Certified Adult Home Party Association (CAHPA)

Workshops To Empower Women For Lead Generation

The products and ideas that a home party consultant represents can often be seen as ways of helping women take more control over their private lives.

The path to finding ways to empower women can begin with giving women the advice and products they need to act out their own desires and bring their fantasies to the bedroom.

Once women obtain confidence in their sex lives, a chain reaction of confidence in every aspect of their lives begins. While there are plenty of women who understand the concept of empowerment and live by its principles, there are still plenty who do not understand what it all means.

Find Business At Workshops

Your experience as an adult products sales business owner puts you in a unique position to help get the idea of empowerment across to women less fortunate. As you develop new ways to help empower women through offering yourself as a workshop presenter at various events, you will also be able to grow your own home consultant business by continually adding new clients.

There are hundreds of organizations near you that need free educational workshops on topics you are able to teach. A few ideas are:

• Clubs
• Church Groups
• Schools
• Teen Advocacy Programs
• Libraries

As you plan events to take place in the homes of women who have the self-confidence they need to be able to balance their lives with the lives of their significant others and their careers, you may want to recommend a sort of empowerment workshop before you do an actual event.

It can be a great way to introduce what you do to new clients without including the actual product displays and information that can make some women uncomfortable. You can work with the women who already host events with you to set up small round-table discussions on empowerment in their churches, clubs, or other community organizations.

The best approach is to not mention sexual aspects of the workshop when marketing it to other women. It is better to describe your events as informational seminars on how women can take full control of their lives. Start each presentation with a general discussion of important empowerment issues such as sharing child care with a spouse or getting ahead at work, and then use that to get into discussions about your adult products and how they can help.

Adult Products Empower Women

Adult party consultants deal in relationship items along with items designed for pleasure. It is important to emphasize how your romance products will help women to get more out of their personal and sexual relationships to help demonstrate the power of expressing themselves. Once you give a few of these seminars and start to help women to understand the liberating feeling of expressing and acting on their own desires, you will see your client list and revenues grow.

The Value Of Investing In Education

When you decide to go into business for yourself, you should plan on furthering your education. Anyone who decides to become an adult home party consultant should remember that there is much more to the business than an engaging smile and a witty way to present products. While those characteristics are extremely important to your success, there are other parts to the business side that can be enhanced by furthering your education.

Direct Sales Marketing

Every business needs a strong marketing approach. An adult home party consultant needs to find new ways to market to potential clients and continue to grow her customer base. Marketing can sound like the easy part of the business until you actually sit down and try to do it. When you spend some time taking marketing classes or getting a marketing degree, then you will be able to aggressively and successfully grow your business.

Business Tracking and Accounting

A business degree consists of many different facets. One of the areas that business education covers is accounting and business taxes.

When you are out hosting events and selling products, you need to have a firm grasp on what is a tax deduction and how to properly collect sales tax. There is a long list of things that every small business owner should understand about business taxes that cannot be left to the accountant.

When you invest in your business, you develop a comprehensive understanding of the tax aspects of owning a business and allow yourself to run you business legally and enjoy as many tax deductions as possible.

Direct Sales Training Opportunties

How can investing in higher education help you in recruiting?

There is a lot to be said about the effectiveness of the psychology and sales training courses you can take online these days.

That engaging smile you have is only useful if you know how to attract potential consultants to your business and convince customers that your products are worth buying. When you take psychology and sales training education, you learn how to be persuasive and find the things that other people consider valuable.

That can be a great asset in helping you to convince qualified employees to share in your business vision. Being an adult home party consultant requires the same hard work and dedication as it does to be any kind of successful small business owner. When you invest your own personal and business education, you are giving yourself the tools you need to build a successful business.

CAHPA Training For Romance Consultants

The recent Direct Sales Romance Consultant Univerity sponsored by CAHPA was a huge success! Watch for more upcoming training events and invest in yourself!

Practice The Sex Toy Upsell

You’ve got products, you’ve got a sex toy party booking, and you’ve got some guests willing to buy. But, how do you up-sell and get them to buy more products or more expensive products?

Upselling Boosts Profits

Selling up is one of the ways to boost your profits. But, there are good ways to do this and there are bad ways. The bad method is to increase the pressure like a sleazy used car salesman. The good method is to educate your guests and teach them about sex toys in a sex-positive manner.

Not everyone can afford top of the line sex toys. Most of your guests won’t pull out their checkbooks to purchase a 100% medical grade silicone dildo, but they may decide to move up from a low-priced jelly sex toy to a multi-speed vibrator. If money is tight, your potential buyers will most likely elect to buy groceries over that lifetime guaranteed dildo you are trying to sell them, However, by promoting your products in a sex-positive way and educating them on the pleasures of various sex toys, they may see the benefit of shelling out a few more bucks for a better dildo.

How to Educate Your Guests

• Describe the different materials used to make sex toys, lubes, and lubricants. Educate them on the pros and cons of the various materials.
• Educate them on products that are more body healthy. Some sex toys are made with phthalate, also known as PVC, an oil-based compound used to soften plastic, that are known to cause certain types of cancer, infertility, and birth defects.
• Describe the benefits of sex toys, for individuals, and couples. Describe how sex toys can help women discover their own sexuality and how they help couples rekindle the romance that may have been lost to family, work and familiarity.

Careful with Up-Selling

Though you are in business to make money and up-selling is one way to make more money, you need to be careful. By up-selling, you risk alienating potential buyers and losing repeat customers. Selling a cheap vibrator to a young college student who lacks the funds for a more expensive option, may mean that she will remain a customer when she can afford the higher priced model. Making customers happy is more important than up-selling.

The Art of Up-Selling

Yes, up-selling is an art. There is no scientific methods that will guide you on when to sell up and when to abandon the sales pressure. You have to use your intuition, your experience, and your acute business sense to know when to gently push your customers up to a higher-priced product. It’s definitely an art, and like any artistic skill, it takes practice. The more experience you get, the better you will be at knowing when to up-sell.

Make your next sex toy party fun and profitable; up-sell when you can, but don’t act like that stereotypical used car salesman that we all love to hate!

Romance Consultants Give Tips

As an adult toy direct sales romance consultant, your business deals with relationships, intimacy, and sex. You are probably not a sex therapist, but you will hear just as much about people’s sex lives as any therapist does. You may also be asked questions about ways to have and maintain a healthy sex life. Though your training is in sales, you can still offer some sound advice on sexual matters because you have heard it all.

Having some good advice may even help you sell more products. People will admire and respect you if you can provide some wise and useful information on bedroom matters. Admiration and respect can only lead to more sales and more profit!

3 Healthy Sex Tips To Share At Parties:

In addition to the many tips you have to share at your parties about your products these simple ideas are good conversation as well.

Sex Tip #1

Communicatioin is key to good sex! The best and most enjoyable sexual relationships are ones in which both partners can fully express themselves. The ability to talk about sex without embarrassment, or the fear of ridicule, humiliation or jealousy is an essential ingredient to any sexual relationship. Each partner should be able to have her or his wants and needs acknowledged. This doesn’t mean that these wants and needs will always be fulfilled, but acknowledgement and understanding is important in maintaining a healthy, vibrant relationship.

Sex Tip#2

Be adventurous in your sex life! Be open to new suggestions and ideas. This is a great tip to offer at sex toy parties. For many women and couples, the use of sex toys to spice things up is a new idea. This suggestion may help you make more sales! Both partners should feel comfortable suggesting new ways to have fun and should be able to listen and evaluate each suggestion. Some couples may be more experimental than others, but openness to new ideas is vital to maintaining sexual pleasure in any long-term relationship.

Sex Tip #3

Have fun! Sex is fun; it’s not a chore or an obligation. By keeping lines of communication open, trying new ways to spice things up in the bedroom, and remaining sensitive to the feelings of your partner, a couple should be able to keep their sexual relationship fresh and exciting. Kids, work, and the burdens of life often make it difficult to find time for sex. But finding time is essential to the health of your relationship. And when you find the time - make it fun!

These three healthy sex tips are all great suggestions for the women and couples you meet at your parties. Not only are they positive suggestions to keep the spice in a relationship, they may also help you sell more adult toys at your parties.

How do you plan for a great new year in your adult home party business? Get started by writing a business plan. A business plan will get you started on your way to a profitable and successful year.

Why Do You Need a Business Plan?

• Provides an outline for the coming year.
• Create business objectives and goals.
• Create marketing and promotional strategies that you can employ during the year to help you reach your business objectives and goals.
• To detail new strategies to recruit new team members to quantify your objectives toward team growth.
• To create ways to become more organized and efficient in your office.
• To create a proposed outline of expenses.
• To set specific goals for your team and each member of your team and to outline ways for them to reach those goals.
• To outline strategies for networking.
• To value your business for estate and taxation purposes.
• To put into one document the details of your business and ways to keep it profitable and thriving in the new year.

Even if you have a business plan, the start of a new year is a great time to create an updated plan. An effective business plan is a work in progress. Most businesses continue to evolve and your business plan should evolve with it.

A Home Business Plan Outline

Just like major corporations home business owners should use a business plan to give focus and direction to their activities. Your business plan should be in writing, not just ideas in your head. Here’s a brief outline for an effective adult home party business plan.

• Cover sheet with mission statement
• Summary of the business - purpose and objectives.
• Body of the document.
• Marketing strategies
• Details of the competition.
• Team - current team members and details on proposed members.
• Strategies to recruit additional team members.
• Team training strategies.
• Networking strategies.
• Office organization and ways to increase efficiency.
• Business valuation - assets and liabilities.
• Tax and legal issues - tax payments, licenses, lease agreements, and other legal documents.
• Creative and speculative ways to improve your business - new product lines, untried promotional methods and other “outside-the-box” ideas.

While many of these points may not apply to you working from home, although most home businesses will have some variation of the same themes. A business plan quarantees your business success.

As a adult products home party plan consultant, it is imperative that you continually market, promote, and search for new ways to sell your products. Sales and bookings are the lifeblood of your business. Getting a steady stream of bookings will get your foot in the door and place you in the middle of potential buyers. But you need to turn those potential buyers into actual buyers. How do you do that?

Adult Party Games Improve Show Sales

Sex toy shows are fun, but they are more fun when you make plenty of sales. Playing games is one of the best ways to get the crowd excited and motivated to buy. Games loosen up the crowd, get people talking and laughing, and ultimately get people to pull out their checkbooks and buy, buy, and buy some more.

There are an almost unlimited number of games to play. Don’t be afraid to play some naughty, or even, raunchy games - after all, this is a sex toy party! You can research party games online, or use your imagination to create your own games. You should never run out of new and naughty games to play.

One of the best games to play is the Sex Queen game. To play this game, you need to get a few decks of cards and gather up all the “Queens.” You then compose a series of questions that relate to sexual or romantic events. Some popular questions include:

• Have you ever bought your lover a sex toy as a gift?
• Have you ever made love outside?
• Are you a member of the mile-high club?

You should compose several questions: some naughty, some romantic. Choose the questions that best fit your crowd. When someone answers yes to a question, they receive a card (a Queen). After every few questions, you should ask one of the women who received a card to tell everyone her story. This not only keeps people honest, it also makes for a much more entertaining game! The first person to accumulate a certain number of “Queens”, is the Sex Queen for the night, and wins a prize. It’s also good to give the person with the lowest number of cards a prize; she obviously needs some adult products to spice up her love life!

If you are in the business, you know that sex toy parties are a great way to have fun and make money at the same time. Fresh ideas and fun games will make your parties memorable and fun. Memorable parties keep guests coming back for more; fun parties make guests open their purses and buy, buy, and buy some more!

Adult toy parties are fun and exciting events filled with laughter and plenty of naughty fun. The best parties are the ones that are well-attended. Higher attendance means more sales, more new bookings, and much more fun!

Hostess Coaching To Increase Attendance

Working closely with your hostess by hostess coaching is one of the best ways to ensure that the party is a success. Even if your hostess has previously had a party at her house, don’t assume she knows what to do. You need to work closely with both experienced hostesses and novices to make sure that the party has as many guests as possible. Close interaction with your hostess is a must for all successful adult toy parties.

Adult Toy Parties = Excited Hostess

Excitement, games, naughty talk, and adult products make for a great party.

Get your hostess excited about the toy party. Excitement is contagious - her excitement will make the guests excited. Showing excitement leading up to the party will motivate her friends to attend and invite a few of their friends. Her excitement at the party will help motivate the guests to buy.  Everyone loves a party, especially an adult toy party - and everyone will love your party even more if the hostess is motivated and excited from the very first invite to the very last guest.

The hostess should invite as many people as she knows - and ask them to bring a friend or two. Maybe even say: "bring a friend and get a free gift"!

Over-inviting works to ensure high attendance. Not everyone will come and not everyone will bring a guest, but the more she invites, the more guests you’ll have and the more products you’ll sell. Offering additional free products for the hostess will motivate her to invite all her friends, neighbors, family members, and co-workers. A house filled with partying women means fun and sales and MONEY!

Adult Toy Pre-Party Game

Pre-party games are another way to get guests excited about the party. One good pre-party game is the Squares game. This is similar to a football pool often played at Super Bowl parties. Everyone has a chance to buy a square for a dollar. The hostess fills their names as they RSVP and after everyone arrives at the party, you choose the winning square or squares.

Sending out reminders during the week prior to the party is a must. These reminders do make a difference in attendance levels and are an essential part of any pre-party strategy.

Adult toy parties are a fun night out - for the party consultant, the hostess, and the guests! Guiding the hostess through the pre-party stage will ensure that the house is full of guests and that those guests are motivated to buy. Though fun is a universal component of any party for all those involved, for you and your hostess, sales are the name of the game!

Guests attend romance parties to have a good time with friends, learn about new products, and sometimes buy a few of the products. You, as a direct sales representative, hold these parties to have a good time and to sell products.

Direct sales is a great business because you get to have an enjoyable time while making money. To make these parties even more enjoyable and profitable, have all the guests play a few fun and hilarious games. Games work to get the guests excited about the products and will motivate them to reach into their purses and pull out their checkbooks. Playing games equals more profit!

Create Your Own Party Romance Games

There are so many different sex toy games to play at your romance parties that you should never run out of new ideas. By using a little creativity, you can alter games you already employ, and make them fresh and different. Peruse the Internet for games, ask other direct consultants for suggestions, and take some time to create and develop your own games. Games sell products, and selling products will make your business successful.

Adult Home Party Game

One of the best games to play at your next booking is the toilet paper icebreaker game. Pass around a roll of toilet paper to all the guests and tell them to tear off a piece. Let them know that they can tear off as big or as small a piece as they want.

Ask them to write down their favorite sex toy, or their favorite sexual experience, or something else naughty and fun. They should write one thing down on each square they took.

After everyone has written something down, tell them that they have to stand up and read it to everyone. You will certainly have some shy women, but there will certainly be some extroverts who are happy to tell everyone a little about their sex life. The shy ones will probably warm up to the game after the first few women reveal their secrets. Telling sex stories or secrets usually generates laughter and excitement, leading to more sales.

One variation of this game that may be fun and help generate sales is to use one of those custom printed dollar toilet paper rolls. These are usually printed with $100 bills. You can offer a discount of $1 for each $100 sheet they have torn off. It’s a small incentive, but many guests are motivated to buy with any type of discount. Just make sure you don’t offer $100 off per each sheet! You’ll sell plenty of products, but you’ll end up losing money!

CAHPA Certified Romance Party Consultants

As a member of the Certified Adult Home Party Association(CAHPA), conbsultants have access to the best products. Though these products often sell themselves, to achieve higher sales levels and more bookings, you should continually search for new and exciting games. Playing games at romance parties will stimulate conversation, enliven the party, and motivate the guests to buy.

Hostess Training Tips For High Attendance at Parties

All hostesses want to have good shows. It is your job as direct sales consultant to teach them how to do that!

Train Your Adult Direct Sales Host

As a direct party sales consultant, it is essential that you provide effective and comprehensive hostess training prior to a home party. If it is a sex toy party, it is important to determine the type of guests that will attend so you can help design a party that fits the personality of your host and her guests.

Hostess training should cover all aspects of a direct sales home party. From the initial invitations, to the planning, to the final preparations. You should never assume that the hostess knows the routine. Even people who have previously hosted parties need reminders on how to conduct a successful party. It is important to keep in mind that both the sales consultant and the hostess want the same thing - a successful, enjoyable, and profitable party.

Hostess Coaching Tips

• Be comprehensive and go over all aspects of the party,.
• Go over the guest list. Make sure the invitees are women who would enjoy a sex toy party.
• Go over the food and the drinks. A full food buffet is not needed. Snacks and refreshments are the perfect compliment to a fun adult toy party.
• Discuss the hostess gifts; keep her excitement level up. Her excitement will encourage sales.
• Emphasize the fun aspect. Calm any fears your hostess may have about hosting a
• party.
• The More People, The More You Will Sell

Increase Adult Attendance = Increase Sales Of Toys!

Calm her fears about bothering friends and families, or her worries that no one may show up. After completing the guest list, have her invite everyone a few weeks prior to the party. She should then follow up one or two days prior to the event and ask them for a firm commitment.

As a direct sales consultant, high attendance at your parties will help ensure strong sales and repeat bookings. It is imperative to provide comprehensive hostess training to every hostess. You are putting your time and effort into every party. Every event reflects on your reputation; make sure your hostess does her best in putting together the best party possible.

As a sex toy sales consultant, your products sometimes sell themselves. However, you need high attendance at your parties to ensure that the products will be seen and the sales made.

There are many ways to increase sales and bookings at an adult home party, As a home party consultant, the constant search for additional methods to boost your sales and income is an integral part of your business. A long as you are a romance consultant, you will be searching for new information that will help your business increase and expand.

Adult Home Party Bookings

Home Party Bookings can be increased by:

• Networking through FUN games at the show
• Distributing business cards or catalogs "to go"
• Getting guests to ask questions in a game
• Testimonials about company though a game

Increase Sales At Romance Party

You can increase sales at your romance parties by:

• Special promotions
• Special discounts
• Reduced shipping fees
• Your personality
• Number of attendees at parties
• Your dedication to customer service
• FUN!

Adult Party Romance Games

As you gain more experience as a home party plan consultant, you will learn what works at your parties and what fails to stimulate attendees to purchase products. One of the most effective methods of stimulating the FUN factor and therefore sales is to play games. Romance party games will get the energy level up, increase interest in your products, and make people buy! Games break the ice and get people to reach for their wallets.

An online search for home party games will provide you with plenty of different games to try at your next party. Talking to other home party consultants will also provide you with plenty of suggestions. Using your own imagination to create fun games is also a great way to come up with new and effective party games.

The Timer Romance Game

Using an egg timer or a similar timing device, set it to go off every five or ten minutes. When the timer goes off, the guests holding the products can purchase them at a discount, perhaps 15 or 20% off. If you play this game throughout the party, the guests will be more involved and engaged. Discounts are great sellers; though not everyone holding the goods will purchase, a few additional sales will certainly be made with the use of this game.

Adult party games are great for sales. They make parties more lively, fun, and profitable. The only limits to the number of different games that can be played at a home romance party are your imagination and personality.