The New Wave of Home Party Marketing: Connection
Connection: the shared emotional feeling of attachment to someone, because of a subject, thing, event, place, smell, sound, thought, experience… If you can truly ‘connect’ with your prospects, they will turn into and become your customers forever. All human beings are naturally drawn to a familiar, especially in unfamiliar situations. The biggest key to have someone COMPELLED to do business with you, is a feeling of connection. Key: start every conversation, every voice mail, and especially emails with a sentence or phrase to seek or validate something that connects...
Read MoreFacebook Wall No-No’s for Home Party Professionals
In the home party business? Engaging your prospects, customers, hostesses and down line is really important. But there are some things you should NOT post on Facebook walls: -Don’t try to close a sale -Don’t pick a party date -Don’t nag about them for not responding, not booking, not calling -Don’t go into details about any business transaction(s) -Don’t openly manage your team member(s) -Don’t post too many ‘commercial’ messages about your business in a row, or post too many times in one day (this is the fastest way for your friends to...
Read MoreThe Number One Mistake Home Party Consultants Make
Guess what the number one mistake home party consultants make? They try to sell. When I started Fantasia Home Parties back in 1984, I trained all our newly hired sales representatives. And the first thing I would tell them is: “I hate selling!” No one believed me, and they laughed because I was the number one sales person for the longest time! My secret? I love to help people get what they need and what they want, and I really love to make people happy. And I love our products! If you can feel that way about what you do or sell, let it come through and through. Pretty...
Read MoreYour Mission Should You Choose to Accept It
Have you ever taken on a mission for your business? A mission can be an exciting adventure with an outcome that can change your whole business climate and bottom line. It doesn’t have to be complicated, you just have to be committed to the belief that you will do whatever it takes to complete the mission. Here’s a good one: take a look at your next 4 weekends. Do you have any home parties booked? Are the bookings a little sparse or your calendar bare? It doesn’t have to be that way! Make it a mission, and in your head and heart get down to do whatever you have to to and...
Read MoreThe Shelf Life of your Night Stand
Ever catch yourself rummaging through one of your drawers in your night stand frantically searching for that ‘something’ in the heat of passion with your lover? I did just that just the other day and instead of that new bottle of massage oil I just bought I came up with broken pen, a Bellagio matchbook, piece of gum stuck to a lube sampler and too countless half working vibrators. Doesn’t exactly enhance the heat of the moment, does it?Well, this morning, I started digging back into the drawer and just couldn’t believe how much I had accumulated over the years. Some...
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