Ideas, Ideas, Ideas!

WOW, there are so many great ideas coming your way in this post!  I encourage you to grab a tall glass of iced tea or a coke and prepare to read slowly and carefully.  You may want to have your WishList and Flyer to see each product as it is discussed.  Please take the time to take it all in.  Maybe make a few notes?  But most importantly, get excited and take the challenge offered.
Thank you, Glo for sharing this! 

Isn't this beautiful?

ENTERTAINING TOUCHES  Thanks to NSL Donna Dietrich for passing this idea!

From the tiniest seeds come some of the grandest trees—and table decorations. Let earthy delights be your inspiration for these simple-to-make home accents that rely on the layered look for their abundant beauty. Glass containers provide the perfect place to “plant” rows of seeds around pretty candles. A trip to the farmers’ market will yield plenty of produce for this assemblage: pecans, pistachios, beans, rice blends, sunflower seeds, corn kernels, split peas, chickpeas, and more. Try using various sizes and colors to sow creativity into your charming displays.

WOW! Product Ideas: Special thanks to NSL Fran Thompson for sharing these great ideas!

· Black Candle Stick Holder with Halloween Glass holder and candle

· Use a touch Light in the Witches Hat

· Use the WI Halloween Glass Holder for black and orange silverware

· Napkins put back to back so you do not have an unfinished side when using in new Wrought Iron Twisted Bowls!

· Put Golden Fields napkin in a diagonal out of the New Door Flower Basket hung on door!

· New Door Flower Basket: hang in kitchen for potholders, bathroom combs and brushes, on door knobs for gloves keys etc

· Soup Tureen Great for Ice cream party!

· Soup in Tureen pass out recipes on how to add our spices to our home made soup recipes! (I add 1 tablespoon of the Southwest to my chili!

· Our potpourri is so beautiful! You can add oil to it!

· BOGO: Candles: Buy One get One at Half Off! Jar burns 75 hours and Pillars burn for 100 hours

· Google Lotus Bowl Napkin Folding and put our coffee cup in center on table. Add this to show presentation! They love napkin ideas! $15 add on sales.

· New Wine Rack! 7 holes, 7 days of the week! A bottle of wine for each day…or leave one out for a day of rest! Chill out with fam/peeps! Rolled towels fit in! Napkins and silver ware for buffet! Roll magazines! Put on side and place candles for a table piece.

· Baby Pumpkin is a new size!

· Travel cups are vitrified! Double walled and not hot to touch! There is a  drainage hole in bottom of the cup. Place hole down in dishwasher to let it drain out…be careful when taking out of Dishwasher if it is full of water!

· Fabric Tip! You can mix any floral, plaid or print as long as they have like colors in the fabric! Have fun mixing and sharing this with customers!

· Bold Red Baskets Great for additional School serving baskets (OSU and local schools)

· Our pottery has every school color represented in our line! Sell to Sports enthusiasts to entertain!

· Grade School Parents are nest builders! Who do you know! Show them how they can furnish their home with simple, beautiful, quality products as first as a consultant or as a hostess or as a customer in that order of benefit to them! Have your kids school pictures taken in Longaberger T shirts. Expand your sales to teachers, parents and principal in their school!
 

WOW! Face to Face Ideas

· “A looker and a booker!” is a quality product that has style and value and will get you a booking? Select the ones that you feel will get you the bookings and encourage those you talk to on how to get them free or at half off!

· We have so many options WITCH will work for you!

· For two of your friends booking from your show and helping me grow my pumpkin patch…you will receive a FREE little pumpkin as your treat!

· We are brewing up treats for our customers and hostesses!

· At a public event. Have a computer sign that says win a FREE Party! You bring your friends and I bring everything else! If they ask you say that if they win you will come and bring the paper plates, cups, silverware and a snack to their show and a party favor for them (candy bar wrapped with a Wish List that says “Thrilled to party with you and your friends and a door prize for their guests This can be anything that relates to our business and you keep the expense down! When you are talking to people at the event that you would like to book and they don’t commit…mark their name on the back of their slip…You never said how many winners you would draw! How many shows do you want? Call them and tell them they won the FREE Party with you!

Show in one!

“8 in 1” Entertainer Pottery Piece - a looker a booker and money in your pocket!

· $20 commissions on the sale of an 8 in 1!Consists of three pieces: Divided Plate  11 ¼ diameter and 1 ¼ high, Small Bowl approx. 5 inches by 3 inches and holds 18 oz. Large bowl 10 ½ x 5 ¼ holds 156 oz almost 10 cups over 1.2 gallon. Larger than retired Buffet bowl!

· $20 commissions on the sale of an 8 in 1!

· We multitask so why not our pottery?

· We can bake, serve, roast and make a pizza on it!

· Vitrified: oven, dishwasher, microwave and freezer safe.

· Add 2 to 3 other products with the 8 in 1 and double the ideas you give. This keeps your investment on samples to a price you can afford!

USES AT SHOWS:

Other products to use with the 8 and 1 are

· Pie plate cover fits our large bowl.

· Natures Stoneware 4 bowls can hold additional food items in serving

· Roast meat in large bowl with the plate as cover

· Make home made soups (Onion, veggie, chili etc) in large bowl with plate as cover. Use our seasonings as an addition to your recipes!

· Cake pedestal: small bowl as base and plate on top

· Relish tray: divided server with small bowl: veggies, cheeses, meats.

· One of our dips in small bowl and chips in Large bowl

· Fruit Plate: fruits in divided plate, white chocolate Amaretto dip in small bowl chunks of pound cake in large bowl

· Cookie Decorating Center: divided server with sprinkles, small bowl with frosting and large bowl to stir up cookie mix

· Pizza dinner: use plate for pizza stone (can heat up to 450), Salad in Large Bowl and dressing or toppings in small bowl

· Taco Night: toppings in Divided Plate, cheese in small Bowl and meat in lg bowl

· Ice Cream Sundaes: toppings in divided Plate, syrup in small bowl and fill Large bowl with ice and set your ice cream container in it!

· Center Piece: Put LB candle in center of the divided dish, surround with L
Potpourri & or decorative stones. Fill Large Bowl with pine our LB fruited ivy, gourds & pumpkins, Christmas ornaments

WOW! Fruited Ivy Ideas WE SELL IT! $24

· Do a naked product show with Fruited Ivy! Dump and Decorate with Ease!

· Take less than 10 products and make them want to buy them all!

· Fruited Ivy Retiring next Spring! Add on sale for $24! For bigger baskets they will want (2) $48 in sales! Non creative people will buy in an instant what they need to finish the look!

· Fruited Ivy in Medium WI Twisted Bowl with Medium Fill it Hurricane!

· This bowl as a little Twisted Sister! We all have twisted sisters don’t we? The Napa Orchard Bowl fits this perfectly!

· Add Bronze leaf Wall Mirror underneath the arrangement above!

· Add some flare to our Flare Baskets! Use Fruited Ivy in these baskets with combinations of the ideas listed here. Play with it!

· Put in Bronze Leaf Long Oval Basket or another basket

· Use the Candleholder $40 inside a WI Round Server with F.Ivy

· Have it come out of the bottom of the “taller” 2 Plate Stands or Wine Holder

· Place two napkins together so that good side shows on both sides. Pull through the top 4 foundry leafs of Med the Twisted WI Bowl and poke dog ears back in where the loops are. Then you can put a bowl or rolls etc in it!

· Pie Plate fits on top of the Med Twisted WI Bowl

· Place two napkins together and place down in one of the Fill It Hurricane and place silver ware for a buffet

· Longaberger is amazing! Hey Girl Scouts! Remember when you made a homemade Bunsen burner for a camp out? How about turning your WI Twisted Bowl upside down

WOW! Do it with Flare…baskets that is!

· Do a “Put some flare into your entertaining with our Flare Baskets Show!”

· Put ice in baskets and square plates (luncheon or dinner) on top to put appetizers on to keep chilled!

· Perfect to put the square dish hot out of the oven!

· Use Flare Baskets upside down and plates on top with bowls of food to create height on serving table!

WOW!… continue to wow them!

· Do a Washed Grey Lantern Show and Fill It Hurricane show! Select 4 or 5 other items to do with this!

· Fill Hurricane with Split Peas, Sea Shells, Mixed Bean Soup Mix, Marbles, coffee beans, or M&M’s and add a candle!

· Fill Hurricane with butterfingers: “ Don’t be a “Butter Finger and miss this deal!

· Fill Lantern with: Christmas Balls, Pinecones, large sea shells

WOW! Make it Easy to Get in Door!  Show Themes create a desire to host!

Tail Gate

· In front of hostess home or your home!

· Go GREEN! Buy BROWN!

· New Long Market! 8x8 fits with Hot dogs in center,2 travel cups on one side buns underneath

· 2 spring protectors for plates, cups etc.

· The loaf dish fits across the center

· Ask For Referrals!

Sept 12th was Chocolate Milkshake Night! and Sept 13th was Milton Hershey’s Birthday

· Host in your favorite Ice Cream Place or in your home!

· Have everyone order their favorite sundae and ask for testing spoons and pass them around! Have a Sundae bar!

· Serve While Chocolate Amaretto Dip in small bowl 8 in 1

· Chocolate Cake on the round Plate in 8 in 1

· Put Ice Cream in New Soup Tureen

· Show Case Chocolate Pottery

· Talk about sweet success of our Long Opportunity! Give yourself a payday with Longaberger! Pay Zero when you host a show with me! Our Opportunity is Good and Plenty

· Fill Hurricane with Hershey miniature kisses! Put the CC Miniature inside of top globe and say “ Hey Hershey Longaberger has miniatures too and they last longer!”

· Fill Small Hurricane with M&M’s and have them guess how many for door prize!

· Use chocolate bars as favors. Use old wish lists and flyers and put a note on a label. How sweet of you to come!

· Make Milkshakes for desert!

· Do a mini show presentation. 5 to 8 products at the most!

· I could hug and kiss you for coming tonight and bringing a friend! Give a Hershey kiss and hug!

· Ask For Referrals!

Sept 13th is National Peanut Day!

· What are you clowning around for? Book your show with me today!

· Serve your favorite Peanut butter cookies, cake, pie. Do a baking show theme!

· Serve shelled peanuts and popcorn.

· Ball Park theme

· Birthday Party Theme

· Face Painting, Corn Hole Toss.

· Ask For Referrals!

Sept 22nd  is Elephant Appreciation Day!

· (Peanuts or Politics? They are both a little nutty!

· I am Wild about having you as a customer! Wrap this message around a candy bar as a favor!

· Longaberger is a three-ring circus! Let me show you how you benefit as a customer…. benefit as a hostess and benefit as a consultant!

· Give your Hostess a three-musketeer candy bar. All for one and one for all! Does she have three characters she calls friends that have not been a hostess? When they book from your show you will receive a FREE travel cup! Coffee and chocolate tastes so good together!

· Serve Popcorn and peanuts!

· I am nuts about the Collector Club!

· Ask For Referrals!

Sept 26th is Johnny Appleseed Day!

· Thank you for being the core of my business! I appreciate you!

· Why settle for a Slice when you could make a bushel?

· Apples in the Lantern

· Put Apples in WI Twisted Bowl

· Host a Apple Pie Contest

· Ask a customer to bring 3 other guests with her and to pick the best Pie Baker to bring a Apple Pie in a Longaberger Pie Dish (maybe you provide if they do not have!)

· Then have a contest to taste! Have a panel of neighbors or friends!

· Give prizes to the winner and runner up! Could be a $5.00 off certificate when they come to your next event! Tip to get them back!

· Show Core Line Products from Wish List…you choose 5 to 8!

· Ask For Referrals!

Pick any night you want to have a show!

· Google what is the day known for?

· Theme it!

· Call your hostess excited about the fun you can have!

· Ask For Referrals!

Online later this Fall ….

· Late November Launch Host a Show On Line

· Orders can be placed on line and product shipped to the customer

· Easier to get bookings and recruits

· Consultants will send a link to hostess.

· Hostess will set up their on line show in Web Express

· Hostess logs into a planner page

· Hostess manages guest list

· Planner page gives tips on how to invite etc

· Hostess can access planner any time to watch guest sales grow

· We will offer two on line invites, one for physical Show and one for closing date invite for on line show!

· Invites go from hostess email to her family and friends!

YOUR TO DO LIST:

· Call customers to get updated addresses phone numbers and email (book shows while you are at it!)

· Ask permission to send weekly specials by text!

· Add emails to existing customer base information

· Merge customer file to my shop web express database.

· Call 1-800 help desk to accomplish merging if needed

· Offer the opportunity NOW so they can sell and make money this Fall season!

· Book your home shows early in each month. Get on phone now to get as many bookings as you can from Aug to Dec. Put the dates on your calendar!

· Study your Basket Bible (Notebook)!

· Ask for referrals

· Always carry fliers & Wish Lists with you

· Wish List is great sponsoring tool. Info is right on the inside back cover!

WOW - good job!  I applaud you for making it all the way through!  Please implement something from this post in your business today.

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I challenge YOU to challenge YOURSELF to make 5 phone calls before the end of August and share with your customers and friends, how much YOU appreciate THEIR business!  That’s it!  Don’t try to sell them anything, just give them a call and say, “Thank You” for loving Longaberger!

Please share your result with me.