Home Party Ideas

Direct Sales Home Party Preparation

These home party ideas are intended to help all stay at home mom businesses with their direct sales home parties. Use these tips to help you prepare for your direct sales home party, by ideas on what to bring for your guests and home party hostess.

Home Party Ideas: Prepare to Succeed

In order to have a successful direct sales home party, you need to prepare to have a successful direct sales home party. There are right ways and wrong ways to do a demonstration. For our purposes, we will borrow the motto of the Boy Scouts: Be Prepared.

It is extremely important that stay at home mom businesses take their direct sales career seriously and prepare to succeed by following these simply home party ideas prior to direct sales home parties.

First, dress well.

You don't have to go out and spend a fortune on new clothes, but make sure that what you are wearing is professional.

No jeans, shorts, or flip flops.

Wear a nice business outfit, or something you would wear at church.

Next, show up on time, meaning at least one half hour prior to the start of the party. You will need this time to set up your direct sales home party presentation and to go over last minute details with your home party hostess. You do not want to be setting up in a hurry after some of the guests have arrived. In fact, you want to be greeting the guests with the hostess and introducing yourself.

Though these things may seem basic, they are necessary to having a successful business.

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What to Bring to Your Direct Sales Home Party

These next home party ideas deal specifically with the items you need to bring with you to each and every party. Use this as a checklist to prepare for your direct sales home parties.

Your demonstration products

Collapsible table(s) and tablecloth(s)

Props for display

Prizes for guests

Party Plan Theme Book

Your Date Book

2-dozen pens

Change (dollars, quarters, etc)

Calculator

Lap boards

Business Cards

Product information/Replacement parts catalogs

Page protected catalog (optional)

Index cards for games

Other game materials

Your upline's or manager's contact information

The Accordion File

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The Accordion File

If you take away nothing else from this page on home party ideas, take away the concept of the accordion file. This is a great way to organize your direct sales home parties supplies in a way that is convenient, compact, and complete.

The accordion file can be purchased at any office supply store for under $15. It is made of heavy duty cardboard and has several file pockets on the interior. There you can organize your party paperwork to make it easily mobile.


You should have the following supplies in your accordion file:

Themed Hostess Packets
Prepare in advance hostess packets from each party theme you offer. Prepare at least three of each theme, as when one party goer books a specific party, others usually follow and book the same party.


Lapboard Materials
Your catalogs, order forms and monthly fliers, along with any newsletters or other handouts that you give your guests should be stored in your accordion file.


Extra Order Forms, etc
Any extra catalogs and order forms should go here as well. Also any game fliers or back up game information, and your script for the party.


Fundraising Information
Always be prepared to talk about fundraisers! There's nothing worse than interesting a guest in a fundraiser and not giving her information to take home!!


Recruiting Information
Assume that you will recruit three new people at each party. Bring information about your opportunity, any DVDS or company provided materials, with you to each party.

All stay at home mom businesses that follow these home party ideas will have a successful, and well prepared party. Guests can tell when a consultant takes her business seriously, and will spend more, making it a more profitable and more organized way of holding a direct sales home party.

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More Home Party Ideas:

How to Coach a Hostess
What to Bring to a Party
How to Give a Party
Finding New Customers
Ways to Get Bookings
Importance of Samples
Product Discount Cautions
Direct Selling Resources
The Online Vendor Fair
Find a Direct Sales Company to Join

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