Grow Your Business By Sharing The Product Or Service At Home Business Meetings
You have started a new home based business You want to share your excitement with others and grow your business. Where to you go from here?
There are many ways go sell a product or service, but the tried and true method of face to face interaction just can’t be beat. Meeting people face to face can be hard to do at first, but with an in home meeting you can do it in a more relaxed setting. This method has been used to sell everything from lingerie to kitchen utensils to jewelry. Basically, if it can be sold, I am sure it has been sold in a home meeting somewhere.
It is really pretty simple to have a home meeting. One purpose is to get a group of people together in a relaxed environment. It is more of a party than a business meeting. The second purpose is to hopefully talk to more than one person at a time. This is just plain efficient and if you can get one person excited, that enthusiasm may spread to other people that may have been less inclined to buy your product or service.
A home meeting can be held in your home and you invite people to your house. This gives you control of the environment and gives you a chance to set up hours before the presentation. The downside is that everybody has to travel to your house. It is convenient, but probably less effective overall so I recommend doing it as I explain next.
You can also have home meetings at somebody else’s house. You get one person to host the meeting and have them invite their friends. This gives you access to people you may not know directly. The downside is that you will only have a small amount of time to set up before people start showing up and you have very little control of the environment.
One last consideration is rewarding the host of the party as well as the people that show up. You can encourage people to come to the meeting and improve attendance with a good reward.
This is how I set up and run home parties. I will use a business I am involved with. Some companies will have this spelled out for you already when you join. Other times you will have to figure out how to make this happen.
I promote a company, Ambit Energy, that distributes energy through a network marketing advertising program. To set up an Energy Party, I approach somebody who I have done a favor for like host a party for their business. I ask them to return the favor and have an Energy Party for me. I give them a 2 night hotel voucher for their time and also give one to everybody that comes to the party. This is especially relevant because all new electricity or natural gas customers get a free hotel voucher when they sign up for service. At the party, I give a presentation on the benefits of using Ambit Energy and talk about the savings and rewards they will get. After that I move into the Ambit Energy business opportunity. My goal is to convince everybody in the room that they should either switch their service and start saving money or become a consultant and start making money with this offer. Anybody that wants to be a customer or consultant, I have sign up under the host of the party so they start their business off right away.
Setting up the next party or parties is the last step of the home party process. Anybody who is interested in being a consultant will host a party and I repeat the process. I leave everybody with a business card that has the address of the Ambit Energy website I created plus the sites that every consultant gives. It also has my email and toll free number so people can contact me if they have any questions or decide to join after they leave the party.
Be creative and be social. This will get your foot in the door and if you have a good enough offer, you will get customers and business partners. This model has worked for many years and will continue to work even in this digital age.
Good luck with your next home party!
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Visit To Cheltenham Cut Short - Mad Dash In Taxi From Cheltenham
After a recent visit to the stunning regency town of Cheltenham in the heart of the Cotswolds, it becomes clear to see why this town is (or most of it) included within a conservation area of national importance.
When you arrive at Cheltenham Spa railway station, you are about a twenty minute walk from the centre of town, although there is a bus service into town, I decided that with all my luggage, that to hire a Cheltenham Taxi was a better idea, as that would take me directly to the new Express Holiday Inn. As it turned out, this hotel is the other side of the town centre from the railway, so I was happy that I did not attempt to walk it, even though most of the buildings on route deserved much more of my attention than they got, briskly passing them by in one of the finest Taxis In Cheltenham. The decision had already been made that I would have to have a good long slow walk around regency Cheltenham to take in some of the finest buildings that this fair town has to offer.
After booking in at the hotel it was time to go exploring the towns finest buildings, but this would be after a brisk visit to one of the towns newest developments, an old brewery that has been redeveloped into a leisure and retail area, that, enough be it on that subject!
I love the regency building style the Spa town of Cheltenham has to offer, it’s simply unique in it’s own right, unfortunately though, business called my stay short, so I had to jump into a Cheltenham Airport Taxi and dash to Birmingham Airport in time for a 21.00 hrs flight to Aberdeen.
Luckily for me, I had already booked a full week off work in the near future to attend The Cheltenham Literature Festival in early October, so I will be able to return then and have a full and undisturbed week to take in all that this delightful Cotswold town has to offer.
One place I also want to visit on my next trip is The Pittville Pump Rooms. Not very exiting you may think, but you would be wrong! Going back to about 1715, this is when Cheltenham’s Spa water was first discovered on the site as well as at Cheltenham Ladies Collage. In 1788 it is reported that Queen Charlotte visited and bathed in the waters along with George III. Jumping forward to 1825, this is when the first foundation stone was laid of what is now known, and quite famously as the present Pittville Pump Rooms. Anyway, seems I am going off beat again, Cheltenham I will return in October