Hey Everyone,

We will be on the radio now every Monday morning at 8:30 AM pacific standard time!!!!

You can check out our first Show here at BlogTalkRadio and if you can’t make it you can listen to the recording.

We plan on covering lots of topics each week; plus, you can ask us any questions, either before the show or during!

• Tips for getting more bookings
• Guests who are amazing!
• Home office Tips

The list goes on and on!

See you There!

Jody & Charlotte

A few years ago I was doing a home party show and was doing my Hostess Coaching with a great gal!

I knew she had done a few other different parties with other companies, but even knowing this I made it a point to set a coffee date so that we could sit down and go over the hostess package!

I met her at her home, brought the package and proceeded to go over the details.

We went over some key things that I do for every hostess:

• Brainstorm for guest names
• Discuss that if someone cannot make the show, they can definitely place an order
• I always tell my hostess’s that they know their guests better than I do, and how I do not like to “push sales on anybody”, so with this in mind if she has a guest who is on a ‘fixed budget’ this would be the ideal person that she could talk to…to host her own party!
• We also discuss how the hostess will contact people, and a ‘warm way to invite them’

My hostess was ECTASTIC and over the edge with happiness!

She gushed on how “no other consultant had set out clearly” about having a party!

UH???  I was stunned.

I had “ASSUMED” (ya know the old saying…it makes an ASS-Out-of-U-and-ME) that because my friend had several other parties with other companies, she would know all the fun details about being a hostess!!!

I was also pleasantly surprised by her warm “thanks” about how to even “invite her guests”…this was always something she had dreaded doing in the past…and she mentioned such things like:

• I never knew Exactly what to say when I invited people….so I’d usually say something stupid like “oh just come…have fun…I don’t expect you to buy anything” ((uh, even tho she did want them to buy a little something))
• Sitting down and making a list was always daunting and I put it off…but now we’ve done it together..thanks!!
• I never thought of keeping the food simple…I had no idea about giving people too many choices..I always thought I had to put together a huge COSTLY spread..thanks for simplifying it!
• I’m looking forward to this party, you have made it fun!

It just goes to show ya all….never assume that people who have had tonnes of other parties know even just the basics of having a Successful party…sure you mite get the seats filled…but filled with people who have no INTENTIONS of spending anything!!!

Think about it & I’d love to hear some of your most fun Hostess’s!!!

JODY )

Jody Maley is Motivational Speaker & Trainer, mom of six,retired entrepeneur, ToastMaster, Queen of the Home Party Plan Biz!

http://www.DesignedforDivineDestinations.com

“Where its not just about the Destination, it’s the Journey to Get there!”

This week on a radio program I will be speaking about “Quick Tips for Home Office Organization“.

With summer just about over many ‘home entrepeneurs’ are now focusing on business for the fall, so here are some of my best tips to get your summer out of your head and how to Juice up your Fall!
Now is the time to take ACTION!
Here are a few ideas that YOU can incorporate right now to help organize your home office!

Tip#1 Organize or decide where your workspace is going to be!

I find many WAHM’s don’t have access to ‘their own space’, so if at all possible set aside the computer desk, a spare room, or even make space in a well lit area! (I personally do not like working in a cramped part of the basement and find that a well lit, natural sun spot gets my own creative ideas rolling much more better!)

Tip#2 Once you have established where your “Space” is going to be spend 15 min’s per day Getting it into a “Creative Zone”

This can be ‘de-cluttering’ or ‘beautifying’ your area! A nice plant, a few pictures, or best yet…this is where you will put your “Dream/Vision Board”
Tip#3 Make your Dream/Vision Board

If you haven’t already done one, I highly recommend this for any Home Business! You need to have handy a board that you can look at for at least 2-5 min’s before you start doing any work to “Remind” yourself of your “Why”.
I also love to have mine right beside my computer so that when I’m doing my writing I know exactly WHO my audience is that I’m attracting to me every day!

Tip#4 Have a Great Calendar on your desk!

This is one of my fav tips! I like to have a big monthly calendar right at my space.
I jot down phone numbers, my conference call schedule, set my ‘work hours’.
For those of you in a Home Party Plan Business you might want to put the days that you are doing your shows so that your family will know your schedule, and don’t forget to schedule in your ‘training time’.

Tip#5 Run your business like a Business to get paid like a Business!

If you could put your business on speed-dial to 2-3 yrs down the road and “Saw Yourself” making huge amounts of money…what would your office hours look like? Where would your children be?

I think one of the biggest obstacles holding alot of WAHM’s back is the fact that they just don’t know what to do with their children while they are ‘working’….so no set ‘working schedule’ gets put into practice.
The best tip that I can give you (especially having at least one child at home for the last 17 yrs while running a significant 6 digit business) is make sure the children know that now is “mommy’s work time”.

Arrange with them that they can quietly watch a movie, or play in their room for about a 30 minute time period. Don’t budge on this….& don’t constantly tell them that ‘mommy is working, or mommy is on the phone’ is just setting yourself up for interruptions!
I found that if I had a consistent daily time of 30 min’s to make calls, write, read etc…that the kids got used to this being my Work Time. Then immediately after my 30 min’s I make sure to do a ‘planned activity’ with the kids! (BTW I do not consider Facebook and Twitter activities into this 30 min’s…sorry girls!)

Consistency is the key here, and I found that I accomplished more in a concentrated half hour than most people do in three days!
Even if I had no calls to make, I use this time to write, answer emails, or read something that I can learn to move my business forward!
This is your “Daily Action Time” and is Essential to move forward and make your business Pay you like a Business!

So these are my top Five Quick Tips for Home Office Organization that I know will help move Your business forward to a more productive Fall!

In closing, I’d also like to say that when you & your family know that you are taking your business seriously you can move that 30 min’s into longer periods as well.
For example, I now host several ‘one hour’ radio programs, have ‘one hour’ business development TeleSeminar’s and ‘one hour MasterMind groups’ that my family (spouse and children both) know is BIZ time!

To your Fabulous Fall!

Jody Maley

owner of www.DesignedforDivineDestinations.com
“Where it’s not just about the Destination, it’s the Journey to get There!”