Tips to Selling At a Party

If you don’t have a merchandise catalogue, consider making one of your own. A valuable and easy-to-follow manual on “How to Prepare Your Own Catalogue” is currently available. Another manual that will be of special interest to you is the “Close out Merchandise Money Making Manual”. Both these manuals are available to buy. While we’re on the idea of catalogues, we’d like to point out that a lot of Party Plan Merchandisers are also dealers for the extra-income... Read more »

Your Guide to Effective Garage sales

Pick almost any city or town in the country, drive through any middle class neighbourhood or residential area on the weekend, and you’re sure to spot at least half dozen garage sales. What’s being sold at these garage sales? The accumulated “junk” peoples no longer use or want taking up space in or around their homes. Are they making any money with these garage sales? You’d better believe they’re making money! It’s not at all uncommon to make $600 with... Read more »

Answering and Recruiting When Selling At a Party

When you seem to have answered all the questions and everyone appears to have made their selections, start writing orders. Don’t hesitate to ask for orders. Writing orders should take about 15 minutes, and then you should let the party begin to winding down. During this time, mingle with your guests and anyone showing a spark of interest should be approached with an offer to serve as a future host or hostess. As each guest starts to leave, thank them for coming and walk with them to the... Read more »

Learn Selling Using the Party Plan

On the day of the party, get your merchandise display set up early. The party should be held in the largest room in the home - usually the living room - with the merchandise display the center of attraction. The merchandise should be set out on a sturdy table covered with a good white or light coloured cloth, and the merchandise should be arranged by group or type - the jewellery items together; perfumes, bath oils and colognes together; crystal together, and so on. Try to put a bit of imagination... Read more »

Top Secrets to a Garage Sale

Now let’s talk about the “inside secrets” of drawing people into your sale, and the merchandising “gimmicks” that will result in the maximum sales and profits for you. First, call attention to your sale. Don’t be shy, bashful or self-conscious about letting everybody for miles about know that you’re having a garage sale. Some sharp operators do the next best thing to having the Goodyear blimp overhead: They rent miniature blimps, send them up above the... Read more »

The Most Effective Way of Organising the Garage Sale

Its best that your wife handle the garage sale itself - greets the potential customers, “shows them around,” and generally engages them in conversation. If it’s a woman staging the garage sale, then arrangements should be made to have another woman “mind the store” while she’s out digging up more items for sale. The advertising angle is really quite simple, and shouldn’t cost very much either. You should run an ad in your area shopper’s newspaper... Read more »

The Three Things You Must Know In Order To Increase Your Sales Without Cutting Prices

When you Google anything to do with increasing sales you will have thirty-one million six-hundred thousand websites to choose from! Talk about information overload! When it comes to ideas for increasing your business revenues, it is a daunting task just to know where to start. The one place you should NOT start is by cutting your prices. After you consider all of the available advice, the guerilla marketing strategies, the myriad of how to articles and books, there are really only THREE ways... Read more »

A Good Headline Will Help You Sell!

Can a good headline help you sell? You can bet it can! Ninety percent of the success or failure of your home business will be thanks to your headline writing. It doesn’t matter if you’re writing an ad or a sales letter… Save Money And Time, The Headline Should Help You Sell And Reach Success Some books that sell few copies become best sellers with exactly the same content and a new title! So you need to ignite your sales by writing headlines with amazing power, and I will show you... Read more »

Open House Dos and Don’ts

If you are getting prepared to sell a home then you should know that an open house is the best way to show what you have to offer. Buyers love to drive around their favorite neighborhoods or follow their real estate agent in search of their potential dream home. An open house is basically a showroom and should be treated as such. Here are some things for you to keep in mind and consider if you are selling property. Your home should be spotless so potential buyer can see it at its best. Clean... Read more »

Bowling Equipment Sales: Selling Items that Lead to Strikes

Bowling is one of the leading recreational activities around. A lot of people will take a sudden trip to the bowling alley after the long hours in school or in the office. Some schools even have Bowling subjects, which aim to improve the bowling strokes of students. Before you think of getting into bowling seriously, it is advisable that you purchase a good set of bowling equipment so that you can easily mold a good bowling stroke. The basic bowling items sold are bowling balls, shoes, wristers... Read more »