The way to accumulate this kind of wealth is with your own business of selling merchandise via The Party Plan. Few other businesses can so easily give you this kind of wealth as quickly, and keep your income growing.
A recent questionnaire, circulated among hundreds of successful direct sales merchandisers across the country asked this questions: "If you were to start over today, knowing what you know now and could choose the one method of merchandising that would make you really rich in the shortest period of time, which would you select?" Of these questionnaires returned, 94% stated they would go The Party Plan Method.
The sharp party plan operators (and the richest) simply hold motivational sales meetings for their sub-distributors about once a month. During these meetings, they are teaching their sub-distributors how to recruit new hosts and hostesses, or husband and wife host and hostess teams.
A host or hostess can be any person who is agreeable to holding a sales party at his or her house. Almost always, this person is rewarded for having the party with a percentage of the total business or an agreed upon special merchandise gift.
These people invite friends, neighbours and relatives to the party. Your sub-distributor doesn't have to do much more than make contact with people willing to hold parties, supply the merchandise, and sometimes offer to help or be there to make sure every thing goes smoothly.
Here's the kind of money you can realize with this business: Say you have ten sub-distributors, and each one arranges only five parties a month, and each party does $2OO in gross business. That's a total of $10,000 per month in total volume. And from that total volume, you make only 30%. Figure it out for yourself. This would give you a personal income of $3,000 for thirty days in which you did no more than hold one or two motivational sales meetings!
Besides, each party is almost guaranteed to give your sub-distributor at least two more hostesses for future parties and those future parties will provide still more hostesses. This chain is endless, and will build as fast as you can keep up with it.
To get your start in this fabulous method of merchandising, become a host or hostess yourself. Give a few parties yourself, and learn the ropes.
Choose an evening for your party - any evening excepting Friday through the weekend. Generally 7:30 is the most convenient time for the greatest number of people. If it's inconvenient for whatever reason to hold a party in your home, arrange with a friend to hold the first couple of parties.
Make up a list of 30 to 60 people you can invite to the party. They can be friends, neighbours, relatives or people you know from work, even acquaintances with whom you do business such as the check-out clerk where you buy your groceries or people you meet at the bus stop on your way to work.
Home Party Plan Business
Dating parties is the backbone of every party plan business. So how do you date more parties?
The easiest, most fun, and most effective way to date lots of parties at each and every one of your demonstrations is to offer guests the opportunity to choose a theme. You do this by placing a theme book out on your hostess's coffee table.
Your theme book will list all of the different types of parties that you offer as a representative of your company. These themes can be based on a certain type of product or it's use, such as microwave cooking, or on a certain type of game, such as an auction party.
You can have as many themes available as you feel comfortable with. Ideas include: auction party, the price is right, let's make a deal, couple's party, children's party, Christmas cookie exchange, bring a banana, girl's night out, ice cream social, specialty cooking class, spa or relaxation party, bridal or baby showers, margarita party, or anything else you can think of.
It's easy to create your own party plan theme book. You'll need a color printer, pastel cardstock, a 3-ring binder, page protectors, and a little creativity.
Just print off a colorful cover and one page for each of your themes on a piece of cardstock. Your page should have a graphic, the title of the theme, and a sentence or two explaining what it is you will be doing at the party.
For example, an auction party could say, "Join us for a great night of fun! Earn auction bucks to be spent on fantastic prizes at the party! Win auction bucks for bringing a friend, answering questions, and booking a show."
Insert each theme into a clear page protector, and place them into your binder. Instant theme book!
Make sure that you include a page in your theme book about fundraisers as well. Many guests do not realize that party plan companies make excellent fundraising partners.
Bring your book with you to every party, and just leave it on the coffee table. Your guests will automatically thumb through it, and will discuss with one another their favorites.
Chances are, the party you are currently giving has some sort of theme to it, so your guests will see firsthand how much fun the party is.
By the end of the party, when you mention the rewards for booking a show, your guests have already picked out their favorite theme, and are ready to date. When closing out their orders, ask each guest which theme they liked the best, and when they would be able to host a show in their home.