• How Do I Compete With Someone Who Charges Next to Nothing For Her Classes?

• Want to Get More Out of Your Workshops?  Register Now For Our Next Boot Camp!

• Are You Committed to Failure?  You should be!

• 20% Off Pre-Order Special - Quicken Tutorial CD-ROM: Setting Up A Financial Management System for Your Stamping Business

• Speaking of Workshops... You Think You've Had Bad Ones?  Listen to This Story...

• Now Booking 2007 Live Presentations

• Sample of the Month

• Book of the Month

Want to Get More Out of Your Workshops?

Register Now For Our Next Boot Camp!

In any stamping business, the workshop/gathering is one of, if not the biggest key to your success.  Unfortunately, as rubber stamping and scrapbooking become more and more popular, and new  competition continues to pop up, many stamping business owners are finding their workshops are suffering.  Does any of this sound familiar?:

• "It's getting harder and harder to book my workshop"

• "Fewer people are coming to my parties"

• "My workshop sales are continuing to decrease"

• "Many of the things that used to work for me are no longer working"

• "No matter what I try, I can't increase my booking or sales numbers"

If any of these statements strikes a chord, I invite you to sign up for the Winning Workshops and Profitable Parties Boot Camp!  We'll meet via conference call every Tuesday night at 10:00 p.m. (eastern) beginning March 6th and ending March 27th (if you can't make the calls, don't worry.  The recordings will be available to listen to).

Among the topics we'll cover:

• How to gain the most bookings in the shortest amount of time without giving away the store!

• The most effective methods of hostess coaching for maximizing attendance

• Tools you can use to motivate you, your hostess AND your attendees

• How to set up a system that takes most of the work out of hostess coaching

• How to communicate with workshop attendees BEFORE the event

• How to get every attendee to purchase something at your event

• Other tips and techniques for maximizing sales at the workshop

• Strategies for getting the most bookings from any workshop

• Ideas for maximizing sales from workshop attendees AFTER the workshop

In addition to the four weekly calls, Boot Camp members will also receive:

• Access to the recordings of all four calls

• Access to the password-protected Boot Camp Blog, which will contain additional information, resources and articles to help you increase the quantity, quality and profitability of your workshops and gatherings

• Access to SIMB forms to help you plan, promote and maximize the potential of each of your workshops. 

• Step-by-step instructions for setting up your hostess coaching system

ALSO anyone who signs up for the Boot Camp will have an opportunity to pre-purchase the latest SIMB Audio CD - "Hostess Coaching for Success!" - for just $10, plus FREE SHIPPING!

The Boot Camp begins on Tuesday, March 6th, but space is limited.  The registration fee is just $49.99.

That's right, just $49.99 for everything mentioned above!  That means that if you're able to increase your sales by just $170, this Boot Camp pays for itself!  I am quite confident that anyone who implements the strategies and systems we discuss will earn much more money than they're paying to register!

To register for the Boot Camp, please use one of the links below:

Sign me up for the 

Winning Workshops and Profitable Parties Boot Camp!

$49.99

Sign me up for the 

Winning Workshops and Profitable Parties Boot Camp 

AND pre-order the 

"Hostess Coaching for Success" CD 

$59.99

Multiple Registrations Discounts: If you have a group of three or more who would like to register, contact me to learn about multi-registration discounts!

Are You Committed to Failure?

You Should Be!

Here's a tricky question for you:  "Are you committed to failing?"  If the answer is no, there's a pretty good chance you're hurting your chances of success!

If you're not committed to the idea that something you try could fail (and fail spectacularly), you're probably approaching whatever it is a little too tentatively.  

In other words, because you're trying to protect yourself from failing, even just a little, your lack of total commitment decreases the chances of your success.

Failure is nothing to be afraid of.  Some of the most successful entrepreneurs today have experience incredible failures.  The secret to failing is - learn from it, improve on it and try again!

20% Pre-Order Special

Quicken Tutorial CD-ROM:

Setting Up A Financial Management System For Your Stamping Business

I'm happy to announce the release of the first in a series of Guided-Process CD-ROMs.  These are step-by-step video tutorials that you view on your computer.  You just place them into your computer's disc drive and they start to play automatically.  You can pause, fast-forward and rewind as you need to.

Each CD-ROM focuses on a different computer program and shows you, step-by-step, how to install, set-up, incorporate and maintain the program and associated system for your stamping business.  

The first CD-ROM, the Quicken Tutorial, will focus on using this program to establish a financial management system for your stamping business.

The CD-ROM will feature step-by-step video instructions covering the following:

·       Installing Quicken

·       Setting Up Your Business Account

·       Entering Income and Expenses

·       Using Categories

·       Adding New Categories

·       Splitting Entries

·       Running Stamping-specific Situational Reports

·       …and more

(Because you'll be viewing this demo online, it will take a few seconds to load and the sound quality is not as sharp.  Both of these issues are non-existent on the CD-ROM.)  

The CD-ROM will work on PC's only.  It will not work on Macs.

Speaking of Workshops... 

You Think You've Had Bad Ones?

Listen To This Story...

Over the years, I've heard lots of great stories about workshops gone horribly wrong, but this one takes the cake.  Next time you're feeling bad about one of your workshop experiences, please feel free to refer back to this story to make yourself feel better:

I did a workshop last week and when I arrived to set up, I was surrounded by rats and other rodents!  There were about 30 of them, in cages, all around the room.  It turns out that the hostess is part of the local Rodent Rescue Group.  During my entire presentation, I was just inches away from two rats!  There was another one who kept running on one of those wheels every time I started to speak.  Then, during the break, some of the attendees started taking the rodents out of their cages and feeding them snacks!  Turns out they were with the group, too.  On top of that, I only received one order from the entire group!

If you think you can top this story, please feel free to try.  e-mail me your worst workshop tale, and if it beats this one, I'll print it in next month's newsletter.

Now Booking 2007 Live Presentations!

"John is the BEST business speaker in our profession!"

       - Glenda Travelstead

The 2007 Live Presentation calendar continues to fill up, but there are still a few dates left for the first half of the year and several from September on.  

If you would like more information about booking John for an appearance in front of your group, send us an e-mail, or select here for more information. 

Sample of the Month

Submitted by: 

Beth Redding

We are now looking for St. Patrick's Day and Mother's Day samples!

If you would like to submit a sample to be considered for Sample of the Month and the Samples Section, just send me a scan via e-mail, or mail your sample to: John Sanpietro, Stamping Is My Business!, 36 Fir Street, Jay, NY 12941.  

Please include your name, e-mail address, phone number and all materials used to make your sample.

Book of the Month