Games to Play at Home Shows

By Leah Day, Independent Consultant for L'Bri Pure n' Natural

Coming up with new ideas of games to play at home shows and parties can be a challenge. You want the games to be fun and entertaining for each guest, but also helpful in your effort to sell products and recruit new members to your team.

So here's a list of some easy, fun games to play at your home shows or parties. This is designed for selling skin care products, but you can probably adapt this to sell any line of products through direct sales.

The Price is Right

This is a terrific game if you have a lot of products sitting around the house not being used. Set up 3 different product sets on a table with envelopes in front of every one. In the envelope write the retail price of all the products together and the discount price if customers purchase all the products as a set.

If your company doesn't have product sets, you can always have the retail price and then the wholesale price when you buy products as a Consultant.

When it comes time to play the game have every guest at your party guess the price of each set, one at a time. The three people that pick the closest prices get a small prize: an CD or DVD about joining the company, sample, or cosmetic bag, etc.

Use this game to also reinforce the fact that L'Bri products are very affordable and each product in the set will last at least 3 months, if not longer.

If you don't have a lot of products laying around, you can still use the Price is Right model for individual products. Take a product like the Facial Masque, something that produces amazing results that the guests will immediatly see a difference with, and talk it up. List the ingredients, what each thing does, how your skin will change, and how most customers look like they've had a stroke when they use it on one side of their face because the other side is so saggy.

Only $26.50!

After giving this full introduction, say this "Now that you know about the Facial Masque, let me ask you: how much do you think this product costs?" Ask each person in turn, except your hostess because she probably already knows. Really play up how awesome this individual product is and how expensive it should be. After getting all the answers, reveal the answer as only $26.50, give a Facial Masque sample to the guest that guessed closest to the right answer.

This game would be especially useful to promote a product that's on sale this month or not usually included in the sets your company sells. Reinforcing the fact that your products are very affordable and really work are two big selling points that can't be missed.

This is a great game to help you get to know the guests at your party and learn their Hot Buttons. Remember: Hot Buttons are the reasons that women might join L'Bri. They are things like buying a new car, getting out of debt, and represent the real needs and desires of these women that might be able to be fullfilled by joining your team.

Hand each guest at your party between $500 and $1000 in fake money. If you can't find fake money in any of the stores in your area, just look for a Monopoly game and just use the cash out of it.

After you hand out the money to each person, say this "I've just handed you all some fake money, but I'd like you to imagine that it's real. What would you do if you could count on this much extra money each month? What would you do with this cash?"

Listen to each woman as they give their answers and try to remember their responses. These Hot Buttons can certainly come in handy later when you discuss the Consultant Program with them and explain how easily they can earn that much extra money.

This is a fairly old game, but it's still very useful for recruiting and generating new bookings. Give each guest a profile sheet. On the back is space to play the name game. Give everyone 2 minutes to write down the names of everyone they know that would like to learn about L'Bri.

At the end ask each person how many people they thought of. Give a prize to the person that thought of the most names, but don't stop there! Bring up the name game later when discussing the Consultant Program with each lady in turn. Show them how knowing a lot of people is really helpful in starting their business and how easy it is to meet new people through sampling, word of mouth, and being friendly.

The Ingredient Game

This game is extremely fun and can really increase the sales of your products. Have all guest bring the skin care products they're using now to the party.

Sit all the products down in the center of the table and explain to everyone that you're going to learn how to read the ingredient lists.

Go through your list of chemicals such as Sodium Laurel Sulfate, Mineral Oil, Paraffin, Beeswax, SD Alcohol 40, Isopropyll Alcohol, FD&C dyes, and Fragrance and explain what these chemicals do and wait for the guests to find them in their products.

After enlightening the guests as to how toxic their products are, offer to lighten their load by passing around a trash can! For everyone that gives up their products, make sure they leave the party with a pack of samples to use until their order arrives.

This is a great way of educating the guests and encouraging them to move beyond the chemical rich, water based skin care products they've been using.

Use these game ideas for your next home party and see how it works for you! Remember, the best way to hold a successful show or party is to be fun, entertaining, and educational to all the guests that attend.

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