Direct sales thrives on successful parties. To maximize their impact, it’s crucial to entertain guests while subtly educating them about your products and planting the seed of becoming a consultant. Party games are an excellent tool to achieve these goals simultaneously. Here are five engaging games to incorporate into your next direct sales party:
1) Bingo
Bingo remains a timeless favorite and a simple way to introduce a diverse product range. Prepare bingo cards with a 4×4 grid. Mark the center square as “Free.” Populate the remaining squares with product names in random order across different cards. Create a separate set of cards, each featuring a single product name; these will be your drawing cards. Enhance the game by showcasing actual product samples as you call out their names, highlighting their features and benefits. The first participant to complete a row wins a prize, just like in traditional bingo.
2) Get To Know Each Other Game
This game serves as an excellent icebreaker, particularly when guests are unfamiliar with one another. It can also provide valuable insights into potential recruits.
Circulate a bag of M&Ms, inviting everyone to take as many as they like. Once everyone has a handful, ask them to count their candies. Each person then shares as many facts about themselves or their family as the number of M&Ms they possess. Impose a rule that no one can eat their M&Ms until they’ve had their turn to share.
3) How Well Do You Know Your Hostess?
Distribute numbered sheets of paper to your guests, instructing them to number from 1 to 10. Then, pose the following questions:
1) What is your hostess’s favorite color?
2) If she could have any vehicle, what would it be?
3) How many kids does she have?
4) What is her favorite hobby?
5) Who is her favorite actor?
6) What is her favorite animal?
7) What is her favorite TV show?
8) What is her favorite food?
9) What is her favorite scent or smell?
10) If you were in need of something, would your hostess help you?
After everyone, including the hostess, has answered, review the questions, allowing the hostess to reveal her answers. Guests then mark their answers as correct or incorrect. The person with the most correct answers wins a small prize or a discount on their purchase.
Feel free to customize the questions, but always retain the final question. It provides a natural segue to discuss hostess rewards, such as free products for qualifying purchases or booking their own parties.
4) Left Right Game
This game is perfect for energizing the party right before your presentation. Distribute one or two small gifts. Explain that you will read a story and that they should pass the gift to the person on their right each time they hear the word “right” and to the left when they hear “left.” The person holding the gift at the story’s conclusion gets to keep it.
Here is the story:
I left my house and was on my way to (hostess’s name)’s house. But I soon discovered that I had left my directions at home, right by the phone! Well, I knew right away that I needed to have the right directions to (hostess’s name)’s house, so I turned left and I turned left and I turned right and made my way back to my house for the right directions. Sure enough, there they were, right where I had left them, right next to the phone.
Finally, I was on the right track. I arrived right on time and set up my (company name) presentation right over here. You all arrived and sat down. I’m going to get right down to work and tell you about (company name). I hope nothing will be left out. In a moment I’ll show you our new line of (product type) products. If you left home with the intention of shopping for gifts tonight, you’ll find we have the right gift for everyone. Think about upcoming birthdays and holidays, we don’t want anyone left out. I’d be happy to help you find the right gift for that special someone.
(Company name) has a (number)-day return policy. When your merchandise comes in please check it right away. If something is not right please call me right away and you can be sure I will take care of it right away. You don’t want to be left with something you are not 100% satisfied with, right? If you’d like to be a hostess and earn free and discounted merchandise, this is the right time for you to explore hosting a party.
I’m enjoying being here with all of you tonight and I hope you are having fun, too. I know you can’t wait to see if we have that special item you have been looking for, so without further delay I will get right to the point of this party, which is showing you our great products! So, there is really nothing left for me to do except congratulate the winner, right?
5) Ask Me About My Job
This game is a powerful way to pique your guests’ interest in joining your company.
Obtain or create some tickets.
Announce that for the next 3 minutes, you’ll be playing “Ask Me About My Job.” Award 3 tickets to the first person to ask a question, 2 tickets to the second, and 1 ticket for each subsequent question.
Expect questions like, “How long have you been doing this?” and “How many hours a week do you work?” Respond positively, for example, “I’ve been doing this for 12 months, and I’ve never had so much fun,” or “I only work evenings and weekends because I want to be home with my kids.”
After three minutes, instruct guests to retain their tickets. Later in the party, hold another brief Q&A session (guests will likely have formulated additional questions). Finally, conduct a drawing for a small prize.
This game presents an invaluable opportunity to educate your guests about your business and illustrate its potential benefits to them.
Adapt and personalize these games to suit your style and the direct sales company you represent. Remember to prioritize fun and engagement!