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Home Party Consultant Bookings

Based on the huge response that we had for last week’s Speakers In The Park teleseminar on getting more party plan bookings at your show it is obvious that BOOKINGS are always an important topic for home party plan consultants.

Home Party Planning Bookings Audio Training

This audio recording is one of our power hour seminars that was recorded last year on the topic of home party planning systems for finding BOOKINGS! All of the tele-seminars are available by MP3 download in the Elite Club. The following audio on how to find party plan bookings was one of the MP3 downloads which the Elite Club members were able to download after the bookings seminar took place. I just put it into the Elite Club again. The Elite Club includes many home party consultant training topics that are covered in the regularly scheduled Power Hours.

Please remember while you are listening to the recording that all specials and time references were made last year and are “old news”.

Home Party Plan Business = Unlimited Bookings

There is an unlimited supply of bookings for you home part business. You just need to know where to look for them. Enjoy the free bookings audio recording here. You can download all of the Speakers In The Park recordings as well as this one and all of the Power Hour seminars in the Elite Party Plan Training Club

Share Bookings Training Call

Are you enjoying the call? Link to this page from your website, share it with your friends, share it on your favorite social site, book mark it and spread the word so your team can grow their business too.

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There is an unlimited supply of business out there and anyone who applies themselves to achieving a solid business can succeed in direct sales. These 7 marketing tips will set your business on the track to achieve your direct sales goals.

1. Determine Your Sales Niche

It is important to find a niche within your product line or industry. ” Direct Marketing” is a huge industry with intense competition. Knowing your niche will help you set yourself apart and create your brand.

2. Be An Expert In Your Business Niche

You must be an expert in your niche. How can you solve problems? Sales is all about solving problems and serving your guests. Customers are looking for an expert who can help them solve a problem. Show your customers your expertise and how you can help them.

3. Market Your Brand Not Your Company

Yes, your company is important.  Yet what makes you different than everyone else in your company? It is essential that you “create your brand.” You must take the time to create a memorable name, tagline, and logo for your business.  Then showcase your “brand” EVERYWHERE!  As an example; “I teach fun, fast and healthy cooking so that families can spend more quality time at the dinner table eating good-for-you foods!”  Who wouldn’t want that?  When I say that sentence, someone always asks: “How do you do that?”, which is the response that you want to get when you market your brand.

4. Create A Solid Base For Your Business

Every successful business needs a solid foundation. Utilize all aspects of your company’s services. For example, market live shows, catalog shows, bridal showers, gift certificates, etc.  Also, take advantage of every marketing technique available to you. Don’t use  just one. One of the reasons many party plan businesses fail is the focus on only party plan as a lead generation system.  Party plan is a referral system that utilizes friends, family and acquaintances.  A solid business base will include contacts that fall into 7 categories.  These categories are friends, family, acquaintances, work, schools, organizations and strangers.  When you create a solid base for your home business by utilizing all marketing techniques and all services possible, you will set up a home business that will self-perpetuate.

5. There Is An UNLIMITED Supply Of FREE Direct Sales Leads

There are hundreds of places to market your business for FREE.  If you do not have enough business, then chances are you are not taking advantage of all the resources for free leads. Marketing your business without any financial investment is certainly possible as there is an unlimited supply of free leads. Some examples of lead generation systems that do not cost money are:

• Fairs and Expos: Go as a guest and network with the vendors.
• Public Speaking: This does not have to be speaking to hundreds of people. There are hundreds of clubs, organizations and groups that are looking for free speakers within only a few miles of your home office.
• Libraries and Seni0r Centers: Both libraries and senior centers are always looking for programming.
• Internet Directories: Searches on the internet for your niche market will turn up hundreds of lists of people who have an interest in your product line.
• Social Clubs: Both online and offline clubs will also be a lead generation system that can be tapped into.
• This is only the tip of the iceberg. There are hundreds of ways to market your direct sales business without spending money.

6.Stay Committed!  Practice Acceptance!  Be Consistent!

The 80:20 rule would not exist if everyone practiced this secret direct sales success.  Most businesses and business owners do not stick around long enough to attain success.  You must accept the process and create systems that will allow you to consistently work your business on an ongoing basis.  You cannot fail if you practice this tip.  The very definition of commitment is that you keep going until success is achieved.

7. Incorporate Systems Into Your Home Business

People never fail, only systems fail!  If your system is not successful after you consistently work it, then find a new system.
The only way to fail is to stop.  Effectively working these tips and staying in the game will assure success. This website is dedicated to bringing you direct sales systems that will work for any sales business.

The Create A Cash Flow Show program is a set of home party plan systems that focus on making your home party efficient and consistent so that you  make more money at every show.

The Power UP For Professional Results is a series of lead generations systems that will keep your business rolling along forever with an unlimited supply of leads.

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Paul Hoffman Inspires Speakers In The Park-June 24th

Paul Hoffman is the Visionary, CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Paul Hoffman Music Inc., The Success Creation Institute, Success Songs LLC, and Blue Music and Sound Design. His music and teachings have touched the lives of thousands of people worldwide. Paul is considered the leading composer and producer of branding and empowering music in the personal empowerment industry. I met Paul at the DSWA conference in April and asked him to be a guest on our Summer Speakers In The Park series. I am excited to bring you Paul Hoffman on Wednesday, June 24th @ 9:15 PM Eastern time.

A Design For Home Business Success

The Character of – A Design for Living Your Successful Life

Are you ready to claim your destiny and wake up to who you are?

Are you ready to create all the changes you need that will change your life?

Having a Character of Success is vital if you are to reach the powerful goals you have set for yourself and your business.

The Character of Success course will introduce you to . . .

• A blueprint to manifest anything you want and live your dream life
• The tools needed to take your business to the next level
• A road map to consciously use the power of choice to achieve your destiny
• An ability to get in touch with your innermost feelings
• A way to access the power to release non-supportive habits, attitudes and thinking
• Becoming more present to your everyday circumstances
• Recognizing a new way of being as you experience life from a whole new paradigm
• Accessing a new set of ideas and attitudes to propel your life
• Experiencing people as they see and hear you in a whole new and different way
• Communicating what you want and empowering yourself to reach those goals
• Letting go of limiting beliefs as you create an I CAN ATTITUDE.

You can choose your path of discovery and find your purpose and live with passion. When you thirst for more, you’ll ignite the fire in your soul. There is a Character of Success and it is yours to have. You are the master of your fate and you alone can decide who and what you want to be. Find your light and step into your power to be the person you always knew you could be.

Free Inspirational Seminar With Paul Hoffman

Join us to welcome Paul Hoffman on Speakers In The Park on June 24th @ 9:15 PM Eastern time.  If you registered once you do not have to register again. Don’t miss Paul Hoffman!  Check the world clock time converter to get the time right in your time zone. (I found a better time converter!)

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What Is Your Life Purpose?

Today it is more important than ever to begin your journey on finding your life’s purpose. When one begins to think about this, it is easy to get overwhelmed. That is because it is big. For some it may invoke some fear.  Others are numb to it, thinking that they do not need it, or that it does not exist.

It certainly does exist, and your life will be infinitely happier once you are on your path. The good news is that it is actually fun to find your life purpose, and the system you can follow to begin your journey.

Your Purpose/Meaning Of Life

The meaning of your life or purpose will be found through the Process of Transformation.

1. Explore

Do what you like, and what you think you may love. Do similar things, and play with it…don’t get locked in to what is comfortable just because it is ok, and it pays the bills. When you are no longer learning, and when things are stagnant, leave that, and explore more.

Travel, help others, and constantly change jobs in which you have not found something that truly feels right.

Take the stance and realize that school taught us NOT to fail, but it is through failure that so much more is attained! When you do fail, take the stance that every failure is good in some way. Always, no matter what, love where you are NOW.

2. Personal Development

You don’t know everything.

I am sure you can relate…sometimes when I learn about a new subject, I just totally get how little I actually know. It is amazing how much is out there!

Perhaps it is our ego that likes to keep us from taking more time to learn, read, and develop ourselves. That is also odd because if it is our ego that wants us to stay comfortable and away from that sometimes, I also believe that sometimes our ego that wants us to be big, and keep learning.  That is a battle that can be fought on both ends. In any case, I believe that we can build ourselves without ego; I believe we can even trick the ego to get on our good side, and use its power to our advantage.

What I do know is that if we stop challenging our mind, and stop reading, learning, and asking questions, parts of our brain stop working. Our intelligence and our desire to keep learning dwindles, and little by little we are on the couch every night, watching others live their dream on the radiant light box we call a tv.

If you want to find your true purpose, the last thing you want to lose is your curiosity to learn. Your learning simultaneously expands your mind power, soul search, and body understandings.

So how can you develop yourself? There are so many ways! Join interesting Meetups, go to the bookstore and pick new books each time, go to seminars, be open to it all, say yes to learning…

3. Ignite

Through exploration and personal growth you will come across activities you like, topics you enjoy; this is the time to ignite! By ignite, I mean take action. Nothing has ever happened without action. Do it!

Through actually doing it you will find out if this truly is something you are passionate about. If you are passionate, it can lead to your purpose. So keep doing it for a longer period. If after igniting, you lose the initial passion, or if there is no more learning, or if it just feels monotonous, or time is just going by and you are just filling space, what you are doing is clearly not your purpose. Leave it behind, and go back to step 1.

4. Discover

If, after igniting what you are interested in, you feel a deep sense of fulfillment, then you are likely getting really close to finding your purpose. Finding your purpose is not something that happens over a day, a week, or sometimes not even over a year. However, you can find what you are passionate about in a day or a week, and it is through doing what you are most passionate about that will open the doors to your true life purpose.

Anders Finding Life’s Purpose July 8th Speakers In The Park

Anders Gustavsson will be the guest speaker on Speakers In The Park on July 8th @ 9:15 PM.  Register for Speakers In The Park to learn more about fulfilling your life’s purpose.  If you registered once already then you do not have to register again.  Order your MP3 downloads of the Speakers In The Park.

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Building Monsters and Starting a Small Business

This is a reprise of a post I did on my Working at Home on the Internet Blog last October telling a short story of the making of a Halloween Decoration, “Dead Joe“, and how it relates to the Building of a Small Business. The picture below is of a scared, hold-on-for-his-life, beer-drinking skeleton just sitting on the patio with a look of fear on his face.

Maybe he was thinking of starting his own Small Business?

Sure, the financial market is on a roller coaster ride at the present time and there are plenty of things to worry about with your 401(k) and maybe even your job itself.

This post isn’t about the worries of keeping your job, but if you are in a position of change and you are thinking of getting out of the rat-race and starting your own business, there are some things that relate to the building of that monster that may help in the pursuit.

The Idea Stage

When K brought home a cute little bony head that made some scary sounds and thought it would make a nice little addition to the Halloween decorations, I thought it a needed a little more. It was so small and puny and looked so forlorn all by itself on the step. I knew I could make something a bit cooler, scarier and just a bit more lifelike (or dead-like) to entertain the Trick-or-Treaters.

The Building Of The Monster Is Just Like Starting A Business

• First, I set the head on a small stepladder we have and rarely use. Starting to get a little more defined “body”, a skeleton if you will. There is something to work with.
• Second, I grab one of my old work cut-off vests, but it had no arms. It needed more!
• Third, what do I do with just a torso? Give it some legs, of course. An old wornout pair of jeans with no bottom should do the job.
• Fourth, it still had no arms, needed an old work shirt. No feet at the end of the legs, needs my former work boots. Hands? Old work gloves.

The Building of Your Business

• First, start with your strength. Are you good at writing? Fixing computers? How about just what you really, really like doing? If you have a talent or expertise in any field, it could be well worth starting a business, but you have to have a solid base, just like the bony little head of “Dead Joe”.
• Second, you have to have a vision. Even though you have a solid base on the what you do, you still need to be able to envision where you want to go with your business. See what your end result COULD be.
• Third, you need to be able to adapt to whatever the situation calls for. Whether it is adding employees, equipment, or buckling down and doing it yourself, you will have to give your business some legs.
• Fourth, look to the future. You already had a vision of what your business might be; now look at what it CAN be. Since you started with a skeleton and built the body piece by piece, you are in control of what the end result will look like. It is up to you.

I just wanted to give you an idea of how I think and maybe even some new ideas of ways to approach starting and running a Small Business.

Thoughts? How did you start your business? or better yet… How do you plan on starting your business?

Join Speakers In The Park

Join the Speakers In The Park series on July 22th when I share with you the answers to the FAQ regarding anti-virus solutions as well as whether your business would be better off with a blog or a website. This 8 speaker seminar will keep your business sizzling all Summer.  The tele-seminar is no charge and registration is required. Join Speakers In The Park

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Lisa Nichols Rocked The Direct Sales Motivational Call!

The first of the Speakers In The Park call was awesome with motivational speaker, Lisa Nichols!� I have received so many emails with praise for her motivational message as well as her sincerity and believe it or not her cute-ness!� The call went into overtime with Q & A and lasted almost 1 hour 20 minutes.� The Q & A part was as good as the inspirational chat that she gave about her best selling book, No Matter What!

Click to listen to an excerpt of the call.

Get The Entire Lisa Nichols Download

Motivation For Direct Sales Professionals

Lisa shared with us about her best selling book, No Matter What! which is now on the best sellers list. Lisa achieved her dream and goal to show the world that an African American women of not-a-great back ground can create a best selling book and cinch a $17 million book publishing deal.

• It was great I really enjoyed it.� I plan on ordering the book today…Thanks, Tamera
• Lisa was phenomenal last night!!!!� Thank you so much for bringing her to the Speakers in the Park. Phyllis
• Awesome! I can not believe how much info Lisa gave! It was cool to hear her be so real and sincere. Lisa K.
• Thank you for that awesome opportunity!!!� I really enjoyed the call last night and the questions and comments from listeners that followed.� Thank you!� I hope that we can bring Lisa to this area for an event.� I am sure that all of the Mary Kay people could help you plan that. Lori S.
• Deb, If you are planning an east coast seminar with Lisa, out Longaberger team will definitely help out! I think getting her to the east coast would be AWESOME! Wilma B.

Lisa Young, Direct Sales Expert

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Write A Home Business Plan For Tax Deductions

All successful businesses have a business plan. A business plan assists you in achieving your goals in business as well as increases your tax deductions.

I am often asked what are the secrets to success in a home business. At first I thought that there were no secrets. Now I am starting to realize that the true secret to success in any business is to treat it like a business or a profession. That doesn’t mean that you must work full time it just means that you must act like a professional. When you treat your business like a hobby you will get hobbyist results. When you treat your home party business like the professional earning opportunity that it is you will earn a consistent pay check. The size of the pay check will be in direct relationship to the time invested. Professionalism is an attitude not a time commitment.

Listen to the hour long recording which we recorded during the Power Hour last year. This Power Hour call is a direct sales training seminar on how to write a business plan for home party companies.

(Please remember that this recording took place in the past so any specials or offers made are expired.)

Business Marketing Plan-IRS Home Office Deductions

All successful businesses have a business marketing plan. Your business plan is a perpetual work in progress and it provides you with a marketing path to follow in your business and it makes you IRS compliant for taking the home office deduction as well. It will change from time to time. Your business plan will provide you with goals and clarity for your business and keep you in compliance with the IRS for your home office deduction.

How To Write A Business Plan

When you write your business plan like a professional and update it yearly you will be setting yourself up for business success. As you listen to the audio recording you will learn how writing a business plan will keep you on track. Many people have a plan but never write it down. Take the time to write out your goals and the actions that you will take to reach your goals so you have a way to gauge your success and determine how you are doing.

IRS Business Plan Templates

The IRS expert accountant approved direct sales business plan template for direct sales and home businesses is part of the Power UP For Professional Results program. A good business plan will set you up for success in your home party business and also give you the security you need for you home office deduction when dealing with the IRS.

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