Games are essential for direct sellers or party plan consultants.

Whether you’re running in-home parties or online events, you want to be playing games to make your parties more fun.

And more fun means more sales, bookings and new team members.

Games also help to relax that mechanism in your brain that protects you from marketing messages. Your guests are more likely to be open to what you have to say when they hear it as part of a game.

And of course games boost interaction and make everyone more relaxed. Including you (which is particularly helpful for new or shy consultants).

Drawing games are super easy and super fun to play. Not to mention, they are really adaptable to your theme or seasonal holidays. I have a Tropical Island version for you to download below, which can be used year-round.

How to play drawing games at your direct sales parties

Provide each guest with paper and a pen or pencil. If you’re running a Zoom party, you’ll have to ask the host to instruct the guests ahead of time to have pen and paper handy.

In a Facebook party you can go Live at a certain time and invite the guests to join you with their paper and pen at hand. Encourage everyone to post a picture of their drawing and their score in the comments under the Live. This is a great way to encourage interaction and connection in your Facebook party.

All you do to play is to read out the instructions section by section while your guest complete the drawing with their eyes closed. Once you’ve read all the instructions they can open their eyes and look at their creation, this is usually cause for hilarity and lots of laughs.

Then you read out scoring instructions to find out who won the game. I usually have a small prize for the winner and for the ‘winner in reverse’ (ie. the loser but ‘winner in reverse’ sounds nicer).

I hope you enjoy this game as much as I do, it’s a great one to add to your games stash.

Are you looking for more games? Check out the Ultimate Games Bundle for Direct Sellers. It comes with 26 done-for-you games for Facebook and in-home parties.

The Investment Game is in-home game for party plan consultants or direct seller with some bonus benefits for your business.

Especially if you’re nervous about individually asking everyone at a party if they would like to host their own party or join your team, you want to add this game to your stash!

It’s also a genius way to boost your customer Facebook group.

What’s not to love?

How to prepare for The Investment game

You’ll need a bunch of coins of the same denomination. It doesn’t matter which coin you use, it can even be money from a board game. You’ll need one for each guest.

Prepare some business opportunity bags. Use a pretty paper bag and put company information, a kit list, and perhaps your story in there. Add a chocolate and a specialty tea bag and you have yourself a lovely business opportunity bag.

Party bags are similar to the business opportunity bags but contain information on hosting a party. You’ll want to include any host offers that are available, a catalog and perhaps a product sample. If you have any hosting incentives you’ll want to add that information as well.

You also need a Facebook group for your customers to join into.

How to make the most of The Investment Game

As everyone arrives at your party, give them a coin. It can be any coin but let’s use pennies in this example. Tell the guests to put it away for now but to keep it safe as they’ll need it later.

At the end of the party I’ll say something like:

“I bet you’re all wondering what that penny is for that I gave you at the beginning of the party?

Well, I have actually given you a magical coin….you can turn this penny into free or discounted products when you buy one my party bags with your penny.

Or you could instead buy membership into my VIP customer group and you’ll be the first to hear about specials and sales.

The best way to use the magic of that coin is to turn it into cash income every month by purchasing a business opportunity bag to find out about becoming a consultant. I only have three of those tonight, so get in quick to get one of those!

Have a think about how you’ll invest your magical penny. We have shopping time right now and when you’re done please make your way to the checkout here to cash in your investment!”

When they come to check out, you can ask something like:

• How would you like to invest your coin?
• Would you like to buy the last business opportunity bag?
• Would you like to use your penny to buy a party bag?
• How about turning that penny into VIP Customer Group membership?

Some people are more comfortable saying this than coming straight out and asking for a party or asking for business information. When people are happy to join your VIP group, it’s easy to get them added on the spot with their phone.

This is a great game to play for new consultants. If you’re a leader you might consider teaching this to your new team members to help them grow their business.

Are you looking for even more games? Have a look at the Ultimate Games Bundle for Direct Sellers. The bundle includes 26 games for in-home and Facebook parties. Each game is explained in a video and all the printables and images are ready to download.

The “Have you ever…?” game is a super easy game to play at your direct sales parties.

It’s also great fun and works well as an ice-breaker. When I play this game it always gets people talking and sharing funny stories.

To keep the game going I usually have a bag of wrapped candies or chocolates with me that I throw to the people who are paying attention and are ready for the next question. That way if the talking goes on for too long, I can get the game moving again. Because when chocolates start flying around the room, people will soon check to see what’s happening!

I have a list of ‘Have you ever…?’ questions ready to go for you but you don’t need to use all of the questions. Pick and choose depending on your guests and on how long you want to play.

What you need to play “Have you ever…?” at your direct sales parties

• Game sheet with questions (download below)
• 2 Small prizes (one for the winner and one for the loser or ‘winner in reverse’)
• Pen and paper for the guests to track their score
• Optional: wrapped candies

All you need to do to play is pick some of the questions of the list and read them out. Tell the guests the points for each question so they can track their score. The last question should always be “Have you ever been to a … (your company)… party before?”. That way you can identify repeat guests that clearly like your products!

The winner gets a small prize and you can also give a prize to the loser or the ‘winner in reverse’ as I like to call it.

I’d love to hear your ‘Have you ever…?’ questions that are suitable for direct sales parties so I can update the sheet with more questions. Let me know in the comments below!

If you’d like even more games for your stash, check out the Ultimate Games Bundle. It comes with 26 done-for-you games for in-home and Facebook parties. Have a look now!

These days most guests come to my parties with their phone. Which is awesome because I have this easy and fun ice-breaker game you can play.

Start by asking the guests to grab their phone and bring up a photo that was taken on a holiday, special outing, trip or getaway.

They can grab it from their camera roll or from their Facebook or Instagram.

It usually takes them a few minutes to bring up a photo so I like to move things along by throwing some small wrapped candies to the first three people that are ready to play. That usually encourages the rest to choose quickly.

Make sure they have some paper to track their points on (you can hand out pieces of paper or perhaps you have already given them a wish list they can use).

Next you’ll read out some things that might be in their photo and they can earn points for them. You use the game sheet (download below) for the points. Don’t read every single item, that would make the game too long!

At the end guests add up their points and you can declare a winner and a “winner in reverse” (the person with the lowest score).

Make sure you have a small prize ready for the person with the highest score and the person with the lowest score.

I love this game because it’s a great ice breaker, it gets a few laughs and people often share memories and stories of their getaway so people get to know each other quickly. This game sets a great ‘tone’ for the party!

What you need to play the Getaway Game

• Game sheet (download below)
• 2 Small prizes (one for the winner and one for the ‘loser’)
• Wrapped candies (optional)
• Pens and paper for the guests to track their score

Are you looking for more games? Have a look at the Ultimate Games Bundle for Direct Sellers. The bundle comes with 26 done-for-you games for in-home and Facebook parties. Check it out now!

When I was looking to boost my direct sales business I realized that successful direct sellers were doing this one thing that I didn’t do at all.

Once I started doing this, my direct sales parties and online events changed overnight!

So what is that #1 secret weapon?

Games.

It’s playing games at your parties.

I know it might sound like such a little thing you might do in a party to add a bit of fun. But as it turns out, it’s a powerful way to boost your business.

Why Games Work

1. They increase the fun-factor. This leads to more bookings and new team members.
2. Games make you more relaxed at in-home parties too. It’s a great tool for shy or introvert party plan consultants.
3. People tend to mentally protect themselves from marketing messages or being sold to. But games relax that mechanism because they’re having fun. That means this that games are a great tool to get your booking or recruiting messages across.
4. Games really boost interaction in your Facebook parties. This leads to increased exposure of your posts so your party is more successful.
5. Games help guests who don’t know each other to get to know each other, which helps them to relax and have more fun.

Psychologist Anders Hejdenberg said that “games are a way of having fun regardless of our current life situation”.

Relax Your Guests

Games help your party guests to relax, unwind and have fun.  They can forget about their day-to-day stress for a moment. And while they’re having fun you can make sure that you get your offers across to them.

Strengthen Your Themes

Games can also help to strengthen your themes because you can tie your games to your theme. And the more you use themed parties, the more repeat bookings you’ll get because you can always offer something new and different for your guests.

Boost Facebook Parties

For Facebook parties games are a great way to increase interaction in the event. And the more likes, reactions and comments you get, the more guests will see your party’s posts. And with your posts popping up regularly in their Newsfeed, your Facebook party will be more successful. (Read more about this in this article.)

The Ultimate Games Bundle

I’m so passionate about the importance of the right type of games for direct sellers that I’ve put together an Ultimate Games Bundle. The Bundle covers everything you need to run games that are proven to actually work and are fun to play. (Not every game produces the right kind of psychological response and some can actually damage your business!)

In the bundle you’ll find:

1. Host Coaching Games
2. Recruiting Games
3. Drawing Games
4. General Games
5. Booking Games
6. Facebook Party Games

Each Module comes with a short video talking you through each and every game with tips on how make the most of the game and variations you can use. All the printables and images are done for you and are included in the Bundle.

Games, as simple as it may sound, are literally my #1 secret weapon. And it can work for you too.