Connections from the Heart - Week 2

Connections from the Heart

Week 2 – Monday, February 13 to Saturday, February 18, 2012
Hobby: (5 points each task)

Organize
• Organize your printed photos for your upcoming scrapbooking.
• Organize your digital photos for future printing or work in Studio J.
• Using your wish list of paper packets and WOTGs from week 1, choose, and print the photos you will use for your layouts or projects.
• Plan your journaling for your photos, writing down important details.
• List out the CTMH products that assist in your scrapbooking organization and albums.

Share an organization tip for photos (digital or printed) and what do you do with photos you have printed but don’t use on the Facebook page or comment on the blog.


Connect
• Make plans for a creative night with family and friends. What is your theme? What paper packet will you use? What project will you create?
• Make a list of family and friends to invite.
• Schedule the date, time and location.
• Make connection calls to invite your friends and family.
• Prepare project. If you need ideas go to the corporate website > Training & Events > Gatherings & Workshops on the Go.

Share your plans for your creative night and the project you will create on the team Facebook group or as a comment on this week’s blog post.


Create
• Create the Studio J January Love your Layout.
• Create a classic scrapbook layout using a new paper packet and the Shuffled Deck pattern from Magic. Layout should include photos, journaling and embellishments.
• Create another layout using the same pattern but rotating the pattern. Rotate the left hand side of the pattern one turn to the left. Rotate the right hand side of the pattern one turn to the right.
• Create a card using Lucy or Pemberly Workshop on the Go.
• Create a project using any Dimensional Element.

Share a photo of any of the above projects you have completed on the team Facebook group.


Business Building (10 pts each task)


Organize
• Watch the Training academy course “Spring Cleaning your Business” in the continuing education section. Using the goals from your planning last week and inspiration from the course put them in terms of SMART goals. Handout is attached to email.
• Using web reports, download your customer contacts. Adding additional columns to the spreadsheet for customers, Studio J, hostesses, and potential recruits. Put an X in the column for all that you know that apply to that contact.
• Looking at your calendar, schedule one or two regular blocks of time each week for connection calls for the remainder of the challenge. Be sure to do this after the challenge to continue building your connections with your customers. Your goal should be to connect with them at least each idea book.
• Using the handout for the Savvy Phone Skills Training Academy course attached to this week’s e-mail, write your phone script. Think of questions you can ask to find out the information you need to know about them.
• Make a list of and order the supplies you will need for your next workshop/gathering you need to order.

Share your what you learned from the Spring Cleaning Your Business” Training Academy course and share one SMART goal you have set on the team Facebook group or as a comment on this week’s blog post.


Connect
• Listen to any Listening Library calls on Effective Communication. Write down one or two things that you will use/do during your calls this week.
• Using the script and your organized list of customers, make calls to discover their needs and invite them to participate in upcoming events/ host gatherings.
• If you leave a message, follow up the message with an email or text and schedule time on your calendar to call again.
• Use a customer tracking form to keep track of details of your calls. Use the call log to keep track of who you called. Highlight the name of the customer in green if your call results in a money making call (customer scheduled gathering, signed up to attend an event, placed a phone order, etc).
• Use a power hour to connect with potential Studio J customers and current customers to share the Fabulous Five Special in February.

Share what Listening Library call you listened to and what you learned and how many “green” highlights you have from this week or how you are progressing in making your connection calls on the team Facebook group or post to the team blog.


Create
• Create the artwork for the next workshop that you have planned on your calendar. (This is for the next workshop that you do not have artwork).
• Create the layouts using Lucy or Pemberly Workshop on the Go.
• Create the Studio J Five for Free layout – Superhero.
• Create the Studio J Five for Free layout – Victory.
• Create gathering make and take and precut for March gatherings or new idea book event.

Share a photo of any of the above projects you have completed on the team Facebook group.