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Designer Hoot Loot and Placing End of the Month Orders for Orgami Owl Independent Designers

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Hoot Loot for Designers

Hoot Loot is still in effect for Origami Owl Independent Designers. Do you know how to you can get $25 in free money for every $250 to spend next month?  But hurry, only a couple of weeks left for this deal!  Designer Hoot Loot was originally designed to compensate us for our rewarding of Hostess Benefits at Jewelry Bars that initially come out of our pocket and off of our tables.  Starting April 16, 2013, it will be no more!  No more out of pocket for Independent Designers!

Placing Personal and Customer Orders

There are a few ways to put orders with Origami Owl.  It can get a bit confusing.  What if you used a credit card swiper?  What if you didn’t and took all their credit card payments on order forms and now need to process it, how do you do that?

If you are in my team, give me a call or shoot me an email so I can explain this to you and walk you through your first orders =)

Customers on your E-Commerce Site:

Our Origami Owl websites make it convenient for out customers to place orders with us.  However, ID’s, DO NOT order from your own commerce site and ship to your home.  Ask your Mentor why.  It is not a lesson you want to learn =/

Take Note: Item Availability

There is no guarantee that something ordered at a party will be available later, as inventory changes minute by minute due to Designer and Customer Orders in our systems.  Learn how you can maneuver this best from your Mentor.

Don’t have a Mentor?  Look for one =)

If you’d like it to be me and interested in joining with me, please email me at locketsandcharms@gmail.com to let me know that you want to get started NOW in learning all you can about Origami Owl.

Sign up at http://locketsandcharms.origamiowl.com/join/how-it-works/.

Looking forward to seeing you soar with Origami Owl!

 

What Is an Origami Owl Mentor and How Do I Choose One For My Independents Designer Business?

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What is a Mentor?

A Mentor with Origami Owl is the name given to an Independent Designer when he or she brings in a new person into his or her Team and Origami Owl Organization.  The new Independent Designer refers to her upline or sponsor as her Mentor.

Do I get to choose my Mentor?

Yes, you can choose your Mentor.  You can choose one at the point you sign up on the waitlist and you can choose again when you get your invitation to fill out your Designer Agreement with Origami Owl.  Most cases, they will be in one of the same and in some cases, the ID#s will differ.

You have until the signing of a Designer Agreement with Origami Owl to choose or change a Mentor.  After that, your Mentor is permanent.

The one you signed on the wait list is not yet your permanent mentor.  Your permanent mentor is the one you put in when you put in you pay for your kit.

I entered a Mentor ID  when I signed up on the waitlist but have not heard from them? Why?

When you sign up on the waitlist with a Mentor ID, the person does not get notified that you have signed with them.  Send them an email to let them know.

If you have emailed your potential Mentor to let them know you have entered their number and wish them to be your Mentor but not have heard from them, your email may have been lost in e-mail land and may need you to contact them again.

I have informed my potential Mentor many times and still have not heard back, what should I do?

This is a personal decision for you.  You can keep trying to get a hold of the Mentor and hope it changes or you can go elsewhere to find your answers.

What if I do not know an Independent Designer to sign up with and be my Mentor?

Search for one, or you may simply wait for one to be chosen for you by The Nest.

How do I start about choosing a Mentor?

My best advice to you is to find someone who will help you.  This person DOES NOT have to be in with Origami Owl for a long time or seem to know everything.  A good Mentor is someone who is reachable, always learning, and always want you to be more successful with Origami Owl for you, more than for him or herself.  A good Mentor is a giver and your number one cheerleader.  Anyone can be called a Mentor but not everyone do their Mentor Duties.

What are Mentor Duties?

When someone enters Origami Owl an email is sent to the Independent Designer stating their duties saying:

We have taken the liberty to further define the role of an Origami Owl Mentor: + Support them in choosing a business Launch date+ Provide them with initial Hostess coaching tips | suggestions for her first 30 days of parties (2-3 minimum) + Explain | review the ordering and payment process – how to set up the hostess portal+ Encourage participation in Training Calls+ Review Opportunity calls and explain their purpose         + Review the Career Plan –  how they will make money and the value of sponsoring  + Provide your contact information | office hours+ Ensure they understand that you are their first point of contact+ Be available to answer questions in a timely manner+ Understand their reasons | intent for joining the team; support their goals + Continue to coach, guide and mentor via regular (weekly | monthly) follow-up.

What should be the first thing I should ask of a Potential Mentor?

Ask him or her, “What’s in it for me if I join your team?”, “Can I count on you to do the above things with me when I sign with you?” “What training or support do you give your team?”  The answer to these questions (or lack of it) will tell you if he or she is the Mentor for you.

What kinds of things should my future Mentor be providing me?

Aside from what The Nest has stated above, what a Mentor provide their Designers can really vary from one Mentor to another so I cannot speak for others.  What I do know is what I provide my Level 1/personally Mentored Team:

Email/newsletter of Tips every Tuesday, an active FB group for Team to ask business questions from me and fellow Team Designers, daily business tips and motivation to grow business, the ability to book out one hour training calls in advance (many cases same day) to do training business topics, bi-weekly calls to my Level 1s to catch up and follow up on their personal goals and help them grow their Teams and business with Origami Owl, on top of timely response to emails, text messages, and phone calls.

But before anything else, Origami Owl’s Policies and Procedures states that your future mentor is to provide you with the Policies and Procedures BEFORE you sign the official contract/invite to get in with Origami Owl.  You should ask for this if not provided.  You need to know what you are getting into.  The same Policies and Produces state that if a Mentor cannot provide these things and have acquired someone on their team and unable to do the duties, that they are to inform the Nest so that they can provide you a suitable Mentor.  You have the right to have a Mentor that mentors.

I did not know about all this before signing with Origami Owl, can I switch Mentors?

No, you cannot switch Mentors after you have chosen one or one was chosen for you after paying for your kit.  But up until then, you are free to search for one and state them as your Mentor when filling out the Designer Agreement.  The Mentor you have chosen will be getting paid on your volume when she does about $350 in retail sales a month in his or her Origami Owl business.  What a Mentor makes is stated in Origami Owl’s Compensation Plan (one of the sheets that your Mentor should be providing you as well).  This reality can motivate you or demotivate you with your Origami Owl business, so choose wisely.

What are the benefits of choosing my Mentor?

Choosing your Mentor can only give you the satisfaction of choosing one for yourself.

How do I know if I will be having a good Mentor?

You don’t.  It is a risk we all take.  Things change, life happens.  People have different lives, priorities and goals.  There are never any guarantees in life.  And we cannot change people to be what we want them to do or be.  All we can do is control ourselves and our decisions.  The best we can do in life is to make the best personal decision we know how at any given point in time.

What is a good Mentor?

To me, a good Mentor is someone who is more interested in you succeeding that you are.  Someone who is knowledgeable or willing to help find the answer to something.  Someone who inspires and cheers you on.  Someone who says “You got this, you can do this!” when you don’t see the light but because they have walked it before, can guide you towards it.  You will get a feel for who this is from interviewing/asking or watching them.  Your Mentor should be the person that you eventually want to be.  I am so glad to say that I have all this with my Mentor.

What if I do not choose a Mentor?

The Nest assign you one after paying for your kit. Everyone will be assigned a Mentor.  I personally recommend you make the choice for you.  I like to make my own choices, even if I learn later that I chose wrong.  It could just be the “planner” in me but I think it is more of.. I can only be upset at me if things don’t go my way, as a result of my choice – but not be too upset because I know that I made the choice for me with the best information I had at the time… and I, can at least be proud about that.

Leave it up to The Nest and you may land an amazing Mentor as there are 20,000+ amazing men and women in this company, but with anything, there are no guarantees.

What is your best advice in choosing a Mentor, Jennylou?

This is your Origami Owl business, this is a real business, so treat it as one.  If you were to open up any other business, what type of person would you like to partner with?  Would the person you are considering as a Mentor a person someone you would hire and pay out of pocket to help you grow business?  Would you want to have dinner with this person?  Would you like this person to make an automatic minimum of 9% of your personal volume every month for helping you grow?  If this answer is YES, you may have found your match.

Final Words…

Choice is powerful.  You have it in life and you have it when it comes to choosing a Mentor with Origami Owl.  Wherever you go in this journey,  remember these words from my favorite philosopher:

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” Jim Rohn

Plan your life and with that planning, make some great choices.  Much success to you and your dreams.

Does Origami Owl Have Summer Job Openings or College Internships Available?

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I was recently asked this question from one of my networking groups: Does Origami Owl Have Summer Job Openings or College Internships Available?

The sales company that I am an Independent Designer for does not offer summer/temporary positions or college internships as we know “internships,” but being an Independent Designer (ID) with the company offers teens and students the flexible work and money making opportunities they need that a summer or temporary job is sought to fill.

Origami Owl is able to offer you that “temporary job” but with so much more.  With Origami Owl, you can hire yourself not only in the summer time but also anytime year round such as Christmas or Spring Break.

This is an amazing opportunity for many reasons: Starting with Origami Owl puts student up front and center with Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Customer Care, Public Relations, and Financial Management for Business as a student engages with Origami Owl as an Independent Designer.

These skills are acquired by women as young as 14years old as they sign up to sell beautiful lockets and charms to friends and family through online, catalog, or in home party sales.  This is a direct sales model where the Independent Designer brings the products to her market of friends and family and beyond.  IDs can purchase wholesale and sell at retail.  They can also direct customers to their personal e-commerce site where one can order right off of it.  If can also do live events with the help of a basic demo package or a larger one where people can take their lockets and charms home the same day.

Yes, this internship pays.  It is commissioned sales and determined by the efforts of the Designer and the demand of their market.  Like I said, not only can a student do this during the summer but also year round on his or her own schedule.  Origami Owl teaches skills, it pays, and it is flixibel.

Lastly, Origami Owl goes where you go.  You can take your lockets to the beach, on vacation, to grandmas, and still make $.  What other internship, summer or temp job can offer all this?

Start Oo today

 

How does one start?  I will tell you how:  If you are below 18 years old, you would need to fill out a Parent Authorization Form after accepting an Independent Designer Invitation from Origami Owl.  You may consider getting started on the process today as there is a wait list to get in (weeks to a month of wait).

You may not get your acceptance letter until it gets closer to Summer.  Sign up at http://locketsandcharms.origamiowl.com/join/how-it-works/.  Please consider entering #1186 (Jennylou Raya) if you would like further assistance and have found my information useful.  After the waitlist, please email me at locketsandcharms@gmail.com so that I may be able to start assisting you in your Origami Owl Ind. Designer business.

For learn more about Origami Owl with Jennylou, check out http://locketsNcharms.biz.

For business building tips, please visit http://youtube.com/locketsNcharms.

If you would like to speak to me, let’s do it!  Email me at locketsandcharms@gmail.com to schedule an appointment.

If you are local or in San Diego, stop by at my next Origami Owl information night.  See my video invite here:

 

Springing Forward with Origami Owl with Independent Designer LocketsNcharms

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We all had one less hour today but instead of being bummed out about it, the family and I made the most of what hours we had left.

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i stepped out of my door and looked up and could not help but be amazed at the pine tree hovering above our home.  These are pine cones and they are blooming.  Pine cone flowers?

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Oh, before I stepped out, I put together this locket.  It was beautiful and sunny… unlike the days before… rainy and gloomy.  Today was a bright sun-shining day reminiscent of beach days with palm trees, sea shells, boats and of course, slippers.

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The outing would never be complete without food.  I have taken a recent liking to lamb as in gyro meat.  I went to this place called The Kebab Shop with the family.  Everyone was happy.  I got my lamb, my kids got the rice they want and my hubby got his sandwich fix.

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The kids met with their bedtime but they still did not want to go to bed.  My daughter said that she was going to sleep during the commercials of The Bible Series. My son, he always just messes with me.  He was trying to look like he was asleep.  His smile can’t fool me 😉

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So that was my day of springing forward with Origami Owl as part of my day.  I am looking forward to tomorrow and every day after that because I love what I do and I love the opportunities Origami Owl has given me.  Thanks for reading and hope to connect with you soon!

Hostess Rewards Rumors. Should I Book A Party Now or Later?

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Question:

I want to book a party and already know a consultant.  I have heard rumors that the hostess incentive program will change (for the better) in April.  My consultant said her mentor/leader said April 16th.  I did a Google search and found some independent Origami sites stating the change would occur in April but was not specific about a date.

Can you answer specifically when the new hostess rewards will take effect??  I want to schedule the party after these new changes.

Also, when will the spring catalog be available?

Thank you!  Hoping you can answer this.  Anxious to find out and no one seems to know the exact answer.

-A

 

Answer:
Hi A,

No one has a specific answer because no one was given a specific answer.  On our company event in January, we were told that there would be new Hostess Rewards and were given an idea of what they would be  but they also said, nothing is set in stone and no date has been determined.  They are hoping sometime in april maybe May, but nothing more than that has been said (as far as I know).

I will say that depending on your party, you may be better off with the old one than the new one….   i posted the tentative “rough copy” of what the new rewards may be at http://www.locketsandcharms.com/origami-owl-new-hostess-reward-exclusive/

With the new one, if you have a party at  $249, you only get $15 in free jewelry.  Right now, or before the change, your free jewelry would be $24.9.  I think it is best you do the party now.  Between now and then, your friends may be invited or have bought an Origami Owl necklace elsewhere that would have been $50 – $125 that could have been towards your Hostess Rewards had they purchased from your party.  At that point, the Hostess Rewards would be less anyway because you would have less sales at your party. Does that make sense?

Spring Catalogs… no date. We can only assume that it be at the same time since the Hostess Rewards would probably be printed in them.

We will not know until the home office tells us.  Everyone is just so excited and speculating because they want to sound like they know but the truth is no one knows and I do not know more than what they told us in January.

Sincerely,

Jennylou Raya ID #1186

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