The Body Shop At Home (Hints and tips)

ragz_2

rockyrach wrote: »

hey, i've been thinking about joining either body shop or ann summers. how much can you earn? thanx

I think, per party Ann Summers earns more as the products are more expensive but you will get less parties as some people are too prudish to sit around fondling Dildos and trying on sexy undies for their mates!

For info on how much you can earn with Body Shop At Home read the rest of the thread, all info is on here.

alli

see i think, having done ann summers that there is far more earning potential with body shop, and your more likely to get repeat custom, whereas people only need so many sets of underwear and 'toys'! i didn't get any hostesses holding more than their 1 initial party for me. also ann summers don't do free and half price shopping so hostess commission basically comes out of your commission. also there isn't the same support with ann summers for buying things for raffle prizes and hostess gifts - so that will cost you far more than with TBSAH

mon1o

Hi all havent been on for a while. I had horrendous food poisoning which meant i ended up in a&e due to dehydration which lead to panic attacks. Im ok now though and half a stone lighter, although im sure there are easier ways to lose weight!

Welcome to all newbies! I finally have my success start level 1 stuff and ordered my winter catalogues, invitations, a male xmas gift set and a BS recruitment t-shirt which is comfortable actually!

Ive got a fundraiser on friday. Im having a stall at a mcmillan coffee morning with a local business where my friend works. Not expecting much in way of sales but hoping to get a few parties booked. Tonight im gonna make up around 10 party packs to take on friday. A bit ambitious i know but...you never know. October so far is a quiet month but november is really busy. So if i can get a few bookings for october, we will be having a fantastic xmas!

I'll be back on later, just gonna see my neighbour and chase a party she promised she'd have for me!

Monica x

hezza86

Evening ladies,

wow theres been lotsof questions on here since i was last on.lol.
Monica glad to see your back with us and im gladyour ok, and your like my other half he had food poisoning 2 years ago and lost 2 stone in weight,there are other ways to lose weight!lol.

Rockyrach to save you trawling through the 13pages! (cant belive its 13 pages already i started it thinking maybe get a few people on it!)
you earn 25% commission on everything you sell. Its fab plus there are cash bonsuses if you have a good month and do high sales.

London22 my manager has a guy in her team he is married and has children and is now a manager himself and last year did 1million sales and was on stage at conference. He has made a real buisness out of it. His wife became a consultant and a is now a manager too. So they really work together as a team.

To be honest i am feeling the pinch slightly with my party bookings are down on last year, but im having a big push this sunday and next sat at some promotional days and hopefully it'll boost my bookings. By good host coaching and really promoting the FREE shopping and heres some saving info you can give at your xmas parties, in the new xmas catalogue there are over 50 collections, so thats 50 opportunities for your customers to save money, our purchase with purchase is £7.50 but worth £35! and they can have 3 £20 gift sets for £50 again saving £10!!! so theres plently savings to be made,and like ragz said everything is about being green, christmas motto rejoice, reuse, recycle!

Luv H xxx

ragz_2

Mon1o
Really sorry to hear about your food poisening, glad you're ok. At least you've got half a stone you're allowed to put on ever xmas!

I now have 3 parties booked, 2 on confirmed dates and 1 who's ringing to confirm hers. (one my own I booked before I was going to join). I sign up on Friday (hopefully!). Having troubles with the last 3, my friend assures me her sister and her colleague will have one but they are on holiday tomorrow for 2 weeks! I was told I have to decide when to start, over what period do I need 6 parties? I can't work out if it's 4 or 6? I need 6 before I get my kit and I know what I'm like, I'll be dying to it to arrive!

If anyone has advice on how to do a fundraiser I would be really grateful for some info on how to go about it, i.e. picking a charity, organising it etc.

many thanks and good luck to the other newbies.
RAGZ

hezza86

Hey ragz,

Doing a fundraiser is great fun. I do mine normally just as a normal body shop party, sometimes i will give a ticket to everyone who comes and draw a ticket out a hat and that person gets pampered. I always have a raffle with some body shop goodies as prizes and have a few games and have a good laugh with everyone.
Choosing a charity is entuirley up to you. I have done a fundraiser for a local church to help with there funds. I did my own fundraiser for breast cancer care. Last year my own fundraiser was for my local midwife led unit as both my cousins had recently had babies, and i felt the unit really needed the monmey and i raised £320 for them which they were over the moon for. This year my fundriaser is for the local hospice ward at the local hospital. Im also maybe doing a fundriaser for someone who is raising money for MS and someone who is raising support to do a walk on the great wall of china for a charity (cant remember the charity)

Hope that helps.
so to be honest you can fundriase for whatever or whoever you want.

ragz_2

hezza86 wrote: »

Hey ragz,

Doing a fundraiser is great fun. I do mine normally just as a normal body shop party, sometimes i will give a ticket to everyone who comes and draw a ticket out a hat and that person gets pampered. I always have a raffle with some body shop goodies as prizes and have a few games and have a good laugh with everyone.
Choosing a charity is entuirley up to you. I have done a fundraiser for a local church to help with there funds. I did my own fundraiser for breast cancer care. Last year my own fundraiser was for my local midwife led unit as both my cousins had recently had babies, and i felt the unit really needed the monmey and i raised £320 for them which they were over the moon for. This year my fundriaser is for the local hospice ward at the local hospital. Im also maybe doing a fundriaser for someone who is raising money for MS and someone who is raising support to do a walk on the great wall of china for a charity (cant remember the charity)

Hope that helps.
so to be honest you can fundriase for whatever or whoever you want.

That's fantastic, well done! Where did you hold the fund raisers? I have a tiny house and definitely couldn't have it here and if I hired a hall I'd make no money!

I'll have to approach places that have their own hall/lounge. Do you invite a lot of people or sell tickets or both?
Sorry for all the questions!

BodyShopBabe_2

Hi everyone I have just found this thread and have spent the last hour or so reading back through all the past posts!

I've been doing TBSAH for about 3 months and loving it! I've been getting good party sales (average of about £200 per party) and 4 recruits so building up my business as want to promote out as Area Manager asap. I am coming to the end of my maternity leave with full time employer and don't want to go back!

Just wanted some advice. I'm doing my first pamper evening tomorrow night at a local pre-school. There are about 8 therapists there and about 50 tickets have been sold to customers so should be busy. I'm doing hand and feet massages and charging £5. Has anyone done a similar event before?

Do you take products to display? Do you offer special incentives for people that book parties on the night other than the usual free gift and free and half price shopping? I was going to do a "special" for the evening but can't think of what to give. I don't want people to book, take the gift and then cancel the party!

Any advice? Sorry for all the questions!

elliep_2

Hi BodyShopBabe and welcome to the board!

My first advice about freebies for people booking is take a sample of what you will give them but tell them they will get it at the beginning of their party, and they'll only get it if they hold their party on the date originally agreed, no prizes for messing you about! That way at the party you can loudly announce 'here is your free gift from me to say thank you for booking a party with me' then turn to your guests and say 'if you want one of these packs then all you have to do is book yourself a party tonight and I'll bring something for you to your party' etc. That way there is no 'I'll take the gift then i'll cancel the party'.

Depending on the venue and organisation then you could make up a nice prize for a draw, get people to pay £1 to fill in a prize draw slip (that has tick boxes for if they are interested in having a party or being a consultant) then at the end pick one out of the box and they get the prize? or use a smaller prize and make it free to enter?

Sell off any spare stock that you have lying about, or do a silent auction. (silent auction is where people write how much they are willing to pay for said item, then next person can look and decide they would pay more so they write more etc. at the end you sell to the highest bidder. I guess you can have reserve prices so if they don't get high enough you don't have to sell, or you could write the first bid on each one.

Just a few ideas there, does anyone else have any more?

BodyShopBabe_2

Thanks elliep

Will definitely do what you have suggested re giving a thank you gift at the party rather than giving it to them tomorrow night that's just asking for trouble!

What region are you in? I'm in Steph Maynard's region. How is your Sept going? I should just meet £1000 to get the make up set I want! Oct not looking too hot at the mo - only 2 bookings but hoping for some more at the pamper event tomorrow.

Would recommend to everyone to attend a recruitment event if you can. I attended one with my manager last week and got 11 recruit leads. On following them up I'm meeting 4 next week to sign up! Plus I got several party bookings. We were offering hand massages so had the oportunity of 1-2-1 time with lots of people. It was a whole day so tiring but will most definitely do another one. Check out internet/newspapers for local recruitment fayres and I'm going to another one next week at a university which may be good too so check out your local unis.

Looking forward to hearing from others to exchange tips and ideas!

x