Bodyshop parties

kittenpea

HI, im new to this board but it is vast becoming a bible for me and so far i have saved loads, but i need to because i have just had another baby and we have worked out it is now not worth going back to work in the short term.

I have been thinking about doing bodyshop parties has anyone done this and does it pay??

Also any more money saving ideas would be great. I have been doing a bit on ebay, has anyone sold evoucher codes i saw someone had done this and made quiet a bit of money.

Ideally I need to be bringing in £300-£400 per month to make ends meet.

cheers kittenpea

dollop

kittenpea wrote: »

HI, im new to this board but it is vast becoming a bible for me and so far i have saved loads, but i need to because i have just had another baby and we have worked out it is now not worth going back to work in the short term.

I have been thinking about doing bodyshop parties has anyone done this and does it pay??

Also any more money saving ideas would be great. I have been doing a bit on ebay, has anyone sold evoucher codes i saw someone had done this and made quiet a bit of money.

Ideally I need to be bringing in £300-£400 per month to make ends meet.

cheers kittenpea

hi first of all bodyshop is great if you have loads of friends and they all love paiying more for there make uk,i tried these and personally diddnt make much,i was on a council estate and most mothers would rather go down the market n buy the stuff cheaper,and theres lots of messing about involved too,if i were you to be quite blunt you got more chance of making more money with anne summers partys because people are more liable to buy it because they wont walk into a shop and buy the product they would actually like and you have more chance of makin the money you want to make with anne summers to,ive tried both and found you get more partys with anne summers and you get mroe cash and also more incentives,i done the anne summers years ago,so another few years ago i decided to cut out the middleman and find a wholesaler and do it myself and i done pretty well as the wholesalers had there own mags,and the prfit margin is tremendous i was buying rabbits for £8 and selling them for £22 and was undercutting anne summers still by about £20,as for ebay its not quite like it used to be its more a buyers market now than a sellers market unless you have something which is excepionally hard to get hold of,hope some of this advice helps.

kaykay_2

I was a body shop consultant for a while, when my youngest was a baby. I didnt particularly need the money but enjoyed the socialising aspect of it all - with grown ups!!!. What was difficult for me was the drumming up of business if things dried up a bit because you tend to get most new bookings during parties. There is an outlay you probably already know that but the amount of stuff in the outlay pack was brill. I think i may have not been that good at it cos i think i made about £30 per night for staying about three hours and there is the ordering and sorting of deliveries. I think there is some serious money to be made around christmas though.
Hope this helps

andycarmi

My friend did them and didn't make that much after we all had one party for her to get her going.

1012donna

I am a Partylite (candles) consultant and you can make a good bit of money if you get the party bookings. There is no outlay with us - you get your £300 kit free which is also yours to keep if you decide to leave!!! I'll not post all the details here but if you're interested drop me a pm and I'll tell you all about it.

skylight

Used to do these and Ann Summers too. Would go with Ann Summers.

Both (and all party consultants) rely on getting in the actual parties - thats the hard bit and you do need to push yourself at parties to persuade others to book. You can advertise, but check out your local rag first to evaluate costs and who else is currently advertising.

Shop windows (local newsagent etc) or make up flyers and hand these out in the high street. BUT for 1 year I did both parties and not one party was booked from a shop advert and only 2 from the street handouts.

Stall at the local fetes, Ann Summers is usually declined though by schools and churches! Bodyshop stalls go down well and you can sell stuff directly too, with a discount if you choose once you have worked out your profit line.

If you truely NEED £300-£400 to make ends meet, its a good incentive to get things working, but please do not rely on getting this sort of money each month. Unless you feel that you have the gift of the gab. Some people really do make lots of money from it.

I was an average earner, and they paid for our first family trip to Disneyland Paris.

budget_barbie

Hi there

I am a body shop consultant, I was just wondering what you decide in the end, I joine din april and I have to say it's the best thing I've ever done.

I'm not going to intentionally put down anyone elses busineass, but I have persaonlly heard form a few of the girls who now do Body shop that used to do other party planning Ann Summers - they always say there was a very high amount of customer returns - as with Virgin Vie.

As for party lite I'd say I'd go to a market to buy candles. They are also very expensive for what they are in my opinion. Most people buy body shop because of the ethics (the L'oreal thing hasn't effected things one bit )

I can highly recommend The Body Shop I earned back my joining fee in one party (earnings were £105) my kits cost £95 in april but they have various joining offers on. Just now you get £80odd pounds of kit extra free. And you can regularly add to your kit for free every month.

I've never had to hard sell, as the products sell themselves, and I said I couldn't do this I was far too shy !

I can tell you more about my earnings and how I get bookings if you PM me. I love my job and love to chat about it.

BB

Janepig

I've not done this line of work but I've been to a fair few of these parties (except Ann Summers!!!) and I think the best one was the Body Shop, although I went to an aromatherapy one (Lekisma?) which was very good too, with lots of stuff for kids as well. Virgin Vie and Partylite stuff, imo, is just too expensive really, but all of the people who have done these parties have made a fair bit on the night even though there are usually only about 6-7 people there, and they also seem to get more bookings too. The PTA at DD's school have had two Virgin Vie parties this school year with the proceeds going to the school and they generated a fair bit so maybe that's an area you could target too.

Jxx

andyrules

From own experience, when mine and friends' kids were babes, money was so tight all round no-one would have been able to buy anything as nice as Bodyshop! But we did find an organisation that sold really cheap seconds of kids and baby clothing, Next, M&S etc, and those parties were legendary. People begged to come and spent a fair bit stocking up. It was easy sales, you didn't even have to do the patter! The clothes were fine btw, generally overstock or discontinued lines. Was so long ago I've no idea what the organisation was, but maybe someone on here knows?

Mrs_L

I do Oriflame (cosmetics and skincare) parties, and would agree that you have to put time and effort in to get your bookings but the products sell themselves. Oriflame also has an option to catalogue drop if you don't fancy going into strangers homes. PM me if anyone wants to know more