Booking Ideas Page: email me your idea
Scavenger Hunt
Pick-a-pot Party: This is a special HGP board with 50 squares that are numbered 1-50. The hostess sells each square for $2.00 each. When the board is full, you draw a winning number. The person’s name in that square wins the $100 pot in HGP products for FREE, plus any item for ½ price!
Mini Spoon Jar Candle Party: The hostess sells a minimum of 8 mini spoon jar candles. She receives $20.40 in FREE products, plus any item @ ½ price.
Caribbean Cruise Candle Mystery Hostess Party: Make up a special flyer explaining that multiple people will participate by selling 5 mini spoon jar candles each. They get their name in a drawing to have a chance to be the winning hostess of the hostess benefits or win ½ price items. Close 1 on the 15th & another on the 30th. 5 hostesses per party = $318.75 in sales!
Free Bean Pot Party: The hostess sells 5 bean pots. She receives one for FREE, plus any item for ½ price.
Fundraiser: Anyone who needs help raising funds.
Bridal Party: Do a special party for a new bride or a bride-to-be. She does her wish list (registry). Family & friends buy a gift from her list. She gets the hostess benefits.
New Homeowner Party: This is a party for anyone who has just moved into a new home or apartment. Everyone will want to come & see their new home & she will enjoy decorating with her FREE HGP products. It can even be done as an Open House where guests may purchase a house-warming gift for her from a Wish list.
Bingo/Multiple Hostess Night: You provide the place for hostesses to have their parties. No cleaning house or kicking husbands out with the children.
Mystery Hostess Open House: Hold your own open house. Invite your neighbors, past hostesses & guests. They can come as guests, but may leave as the Hostess!
Show on the Go Party: Find someone who works at an office to be the hostess & receive the benefits for passing around a small basket of HGP products & collecting the orders. You pick up the basket & orders in a week. EASY!
Busy Bee Hostess Party: A catalog party with a TWIST. She mails you an invitation list. You send out minis & a flyer announcing how it works.
You’ve Got Mail Party: This is an E-mail party! The hostess sends out e-mail to her friends or co-workers announcing that she is doing e-mail party. She has a large catalog for everyone to peek at & they e-mail you their orders. It can also be done by sending out mini’s to everyone that she has invited to participate. Then they e-mail their order to you for a total.
In Home Auction Party: The party we are all doing now, at a hostess’s house!
Birthday Party: Find someone who is celebrating a birthday this month. Hold a party in honor of her special occasion. It doesn’t have to be held on her birth date, just during her birth month.
Stay at Home Mom’s Party: Hostess invites other stay at home Mom’s. You do the party at a park where the children can enjoy the setting, too!
After Work Party: This is done at an office right after work in a lunchroom setting. Be sure to get permission to do this with the office. Having a display of 10-12 items should work nice.
Pottery Day Party: Set a date that will be POTTERY DAY. Everyone calls in on that day. Offer specials for the first 5 to order, or for times of the day they place orders.
Co-Hostess Party: 2 hostesses work together & split the benefits. Maybe one supplies the home & the other brings the refreshments.
Beauty Salon or Nail Salon Party: Find a hostess who works in a salon to share the catalog with her clients & friends. They see on avg. 8 people per day. 8 orders @ $30 per day is $240.00 in sales. $240.00 times 5 days = a $1200.00 party!
For Men Only Party: Men have shopping needs, too! Find a host to invite his friends over so that they can shop for the women in their lives.
Summer Vacation Party: With summer arriving, invite a hostess to take catalogs along on the trip. Close the party when she returns with her orders from friends & family out of the area.
Find a Name Party: List each letter of the alphabet on a flyer. Send your hostess on a hunt to find people with names that start with each letter & invite them to place an order. If she collects a $30 order from all 26 letters, her party would be a $780.00. Collecting orders from 13 names (letters) would be a $390.00 party!
Scavenger Hunt Gift Need Party: List occasions like Birthday, Anniversary, Secretary’s day, Graduation, Father’s Day, etc. The hostess finds customers in need of a gift for the special occasions listed.
STARTER PARTY: This is for a new Designer! Help her start her own HGP business! You will also earn sponsoring points for the Cruise!
Here is a list of theme parties
1. Pool Party – Hold show around pool, get a small plastic play pool and fill
with ice and drinks.
2. Piña Colada Party – use Piña Colada candles as door prizes
3. Strawberry Daiquiri Party – use red candles as door prizes.
4. Margarita Party –
5. Build your own Sundaes – Hostess provides the ice cream and the guests
bring the toppings.
6. Wine & Cheese Party – Hostess serves wine and cheese for dessert
7. Saturday Brunches – while air is still cool, have a morning brunch or tea.
(Bread and muffin exchange – bring favorite recipe and sample to share).
8. Summer sizzle – Have the guest bring their favorite way to cool down to
the party and let them judge who is the "coolest".
9. Summer Salads – Ask each guest to bring their favorite summer salad recipe
and exchange, maybe samples.
10. Sports – Decorate your table with your favorite sports teams themes and
colors.
11. Patio Party – Have a party outside on the patio, serve nice tall glasses
of lemonade.
12. Garden Party – Have the show in someone’s garden and have every guest
wear their garden hat or big floppy hat.
13. June is Strawberry month – serve strawberry shortcake.
14. Very Berry Party – Make berry desserts or berry toppings for cheesecake
or ice cream.
15. Red, White and Blue Party – Have everyone come dressed in their favorite
patriotic outfit. Serve red, white and blue dessert.
16. Ugly Candle Contest – Have each guest bring their ugliest candle to the
show; person with the ugliest candle gets it replaced with a new one from
Home & Garden Party.
17. Creative Candle Hat – each guest creates their hat that they wear to the
party, but it must have a candle on it somewhere, contest for the best hat.
18. Ten to midnight Party – Do an outdoor party late at night.
19. Daycare Party – provide the sitter for a morning or day show for moms.
20. Picnic in the Park – Hostess supplies picnic and we do the show out in
the park.
21. Potluck Shows – Each guest brings a dish; choose the theme for the
potluck; example – each guest is given a country and she must make a dish
from that country to bring.
22. Christmas in July or August – (since that is when the catalog comes out).
23. Hawaiian Shirt Party – Each guest wears their favorite Hawaiian shirt;
offer drink with little paper umbrellas; possibly get paper leis to put
around each guest as they arrive.
24. Build your own Nachos Party – Hostess provides the chips and each guest
brings a topping.
25. Back to College or Off to College Party – Invite College students or
parents who have college students especially those who live in dorms. Focus
on candles etc to remind them of home. That dorm room needs to have a cozy
"home feeling too"
26. Big Chicken Party – Great way to get to know new neighbors who just moved
in or if you just moved. Invite people you don’t know or don’t know very
well.
27. Men's Only party -- Invite the men for an afternoon of football, pizza,
soda ...set up a display and let them shop for Christmas presents during
half-time, place a $25 (or whatever) order and I gift wrap the gifts for
them.
28. Happy Hour Party – Hostess serves munchies and drinks.
29. Chocolate Lovers Party -- Serve all chocolate desserts
30. Couples Party -- Invite the significant others.
31. BYOV Party -- (Bring your own veggie: Make veggie pizza)
32. Wedding Showers, Baby Showers, Birthday Parties, House Warming Parties,
Anniversary Parties, Come up with your own! – Whatever the need, Home &
Garden Party can meet it.
33. Create your own theme party! Any ideas to bring friends together.
82 Ways To Get Bookings
1. Send a catalog to a co-worker that has moved.
2. Send a catalog to your Tupperware, Discovery, Toys, etc reps or exchange
shows
3. Post a catalog in the Teacher's lounge at your child's school.
4. Post a catalog in the employee lunch room.
5. Hold an open house.
6. Have a booth at a school fair.
7. Advertise in your alumni newsletter and/or local newspaper.
8. Give a catalog to the receptionist at your doctor's or dentist's office.
9. Include a wrap or flyer with your bill payments.
10. Call past hostesses.
11. Put current catalog or flyer in your neighbor's door. Include a 10% off
coupon.
12. Ask friends to have a show.
13. Advertise in your church bulletin-send catalog to other church ladies
groups.
14. Take a bean pot and recipe to every potluck.
15. Host an office party or brunch.
16. Host a show before or during a PTA meeting.
17. Mail out catalog and wish list.
18. Host your own show. Could even be a fundraiser for your favorite charity.
19. Get a list from Welcome Wagon. New people may be looking for a consultant
r new job in this area.
20. Set up a display at a craft fair.
21. Participate in a school fund-raiser.
22. Have your husband or significant other promote the products at work.
23. Have you and your family members wear a Home and Garden Party T-shirt.
24. Hold a Christmas Shopping Show for MEN (this might require keeping a wish
list from your customers.)
25. Offer a Christmas wish list to your guest and then call the gift giver
and tell him what the guest wants.
26. Set up a display at a mall.
27. Put an "ask me about Home and Garden Party" button on your purse or coat.
28. Ask past hostesses at shows to talk about their free products.
29. Hold an opportunity night nearby.
30. Random mailings-open a phone book and randomly choose.
31. Mention hostess half-price combos and other benefits at least 3 times per show.
32. Hold up higher priced products and mention half-price products to encourage bookings.
33. Mention how much your "average" hostess gets in products.
34. At the beginning of your show mention the hostess goal.
35. Share upcoming specials at shows and during phone calls.
36. Tell your hostess how much she saved by having her show.
37. Encourage frequent customers to regularly plan show.
38. Encourage hostesses to rebook in 6-9 months. She'll have booking credits
and see the new products at her next show.
39. Treat hostesses to a special "Hostess Appreciation Tea".
40. Encourage relatives to book a show.
41. Call your Realtor with suggestions for "new home packages".
42. Offer to do a display at your local grocery store.
43. Start an E-mail address book of customers who want to know what the
monthly specials are; don't forget to mention the hostess specials. If there isn't one, create one (make them meet certain requirements EX: have $350 party and 2 bookings and keep the gift at $20 or less).
44. Encourage your hostesses and guest to refer potential hostesses to you---I offer $15 gift certificate if they refer one that books.
45. Offer a bridal registry.
46. Promote the Home and Garden Party Bride show.
47. Describe and highlight the hostess plan during shows.
48. Be friendly and enthusiastic.
49. Follow through on every booking lead.
50. ASK, ASK, ASK
51. Use open-ended questions, especially when dealing with booking concerns.
52. Use your products at home, office, camping, parties, etc.
53. Read sales, self-improvement, and positive thinking books.
54. Call at least two potential hostesses every night-- keep at it.
55. Dream and imagine the possibilities.
56. Set goals and review them constantly. Post them where you can see them.
57. Ask friends to help you get started or reach a certain goal.
58. Use hostess benefits flyers--post on bulletin boards at grocery stores, laundry mats, etc.
59. Use postcards and/or newsletters to spark interest.
60. Follow up phone calls to particularly interested guest. They may decide later to have a show.
61. Have the hostess tell why she decided to host a show.
62. Give products as gifts or donations ie, auctions for charities.
63. Don't be shy talking about your products or your business.
64. Smile when talking on the phone--it does show.
65. Review orders from past shows--who have bought frequently, etc.
66. Be prepared to answer questions about your work.
67. Write down names of people who" owe you a favor" then follow up.
68. Call the most familiar people first.
69. Call potential hostesses who postponed or never booked.
70. Spend time every day working on some aspects of our business.
71. Be willing to share the business opportunity.
72. Call anyone who has said "maybe" or "sometime".
73. Contact schools, churches, and groups for fundraisers.
74. Advertise in football or musical programs.
75. Leave your business cards on bulletin boards or in local businesses.
76. Talk about upcoming specials with everyone.
77. Keep a list of special requests and let those guests know when that
product is on sale.
78. Suggest hosting a show to do Christmas shopping without leaving home.
79. Offer a bonus for hostesses who book on days and/or months you need an
extra show.
80. Give extra service and time to good customers--they will be repeat
hostesses and potential designers.
81. Carry a notepad to jot down names as you think of them.
82. Let guests keep a catalog or product parade to keep on hand or pass
around work.
Some more ways:
Offer a 1 cent sale--have a product that they can buy for 1 cent when the
book (give after the party)
During party make one of the games the "help your hostess game" to get
bookings, have each person name a hostess item they would like to have, get them
thinking about it.
Offer $15.00 free merchandise to anyone who gives you the name of someone who
books (but not the booking gifts--my personal preference)
Ask previous hostesses to give you names & phone numbers of people that YOU
DON'T KNOW and who might do a party.Stacking Game
A stack game is where you have a Vanna White (someone who would make a good
you and possible recruit) a fake husband, an accountant, and a fake hostess.
I tell what an average party is $400. And say that gives this hostess
(sitting in middle of room) $80. of free and four half priced items.
Vanna's job is to lay and put all the items the hostess selects off my display
and lays them at her feet. I instruct the pretend hostess to choose her
lower priced items for her free and her higher priced items for half off. I
tell the fake husband to keep account of all the actual costs of everything
and the accountant will tally until $80. is spent then erase her calculator
and start over only adding overages and half prices.
The game begins as the hostess shops and I have the guests look up the prices
for the fake accountant and the fake husband.
Everyone gets auction dollars for participating and yelling out the prices
and the half prices. WHEN the hostess has spent her free and she often goes over, I say," I want
you to notice HOW MUCH PRODUCT OUR AWESOME HOSTESS GETS FOR BOOKING HER OWN SHOW!" She can always go over. Now accountant, erase $80. off your
calculator and lets start over, fake husband, you just keep adding all this
up. Now the hostess chooses her half offs. Guests are yelling out the full and
half prices, your job is to tell the adding people what to put in their
calculators. The accountant adds the half prices, the fake husband adds the
full price.
Then I have the hostess pick a hostess gift, I always carry two in my kit so
that they have a CHOICE. I then tell the guests, that she worked hard before
her show and told her friends how exciting it is to have your own party and
she had two bookings ready for me when I got to her party. I then tell the
accountant to add nothing to her calculator because the hostess gift is FREE
TOO!!! But the fake husband must add $30. to his calculator because the value
of a 2 booking gift is $30.
Then I say to the guests, "NOW LOOK AROUND OUR HOSTESS HERE! SEE WHAT SHE
RECEIVED JUST FOR SHARING HER FRIENDS WITH ME IN HER HOME?
Fake husband how much is our hostesses grand total? It is usually around
$300 or $290. something" That is still a bargain for all these beautiful
items don't you think?"
"Now, accountant, what is our awesome , hostess going to have to pay for all
of this?'
It is usually around $65. to $85.
Now you can hear a pin drop. They are all thinking now of friends they can
invite to get the bargain of the century.
I have already instructed my guests not to fill out their own tickets at the
beginning of the show because of errors, and they are to come to me after the
party is over, I will help them with their tickets, it is then that I ask
each and every guest WHEN are they going to book their own party. If they
say no, I ask kindly why not that it would be a pleasure to come to their
home and share our company with their friends and relatives. It is here I
let her tell me any objections and deal with them there. Then you book away.
Print this up and study it, It took about two practices to get this right,
but it works wonderful. Then before you know it, you're booking like a pro.
let me know how it turns out.
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*This sale is for individual orders only…no hostess benefits awarded…. orders shipped directly to you. Excludes orders at parties (MC, VISA, Discover, personal checks accepted)
Earn additional 10% off by booking a Show:
BUSY BEE Party - I mail out invites as if you were having a how but guests phone in their orders to you instead of coming to your house.
POOL PARTY- fun by the pool
BOOK SHOW Party-take orders from the book and turn in for free merchandise
FLYER PARTY-take mini spoon jar candle flyer and sell 12 of them to co-workers , family ,friends….earn a bean pot for $1.50 (or anything you want and pay the difference)
CHRISTMAS Party-August starts the new book! Be the first to offer it to your guests…filling up fast!
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