You Scratch My Back, I'll Scratch Yours

I've been formulating a workshop the past few weeks for an upcoming live training event for Brown Bag Party. I think my eyes have stayed crossed for at least a week straight because of the sheer mass of information I've scoured from hundreds of websites, gurus, fellow reps and videos.

This event, affectionately called "Boot Camp," is a weekend-long intense experience. When I say "intense," I'm referring far more to the volume of information each attendee receives, as well as the memories made while there. You truly make life-long connections while boosting your business to the next level and beyond.

I've strongly encouraged my team members to attend for all sorts of selfish and altruistic reasons. Selfishly, I want to meet them all and share those strong connections I feel over the phone in person. Altruistically, I know what a difference it can make in their lives on a personal and professional level. That's definitely been my experience.

The title of my workshop this year is The Social Media Game. This topic was requested of me, as I was once known as the "MySpace Queen" when I started out as a BBP rep nearly three years ago.

In the world of Social Media, that three years could easily equate to a whole century in more traditional forms of broadcast media. Let's just say, I had a lot of catching up to do.

To my advantage, there are millions of resources for this kind of information, but none have been so helpful as other gurus in the field. Some of these gurus are specialist in this field, but my favorite and most helpful was a sister consultant who took the time to personally tutor this old dinosaur.

"Old dinosaur" has nothing to do with my real age, but everything to do with how blazingly far the field has come in the past couple of years. When I started my BBP business, I created a profile on MySpace, began randomly adding people in my area, and *poof* I scored some party bookings and even a recruit right away.

Oh, if only it were that easy now! I vow not to let myself get so far behind that catching up with this topic will be such a challenge in the future.

However, I must give props to my "Professor" PJ, the sister rep who helped me out so much. In my eyes, I owe her a debt of gratitude. In hers, she probably thinks she was just paying me back for the help I've tried to give to her.

I helped her with ideas, tips, suggestions, and support to help her gain bookings on her own calendar. Booking parties is easy for me. I've done several workshops on that topic in my time with Brown Bag.

It would have been very easy for me to conduct the same workshop and just tweak it a bit for updating. I have to hand it to my sponsor for making me get out of the box, though. She did me a huge favor by assigning this topic to me.

This sort of mentality, assistance, and growth encouragement bring me to the point of this blog. Brown Bag Party has been like no other company I've ever been affiliated with in that sense.

Our reps are truly a group of sisters who help each other. And though the saying goes, "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours," the reality of our atmosphere is "I'll scratch your back just because you asked, and if you scratch mine sometime, well I'll appreciate you that much more."