Tighten Our Business--Becoming Millionaires

January 13, 2008

PURPOSE: Establish goals, time line and familiarity/lifestyle with products. We should all become a product of the products so that we can better explain them to prospects. Time to tighten up our business.

IN ATTENDANCE: Steve, Winston, Norma, Maribel

GROWTH
Purpose: To use incremental growth (baby steps) to grow our business into millionaire status.

• Use hotel guests for spa treatments
• Keep/be consistent with meetings—have a central location
• Set up calendar with 90-day blitzes
• Commit to the business
• Use a location to continuously offer products/business to others (the hotel, community agency, etc)
• Continue weekly conference calls (maintain communication/connected)
• Offer T-Parties with a focus on “lifestyle change” using the TePoema and TTP-40 products
• Have an agenda for the meeting
• Come an hour before the meeting and stay an hour later (to set up/regroup)
• Have logistics established so that meetings run smoothly
• Come together as business partners to purchase products in bulk for T-Parties (sample products, products to sell)
• Intertwine personal development in meetings and for new IPCs

MARKETING
Purpose: To tell major retailers what we really want/like.

• Be an activist
• “Time to get junk out of our system”
• Use the word FREE (free consultation, door prizes, etc)—this word attracts people to event
• Write in ad/flyer “Light refreshments will be offered” to attract candidates
• Place ad in newspapers with free postings (banner calendar, neighborhood newspaper)
• Use flyers
• Customize presentation to each event (don’t need business presentation if giving a lifestyle change party)
• Add culture of Tahiti in marketing
  

GOAL SETTING—90-DAY BLITZES
Purpose: To establish goals in 90 day intervals, see the growth of the business, and reach Pearl status.

• Outlines our goals, aspirations, and achievements
• Can establish a calendar for continual and one-time events
• The calendar keeps us focus on the future, what events are upcoming, and/or what events should be done
• We should invent “holidays” and make them recurring (annual events)
• As soon as someone joins the team, they must attend the next main event

EVENT PLANNING
Purpose: To establish a protocol for setting up events, inviting guests, validating business.

1. Tracking:

• Invite people
• Confirm invite
• Follow-up with those who attended and those who did not attend

2. Validate business:

• When invite a person, call a team member to “RSVP” to see if space is available
  

3. Meetings focus on TePoema and TTP40

*First hour and a half of party:

• Have guests register for a raffle (start a database w/contact info). The gift is education on products
• Present product and give a demonstration
• Do a quick advantage pack presentation

*Last half hour of party:

• Sign up new IPCs and book their party
• Give parting gifts for those new IPCs who sponsor a party of 15+ guests