November 15th, 2009 | 
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If you have been networking your Direct Sales business online, I am sure you have heard the coined phrase “Online Vendor Fair”…but, do you know what they are?
Online Vendor Fairs are online multi-vendor hosted parties. They are held in an online chat room and hosted by a web site or a group of Direct Sales consultants.
As a vendor, you reserve a spot during the vendor fair for your business presentation. This presentation can consist of product specials and/or your business opportunity. These presentations are usually 30 to 60 minutes in length and on some web sites, they can include visual and audio features or just held in a regular what you see, what you get type of chat room.
You will find some free admission vendor fairs and some will charge you a small fee to participate. As a vendor, it is your responsibility to help advertise the event to your customer base and/or by posting advertisements on social media outlets or online forum boards.
The best way to prepare for your presentation is by pre-typing up your speech and spell-checking it for any errors. Then when it comes time to do your presentation, all you have to do is copy and paste.
A good presentation goes something like this:
Introduction (personal and business)
Ordering Process (how they should place their orders with you)
3 to 4 product specials (where you specifically talk about a few products)
Question and Answer Segment
Play a quick party game (optional)
Your closing
All of the above should fit within the specified time that you are given.
If you are looking to participate in some online vendor party events, you can usually find them listed on work at home mom or direct sales types of web sites and forum boards. You can do a keyword search for “Online Vendor Fairs” through a search engine of your choice.
My blog post next week will take an in depth look at Vendor Fairs and how they can help to promote your business online.
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Posted in Direct Sales, Online Parties | 
Tags: business tips, direct sales, home party consultants, network marketing, online parties
I thought the online vendor fair was really neat and a good idea. The one you and Felissa had done was my first visit to an online vendor fair. I couldn’t stay to see everyone’s, but I hope you all walked away with some sales.
Sophia
I enjoyed our vendor fair. I hope we do many more.. :)
Neat idea! I haven’t participated in one and wondering what the success rate is.
Janette