Welcome to 2012! We are kicking off the year with a new Champion Contest!
Get your name in Contest Drawing for a New Title!
Prizes will be drawn for on January 31st!
There will be at least 2 names drawn for a 2012 Usborne Books and More NEW TITLE!

Get your name in the January Champion Contest for:

1. Blogging on the ‘Excite & Ignite’ Blogs – Talk with us about JIFT, the Advanced Leadership Retreat, Hostess Appreciations, and the Getting to Know You ~ Toot Toot! It all counts when you share on the blogs!
2. Going to the Business Building Page on our site, trying one of the ideas from the “82 Ways To Get Bookings”  that you’ve never done before and then blogging at the bottom of that page. Here is a link directly to the Business Building Page on our Team Site: http://usbornechampions.com/training/promoting-our-biz/
   Your name will go in the contest once for each of the 82 Ways To Get Bookings you try and how it worked out for you!

Let the Fun begin! Game on!
Deb Casey, head of the Champion Teammates!

Watch here for news from Usborne Books & More Advanced Leadership 2012!

We kick off with the President’s Club Dinner on Wednesday Night!

Deb Casey

Let’s brainstorm ideas on reaching out to hostesses and customers! Hostess appreciations. In addition to this blog, we’ve opened up a Page under Team Training. As we come up with ideas in the blog, this will give us a place to compile documents and ideas to access in the future!

Bring on your ideas! Documents can be emailed to UsborneDeb@gmail.com which is Deb Casey’s new email address!

This week’s contest is super simple. SHOW your customers a great deal by calling them and TELL them about the Black Friday Specials which will start on your website next Friday, 11/25 (day after Thanksgiving)!  Are you still working for Aimee? I am!

Prizes in the November contests are based on participation. If you are participating, please email Deb Casey the following at UsborneDeb@aol.com: Info you put on labels you give to customers including your name, address, phone number and email. Prizes will come early in December.

Deb Casey

1. Write to Aimee – she is your number 1 Boss
2. Decide 2 Pipelines will focus on today (tell Aimee which)
3. Mail something to 3 Customers (yup – in U.S. Mail)
4. Add 4 people to both your Pipelines and IMN (E-Newsletter)
5. Talk to 5 people about your biz

Sample Pipelines Pages  Recruiting Pipeline Horizontal        Cards for a Cause Pipeline

Each day write in our blog a list of Income-Producing Activities that Aimee (your new boss!) has requested you to get done TODAY. Can copy ideas from other lists. Have FUN together! At end of day, write a reply to your blog post – Aimee giving you feedback of how you did. Are you now hiding if Aimee walks down the hall or is she coming over to give your a high-five?

Have fun with this! Based on blogs, Deb Casey will be awarding prizes! One will be an Author-Signed Title.

Note from Deb Casey: One day while driving home from a part-time job, I realized I was making calls to people to get appointments scheduled and was daily dropping items in the mail to promote that part-time business. Aimee, my boss, told me what she expected me to do and I was very diligent in doing what was expected of me in this job.

But HEY! I was supposed to be doing the same things for my Usborne business and I’d let days slide by without getting things done. Why would I, an intelligent person, be willing to work harder in an office environment for another person’s goals for $9 an hour compared to working smarter and more effectively for a payback in Usborne which  is far greater greater per hour when dedicated effort is applied to talking with customers? Hmmmm. ~
LET THE FUN BEGIN! Will you work harder this week for Aimee? Join us and find out!

Champion GAME OF THE STATES Contest!

Krsytin Rowley was a our October Champion Prize Winner!

Welcome to new Champion Teammates !
Maryland -Michele Mazio sponsored by Christine Bowers
Massachusetts – Amy Perkins sponsored by Mishael Schiller
New Hampshire – Jessie Wilmott sponsored by Deb Casey
Virginia – Kristin Miller sponsored by Krystin Rowley
Utah – Chad Brough sponsored by Randi Enman
Washington – Cherylene McDermott sponsored by Tammy Kempton

Take-A-Look_Champion  Interview Script 

Share Your Stories & Toot Your Horn!

What’s your story? Tell us… inquiring minds want to know!

Share here how you got started in Usborne and how it is really rocking for you and your family. Prepare your heart to be touched and feet to want to get up go do more because Champions are TRULY AMAZING!

Did you a schedule a party today? Did you share a business card with someone? Did you get out of your comfort zone? Give us a ‘Toot-Toot! We want to you to celebrate your successes!
If you were working from an office; you could tell someone else about your success….
Since you work from your home; toot your horn here about your little successes and big successes!

We’ll be watching to see who is sharing and you never know when you might get a prize for sharing…. we will do surprise drawings for new titles for sharing your successes.

Ignite and Excite each other! Toot-Toot! 

~Your Excited Top-of-our-Line-Leader, Deb Casey

Share product knowledge tips and info along with fun reading tips here!

Favorites shared include:

Princess and the Pea with Professional American Sign Language Storyteller on DVD

Rapunzel with Professional American Sign Language Storyteller on DVD

Ignite the Excitement Champion Contest! (closing tonight – get your name in!)

GET TICKETS FOR SCHEDULING EVENTS THAT ARE NOT AS YET ON YOUR CALENDAR.
MORE tickets for MORE results!! Toot your horn Champions! Tickets earned by putting your results in THIS BLOG!
$20 Free Books Prize Winner – Christine Dinsdale
$20 Free Books Prize Winner – Heather McConley
$10 Free Books Prize Winner – Krytin Rowley
$10 Free Books Prize Winner – Sue Bavey
To claim your prizes, email Deb Casey with your choices and address to mail to! Thanks! UsborneDeb@aol.com

• 1 ticket – Personal Shopping Appointment (PSA)
  - 1 MORE ticket if purchase $25 or more at PSA
• 1 ticket – Recruiting Talk (Take a Look Recruiting Script)
  - 2 MORE tickets if they join before 9/30/11
• 1 ticket – Home Party
  - 1 MORE ticket for each party scheduled off your party
• 1 ticket – School & Library Appointment
  - 1 MORE ticket if appointment results in a sale before 9/30/11
• 1 ticket – Booth Event
  - 1 MORE ticket for each party scheduled at the booth