Earning a trip to Aruba

Doesn't that picture just epitomize relaxation!?! I really want to be sitting at one of those tables...how about you? The requirements to earn this trip are completely different than past trips. What I love about the Aruba trip requirements is that ANYONE can earn it and you earn it by BUILDING A TEAM!!!!! So, if you set a goal to earn this trip, most likely you will promote to supervisor in the process. So, here is what you need to earn this trip. For new consultants, this may be a little confusing...please email me any questions you have!

Aruba for two!
Set your goal to attain 65,000 Points and bring a guest with you to Aruba!
Or you can choose to bring a guest by purchasing the buy-in amount listed on the Information Chart.

Aruba for one!
Set your goal to attain 35,000 Points to Earn the Trip for One!
You can choose to bring a guest by purchasing the buy-in amount listed on the Information Chart.

Aruba for Children!
Two children aged 17 and under stay free of charge when sharing a guestroom with two adults.

To earn the trip...
1. Maintain personal net sales of $500 per month for 4 months out of the six months, January 1 through June 30, 2011.

2. Sponsor New Consultants

3. Total net sales of your new personal recruits must be $10,000.

4. Total Points must be a minimum of 65,000 to earn the trip for two and 35,000 to earn the trip for one.

How to Earn Points!

1. Personal Net Sales
Each net dollar in personal sales earns you one (1) Point. You must maintain personal sales of $500 net per month for 4 months out of the six month contest.

Double Point Bonus on personal sales!
Receive 2 Points for each net $1 sold between December 27, 2010 and January 31, 2011 cut-off.

2. Share the Opportunity

A. Sponsor new Consultants. Each new Consultant earns you 250 Points!

B. Teach a new Consultant to sell $1,000 net during their first eight weeks in business. When your new Consultant achieves this before March 31, you earn an additional 2,000 Points. After March 31, earns you an additional 1,500 Points.

C. Earn one (1) Point for each $1 in net sales from your new Consultants. Your New Consultant Total Sales must be a minimum of $10,000 net.

3. Supervisor Promotions
Earn 5,000 Points when you promote to Supervisor between January 1, and July 1, 2011.
Earn 5,000 Points when you promote out a Supervisor between January 1, and July 1, 2011. Points will not count if Supervisor is on probation or demoted on July 1, 2011.

4. Attend Meetings
Consultants earn 2,000 Points for attending National Convention 2011.

Supervisors earn 1,000 Points for attending Advanced Leadership Retreat in January 2011 and 1,000 Points for attending National Convention 2011.

5. Want it? – Win it!
Consultants and Supervisors who earned the Want it? – Win it? contest in December, earn 5,000 Points and receive 1,000 Points that count towards New Consultant Total Sales.

6. New Consultant Extra Points
November through December 23, 2010 Consultants and New Consultants that sign up December 27 or after, earn more Points. Read New Consultant Extra Points.

7. Earn More!
Additional bonus Points will be scattered throughout the contest!
Watch your newsletter for details.

New Consultant Extra Points!

Consultants who signed November 1 through December 30th, 2010

Start off with 5,000 Points for free! $500 in net sales per month must be maintained four (4) out of six (6) months, January through June, to keep the 5,000 free Points.

Consultants who sign in January and February 2011

Earn DOUBLE points, for the duration of the contest, for categories 1 and 2 under How to Earn Points!

$500 in personal net sales must be maintained each month following the month you sign up. You are allowed two months in which the $500 is not met.

Consultants who sign in March 2011 or after

Earn 5,000 Points to start off the contest plus DOUBLE points for categories 1 and 2 under How to Earn Points!
$500 in personal net sales must be maintained each month following the month you signed up. You are allowed two months in which the $500 is not met.

Information Chart

Points	Consultant/Supervisor Buy In
65,000 or more You've earned a Trip for TWO	Your Guest is free!
60,000	$400
55,000	$800
50,000	$1,200
45,000	$1,600
40,000	$2,000
35,000 You've earned a Trip for ONE	$2,400

All sales and sponsoring must be at the Home Office between
December 27, 2010 and the cut-off on June 30, 2011.

I know it's a lot of details, but it basically comes down to 3 things: Sell books, build a team, and teach your team to sell books. If you can do that, you will be sitting on a beach in Aruba this fall!

Here is an Aruba Trip Goal Sheet that another Supervisor put together. It just outlines what you can do to earn the trip and establishes monthly goals towards earning the trip.

For all the details on the trip look on your consultant site under Links and click the Aruba Travel Contest logo. Hopefully, there will be a trip tracker added to your consultant site soon so you can keep up with your progress. I can't wait to see how many of us are in Aruba together this fall! :)

Power of 3 EXTENDED!!!!

The home office announced last week that the Power of 3 promotion has been extended until July 1, 2011! The Power of 3 basically makes it SO much easier to promote to Supervisor! If you desire to really build a business with Usborne, then promoting to Supervisor is a necessary step to make this happen. Being a Supervisor means that you have begun building a team...and as a Supervisor you make a 11% override on your central group's net sales! This means a significant increase in income for essentially the same amount of work on your part! If promoting to Supervisor is something you want to do, then NOW IS THE TIME to do it! For the past year, the company has lowered the amount of active and Bronze recruits you need to promote. When I promoted you had to have 5 active and 5 Bronze recruits...until July 1, 2011 you only need 3 active and 3 Bronze recruits!!!! You also need $700 net personal sales and $2000 net group sales the 2 months prior to your promotion. Here is the Fast Track to Supervisor sheet that outlines how you can promote to Supervisor in 3 months...but remember you only need 3 Bronze & 3 active recruits (not 5 like the sheet says).

Many of you have expressed interest in promoting to Supervisor. It is a new year, why not make a promotion date goal for this spring!?! If you want to set a goal to promote to Supervisor this spring, click on the Power of 3 logo under the Links on your consultant site. Read more about promoting and register to become part of the Future Supervisor Campaign. If you are making this a goal, please let me, LeAnne, Julianne, or Tara know...we would love to help you come up with a plan to make this happen!!! And remember...if you meet the requirements to promote to Supervisor, you will likely also be earning a trip to Aruba!!! :)

Triple our team in January!!!

The home office has really set us up to have a FANTASTIC month for team growth!!!! This month we have 2 fantastic kits to offer...$139 for 30 books OR $49 for 8 books. AND, we get to offer them BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE!!!!! Basically that means, you can have a new consultant join your team and the first recruit she signs up this month gets the same kit for FREE!!!! Here is the business kit flyer available on your consultant site under Links, Downloads, Newsletters: Business Kits, January 2011. Be sure to read the FAQ Sheet concerning this special to make sure you understand how it works and can help your new consultants know how to apply the free kit to their new recruit.

Do you realize if we each recruit 1 new consultant this month and each of those new consultants signs up 1 new consultant for free we would TRIPLE OUR GROUP THIS MONTH!!!!! I would love for that to be a January goal for each of us...to sign up at least 1 new consultant who will sign up a friend by the end of the month. And remember...consultants who sign up in January receive DOUBLE POINTS toward the Aruba trip for the entire 6 months of the trip-earning period! If you have friends or customers who have shown interest in starting their own Usborne business, NOW is the time!!!! Help them get started today so they can make the most of the trip-earning period!

Weekly Highlights

Wow!!!! What an amazing fall & holiday selling season!!! I hope that your Usborne business has been FUN and a BLESSING to you and your family this year! This will be our last weekly highlight post until the new year. I can't wait to see what amazing things are in store for our team in 2011! Here are a couple of highlights from this week...

• Tara Maple (Opelika, AL) earned the BIG PRIZE in the Want it! Win it! promotion...she is getting her pick between an iPad, a big flat screen TV, or $500!!!

• The new incentive trip destination was announced...EVERY ONE of you has the opportunity to earn a trip to ARUBA!!!!!

I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and enjoy time with your families!
Merry Christmas!!!!!!

Aruba, Jamaica, ooh I want to take ya...

Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama! Pretty Usborne mamas need a trip to a tropical paradise...pretty Usborne mamas are going to be sitting on a beach in Aruba!!!!! Randall made the big announcement last night...5 nights in the tropical paradise of Aruba! So, who is going with us!?! The details of what we need to do to earn the trip are coming very soon. What can you be doing while you wait? RECRUIT! RECRUIT! RECRUIT! Recruits that sign up this month will Bronze during the trip earning period and you are definitely going to need Bronze recruits to earn the trip. And remember....December recruits get a 16-week incentive period!!! That means they will have even longer to reach Bronze! There may even be friends, family, or customers who want to become a consultant so that they can earn this amazing trip too! What else can you be doing? FILL YOUR 2011 calendars! You will not only need recruits to earn this vacation to paradise, but you will also need to have sales!

One of the things I am most thankful for with my Usborne business is the opportunities it has given my family. In the 3 years that I have been a consultant with Usborne I have been able to take my husband on a dream vacation to Rome, Italy, and this past April I was able to take my oldest son on a 7-day cruise through the Hawaiian Islands. Both of these experiences are absolute treasures and they would not have happened without my Usborne business. This coming April I will again get to take my husband on a dream vacation...this time to London, England and Edinburgh, Scotland!

One of best things about earning these trips is that EVERYONE has an equal opportunity to do so! A brand new consultant is on a level playing field with someone who has been with the company for 15 years...the requirements are the same and you only earn points for the business you do during the 9-month trip earning period. The secret is setting the goal and making a plan! YOU CAN DO THIS!!!! Make your goal to be on this trip and share your goal with your spouse, your family, your supervisor, and your Usborne team! I would love to help you come up with a plan to make sure you are on that plane to Aruba!


You can thank me later for causing you to sing "Kokomo" all day long in your head! :)

Weekly Highlights

I hope you have all had a great week! We are nearing the Christmas sales finish line! I hope you have had great sales AND have been focusing on your January and 2011 calendars!!! ;) Here are some highlights from this week...

• Tara Maple (Opelika, AL) is currently #22 on the President's Club leaderboard!!!
• Deanna Leras (Auburn, AL) had a booth this week where she booked 3 home parties for January!
• The next incentive TRAVEL CONTEST will be announced on Tuesday!!!!! Wherever we are going, I promise it will be amazing!!! I just earned my 3rd trip with Usborne and each one has been absolutely incredible...I have been able to share Rome, Italy with my husband and a 7-day Hawaiian cruise with my 9-year-old son. These are memories that will last a lifetime! I want to share the next trip with you guys! So, are you going!?! Make it a goal NOW to earn this trip!

Have a wonderful weekend! If you have a highlight, share it in the comments below. :)

Weekly Highlights

What an amazing month November was for our team!!! There were so many exciting things going on! Don't let this momentum end with Christmas! Get out those 2011 calendars and start filling them up...especially January!!! :)

Here are some fun highlights from this week...

• Tara Maple (Opelika, AL) promoted to Supervisor!!!!!
• Joyce Bearden (Opelika, AL) had a new consultant, Angela George (Opelika, AL), join her team! Welcome Angela!
• Julianne Carney (Collierville, TN) had a Reach for the Stars with 20 kids participating that raised $2000 AND had a new consultant, Andrea James (Memphis, TN) join her team! Welcome Andrea!

We would love to hear more highlights...share them with us in the comments below.

You guys are amazing! We have just about 2 weeks left of Christmas shopping...don't let this opportunity for great sales pass you by!