Stop What You’re Doing

When you get a home party lead, a rep/prospect lead, or someone who wants to place an order- stop what you’re doing-literally!

Yesterday:
You got a home party lead and you wanted to wait until a ‘reasonable’ time to call them back…or when ‘you have the chance.’

Today:
Your competitor called, emailed, texted, instant messaged, or Facebooked that same party lead before you did.

So, if they don’t call you back it may be because they booked with someone else.

Today’s New Rules for Booking Parties or Recruiting:

   1. ACKNOWLEDGE IMMEDIATELY via phone, phone message, email, text message, instant message, Facebook or direct contact.
   2. If you do not make voice contact on first try or immediate response back, let them know you are ready to take care of them, and book them, that you ARE interested in their business in several forms of communications like voice mail, email, text message, instant message, etc. NOTE: one form of contact is NOT enough!
   3. And in those messages, tell that you will continue to contact them until you connect. One, two, or three attempts is not enough! You are the salesperson, not them. It’s your job, it’s your business. Period.

All these factors for today’s rules are critical because this is the way your customers and potential customers do business.

They need immediacy.

And if they don’t get it from you, they will get it from someone else.

RECAP: it doesn’t matter where a party or new prospect lead comes from, whether from a friend, from Facebook, from your Home Company, from your website, from an email, or from a mailing! Strike while the iron is hot, and strike before they are distracted to someone else.

—Rina Valan

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Once upon a time, in 1984, a woman named Rina Valan was frustrated about the limits placed on women in the business world and in their personal relationships. Back then, you literally had one choice: raise a family or have a career. In addition, if women complained of lack of pleasure with a partner, it was just assumed she was ‘frigid.’ Those choices were just not acceptable to Rina, and so her mission because clear to be that champion for the financial and personal well-being of women and their partners. With a $10,000 loan from her mother and drawing out all her cash advances on credit cards, in August 1984 Rina started Fantasia Home Parties in a small dusty warehouse in Elizabeth, NJ. She loved her 3 year old daughter so much that she could not bear to leave her with a sitter, so she took her to work every day. In the evenings would train new consultants so they could sell at home parties and be able to support their families AND be there to take care of them too. Today, Rina and her daughter, Emily, still work side by side. So 30 years later, Fantasia Home Parties stands as the pioneer and leader in romance home parties. As one of the founding member of CAHPA (Certified Adult Home Party Association), Fantasia continues to forge the trail and we make it possible for women to be equals in matters of the heart, personal pleasure, or providing income for themselves and family. Some of us do it in pink high heels or sneakers, some are single or married, some are single moms, or some of us are even taking care of own moms. With over 33 years of executive experience in the Home Party and Direct Selling business, her personal attention and real life experience is the backbone of our team. It is not unusual that she shares her working experience daily by coaching and with personal support with both new and experienced consultants.

Rina Valan, President and Founder of Fantasia Home Parties