Working Towards Disney, Need Help!

[finley1991]

Ok, so I did that show today and walked away with 1 MORE booking for December so add the 7th to my list. Wow... I've got some work to do! The others booked for January!!!

Darcy, you inspired me! I doubt I will earn disney level 2 Even if I get the sales, I still need to qualify 1 and don't have any potentials. I did a show last night and walked away with 3 DATED shows (2 in the next 2 weeks and 1 for January) and 2 solid recruit leads. I will be talking to them tomorrow. I felt really good about myself and my biz when I came home. And I have another show tomorrow night!

This board is soooooo supportive and I love it here! Thanks Ladies!!!!

 

[OhmyDLM]

GREAT JOB COLLEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm wishing you the very best there is and truely hopping a potential sneaks in there for you before the years end! How about offerring something big as an incentive???

I do have to admit, I've been offerring extra free product to those who are willing to book with me within two weeks and be added to my December calendar. That's what's gotten me those 10+ shows in the past couple of days all for two weeks or less away! It's a gamble, but I'm so close to Disney I thought I'd give it a try.

Now I'm starting to worry about my team. I've spent so much time setting up my own calendar and working my own business, that they havn't heard much from me. Remember, I still need the new 5 to qualify by December's end for the points! Gosh... my long shot is looking shorter and shorter, but it's still LONG!

 

[finley1991]

Thanks Darcy!

I offered an incentive last night and it worked. I'm going to do it for my next 5 shows to see what happens. I'm still 16k away from Level 2... even if my one qualifies and drops me to 14,632, it's still a HUGE stretch!

I have more calls to make tomorrow and I think I will make 2 tonight before I have dinner to see... can't hurt, right?

At least, if nothing else, I'm motivated!!!!!

PS: The part about ignoring your team... since I dropped to TL, I've laid off on my contact with my team. Funny thing... I had my 2nd best month EVER last month, this month will now become my 2nd best month ever (beating last month) and the good news is the my team has survived without me and have even had an awesome month on their own so far ($3k+ sales not including my $4k). They don't seem to be any more worse off without my constant contact. Hmmmmm.....

UPDATE: Just made 2 calls... got a booking for January and left a voicemail.

 

[cheftiffany]

You guys are amazing!! Right now we all seem to be booming--where was this 4 or 5 months ago? I know it's the holiday season.

Anyway just had to share out of the blue one of my VERY part time girls gets a recruit and that makes 2 SC for me so if those 4 turn something in by the end of the month I'll have my Directorship back. And 2 of the 4 have already turned $150 in!! Talked to the the 3rd one today and she is hoping to get a catalog show in. Now I just need to talk to the new girl. Hopefully I can get some catalogs to her and get her to collect orders during Thanksgiving. As a team we already have $5100 in and I have Over $2200 to still turn in so this will probably be our biggest month ever!! Maybe some of this is really going to work out--When I became a Team Leader I wasn't sure I was ever going to get Directorship back because my girls are so part time that sometimes it seems like they don't try!

Congrats to everyone!! Now I need to book 3 more shows for December--gotta get on the phone tomorrow. 3 more will make 11 for me!!

 

[Chef Kearns]

Darcy and Colleen you are inspiring me!! I think I need 3 more Dec booking to feel comfortable in earning Disney. I had kinda given up on it because we are just 3 days from Thanksgiving! LOL!! Now, I'm getting on that phone!! I've got a party tomorrow night and I hope to get at least 1 Dec booking from there. We can DO this Darcy!!! And Colleen!!

 

[pamperedbecky]

You all are inspiring me too!! I've wondered the same thing....where was all this "mojo" a few months ago! I could've used it then! I decided a couple months ago not to stress about Disney and to really focus on maintaining my directorship, earning a good SAT level and getting set up to take off with a bang in the new year.

However, this mojo is rubbing off on me too!! My host from Saturday is a solid recruit lead who wants to sign it sounds like (once she talks to some friends....) and at my show today I booked (with dates!) two shows, one of which may be a mega show or at least a co-hosted show with a HUGE guest list.

I'm SO impressed with everyone's motivation and your perseverance to NOT give up!! It makes me think maybe I shouldn't have thrown in the towel!!!

 

[OhmyDLM]

Oh gosh guys, I can tell you where my "mojo" was a few months ago, IT WAS NON-EXISTENT!

I haven't even told you guys the worst of it, the crazy boo boo's I made while I was dilusional from being so sick from severe morning sickness. To make a long story somewhat short, I LOST over $115,000+ in career sales for being inactive for the very first time in my almost 6 year career! I thought I had it covered and I didn't, sent in the wrong waiver request, and fell asleep by accident and missed the midnight deadline with some orders I had by 1 HOUR!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, I'm an idiot and there's nothing that can be done.

Needless to say, it was either give in and give up or face the fact that I made a major bone head move and commit to work through it. I'm choosing to move on from it now that I'm feeling better in my 2nd trimester and I currently have less than $1000 in career sales and NO RAISE! Ahhhh, let's see how fast I can get it back!

I call that little story a "DON'T DO WHAT DARCY DID" moment of my life!!!

 

[Chef Kearns]

Darcy, I've got a couple of those stories myself. I missed coming out of re-promotion by forgetting to have 5 qualified consultants on my team back in March. March 30 was my end date. I thought I had it girl!! I was doing the happy dance and was so excited to be starting the new program as a Director. It wasn't until registration for NC came up later in April that I finally realized that I wasn't a Director!! I went to register for NC and was excited to take Directore classes, but none came up. Girl, I had 7 active consultants in March, but only 4 were qualified!! I was so pissed and depressed. Then I had another "Darcy" moment (not really, I'm a bone-head all on my own. lol) a few months ago. I almost quit!! So I had some really bad, horrible months. That's why I'm scrambling now. I hate it!! However, I am not quitting!! I know I can do this and so can you!~

A couple of months ago I don't think I would've caught this fever. I would've just said, "whatever" if I read through this months ago. My mind wasn't right to receive it. Unfortunately it is now at the critical moment!! That's okay!! We have time!!

 

[baychef]

LOVE :love0010: this thread!!! YOU GO LADIES!!!

And Darcy, I know that I am speaking for both Caroline and myself...but for ONCE...our nagging helped!!! But it helped only because you listened...something our children, husbands or significant others don't do...if only they listened to our nagging more often!!!

 

[cincychef]

How is everyone doing? I rejoined after my year expired just to read this thread.
Darcy, I understand the sheer exhaustion, I hope you are doing ok this week. I have 4 kids 6,4, 3 and 3months who is still nursing. This week my show schedule is 30th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, (the 7th cancelled 9th, 10th,11th, and 12th. Team meeting on the 14th. Of course my kids were throwing up the first half of the week too. That being said it is still easier than being pregnant and doing shows!So right now I need 10,000 points for level 3. I had a show Monday that will close over $500, Tuesdays show will be $400-$500, Wednesday was $300 so far. Tonights show will be $1000 if one customer orders the knife block set at full price. I have 6 more cooking shows scheduled before the 12th. One show an the go at a school. And 6 catalog shows left to close. I offered the catalog shows an incentive to reach $300. I am pushing my online sales to everyone I can think of and trying to get a $1000 mystery host show started. I am offering a Free DCB to anyone who books and holds a $500 show before the end of the year too.I need one more recruit to qualify. I have two who never did but neither are very motivated to get there.
I had two who told me they wanted to sign, but now I can't reach them.
I THINK tonight I met a girl who might sign this weekend and she is motivated to qualify!!!
Wish me luck and thanks for letting me talk, everyone around here is sick of listening.I would love to hear if there is anything else you guys are doing to get to Disney.Good luck to everyone else!!!

 

[Chef Kearns]

As of right now I am 4747 away from Level 2! My goal to get there is to give a recruit an incentive to qualify this month. She signed on Monday and has 2 parties booked for this month. I wasn't going to bother her or ask her to stretch so that I hit MY goal, but I've changed my mind. I"ve decided that in this case it is okay to be selfish. LOL! So, if she qualifies this month that leaves me needed to sell $2727 this month. I have 4 parties (I know, very low) and I am running a 10 host show!! Some of my friends are putting orders in. For everyone who orders I've giving them a FREE gift. Once their sales hit $100 (as an individual) they are in the running for the host benefits. I'm hoping to have 15 participants!! So, between my 4 parties and the 10 show hosts my sales should get there. It is going to come down to a new recruit qualifying!! I hate that!!

 

[OhmyDLM]

Oh my gosh guys, you're all doing so well! I'm so excited and so proud of all of you!!!

Ok, so warning, this is going to be long, but I've got to talk it out and I need some encouragement or suggestions to keep me going. Thanks for listening if you can, as I sincerely appreciate the support...

So I've hit a bit of a bump in the road partly due to some crappy seasonal weather, but I've also had some unexpected things happen that may possibly INCREASE my chances of earning Disney! They are all what if scenarios, but they ARE possibilities!!!

Here's the thing. I live in Maine and we are creeping into our winter weather season. Well I booked a December FULL of cooking shows because I'm about 6000 points away from Disney. Today was the date of my Mega Show that I rented a hall for and everything, invested a lil bit more than I should have, but I got carried away with the excitement of it all. Well of course, that Maine winter weather came and totally bit me in the butt with our first snow storm of the season, which in turn has hit my wallet pretty hard too. As a result, my big Mega show that I was banking on getting me lots of sales points from (I need about 6000 points this month to make it happen), was more of a bust... three hosts canceled due to weather, 3 showed up, but most of their guests did not. I was so frustrated, but on with the show we went, someone there is listening right! Sales were low, however, I got two very pleasant surprises instead! Two of my hosts told me they are interested in signing this month on my team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So this is what my host's and I discussed together... We are planning on turning both of today's shows in as their very own first shows! I mean, they were there, they did the work with me, it would be fair/ethical. I know I'll be loosing out on the income, but what I will be getting is the opportunity to have another 4000 points and new team members to build my team with.

What I am terrified about right now is our weather forcast. I have a show Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday and I hear we may possibly be getting 2 feet of snow in between Wednesday/Thursday, smack dab in the middle of my show schedule. I sware, I'll have a heart attack if it does, I don't know what I'll do Let's just hope the weather God's treat me well and hold off the storms until Sunday at the earliest!

Soooooooo, here's my rundown/plan as of tonight in my "what-if" situation I have going on in my mind... just talking it all out to keep me accountable as I know you'll all help cheer me on and keep me motivated!!!

Right now I currently have 41,000 points

I have 3 news consultants who have plans in place to qualify by the end of December which would give me another 6000 points. Bringing my total to 47,000 points. (5000 away from Level 2 still)

I just signed another consultant tonight which I don't have any hope for in qualifying by December so no points for this incentive trip, but there's always next year's incentive right!

I have the two hosts from today's Mega Show who will sign and submit their shows as their own, one is large enough to qualify and the other will need to do some work to finish the $1250 by the end of December. But let's be optimistic and say that they do, that's another 4000 points (leaving me with only 1000 points to go!) And again, I have those 4 shows this week, weather god's permitting, so I think that I can do that!

Oh my gosh, is this still possible? Could my family be going to Disney after all? Wow, this whole process is so full of ups and downs and certanties and uncertanties, I'm about as stressed out as I could possibly be right now as it's all I can focus on. I seriously can barely squeek out a word right now, I've lost so much sleep, and as a result, have lost my voice in return! I've gotta earn this Disney trip, but this busy Mamma's gotta keep her health somehow too! I can just see me at my show Tuesday night trying to sign my demo cause I can't speak! LoL

I can do this right??? Anyone else still fighting along like I am?

 

[pamperedbecky]

Darcy,
YOU CAN TOTALLY DO IT! Your plan makes a lot of sense and I think it's possibly. Just try to manage your time well because I'm sure with all those shows (assuming they all hold and the weather cooperates) and trying to get those last consultants qualified, it may be hard to juggle! But it's completely possible and you WILL do it!

Sorry your mega show didn't work out. Or at least work out as well as you hoped, but you did get some GREAT potential out of it!!!

Keep us posted!

 

[cincychef]

"Oh my gosh, is this still possible? Could my family be going to Disney after all? Wow, this whole process is so full of ups and downs and certanties and uncertanties, I'm about as stressed out as I could possibly be right now as it's all I can focus on. I seriously can barely squeek out a word right now, I've lost so much sleep, and as a result, have lost my voice in return! I've gotta earn this Disney trip, but this busy Mamma's gotta keep her health somehow too! I can just see me at my show Tuesday night trying to sign my demo cause I can't speak! LoL

I can do this right??? Anyone else still fighting along like I am?"


I am right there with you!!! You have put the way I feel into words perfectly. I had a show for today cancel and I had one for tomorrow that turned into a catalog show. I need a total of 10,000 points to get there, (we really need the bigger travel allowance to be able to go as we will have to buy in two kids and hope they let us all stay in one room since they are little)
Right now I have about $2500 to turn in and 4 cooking shows this week on Wed, Thurs, Fri and Sat. I also have 5 catalog shows going on. I have had 5 people who were going to sign at the end of Nov or now and yet to sign one!
It is looking like the only way I can go is to qualify 2 people. I have one on my team who has yet to qualify, but right now her career sales are $200 and she has another $200 show going in. I am going to give her mom a call and ask her to do a catalog show for her(her mom was my original contact) Then I am going to offer to basically give her a show if she will come do it with me.
I have a girl who might sign and I think she might qualify right away but..........
I am up again loosing sleep and crunching numbers. So I promise, I am right there with you.
I hope when the Jan 5-10th rolls around I am ready to get back to a bunch of back to back shows.
My baby is not liking this at all either. He is 3 months and decided Monday night to quit taking a bottle. Up until now he has been fine taking a bottle if I have a show and BF when I am home. I worked Mon, Tues, Weds, Thurs, and Fri and he didn't take a single bottle!

Sorry this turned into such a long post, once you get me started. I just need to figure out what else I can do here.

 

[PampMomof3]

YOu guys can DO IT!! Keep crunching those numbers and MAKE IT HAPPEN! It makes it hard when you have to qualify those people BUT keep managing your time business and it'll pay off in your paycheck AND in June!

We're rooting you guys on! I still haven't earned it yet but WILL! I have 46,728 and need one more recruit to qualify to earn the trip. I have @ $2k to turn in so that puts me at about 48,728 and still have a show M,T,Th, Fri and Monday. I have 5 recruits to qualify but only need one more for Level 2. I WILL do it! When one qualifies that puts me at almost 51k BUT that doesn't count any online orders or my shows. So, I will earn it, just a matter of WHEN?

Good luck guys! Can't wait to see you all here in Orlando!

 

[chefkathy]

Darcy, I'd definitely discuss a contingency plan for weather with your hostesses. They can go online or call in orders instead if the live show has to cancel.I have a show on Tuesday night and we are expecting some snow, so I'll be discussing that with my hostess today!

 

[OhmyDLM]

Thanks again everyone for your support, it really does help to keep me sane in a time when I feel like I'm loosing all sanity! To top it all off, I can barely speak right now. I'm so over-worked and over-tired, both with work and also with my 16 month old, let alone being 17 weeks pregnant too. I've lost my voice completely and a gosh-aweful cold is setting in, can't break out my nose, totally congested, I sound terrible, it's gonna take a lot of effort to try and sound "normal" for those shows I have Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday. You know, I'm really missing medicine right now, it would be so much easier to "fake" it if I could just take some cold medicine!!! The things we do for pregnancy right!

Ok, enough whining from me... now onto some positive thinking! I know I can do this, I just need to make it happen! I'm wondering if I could still make some phone calls and ask for some people to try and collect a few orders for me and throw in another show or two. I hardly ever have catalog shows running as I forget about them, perhaps it's time to take advantage of their existence!!!

 

[OhmyDLM]

Darcy, I'd definitely discuss a contingency plan for weather with your hostesses. They can go online or call in orders instead if the live show has to cancel.

I have a show on Tuesday night and we are expecting some snow, so I'll be discussing that with my hostess today!

This is something that I haven't done so far, and I'm certainly going to focus on it today! Thank you for sharing it with me! My only issue is that I can't call a single one of those hosts right now, if they heard me, they'd cancel their show for sure, I sound that sick! I'll start sending out some emails instead. What have you been doing for plans? Do you reschedule or just turn them into catalog shows? If I were to reschedue, I'm not sure when to do it. I still have this Friday open and this Sunday & Monday open, squeeze them into there even tho it's only a day or so from deadline date???

 

[chefkathy]

This is something that I haven't done so far, and I'm certainly going to focus on it today! Thank you for sharing it with me! My only issue is that I can't call a single one of those hosts right now, if they heard me, they'd cancel their show for sure, I sound that sick! I'll start sending out some emails instead. What have you been doing for plans? Do you reschedule or just turn them into catalog shows? If I were to reschedue, I'm not sure when to do it. I still have this Friday open and this Sunday & Monday open, squeeze them into there even tho it's only a day or so from deadline date???

Not sure yet! I'm going to discuss it with my hostess today!

 

[Chef Kearns]

With the shows I have I don't think I can get there with sales points. I need another recruit to qualify. I have 2 who haven't qualified yet, but neither of them are even close or motivated to do it. How do I light a gentle fire? I don't want them to turn resentful, but I REALLY WANT TO EARN DISNEY!!!

 

[OhmyDLM]

With the shows I have I don't think I can get there with sales points. I need another recruit to qualify. I have 2 who haven't qualified yet, but neither of them are even close or motivated to do it. How do I light a gentle fire? I don't want them to turn resentful, but I REALLY WANT TO EARN DISNEY!!!

My Director is trying to get two more qualified to earn Level 3 and she sent them out a challenge that I'm thinking of using myself as I also need a ton more to qualify as I can't do it in sales points alone. Here's what she shared with me:

I wanted to let you know about an personal incentive I am offering to
New consultants who qualify by Dec. 29th =Cranberry or White Baker Free from me! This will be in addition to all those pChef bucks you can earn plus new Spring products!

You already know that I feel the baker is a must have for a new consultant to showcase at their shows as well as have in their kitchens.
This will help both the new consultant and me as I am very close to achieving the Level 3 Disney Incentive but need two more consultants to qualify by the end of the year.

Do you think you'd like to set this incentive as a goal? if so, what color would you choose?

Please reply to this email with your thoughts. Thanks!

 

[Chef Kearns]

I am going to send that to one of my recruits Darcy! Thank you for sharing. I'm feeling so defeated!! I just got an email from my Friday host. She's canceling!! My 2 recruits are not returning phone calls or emails. I don't know what else I can do! I"ve been calling everyone since last week trying to get people to work on the $100 for a Mega show. Only 8 people have committed so far. My husband is like, "if you don't earn it you are not a failure." The thing is I SO TOTALLY FEEL LIKE A FAILURE!! Why did I let my September and October suck so bad?!!!

Right now I need 4109 more points! I have the neccessary recruits. Just need more points! I think if at least one of my gals were to qualify I could find $2109 in sales! Let me tell you the HO Leads are helping!

 

[pamperedbecky]

GO ON GUYS!! You can do it! It's the qualifying those consultants thing that is pretty much out of our control. I know we can help them, but I often have to think about that saying "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink." It's frustrating!!!

I pretty much wrote off the trip months ago mostly because my sales didn't seem to be there. I had a tough year so it wasn't a huge surprise. Then I realized my latest recruit wasn't going to qualify and I do need a 4th qualified recruit anyway to make the trip, so it was pretty much a lost cause. I have two potential recruits, but were planning to sign mid-December, so wouldn't qualify by the end of the year. Wellllll....one of those potential recruits called last night and wants to try to have a huge online show over the next five days. This would be submitted as her show and I shared with her if there was ANY way she could qualify by the end of December, she will get some extra bonuses from me! That would be HUGE for me. That would put me about 1700 points away from level 2, including all the sales I have now. There's pretty much no chance my latest consultant would qualify either, but I may offer her a little incentive. She's about $700 from qualifying and has a show on Sunday, but it's an open house style with a new jewelry consultant so I doubt it's going to be a huge show, so I'm assuming she won't qualify.

Soooooo...should I pull out all the stops to try to make this happen? I never in a million years thought I'd be this close and when my potential consultant called me last night to say she wants to try to have a HUGE online show, it got my wheels turning. I'm going to Disney over Christmas but would LOVE to earn the trip. I just don't know what to do!!!!

I don't have any more shows, but the online orders have been pouring in and I hope to get quite a bit more, but if I had TWO consultants qualify, that would secure it for me!! I never thought I'd be this close or else I would have begged for another show along the way! I think I may make lots of phone calls over the next few days just to round up straggling orders and people who need things for the holidays. I'll try to make it into a mystery host show and let everyone know that they get an entry in the drawing for benefits just for placing an order. Any other thoughts? I really don't want to stress about this because I had already written it off, but I also don't want to come SO close. Most of it hinges on my consultants qualifying. UGGGG.

 

[Chef Kearns]

In your case Becky I think offering a special like Darcy's Director would work great for you!!

And to answer your question...YES!! Pull out all of the stops to earn the trip!! Why not?! Even if your family didn't want to go back to Disney in 6 months you would have the gift card (are they doing that this year?)!!

 

[pamperedbecky]

In your case Becky I think offering a special like Darcy's Director would work great for you!!

And to answer your question...YES!! Pull out all of the stops to earn the trip!! Why not?! Even if your family didn't want to go back to Disney in 6 months you would have the gift card (are they doing that this year?)!!

Thanks, Sandra! Oh I think we'd go if I earn it. So, I did just get off the phone with both my current consultant who is $700 away from qualifying, but is VERY slow out of the gate and just doesn't "get it" most of the time, but that's ok. Slow and steady wins the race, right? Just not maybe by 12/31. So, I offered her a pick out of my closet of goodies if she qualifies by 12/31. I've got a BUNCH of stuff I can give her. I didn't want to stress her out, though, because she gets pretty frazzled pretty easily. She's definitely someone who wants a hand-holder, but I really want this to work out for her. So, I told her that it would help me out too, in addition to helping her earn PC$$ because it would get me THIS CLOSE to earning the trip. She was genuinely excited to hear that, so that may motivate her a little.

As for the the consultant who is about to sign and trying to do this catalog/online show to make a bulk of the $1250 she'd need to qualify, I told her I'd give her an extra Executive Stir Fry Skillet I happen to have if she qualifies by 12/31 and I KNOW she wanted that! She got really excited and is going to try. She might actually be able to make it. So, we shall see!! I'd crap in my pants if I earn the trip, excuse the expression.

And, DEB, I have to say that you inspired me to really take a look at this!! You moved AND had a baby and still are earning the trip, so that's AWESOME!!!! You're my inspiration, as well as all of you other hard workers out there!!!! I'm so impressed that none of you are giving up until you're there!!

 

[Gagescorpages]

$1887 away anf FREAKING OUT! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can

 

[dannyzmom]

$1887 away anf freaking out! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!
i think i can, i think i can, i think i can

i know you can!

 

[PampMomof3]

Wow you guys are great!! We can do it!!

Update on me, I'm $74.93 away from earning it BUT i still need one recruit to qualify! I have a couple that are so close but I need them to have time to call me back! I have shows closing out today as well as a bridal shower tonight, show tomorrow and a show on Monday so I'll have it earned today hopefully! I'm excited!!! Just wish the tracker would update with my new points!!

 

[pamperedbecky]

Go Susan and Kristi!!!!!

 

[chefkathy]

And, DEB, I have to say that you inspired me to really take a look at this!! You moved AND had a baby and still are earning the trip, so that's AWESOME!!!! You're my inspiration, as well as all of you other hard workers out there!!!! I'm so impressed that none of you are giving up until you're there!!

Awwww, thanks!