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How Do You Treat Customers In An
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Home
Party Tips
This game
works for any party plan company.
Just write
on your invitation, "BRING A BANANA". The curiosity kills
everyone and it is a great attendance builder. They all want to
know what the banana is for. Your hostess must keep the secret
to make the game fun. At the party everyone's imagination got the
best of them. You have them there, which is what you wanted and
the purpose of the game.
You play a
points game. Give out chips, cards, money, raffle tickets,
whatever you use and the top points wins the prize. You can make
it a bigger prize with a booking from the winner.
Give
points for whatever you want. Biggest, smallest, brownest,
greenest, hardest, softest, etc. When all is done, your hostess
serves icecream/toppings and everyone makes a banana split as the
refreshments. Increases attendance and good for laughs.
For a
winter game, skip the ice cream, and the winner can win the bag of
bananas.
Featured
Article
How Do You Treat Customers In An Online
Home Business?
Copyright © 2005, Alan Cheng
With an online home business, many people
wonder what the right way is to treat customers. After all, you can't see
their grumpy faces and therefore don't know whether they're happy or
annoyed with the purchase.
Let me tell you a secret. In an online home business the ancient rule
still applies - "Treat your customers as if they are your boss for they
pay your salary". Yes, it's just as important on the internet as it is
with a normal business.
So how do you make your customers happy when the internet business is so
impersonal? The key is to be as personal and as warm as possible. Below
are my personal tactics which I've used over the years. Some gained via
reading information products and some gained via errors with my own online
membership site. Enjoy.
1. Thank you emails
Often after a customer has bought your product the relationship ends
there. They'll receive the receipt for their payment and nothing more.
What if we immediately followup with a 'thank you' email and also tell
them what other products they can buy which they may find interesting?
Your customers would appreciate you for being thoughtful and think "wow, I
didn't think this kind of service existed online". You have surprised your
customers and you're selling to them at the same time. Kill two birds with
one stone.
And who says you need to stop there? You can send them an email every two
weeks reminding them that they have bought from you before and that you
have some other products which they may be
interested in.
If you have not already done so, go and send your thank you emails and
sell to your customers. This sort of work can be automated by using auto
responders. I recommend
http://www.onlinemoneymachine/auto
which is reliable and has worked wonders with following up with my
customers.
2. Meet the expectations.
A lot of people are angry if what they bought does not match the
description as advertised on your web page.
Think about it. If they bought what they expected and your sales page is
clear, they have nothing to complain about. This applies to normal
customers of course :-)
So read through your sales page again and carefully say to yourself "does
my product or service really deliver what it says?"
3. Over Deliver
This is one of the most powerful techniques to use to make your customers
go "WOW".
I remember the first time I had dinner at a Chinese restaurant with my
girlfriend when I was studying at University.
The owner asked me that if it was my first time there. I told him so and
in the middle of my dinner, he asked if he could have a chat with us. He
sat down with an orange juice and offered us an orange juice as well on
the house. We had a quick chat for about 5 minutes. He got to know our
names and also what we studied and we learnt he was called Eric - a happy
restaurant owner. Eric left us to get on with our meal and smiled to us
when we left. We felt the service at the restaurant was top notch with
Eric being our new friend.
Needless to say we became a regular there. We called him by name and so
did he. We didn't get any more orange juice on the house but it didn't
matter.
Please learn from Eric. Try and over-deliver when someone buys from you.
With your business, offer unadvertised bonuses and offer additional help
for them such as installing the software for them at no extra cost. Do
something which they don't expect you to do. In turn they'll stick with
you like glue.
4. Personal Approach
Your business is online and people are afraid to do business with you. So
add a bit of personal touch to your business:
- show your photo on the web page.
- send emails to your prospects calling them by their first
names. People feel closer to you when you address them by
their first name.
- crack a joke now and again and show that you are an actual
person writing them an email.
With these advice on how to treat your customers, your next step now is to
study your own online home business and think of ways to implement the
techniques. Make your customers buy from you again and also make them
advertise for you.
Go and take action now. Reading a useful article becomes useless if you
don't act on it.
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Alan Cheng, is the owner of
http://www.onlinemoneymachine.com the
membership site with everything to help beginners setup a
profitable online business website. You can contact Alan at
mailto:alan@onlinemoneymachine.com
Press
Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information, contact:
Sandra K. McGinty, Public Relations Director
949.291.2265 or allme@cox.net
Laga Designs International introduces impressive lines
of new handbags and travel bags with a charitable twist!
A generous portion of all proceeds from every handbag sale
go to help tsunami victims in Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia.
Irvine, Calif. –
May 9, 2006 – With the coming of spring, our minds naturally turn to fresh
new looks and fashion trends. We want to know what’s hot and what’s not,
and we put time aside to find the right accessories and handbags to match
each new outfit. Fortunately, there’s a new handbag manufacturer in town –
Laga Designs International – that recently hit the market running with two
lines of quality handmade handbags and one travel bag line from Indonesia
that offer as much eye appeal as they do form and functionality.
Buyers everywhere have begun to snap up the handbags for reasons beyond
fashion sense. First, with more than 30 handbag and travel bag styles to
choose from, the lines offer lots of options. More important, however, is
that a portion of the proceeds from every handbag purchase goes to help
the tsunami victims of Banda Aceh (pronounced A - CHEY) in Sumatra,
Indonesia. The latter is a story of hope, help and healing for the people
of Banda Aceh, and a tale of a path less taken for Laga founders Roy and
Louise Van Broekhuizen.
What started as a short-term assignment to distribute funds donated by
members of the church to those hit hardest by the devastating tsunami
event a month earlier turned into an ongoing personal effort for Roy and
Louise, who created Laga Designs International as a way to continue
helping the victims of the tsunami-ravaged country. It was following their
initial visits to Banda Aceh when the Van Broekhuizens decided that
manufacturing high-quality handbags could help them help the tsunami
victims on an ongoing basis.
“We began manufacturing handbags after I had made several visits the
tsunami-torn area of Banda Aceh,” explains Roy. “We were asked by Pastor
Rick of Saddleback Church [Lake Forest, Calif.] to lead volunteer efforts
in Banda Aceh in January 2005. We didn’t know the trip would put us on a
path to a lifelong mission, but it has become our personal goal to help
the people hardest hit by the tsunami to rebuild their lives.”
The Van Broekhuizens put their money where their mouths are, making
regular visits to the Banda Aceh area to work side by side with the locals
to build homes and care for the sick and needy. Currently, Roy and Louise
are in Indonesia on an extended tour of the area, lending much needed
helping hands to the Indonesian people.
“The devastation left behind in the region of Banda Aceh continues to be
heart breaking,” says Louise, who finds it difficult to hold back tears
whenever she speaks about the people there. “They are still rebuilding and
need a lot of help. In our manufacturing facility, we employ 20 women
currently and will hire more as we grow. We want to provide a new life for
the people of Banda Aceh. We cannot give them back the loved ones they
lost, but we can do a lot to help them rebuild their area’s infrastructure
as we help them rebuild their lives and livelihoods.”
To read the whole story behind the creation of the company and how Roy and
Louise hope to change the world of the tsunami victims … one handbag at a
time … visit
www.laga-handbags.com. Learn:
• Who makes all the handbags and why – All Laga Design
International handbags are handmade by the local island people of
Indonesia. It is the hope of Roy and Louise that the memory of what
happened to these gentle people on December 26, 2004 will remain in the
hearts of those around the world so that work to rebuild their lives can
continue.
• More about Roy and Louise van Broekhuizen – A former VP of
International Business Development for Online Trading Academy and owner of
several businesses, Roy has partnered with wife Louise to create a truly
unique and charitable handbag company.
• What’s so different about Laga Designs International – Aside from
manufacturing beautiful, high-quality, one-of-a-kind handmade handbags,
the company was formed to provide employment and income for those who lost
their livelihoods as a result of the tsunami disaster.
By hiring and training local victims, Roy and Louise hope to help the
people of Indonesia restore their economy and infrastructure.
To learn how a simple handbag purchase can help support the victims of
the tsunami and to view Laga’s product lines, visit
www.laga-handbags.com. To schedule an
interview with Roy and/or Louise, contact Sandra McGinty at 949.291.2265.
About Roy and Louise Van Broekhuizen
Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1948, Roy fled Indonesia
in 1957 to Holland, immigrated to the US (Portland, OR) in 1961 on a
soccer scholarship from Lewis & Clark College. Simultaneously, he pursued
entry into the music business as a professional guitar player. His musical
dreams were realized in the early 1970s, as he toured with Ike and Tina
Turner, and opened for Jimi Hendrix and other groups. He then moved on to
the business world, starting a number of import/export/international trade
businesses (exporting American products to SE Asia), as well as a 300-seat
restaurant, a catering business, a construction company, and a mortgage
business in Southern California. Managing a number of large operations,
Roy became one of the first day traders in the world in June 1997, before
eventually being named VP of Sales and Marketing for Online Trading
Academy, where he taught teaching people how to trade via special
educational seminars.
Louise Van Broekhuizen was born in The Hague, Holland, in 1955,
immigrating to Pasadena, Calif. in 1961, where she eventually attended
Torrance High School and El Camino Community College. She co-owned a
variety of businesses and became involved in the mortgage loan business,
where she was responsible for processing and underwriting mortgage loans
for her own mortgage company (Harvest Mortgage Inc.) as well as DiTech,
Consumer Portfolio Services and First Bank. Louise is a very organized,
detailed and focused individual, traits that come in pretty handy working
alongside Roy in the tsunami area of Banda Aceh, importing handbags and
other products from Indonesia.
About Laga Designs International Handbags
Laga offers two distinct styles of handbag, no two the
same aside from quality manufacturing practices. techniques. Delightfully
distinctive, Laga handbags offer something for everyone in style and
functionality. Laga is currently accepting applications from those
interested in becoming Laga Handbag Consultants on a part-time or
full-time basis here in the United States. Laga is also looking for good
party hostesses, distributors, and volunteers to assist with day-to-day
operations of the company. For more information or to apply, please
contact Roy or Louise by phone at 714.623.3671 or 714.623.3672, or email
Roy at roydio@sbcglobal.net (email protected from spam bots).
Home
Party Plan Business Opportunities
Natural Health/Wellness and Skin Care Products
Founded
over 25 years ago. Natural skin care, health and wellness company offers
great business opportunity to work FT or PT @ home. Consumable products!
Earn $300-10,000/month and 35% off all products. Great commission
structure. Minimal investment with start up costs as low as $29. For
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site
www.skincarenaturally.myarbonne.com (financial freedom tab
of the website) or email us @
skincarenaturally@myarbonne.com or contact Tammy @
402-612-4581.
Decorative
Lettering from Uppercase Living—Hottest Trend in Home Décor!
“Finally a
product that excites my customers, my hostesses, and makes it so much
easier to recruit. I feel like once I got the ball rolling that
everything else has fallen into place because of the buzz that the
decorative lettering generates. It has been incredible to have
customers, hostesses, and even prospective Demonstrators approach me
instead of me having to convince them to take a look. Thank You
Uppercase Living for the amazing opportunity!” (Kelly—UT).
We at Uppercase Living believe in the power of words, in the beauty of
elegant design, and in the transforming quality that both can have in a
home. And when you experience our product firsthand, you’ll believe it
too. Uppercase Living offers hundreds of pre-designed expressions to be
placed easily and seamlessly on your walls or just about any other
place. You can also place a custom order using a wide variety of colors
and fonts to express your own style and personality. Witty phrases,
spiritual quotes, meaningful sayings passed on for generations – you’ll
find that our designs complement your home with what they say, as well
as the way they look. Our decorative lettering and embellishments are
quick and easy to apply, allowing you to transform your rooms in
minutes. It’s so simple and the results are so dramatic, it will seem
almost magical. The opportunities and possibilities are limitless! For
additional details visit
www.uppercaseliving.com .
Tealightful Treasures
Did you know that
Entrepreneur Magazine just named tea the #1 top business to be in for
2006? Contact us and learn the top three critical reasons you should
start your own Tealightful Treasures business today!
Join a
company that is committed to your success! Be one of the first to
take advantage of this ground floor opportunity! Be inspired and
motivated by the positive feedback you will get from this unique home
party experience! Share exceptional consumable re order products that
promote health and personal wellness. Find support, motivation and
success for your efforts!
Be empowered and
inspired by a company with heart! Our consumable product line includes a
selection of exotic and interesting teas from around the world, creative
yogurt scone mixes, tea-infused gourmet preserves and bath products. To
enhance the beauty of the Tealightful Treasures experience we also offer
our own custom line of china, serving pieces and tea accessories.
Our presentation,
product line and business model have been extensively tested and proven
successful for four years. For more information,
please visit
www.tealightfultreasures.com
or email
tea@tealightfultreasures.com .
Play Games, Make
Money with SimplyFun!
Everyone loves games!
That’s why SimplyFun is truly one of a kind - a direct selling party plan
company marketing original board, card, and party games and other
entertaining play products that are simple to learn and fun to play.
SimplyFun Consultants teach others to play these entertaining games at
in-home parties while promoting the importance of play. Find out why you
should join the most fun direct selling company in the world! Email
info@simplyfun.com,
visit
www.simplyfun.com/bm/,
or call us at 1-877-557-7767.
Sensaria
Natural Bodycare. Bring the Spa Home!
Join one of
the hottest direct sales companies out there today- Sensaria Natural
Bodycare. Hostesses love holding our “at home” spa parties, where
guests are pampered with our naturally based products, and are
encouraged to create nurturing rituals in their busy lives. Sensaria
makes a fabulous line of consumable products, including skin care, hair
care, body care and home care products. The company provides extensive
training and support to its representatives, and empowers them to build
successful businesses, while retaining balance in their lives. Be one
of the first in your area to be part of the growing Sensaria team. You
will have repeat customers who re-order their Sensaria line and repeat
hostesses who love sharing the spa experience with their family and
friends. Representatives earn 30% of sales and additional bonuses.
Free website and client ordering available from website. For more
information email me at
lauradorsibauman@mysensaria.com or visit my website at
www.sensaria.com/lauradorsibauman.
RemARKable Career with Noah's Ark Animal Workshop
As an independent Crew
Member you will conduct "make your own" stuffed animal workshops for
events like birthdays, preschools, daycares, summer camps, senior
centers, playgroups, corporate events and more. You run your own
business and work on your schedule with no reporting parties and no
quotas or minimums to spend. Work when you want to and even take your
children to your workshops. This kid-friendly business is exploding all
over the US and now is the time to get on board while the opportunity is
still new. Minimum commissions earned are 35%-45% plus monthly bonuses
for sponsoring and leadership positions. Call or email me and I'll
help you set up a "try it" party. More information at
www.noahsarkworkshop.com/robertalove95
Roberta Love, Independent
Founding Member #95
stuffnfluff@zoominternet.net
724-779-8388
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Work
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Glitz
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Contact us for a catalog at
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"Brag Bags" by something2bragabout.com
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Business Enhancements, Inc.
Providing Direct Sales Consultants the tools
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DreamTracker Solutions PartyTracker
2.0 is geared toward the individual who sells for an at home party plan
company. Designed to help the party plan representative organize their
business, PartyTracker 2.0 walks you easily through inputting information,
allows the user to define set values that will be used through out the
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Express Yourself!
Promote your business and
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Serving Consultants and Leaders in the direct sales industries since 1998,
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Gene Letterio Company
Our company was founded in 1967. We are proud
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Marking Solutions
Marking Solutions is a Member of the Direct
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and many other items for independent Sales Representatives. They
have great pricing, service, and quality.
Nashville Wraps
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Party Manager Software
Valuable software for any type of sales
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Roteck.com
We offer custom/personalized
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T.R.I.M. Designs, Inc.
specializes in products to help you TRAIN,
RECOGNIZE,
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your teams to success! We offer numerous cards, awards and other items
customized for the business community and the direct sales industry to
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