Interactive Party

Involve your guests by making your next party INTERACTIVE! Here is a fun party idea shared by Celeste Ortiz.

Ask for guest volunteers. They will be reading these cards and you play the Vanna White role by either holding up product or show the pages in the catalog. Give your host the candle care card and pass out one card to each volunteer (you don't have to use all of the cards). The guests generally know each other, so they will listen and it will change up your presentation in a fun way. All volunteers get a tealight!

Cards: Card # 1 Gold Canyon has an incredible fundraiser program. Your organization can earn up to 40% profit!! I know someone who is here today that can answer your questions if you or someone you know would be interested in learning more! Card # 2 Fem Fabulous Candles feature this ultra chic black glass, colorful cocktails and divine desserts in fun flirty colors! These 16 oz candles come in 3 different scents and burn 75-95 hours. Card # 3 Looking to get the fabulous scents of Gold Canyon in over 70 different fragrances but without the flame? Then our Pod Warmers are for you! There are 7 different styles now available with an on and off switch with timer option of automatic off at 4, 8 or 12 hours! Card # 4 Gold Canyon is going green! Check out our line of plant based cleaning products called Homeology. This product actually won Rachel Ray's "Greenie Award"! These reasonably priced items will have you feeling like you're in a Day Spa while you're cleaning! Card # 5 Emerge! Rise to a new sense of energy. Reach a new level of focus. Find a new state of balance. In less than 15 minutes a day! Card # 6 As a company committed to delivering the "World's Finest", we carry a greater obligation to invest in the world's most valuable asset and finest resource-children. With the purchase of each Candle's for Kids, 100% of your purchase will be donated to The Prayer Child Foundation. Since 2000 Gold Canyon has given over $1.5 million in aid and assisted children in need throughout the world. Card # 7 Our signature Heritage Line has over 40 scents to choose from in four different sizes. Burn times range from 25-30 hours in our mini 5 oz. to 175-200 hours in our double wick 26 oz. This line is sure to please! Will you be ordering the Pomegranate? With fresh pomegranate-a fusion of peach, strawberry and green apple scents! OR does Sugar Cookie suit you better? Sweet cream, butter, sugar and vanilla baked to a golden perfection! Card # 8 Gold Canyon candles are safe! We have cool burning wax, so if there was an accident and the wax spilled on your skin, it wouldn't burn, you'd just smell real good! Each candle has safety wicks where they will extinguish when there is around ¾" of wax in the bottom of the jar, thus preventing shattered glass. We also provide Lead-Free Wicks! Card # 9 July Host Specials - Any Pod Warmer FREE or Discounted With Party sales of at least $400, Hosts will receive 50% off ANY Pod Warmer. $550 or more in Party sales equals 75% off for Hosts and $700 or more in Party sales gets them ANY Pod Warmer FREE! As a bonus, Hosts with Parties of $400 or greater will receive two Scent Pods™ FREE (A value of $11.96). This is on top of the FREE and discounted items you receive as a Host! Now have dates open in July for Girl's Night Out! The Demonstrator just happens to have a calendar with her. Card # 10 Did you know that you can become a part of the Gold Canyon family for as little as $20? Get this fabulous product for a 25% discount and your home will never be lonely of fragrance again! There is someone in this room that would love to have you as part of her team. Don't wait one more minute. Just tell her SIGN ME UP, I love these candles and want to save money! Card # 11 Candle Care What is it? In this Candle Care 101 class you will learn how to keep your candles in tiptop shape and extend their burn life! First, maintain the beauty of your candles by trimming the wick to ¼" before each burn with this Wick Trimmer. Second, rather than blowing out the flame, use a Wick Dipper. There will be no residual smoke and it coats the wick for an easier light the next time!

If you have extra time you can quiz the guests on candle care. Use the bottom label of a candle for you the answers. Be sure to have the monthly host promotion and join us special in card #9 & 10. I'm going to be trying this at my next party, thanks for the idea, Celeste!

Mandarin Eucalyptus Clove Cleanse

We're all hooked on the candles - but you know, Gold Canyon is bigger than just candles. We also have amazing Home and Body lines.

This story begins in my kitchen. I have a microwave above my range and it collects gunk on top. You all know what I'm talking about, the grease-mixed-with-dust that gets on top of your cupboards or hood. I can't see mine from the floor but I know it's there, and every time I deep clean my kitchen and climb up where I can see it, I try to get rid of it. I've tried dish soap, 409 spray, Clorox spray, Pine-Sol, and whatever other cleaning product I have on hand at the moment. All of those products wipe off the top layer but I'm always left with a grimy impossibility. I seriously thought that was just part of my kitchen I had to live with...

...UNTIL, I bought my first Homeology Mandarin Eucalyptus Clove Cleanse powder. I was walking around my house, thinking, what will I clean first? I went to the toilet, and truth be told, it's fragrance isn't what I was looking for in my bathroom. It's too yummy and almost edible for me. So I took it to my kitchen. I started with my sink. It did a very nice job and smelled as wonderful as I wanted it to. That great smell makes me want to clean more... so... I looked around my kitchen thinking, what can I clean with cleanser in here? Ah-ha!

The nasty part of the microwave! I knew my Gold Canyon cleanse powder would offer a gentle scrub that wouldn't scratch the finish, so I simply sprinkled, wet my cloth, and easily wiped away all of the stuck-on grime in a cinch! It was so easy and so fun I wanted to make a commercial right then and there! Seriously, I had scrubbed so hard with other cleaners and scrubby pads. With this it was the cleanser and a plain old rag - and hardly any "elbow grease" required!

Voila! here is the clean, finished product! It has seriously never been this smooth, white and shiny since we bought our house!

All of this happened like a couple of months ago when this powder was newly released. I've been using it regularly for all of my kitchen-cleansing needs, typically in my sink and stove-top. The reason I'm finally posting this is because tonight I appreciated its glory all over again! I made crock-pot chicken yesterday, and after a late night of ball games I was too tired and didn't rinse out the crock pot, I just let it sit and dry all night long. Bad move. This morning when I loaded my dishwasher I placed that dried-on-crusty-chicken pot in the dishwasher and crossed my fingers. I should have known when I pulled it out, it wouldn't even be close to clean. Ugh! I didn't feel like soaking and scraping....... but then... I remembered my Mandarin Eucalyptus Clove Cleanse powder!

I pulled that yummy, magical stuff out from under my sink and sprinkled.... a few wipes with my dish cloth and the crock pot was sparkling clean! It was so easy and as the catalog says, "hassle free". I LOVE THIS STUFF! It doesn't just smell good, it works good AND it's environmentally friendly! I hope you will all order your own today, and if you already have it, use it so you can have your own testimonial for your customers.

Cleanse away the day and let go of dirt, grime and stress! 10.2oz #61010 $8.98

Inspired Spring

If you haven't already ordered your new spring catalog, the time is NOW! I already got mine and I'm so excited! I just LOVE all of the awesome new stuff and can't wait to show my customers. I've already placed a $450 order and anticipate more once I get more of these catalogs dispersed! The cover features a brand new scent in our Comforts of Home line called "Citrus Garden Herbs". It's a pretty soft yellow color and has a crisp, natural blend of rosemary, sage, lemon and thyme. The perfect fragrance for your home this new year!

Out of all the new offerings, some of my FAVORITE new releases (how can I list them, there are so many!!!) are... First, the *Eco-Shopper*. I've seen these great reusable bags at all the markets, and I have a few, but NONE are as cute as ours! This stylish lime-green color with pretty colorful flowers is too pretty and practical to get just one. I know what I'm giving all my girlfriends for their birthdays this year!

Another fave is the *Diffusers Refill*. I am so glad Gold Canyon is doing this. The diffusers are one of our more expensive products, and who would want to throw away something so beautiful when it's gone? Now you don't have to! And offering the 12 *Changing Seasons Appliques* is a cute addition to our amazing diffusers.

Along the lines of of "refills", isn't it WONDERFUL that all of our Homeology products can now be refilled with the new *Waste-less* concentrated cleaners! I love saving money and helping the environment, so these are a perfect match for me. I'm sure our customers are going to feel the same.

The final thing I LOVE about the new catalog is all of the tips and hints throughout that pertain to earth-friendliness, such as creative uses for jars & pods, and directions to clean, decorate and reuse with them. Even the catalog's paperweight has been reduced - I love that Gold Canyon is putting such an effort into "greenliness".

ORDER YOUR NEW CATALOGS and samples today! Log in to Essentials and click Action/Order Entry/Supply Order. Catalogs are item #96801, pkg of 25 for $15. Update your kit by ordering the New Spring Fragrance Sampler Set #96818 for $16. If you know of any demos close by, buddy up and share your supply order to split the shipping cost. For a complete list of available supplies, go to Action/Sales Supplies & Forms/Supply Item List (at the bottom).

I hope you all have an "Inspired Spring" with Gold Canyon!

Candle Confections

Well, I have another party tomorrow night and I was sitting here wondering what I should do for customer appreciation gifts and door prizes. I had the idea to make some little tealight treats and they turned out very cute!

Woops, I didn't notice one of those is upside down and you can see my ugly tape job. Oh well, nobody's perfect!!!

I used a package of Caramel Ginger Strudel tealights that have been sitting on my shelf a while. I love the brown color - it's just like real caramels or toffee. I used some clear cellophane and curly ribbon to trim them, wrapping like candies and tying both ends. They are so cute, if I do say so myself. I'm going to put them in a candy tin and they're perfect for a Christmas party - not to mention inexpensive, gotta love that.

One of the demos (Megan, was this you? I can't remember) shared that she brought treat bags to give out because she didn't want anyone to leave empty-handed. I loved the idea so I picked up some Santa bags, bite-sized snickers, Andes mints, mini-candy canes and marshmallow reindeer. One of each per bag and voila! I'm sure everyone will feel like kids again. I made 12 and I hope there's one left over for me :o)

Here's some miscellaneous pictures I had on my camera, this is from a show I did on Saturday, see how I put the red bows on each package of Auto Golds in the basket? Those things come in packages of 12 at the dollar store and you can tuck the wire in the fold of the envelope and they just stay on there. My price tags were ugly this day because I ran out of my usual stickers. Not sure if you can see in the upper left hand corner, there are a set of the ceramic songbirds from our Spring catalog. I tied red & green ribbon around and they sold quickly! Also, each of the 5oz candles has a small satin ribbon and jingle bell tied around the neck. I sold a dozen in the first hour. Not sure if you can see the baking line candle there, I had a new wooden spoon I tied on there with wired ribbon, I've also used cinnamon sticks in there and it looks good.

Below I have a pyramid of boxes, usually I would drape some fabric over but I was using it for different things, so I took extra wire ribbon and just laid it around. It helped things look a little more festive. I also sat out my scent pods on a holiday goody tray. You can see the little polar bear holders in a cello-bag with a vanilla mint votive and peppermint taffies. I also put bows on the Emerge products & Homeology. I notice the things with bows on them always sell quickly, maybe there's something subliminal about that... I also try to use holiday table cloths to put everyone in the mood.

And lastly, I love this sweater basket and it fits my winter catalogs perfectly. I sat them in a window sill with a box of pine cones. Don't you love the green light wire draped by it..... oh well.

Any and all of these ideas can be adapted for future parties if you Christmas parties are already wrapping up. Just use other seasonal decor. Please share some of your pictures, too!!!

Just a few tidbits...

Monday I participated in a conference call with other Senior Managers in our region, hosted by our Kathleen Quirk at the home office. I always bring little ideas away with me and thought you might enjoy some of them as well...

Some of the demonstrators expressed an inability to get "home" parties - many are leaning towards "catalog" parties. This wasn't the case with the panel of Senior Managers on the phone, only a few had experienced this challenge. That means LOTS of people out there are willing, and having home parties. But an idea that might help your host lean towards a HOME party would be to increase your offerings; add a little "something" to your host gift and let your potentials know, if they have a catalog party they will get such & such but if they have a HOME party they get that PLUS ________. (Don't break the bank, do something you can afford or that you have on hand already). If any of you have more ideas for this, please comment or email.

Once you get your party on the calendar, be sure to use the booking game explained in the previous Karen Phelps post and you'll get a lot more parties coming down the pipe.

One demonstrator on the call was having a party and the "buzz" was that everyone in attendance had already purchased the candles they needed from a recent fundraiser. (I've heard this one before!) For some, this kind of talk could ruin the mood and dampen the party. But not this demonstrator! She jumped right in with a fantastic plan. She had bottles of the Homeology cleaning products on hand and a roll of paper towels for her demonstration, and she announced "We're going to have a cleaning party!" She assigned different guests a bottle and a task and they all took turns cleaning windows, walls, counters, tile, etc. Everyone had such a great time and the host's home was sparkling! Needless to say, lots of Homeology products were purchased that night! And to top the evening off, they all washed their hands with the Emerge Start Fresh Hand Soap, Grains of Truth Hand Scrub and Raise Your Hand Silk. It was a very successful party. Make sure you incorporate our unique lines into your parties and presentations - especially those of you who have been doing this business for a long time and might be feeling a little "blah".

It's been said that "the eye buys". If you have the resources and talents, take a minute to dress up your candles - a simple ribbon with a jingle bell tied to it, pretty raffia or bows, ornaments, candy, etc. Use little props from the dollar store to make your display more attractive. (See Fall ideas from convention post).

I received by email some spreadsheets you might enjoy and find useful for your businesses. One of them lists all of the current fragrances and prices by category, the other has all the fragrances, prices, tax and shipping (you would need to modify for your rates). You could use these lists for a number things, from wish lists, to party packets, to fliers, and more. If you are interested I will you email them to you.

The last idea is one that can also be emailed or you can create your own. One of the demos on the call uses a 1/2-sheet questionnaire for gathering new customer information. She sits them out at parties, boutiques and craft shows and anyone who fills it out completely receives a free tealight. The form consists of the following fields: Date, name, address, best time to call, phone #, favorite item/scent, party interest, interest in selling, interest in fundraising, email address. Again, please email me if you'd like me to send you a copy.

Thanks for reading! Come again soon!

Homeology Hype

It didn't take long for Gold Canyon's awesome Homeology line to hit the public eye! We just released these incredible "green" cleaning products in May and this month you'll see little blurps about them in Everyday with Rachael Ray magazine and Country Living magazine.

Everyday with Rachael Ray: On page 20 our All Purpose Rosemary Mint cleaning spray is pictured under "The Greenie Award" symbol. The column reads, "CLEAN SWEEP The next time you feel stressed out, reach for your mop! (We know -- bear with us.) Homeology's new line of all-natural floor, glass and all-purpose cleaners ($11 each, begreencleanblue.com) contains fragrant essential oils, like peppermint and orange, that soothe you while wiping out dirt and germs. They're biodegradable, safe to breathe and shipped in recycled materials - so your conscience will be as clean as your home!"

Country Living: There's a great centerfold after page 76 titled "Prepare Your House and Garden for Autumn". Our Homeology Floor cleaner is pictured bottom/center next to a few other featured products. The column reads, "A QUICK CLEAN: CARING FOR YOUR HARDWOOD Furniture looking a bit dull? 'Traditional wax-based cleaners can build up and actually attract dust,' says general contractor Patrick Brown. Luckily, many new products will keep your wood furniture and floors shining - minus the wax: Ammonia- and chlorine-free Homeology's FLOOR CLEANER by Gold Canyon is infused with lavender, eucalyptus, and orange essential oils. $11; begreencleanblue.com..."

Be sure to pick up this month's issues of these magazines and clip the great news to share at your parties!