June 3rd, 2009 by K.R. Moehr

You’ve got a show planned. Great! That is the hardest part of building your sales portion of your business-getting people together where you can present your products. Now follow a few simple tips with your hostess to make booking more events a snap!

Number one principle: Make sure your hostess feels super special. Give her a special spot up-front where everyone can see her. Have a nice gift on her seat before she sits. Be sure to make sure everyone knows this is just the first of many special treats she as your hostess will receive during the show. Keep the little gifts coming during the course of the show. At the end of the show offer your hostess a special discount (20-30%) on anything she orders that evening.

If all the guests see all the special attention showered on this hostess, you’ll be able to get more bookings and excite your guests to hold parties. This is going to be a main focus for holding any party (getting more parties booked), so make the hostess feel very pampered!

When you give you potential hostess her hostess packet ask them for a guest list to be given to you within 3-4 days, and write that date on the guest list so she/he remembers. You can have her mail it to you and then you can send the invitations and confirm with guests or have her send the invitations and confirm.

Either way, you should also have a copy of the guest list with names, addresses, phone/email. Even if the guest doesn’t attend you can add him/her to your mailing list and for future contact.

When you receive the guest list, call or email the hostess and discuss strategy for attendance and sales. If she is to confirm with guests, be sure she does so 48 hours in advance. If you confirm with guests it is one less thing for her to do and you can have more control over the process.

One way to make your hostess feel amazingly special is to offer her (and only her) a GREAT discount or buy one, get one offer on one or two of the products she wants the most. Anyone eyeing an expensive item in your catalog will get the same deal (make it known), so getting bookings should be easier!

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