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Prepraing for Black Friday: Sample preorder email

Things to do this week

1.       Make sure your URL is set up.  Remember your URL is charged to the same credit card you have your Q charged to.  You can turn your URL on and off as needed.

2.       Make sure you Q is set where you want it. 

a.       If you want your Q to process during the Black Friday sale you can but you HAVE to call customer service to get it moved.  Usually Qs cannot process after the 28^thof the month because it causes problems if someone’s Q is set to process on the 30^th and that month doesn’t have a 30^th. 

b.                              Make sure you adjust the budget amount to be the correct amount for whatever rank you are going to hit in November.  You might need to adjust your Q budget up so that you will qualify for this month.   It would be a tragedy to hit a new rank in personal sales and team sales only to get paid at the old rank because you had your Q set up wrong.  Double check on the chart below.  See the chart below. 

Your Personal THRIVE Q Payment	Monthly Personal Sales	Monthly Team Sales (You + 3 levels)	Rank	Your Team Earnings
				level 1	level 2	level 3
$50	$0		Consultant
$50	$1,500	$3,000	Mentor	1%
$50	$2,500	$10,000	Director	2%
$100	$3,500	$25,000	Executive	2%	1%
$100	$4,500	$50,000	Silver Executive	2%	2%
$150	$5,000	$100,000	Gold Executive	2%	2%	1%
$150	$5,500	$200,000	Platinum Executive	2%	2%	2%

3.        Send you a pre order email (see an example below).  This lets the customers know the sale is coming and gets them thinking about what they might want. 

Hi—Heather here from Thrive Life

Each November Thrive Life (formerly Shelf Reliance) has a HUGE Black Friday sale.   I know many people start planning their black Friday shopping well in advance so I wanted to make sure you had all the info.

What you need to know:

•  Black Friday Sale starts Friday November 29^that 12:00 a.m. MST and Ends Monday December 2^nd at 5:00 p.m.
• Quantifies will be limited.  No rain checks, no back orders.
• The sale items will be announced a few days before the start of the sale so watch for the sale email to come around Monday November 25^th.
•     Simplify your life and preorder:  Start thinking about the top 10 items you would love to add to your home store.  Email me your list and as a soon as I know what’s on sale I’ll call you can we can finalize your order to include those items that are on sale.   

·         

Heather  Lorimer

Platinum Executive, Thrive Life

435-535-1470

heather@teamshelfreliance.com

P.S.  If you have ever wanted a Harvest Shelf this is the time to buy it.  So let Santa know that you really want a shelf.    

Preparing for Black Friday: Refresher Videos

Has it been a while since your placed an order or set up a party?  Watch a few of these refresher videos to get back up to speed.

Refresher Videos:

·         My Office Overview

·         How to place a party order

·         Creating a party/event

·         Setting up a Q

·         Registering a Consultant

·         How to set up your consultant URL—so people can order online and you get credit

Meals In A Jar Monday: Baked Cauliflouwer Pasta

Baked Cauliflower Pasta
Printable Recipe
2 cups pasta, elbow, ziti, or other small tube pasta
1 ½ cups Freeze Dried Cauliflower
½ cup Freeze Dried Sausage
1 tablespoon garlic
¼ teaspoons red pepper flakes
Salt and pepper to taste
 

Add when cooking: (you could add these to the jar if using freeze dried but I prefer to add them later).
1 can petite diced tomatoes, don’t drain
1 cup or more, Mozzarella Cheese, grated.

1. Bring a large Dutch oven, or other oven safe pot, of water (6-8 cups) to a boil. Add pasta, freeze dried cauliflower, and sausage. Cook until pasta is chalky but almost tender. Drain. Return to the pan.
2. Add remaining ingredients, mix well. Bake 20 minutes at 400 degrees.

Soup in a Mug--An Easy Thrive Life Home Party Sample

This idea came from:  Soup in a Mug from Gena Flores.  Gena said:  Getting large coffee cups, have them fill about 1/3 full of veggies, meat etc. and then add a tsp. of chicken or beef bouillon, add hot water and let set for about 4-5 minutes.

I saw Gena's idea last week and I loved it.  Where I live it is cold.  Right now it is 1 degree.  When it is really cold like this chicken salad just does not cut it at a party.  You need something warm and nourishing.  The samples don’t need to be huge but they do need to be worth a trip out into the cold and dark.    

A make-your-own soup bar is a perfect thing to demo at a party when the weather is so frigid. 

When we tried this out I found that the soup needed to sit for at least a solid 7 minutes but 10 minutes was even better.    Use the wait time to talk about the Q. 

The first time I tried this I made it for my family.  And to be honest my husband made it with the kids because I was having kidney stone issues.  My kids and husband LOVED it.  They thought it was super fun and they all ate their soup very well.  My kids did want to add ton of starch, but after reining them it their soup turned out great. 

How to set it up: 

·         Group the foods by type:  starches, veggies, protein, flavorings.

·         Put a scoop or spoon in each can/container.  A 2 Tablespoon scoop which is (1/8 of a cup) is perfect.  Remember when showing your guests how to put their soup together that they need to use the scoop and not their hands. 

·         I used clear glass mugs, and it was a great way to showcase the FD food.  Everyone watched everyone else’s cups and they all talked about what items they choose.  But you don’t have to use glass mugs.  You could also use disposable foam coffee cups, regular coffee cup or mugs of any kind.  The mugs I used hold 1 cup (16 oz) and they were perfect. 

How to regulate how much of your samples you use:

It is always risky to put out open cans of food at a party.  If the can is open guests tend to eat a LOT of whatever is in the can.  So how do you get around this?  Here is what I do. 

a.       Put a scoop in the can.

b.      Put the lids back on the cans immediately after the guests have dished up their soup. 

c.       Put out pantry cans or pouches instead of number 10 cans.

d.      Use serving dishes.  If you have a limited amount of samples, especially if you don’t have time to replace your samples, put a generous amount in serving dishes.  Guests will eat however much is out.

e.       If you have a guest(s) that are chowing down, no problem be sure to remind them how much they liked it when they are filling out their order form. 

f.        Remind guests that they want their cup 1/3 full (1/2 full max)  you need space for the water. 

g.       Demo for the guests how to make a cup of soup.  (this is a good time to talk about how easy FD is to use) 

·   Choose a mug

·   Put a scoop of starch in your cup

·   Put a scoop of protein in your cup

·   Put 2-3 scoops of veggies in your cup

·   Put 1-2 tsp. of seasonings in your cup

·   Cover with BOILING hot water

·   Wait 7-10 minutes.

·   Enjoy.

Items that worked well:  fill cup 1/3 to ½ full of the following then add boiling hot water.  Use less then food then you think. 1-2 TBSP of each is enough.

Starches:  egg noodles, instant rice (we used brown rice), FD Potatoes.

Veggies:  corn, spinach, and tomato dice, green beans, onions, green onions, celery, green chilies.   I did not try every vegetable but all of the Freeze dried ones I tried worked out very well with the exception of the Zucchini.   

Caution:  Broccoli and Cauliflower both worked well but I think they tend to take over the soup since they are both so strongly flavored.    I love to demo the broccoli because the taste and texture are so wonderful.  In this soup bar they tend to overwhelm the other flavors.

*I recommend that everyone put in at least a little onions and celery.

Protein:  chicken dices, chicken slices, ground beef, beef dices, beef slices, instant black beans.   I did not try making any soup with the TVP but I don’t see a reason why it would not work.

Flavorings:  Add 1 tsp. per mug.  Chicken bouillon, Beef bouillon.  (I found when we used bullion we did not need to add salt).  Tomato powder, pepper, and tabasco (for those that like everything spicy).  Remember only 1 teaspoon of these.

Items that did NOT work well—so DON’T use them

Dehydrated items:  Carrots and potato chunks (both grow and take a LONG time to rehydrate)

Zucchini—it was just weird

More Soup in a Mug Ideas: 

 

Almost Totally Healthy Cup of Soup