Team Support from Susie Rizzo
Your Director of Consultant Development for Story Time Felts

• Poem to put on postcards. You must be in the Yahoogroups to access this file.
• Booking by Phone - GREAT comprehensive post from a Candle lady on how to get bookings over the phone in a systematic way. You will need to adapt this for our business.
• 82 Ways to Get Bookings
• Booking Record - Write down the contact information and other notes when you are calling to book parties, or to refer to for follow ups. This is a Word document. You must be in the Yahoogroups to access this file.
• Wear the Envelope Booking Game
• Top 10 Reasons to Host a Story Time Felts Party
• Booking Blitz - Challenge yourself or your team to book parties over the phone.
• Booking Blitz Pre-Call - Listen to this for some tips before you dial for dollars. 14 min. NOTE: Two (oops) corrections - On the call I mentioned the Disney World incentive for hostesses and that it is a trip for 4 but in reality it is a trip for 2 that they win! I also said they need $500/3 bookings but it is $500/2 - so sorry!
  

  
  
• Have a $1000 Party in the Summer
• 100 No's Contest. Challenge yourself or your team to call enough people to get 100 No's! Think you'll get some YESes too?
• Balloon Pop Booking Game

• Hostess Coaching Checklist - Keep this sheet in a folder you make for the party. Check off each thing as you complete it and stay on track for a great party!
• Hostess Tic Tac Toe - Three in a row = a great party!

• Games for Parties: This is a file of 8 party game ideas that incorporate our products or learning, including the popular Dice Game!
• Catalog Scavenger Hunt -Have a race to find all the items listed!
• Party Step Cards - Print this out on cardstock and hold while you do your demo. They will remind you of what to do next and also make your job look easy for those thinking about doing the business. These are a must for all new consultants!
• Party Outline - This is an alternate outline you can print and keep on a clipboard to plan your party and remind you of what to do and when, and includes a checklist of things to bring.
• Rachelle's Party Tips - Find out what makes a party successful!
• Listen to our Team Meeting conference call about Holiday Selling Ideas:

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• Sharing the Business Opportunity with a Felt Story: Use the Cottage Classics and People sets to recruit!
• Recruiting through Relationship Marketing an article by Linda Locke
• Planting a Team - Grow your recruiting garden!
• Life Saver's candy recruiting packet and explanation. Pass these out to prospects!
• Are you Duplicable? Be sure your business is something others can do, too!
• New Year's recruiting poem - send this out after New Year's Eve!
• Balance Sales with Sponsoring - by Jane Deuber, Co-Founder of the DSWA
• Rate Your Recruiting Skills (and get some ideas for new ones!)
• 12 Recruiting Tips

• Is this a business or is it a hobby? Listen to this 15 minute team meeting recording:
  
  
  
• Money Talk - Spending Less and Making More by Deana Edmondson
• Balance Your Life
  
• Listen to a DSWA Teleclass from Party with Your Kids Week where 3 direct selling leaders share how they balance their business with their family life. The 3rd person speaking is me :) about the last 20 minutes of this 1 hour call.
  
• Say No So You Can Say Yes
• Master Task List for things to do daily, weekly and monthly in your STF busness.
• Finding Balance
• Honor Your Core Values
• Organize Your Business
• Listen to our Team Meeting conference call about Planning for the New Year:
  
• Listen to a Team Meeting conference call about Being Ready for Business:

• Marketing Your Business Offline
• Marketing Tips

• General Product Knowledge. This is a transcript of a training by Sharon Cunningham at a past Virtual Rally. Lots of great general information about the most popular products.
• NEW General Product Ideas - A list of little ideas you can use to enhance a variety of products.
• Consultant Gallery of Ideas - From our Virtual Rallies - Look here for ideas and photos of things consultants have done with products and displays.
• Photo Albums of Consultant Ideas (must be a Yahoogroup member for storytimefelts): http://finance.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/StoryTimeFelts/photos/browse?b=1&m=t&o=5
• Product Ideas Handout - pass this out at workshops!
• Ideas for enhancing or working with Grandpa's Farm
• Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly Ideas - including text of the Pie and Trout stories, and ways of mounting and storing her.
• Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly chart stand directions using PVC pipe. oldladystand.GIF
• Miscellaneous product tips from other Consultants over the years.
• Ideas for the Deluxe Toy Counter
• For teaching ideas using the products and others, check out the archives to my FunWithFelt newsletter. There are 30+ issues each with a different thematic unit featuring ideas submitted by Consultants for use with the products and in addition to the products. For example, Ocean Life, Farm Animals, Teddy Bears, etc.
• Scripture Stories Snacks - Ideas for snacks you could serve at parties or use in Sunday School class.
• Why Toddlers Need Nursery Rhymes - This article appeared in Parents Magazine.
• Transportation Fingerplays

• NAEYC (preschools) http://naeyc.org/
• NEA (teacher's association) http://www.nea.org/
• Try contacting the PTA in your area, they may be interested in fundraisers. http://www.pta.org/jp_find_your_pta.html
• Child Care Resource and Referral Organizations. Look up your lcal group then call about offering training classes on hands-on learning with felt! http://childcareaware.org/en/findcare/

• http://www.craftlister.com
• http://www.countryregister.com/
• http://www.artandcraftshows.net
• http://www.craftsreport.com
• http://www.tsnn.com

• Cricket's Search Engine Optimization Classes - These are for anyone with their own webpage to learn the best ways to set your site up to be listed higher in the search engine rankings. This class is free and done through email at your own pace. It is wonderful!
• Self-promotion.com A GREAT place to get yourself listed in search engines, indexes and other avenues as well as tools to use in promoting your site that are free or low-cost with NO hassles. I have used them for 5 years and love it!
• Yahoogroups.com Join some discussion lists in areas that interest you - teaching, parenting, scrapbooking, church. Do a search on your favorite topics and join! Post your biz info in your "signature file" and make new friends and possible "leads" for your business!
• GrokDotCom Offers great advice on creating an internet presence and turning visitors into customers - in plain language!
• Ryze is chock full of business-related message boards and networking groups. Free website too!

• Customer Order Form - For writing up orders
• Hostess Order Form - Great for figuring and explaining the Hostess' amount due
• Consultant Order Form - For figuring the amount due to the company before calling it in
• Opportunity Flier - Lists the % levels so you can figure your income
• Consignment Order Form - For placing a Consignment Order before fairs/events/etc.
• Marketing Materials - Click here to see some of the business tools you can get!
• About Me Page. This is an example for the back side of the About Me page and can be used as a Word template to fit your own text onto the sheet.
• Consultant Survey 2008 - Fill this out and email to Karen to let her know more about you. This can also be used as a business plan to help you decide on your goals for your business.