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What are you doing right now…this week to fill up your dating and booking calendar for your fall and holiday season home parties?

Are you still sitting on the fence? Are you taking action and getting your calendar filled up? Not sure where to find your holiday bookings yet?

Well…the clock is ticking. It is time to get busy booking your fall and holiday parties now!

Here are a few ideas on where you can find some holiday bookings.

1. Contact all of your past party hosts. Ask them to book a party for October or November. Offer them a holiday themed party if possible.

2. Contact local schools, sports team and groups and offer them a holiday fundraiser if your company offers a fundraising program.

3. Contact some adult daycare centers and assisted living facilities and offer to come in and do a holiday party for their residents. Seniors have a hard time getting out and about to do their holiday shopping so take the shopping to them. Parties of this nature need to be planned and scheduled at least 30 to 45 days in advance.

4. Contact local daycare centers for children. See if you can come in and do a party for the parents and daycare teachers & staff.

5. Contact local consultants in your area and team up! Find a nice place and all of you go in together and hold a shopping event. You will all need to help promote it to get the customers in there.

6. Contact some churches and local groups to inquire about their fall festivals and holiday events. A lot of them hold open house shopping events and craft shows. You can usually get a booth or table for less than $40.00

Yes…I know this is the beginning of September but it’s time to get busy and start working on your fall and holiday home party calendar. Pick up the phone, make a few calls and watch your calendar fill up with party bookings.

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Online parties are really popular these days and are much like a home party. If you are looking for some fun online party games, I have 5 game ideas to share with you.

1. Guest Scavenger Hunt – Before the party begins, pick 5-7 items from your website to use for your Scavenger Hunt Game. Write them down and come up with 2-3 clues about the product and its location on your site. When you begin the game during your party, let the guests know that you will give them a few clues about a particular product and they have to find that product on your website. The first person to find it, gets a point. The one with the most points, wins the game.

2. Word Scramble – Before the party begins, come up with a list of 10 of your products and scramble up the letters. During the game, copy and paste in the scrambled word and have the guests unscramble the letters to form the correct word. Award 1 point to the person who correctly types in the word the fastest. The person with the most points, wins the game.

3. Power Word – Before the party begins, decide on which word that you would like to use for the Power Word. I am with Tupperware so I like to use the power word ROCKS! Let your party guests know that every time you use your company name during the presentation, that the first person to type in the power word gets a point. Example: Tupperware has lunch products to…first person to type in ROCKS! gets the point. At the end of the party, the person with the most points wins a prize. This game is great as it holds the attention of all party guests during the entire length of the party.

4. Trivia Game – Before the party begins, decide on a few trivia questions that pertain to your niche. Example: If you sell kitchenware, make your trivia questions related to food and cooking. If you sell jewelry, have your trivia questions related to jewelry. I like to use 7-10 questions for this game. The person who gets the most correct answers, wins the game.

5. Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader – Before this party game begins, decide on what type of questions you would like to ask (similar to trivia questions but from a variety of topics). I like to use 10 questions. Have each party guest type their answer into the chat room. If they answered correctly, they get a point. If they type in the incorrect answer, they lose 1 point. If they don’t type in any answer, they lose 2 points. Give them a time limit of 20 seconds per question that you ask. The person who has the highest amount of points, wins the game.

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Take colored or pretty printed envelopes and in each envelope put a slip of paper inside that says: “prize” or “book a party.” Pass out the sealed envelopes to all of the attendees at the party. Let them know this is a “deal or no deal” game. They could win a prize or book a party, but either way they have to do what their envelope says.

Towards the end of the party, remind the guests about their “Deal or No Deal” prize envelopes. Announce that they can open their envelopes if they are thinking about hosting a party.

On the Prize Slips – I just mark…You won a prize. I offer a simple prize that costs me less than $2.50

On the Book A Party Slips – I mark on those…You win 2 prizes if you book a party with me today. For these, I offer a simple prize that costs me less than $2.50 and then the booking prize which retails for around $10.00

However, you need to stress upon the party guests that if they receive an envelope that has a BOOK A PARTY prize, they will need to book a party and hold it within the next 4 weeks.

To make this easier, I will use pastel solid color envelopes and pretty printed designed envelopes. I put the prize slips in the pastel solid envelopes and the book a party slips in the printed envelopes.

If only a handful of guests are at the party, I might give out just 2-3 of the book a party envelopes, if there are a lot of attendees at the party, then I hand out 5-7 of the book a party envelopes.

You can adjust this Deal or No Deal game to suit your own needs.

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Before the party, figure out what you would like to give as a little booking gift incentive. Write it down on a slip of paper and fold it to fit inside a balloon. Blow up the balloons and tie them shut.

As guests arrive for the party, they get a balloon… as you hand it to them say… “this is yours for the evening after all what’s a party with out balloons and presents. Hang on to it and don’t trade it away, you may be holding the special balloon…. It’s yours” and if he/she asks any questions regarding what’s inside… just give a very sneaky look and a smile!

When I open the show, I casually remind them to hang onto their balloons, that we will get to them later in the show.

For the entire evening the guest “owns” the balloon and the gift inside. You will see them shaking the balloon and see the curiosity in their eyes. Towards the end of the party, you will want to say, “ladies and gentlemen, you all have your balloons, and by now you have figured out that there is a special gift inside from me! If you decide to book a show this evening the gift is yours. and you may pop your balloon to discover what you have won, otherwise you must return the balloon to me. If three of you pop your balloon then the hostess get to pop hers too.”

The wording here is key! There is not a person in that room who is not dying to know what their prize is… and not a single one who is thrilled to give you their balloon back. And your hostess will also want to pop his/hers to see what their MYSTERY prize is, so he/she will work to get other’s to pop theirs. They must bring their Balloon to you with their order and pop the balloon with you.

If you’re like me, asking for the future bookings should not be the hardest part of the show, but the easiest and something like this would sure move things along.

Prize Ideas: Your prizes should be little items that retail for less than $5.00 each.

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Wrap a little gift before the party. Once at the party, give it to the party host to hold. Start the game by calling out the list.

Pass the present to The Person Who Arrived First
Pass the present to The Person Who Has The Most Children
Pass the present to The Tallest Person At The Party
Pass the present to The Person Who Has Been Married The Longest
Pass the present to The Person With The Most Grandchildren
Pass the present to The Person Who Needs To Buy 2 Gifts Tonight
Pass the present to The Person Who Has The Youngest Child
Pass the present to The Person Who Would Like To Earn FREE Products
Pass the present to The Person Who Is Wearing The Most Jewelry
Pass the present to The Person Who Needs To Earn Extra Money
Pass the present to The Person Who Arrvied To The Party Last
Pass the present to The Person On The Right
Pass the present to The Person Who Is Sitting 3 Spots Away From Your Left Side. Congrats, That person has just won the gift!

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How Well Do You Know The Party Host Game

Ask the hostess to fill out a quiz before the party begins. Give every guest a piece of paper to write their answers down.

1 – What is the hosts favorite color?____________________
2 – What color are his/her eyes? _______________________
3 – What is the hosts favorite dessert? _________________
4 – Will the free merchandise items he/she chooses be just for herself, herself and others or all for others? ___________
5 – What is his/her favorite restaurant? ___________________
6 – If he/she could go on a vacation with money being no object – where
would he/she go? ____________________
7 – Would she over pack , pack just enough, or under pack and forget
something? _______________
8 – If he/she has 3 bookings from her party would she choose the 3 party booking gift or more in Free Merchandise of her choice? _______________
9 – How old is your party host? _____________
10 – If he/she had to pick a number what number between 1 and 10 do you think he/she would pick? _____________

Let’s check your answers against your party hosts!
Give yourself 1 point for every matching answer. Most points wins!!! If there is a tie, then have hostess pick a number from 1-25 and the closest person will win.

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Totally Awesome Career Opportunity!

If you are in Direct Sales and looking to recruit new members to your team, then try hosting a T.A.C.O. Business Opportunity Party. This type of party can be done at a business networking event, expo, fair, community center or done from your own home.

How To Advertise The T.A.C.O. Business Event/Party: print up fliers and hang them up locally through out your community, mail out invitations to those who you know who might be looking to start a home business in Direct Sales, get a classified ad in your local newspaper and do some online advertising on local area message boards and web sites. It would also be adviseable to invite your past customers and party hosts to the business event.

Theme: Stick to the T.A.C.O. theme by serving mexican-style refreshments such as tacos, nachos, virgin margaritas, taco chips and salsa.

Decorations: If you are looking for some inexpensive Southwest and/or Mexican style party items, check out your local party supply store. You could purchase and wear a sombrero, get some southwest printed table cloths, use some cactus and aloe plants as accents etc, just get creative! You will want to set the mood as soon as your guests arrive for the T.A.C.O. business event.

Preparation: Make up some business opportunity information packets ahead of time and load them up with information about the business opportunity that you will be presenting. It is also helpful to have some visual aids on display during your presentation.

Time: Keep your presentation to about 30 minutes in length and then allow another 20 minutes for your guests to ask you questions and another 30 minutes for a little bit of mingling and clean up.

Make sure to get the contact information from your guests, a great way to accomplish that is by having a preprinted survey for them to complete or try offering a contest with a prize and have your guests fill out a contest entry form which will collect their contact information. After the event, follow up will be key in getting new members to join your Direct Sales team.

This article is copyright 2008 by Shelly Hill. All Rights Reserved. This article can not be reprinted without Shelly’s Permission.

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