Home Party & Direct Sales
The Mini Plan for Success
Congratulations! You have decided to start your own business as an Independent Consultant, or as an
Independent Representative for a direct selling company. This is a very exciting time, you have endless
possibilities with income and the future of your business. To help you on your way, we have added a
mini plan to get you in the direction you want go.
Why do a mini plan? A mini plan is like your manual on how to run the business. This will be helpful if
you get a little off track with your business. If you are not getting the customers you want and you start to
get discouraged, you go back to the mini plan and go forward. If you are getting more customers then
you though, and you are feeling overwhelmed, check the plan to see where you wanted the business
to go.
The Mini Plan for Success (examples are given, please write your own)
About Your Business
What product are you selling?
Kids Products
Who is your target market?
Parents, grandparents, daycares, people with lots of nieces and nephews.
What is your objective for the business?
I want to be able to stay home with my kids and earn extra money. I want to work full time.
What are your business goals? List three or more
I want to make $1000 a month
I want to let every know about my business
Host two parties a week.
Handout 50 business cards a month
Handout 20 brochures/catalogs a month.
Now break down your goals, with ways you are going to achieve them.
I want to let every know about my business
- Sending in email to everybody I know, calling my friends and family with kids, advertising on a few
websites where my target market may go, telling my local paper about my business.
Handout 20 brochures/catalogs a month
- Give them out to my host, give out three at each party, call and ask if I can leave a catalog at my
doctors office, dentist, hair salon, electrolysis, friends and family who may want to order something or
host a party, the bank teller when I open my business account.
Breakdown List
How many days are you going to work?
Five days a week.
How many hours are you going to work a day?
Three hours a day. One hour while the kids are napping. Two when the kids are in bed.
A party.
How can you advertise your business?
Place ads on a few websites like The Shopping Parent
Hand out business cards and catalogs
Place ad in local paper
Go to next week's flea market
My Website
Spending
How much are you going to spend in advertising a month?
$100 for the first month (business cards, web ads, website, ad local paper)
$40 for the rest of the months.
How much are you going to spend on inventory or products for showcase per month?
$40
Please add your own questions. Once you reach your goals, make new ones.
Congratulations! You have decided to start your own business as an Independent Consultant, or as an
Independent Representative for a direct selling company. This is a very exciting time, you have endless
possibilities with income and the future of your business. To help you on your way, we have added a
mini plan to get you in the direction you want go.
Why do a mini plan? A mini plan is like your manual on how to run the business. This will be helpful if
you get a little off track with your business. If you are not getting the customers you want and you start to
get discouraged, you go back to the mini plan and go forward. If you are getting more customers then
you though, and you are feeling overwhelmed, check the plan to see where you wanted the business
to go.
The Mini Plan for Success (examples are given, please write your own)
About Your Business
What product are you selling?
Kids Products
Who is your target market?
Parents, grandparents, daycares, people with lots of nieces and nephews.
What is your objective for the business?
I want to be able to stay home with my kids and earn extra money. I want to work full time.
What are your business goals? List three or more
I want to make $1000 a month
I want to let every know about my business
Host two parties a week.
Handout 50 business cards a month
Handout 20 brochures/catalogs a month.
Now break down your goals, with ways you are going to achieve them.
I want to let every know about my business
- Sending in email to everybody I know, calling my friends and family with kids, advertising on a few
websites where my target market may go, telling my local paper about my business.
Handout 20 brochures/catalogs a month
- Give them out to my host, give out three at each party, call and ask if I can leave a catalog at my
doctors office, dentist, hair salon, electrolysis, friends and family who may want to order something or
host a party, the bank teller when I open my business account.
Breakdown List
How many days are you going to work?
Five days a week.
How many hours are you going to work a day?
Three hours a day. One hour while the kids are napping. Two when the kids are in bed.
A party.
How can you advertise your business?
Place ads on a few websites like The Shopping Parent
Hand out business cards and catalogs
Place ad in local paper
Go to next week's flea market
My Website
Spending
How much are you going to spend in advertising a month?
$100 for the first month (business cards, web ads, website, ad local paper)
$40 for the rest of the months.
How much are you going to spend on inventory or products for showcase per month?
$40
Please add your own questions. Once you reach your goals, make new ones.
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