Check your calendar and decide when your Facebook launch party will be and when your home launch party will be. You can even combine the sales from both of these parties, which will really help you stock up on FREE books right off the bat. Your sponsor or a Team Leader will be available to help you with your first couple of parties! You will learn more about how to have successful parties in the next few steps of this Consultant Success Plan.
2) Ask FRANK to Party!!
Watch the FRANK video, below. Then, make a FRANKS list – FRANKS = Friends, Relatives, Acquaintances, Kids contacts (you know them through your kids), Spouse contacts; this is a list of people that you’d like to share Usborne with! Remember, even people without their own children at home have children in their life (grandparents, aunts, etc!) so don’t limit yourself – any name you think of, write it down!
Try to have 100 names on this list – sounds challenging, but you WILL surprise yourself! Keep adding to this list as you go!
Set a goal of how many people you'd like to reach out to each day or each week to help you spread the word about your new business.
2) Ask FRANK to Party!!
Watch the FRANK video, below. Then, make a FRANKS list – FRANKS = Friends, Relatives, Acquaintances, Kids contacts (you know them through your kids), Spouse contacts; this is a list of people that you’d like to share Usborne with! Remember, even people without their own children at home have children in their life (grandparents, aunts, etc!) so don’t limit yourself – any name you think of, write it down!
Try to have 100 names on this list – sounds challenging, but you WILL surprise yourself! Keep adding to this list as you go!
Set a goal of how many people you'd like to reach out to each day or each week to help you spread the word about your new business.
3) Announce Your Business... but Don't Be Salesy!
The best way to share your new business on your Facebook wall, or on Instagram or on other social media, is by showing how the books have benefitted your family! Your friends will love seeing your kids enjoying the books and they will naturally start asking questions. So share pics of your kids and their awesome books often!
Being “non-salesy” when posting to your Facebook wall is REALLY helpful when introducing that you’ve started this new venture!
Check out these awesome tips on how to sell without being salesy!
https://www.facebook.com/TagTeamPartyPeeps/videos/927613840631859/
https://www.facebook.com/TagTeamPartyPeeps/videos/930895673637009/
Using those tips, one way to announce your own business would be posting a photo of your kids quietly enjoying their Usborne Books along with something like this as a caption: “I just bought myself 20 minutes of uninterrupted quiet time… I loved it so much, I decided to join Usborne Books & More and help other moms get these awesome books (and a little quiet time of their own, too! Haha!)” (Come up with your own wording, but something like this can be fun and NOT annoying to your friends!!)
While announcing your business, be prepared with a couple of dates you are available to do Facebook or home parties and start to fill your calendar. Friends and family will be excited to help you start your business off right – and BONUS, as a new consultant you get to offer your hostesses double the free books (see 2. Write Your Own Success Story or ask your sponsor for more information!)
4) Keep it Personal!
Whether you're asking friends if they'd like to book a party or you're inviting them to one of your own, make sure you're keeping it personal by reaching out to friends and family individually! The personal touch will go a LONG way to helping you build a successful business, and individual interaction through messages, phone calls, texts, etc. will increase your bookings and party attendance much faster than timeline posts and group messages (which are usually not very effective!).
SUCCESS TIP 1: Book SIX parties in your first 4 weeks - block out those dates and go fill ‘em!!
There are lots of options for fun incentives you can offer your potential hostesses to encourage them to book a party. You can tell them about how you are able to offer double free books as you get your business started. You could offer an additional $20 in free books with their party, or think of a book you know they would love, talk it up to them, and offer it for free with their party. You can offer these incentives at minimal cost to you ($5 or less). You will learn how that works during the training on Hostess Incentives in Step 6. OrderPro | Close Your Show, and you can talk to your sponsor or team leader. For some tips about booking the parties, check out this video - Two to Grow
Ready for the NEXT step? Move on to learning about Facebook Parties next!! :)
While announcing your business, be prepared with a couple of dates you are available to do Facebook or home parties and start to fill your calendar. Friends and family will be excited to help you start your business off right – and BONUS, as a new consultant you get to offer your hostesses double the free books (see 2. Write Your Own Success Story or ask your sponsor for more information!)
4) Keep it Personal!
Whether you're asking friends if they'd like to book a party or you're inviting them to one of your own, make sure you're keeping it personal by reaching out to friends and family individually! The personal touch will go a LONG way to helping you build a successful business, and individual interaction through messages, phone calls, texts, etc. will increase your bookings and party attendance much faster than timeline posts and group messages (which are usually not very effective!).
SUCCESS TIP 1: Book SIX parties in your first 4 weeks - block out those dates and go fill ‘em!!
There are lots of options for fun incentives you can offer your potential hostesses to encourage them to book a party. You can tell them about how you are able to offer double free books as you get your business started. You could offer an additional $20 in free books with their party, or think of a book you know they would love, talk it up to them, and offer it for free with their party. You can offer these incentives at minimal cost to you ($5 or less). You will learn how that works during the training on Hostess Incentives in Step 6. OrderPro | Close Your Show, and you can talk to your sponsor or team leader. For some tips about booking the parties, check out this video - Two to Grow
Ready for the NEXT step? Move on to learning about Facebook Parties next!! :)
