New Business
Link!
Beautiful Cameo Candle Pins
made by Suzie Snow, a
consultant in Connecticut. Take a look at the web page
for more color choices and pricing details.
These are absolutely gorgeous pins and would make wonderful
unit incentives or gifts!
12/30/99
Great Booking Tip!
I tape a penny to the back of every 5th door prize slip. After
I have gone through my questions I ask who has a penny on the back of their slip? Then I tell them if you will book a show with me tonight you can have a dozen votives with that penny when you hold your show. I make sure and state
that's $14.73 with s/h and tax that you are going to get for a penny. It really works for me. I personal bonus the votives at their show.
Linda (sorry Linda - I copied and pasted then
deleted your email before I could note the email address & last name!)
12/27/99
Advice For The New Year (from the BoB Message Board)
Post: Does anyone have any advice and/or ideas they would like to share with a new consultant to help her in the new year?
Marti
Reply: Here are my resolutions for my business for 2000:
The Plus One Rule: Whatever PL asks I'll always do plus ONE: sponsor 3 then I'll sponsor 4....sell 17,000 then I'll sell
18,000...that way there will be NO room for error....
The DO IT BIG/ DO IT RIGHT Rule: If it's worth doing DO IT BIG & DO IT RIGHT....My favorite quote is
"WHY do we never have time to do things right but ALWAYS have time to do it OVER?"
Take every challenge given to you...it's there to enhance your business!
Go to every meeting & absorb all the training you can! Experience in this business is worth its weight in gold!
THE OYM Principle: "OPEN YOUR MOUTH" You are your best "Advertisement" your best "Marketing tool" Let
everyone know what you do & be proud of it...go after your business because it won't come after you....
Food for thought: Remember...success in this business begins & ends with YOU! YOU determine your SUCCESS (or
lack there of)! Make the best of it!!!
Denise
Happy New Year & wishes for a successful personal business to all!
12/26/99
2000 Catalog
Product List
Deb Hill
emailed her 2000 Product Database to share with everyone on BoB! It is in
Excel (Office 97) format and available on the Downloads
page. I haven't checked it over extensively - if anyone finds errors please
email Deb and myself so we can post a corrected version ASAP. Thanks for your
quick work on this Deb!
12/25/99
Contributions to Best of the Boards
I'm receiving a lot of requests for an address to send
monetary contributions to help with the upkeep of Best of the Boards. I'm
touched and very appreciative, but removed the address from the domain fund
page many months ago because it's not necessary.
While it's true that there are costs to maintaining the
site, I have chosen to absorb those costs at this point as well as to offer
services to the Business Links at cost,
enabling them to be the financial support behind BoB. You can show your
appreciation to our suppliers by visiting their sites and letting them know
how much you appreciate them supporting the site! There are some really
awesome products available - stickers, cards, buttons, tablecloths, software,
shirts, etc! Check them out today and order some great new business-boosting
items for your 2000 PL business!
Those of you who would really like to contribute financially
to the site - I would ask that you send an American Cancer Society donation to
[Company] in the name of Best of the Boards. I can think of no greater
recognition than to see donations to this cause from people who have benefited
in any way from the information on BoB!
Yes, I too have been directly touched by cancer - my father
died of Pancreatic Cancer in November of 1981. [Company's] support of this
outstanding research effort is one of the biggest reasons I am proud to be a
small part of this great company.
The address to send contributions to can be found in any of
your Reflections magazines, and for convenience I will list it here. Thank you
in advance for every penny that goes toward finding a cure, so that we never
again lose a family member or a [Company] consultant, Hostess, or Customer to
this dreadful disease.
Make checks payable to American Cancer Society or ACS, and
mail to:
[Company] Gifts, Inc
attn: Communications Dept.
PO Box 976
Plymouth, MA 02362-0976 |
12/21/99
Updated Jar Fund Raiser Form
Thanks to Nicole
Christopher - she has jumped in and voluntarily re-formatted the
popular Jar Fund Raiser form with the new Jar Candle Pictures from the 2000
Catalog. It is downloadable in Excel97 format (smallest file size) or for
those of you who do not have Office 97 on your computer, I have formatted it
in Adobe pdf format.
The Excel file also has a modified fund raiser form for the
new Square Indulgences Pillars. If you download the Excel file, you will have
both fund raiser templates in the same file (different worksheets). If you are
downloading the Adobe pdf files, you will need to do each file separately.
All are available on the newly revised Downloads
page.
12/10/99
Hank's Back!
I've taken so many emails from people in the past several
weeks - inquiring about Hank and where he's been lately. I'm happy to say he's
back amongst us again - and ready with his 1999 CandleCyberUnit List Contest!
Read the details on the newest page on Best of Hank - He's
Back!
Regarding the contest itself - there are already two entries
- which you can also read on the accompanying page - 1999
Contest Entries
12/9/99
Important Message
Board Information!
Why did I remove the threads listing new products? Simply because I have an
ultimate responsibility to uphold the company's requested standards of not
publishing information on the internet before people have a chance to attend
their regionals and workshops.
Don't get me started on hearing excuses or reasons why you can't get to
your regionals. I have and have made the same excuses or reasons. I did not
say I agree with the rules. I don't and most people who have been around since
BoB started can tell you about some of my more outspoken moments.
However, I feel that as much as this site has grown and as important as it
has become to everyone, it is not fair to blatantly disregard the company's
policies on internet usage.
For example - my region is notoriously last to announce ANY upcoming
promotions - our regionals are always toward the end of the month, and
inevitably I have already heard most of the promotions by the time I get
there. Although it doesn't make it any less exciting for me to hear it then,
and as much as I disagree with the lack of uniformity in communicating company
news across the country, it is not my decision to make, nor is it yours.
I personally feel that all the news should be released at the same time.
Guess what? They don't ask me what I think! That doesn't mean the company
doesn't care what you or I think, but think about it. With a company this
large and spread across the nation, it would be an impossibility for everyone
to know everything at the same time, no matter how it was done. So they do it
the best way they know how right now - through the ranks of leadership, hoping
that all leaders will do their best to support that premise.
Perhaps someday someone at the home office will realize what a valuable
tool we have right here on BoB - and it would be awesome to allow it to be a
news-releasing tool. Until that happens, I will continue to remove poorly
timed information posts from the message board. Sorry folks.
And one last note...I too, am tired and exhausted from reading bickering
and negative posts. I used to think they were valuable in showing the passion
we all hold for our businesses, but it's just not worth the bad feelings they
create to leave them there.
My only other alternative is to turn this into a moderated board. I don't
have the time or the inclination to review every message and I really think we
are all adult enough to think before we post, now that the "rules"
are a little more clear.
I guess there is one other alternative - removal of the message board. I
don't think that's a valid alternative. There's way too much positive
reinforcement outweighing the minor negative that we see from time to time.
But I don't ever plan to pick up my phone and answer to the home office for
things that should not appear here on BoB. We've worked too hard to build it
to what it is now to let it be hurt by petty and irresponsible posts.
Along with inappropriate ad banners, unauthorized release of information,
and SPAM, negative and personal attack threads will also be promptly removed.
So don't bother posting them! Let's use the message board productively and
constructively - the way it was intended. That doesn't mean you can't post if
you're having a bad day and need a pep talk. Go for it! Just don't tear down
someone else in the process. There are many supportive people who offer lots
of great advice and insight to new consultants or anyone who posts requesting
help. So please - if someone helps you out, return the favor by doing the same
for someone else the next time you see a call for help!
Belinda, webmaster
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