I know I have spent a lot of time in past posts talking about how to get bookings and how to do a home party type experience. Home workshops/parties are certainly one tried and true way to build a business but not everyone wants to do a traditional stamping party. Here are a few other ideas if you want to stay active as a Stampin' Up! demonstrator but don't necessarily always want to buy your own quarterly minimum.
1. Pick a product Fundraiser: I've never tried this but I had a friend tell me this idea a while ago. She used cookie stamps but you could pick some other generic item like the tag and boxes bundle. The idea is that you sell them like people sell those chocolate covered almonds. "Hi, I'm selling these great high quality cookie stamps to raise money for ____________" You can donate all your instant income to the charity. Since you are not allowed to cash and carry cookie stamps, you would have to design a nice flyer with a colour picture etc and maybe a sign up sheet that could be left in your office lunch room. To increase your exposure, you could partner with a local organization and have everyone in that organization collect orders for you, you could give the flyer, sign up and attach it to an envelope to collect money and give it to friends and family to help get orders for you...
Hope you get the idea. Since cookie stamps are around $20, if you sell 10, you've halfway met your quarterly minimum!
2. Product based class: Teach a class and charge a flat fee but the flat fee includes product. For example, I had a teacher ask me to come and do a class for a couple of her high school clubs. (one was a craft club and the other was a girls empowerment club) I charged a flat fee of $30 per kit. The kit included the new This and That journal and half a pack of dsp. The key with these kinds of classes is that you must include new product in the fee as this is what will help your sales. For example, if you did a mini travel scrapbook class for all your friends that cruise together, the fee could be $25 but include a pack of dsp. If you did it with 10 friends, you've just gotten $135 in sales.
3. Don't have time or interest to do a class or cut and prepare paper? SELL PAPER PUMPKIN SUBSCRIPTIONS! The new paper pumpkin program is one of the most fabulous new launch ideas that Stampin' Up! has had of late. These are professionally designed kits. Stampin' Up! did lots of research on pricing and kit contents. The great thing about these kits is that they are PROJECT based. The goal is not to get lots of cool embellishments and crafty pieces. The goal is to have everything you need to finish a project. This is a perfect solution for people with busy lifestyles, people with kids that are looking for something for them to do, people who don't know how to craft etc. Each paper pumpkin subscription you sell is counted as $18.95 sale for you. Sell 6 paper pumpkin subscriptions then each month is $113.70 so by the end of a quarter you've got $341.10 in sales!
So there's a few ideas for you. Let me know if you have any other ideas I can add onto here. The key to having these ideas work for you is to spend time and take action to making these ideas into reality. These are just ideas. I did not flesh them out with action steps you can take to make it happen but if you need help formulating those action steps, talk to your upline or myself.
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