The Body Shop At Home (Hints and tips)

pandapop_2

I've just been offered 2 fairs one is £25 and the other £30...do you think this is too much. They are both established ...been runnung for years and I figured that I only need to sell £100 to make back my money but still unsure. One is raising money for the NSPCC so its a good cause but the other doesn't specify...its at a pub and I think they probably get enough of my money already. Anyone got any advice???

ragz_2

Pandapop that does sound like rather a lot, seeing as I was told not to pay more than £10!
Consider how long they open for, my £20 one is 6 hours and will be well advertised, with people walking up and down the street on the day promoting it as well., and i have been offered the best spot which I thought would make it well worth my while. The other ones which are costing me less are only a few hours each and less well publicised so I wouldn't pay any more.
Also consider what kind of people will be there and what they will be expecting. If you can offer facials and hand massages for a small fee you will make your money back and also, more importantly, get the chance to sit people down and talk to them about parties and recruitment. If you will be in a busy hall without much space you may not get the chance to have people look at the catalogues, let alone talk about parties. To sell a £100 worth in a few hours you'd have to really push it as it's not like a party, you can't talk to them all at once and they aren't sitting down patiently!
So really you must consider all these factors and more, if it seems like a good idea and you are confident you will get the chance to book parties then go for it.
Hope this helps. x

ragz_2

alisonbartley wrote: »

I don't know if anyone can help - I can't get through to my manager at the moment to ask her. I am putting my first order through for people at work, and am also ordering supply items. On my order overview page it shows an item saying promotion co-payment and has charged me 2.85 for it. It won't let me remove this. Does anyone know what it is for? Thanks.

What is the item? Do you recognise the promotion?
Sometimes it works it out funny and ends up charging you, like the PWP at the mo costs us £1.13 and shows up like that because of how it works (i don't totally understand that!)

elliep_2

the PWP costs us £1.13 because effectively we don't get commission on it. Previously it's been done so we just have to pay the full price and not get the 25% off it when we order but now it counts in our sales but they remove the £1.13 commission. It's because it's such a helpful thing in getting guests to spend more and it's such a great deal Body Shop are not supposed to be able to afford to give us commission on them too.
We also pay promotion co-payments on the hosts free shopping and on any incentives that we order with the customer's goods. It's supposed to be a contribution to the free/cheap stuff that Body Shop let us have as incentives. I don't like it either but that's the system and we have to get on with it.

ragz_2

I thought it worked something like that, well done for explaining EllieP!
I was shocked and appalled when I found out how much we actually pay for, but, as you say, it gets us sales and also 25% is quite high commission for party planners so we do OK really.

elliep_2

It doesn't cost us anything though, not really. We just don't get much commission on the PWP (25% of £7.50 is £1.87 so we actually make 74p). The PWP is a great deal and is useful for pushing up the customer spend. The full £7.50 counts for your monthly targets, it just doesn't get you as much commission. 74p on £7.50 works out at almost 10% rather than the usual 25%.

ragz_2

elliep wrote: »

It doesn't cost us anything though, not really. We just don't get much commission on the PWP (25% of £7.50 is £1.87 so we actually make 74p). The PWP is a great deal and is useful for pushing up the customer spend. The full £7.50 counts for your monthly targets, it just doesn't get you as much commission. 74p on £7.50 works out at almost 10% rather than the usual 25%.

Oh I see, thanks. That's the kind of thing my AM isn't very good at explaining!

Valencia

Sorry if this is obvious - what does PWP mean?

elliep_2

Purchace with Purchace. Currently its a brown make-up/toiletries bag containing 5 products (inc a mini mango body butter, mascara, vit E cream, shower gel and body gel from the wellbeing range) it costs the customer £7.50 but they can only buy it if they spend £40 on other things.

Valencia

Oh right getcha!

I bought the PWP last month for £5 - good little deal actually. Not using most of the stuff in it, have added it to my kit, so I now have some aloe vera stuff and something from the everyday total energy collection.

Hosting my first party next Sunday, with all my friends - really looking forward to it. Two girls from work have just booked a party each, so I'm starting to get there. Because of the offer I joined on, I need to do £425 by the end of October. All these parties are this month, so I should hit that target (fingers crossed!).

Question for everyone: when you're starting at and building up your kit, how do you choose which things to purchase and from which range. Do you go for one of each or only the best sellers?