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Modernize Your Home Party Plan Business
With Online Parties.
Online Party Plans
What could be easier? Your hostess doesn't have to clean house, make snacks, find a
babysitter, or even get dressed! Your guests, don't have to spend money on gas to
drive to your house, find a baby sitter, or even get out of their pajamas! Is this a no
brainer or what? It is a win-win situation for all involved.
Women love shopping online and they love not having to rearrange their whole life just
to get to a house party. Something is always coming up in the busy housewife and
mothers life. Work at home moms, find it hard to leave their business behind, but, they
know how to shop online! Make it easy for them to purchase your products.
Both Mary Kay and Arbonne offer you opportunities to have online parties. At this point
I am not sure if Avon has this up and running but, you can run your own party if you have
your own website. All you need to do is gather the people, point them in the right direction
and wha la, you have an online party.
How To Get People To Come To Your Online Party.
As a hostess, deciding to have an online party is a very smart one especially when it is
difficult to get your friends and family together in your home for an in home party. But how
do you get people to come to your online party once you have chosen a date, a place and a
time for your party?
Tell your friends and tell them to tell their friends.
You should be sure to tell all your friends and family about your online party. Send out
emails that give them the time and the URL of the website where your party is going to be
held and be sure to let them know how very excited you are about the party and how happy
they will be if they decide to stop by. Evite.com is a great site to utilize to send online party
invitations. If there are going to be any specials on certain products or free shipping or
anything being given away, be sure to let them know at that time.
Think of the mothers, many have to pick up kids, feed the family and the work at home
moms have a business to run. So, make your online party a time that will not interfere with
those busy times that moms all have to deal with. Usually you can pick a time when the kids
are in school, or a time later when all are fed and watching TV and mom can get away to buy
herself something special. Weekends are always a winner for busy work at home moms to
get away for a little time to pamper them-selves.
Choose Incentives.
Find out what will get your hostess excited to have a party. Sometimes it may be free
product, maybe it is a discount on everything she wants to buy. Almost all companies have
hostess gifts that they offer to their consultants, find out if your hostess would like what is
being offered by the company. I know from experience I always have leftover hostess gifts,
so, I go with my arms loaded when meeting with the hostess and offer her many different
items to choose from. Once you find what will excite her, it will be easy for you to get her to
be excited about getting her friends to her party as she will want to receive the hostess gift
or gifts.
Everyone loves toget a special deal on something they plan on buying -- and who doesn’t
love having a chance to get something for free?
Advertise.
Advertise your party wherever possible online. Take the time to find great places to advertise your upcoming online party. Make sure to pay attention to the posting rules in the
sites you are looking to place an advertisement. You do not want to be accused of spamming.
Think about blogs, forums, MySpace, YouTube, community service organization, etc. Forums
for moms or for work at home moms (WAHM) are excellent places to start advertising your
online party. Later I will talk more about using different online venues to your advantage.
Have Fun.
Make sure to really share your enthusiasm about your upcoming online party. If you
are excited about the party and the products that are being offered, then it is very likely
that you will get others interested and excited too.
These are just a few ideas that you can use in order to get people to attend your online
party. Remember to follow up with last minute reminders and you are sure to have a
fun and hopefully very profitable online party.
Use Online Networking
Modernize, Modernize, Modernize.
The Web can be an excellent resource for those involved in direct sales. Just as
networking offline can be a great boost for business, networking online can be useful
in gaining sales as well as new recruits for your business. So the next time that you
are online, check out these great places to network online to further your direct sales
business online.
Where To Network Online.
Online Forums
Online forums are excellent places for people in direct sales to network while online.
meet and network with moms that are very successful with their businesses as well
as moms that are looking for a business to start and lots of moms somewhere in
between.
When networking on online forums please be mindful of the rules and regulations
of each forum that you decide to visit. Not only with this save you from doing any
unauthorized advertising, it will help you build a solid reputation as a business owner.
Some allow you to shamelessly plug your business (we love these sites), others will
let you plug your business only after you have become one of them and are posting
frequently. A little time posting to some forums can add up to big time sales.
Squidoo.com
Squidoo.com is a fairly new social networking site that is gaining in popularity
very rapidly. With Squidoo you can create lenses, which are basically short articles
on any topic that you care to write about. This would be an excellent way to establish
yourself as being very knowledgeable about the products or service that your business
has to offer. Squidoo can be a useful tool in driving potential customers to your websites.
Email Groups
Email groups, like those offered by Yahoo, are another option for online networking.
All you need to do is search for groups that would fit your business. “Home Party Plan
Business”, or “Moms in Home Business” would just be a couple of examples of the types
of groups that you should keep an eye out for when looking for email groups to join.
These are just a few of the great places online that you can utilize for networking.
Look for ways to be a useful contributor and supportive friend wherever you choose to
network and you will be well on your way to building your home party plan business in no
time at all.
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