PARTY PLANNERS HAVE MORE FUN!
During my years in marketing at Frito-Lay we shot a commercial with Michael J. Fox that never made the air. The simple story line found MJF bribing a woman to give him the answer to the age old question: "Why do women always go to the restroom in pairs?"
The next scene finds MJF standing in front of the ladies room dressed like a woman, and then standing on the edge of a pool with women all around him enjoying spa treatments, sun bathing and genuine relaxation. All of the fun ends when he reveals his male voice with a "WOW." And the clip ends with MJF asking the angry, betrayed women, "Chip, anyone?"
So, last night in Minneapolis I spoke with 10 women from party plan companies and I feel like I was let in on a little secret. After a career working primarily with Network Marketing companies, I finally figured out why Party Plan companies succeed despite the fact that many of them have comparably meager compensation plans. The answer: THEY HAVE FUN!!!!
Way more fun than the Network Marketers I've worked with.
These ladies have food at EVERY event, and many have wine (or ice cream and root beer for those of us who don't imbibe). They play games, give pedicures, massages, facials and they mix pleasure with their business.... THEY ACTUALLY LOVE THEIR WORK!
No wonder the execs from Party Plan companies never mix with the execs from Network Marketing companies at industry events. Everyone knows we can't mix business with pleasure, oil with water, money and makeovers..... or can we?
CHIP, ANYONE?
Brett a Blake
The next scene finds MJF standing in front of the ladies room dressed like a woman, and then standing on the edge of a pool with women all around him enjoying spa treatments, sun bathing and genuine relaxation. All of the fun ends when he reveals his male voice with a "WOW." And the clip ends with MJF asking the angry, betrayed women, "Chip, anyone?"
So, last night in Minneapolis I spoke with 10 women from party plan companies and I feel like I was let in on a little secret. After a career working primarily with Network Marketing companies, I finally figured out why Party Plan companies succeed despite the fact that many of them have comparably meager compensation plans. The answer: THEY HAVE FUN!!!!
Way more fun than the Network Marketers I've worked with.
These ladies have food at EVERY event, and many have wine (or ice cream and root beer for those of us who don't imbibe). They play games, give pedicures, massages, facials and they mix pleasure with their business.... THEY ACTUALLY LOVE THEIR WORK!
No wonder the execs from Party Plan companies never mix with the execs from Network Marketing companies at industry events. Everyone knows we can't mix business with pleasure, oil with water, money and makeovers..... or can we?
CHIP, ANYONE?
Brett a Blake
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