocking down my door. I have to pound the pavement, hit the phones and find hosts!!

Cheers

Thank you...that really helped. I thinking I can get quite a few bookings from my February shows that I have lined up..and I have put so much into this that I definitely want to keep going. I just feel so slow and still nervous. I can't wait till I am comfortable and it is second nature.

 

[c00p]

I've never done the "pool" thing, but it sounds like an interesting concept. As for my shows, they typically are 45 minutes long, start-to-finish. I'm of the same mind-set as most others, I wouldn't want to go to a show that goes on for EVER, so I don't want folks at mine to feel that way either.

 

[ChefinHarmony]

Kat,
I try to set a goal to earn the Minimum of EVERY Consultant Promotion out there - last year the only ones I failed at were any involving recruiting. I mean like when they offer "cookware bags" - I'll set my mind/shows to hit that. Or if they offer a Free product - I make sure I have the shows booked and closed in the time frame they offer the incentive. I think their incentives are fair and can be achieved. Last year was my first full year - I just aimed at hitting all the Free stuff. Now that I did that, this year I want to step it up a notch! Aim for Level 2 of the Trip (since I hit Level 1 last year), Aim for the Bags AND 1/2Price Conference Reg, Aim for Recruits! Setting the goals given to us are easy because I don't have to think about them! Hee-hee.
Joanne