January Newsletter
HORRAY Spring is on its way!!
January is over!!
Top 10 For January
Joan Milligan $1100
Ana Snowden $933
Tiffany Peacock $914
Nella Underhill $862
Christine Emmons $795
Robin Harris $782
Elaine Smith $770
Tracy Greely $759
Jeanelle Wise $733
welcome to our Team!
Ambre Wallitisch
Darleen Smith
Renita Franklin Thrower
Georgiana Evans
Lindy Hall
Crystal Franklyn
Katie yeaton
Top sponsoring for January
Jennifer Ziegler 1
Shandoah Watkins 1
Robin Harris 1
Lisa Young 1
Lindy Hall 1
me 1
87 ways to get bookings
87 Direct Sales Bookings
Please add YOUR direct sales booking tips in the comment section below because I am sure that there are MORE ways than this to get bookings!
- Realtors, mortgage broker, home remodeling gifts
- Home owners organization clubhouse shows
- Bingo: donate gifts to fill basket bingo
- Provide a bi monthly informative newsletter that brings value to your customers and contacts
- Use your catalog not your business card
- Have an open house (but call it a practice show) & invite everyone you meet for 3 weeks before the show (get follow-up numbers)
- Leave old catalogs in waiting rooms all over town
- Attend fairs, expos, food festivals as a guest and network with the vendors
- Check out ads (online and off) for those who offer daycare in their homes. A lot of home daycare providers are interested in Fundraisers!
- Start your own local TV show on Community Access TV or a YouTube Channel – or both!
- Hang posters on community bulletin boards
- Send a press release out once a month
- Change hair, nail, spa salons every time you go
- Hold a transition party when the catalog changes: open your products at the show
- Tell the HO if you are bilingual
- Do video tape shows, instead of catalog shows
- Hold A WOW Party: Within One Week everyone knows what they are doing next week!
- Put up fish bowls/prize drawings at businesses
- Teach classes at the gym, grocery store, doctor
- Run for public office and meet TONS of potential hosts!
- Offer yourself as a FREE public speaker
- Start a campaign to offer yourself as bridal shower organizer/presenter. Stop in at bridal shops regularly and ask them if you can be their go-to person.
- Swap business services with other businesses or consultants
- Attend fairs, expos, food festivals as a vendor
- Hang out at the (kitchen tool, makeup, toy, etc.) aisle at your local department store
- Join a Chamber and take advantage of all the membership benefits
- Visit Chamber of Commerce networking events as a guest
- Get a book at the Chamber of Commerce for non-profit organizations
- Don’t forget special interest or small town Chambers for all of the above: Become a Chamber hopper!
- Join network marketing support groups
- Visit networking support groups as a guest (a different one each month)
- Offer your services at the community center, Spanish center, etc.
- Set up a table on neighborhood yard sale days
- Bring cookies -You always get what you want when you bring cookies
- Offer business luncheon shows
- Strike up conversations at McDonald’s play land, parks
- Ask for referrals for/from other companies or services providers
- Do fundraiser shows in front of the grocery store
- Talk to schools, fund-raisers, catalog in teachers lounge, show before PTA meeting
- Put displays at bridal locations
- Promote kids birthday parties (you are the entertainment)
- Help the girl/boy scouts get badges
- Take a branded traveling office with you everywhere (people will see you working and ask)
- Soccer/sport tail gate parties
- Give out gift cards or contact info on Halloween with the candy
- Include contact information on the back of your holiday cards
- Run a weekly/monthly/quarterly prize drawing and invite people you meet out and about to join
- Carry little gift bags everywhere you go to hand out (always get contact info when you give a gift)
- Stop at every car wash/bake sale fund-raiser; buy something then ask about their cause
- Set up a table at your bank: many banks have a ‘highlight a local business table’ so start a campaign to inquire
- Conduct “It’s Customer Service Week” calls every day to past customers using the customer centric customer care script
- Contact churches, advertise in church bulletin, fund-raisers
- Routinely perform “Out Of The Box” calls to check in, be sure they are using their items and offer use and care advice
- Trade home parties with other consultants in other companies
- Offer your demo services at stores, gyms or other related businesses to provide value to them
- Take your product with you to events whenever possible.
- Advertise in football or music programs, alumni newsletters
- Trade services/referrals with other direct sales consultants in non-competitive companies by handing out each others mini-brochures
- Contact colleges for opportunity events & you will get bookings too
- Wish 2 people happy birthday every day in social sites using birthday coupons & include a bookings upsell
- Contact past purchasers about appropriate upcoming specials based on their past purchase
- Pamper a business Day at your dentist, doctor, or any business
- Go to sports events and connect with the band booster clubs
- Tape your grocery list to a catalog to go shopping with
- Schedule your own shows in restaurants or bars for fund-raisers, multiple hosts or just for fun (Motorcycle clubs love bar shows!)
- Have custom note cards made with your business info on the back (or use a service for sending cards that customizes them for your business)
- Move into new neighborhoods by offering a get to know the neighbor residential community show
- Offer “last week of school” teacher shows to celebrate all the teachers who have a birthday, baby shower or wedding over the Summer
- Offer entertainment workshops or fundraisers to apartment complexes
- Hold a customer appreciation New Year’s party or holiday party the last week or the first week of the year
- Ask the manager of apartment complexes or condo communities if you can distribute fliers
- Hook up with the local welcome “wagon” and put something in their basket (It is not called that any more but many communities have one)
- Join MeetUp.com groups in your business niche or hobbies
- Offer entertainment workshops or fundraisers to condo – resident groups
- Offer entertainment workshops or fundraisers to employee relations committees (all hospitals have them)
- If your company allows it use FaceBook, Twitter and LinkedIn, Pinterest (all social sites) use them consistently… they really work!
- If your company allows it, start a blog to share about your products, opportunity and services. Why Blog?
- Brand your car with a magnet or a decal and be loud and proud in a roving billboard!
- Create a system of texting for bookings to one contact group per week – every week!
- Ask for (and give a gift for) booking referrals from friends, family, guests at shows, etc.
- Attend political town meetings, fundraiser or activist events as a supporter to meet new and influential people
- Put an ad in your local paper or community bulletin merchant buy-sell-trade paper
- Offer retirement home or assisted living parties for holiday shopping
- Put your company name on your mail box
- Write “Ask Me For A Brochure” on one of your company logo bags, fill it with catalogs and take it everywhere you go
- Hold one plus 2 coffee break parties with 2 friends. (The host invites a friend and meets with you for 30 minutes.)
- Take one idea from this list of direct sales bookings ideas and implement a new 1 or 2 each week in a strategic action plan
Your Director
Email: lovingmylockets@juno.com
Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/185981398184856/
Location: Pasadena, MD, United States
Phone: 4102076579
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