10 Super Home Party Business Booking Ideas

An empty calendar means you are out of business. Once you work through your list of family and friends, how to you keep getting fresh new leads? Here are 10 super ideas sure to get new bookings for your direct selling business.

1. Warm chatter everywhere you go. Bring business cards and samples with you and hand them out as you run your daily errands. Complement someone and then say, “I have a little gift for you,” as you pull it out of your purse. Then get their contact information to follow up and see how they liked it.

2. Give business cards to your customers and have them hand it out their friends. Give them a 10% discount on their next purchase if 1 person calls you, 20% if 2 people call you.

3. Facial Boxes – Put a fish bowl in a local restaurant, health club, or beauty salon – wherever your potential clients gather. Hold a monthly drawing for a free gift basket and a gift certificate to the store too!

4. Real estate agents – See if you can contribute a gift to the package that real estate agents hand out to their new home buying customers

5. Network – Join clubs, organizations, chamber of commerce, networking groups. The more people you know, the more relationships you build. It’s an easy way to get yourself known and build rapport for potential client and recruiting relationships.

6. Wedding, Birth and Promotion Announcements – Scan the local paper for announcements of weddings, births, and job promotions and call the people to congratulate them and offer them a free gift from your product line.

7. Door Prizes – Donate a gift basket of your product as a door prize for local groups and organizations.

8. Biggest Guest List Booking Game – Have each guest at your party write a list to see who can come up with the biggest list of friends, family, and guests. The one with the biggest list wins a prize. Now they have a ready to go guest list with they sign up as a hostess.

9. Book to Look – Have several envelopes with pictures of various prizes from your product line. They have to promise to book a class in order to choose an envelope with a mystery prize.

10. Expos and Tradeshows – Setup a booth with a free drawing and hand out samples with a booth at a tradeshow

Article by Kristie Tamsevicius – Speaker, Author, and Online Business Expert, Kristie Tamsevicius. She is the author of several books including “I Love My Life: A Mom’s Guide to Working from Home” and a contributing author to the upcoming book, “More Build it Big 2: 101 Insider Secrets from Direct Selling Experts” by Dearborn Publishing.