I'm looking at what to get for samples for my holiday parties and I'm looking for your input.
We have 4 limited edition fragrances coming out for the holidays: Warm Amber, Rich Plum, Vanilla Spice and Cranberry. Thanks to the generosity of The Body Shop, I have all of the Amber and Plum products that I could need. I also have cranberry shimmer lotion, so I don't need anything cranberry (cranberry is kind of self explanitory anyway). So now the big question is what do I get in Vanilla Spice? Do I get the shimmer lotion that people can try on and wear? Or do I get the new vanilla spice bath tea bags which are very new and very neat looking? Or maybe the wrapped soap? It's very pretty and you can smell it through it's pretty wrapper.
My next decision is the body wrap. I got one last year and it totally paid for itself with all of wraps that I sold because I had one to show. Do I get the cranberry, or the amber scented one? The amber is a new scent and people might want to know what it smells like, on the other hand, I can pretty much say that cranberry will be around next year so I won't have to buy another one next year. We may not see sweet amber ever again after December. What are your thoughts? By the way, if you're wondering what happened to last years wrap, I sold it. They were so popular that they sold out quickly and I sold my demo model to a customer. It was lavender anyway, which is a scent that we aren't carrying this year.
Next is makeup. It's all so pretty. I want to get one of each, especially the glitter eye liner. I might just end up spending all of my profits on glitter eye liner, it's truly fabulous. We also have 2 eyeshadow palettes: golds & greens and blues & pinks. They're really cool, you get 5 eye colors and a brush in a long compact with a mirror for $24.50, which is great since single eye colors are normally $12 each and here you are getting 5 for about the price of 2.
Of course there are 2 awesome looking sparkle lip glosses and a sparkle roller which will glitter you anywhere you want. I just want one of each, it's all so pretty, like sparkley candy. So, are you interested in holiday makeup at all? Would you be more inclined to buy it if I had it in hand to show you?
As far as oil burners go, I'm getting the climbing berries burner and the cranberry home fragrance oil thanks to The Body Shop and my products and perks discount :-).
I really can not wait to share everything with you guys. The holiday catalog really is awesome!
-E
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
B-I-N-G-O and bingo was his name-o!
Body Shop Bingo, kinda just rolls off the tongue doesn't it?
I'm (and some other consultants, but mostly me) putting together Body Shop Bingo in less than 3 weeks!
I've got it all planned out -
We've got a room that is only costing us $40 an hour, and has a small gaming license, which are our 2 qualifications, cheap and legal.
I got a bunch of prizes to give away, I have some things to sell as "grab bags"- at least $25 worth of stuff for only $20. It's mostly discontinued stuff that I got cheap and products that I got for free that I didn't need.
I've got stuff to give away as door prizes. I found a bingo cage to borrow. I got my local tastefully simple reps to provide food.
All I need now is to get the butts in the seats. That's the part that's going to get me. I can plan everything else out and have it all in place and ready to go, but I can't make people come.
By putting this together I am taking a risk, and I have never been a huge risk taker, I'm all about playing it safe. I could lose my shirt on this or I could make quite a bit of money on this venture, it all depends on if people like The Body Shop enough to come an play bingo to win the products.
On the up side, I'm not looking to make money from this. All profits taken in from this will be donated to the Milagro house. The point of this is basically to get people to a open house without knowing that they are going to an open house. Besides just having the prizes, I will have a display of some of our new holiday products, including October's host bonus (insert devious smiler here). My ultimate hope from this is to get some bookings and some sales from this shindig.
So cross your fingers and if you aren't busy on October 12th, come play bingo with me.
I'm (and some other consultants, but mostly me) putting together Body Shop Bingo in less than 3 weeks!
I've got it all planned out -
We've got a room that is only costing us $40 an hour, and has a small gaming license, which are our 2 qualifications, cheap and legal.
I got a bunch of prizes to give away, I have some things to sell as "grab bags"- at least $25 worth of stuff for only $20. It's mostly discontinued stuff that I got cheap and products that I got for free that I didn't need.
I've got stuff to give away as door prizes. I found a bingo cage to borrow. I got my local tastefully simple reps to provide food.
All I need now is to get the butts in the seats. That's the part that's going to get me. I can plan everything else out and have it all in place and ready to go, but I can't make people come.
By putting this together I am taking a risk, and I have never been a huge risk taker, I'm all about playing it safe. I could lose my shirt on this or I could make quite a bit of money on this venture, it all depends on if people like The Body Shop enough to come an play bingo to win the products.
On the up side, I'm not looking to make money from this. All profits taken in from this will be donated to the Milagro house. The point of this is basically to get people to a open house without knowing that they are going to an open house. Besides just having the prizes, I will have a display of some of our new holiday products, including October's host bonus (insert devious smiler here). My ultimate hope from this is to get some bookings and some sales from this shindig.
So cross your fingers and if you aren't busy on October 12th, come play bingo with me.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
It's been too long!
Oy- it's been way too long since I've posted to this blog!
To you the blog reader, I am sorry. It would be one thing if there was nothing blog worthy, but that's just it, there is much that is blog worthy!
So, let's start where I left you: right before I left for The Body Shop at Home national conference.
Let me just say, it was awesome. First off it was in Reno, NV. I have never been any further west than St. Louis, MO, the city of my birth. So venturing into the Pacific time zone was just the beginning of my adventure. I'm definitly glad that I had a window seat for the flight in. We flew over the great salt lake, which was really neat looking from the sky. And as we flew over the rocky mountains, one word immediately popped into my head - crinkely.
Anyway, did I tell you that Reno is in the middle of a desert? It's hot, like Africa hot. Not like hot here. When it's 98 here you feel like you are drowning in your own sweat. When it's 98 there it doesn't feel like it's 98, instead it feels like you are slowly drying out from the outside in. It's weird.
Fortunately there wasn't much reason for me to go outside. Our convention was held in a most excellent resort/hotel/casino. This resort was home to numerous restaurants, a casino, a wine tasting room, a mini mall, lots of conference rooms and of course, a starbucks.
So, after getting dinner at Johnny rockets, playing some penny slots, and getting a good night's sleep, I checked into conference.
Right from the get go there was free stuff! When you check in (and might I say, I was checked in by a very cute young man with a lovely English accent) you get a badge with your name and where you're from, a pile of ribbons to attach to your badge which let everyone know what you've accomplished in the past 8 months (I only had 4 ribbons lots of people had less, and a few had ribbons hanging down to the floor), a lanyard to hang your ribbons from, a "program" and a tote bag. And if that wasn't enough, when I opened my tote bag to put my program in, there were 2 brand new products staring up at me saying "I'm yours".
Conference primarily consisted of 2 main things, open session and training. During open session there was a lot of recoignition, (your's truly got to walk across the stage twice) lots of announcements, and lots of give aways! It was like the Oprah show, but bigger. It would usually go something like this: "blah, blah, blah and oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, you're getting it for free!" Then 750 women's worth of screaming would ensue and people would run out from backstage and drop bags of products at each table. It was as they say "controlled chaos".
It was awesome. The training was great, I got some great info about our new holiday products, I got some great new ideas, and got to put faces (and personalities ) to all the names that I keep hearing. Even though I had very little personally in common with most of the people there, we all shared the same passion for The Body Shop and its core values.
So I took a lot away from conference. I made lots of new friends, got lots of great ideas, got a ton of free products, got an awesome sneak peek of our holiday products and promotions, and feel totally refreshed and ready to spread body butter all over the world!
-E
To you the blog reader, I am sorry. It would be one thing if there was nothing blog worthy, but that's just it, there is much that is blog worthy!
So, let's start where I left you: right before I left for The Body Shop at Home national conference.
Let me just say, it was awesome. First off it was in Reno, NV. I have never been any further west than St. Louis, MO, the city of my birth. So venturing into the Pacific time zone was just the beginning of my adventure. I'm definitly glad that I had a window seat for the flight in. We flew over the great salt lake, which was really neat looking from the sky. And as we flew over the rocky mountains, one word immediately popped into my head - crinkely.
Anyway, did I tell you that Reno is in the middle of a desert? It's hot, like Africa hot. Not like hot here. When it's 98 here you feel like you are drowning in your own sweat. When it's 98 there it doesn't feel like it's 98, instead it feels like you are slowly drying out from the outside in. It's weird.
Fortunately there wasn't much reason for me to go outside. Our convention was held in a most excellent resort/hotel/casino. This resort was home to numerous restaurants, a casino, a wine tasting room, a mini mall, lots of conference rooms and of course, a starbucks.
So, after getting dinner at Johnny rockets, playing some penny slots, and getting a good night's sleep, I checked into conference.
Right from the get go there was free stuff! When you check in (and might I say, I was checked in by a very cute young man with a lovely English accent) you get a badge with your name and where you're from, a pile of ribbons to attach to your badge which let everyone know what you've accomplished in the past 8 months (I only had 4 ribbons lots of people had less, and a few had ribbons hanging down to the floor), a lanyard to hang your ribbons from, a "program" and a tote bag. And if that wasn't enough, when I opened my tote bag to put my program in, there were 2 brand new products staring up at me saying "I'm yours".
Conference primarily consisted of 2 main things, open session and training. During open session there was a lot of recoignition, (your's truly got to walk across the stage twice) lots of announcements, and lots of give aways! It was like the Oprah show, but bigger. It would usually go something like this: "blah, blah, blah and oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, you're getting it for free!" Then 750 women's worth of screaming would ensue and people would run out from backstage and drop bags of products at each table. It was as they say "controlled chaos".
It was awesome. The training was great, I got some great info about our new holiday products, I got some great new ideas, and got to put faces (and personalities ) to all the names that I keep hearing. Even though I had very little personally in common with most of the people there, we all shared the same passion for The Body Shop and its core values.
So I took a lot away from conference. I made lots of new friends, got lots of great ideas, got a ton of free products, got an awesome sneak peek of our holiday products and promotions, and feel totally refreshed and ready to spread body butter all over the world!
-E
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