Consultants only - iPad Challenge!!!!!

During the months of October, November, & December consultants have the opportunity to earn a free iPad from the home office! This is a CONSULTANTS ONLY challenge...in other words, I (and all other supervisors) can't earn an iPad.

Here is what you need to do to earn an iPad of your very own:
1. Sell $3500 net during October - December (our biggest selling months of the year!)
2. Have 3 personal recruits who reach Bronze ($750 net sales) during the months of October - December.

That's it!!! FYI...if you do this, you will probably also promote to Supervisor since having 3 Bronze recruits is one of the requirements for promoting to Supervisor! Promoting to Supervisor means that you will begin earning 11% on your central group's net sales every month! Don't worry...if you promote to Supervisor in the process of trying to earn an iPad, you will still get your iPad. All people who are consultants as of October 1 are eligible for the iPad. So what are you waiting for!?! Get out your calendar and get on the phone...don't let this amazing opportunity pass you by! If this is something you want to do, please let me know...I would love to help you earn an iPad. Let's see how many iPads Randall has to buy for consultants on our team! :)

Southeast Regional Training

We had a great time at the Southeast Regional Training this past Saturday! Seven members of our team were able to be there (Top: Melanie Bouyer, Deanna Leras, Tara Maple, Shannon Windsor; Bottom: Kelly Akers, LeAnne Haynes, Maegan Cody). Our president, Randall White, shared with us and introduced us to some great new fall titles! Directors, Nancy Ann Wartman and Sharon Riegal, also shared some secrets of their success with us. It was so great to hear from people who have been with our company for many years and have built very successful businesses with Usborne! Regional training and national convention are HUGE ways to get motivated to take our businesses to the next level! I hope many of you will be able to join us in Tulsa for the Usborne National Convention this year...go ahead and mark your calendars for June 10-11!

Internet-Linked Books

Our internet-linked (IL) books are amazing tools for families, teachers, and libraries. I want to make sure all of you understand how they work as well as the many benefits of our IL books. At every home party, library appointment, and booth I try to share with customers about our IL books. Basically, IL books provide you with internet links that go along with the book and provide more information on the topics covered in the book. You will know a book is IL because it will tell you somewhere on the cover of the book. Also, in the catalog the IL books are denoted by a little purple circle with "iL" in the middle. (For a key to all the symbols in the catalog, look on the contents page at the beginning of the catalog...page 4 in the Fall 2010 catalog.) You will notice that some books in the catalog are denoted as "iR"...this means internet-referenced. The difference is that IL books give you many internet links throughout the book, while IR books have a list of internet links in the back of the book.

How do IL books work? In the front of each IL book, it explains how they work so that our customers will know how to use them.

1. Go to the Usborne Quicklinks website at www.usborne-quicklinks.com.
2. Type in the key words for your book. They can be found at the beginning of your book on the page that explains how the Quicklinks work.
3. Type in the page number of the links you want to access. Some IL books will have a header or footer on the page that denotes if there are links for that page. But, most IL books will have a IL box on each page that lets you know there are links for that particular page.

You should have received at least one IL book in your starter kit. Go grab it and check it out! I LOVE using the IL books with my boys! There is such a big variety of links in our IL books...articles to read, videos to watch, audios to listen to, games, experiments, puzzles, quizzes, worksheets to download, etc. There are also downloadable images that can be accessed on the Quicklinks site for kids to use in reports, etc. These are denoted in the IL books by a small black star next to the image.

Benefits of IL books (make sure to share these with customers!):

1. Cost-efficiency - You are buying SO much more information that just what is included in the book!
2. Time - When a child is studying a topic in school or researching a topic, the links provide a quick variety of resources for them. Also, Usborne regularly reviews and updates the links.
   
3. SAFETY!!! - Parents do not have to worry about their child googling a topic and finding who knows what on the internet. All the sites are safe for little eyes!

Who to tell about our IL books?

1. Parents for their homes
2. Teachers for their classrooms
3. Librarians for their libraries

Always explain to them how the IL books work and the benefits of our IL books. People are continually impressed with this amazing feature of so many of our non-fiction books!

'Twas the Night Before Christmas Record-a-Story book

As of September 15, this wonderful book will be available! It is the classic story 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, but it is a recordable book. What a precious gift this Christmas! There are SO many people who could be blessed by this book...a school-aged child can record their voice reading the book and give it to their grandparents, grandparents can record themselves reading the book and send it to their young grandchildren, children can record themselves and send it to their dad stationed overseas with the military...the list of ideas goes on and on! As if that wasn't enough, the book also comes with 5 bonus gifts...2 Christmas music CD's and 3 Look & Find Activity books! To help us market this great new book, the home office has provided us with a wonderful flyer to use at home parties and booths and a marketing email to send to our customers. To access the marketing email login to your consultant site, under Links select Business Forms/Tools, UBAM Marketing Emails, "Special Sneak Peak - Arriving Sept 15!" You can send the email to yourself then email it out to your customers.

'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a mouse. :)