Hey y’all!

Once Basment run company reaches $1.5 Billion Mark

You know what they say, if you can’t beat them join them right?  How about imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?  Here’s a good one there is no use re-iventing the wheel? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!…No this is not a home party game of just how many cliches can you come up with, BUT they are cliches that teach a lesson. Creative imitation must be one of the major tools for a home party consultant looking to make a six figure income!

Direct Sales Marketing, and marketing being the keyword here, is about human psychology.  Marketing is the game of finding out what makes people tick and then pressing the response button to your advantage.  As a marketing technique, “free samples” has had a long lasting effective history.

1. The free sample is first and foremost a gift

2. It is a great publicity tool for the manufactures

3. Easiest way to generate sales and build a positive opinion of products.

Amway Cor. grew from a basement-run operations to a 1.5 Billion dollar yearly sales business by making use of the free sample approach in a device called the BUG.

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Hi Y’all

Fun Party Games

There is a party going on right here!

Having a home party? Well here is a tip for you, in home show party games.
Have you had a lot of home parties and just need to add new ideas to your repertoire? Having a successful home party means the guests are having fun! I bet like many other home party consultants you struggle to get your guests involved and entertained Home parties can get a boost of fun with special home party plan games. Direct Selling Reps I trust you will find this game very helpful. Nothing like a trip down memory lane.

Games to play at a home party need not be over done elaborate matters, the simpler the better!  Get your guests to interact, divide them into small groups, preferably of those that don’t know each other and make it a constest.

Home Party Games For Consultants: How many soaps and detergents can you find?

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Shaken Not Stirred

It’s really time to party!

“007 is known for his witty one-liners but he doesn’t get all the best lines. See how many of these lines from Bond films you can spot.”

1. In which film would you hear this quote?
Woman: “You’re all wet.”
Bond: “Yes, but my martini’s still dry.”

Octopussy
Never Say Never Again
A View To A Kill
For Your Eyes Only

2. This is my favourite line from a Bond movie, which film is it from?
Bond: “Do you expect me to talk?”
Baddie: “No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die.”

Thunderball
From Russia With Love
You Only Live Twice
Goldfinger

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Hello Party Plans Folk!

Just finished watching a very riveting basketball game.  Ahhh the passion, the sweat and oh how I wish they would bring back the short shorts for men…oops!  So it got me thinking

Why Play In Home Show Party Games?

When a group of people are preparing to participate in social event of any nature, there needs to be some breaking down of inhibitions before they become group participants.

For your home party to become a safe haven for your home party attendees to air the questions and concerns facing to the problems there needs to be trust created with each other and open communication.

Home party plan games tend to be cooperative games that also help set the tone of an action.  Remember in my post, profiting through personalities, I spoke of the different character traits people possesss?  Well in home show party games will allow you to break the ice effectively, allow you to identify the personalities of your attendees.

Increasing party plan sales is the order of the day.  You want to do what is in your power to facilitate this in a manner that is fun and pleasing to all!

Home party games fall under two categories
1. Cooperative Games?

Cooperative games emphasize participation, challenge and fun rather then defeating someone. Cooperative games focus on fun and interaction rather than competition and alienation. Cooperative games are not new. There may be competition involved, but the outcome of the competition is not sitting out or losing. Instead, it may involve switching teams so that everyone ends up on the winning team.  A great example can be home party olympic games.

2. Initiative Games?

Initiative games are fun, cooperative, challenging games in which the group is confronted with a specific problem to solve. Initiative games can be used for several reasons.  The games can be used to demonstrate and teach leadership skills to people, which helps to promote the growth of trust and problem-solving skills in groups.  Games demonstrate a process of thinking about experiences that helps people learn and practice responsibility. Fun outdoor games at home for a party create great competition, without leaving anyone out e.g., spoon and egg!

Home Party Plan Success Tips:  Games allow you to discover your leaders and followers!  In home show party games are a great way to identify potential talent!

We all grow up in family circles.  Let’s face it families fight a lot!
Who didn’t love the Family Feud?  Well so will your home party goers.

Just have them come up one at a time to battle against each other just like the TV show!

Here are the questions and answers you can use and you can even make up your own.

Family Feud It’s the old favorite family game!

Chose the answer that most fits and the person with the most correct answers wins! Answers are at the bottom!
1. Name a vegetable that makes a lot of noise
2. Name a cartoon character
3. Name something a clown wears
4. Name something that you use to clean your teeth
5. Name a magazine with one title
6. Name a color for boys
7. Name something a kid wears in the winter
8. Name a popular month for a vacation
9. Name a type of cookie
10. Name something people do on a plane
11. Name a type of pizza
12. Name an actor whose first name is Tom
13. Name a woman comedian
14. Name an expensive car
15. Name an animal in the zoo Family Feud

Answers
1. Carrot
2. Mickey Mouse
3. Red Nose
4. Toothpaste
5. People
6. Blue
7. Mittens
8. July
9. Chocolate Chip
10. Eat
11. Pepperoni
12. Cruise
13. Roseann Barr
14. Mercedes Benz
15. Lion

Hello Home Party Consultants in Wonderland!

You know what I am finding?  Everything is a lesson and has a lesson in it!  I never thought that Alice In Wonderland would be so riveting and filled with home party success tips!

I am going to go a little biological on you here, but it will be well worth it:

The Red Queen’s Hypothesis, Red Queen, “Red Queen’s race” or “Red Queen Effect” is an evolutionary hypothesis. The term is taken from the Red Queen’s race in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass. The Red Queen said, “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” The Red Queen Principle can be stated thus:

“For an evolutionary system, continuing development is needed just in order to maintain its fitness relative to the systems it is co-evolving with.”^[1]

Here is a brief excerpt:

“They were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all she could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying ‘Faster! Faster!’ but Alice felt she could not go faster, thought she had not breath left to say so. The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything”.

Is your party plans business running you circles.  Let’s see:

-You are driving around chasing after dead-beat leads
-You are hosting poorly attended home parties
-Your in home party has become a gossip fest and catching up meeting
-Still chasing after friends and family?
-Sending dud emails?
-Still using out-dated marketing methods?

You see the the red queen effect is the theory of competition and its effect on you and your business.  You can either choose to run the course wisely, conserving your energy while raking in plenty of home party sales.  Or you can choose to be like the woman I describe below:

I recently received a call from a woman in Arbonne International who had been at it for 2 years.  I asked her what level she had managed to reach.  She told me that repeatedly she had made it to District Manager, was not able to maintain this position nor break past it.

She wanted to have me coach her, BUT she didn’t want to have to pay for it.  In fact she sent me an email that said, “I really can’t afford to waste money. My business means so much to me.”

My dear home party consultants, time is money!

Ok 2 years, never getting beyond the entry level position, spending time online searching for information.  You see people believe that the internet is free.  Yes, the internet is free, but only if your time is worthless!

Which is well and good.

A few days later I get an email (now I have been added to a list without my permission) stating, “Would you like to learn how you could spend time with your family and enjoy a lucrative salary? Arbonne and a little faith, is changing lives. Find out how!”

Here is what Alice says after a particularly tiring run to nowhere:

“Suddenly, just as Alice was getting quite exhausted, they stopped, and she found herself sitting on the ground, breathless and giddy. Alice looked round her in great surprise. ‘Why, I do believe we’ve been under this tree the whole time! Everything’s just as it was! ”Of course it is,’ said the Queen, ‘what would you have it?’

‘Well, in our country,’ said Alice, still panting a little, ‘you’d generally get to somewhere else – if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.’ ‘A slow sort of country!’ said the Queen. ‘Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!’

Hmm…just how fast are you running and why?

To your success!

Party Plan Pat

Let’s have a party!
As a home party consultant, when it comes to product placement you are facing a rather odd challenge.  For you the issue here is you must think of convenience to buy instead of place.
To increase home party sales you must consider the path to the buyer, channels of distribution, cost (price) trade off and control issues (well many women have spouses that are not pro spending outside the usual lines!)

In many of my consultations I find this to be the greatest stumbling block for many home party consultants.  You see, for many, it is more convenient to by at Wal-Mart, The Mall or other places rather than attend home parties!
Why is the allure of in home parties not appealing to many.  Again convenience.  You see when I am at the mall I am bound to do more than just by a few products, so I get to kill one bird with two stones so to speak.
Home Party Plan Business Success is not a myth.  The key here in the home party plans business is of course the issue of planning.  To reap the benefits of the placement vs convenience to buy you must plan ahead, overcome all possible objection before you encounter them!
Selling merchandise at home parties involves knowing what each subset of your target market prefers to buy, where they would rather buy : the internet, catalogue, over the phone, using credit cards!

In my last post about target marketing we spoke of understanding your customer.  Now here we will see why,  if you really want to know how to book home parties at unheard of rate, here is my take on the issue, work backwards, what do I mean by this?
A very practical approach to determine the best channels and methods to generate more home party bookings and home party sales would be to start at the point of final purchase. Who is the final consumer or user of your product? Where does that person look when buying your type of product? If she buys your product or something similar to it from another home party consultant or retailer such as estee lauder, then what competitive edge is your competition offering and why is your prospective customer buying?

Secondly ask your friends, neighbors and other consultants.  Conduct your own personal impromptu surveys!

Once the various channels have been identified, it is easier to determine which ones make the most sense or which ones offer the path of least resistance.

Hello Home Party Consultants!

Let’s get this party started right.

The common misconception is that as a direct sales consultant, your number one goal at your home party demonstrations is to book more parties. The idea is, the more parties you book, the more customers you will see, and the more orders you will receive.

Booking more parties, is one of the key features of a successful home party plans business, but it is most certainly the end all be all!  It is the first step to a long term and profitable relationship with your home party plans business builders.

Now that is football season, and basket-ball right around the corner, I felt it appropriate to touch upon the idea of home party plans themed parties!

The back-bone of any business is profit.  Profit is determined by the law of flow: money in, money out.  The money, is provided by a continuous stream of new and repeat customers!  To keep this positive cash flow cycle going, booking more home parties is.

Most of you out there love to scrap book.  So the easiest way to book more parties is, get this…Have a home party theme book and a home party theme idea suggestion box! So how do you date more parties?

Themes might be as simple as Men in Tights! (football for the ladies), Short Shorts (basket-ball), FrightMares, Fright Night.  10 different ways to say thank you.  Jingle bells! Girls night out (lingerie parties), Margarita Themes (recipe exchange) and list goes on and on.  Be creative

Be sure to highlight the hostess rewards for booking a show, and you are in business

Please send me more theme ideas! Be sure to read http://homepartyplansuccesstips.com/2008/04/25/man-in-tights-home-party-plan-theme-suggestion/

Party Plan Pat

Hello Party People,

My name is Patricia Kagwiria Makhulo a.k.a Party Plan Pat (Home Party Plan Consultant) and I am a renegade Marketer!

I have lived an very eventful, adventurous life, loved every minutes and know there is more to come.  Many have questioned me relative to my knowledge in marketing.  They want to know from whence I obtained my prowess and business savvy!

I have been very reticent on this subject, because of the sensitive nature of the information that I possess.  But more importantly not wanting to exploit what was both a personal and business relationship, when pressed on the subject I have said little!

Today I will oblige the curious, the determined, the unsure with simple answers.

I am the by product of my life experience.  Who I am, what I am are God given gifts.  As with any talents and gifts, they must each at one time be honed.  I have had the great priviledge to have been personally coached, mentored and trained by Ann Sieg - The Renegade Network Marketer!

It should be known when I met Ann Sieg, she was not yet the Renegade Network Marketer.  That said she was a woman on a mission and I, I was a girl with a strong desire to succeed.

I was one who had paid the price, and opportunity found me ready and prepared to be taught from on high!

When I met Ann I was a frustrated, angry and bothered Melaleuca Distributor.  I was dissatisfied with the results I was obtaining.  I was one who knew without a doubt that there was a more excellent way to build a successful business.  I was a renegade myself, so it comes as no surprise that one renegade attracted another!

I was coached, trained, mentored, straightened out and molded by Ann Sieg.  I was a diamond in the rough, by the time she was done with me…well!

It of people like me, having the nightmare business experience that the 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing was written.  But truth be told as a renegade, I had already determined that I was going to build my business in the manner I saw fit.  That is how I believe I was led into Ann’s path.

I had read the stories of so-called internet marketing success.  Success stories like that of Mike Dillard, Armand Morin.  Had I not seen it with my own eyes, been a part of it, I too would not have believed it!

The events as she has potrayed them, are true, they did happen.  I was there and I testify of their veracity!

To my coach, friend and mentor Ann Sieg, My heart felt thanks and Congratulations on your success.  I cannot think of a more deserving person!

And you fellow home party consultants, do your self a favor, get yourself a copy of the The Renegade Network Marketer.  I know I have spent more money on useless things!  I guarantee, it will be the best $67 you ever spend!  This book will make the difference between the misery that is your business today, and the financial freedom that awaits you once you acquire the knowledge you need to succeed!

For the brief version of my story and the renegade network marketer review, watch Ann Sieg Why Are You Refusing To Mentor Others????

To your success,

Party Plan Pat

Hey Home Party Consultants!

In the many consultations I give, there is a common thread, too many people are sooo afraid of letting go of a dollar, in order to gain their freedom.

What is tax? It is a penalty for parked money. You do no get taxed for money in flow. That is why the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer.

My rich dad also says there is only two things in investing, time and money. Now most people are really afraid of losing money. They are so afraid of losing money that they do not invest time or money into anything else. You can always make the money back. You can lose money, but you can always make money back but you can never make time back. The issue here is time and how you invest that time wisely. Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Plan, Poor Plan

Know this, all that glitters is not gold. Allow me to illustrate!

You know what a monkey trap is? An interesting system has been used for capturing monkeys in the jungles of Africa. The goal is to take the monkeys alive and unharmed for shipment to zoos of America. Just like it is your goal to get your home party recruits alive, money in hand ready to buy in an honest and humane fashion.

In an extremely humane way, the captors use heavy bottles, with long narrow necks, into which they deposit a handful of sweet-smelling nuts. Alternatively, the monkey hunters drill a hole in a coconut, just big enough for a monkey to stick in his hand and arm, so long as the hand is open and extended. However, if the hand is in a fist, it cannot enter or come out. The bottles and coconuts are dropped on the jungle floor, and the captors return the next morning to find a monkey trapped next to each bottle or coconut in hand.

The monkey hunters put a worthless shiny stone in the coconut, big enough to ensure the monkey’s hand cannot come out while clinching the stone. The monkey is curious. He is attracted to the shiny object he spots inside the hole. Sticks in his hand and grasps the shiny, worthless pebble. Now he is possessive. He won’t let go. The coconut is anchored to the tree. The monkey hunters come. The monkey is screaming in fear, but he is captured, because he is holding onto a shiny, worthless pebble which becomes more important to him than his freedom.

How is it accomplished? The monkey, attracted by the aromatic scent of the nuts, comes to investigate the bottle, the nuts, and is trapped. The monkey can’t take its hand out of the bottle as long it’s holding the nuts, but it is unwilling to open its hand and let them go. The bottle is too heavy to carry away, so the monkey is trapped.

We may smile at the foolish monkeys, but how often we hold to our problems so tenaciously as the monkeys hold to the nuts in the bottle. And so, figuratively we carry our bottle around with us, feeling very sorry for ourselves, and begging for sympathy from others, even from God.
This morning I’m lying in my hotel room asking myself - what ideas, concepts or attachments do I need to be willing to give up in order to allow myself to grasp a bigger and better concept? What do I have to be willing to let go? I like to think of myself as a pretty logical person, devoid of superstition, and dismissive of mythology. But I know that I get very attached to my ideas, my opinions. Sometimes it’s hard to let go of tightly-held ideas but, unless we do, we don’t grow.

One idea I let go of a couple of years ago was that I had to earn an income. It was a major revelation to me when I realized that if I sold all of my assets, I could afford to live quite comfortably for several years while I built a start-up business. I let go of the idea that I needed to cling on to the assets I had gained, like those spider monkeys. And it was one of the best things I ever did.

Hello Home Party Consultants!

If you have been following me, well you know that I possess a rare combination personality of Green/Red.  So the green in me is coming out to play, I have got some numbers for you!

Home Party plans by the numbers

- Home Party Plans account for an estimated $9 billion a year in sales.

- Of the 80% of the nearly 50 million direct-sales representatives worldwide, comprise  women.

- Half of the women in direct sales work fewer than 10 hours per week. Many work fewer than five hours per week.

- Nearly three-fourths are white, but more and more Hispanic and African-American women are joining the ranks.

- According to the Washington, D.C.-based Direct Selling Association, about one-third of the 300 direct-sales companies registered with the association are Home party plans.

Well looks like the Home Party Plan Scene is here to stay.  I suggest very strongly that you get your copy of Party Plan Secrets Revealed, ASAP.  Call me for your FREE 30 Min. Consultation and let’s get you a piece of that 9 Billion Dollar Pie!

Indeed, we are moving on up, moving on up!

Party like you mean it!

Party Plan Pat