Launch Back In Person 2022 - and five secrets of a successful launch event

Welcome to Ready, Set, Demo 

And woo hoo! my launch event is done.  Followed a week or so later by a bout of COVID - but after avoiding it so long it had to happen. I am much better and ready to share my launch with you. 

*** added information - yes I did 'make' my display boards. They are made from linen drier racks - you can see more in my video from pre-covid HERE. 

Also do have a look below for FIVE SECRETS TO A SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH EVENT.  

I do teach my team NOT to do such a big display, but I started doing bigger and bigger displays over the years and I don't want to disappoint my ladies. :) 

It was great to get back together in person, and if you haven't already seen it, here is a 2 minute video montage of how it went. 

Events do not need to be big like mine to be wonderful for your business and if you would like to see my FIVE SECRETS TO A SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH EVENTS you can watch it below. 

If you are not already on my mailing list which comes out a maximum of twice a month, please do sign up below for tips, ideas, inspiration, ready to teach classes and more. 

Oh and I have brand new Fancy Folds Class coming soon. 

Happy stamping and launching 

Love Liz XXX

Who Needs More Customers?

Hello and welcome to Ready, Set, Demo

WHO NEEDS MORE CUSTOMERS? I certainly did. When I returned to in-person classes last summer, I needed another class-full of ladies maintain my income. 

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Last year - it just wasn't happening. And then in January I changed up my plan. And oh my goodness - 12 new ladies signed up for my new class in 6 weeks!

EDITED TO ADD - As of March 14th I am now up to 20 new class ladies booked and paid! And everyone who has attended has rebooked too! 

SO HOW DID I DO IT?

I share all in this FREE training video for you which covers: 
* Practical how-to advice to get customers signed up
* One thing I learned that really made a difference 
* All my results using paid & unpaid advertising

Click below to see the video...

While my aim was to get in-person class customers, you could adapt these many of these methods to attract online customers, new team members and more. 

I hope you find it helpful - I look forward to hearing how many new customers you find after watching this. Cue more smiles and tears!

Take care and happy stamping

Love Liz X 

Tips & Ideas Celebrate Today Magnet Board Kit

Welcome to Ready Set Demo 

Just a quick post today to share a video that I made about making the most of the Celebrate Today Magnet Board Kit. 

I loved this kit even more when I started playing with it and I found some extra ways to add value for our lovely customers too. 

Here is the video....

Oh and I will be back VERY soon with a video about finding new customers...and what I did to find 12 new customers in 6 weeks! 

 Love Liz

Stationery Bureau Ready-To-Teach Class

Hello and welcome to Ready, Set, Demo

In my continuing mission to design classes that you can share using whatever products are available right now, I have designed a new ready-to-teach class for you. 

This class can be made with any Stampin' Up! 12X12 designer paper, any foil, any cardstock and any greeting stamps - so you can also teach it for any season or in any year too. 

It can be an at-home or in person class - I am doing both for my customers. 

STATIONERY BUREAU & 12 CARDS

The bureau has a drawer at the bottom to hold envelopes and extra sentiment labels. The doors open to reveal a section for full size cards, a section for 3X3 cards, a pen tray and two pockets for sentiments and postage stamps. 

I made one in the green and one in the pink and let my ladies choose which they would like to make.

Included in the class are:

• Measurements in inches worked out for A4 and US letter sizes
• An ordering list per person
• Class pricing ideas
• Non-logo advertising photos 
• A step by step video for the box and a walk through of each card design

I have kept my class price to just £10, which is about $14 US depending on today's Paypal exchange rates.

If you would like to order the class securely on Paypal, click the button below. If you'd like to see more, scroll down and I will show you the projects on a short video.

I hope this class will help some of you save time and effort in working out a wow project to teach and that it helps with your sales too. 

**NOTE: Products used in this class were current at the time the class was designed. In many cases an alternative stamp/punch/die or DSP design will work for the projects** 

Natural Tones Stampin' Blends

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I am just in LOVE with the Natural Tones Stampin' Blends. I couldn't wait to share them with my lovely class ladies this month and was delighted that they loved them too.  

I like that Stampin' Up! provided a downloadable chart to demonstrate them, but I decided we needed a quick cheat sampler that could be passed around in class to help the ladies choose which tone they wanted. I also printed some larger number labels for the Blends - that printing is soooo tiny! 

It made it easy for them to use in class AND easy for them to decide which colours to order - or whether they needed them all! :) 

If you are on my newsletter list, you will already have a link to download my cheat sheet printable - and if you aren't on my newsletter list and you would like to be - let me know and I will forward it on to you.  

 Love Liz x 

Pastels Technique Masterclass

Well as promised, I am back with a class for you to teach. I have chosen something from the big book that seems rather overlooked - which hopefully means we can easily get it and use it in a class! You can find them on page 126 of the catalogue - the Soft Pastels Assortment. And bonus - you can use any stamps you have on hand to create the technique samples. 

Including product in my classes has been one of the main ways I have built my Stampin' Up! business and with a price of just £8.25 or $9.00 US - this is a low cost way to introduce your customers to a class that includes some Stampin' Up! goodies! 

PASTELS TECHNIQUE MASTERCLASS

This class is designed to teach your customers how to use the pastels with 12 different techniques, but is also great to help grow your business by being able to offer complementary products which we will use in the class. To help with this I have done an extra video with some teaching and up-selling tips. 

I have also included some other extras including ideas for 3 cards that use 6 of the techniques from the class. These come in the form of a show & tell video and photos for you to use and gives you more options for how you teach these techniques.  

Here is what is included in the class 

• 12 techniques using the Stampin' Up! Soft Pastel Assortment 
• Printable product hints and tips (no logos) to share with your customers - print A4 or US Letter size 
• Hints and tips video with teaching and up-selling ideas 
• Set up video for creating your memories and more technique file - plus some alternate ideas for you and your customers
• Printable layout examples showing how to assemble samples and instructions in a memories and more folder if required.   
• Printable index sheet   
• Printable instructions for each technique – editable with no logos configured for both A4 and US letter versions AND 9 copies of one technique per sheet for easy class prep. 
• Cutting list plus list of all products used in the class 
• A class introduction video 
• A step by step video showing each technique 
• BONUS 3 Card ideas that you can teach 

I have kept my class price to just £10, which is about $14 US depending on today's Paypal exchange rates.

If you would like to order the class you can order securely on Paypal by clicking below and I will email your class to you. 

If you'd like to see more in a short video about it - here it is! 

**NOTE: Products used in this class were current at the time the class was designed. In many cases an alternative stamp/punch/die or DSP design will work for the projects** 

New Horizons & On the Horizon Bundle

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Where has the time gone? How is it January already?  And in Europe - where is the New Horizons DSP? 

Well it is hopefully sailing speedily across the Atlantic - but in the meantime I have been showing my lovely customers how to create projects with the On the Horizon bundle without the DSP. 

I combined it with Oceanfront - which helped with the backgrounds - but I also showed how you can use Waterpainters and ink to make similar effects. 

Here is a tip to make the fences pop... Die cut the fence in Basic White, stamp with Soft Suede using the fence panel stamp. Use a Blending Brush to darken or colour. Then die cut another fence in black or grey and offset to one side. This gives a great 3D effect.

I know it is difficult to make our businesses work when some items are unavailable - and let's not even talk about our poor South Pacific friends who have virtually no Sale-A-Bration goodies right now! Sending all the love to you and hope something is sorted for you soon. 

COMING SOON! 

I have been creating some class designs that can help you put a class together at short notice using any DSP and I have another technique class coming soon which may also work for these tricky times.

If you are not already on my mailing list - sign up here for details of those upcoming classes to help save you time and money in your business. 

Take care and happy stamping 

Love Liz X