Moms & Summer Business Helps!!!

This is information from a regional conference call at the beginning of the month, sent to me by my sales manager, Kathleen Quirk. Being a mother of 4 I really appreciated these ideas and hope some of you will, too!

Including your kids in your summer business:
*Do business at the park, the pool and other places you take your kids
Talk with host & recruiting prospects
Bring your laptop to return emails
Make customer care calls
*Meet prospective Demonstrators at McDonald’s where the kids can play in the enclosed playground while you interview
*Allow your children to experience the following so you can have extra time to do your business:
Vacation Bible schools
“Mothers Day Out” programs
Day camps—scouts, YMCA, summer school
*Gift wrap a Xerox box; (wrap top separate so it can be lifted off) Fill with inexpensive toys…tell your small kids, the only time they can play with this special box of toys is when you are doing business on the phone…when you get off the phone, have them pick up the toys and place them back in the box for the next time…keep rotating the toys to keep the box fun and exciting…

Summer Parties
· Vacation for your Senses party: Can’t afford a vacation this year? Join us for a 2 hour vacation experience with all of our tropical fragrances. Put display on a cute beach towel, wear a beach hat and carry product in a beach bag. Have the hostess serve drinks with tiny umbrellas in them and have tropical music playing.
· Emerge Spa Party: come pamper yourself and experience our fabulous emerge body care line.
· Unlit expressions party: You don’t have to burn candles to experience our wonderful fragrances. Come experience all of our unlit expressions: pod warmers, diffusers and much more. (Of course, candles are still for sale!)
· 5-1-1 Party: Tell the host she needs to invite only 5 friends and the each need to bring one friend and the party will only be one hour.
· Ugly Candle Party: Have the guests bring their ugliest candles. Give tickets for the sorriest ones.

Theme Parties
Pool Party—serve mimosas and light appetizers (with sunscreen)
Flip Flops and Fritos---or---Flip Flops and Margaritas
Play a flip flop game, example: have everyone put one of their flip flops in a large bag and hide the other flip flop in the bedroom. Pull out flip flops one at a time and people write down who they think the flip flop belongs to. Serve Fritos and dip or Margaritas.
Lawn chair party for an outside party. Ask everyone to bring their own lawn chair.
Game (points or tickets):
Aluminum chair—5 points or tickets
Torn or broken---10 points or tickets
Red---5 points or tickets
Blue---10 points or tickets
Cloth or plastic
Collegiate chair
Baked Potato Party—everyone bring a potato to bake at the party; (Put them in the oven after you play the game.) Host would have butter, sour cream, cheese and bacon bits. Can also add a salad. (To allow people that forgot their potato, the Host should have extra potatoes.)
Game (points or tickets)
Smallest potato
Largest
Most eyes
Shaped the funniest
Flattest
Wine and Cheese party: Game: have everyone bring their favorite wine glass in a gift bag…open the gift bag one at a time and everyone writes down who it belongs to. (Hint—without anyone knowing what you’re doing, take the bags to the bedroom and mix up the glasses and the bags because people will see the bag that their friends bring in.)

Why start a business in the summer? (Why sponsor in the summer?)
People are looking for summer employment
Key in on college students and teachers who are out for the summer
Mothers are home with kids
Become a Gold Demonstrator now so you can take advantage of fall fund raisers
There is no time like the present
Great promotions from Gold Canyon

Any of you who have one of these parties and submit pictures for our blog will receive a free gift. Start planning today - and have a wonderful summer!

Pod Party

The word is out! Scent Pods are quickly becoming very popular. Be sure to have a POD PARTY this month to introduce all of the newly released pod products to your customers and friends! Call up your previous hosts because they'll surely want to host one, too. Our amazing new and improved warmers with timers and the fact that Gold Canyon is offering OVER 70 fragrances in the pods is really brining in rave reviews! Don't miss out on the excitement!

POD PARTY IDEAS: Use scent pods as prizes and gifts at your party, and be sure to have your favorite fragrance warming when the guests arrive! Have a "Pod Hunt" by handing out catalogs and the first one to find the page with all the pod fragrances wins a prize. Use your creativity and make four "Help Me" pins/necklaces/stickers for you or your host. You or the host will wear all 4 and only remove one to place on a friend or guest who is willing to book a party. If the host gives away one, she gets a free 5oz, if she gives away two, upgrade it to an 8oz, if she gives 3 upgrade your booking gift to a 16oz and if she can get four bookings give her a free 26oz. "Name that Scent" take the lids off 4 or 5 pods and pass them around for the guests to write down their guess. Then tell what the answers are and see who got the most right. Be sure to have a Bonus Pod ready for a tiebreaker! This is a great way to get everyone smelling something new and talking about the products.

The pods and pod warmers are HOT this summer, make sure all of your customers and hosts know about it so you don't miss out on mega sales! Read more about our scent pods using the Labels section in the right column, just scroll down to Scent Pods to learn more ---->

May Recognition

WOW! Another month gone by! It's been quite busy around here, I finished off May with $2,780 in sales ($1800 of that was a fundraiser). That feels good. I'm pleased with all of your work this month and wanted to give you all a holler. Our team sales for the year are over $36,000 --it is a great time to be selling with Gold Canyon!


I'll start out with new demonstrators, please drop me a line if you've recruited and I missed someone, I don't get a notification from GC, I just have to look and see if I notice anyone new. I don't intentionally leave out a welcome, I love our newbies! I want to extend a WARM WELCOME Ginger Good (AR), Lance Mayberry (since March, oops!) (AZ), Mia Mayberry (AZ), and Kelley Montana (AZ). It is exciting to have you on our team and I look forward to getting to know each of you!

First let me recognize our top sellers for the month of May 2009. We had some real "go getters" with sales soaring into the thousands! Everyone put your hands together for new demonstrator Mia Mayberry (AZ) who sold $1,648. Closing in on her is Christine Dunlap (AZ) with $1,360 and Ronda Strauss (NY) with $1,235. All of these numbers are enviable, thank you ladies for amazing efforts!

In addition to our top sellers, these are our business builders in May: Alvin Thomas (AZ) $570, Kathy Ashton (WA) $526, Melanie Davis (AZ) $523, Sandra Hessert (AZ) $522, Barb Conboy (WA) $350, Lisa Thorpe (OK), Mary Fulk (AZ), Madalene Nieblas (AZ), Jessica Hernandez, Heather Mendoza, Zoe Mitchell, Kelly Ashliman, Traci Rhodes, Ginger Good and Tammy Neamon.

Everyone be sure to promote the Soda Pop Shoppe candles that have returned for a limited time. I've had customers asking about them right and left - and have printed the Show & Sell sheets to include with every catalog I give out. The Join Us promotion is 3 easy payments of $24.95 for the month of June, so it's a great time to build your team! Have a great summer!