With Origami Owl, Every locket tells a Story!

Every locket tells a story which makes our Origami Owl custom jewelry so meaningful.

Sunflower charm: My favorite flower is the sunflower.
OMG charm: Oh my God, it's my birthday!
June heart birthstone charm: June is my birthday month!
Love charm: Love to inspire others.
Ice cream and cupcake charms: Birthdays are the best for cake and ice cream!
Music note charm: Love music and dancing on my birthday!

What are some of your favorite charms that tell your story??? 

Origami Owl Jeep Give Away!

My future jeep!!! What do you think? This beauty will be given away to one lucky Origami Owl Independent Designer at the National Convention in July, 2014, and I am going to bring this baby home. Come to Mama!
The founder of Origami Owl, Bella Weems, started her business in order to earn enough money to buy a jeep for her 16th birthday! With all of her success in building a multimillion dollar company, she is now giving away an Origami Owl branded jeep! Hoot hoot! Love Origami Owl!

Origami Owl Retiring Items

WOW!!!! A ton of Origami Owl jewelry will be retiring on August 10!…So sad to see them go, but so excited to see what’s new!!! Scoop up your favorites before they are gone forever.  Click the image or the link to see what will be flying from the Nest!
http://melissagale.origamiowl.com/default.aspx

Origami Owl Hostess Exclusive for July, August and September!

Rose gold and heart locket lovers, this is the hostess exclusive for July, August and September. Rose gold is hot right now and is the latest trend in jewelry. I was able to earn this beauty for free this month as a Designer with Origami Owl, and so can you by join my team in the month of June! 

Every locket tells a story! -Origami Owl custom jewelry

With Origami Owl custom jewelry, we tell stories. Each of the charms represent things that you love or are important to you in your life.

Choose charms that represent things that tell your story.

• Pineapple charm: Pineapples are my favorite summer fruit. 
• Kite charm: I love to fly my kite on windy days/ Sun charm: sunny days make me happy.
• Beach cruiser charm: riding my beach cruiser is the best thing to do in the summer. 
• Flower charms: sunflowers and daises are my favorite flowers. 

What is your story?
Do share!

Using the Customer Care Card for your Origami Owl Business

Using a customer care card or drawing slip (which ever you might call it) can be one of the most useful tools to use to build your business. Having customers and other people you meet fill out the card can provide you with lots of information. You will get their name, address, e-mail, phone and and information about their level of interest in hosting an Origami Owl jewelry bar or joining your team. This information can help you follow up, to build a relationship, and to network with them.

So what can you do with this information?
With the address, you can send them a thank you card, a new catalog, an invitation to an open house jewelry bar party, etc... With their e-mail, you can add them to the O2 Connection Newsletter that Origami Owl sends out once a month. This way, they will receive information about what's new with Origami Owl and they are reminded of you. With their phone number, call them up. Thank them for filling out the customer care card and ask if there is anything they need. Ask if they would be interested in hosting a jewelry bar sometime or if they know anyone who might be interested.

So when and how can you use the customer care card to get this information?
1. Use the customer care card (drawing slip) at craft fairs and vendor events. Always do a raffle for a gift certificate to get them to fill it out.

• When visitors stop by your booth, tell them about the drawing and have them complete the drawing slip to be put into the raffle. 
• As people walk by, invite them to also join in the raffle. The more contacts you are able to collect, the more possibilities you will have to find customers, hostesses and team members. 
• After the event, look over all of the drawing slips and contact each person to thank them for entering the drawing and ask if they would be interested in hosting a jewelry bar. 
• I also give them the $15 gift certificate anyways if they decide host a jewelry bar with me.
• If they say "no", then let them know about your referral rewards plan to also be able to earn free jewelry. This way they may still lead you to new people and build your contact list.

2. Use the drawing slip at Origami Owl Jewelry bar parties.

• At the end of the jewelry bar, pass out a customer care card to each guest to complete. 
• Ask them to choose 1-10 for their level of interest in hosting a jewelry whether is be soon or in a few months. Or if not them, but who do they know that might like to host a party and joining the business. Share about your referral rewards plan on how they can still earn free jewelry.
• Collect the customer care cards (drawing slips) and use them for a drawing for a free gift.
• Quickly skim through the customer care cards to check who is interested and make sure to talk to that person about hosting or joining before they leave the party. 
• Use the customer card cards to also follow up with guests after they received their jewelry from their order. This is when you can continue to build a relationship with a customer. Ask them how they are liking their jewelry, if they need anything else, if they'd like to host a jewelry bar or learn more about the business. Then, always be sure to share about your referral rewards again.

 3. Use the drawing slip  when you are out and about.

• When someone comments on the Origami Owl jewelry you are wearing, tell them thank you, let them know about the business, and always give them a business card or catalog with your contact information.
• Tell them that if they fill out a customer care card (drawing slip) you will put them in your monthly drawing for free jewelry. Give them a drawing slip (customer care card) to add them to a monthly drawing for a free charm and add them to the O2 Connection Newsletter).
• Follow up with them to ask if they would be interested in hosting a jewelry bar, learning about the business or get referrals at the very least.

Who knew this little piece of paper can do so much to help build your business! To make it easy,  print the customer care card on a note pad from Vistaprint or another print shop and carry them with you along with business cards and catalogs to be able to hand out to people every where you go!

What are some other ideas on how we can use the customer care card??? Post some ideas and experiences using the customer care slips in the comment section below!

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Referral Rewards Program for your Origami Owl Business

A couple months ago, one of my past hostesses received a compliment on her new Origami Owl Living Locket (that she earned for free by hosting a party with me) on Facebook. The friend was interested in the jewelry and asked her where she got her necklace. To my surprise, as I read the post in my feed, the hostess told her friend it was Origami Owl and to just "Google it" online! The hostess never referred her to me! After this incident, I wondered how many other times this had happened. I quickly realized that I needed to establish a Referral Rewards program to encourage hostesses, customers, family, friends, co-workers and everyone I knew to network and help refer people to me and grow my business.

Because Origami Owl is a type of "Network Marketing" business,  it is essential to network with the people you know to meet new people who would want to host an Origami Owl jewelry bar or join your team as a business partner. To encourage the people you know to help you meet new people, offer an incentive for them to be able to earn free jewelry.  

Here is my referral plan that I use for my business and have had much success!

When you refer people to me, you earn free jewelry credit:

• When someone makes a $50+ order, you receive $5 in free jewelry credit.
• When someone hostess a jewelry bar party with me, you receive $10 in free jewelry credit.
• When someone joins my team, you receive $15 in free jewelry credit. 

So, why does this work?
Past hostesses who earned a lot of free jewelry and had a good party experience will refer friends and family to me so they can earn more free jewelry! Why not?Customers who might not want to host a jewelry bar can still earn free jewelry by referring other people to me who place an order, host or join. Many times, hostesses and customers will tell me that they love wearing their Origami Owl jewelry and have receive a lot of compliments. This is a perfect time for friends, family, co-workers, hostess
and customers to refer people to you so they may get own Origami Owl jewelry, especially if they know that they will be able to earn free jewelry! The result is people start working for you to help you meet more people and to build your business.

So set up a Referral Rewards program for your business. Print it on a business card to hand out and make labels to put on your take out menus (catalogs). 

You never know who people will lead you to!