New Must Have – Hostess Coaching App

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Hostess Coaching is one of the most important tasks for a Direct Sales Consultant, yet it is probably the most put off, over looked task of all.  Even consultants with the best of intentions sometimes forget to call their upcoming party hostesses.   My friend Suzanne Poincelot, a Party Plan Divas Member and Direct Sales Leader [...]

How To Book More Parties

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Keeping a full calendar is critical to the success of your Home Party Plan Business. But how do you book up your calendar?  And once you have some bookings, how do you get people to continue to book so that you do not have to keep going out Gardening over… and over… and over!?! Home [...]

Organizing Your Office – Hostess Folder Success

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Hey Lynsey – Any tips or suggestions for a filing system for party plan? I’m setting up a new office after moving and want to start fresh. I have new binders and a new filing cabinet. Where to start…. ??? – Cindy Denning, Close To My Heart Consultant Hey Cindy! Great question! And congrats on [...]

Gardening Gifts Made Easy – eFavorMart #Giveaway

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One of the most important parts of growing your Party Plan Direct Sales Business is marketing.  At Party Plan Divas we use the term “Gardening” because you really have to think of marketing as “planting seeds of success” around your home town.  These “seeds” will grow into opportunities for bookings, sales, and even recruiting. Gardening [...]

LAST Minute Holiday Sales Ideas

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With Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and even Cyber Monday already past, is it too late for to grab holiday sales? No way. “A recent study shows more than half of consumers expect the best holiday deals between Thanksgiving and Christmas. With the National Retail Federation predicting holiday sales to grow 4.1 percent this [...]

Customer Care – Christmas Photo Cards from VistaPrint

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One of the most important – yet most overlooked aspect of the Direct Sales business is Customer Care.  For whatever reason most Consultants see follow up as a big, ugly, green, scary monster and resist picking up that “600 pound phone” to make Customer Care Calls.   We procrastinate, make excuses, get analysis paralysis, and then [...]

Top 10 WordPress Plugins For Party Plan Divas

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Last week we discussed using Wordpress to boost your online presence. One of the benefits to Wordpress over other blogging platforms is definitely the PlugIns!

Here are the Top 10 Plugins I recommend for all Party Plan Divas blogs:

Halloween Themed Party Games for Party Plan Consultants

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I love hosting theme parties with my Party Plan Business.  It’s a great way to break up the monotony of doing the same ‘ole party every time.  With Halloween just a few weeks away, I wanted to share some of my favorite Halloween Themed Party Games that you can begin using as early as October [...]

Tips For A Great Customer eNewsletter

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Offering a Customer Newsletter (or eNewsletter) is one of the most TIME effective and COST effective things you can do to increase your Party Plan Business in big ways.  Reports show that companies that use eNewsletters have seen an increase in business both in first time sales and even larger increase in returning sales.   eNewsletters [...]

A Marketing Lesson… From KY Brand

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Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.  ~Milan Kundera Last week while perusing the Valentine’s Section at the Pharmacy while waiting on a prescription to be filled I saw the new KY Brand Yours + Mine “Date Night Pack.”   The box grabbed my attention with  “Everything you need for a Perfect Date Night” [...]

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