Weekly Highlights

I hope everyone is surviving this hot start to the summer! Usborne National Convention is in ONE WEEK & I am pumped!!! Julianne Carney, Tara Maple, LeAnne Haynes, Jessica Wood, & I will be arriving in Tulsa on Wednesday...I can't wait to share all about it with you when we get back! Here are some highlights from this week...

• Brittany Brewton (Florence, AL) had her first public library order!
• Robin Flournoy (Knoxville, TN) booked her first Reach for the Stars!
• Julianne Carney (Collierville, TN) booked a HUGE education conference for NEXT WEEK!
• Julianne & I were #1 and #2 in May sales on Ruth's team!
• We had a new consultant join our team...welcome Kyla Eiland (Clanton, AL)!
  

Whew!!! What a fun start to the summer for our team!

Weekly Highlights

It has been an exciting week for new consultants on our team! The One-Step-at-a-Time Rewards that the home office offers are such wonderful goals to strive for during our incentive periods. Our new consultants are doing GREAT at reaching these levels! Remember that after your incentive period ends, Home Office Challenges can be great monthly goals work towards as well.

Here are some highlights from this week...

• Brittany Brewton (Florence, AL) reached Bronze in the One-Step-at-a-Time Rewards!
• Jessica Wood (Leighton, AL) reached Emerald...the highest level in the One-Step-at-a-Time Rewards!
• Robin Flournoy (Knoxville, TN) reached Bronze at her FIRST event during her FIRST week as a consultant!

What an exciting week and a GREAT way to start off the summer!!!

Weekly Highlights

I hope you have all had a great week! The school year is coming to an end, which is hard to believe. For us educational consultants, this means that a good bit of our business is basically closed for the next 2 months. However, the summer is a great time to refocus on home parties & work on filling your fall calendars. Home parties can be great in the summer...moms will be excited to get new books for their kids to read while they are out of school. Play date parties can be a great idea...do the party in the morning & all the moms can bring their kids. Obviously, these parties don't "look" the same as night parties with no kids, but they can still result in big sales.

Here are some highlights from this week...

• Somehow in the craziness of the past month, I neglected to congratulate Tricia Brooks (Tallasee, AL) for making BRONZE & SILVER in the month of April!!! Congratulations, Tricia!
• The newest consultant on our team, Robin Flournoy (Knoxville, TN), already had 3 big events on her calendar (not even including her kick-off party)...before her kit even arrived at her door!
• Jessica Wood (Leighton, AL) had a fun experience this past week that was featured in the Consultant Diaries portion of the Weekly Update from the home office on Tuesday! In case you missed it...

Today I sold not one but TWO entire sets of C365!!! I was doing a museum book fair that was actually geared toward toddlers and Pre-K. An older sibling asked what we had for his age and I pitched C365. His eyes got HUGE and he said, "I need to tell my mom!" Mom and I talked and she decided they would get the first two and then order the rest if he really liked them. He decided this was not good enough and went to get 'Poppa' (grandfather). Poppa bought the entire set AND had another set sent to another grandchild in another state. Wow. Just wow.
- Jessica M. Wood

Weekly Highlights

Please forgive me for my lapse in posting team highlights. In the past 4 weeks, I have had 3 elementary book fairs and spent a week in England & Scotland! I'm exhausted and my house is a mess...but business is good!!!! :) Ryan & I had a WONDERFUL time on the Usborne trip! Randall really treats us right on these trips...amazing hotels, London passes that paid for ALL of our trips on the Underground & most ALL of the attractions we went to, 1st class train travel to Scotland...it was incredible from beginning to end! Not to mention being in London the week of the Royal Wedding!!! Earning these amazing trips needs to be a goal of every Usborne consultant!

Here are some highlights from the past couple of weeks...

• Tara Maple (Opelika, AL) made the President's Club!!! This is such an honor! She will be heading to convention a day early to meet with Randall & the other President's Club members to make decisions for the company! Congratulations, Tara!
• Julianne Carney (Collierville, TN) had her first elementary book fair AND had a new consultant join her team! Welcome Robin Flournoy (Knoxville, TN)!
• Tricia Brooks (Tallassee, AL) had a new consultant join her team! Welcome Laura Ashford (Pace, FL)!
• My sons' school decided to donate the free books from their book fair last week to Holt Elementary School...one of the 3 schools in Tuscaloosa that was destroyed by the tornado 2 weeks ago. The students at Bluff Park raised over $2300 in brand new, library-bound books for the kids at Holt!
  
• Usborne National Convention is just 1 month away! If you are still considering going to convention, it's not too late! We would love to have you join us!!! It is incredible and more than worth the time & expense of going!!!
  

Weekly Highlights

The Spring sales season is just roaring right along! Lots of fun things happening on our team! Here are some highlights...

• Jessica Wood (Leighton, AL) has already met Home Office Challenges 1 & 2 for April! Did I mention she is still in her incentive period!?! :)
• Julianne Carney (Collierville, TN) and Paige Byrd (Germantown, TN) have 4 events between them this weekend!
• Alyson Snow (Birmingham, AL) and I spent the morning setting up an elementary school book fair for next week!
• Tara Maple (Opelika, AL) had a book fair for a very small preschool (19 kids) that services many kids with autism...they had over $500 in sales, so they are getting over $250 in free books!

You gals are doing awesome! Keep up the good work!

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This has been such an exciting week for so many of you...lots of fun stuff going on! Here are a few highlights from this week...

• Tara Maple (Opelika, AL) and Tricia Brooks (Tallassee, AL) have a booth at a home school conference in Montgomery this weekend!
• Jessica Wood (Leighton, AL) had a new consultant join her team...welcome Brittany Brewton (Florence, AL)!

Have you seen the Home Office Challenges in the Biz Book this month!?! They are awesome! The Biz Book can be downloaded from your consultant site under Links, Downloads, Monthly Magazines & Flyers (Newsletter).

Home Office Challenge II
Sell $1,250 net in April plus have one April recruit and receive:
• Aruba Travel Points! Earn 1,250 points toward the minimum $10,000 needed from your new recruits sales!

Home Office Challenge III
Sell $2,500 net in April plus have one April recruit and you’ll also receive:
• $100 Marriott Gift Card! Perfect to use at this year’s Convention!

These are GREAT goals to work towards each month! If you are going to convention (or thinking about it), how awesome would it be to stay at the Southern Hills Marriott in Tulsa for FREE!!!! You still have until the end of April to register for convention...LeAnne, Tara, Julianne, Jessica, & I would love for you to join us! :)

Weekly Highlights

Spring is in full swing! There are LOTS of exciting events on our calendars the next 2 months! It has been great to talk to several of you this week & hear about all the fun things you have coming up...April should be a GREAT month!!! Here are some highlights from this week...

• Tara Maple, Jessica Wood, LeAnne Haynes, Julianne Carney, and I are all registered for convention! Who else is going to join us!?! :)
• Jessica Wood (Leighton, AL) is still in her incentive period and had $1,654.82 in net sales this month!
• Julianne Carney (Collierville, TN) booked 4 booths for April...3 conferences & an event at one of her preschools!
• Tara Maple (Opelika, AL) booked 2 home parties & 2 book fairs AND had a new consultant join her team! Welcome Tricia Brooks (Tallassee, AL)!
• NEW HIGHLIGHT...Jessica Wood is one of the convention early bird registration winners! Her prize!?! She has a reserved seat next to our President & CEO, Randall White, at the Saturday luncheon!!! Congratulations, Jessica!!!
  

I know that we are busy with our spring events, but don't neglect looking ahead and getting events on your calendars for the fall. Here is a good tip from Julianne...scout out fall conferences & booth events in your area NOW before they get snatched up and so you can take advantage of early bird booth rates! Remember our booth policy...make sure the event you want to book wasn't covered by an Usborne consultant last year. If it was, she gets first dibs. The great thing about that is once you have a booth at an event, it is YOURS until you decide you don't want to do it anymore! :)

If you are still on the fence about convention, please talk to me, LeAnne, Julianne, or Tara. We have all attended convention and it has had a MAJOR IMPACT on all of our businesses!!! We would love to talk with you & answer any questions you have!